NHL 2013-2014 Season

[Leafs PWN]

BROTHERS THE DAY IS HERE

EDIT: BROTHERS & SISTERS

Hearing from BMac that Kessel will be inked to a 8x8 deal today. It would be the perfect start to this season He is a top 10 scorer in this league, and has been for the last 3 years. locking him to a deal like that gives us his best years at a fair price.

EDIT: On TSN now http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=433171

I don't think it will take too long to extend Phaneuf once Kessel gets done.

Finally, watch out for Morgan Rielly, and Carter Ashton on the Leafs. Two promising rookies who impressed greatly at camp.

Rielly is a smooth skating, offensive D, who was taken 5th overall in 2012. RC loves him, and we all know RC knows defence.

Ashton was traded for Keith Aulie from the Lightning. He is a big, physical forward. Not too much offence, but he has the makings of a great 3rd line player. Hits anything that moves, and plays with a lot of tenacity.

GO LEAFS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FaHiMa]

2-2 its tieedddd so far! LETS GO LEAFS!

[FaHiMa]

3-2 wuttttttttttttttt!

[AsifTheManRahman]

Good season opener.

Btw, EA says St. Louis will beat the Pens in the Stanley Cup Finals.

[Maysun]

Leafs win 4-3!

[Leafs PWN]

Good win for the first game. D wasn't really sharp, but we grinded it out with a good team.

The Habs are LIGHTNING fast. Holy **** they were absolutely flying in the first. The Leafs are no slouch when it comes to speed, and even we had trouble keeping up with them sometimes. Price was lights out last night. He wasn't pretty, but he made some mind boggling saves last night.

Very sad about what happened to Parros. It was tough to watch, and honestly, you can't prevent that kind of a thing in hockey. Quite unfortunate. Hope the big guy is okay, and can make a come back later on down the line.

Facing the Flyers tonight. Should be another good game.

Bernier is net for the Leafs. Excited to watch him in his first reg season Leafs start!!

[Beamer]

I opened a NHl thread earlier. Guess, mine wasn't good enough : ) Anyway, mods can close that one and we can stay here.

Missed action last night since I was busy with a little thing called playoff baseball. First time in 21 yrs and Pirates won to cap it off.

Lots of goals in all three games. Goalie equipment shrinkage had something to do with it? This is great. Instead of giving up 5 goals on a nightly basis, Fleury will have to settle for 7. Vokoun is out for six months after his blood clot incident. So, here we start again with no goalie.

[Beamer]

I still have to get used to this Metropolitan division. What an awful name !

We need Sohel to come back. I mean what fun would it be to not have him around during his RedWings-Leafs bouts ? So, come back please, dear Sohel.

[Leafs PWN]

I made this thread and then saw yours a little far down

Yea srsly we need the regulars all in here! Took you long enough Beamer bhai :P

I hate that name too. Makes it feel like the rest of the teams are playing in graams.

GREAT debut by Bernier. He absolutely stole that game, and helped us win a game we had no business winning. Two games where our goaltenders were the best players. Hopefully these 2 keep this up.

Bolland rose to the occasion last night, like he often does. 2 big goals in a tight game, during the 3rd. The first goal was a thing of beauty from Lupul and him. The best thing about getting him is that we have a good option to replace Kadri if he is playing like ****, like he was last night. Should do good for his development to have some legit competition.

I think Fleury will have a bounce back year. He isn't as bad as he was last year. In fact, he is a pretty good goalie IMO.

[Beamer]

ahh,...I see..No worries. Your thread is fine. We will just have to get mods to close that one.

graams ? ha ha...

Caught some Leafs-Philty action. You guys have great speed and I have been saying for the last two years to watch out for Leafs as an up and coming team. Now, they have arrived. Made the playoffs, got some good players in off season. They have a good coach. Everything is in play.

Fleury has no problem in regular season. He is a consistent 40 game winner. Its the playoffs where he melts down an sinks us. We have Zatkoff backing him up. He had great numbers in W-B/S. He is from Kings organization but was behind Quick and Bernier. Good young goalie. With Vokoun being out, he will be the back up, and who knows, may be the starter here. But, if Fleury falters, this is it for him. I have ZERO faith in him. He just sucks the air out of whole team.

[Beamer]

God bless Patrick Roy.

[Leafs PWN]

Haha best coaching debut ever

Good performance by Fleury last night. Man needs to regain his confidence a little bit, and being the clear cut #1 should help him with that.

Saw a bit of the Caps game last night. While it was wildly entertaining, that team has zero concept of defence. They aren't gonna get very far playing like that unless they put in the second coming of Roy in net. Fast and good defensive teams will eat them alive.

[FaHiMa]

@LeafsPWN the leafs are really PWNING IT this year!

[Maysun]

Bernier made some amazing saves tonight!

[AsifTheManRahman]

Originally Posted by FaHiMa
@LeafsPWN the leafs are really PWNING IT this year!

Stanley Cup champions 2013/2014. Nah just kidding.

[Zeeshan]

Sohel bhai chara ei thred jome na....ki shob apnara pit pita post koren

[Beamer]

^^ For sure. He is missing out on all your chamchami.

[Beamer]

LOL Philty Flyers!

[Leafs PWN]

Ed Snider is the only man capable of beating Eugene Melnyk for the title of the worst NHL owner. This man sticks his nose in every Philly decision, and quite honestly, has ruined this team from its SCF days.

What do they do after the have a successful playoff run? Trade their 2 best players for nothing but forwards. Then what do they do? Trade an emerging PWF for a slow dman (thanks Philly!). Then they go out and get a system goalie on a ridiculous contract, and play him in the most ill suited situations, and use him as a scapegoat 1.5 seasons into the contract.

And now, they fire their coach THREE games into the season If it wasn't for Giroux, the team would be bottom 10 for the next 5 years.

This organization has zero patience, and zero plans for building their team. They just put together a million top 6 forwards, and half assed it at the other end of the ice. Where the **** were they when Bernier/Thomas were up for grabs? Not getting Bernier might be the biggest mistake this team has made after the JVR move. We didn't even pay a premium price. We got a nice deal for him.

Leafs have won all their games while playing crap D so far. We also have the greatest turnover ratio. Really need to cut down on these and focus on defence. Once we start playing serious teams, it will bite us in the *** (no disrespect to Montreal and Ottawa, but they are pretenders). We should win tonight against the Avs. We are one of the rare teams in the league who can match them offensively. Defensively, it shouldn't even be close. If we play a sound game, and Bernier plays like Bernier, we will win.

GO LEAFS GO!!!

[Leafs PWN]

Predictions:

Colorado at Toronto: 5-3 Toronto
Phoenix at NY Islanders: 3-2 Phoenix
Florida at Philadelphia: 4-1 Philly
Carolina at Pittsburgh: 3-1 Pittsburgh
Tampa Bay at Buffalo: 3-0 Tampa
Minnesota at Nashville: 2-1 Minnesota
New Jersey at Vancouver: 4-2 Vancoucer
NY Rangers at San Jose: 3-1 San Jose

Lets hear your predictions ppl.

[Beamer]

Too early to make predictions. However, Canes always play us well at CEC. That much I know.

Thanks God for Snider and Homer. Now, they have a professional goon in Berube, coaching a goon team playing in a city of goons and thugs. Perfect marriage.

Jeff Carter was sleeping with teammates wives and stuff. Lol. They had to kick him out.

[Beamer]

James Neal and Kris Letang both on IR and haven't played a game yet. Without those two, the PP is suffering, especially with Neal being out. Its early, so better be safe than sorry. I am very impressed by Olli Maata- the 19 yr old rookie and first rd pick. Its gonna be difficult to send him back after his 9 game window and back to London.

Simon Depres will be traded. He has really fallen out of favor. Needs a change of scenery. He was supposed to be top 4 D by now, instead, got sent back to AHL. He will be moved at some point.

[Leafs PWN]

Lazy game, ugly loss.

Injuries you say? Kulemin out, Fraser out, McLaren out, Clarkson suspended (10 games). Those are our all of our toughest players

Update: Lupul is Day to Day as of now

[Sohel]

We better get our chemistry and timing right pronto. Cleary, Bert and Sammy have been utterly useless so far, AS EXPECTED and FEARED. Gotta get Nyquist in. Helm is getting better but no details yet. Alfie and Weiss have been excellent additions in front of our young D that continues to learn from acceptable mistakes early in the season. But Lashoff may still be a better option than the obscenely overrated Kyle Quincey. I doubt that we'll peak too soon this season, lol.

Here's Malik's Red Wings-Coyotes set-up and overnight report: test ahead, pink Howard and Krupa on Alfredsson.

[Leafs PWN]

^ The prodigal son has returned

Calgary has been a pleasant surprise so far @ 2-0-2. Monahan has been phenomenal for them.

And how about DAT TOMAS HERTL? Holy **** is this kid on fire or what? 6 goals, leading the league in pts and completely annihilated the Rangers on his own. The Rookie talent this year is off the charts. It's gonan be exciting tracking the Calder race this year. Monahan, Rielly, Hertl, Maata, Forsberg, MacKinnon, Jones, Barkov are all very highly touted prospects, and playing quite well.