NHL 2013 Thread

[icehog3]

DirecTV is offering the service for four payments of $14.99 compared to the normal rate of four payments of $42.95 for the full season. The prorated discount is nearly 40 percent off the normal price, with DirecTV offering many of the same perks of Center Ice as iN DEMAND.

Apparently due to contractual issues with cable and satellite, the NHL offering it free for this season was never going to happen. At $59.96 for the season, I willl likely keep it.

[shilala]

They're handing out championship rings in LA right now. Then they get spanked by the Hawks.
I'd like to go in and watch the Pens, I'm gonna have to catch it after the first period.

[icehog3]

So far, so good for Game 1.

[Ahbroody]

Yeah I hear you. I was not going to get the package. My oldest boy wanted to watch some games. I folded. I wont go to any games. Errrrrrrrrr I dont think I will.

[Fredo456]

Smoked a Padron 1926 for the season opener. This cigar, that I had for the first time, was truly awesome. One of the best I ever had.

The game, however, was another story. The players were obviously very rusty. Penalties and puck fumbling were omnipresent during the first two periods, and it didn't get much better in the third. Habs lost 2-1 to the Leafs. Only 47 to go.

[Bruins Fan]

Bruins-Rangers good game, B's looked fast and sharp,and of course physical.

Great first day

[ToastedFoot]

Malkin still looks like twice the player Crosby is, and yes i'm a Pittsburgh'er, Suter makes a huge addition on face offs, we might be in the running this year, Crosby couldn't possibly pull his vagina in 48 games.......could he ??????

[cobra03]

Was on my way into work tonight listening to ESPN radio and they had a sports update in between segments. Absolutly no NHL scores or even the slightest mention of hockey at all. Good to see nothings changed.

Originally Posted by cobra03

Was on my way into work tonight listening to ESPN radio and they had a sports update in between segments. Absolutly no NHL scores or even the slightest mention of hockey at all. Good to see nothings changed.

It's ESPN. They suck balls

[E.J.]

This thread has been derailed a bit off topic, but I'll throw in my $.02. Fact is, given 500 attempts at shooting a ball in the NBA(running the court, spotting up, you know the drill), Getting a hand off to get a 1 yard gain in football, standing at the plate for 500 AB's ect.....I think I could be successful at least one time. I imagine that most people with more than decent athletic skill could do the same.

I do not think most people, even those with the ability to skate, could keep up blue line to blue line with the NHLers, let alone get a puck by an NHL goalie. Hell, in reality, most adults in the United States couldn't score on a mite team. Say that about baseball, football or basketball.

The caveat with hockey is there is offsides....and the goalie. Not to mention that when that puck gets to you(it's going to be FLYING across the ice from an NHLer, not me), there is going to be a opponent coming at you to put you on the ice in a very violent manner if you don't collect that puck and do something with it QUICKLY....bla..bla..bla... Anyway, I think I could have a chance to hit a ball, shoot a ball, run a ball in the other sports.... I don't think there is a chance in Hell that I could skate on NHL ice, it would almost seem like a feat in itself if I could go blue line to blue line and catch a puck and get it somewhere in my 500 tries, not in the net, but to another player.....tape to tape....but, no....I wouldn't bet on that happening in 500+ tries.

I don't know, people believe what they want to believe....that is where I stand.

Originally Posted by BMack

How many people here also play/coach ice hockey?

I help coach my daughters team.

Originally Posted by BMack

Geez, 20 years on one team!? That's awesome!

Agreed.....

[E.J.]

Oh...and my Avs are apparently not going to go undefeated.....

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by E.J.

Oh...and my Avs are apparently not going to go undefeated.....

Bumeer, E;J,....it's no doubt the Hawks are going 48-0!

[taltos]

Tom, Bruins/Hawks Cup?

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by taltos

Tom, Bruins/Hawks Cup?

I could llive with that, Paul.

[dvickery]

further to the "most difficult"to play well at debate...in hockey the hitting is HARDER(and at a much higher velocity) than football and there is no 5 minute break after a hit...players just get up...skate to the other end and hit again.

try this and then hit a baseball.

love hockey
derrek

[shilala]

I grew up on a northeastern lake. Snow piles made the boards and a garden hose pulled from the basement was our Zamboni.
There is no sport, when viewed in it's entirety, that's tougher or more difficult to play. I don't think any MLB or NBA or NFL player in their right mind would even argue the point, not for a second.

Hitting a 90mph breaking ball might be the single toughest skill in all sports, I can buy that. I don't know what the other skills were, but it's insanely difficult even if you swing the bat all day every day, unless you can guess it's coming, then it's just a tiny bit less than insanely difficult.

If a hockey player is both very skilled and very intelligent, in the case of someone like Mario, it takes that guy way over the top. To be standing behind the cage, flip the puck over the cage, and bounce it off the back of a defenseman's head into the top right corner of the goal, the only place open, that's just unreal for 1,000 reasons.

[icehog3]

http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/blog/ey...me-misconducts

Old school bench clearing brawl for the Icehogs the other night....look at the number the Icehog's goalie does on the opposing netminder...and whilst wearing pink!

[Gophernut]

Originally Posted by icehog3

http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/blog/ey...me-misconducts

Old school bench clearing brawl for the Icehogs the other night....look at the number the Icehog's goalie does on the opposing netminder...and whilst wearing pink!

"The fight actually occurred in the second period, so it's no wonder that with 13 players tossed from the game the Griffins went on to score a franchise-record 11 goals in an 11-6 win. There had to be some tired defenseive bodies on the ice in that third period."

Emphasis added for truth! I've never seen this word before, but it seems to apply very nicely!

[Fredo456]

Originally Posted by icehog3

http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/blog/ey...me-misconducts

Old school bench clearing brawl for the Icehogs the other night....look at the number the Icehog's goalie does on the opposing netminder...and whilst wearing pink!

Nice. Takes us back to a time when players cared more about the jersey on their back and their teammates than their financial situation. I miss those days.