NHL '08- '09 Thread

Originally Posted by icehog3

I have little doubt Chelly will be playing somewhere next season.

I love the old guys!

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by ahc4353

I love the old guys!

It won't be the same for me after Chelly retires.

[Ahbroody]

Originally Posted by ahc4353

I love the old guys!

you are an old guy but yeah Im a big JR fan despite his comments from time to time

[SmokeyJoe]

Just saw this:

Yzerman, Hull, Robitaille, Leetch elected to HOF

-Steve Yzerman, Brett Hull, Luc Robitaille and Brian Leetch are going into the Hockey Hall of Fame. The selection committee announced on a conference call Tuesday it had elected the maximum four players this year. All were eligible for the first time. New Jersey Devils president Lou Lamoriello was also elected in the builder category.
Yzerman ranks sixth all-time in points with 1,755. The longtime Detroit Red Wings captain won the Stanley Cup three times and a gold medal with Canada in the 2002 Olympics.
"Even now when I go back home in the summers, it's really something that's really important to Canadian hockey fans and Canadians in general that we were able to win that medal," Yzerman said.
Hull's 741 goals rank third all-time. He played 19 years with the Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Red Wings and Phoenix Coyotes. Hull received the Hart Trophy as league MVP in 1991.
His father, Bobby, is already in the Hall.
"It is hard to put into words what this means to me, especially since I'm joining my father in the Hockey Hall of Fame," Hull said in a statement.
His 741 goals trail only Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe, and his 24 career playoff game-winning goals are tied with Gretzky for the most in NHL history. He scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal for the Stars in the third overtime of Game 6 of the 1999 finals.
Hull was traveling in his current job as the Stars' executive vice president during the announcement.
Leetch became the first American-born player to earn the Conn Smythe Trophy after leading the New York Rangers to the Stanley Cup in 1994. He also twice won the Norris Trophy as the league's top defenseman.
Leetch is one of just five defensemen to have a 100-point season.
He and Hull played on the gold medal-winning 1996 U.S. World Cup team for which Lamoriello was the general manager.
"For sure, Brett and I were part of a group that were old enough to remember 1980 and to be spurred on that from a country standpoint," Leetch said.
Robitaille's 668 goals are the most by a left wing. He received the Calder Trophy as the league's top rookie in 1987.
Yzerman, Hull and Robitaille won a Stanley Cup together with the Red Wings in 2002.
"It was a great amount of good pressure where we were expected to win, but it was a lot of fun," Robitaille said.

Originally Posted by SmokeyJoe

Just saw this:

Yzerman, Hull, Robitaille, Leetch elected to HOF

Very good!! Thanks for the info, Joe.
I miss watching all four play the game. I'm getting a bit misty eyed.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by ahc4353

I love the old guys!

Us "old guy's" rock!