NHL 2013 - 2014 Season Thread

Eomer_sl said:

So, thoughts on the huge Canadian TV deal? That deal alone is enough to raise the salary cap by about 3-5 million. I'm not thrilled about it personally, because TSN is mostly getting shut out and Rogers/Sportsnet is fucking atrocious by comparison. Their on-air people are almost all terrible (WHY THE FUCK DOES BRAD MAY HAVE A JOB?), their production values are horrid, and Nick Kypreos is a fucking moron who takes himself way the fuck too seriously. Obviously there'll be a game of musical chairs over the next year or two as Sportsnet poaches TSN's talent, but I'd have much preferred that it went to TSN.

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Yeah I'm kinda torn about it,dont know too much about the english side of it since I'm a dirty frenchman, but for the french side, all the weekend games and series are now gonna be on free tv (tva) for quebec at least meaning no more need for rds and probbly better ratings and people following hockey. But it's basicaly just as you mentioned for the french side, RDS was finaly doing a fine job with a well oiled team/production, whereas TVA was atrocious for the few games I watched of them covering the senators...

I watched a lot of the habs games on saturday on CBC in english, hopefuly they manage to retain rights for english broadcasting.

As for hockey as a whole, my thoughts are positive globaly... Much like grimm mentions, it's nice to see big investments like that in hockey giving us hope it can keep moving forward as it has past few years.

I agree that the influx of money is on the face a good thing. But it might actually hurt some of the threshold teams by raising the cap and floor further, although I would think that is more than offset by the extra revenue.

Nice to see MA Fleury up to his usual tricks tonight!

Eomer_sl said:

Nice to see MA Fleury up to his usual tricks tonight!

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I missed most of the game but tuned in just in time to see Geno tie it up. Let's see if they can follow up this time.

edit:Yay Zatkoff=) Facing the Pens in a shootout must be annoying for goalies. Though really almost every team has some pretty nasty shootout guys. You hear about some of the lesser known guys being crazy good at shootouts in practice.

Thank god SJ pulled this one out. Typical fucking LA goonery and bad officiating but it was an intense game nonetheless. This is THE rivalry within the league at the moment. There are better teams but whenever these two play each other it's always a highly entertaining game.

Lodi_sl said:

Thank god SJ pulled this one out. Typical fucking LA goonery and bad officiating but it was an intense game nonetheless. This is THE rivalry within the league at the moment. There are better teams but whenever these two play each other it's always a highly entertaining game.

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Kings should have won this one in regulation imo. That shootout was crazy.

Daezuel_sl said:

Kings should have won this one in regulation imo. That shootout was crazy.

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I actually thought the Sharks outplayed them for most of the game. I can't wait to have Torres back.

Burnzie with the hat trick!

OT GWG through the skatehole.

I want to murder the guy in Dallas behind the Oiler's net last night that banged on the glass incessantly the entire game. What the fuck is wrong with you? And where did you get that awful blazer?

Phew, Lundqvist finally getting his contract extended. 7 years 59.5 mill.

So much for taking negotiations off the table during the season so "all his focus can be applied to winning games". Between this and getting benched two games back to back, hopefully he has a fire lit and starts blanking fools again.

That seems like too much term and money for a goalie who might only have another 2-3 really excellent years left in him, but he's so damn handsome I just can't hold it against him.

7 years is crazy to me, but good on the Rangers for taking care of him.

7 years is crazy but not suprising. Especially after Rask's 8 year 56 mill contract in July. Rask was amazing last season but that seemed a huge gamble to me. He has looked fantastic the few bruins games I have watched so far so I guess it might pay off, but dayum.

It was no secret Lundy wanted to retire a Ranger and there was no way Sather could let him go. Just glad it is over and done with.

8.5 a year on a goalie is insane. It's just too much.

StoiCynic_sl said:

7 years is crazy but not suprising. Especially after Rask's 8 year 56 mill contract in July. Rask was amazing last season but that seemed a huge gamble to me. He has looked fantastic the few bruins games I have watched so far so I guess it might pay off, but dayum.

It was no secret Lundy wanted to retire a Ranger and there was no way Sather could let him go. Just glad it is over and done with.

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Keep in mind that Rask is 26, Lundqvist is 31. Goalies fall of extremely rapidly after 34/35ish if their name isn't Roy, Belfour or Hasek. Then again, the cap is going to be increasing rapidly again, so maybe it won't look so bad in a few years.

Just in case some of you forgot that Sidney Crosby is the best player in the world.



Yeah, that's an OT takeaway 1 on 3 game winning goal.

Just saw this on Reddit. It's from October.Steve Zahnand his 2 sons at a Blackhawks game.



That's fucking adorable.



edit: Florida's arena at the start of their game with the Senators the other day.

Grimmlokk_sl said:

Just saw this on Reddit. It's from October.Steve Zahnand his 2 sons at a Blackhawks game.

That's fucking adorable.



edit: Florida's arena at the start of their game with the Senators the other day.

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That's depressing. Get that team out of there!