Alright everyone, the season officially starts on Thursday October 1st, but the fun quasi serious exhibition games have already started with a bunch of Finish players that can no longer crack the NHL beat a bunch of players that shouldn't be in the NHL, yet congregated in Florida and convinced Bettman to form them into a team. Go figure.
For those returning from years past: Welcome back!
For those joining us for the first time: Here are a few ground rules to help you ease your way into the conversation and not have someone jump down your throat and provide an injury worse than that of Steve Moore 1) DO NOT come in and post scores - If we wanted to know the score of a game we'd look at Yahoo, TSN, or ESPN. A lot of us have shitty work schedules so we try to Tivo/DVR games when we can't watch them live. If you want to have running commentary of a particular game, please join the NHL Group and create a thread for that game, then link it in here. We've done that in the past and it can be fun, just don't come in and ruin a game for everyone else. 2) DO NOT let us know how amazing/sucky your favorite team is - Plain and simple, we don't care. Bruins fan? Leafs are finally playing well? Red Wings suck? That's nice. You can let us know after a few posts, but please don't come in and have a one sentence post about why your team is the greatest one on the face of the planet. 3) DO post intelligently and create conversation through analysis, linked articles, etc. - In other words, be like this guy. Seriously though, as long as you don't shove your opinions down our throats and become a Mega Ultra Uber Fanboy when it comes to comments, you'll probably be A-ok. 4) DO respect that we all are humans and have feelings - By the same token, if you come in and act like an idiot, don't expect royal treatment. Butthurt will only be tolerated so much. Think Golden Rule for the most part: if you're going to troll and be a moron, be prepared for people to fire back. 5) DUDO have fun - That's the point of this thread. The previous 4 rules may make it sound bad, but we're all here to have fun and talk about one of the greatest sports out there today. So just be respectful, be smart, and enjoy!
Yes, I love public threads. With the occasional idiot who comes in and trolls us all, it breaks up the monotony of our intelligent conversation and lets us know how lucky we are to have those conversations at all.
Nothing like the NFL thread.
Also DU, you forgot to add that we are all Grammar Nazi's.
Also, you forgot to add that above all it's ok to say Red Wings suck, just so long as it's referring to the actual red wings, and not some other shitty team, like Dallas, Which also sucks.
Thats great! I have cast away my cable-ways and now I am forced to find streaming video for all my games, good to see this one is going to be free to all!
I'm sorry I couldn't year you over hossa and conklins tears as they lost the cup two years in a row. Or maybe it was hossas laughter after he got the hawks to sign him for $9174841748 million billion gazillion dollars.
rather be the loser who has their 1st round draft pick cracking the line up than 1st loser whose number one pick...did you even have one? Did jiri take it to Russia with him?
rather be the loser who has their 1st round draft pick cracking the line up than 1st loser whose number one pick...did you even have one? Did jiri take it to Russia with him?
We picked up Tatar and Ferraro with our 2nd round picks, Can't complain.
