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at least lindros and oneill are younger than roberts and nieuwendyke
but i think the leafs are capable of picking up better players than these since they are so free spending, and they should unload belfour he's 42 rite

canucks were victorious tonight
yay@cooke's goal lol ~

Windowpane

bump

nucks beat the avs 6-4
3rd period was a bit shaky i think they were thinking they got a huge lead (5-1) and they could sit back but boom 3 goals scored by the avs to trail for only 1 goal, but linden managed to score the empty netter to finish it off. The nucks really need to show great strength for 60mins, not 40 mins.

brightlee

Originally posted by herothree at 2005-10-21 00:12:
haha
cards as cardinals in basebal...

yes yes.. we know you are coming from Canada....

Gretzky

Speaking of good teams...how about the Red Wings and the Predators! Especially the Preds! 6-0-0!

I am a bit surprise of the big Red Machine's run so far. They are a well-oiled team. I expected Nashville to be good..but not that good!

The Nucks were lucky! They are not going to get any wins if they play like that in the playoffs!

Windowpane

i think teams are still getting used to the new system and nucks happen to be a skating team so they have the upperhand early on. And their special teams are working so far, but on a full strength they don't seem to outshine the other team a lot. And the avs' comeback is a warning of their crumbling 3rd period playing i think it already happened to the nucks a few yrs ago when they weren't trying to play good hockey in the 3rd. Teams that are actually good are the wings, avs, flyers, and sens. So hopefully crawford's gonna somehow motivate the team to play solid hockey for full 3 periods and the 2nd line would step up on a full strength (too weak physically) i think they are fine and should still be a contender, if not a stanley cup champ. But we as fans dun wanna wait it's already been 11 yrs now ...

Gretzky

Defensive breakdown is a concern....the nucks are also awful in faceoffs....Morrison gonna step that up...can't use Linden all the time in faceoffs.

Windowpane

exactly they lost quite a few important faceoffs in the last game and the avs took those chances and kept pushing in van's defensive zone. Lucky clouts saw the shooting lane and made the saves. The time the avs spent in nucks' def zone on a full strength was way longer than the nucks. Also their dmen esp the 5th and 6th dmen have to play on a nhl level. Allen's been proving that lately but mccarthy is not really the guy he's kinda in between the minors and pro. Losing sopel and malik really hurt the nucks sigh.

Seems like a lot of holes to fill for a team that's playing well lately haha how sarcastic but then like u said playoffs is a totally different story.

Gretzky

I would be interested in the nucks' next 2 weeks....the grind will tell how good they really are.

Windowpane

nucks 3 wild 1

nhl.com is such a d*ck they never put nucks on the headline they care less about west coast teams, all they know is the avs and red wings ... and lately the flames and that's about it.

tho the nucks have yet to prove they are fully dominating but how bout some respect. Maybe a stanley cup run is needed to put them on the headline. Anyway, not having exposure is trivial but sometimes it's annoying.

Gretzky

No one cares about the west teams......

Even the jerks at CBC...they have the Leafs 20 times in HNIC...and the Nucks 12 times!

I don't think we will have the respect at all....not even after a cup...(Calgary never got it after 1989).

It's all about mass market....commercial money and sponsership.....