Official NHL (Hockey) 2014-2015 Season Thread - Bring On The Draft!

The_Co-Jones · April 16, 2015, 9:04am

Blackhawks stealing game 1 was so delicious!!

maxx · April 18, 2015, 9:58am

ducks ducks ducks. does this thread have any other ducks fans beside me?

Autocrat1 · April 18, 2015, 1:23pm

This slightly raised my spirits in a hilarious way after that horrible defense from Chicago

The_Co-Jones · April 19, 2015, 12:07am

When I found out that Crawford was gonna start game 2, I knew they were gonna lose.

SoVi3t · April 19, 2015, 1:55am

You all better watch my leafs win the lottery draft tonight.

Autocrat1 · April 19, 2015, 4:35am

SoVi3t · April 19, 2015, 4:57am

fucking Edmonton. How do you just keep getting #1 picks until you land the big one? Fuck right off.

Oh well, the way I see it:

Edmonton: McDavid (and start dumping salary!!!)
Buffalo: Eichel
Arizona: that Russian defenceman
Toronto: Whoever the fuck we want

probably Strome

odin · April 20, 2015, 6:12pm

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That is all.

SoVi3t · April 20, 2015, 7:04pm

I was waiting for you to show up. You got your connor mcdavid jersey already? You ready for him to bail as soon as he becomes an unrestricted free agent? You see the look of fucking horror on Connor McDavid’s face when they announced Edmonton getting the #1 pick?

Hodge fucking killed it for me the other day:

Dave Hodge: Perhaps you heard, the Edmonton Oilers won the right to draft Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel will be welcomed in Buffalo…
But first, it was my intention to talk about the games on the ice. But I’m guessing we ought to start with the game of luck. Or, your choice, Bruce…

Bruce Arthur: We’re going to talk about Connor McDavid and Edmonton. It had to be Edmonton. Here’s the thing. Buffalo did everything right, tanking, and Arizona did everything right, tanking. But you’re playing on Edmonton’s turf. This is their game. Life isn’t fair. I’m not even mad that he’s not coming to Toronto, I’m happy he’s not going to Arizona, but this franchise is now being rewarded for the old-fashioned kind of tanking — the incompetence sort of tanking. This franchise has tried to pull itself out of a morass that has been going on now since 2007, and now Daryl Katz is going to be rewarded, and Kevin Lowe is going to be rewarded, and now the Edmonton Oilers are going to have Connor McDavid’s career to play with. This is not good. No offence to Edmonton Oilers fans by the way, good for them, I hope you’re happy. History says you might not be.

Hodge: You’re a little more demonstrative than Connor McDavid was, whose face showed us what, Michael?

Michael Farber: Maybe his pet was critically ill. [Laughter] He just looked so unhappy, he couldn’t even fake being happy about the Oilers. Because now he is the next Wayne Gretzky. Forget Sidney Crosby, he’s now the next Wayne Gretzky, because the comparisons are obvious and they are odious. It is one more thing to lump on his shoulders.

Hodge: Two numbers away. [Sweater #97 vs. #99]

Steve Simmons: There is a reason that he looked unhappy, it’s because he was unhappy. He did the stiff upper lip, “I’m not going to say anything and I’m not going to come out and say what’s on my mind”. This isn’t where Connor McDavid wanted to be drafted to. One of the people he holds dearest in the world, Sherry Bassin, the general manager/owner of the Erie Otters, is being sued by Daryl Katz, owner of the Edmonton Oilers. Don’t you think that was on his mind last night.

Hodge: He was playing the odds, he clearly wanted to be a Buffalo Sabre, we would have seen a different look on McDavid’s face if the odds had held up. But they didn’t. And the Buffalo Sabres because of that get Jack Eichel, how happy or unhappy are they?

Arthur: Tim Murray, you just got Jack Eichel, American-born potential superstar. This is great, this is what you’ve been waiting for. You had a hundred percent chance at #1 or #2, only had a 20% chance at #1, and Tim Murray came out … saying “I’m disappointed for our fans” and “I’m disappointed in the process”, this is the last year you had this much of a guarantee. And you got what you paid for. You’ve destroyed this team on purpose — good job! — and you got Jack Eichel and you managed to look disappointed. I don’t think Jack Eichel wanted to go to Edmonton either, but I don’t know how much Jack Eichel wants to go to Buffalo this morning.

Hodge: Is there any result that would have had all of us and a whole lot of other people saying hurray?

Farber: I would have been cheering for Boston and L.A. because I hate the current system, and until you remove all incentives I’m going to hate the current system. It’s not a good thing for the NHL because Edmonton on a global scale remains a smaller Canadian market outside the mainstream of the league. I don’t think it’s good for a man named Todd Nelson, who is the coach for the moment of the Oilers, and he didn’t exactly get a ringing endorsement from Craig MacTavish who said “we’ll have to see whether he is the coach that is going to go forward”. Unless I’m mistaken, McDavid doesn’t play goal [laughter], he doesn’t play defence. There are lots of questions about the Oilers that remain to be answered.

Hodge: The real loser is Arizona, the team that had the second best chance at one or the other and didn’t get either. Alright, let’s get on to the ice. There are fans in five Canadian cities who say, “yeah, Edmonton’s happy, but we’re playing hockey, the Oilers are not”

Exodus_1 · April 20, 2015, 7:08pm

Hey, the pens stole a game on the road. Yeahhh

ThePurpleBunny · April 20, 2015, 7:09pm

Seems like only yesterday I was cheering the Canes beating the Oilers in game 7 of the Final.

Actually it was yesterday while I was remembering it.

ThePurpleBunny · April 20, 2015, 8:16pm

http://imgur.com/gallery/RdRvV?hc_location=ufi

Damn Illuminati.

Magnetic_Hail · April 20, 2015, 8:30pm

Dear Sabres,

Sometimes life will fuck you and you’ll just have to change position and enjoy it somehow.

in any case …

GO HABS GO !

SoVi3t · April 20, 2015, 8:49pm

lol saw that the other day…watch the video, or any lotto video…u get multiple balls going up the tube all the time…once the first ball gets to the top, the tube closes and the other ball always falls back down

MCP · April 20, 2015, 11:45pm

I wanted the Sharks to get that guy…

odin · April 21, 2015, 2:28am

Man, I have never seen a more entitled and delusional group of people than Maple Leaf fans.
To the point that I think they are mentally ill.

Saltiest group of losers I’ve ever had the misfortune of knowing their existence.

http://i.imgur.com/d3MUMHX.png

SoVi3t · April 21, 2015, 10:07pm

I love how you call brilliance “salty”

I like how you see nothing wrong with a team sucking so awfully that they just keep being given #1 picks to bury Vince McMahon style.

Doesn’t hurt that:

McDavid ain’t staying in Edmonton. Nobody wants to go to a second market place like that.

well, truth be told, Arizona could go almost any way, hell they could trade that draft pick, since they really do not have several years to wait while a player develops. If Arizona goes with a forward, especially Strome, it’s interesting to see what Toronto will do. Russian defencement has dropped in the standings, but there is still Hanifin too.

they predict Sharks to get Zach Werenski instead, and miss Provorov (aka Russian) by one pick, lol.

Mind you, Zach is probably one of the best American defencemen coming up right now, and has 2 inches on the Russian

MCP · April 21, 2015, 11:23pm

ఠ_ఠ

SoVi3t · April 22, 2015, 2:47am

height, not length, you fruitcake!

Missing_Person · April 22, 2015, 9:20am

Sabres fans ought to start a counter rally.

As far as the playoffs go, the Wings are getting in the Lightning pretty hard.

Mrazek keeps this up, and Jimmy Howard will finally be back at a job that is perfect for him, such as flipping burgers.