The Official NHL 2006-2007 Season Thread

[CheapJon]

woah what a dissapointment flyers has been this season

[stardustonmyfeet]

LETS GO ISLES!

[Communist China]

^ Nothing screams "Championships!" like Zhitnik and Satan.

[Neemo]

and don't forget the biggest underacheiver the nhl has ever seen...Yashin

[Communist China]

Oh, how could I have forgotten, Neemo. Thank you.

[CheapJon]

actually the team that has surprised me the most (after philly ) is the thrashers, and hossa really has a great season now so i guess he'll get injured soon

[Mama Kin]

and don't forget the biggest underacheiver the nhl has ever seen...Yashin

Somewhere Alex Daigle is weeping.

[Backslash]

and don't forget the biggest underacheiver the nhl has ever seen...Yashin

Somewhere Alex Daigle is weeping.

two big underachievers drafted by the same team.

[Malcolm]

Florida Panthers centre Joe Nieuwendyk has been forced to retire because of recurring back problems.? Nieuwendyk announced his retirement Wednesday.

Nieuwendyk, 40, in his twentieth NHL season, scored eight points while playing just 15 of the team's first 29 games, because of injuries. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that he visited a back specialist in Cleveland last Friday.

Nieuwendyk had 564 goals and 1126 points in 1257 career games and won Stanley Cups with three different franchises: Calgary (1989), Dallas (1999) and New Jersey (2003).? He won the Conn Smythe Award as playoff MVP in 1999.

''I have the reached the stage where structurally my back isn't going to get any better. It's not the way I intended it, but I have to be realistic as well,'' Nieuwendyk said.

''He was an all-around elite player,'' said Montreal Canadiens general manager Bob Gainey, Nieuwendyk's coach and GM with the Dallas Stars. ''He is the kind of player whose accomplishments merit consideration for the Hall of Fame.''



By the way I just wanted to say Ovechkin should have been suspended for his hit on Briere

[CheapJon]

and don't forget the biggest underacheiver the nhl has ever seen...Yashin

Somewhere Alex Daigle is weeping.

two big underachievers drafted by the same team.

LMAO at daigle, is he still in the league?

[JONEZY]

The Blues suck

[Neemo]

By the way I just wanted to say Ovechkin should have been suspended for his hit on Briere

agreed...that was bullshit i'm glad breire is ok though

[Malcolm]

Itll be interesting to see how long Havlat can keep this pace up...hes got 5 points I belive in his first two games back

[Malcolm]

Jeremy Roenick's decision to walk out on the Phoenix Coyotes Tuesday night could have long term ramifications for his career in Arizona.

Roenick was scratched from Tuesday night's game against Vancouver for what was termed a back injury, despite the fact the veteran forward said he felt healthy enough to play. Rather than remain at the rink, Roenick elected to leave and ended up watching part of the game at a nearby restaurant while eating dinner.

The decision to abandon his teammates did not sit well with head coach Wayne Gretzky.

"I treat players like men and they should act like men," Gretzky tells the Arizona Republic. "JR, all and all, has been pretty positive. But the reality is, last night he made a mistake. There will be ramifications for what happened."

Roenick met with Phoenix Coyotes general manager, Mike Barnett, and head coach Wayne Gretzky on Thursday morning and acknowledged he was wrong in leaving General Motors place on Tuesday night.


 
 
 
Gretzky has already decided Roenick will sit tonight against Columbus with Mike Ricci replacing him in the lineup. Asked when Roenick might be back in the lineup, Gretzky replied: "I'm not sure right now."

Roenick says he respects Gretzky's decision to bench him but feels he did nothing wrong by leaving the arena.

"I was at the game for part of the game and then I went for dinner," Roenick tells the newspaper. "I don't think there is anything wrong with going and having a nice dinner, having a beer and watching the hockey game. I don't know why everybody is trying to create a stir or create a controversy."

Roenick, who signed a one year deal with Phoenix worth $1.2-million this past summer, has just one goal in 28 games and has been scratched from four of the last six games. Even he admits the end of the line is closer than ever.

"End of the (NHL) year, absolutely (I'll retire)," he tells the East Valley Tribune.

"The way it seems to be going right now, I don't think anybody would want to give me another chance to tell you the truth."

"(But) I'm not going to retire in the middle of the year and quit on anybody."
 
Sources say Roenick is prepared to accept his 4th line status with the team and intends to do what he can to help the Coyotes through the remainder of the regular season.

[Communist China]

Roenick's always been a selfish prick. Hope the door hits him on the ass as he limps out of the NHL.

[CheapJon]

some club will give him a contract i'm sure, just like dallas and toronto did with lindros, even though IMO lindros is a better player, but yeah, if he would have wanted to continue playing there would be a contract propisition from some club

[Communist China]

Bump. This thread is too quite.

[Mal Brossard]

yeah it is, where are all the NHL fans

We all disappeared once the Bettmanist regime ushered in the "New NHL."

Is it baseball season yet?

[Communist China]

yeah it is, where are all the NHL fans

We all disappeared once the Bettmanist regime ushered in the "New NHL."

Is it baseball season yet?

Post-lock-out NHL is way better than before, even if Bettman is a prick.

[Malcolm]

Ya it really sucks the Leafs are going through all these injury problems right now