I swear he had the hardest shot I ever saw a player have. ANOTHER one of my all-time favorites

… that FSMW isn’t blacked out down here in favor of SportSouth – I want to catch some of the home opener/MacInnis statue love.

And, apparently, tonight is the calendar give-away. Time to start trolling e-bay for something to replace the Cards one. Shame they’re always sponsored by beer companies – I’d hang it up at work.

…Al paused while making a comment wishing he could come out on the ice one more time and let one go from the blue line…

…somebody from the stands screamed: “Lace’em up Chopper, we need you!”

Its supposed to rain here in the Loo all damn day……Betting the pregame rally and Statue dedication get washed out……..

This is why god and I dont see Eye to Eye……..He screws with my hockey team………I dont take that lightly……

It took me about an hour to figure out those charts. That is WITH caffeine, without would have been impossible.

In the highest goals for 60 min we have no one in the top 50.

In the goals against Andy Mac is 17th although that is an unfair evaluation considering the number of games he played. Brad Boyes comes in at 35th, something needs to be worked on here. I’m thinking line change.

The picture gets pretty bright by the time we get to the 4th chart. The chart that adjusts for how well the team has done on the ice, not just an individual stat. Berglund shows up at #1, Oshie in the 8th spot and Perron comes in at 13th.

It appears by reading between the lines that Berglund may be the coach’s dog early on like Perron was last year. We’ll see how he responds but according to the above stats charts Iceberg was a pretty good two way player.

His ceremonies deserve better weather than this. Oh well.

Apparently all the Blues have to do is get on the PP, cope with the dance, and score. The Thrash have a 66.7% PK, and while you might say “But that’s only one game!” it was roughly the same for six pre-season games. Our (their? Fucking pronouns) penalty kill is abysmal – Pavelec lets up too many rebounds, about 2 of their forwards know how to play defense, and shockingly enough, half of the defense thinks they’re forwards.

I would say goad Valabik into taking a dumb ass penalty, but he’s out for four weeks. I would focus on Thorburn or Popovic.

We also hold the overall record against the Thrash: 6-2-1-1.

http://thrashers.nhl.com/club/preview.htm?id=2009020042&navid=DL|ATL|home

The ex-enforcer who got his hat, face, lunch, balls, dick and anything else handed to him by Janssen last year? Talk about your useless acquisitions…

MacInnis has always been one of my favorite players, long before he became a Blue. He’s the reason I still root for Calgary when there are no Bluenote implications.

I imagine he would’ve played a few more years.
I loved watching him wind up for a shot and it was like the seas parted. No one with any sense wanted to lay down in front of that shot. It took guts for teammates to stand in front of the net ( or no brains).
  
For anyone with nothing to do—-I wonder what are the total man hours lost due to Chopper slapshots over his career.

Dennis Hull and Boom Boom Geoffrion for the hardest slapshot I’ve seen. When the D scramble to get the hell out of the way you know it’s a rocket. And them poor SOBs in goal who had to absorb those brutal slappers from Chopper.

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IS A PUNK ASS BITCH.

What section do most you guys sit in? 307 and 317 sound familiar to me but i’m not sure.

Today has been horrible, and it’s not going to get any better until I’m in my seat at Scottrade watching what will hopefully be a kickass new intro vid (If I get there in time, that is… stupid late-afternoon theology class that I can’t skip because it’s only once a week and I need to save my one allowed absence for if I get the swine flu…)

Hockey? Now? Please?