Standing_Tall#37

do you expect Montreal to be elite? I expect them to be a 6-10 team in the east, 12-20th in the league. I think a fair share of wins for us will be 50-60% against the bottom 20ish teams in the league and 33-40% against the top teams in the league, I think we are now a 6-12ish team in the west, behind SJ, LA,Chi,StL, Col. We will battle Anaheim, Minnesota, Dallas & Winnipeg for a playoff spot. I really only see edm, Calgary, Phoenix and Nash being pushover teams.

I could care less about the standings, what I see is the fact that we can't beat top 20 teams or compete with them so far. What bothers me is that we have 9 nhl forwards and 5 D. What I see is the times are changing in 2003-2004 the nhl changed...drafting bigger and wayyyy more skilled hybrid type of players. We are now seeing the old guard retiring or in twilight years & the new generation of way more skilled players peak (Crosby, Ovechkin, Malkin, Giroux, Stamkos, Taveres, Kane, Getzlaf, Hall, Benn, etc....) we currently have no youth in the line-up of this style, although we have shink, horvat and Gaunce coming up. I think Shroeder & Jensen could have played well in the old nhl, but they will fail in this better-skill/speed era. It is only a matter of time before it is exposed that we missed the curve. Project players and failure to do a proper reset will have this team struggling for years. Shink,Bo-Ho or Gaunce should have been in the lineup this year, however they missed the boat and will only be on the squad when we have accepted a culture of losing, furthermore delaying their development(see Edmonton; accepting a losing culture). Sorry to admit it, but this Cores glory days are done, we have 2-4 years maybe of even fighting for a playoff spot. Time to trade off Kes, Twins, Edler, Bieksa while we can still get something lets not Calgary, Toronto or Edmonton this to the point where we rebuild for 10 years without a sniff of the playoffs.

I think him and his coaching staff are a joke, they mighta had a shot with MLB level management AA will probably be fired over this

Lmao....I think being $200,000 over the cap and 6 players short of the minimum roster size = major player moves. (Regardless of who the coach is)

True, but how much success has any of our coaches had since 70 if we are gonna be "win the cup or bust" I think Torts is our only option to go all in for a year or two. Otherwise lets go for a more stable long-term guy and start the rebuild this summer.

I would straight hard foul beckham or Keane at this point

I would if my name was O'....anything(tough Irish bastards)

You could tell by the 30th minute that LA would win. Beckham and Donavan have been getting away with fouling all game, I didn't think the Ref would let the caps win even if they played squeaky clean. Too much money lost if the galaxy gets eliminated first round...

4 years ago did you ever dream your thread would be this successful?

Ken and barbie is what we call them up here lol

I do, however when I'm drunk I want to have fun, F*** or fight. Going on a computer is not something that even crosses my mind when I'm wasted...Lol but I'm not from the city, so maybe that's what the cool kids do?

Wooooooooo! Lets get drunk and find a computer....

-47 here today this morning with the windchill....was-39 without it at 6am

Got stuck working in minus 24 from 5am-8am... Beats the good ol days though... Perched on the top of a drilling rig in-40 in bum**** bc lol

At least she's warm down there tonight... Only minus 20

Just put er in 4x

Are Angel &/or Donovon playing?

Anyone else notice how great and exciting the whitecaps are when they have possession. And how brutal and scattered they play when trying to defend. I overall think the players they have are definately great, just need to work majorly on defending.

No but I once worked 9 hours of a 16 hour shift in -37 Because some dumb-fu(k froze our cooling system.

Anyone else sick of snow yet? 6 inches so far today and its not supposed to stop until monday:(, when it gets to cold for snow:( lol

lol that kinda worked out pretty funny

got caught danceing topless in a gaay bar

makes me laugh sometimes

was born a man