I guess only people in New Jersey visit nhl.com vs ESPN? Not trolling, that's a pretty weird discrepancy between the two sites.

yeah bad news. just realized that the KANGZ are gonna ship this thing, as they have the Devils out-GOOB'd 7-2.

far too much to overcome...

We'll have to wait to see if this is the reason [team here] won the Cup or Richards and Carter showing a lack of WIM/leadership by partying too hard.

It writes itself!

Yeah, that is a very scary stat. Devils 7 GOCBs to Kings 15. Definitely going to be extremely difficult to overcome. But the two GOOBs are Henrique and Clarkson who are sure to give it their all. And Marty is one of the other GOCBs. We will see.

On the bright side, your avatar man & GOOB Paul Bissonette was banging Paulina Gretzky at a pool party within mere days of being eliminated from the playoffs. I guess sex with Paulina Gretzky is the new golfing for people who get eliminated from the playoffs



Like seriously, you know you're a tramp when you intentionally have the bikini strings coming out the back of your short shorts.

Oh well. Paul surely took her into Gretzky's office moments before or after that was taken.

Put some moneyz on the Devils...gogogogo

Alyonka having lunch again with TYLER SEGUIN. They are TOTALLY doing it. What a GOOB. Pulling the hottest girl in hockey.

Kessel has such terrible wheels he probably has trouble pulling 6s. And ****ing Seguin banging Alyonka Larionov. What a king. FIRE BURKE.

and don't forget Dougie Hamilton! (talk about a perfect GOCB/GOOB/TML name too)

[...] Seguin, who helped Boston win a Stanley Cup last year and scored 29 goals and 67 points this past season, has already turned out to be a home run. But if scouts are correct about Hamilton’s potential — The Hockey News ranked him as the fourth-best prospect not playing in the NHL — the strapping defenceman could one day stand alongside Seguin as twin monuments to the deal.

“Dougie’s the best junior defenceman I’ve ever coached,” said IceDogs head coach Marty Williamson, who also coached St. Louis Blues stalwart Alex Pietrangelo. “I think you could be looking at a Norris Trophy-type guy, a guy that has a 15-, 20-year career ahead of him. He’s going to be a wonderful pro.”

You do not often find defenceman who look and play like Hamilton. Because of his size, skating ability and offensive instincts, scouts have compared him to Calgary’s Jay Bouwmeester or San Jose’s Brent Burns. With the season he had in the Ontario Hockey League, Chris Pronger might be a better comparison because of how dominant he was.

Hamilton, who was unanimously named the OHL’s top defenceman — “The voting was pretty one-sided,” Williamson said — almost seemed bored playing another year of junior. He led all rearguards with 72 points in 50 games and had a plus-34 rating.

“He’s not even challenged at this level,” said former Leafs defenceman Mike Van Ryn, who coached Hamilton last year. “He’s the best athlete I’ve seen at his age.”

The scary thing for opposing forwards is that Dougie might not be done growing. A couple of weeks ago, Lynn got out the measuring tape and found that Dougie, who is officially listed at 6-foot-4, had grown an inch. Boston fans, meanwhile, can only imagine what their blue line might look like in the near future with 6-foot-9 Zdeno Chara on one point and the still-growing Hamilton on the other.

“He’s a man amongst boys in our league,” Knights assistant coach Misha Donskov said. “In my opinion, he’s a player who is as close to being NHL-ready as anyone in the OHL. He’s an all-star.”

And, in what is sure to be repeated many times during his future NHL career, he could have been a Leaf.

“I have a lot of friends who say that,” Hamilton said. “At the end of the day, Toronto traded the pick to the Boston, so hopefully I can be a Bruin in the future and beat the Leafs.”

http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/...-amongst-boys/

“I think Dougie Hamilton is the best defenseman outside the NHL”
-Dennis MacInnis, director of amateur scouting for International Scouting Service

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey...iagara-icedogs

but maybe i'm getting a little OT here...

Saw a prop bet for the series that the winner of the Conn Smythe not being a goalie pays +170. That seems weird to me. I like Parise @ +1200 also.

Wore my old Stephan Richer jersey today. Haven't been this pumped for a hockey game in 9 years. Pretty ****ing awesome.

Guy with Leafs jersey in field of Devils for HNIC intro. Typical.

TONIGHT IT BEGINS

beyond the speech impediment, is there something wrong with Brown? he just seems off...and pretty inarticulate.

yeah, def lol'd @ that guy

and yeah, where is everyone? if this thread is any indication, the public simply cannot contain themself with the prospect of this series...

So he's basically a Canuck?

sea weiss' self-loathing for pretending to be a Kings fan for so long is reflecting in his troll game