Metal Reviews

don't forget Gus and his 7 game winning streak

I really think your team will be within 5 points or less of the 8th spot with a week left in the season next year. Teams like Montreal, New York, Philly, Carolina (ok, they might be good) and so forth are all mediocre; and at least one of Buffalo and Ottawa will slip. With so much mediocrity, I just see Toronto hanging around to the end.

You watch Toronto a heck of lot more than I do, so I'll defer to your opinion on Grabovski, I just thought he was hurt this year, plus he's been really snakebitten, with a shooting percentage declining by half from last year. Then again, perhaps he is just a solid third-liner. And what are they going to do about Kaberle?

Grabo is not good enough defensively or big enough to be a 3rd liner. He does have top 6 skill but he is too greedy with the puck and is just not big enough to win the battles to get to loose pucks. If he stays in the NHL he will always be part of teams who are rebuilding or on teams who year after year have to fight for 8th place. Yes he was hurt this season, and his 20 goals last year was very nice, but he'll never be better than that. The good teams like Pitts, Washington, San Jose, Detroit, etc would have no use for him in their line-ups.

As for the playoff comments, well I'd like to agree with you and I think we will surprise next year but I don't know of we are playoff ready yet.

Kings officially clinch a playoff position for the first time in eight years! Gonna be hard to upset any of the top three teams in the West though.. I like their chances if the Kings could catch 5th and face Phoenix but with the way Nashville and Detroit have been playing lately it'll be very difficult.

Playoffs in a week

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zd5jTtzWx8

good shit

the best lines are the Ottawa and Edmonton ones

so like the playoffs are right around the corner, where the hell is everybody?

the west is set, kinda.. we know which 8 teams will make it, just don't know who will face who. All I know is, whoever gets the Wings in the 1st round are in for some truoble.

with the Habbies losing tonight, they definitely need to beat my Leafers on saturday and hope for whoever wins the home and home between the Rags and Flyers does so in regulation.

wouldn't it be great if both the Rags-Flyers games went into OT and the Habs lost to the Leafs and then the Habs didn't make the playoffs? I think yes.

if the Rags win both games in OT or a SO and the Habs lose to the Leafs on Saturday, they don't make it!

I can dream!

Game tonight vs Sharks was really boring t.t

The Kings are backing into the playoffs and I'm miserable when I should be thrilled.

puck drop in less than an hour, where is everybody?

Another game, another loss. Quick hasn't won any of his last 8 starts.. Good lord he's been awful since the Olympics.

No!!!!!!!!

Fucking overtime

I´m in the land of Zdeno Chara and Marian Gaborik... Seriously dull country. Anyway, when I´m home from my trip I´ll post a looooong post-season comment.

Oh and, Congrats to my Carolina for getting the all-star game. Although it´s boring. Maybe I´ll go.

Fuck yeah Hendrik Sedin is LORD OF THE NHL!

Ovechkin still has one night to over-throw him, all he needs is 3 points

So Kings-Nucks in the 1st round. I cling to the hope that we play the let-in-8-goals version of Luongo, not the Vezina-best-in-the-league version.

Honestly the Canucks are gonna stomp the Kings. I'm having nightmares about the Sedins already.

Nah they played their last game against the Bruins earlier today and he got 0 points.

yeah I thought puck drop was 7 pm eastern time, but I was wrong

as if Burkey flew out to get the Sedins on July 1st but they didn't hit free agency

ohh well, good for Henrik. It's good to see somebody not named Crosby or Ovechkin leading the NHL