DaveC
Blue Crack Addict
I don't have a favourite player anymore, but when I was a kid I was a big Felix Potvin kid
CTU2fan said:^ My buddy (Rangers fan) used to call him "HacksTall" because of all the stick swinging he got into.
Potvin & Roy, 2 other fun guys to watch. I played goal growing up so my favorites were always the goaltenders...Pelle Lindbergh, Mike Liut, Billy Smith, Grant Fuhr. But along came Hextall...wow. Here was a goalie who could pass & shoot the puck, which we never got to do, and who got into the physical stuff which again we goalies didn't do. Yeah there were guys before him who handled the puck to one degree or another (Fuhr, Barrasso, even Smith & Cheevers a little), but Hexy was on a whole other level. Marty Brodeur does it a bit now, can't think of anybody else.
I also loved Kevin Dineen. I wonder what kind of career Kevin could have had if not for some injuries and illness that really limited what he ended up doing. Hell of a fun guy to watch in his prime though.
No spoken words said:When I was in my teens, nothing was better than the NHL playoffs.....especially early rounds....you'd get home late, and flip the TV on and some crazy Western Conference playoff game would be in 2OT at 1am or something, and you'd be riveted....I still love the NHL playoffs, but back in the day I liked it even better....
DaveC said:Yeah, I'm watching that game now too...do you guys get TSN where you are?
I love this...now that I actually have a team to follow, I just can't get enough of hockey. Last night I stayed up until 4 am just to catch the late highlights
CTU2fan said:
I was getting the TSN feed via sopcast. It's all I get down here except Lightning games.
Yeah I totally agree about the playoff games. I stayed up late in '87 to watch the Flyers & Oilers in the finals, great except the way it ended I also stayed up through the entire Isles/Caps 4OT game that LaFontaine ended. There was another long one last year or the year before that I saw, forget who played though.
tpsreports2424 said:Okay its official, im back into hockey... going to 18 hours 3 days from wednesday til friday to refresh on whats up..
what channels can you get hockey on?
And has there been recently any good fights? like goalies coming out of there nets?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2xMXXOw4M
No spoken words said:I remember the Habs in 1993.
tpsreports2424 said:Joe Sakic is GOD
Red Wings suck
LarryMullen's_POPAngel said:
BonoManiac said:^ Hey, CTU2fan, refresh my memory. Wasn't there a long OT playoff game between the Habs and the Whalers way back when? I believe the Habs won, but that was one of my favourite OT games.
And of course, who can forget the Habs winning 10 straight OT games in 1993 to win the Stanley Cup? That will be a VERY tough record to beat.
DaveC said:
CTU2fan said:
They played a 2OT game 7 in 1992 that Russ Courtnall won on a long one through traffic that I still can't believe got through everyone. In the 1st OT Yvon Corriveau had a breakaway and beat Roy cleanly, but hit the crossbar I believe. That was a series where the home team won every game, and if I remember right 2 or 3 of the games in Hartford went to OT.
That 93 run was impressive...lots of John LeClair and Kirk Muller moments that year.
tpsreports2424 said:damn you guys are old
DaveC said:
Fixed.
tpsreports2424 said:
You know it