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Derek Stepan livin' the dream.

Yeah that was pretty scary... (was in response to thejew bringing up Pavelec)

Rudy: I honestly wouldn't have been surprised at all if they had given Kesler captaincy.

Started a new season on NHL 10 for PS3 with fantasy draft enabled. Here's my team:

Alexander Semin----Ryan Kesler----Marian Gaborik
Kristian Huselius----John Tavares----Johan Franzen
David Perron----Brandon Dubinsky----Maxim Afinogenov
Kyle Calder----Colin Fraser----Glen Murray

4th line essentially gets no playing time, and I had no idea that Glen Murray was still involved in hockey. Sharp, depressing decline for him yeesh.

Here's my D

Shea Weber-Cam Barker
Victor Hedman-Johnny Oduya
Ladislav Smid-Tobias Enstrom

Goalie= Jonas Hiller (waited too long to get a 'tender)


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Shawn Horcoff: Two goals, neither with his stick.

Ten Favourite Active Players:
1. Teemu Selanne (number 3 all time after Sakic and Yzerman)
2. Jonathan Toews
3. Shea Weber
4. Steven Stamkos
5. Nick Backstrom
6. Jeff Carter
7. Drew Doughty
8. Ryan Getzlaf
9. Rick Nash
10. Bobby Ryan

Getzlaf is a little bitch.

Why?

Anaheim is going to finish 30th in the league, that's why.

He's one of those "I'm not winning some I'm going to try to fight and throw cheap shots, but I'm a pussy so I'm going to pick on someone who doesn't fight" guys.

Well, I've never really noticed a situation like that tbh. Guess I should pay more attention, but from what I've seen I love his game.

Maybe I'm just imagining it. I get that air from most Ducks players. Like Perry. Who fights Datsyuk? And he still lost. Also, Bobby Ryan tonight against the blues. Such a tough guy.

Haha that fight was so weird. Post up your top ten so I can make you feel bad.

I don't have a top 10. Even though I commented on Getzlaf, I still like him when he plays actual hockey. I dunno. I have lots of favourites. If I ignored the Canucks, my actual favourite player to watch would be Kovalchuk because he is so ridiculously fast and skilled. He can pretty much score from anywhere. For overall completeness in a player, I'd say my favourite is Drew Doughty.

I'm redoing my season predictions. It's allowed, since only 2-3 games have been played:

Eastern Conference:

1. Washington Capitals*
2. Boston Bruins*
3. Philadelphia Flyers*
4. New Jersey Devils
5. Pittsburgh Penguins
6. Atlanta Thrashers
7. New York Rangers
8. Tampa Bay Lightning
9. Buffalo Sabres
10. New York Islanders
11. Toronto Maple Leafs
12. Montreal Canadiens
13. Ottawa Senators
14. Carolina Hurricanes
15. Florida Panthers

Western Conference:

1. Vancouver Canucks*
2. Detroit Red Wings*
3. San Jose Sharks*
4. Los Angeles Kings
5. Chicago Blackhawks
6. St. Louis Blues
7. Phoenix Coyotes
8. Colorado Avalanche
9. Dallas Stars
10. Columbus Blue Jackets
11. Edmonton Oilers
12. Nashville Predators
13. Calgary Flames
14. Minnesota Wild
15. Anaheim Ducks

Eastern Conference:

1. New Jersey Devils
2. Washington Capitals
3. Boston Bruins
4. Pittsburgh Penguins
5. Philadelphia Flyers
6. Buffalo Sabres
7. Atlanta Thrashers
8. Ottawa Senators
9. Tampa Bay Lightning
10. Toronto Maple Leafs
11. Montreal Canadiens
12. New York Islanders
13. Florida Panthers
14. New York Rangers
15. Carolina Hurricanes

Western:

1. San Jose Sharks
2. Vancouver Canucks
3. Chicago Blackhawks
4. Detroit Red Wings
5. Los Angeles Kings
6. Nashville Predators
7. Phoenix Coyotes
8. St. Louis Blues
9. Colorado Avalanche
10. Dallas Stars
11. Minnesota Wild
12. Calgary Flames
13. Edmonton Oilers
14. Anaheim Ducks
15. Columbus Blue Jackets

I'm stickin with my predictions. Even with New Jersey losing all three games so far.

I mainly changed mine for these reasons:

I had Ottawa much too high, because their team looks pretty bad in my opinion. Goaltending issues, not much defensive depth etc.

I had Minnesota much too high. Their goaltending hasn't been as good as expected recently, plus lack of defensive depth, plenty of injuries and not getting scoring from people who should be scoring.

Also, I had Tampa too low, because besides goaltending, I'm confident they'll have a good team.

Also had Dallas too low. I don't think they're that great (especially defensively), but they're better than like 14th or 15th like I had them. Also, Anaheim looks to me like an almost guaranteed 30th place (I think I had them 14th on my other list). The way they've looked the first 3 games just confirms all my preseason opinions of them.

Fuck Anaheim sports.