NHL 2011-2012 Season

[Eli26]

If Pittsburgh fails to make the playoffs in your Leafs fans eyes, then your precious Buds don't have a chance. Even an injury riddled Pens team with its experience and success on taking the worst of a storm can bring, still banged out the greatest win streak last season at 12 games. That was with no Crosby, Malkin, Kunitz, Staal (at times), and Jeffrey taken out of their top 9. This team has Malkin and Neal, and has a good system, if they can go back to it and believe and have faith.

 

[The Ringer]

Eli, your posts are too long.

 

[xjamiex]

Eli, your posts are too long.

Is that constructive criticism?

 

[Valfar]

If Pittsburgh fails to make the playoffs in your Leafs fans eyes, then your precious Buds don't have a chance. Even an injury riddled Pens team with its experience and success on taking the worst of a storm can bring, still banged out the greatest win streak last season at 12 games. That was with no Crosby, Malkin, Kunitz, Staal (at times), and Jeffrey taken out of their top 9. This team has Malkin and Neal, and has a good system, if they can go back to it and believe and have faith.

This is a all new Leaf team, things change.

 

[The Craw]

The leafs are cursed. Kinda like the Chicago Cubs. Fate will keep them out of the playoffs.

 

[Valfar]

The leafs are cursed. Kinda like the Chicago Cubs. Fate will keep them out of the playoffs.

Its been 7yrs now i believe since we made the playoffs, don't forget our slow rebuild and management change.

This all new young Leaf team will make the playoffs, their one of the fastest/most offensive teams in the league IMO and you can tell they are hungry to win and have cleaned up some bad habits lately, especially with their PK and PP, turning over pucks and not screening their own goalie as much, making great defensive plays in their own zone to create chances for our high speed forwards to explode past the opposition.

 

[xjamiex]

Its been 7yrs now i believe since we made the playoffs, don't forget our slow rebuild and management change.

This all new young Leaf team will make the playoffs, their one of the fastest/most offensive teams in the league IMO and you can tell they are hungry to win and have cleaned up some bad habits lately, especially with their PK and PP, turning over pucks and not screening their own goalie as much, making great defensive plays in their own zone to create chances for our high speed forwards to explode past the opposition.

Leafs are the youngest NHL team Speaking of bad habits, in the last few games we have barely had any penalties

 

[Deeznutz6]

The leafs are cursed. Kinda like the Chicago Cubs. Fate will keep them out of the playoffs.

Yep, bet they tank in the second half and miss the playoffs

The east is to tight

 

[CriterionCollector]

If Pittsburgh fails to make the playoffs in your Leafs fans eyes, then your precious Buds don't have a chance. Even an injury riddled Pens team with its experience and success on taking the worst of a storm can bring, still banged out the greatest win streak last season at 12 games. That was with no Crosby, Malkin, Kunitz, Staal (at times), and Jeffrey taken out of their top 9. This team has Malkin and Neal, and has a good system, if they can go back to it and believe and have faith.

I think you meant longest not greatest. Just sayin.

 

[bumblebee]

Caps beat Pens last night

 

[HeadlessGree]

Yep, bet they tank in the second half and miss the playoffs

The east is to tight

there will be some flip flopping among the teams because some are playing well over their heads and it won't last

 

[xjamiex]

Caps beat Pens last night

No surprise there There are both lousy this year.

 

[Eli26]

Caps beat Pens last night

lol An injury depleted Pens roster, but have fun with the 1 goal win. I would like to see your Caps try and win a playoff series against the Pens. Then we'll talk.

See you in a few more months or a year if this happens again. Until then...

 

[Eli26]

I think you meant longest not greatest. Just sayin.

Uh huh. A 12 game win streak (which was the longest last season) with 5 out of their top 9 out for most of it, and at least 4 out for the entire period makes it the greatest by that default alone. To suggest otherwise is silly. Dan Blysma won the Jack Adams because he got his team to believe they could win despite the fact they pretty much lost nearly two thirds of their top 9. That would destroy most teams. In fact, the most productive forward line during that run was the Rupp/Adams/Asham line. Now that says something when those three become your most productive line. lol

 

[Eli26]

No surprise there There are both lousy this year.

Not lousy. Still playoff contention teams. Great? No. Good. Meh... Lets say decent. Lousy for their expectations? Absolutely. The Pens have had the onslaught of injuries, but going by last season they should still be doing better. Chalk it up to two seasons of the injury bug ticking at them, and maybe the drive to succeed and pull the weight of mass losses two seasons in a row is too great. Caps should definitely be better with their roster and the relatively healthy nature of it. Mike Green or not, they have a lot of other components. I notice things are slowly picking up for them.

Either way, both teams need and have to be better.

 

[bumblebee]

lol An injury depleted Pens roster, but have fun with the 1 goal win. I would like to see your Caps try and win a playoff series against the Pens. Then we'll talk.

See you in a few more months or a year if this happens again. Until then...

Injurys!? Caps played without Nick and Mike Green has played only 10 games this year. Just cause Cindy is out with another head injury don't think other teams aren't suffering from injured star players.

 

[Eli26]

This is a all new Leaf team, things change.

That's what Leaf fans say about the last "new Leaf team" and they still either fall flat and don't make the playoffs or at best they make the Eastern Conference Final a few times out of the past 44 years. Where do I get the 44 from? Last time they won a Stanley Cup. I suppose one could say 45 years after this Spring.

 

[Eli26]

Injurys!? Caps played without Nick and Mike Green has played only 10 games this year. Just cause Cindy is out with another head injury don't think other teams aren't suffering from injured star players.

Ummm, if you read you would realize I did make a point of Mike Green being out in one of my posts, and when they did have Nicklas Backstrom in the lineup, they weren't exactly winning a ton of games. But alas, both of our teams should be better than this.

With Green in the lineup the Caps are pretty much the best team in the East with the exception of maybe Boston. Guy sure matters. Pittsburgh was first in the East at one point. It's only 43'ish games in. Still pretty much a second half of hockey to go. Anything can happen. So lets not count all our chickens before they hatch. Here's looking at you jamiex and Valfar.

 

[Eli26]

In the end we shouldn't use injuries as an excuse as Ray Shero says it here, but it does make things very difficult.

“Our expectation despite injuries is to go into every game with the mindset to win the game. That can’t change. We never look at injuries as an excuse. The 20 guys we put on the ice, I believe in that group to win the game and find a way to win. We’ve gone through this before. We still have good players on the ice and I expect them to win games."
- Ray Shero on the state of the Penguins

 

[The Craw]

I like how Pens haters just show up to talk ____ whenever we lose to their team. What are they hoping to gain wth those comments??