MTG Salvation

I decided to start a thread on the 2011-2012 NHL season since the pre-season games start on Monday.

who's excited for this season?

I hope my Habs can do well but I'm doubting them this year

I stopped watching last season, but I hope my Red Wings are still doing well. I only really watch hockey if the Wings are in the playoffs.

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I stopped watching last season, but I hope my Red Wings are still doing well. I only really watch hockey if the Wings are in the playoffs.

So youve been watching he last 20 years then?

the Red Wings have been doing well for a while now.

I'm looking forward to see if the Leafs are gonna do as well as their fans say they will as well, even though I know they won't.

Habs vs leafs as the first season game for each team will be great as well.

Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard will honor those former Wings who tragically lost their lives in the Lokomotiv crash on the back of his mask this year:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Back-of-Jimmy-Howard-s-mask-to-honor-fallen-Loko?urn=nhl-wp13318&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Buffalo and Minnesota are looking strong in the pre-season, not having lost a single game yet but my habs are looking terrible, having only won 1 game out of their 3.

I love how leafs fans made fun of me after the habs lost their first game though

Diehard Kings fan reporting.

The Drew Doughty fiasco is ruining what would have likely been the best Kings' season in 20+ years. So frustrating.

the Kings are supposed to be really good this year.

I'm worried about my Habs though.

I know a lot of Leafs fans, so they like to bash the Habs, so maybe that could be the reason why I'm worried but the habs aren't looking too good so far in the pre-season

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the Kings are supposed to be really good this year.

I'm worried about my Habs though.

I know a lot of Leafs fans, so they like to bash the Habs, so maybe that could be the reason why I'm worried but the habs aren't looking too good so far in the pre-season

Don't worry. It's the preseason, brotha. I hate Subban, but Price is a great tender and will get you guys to the playoffs.

The Kings are still really damn good, but with Doughty they're a Cup contender. Without, they're just another low seed playoff team.

Although this forward core is still pretty nasty, with or without Doughty:

Penner-Kopitar-Williams
Gagne-Richards-Brown
Clifford-Stoll-Hunter
Richardson-Lewis-Moreau
Westgarth, Parse

I like Subban, I think Price is a good tender but my team's not too deep and good thing it's still the pre-season which means nothing

Quote from LostCondottiere

Don't worry. It's the preseason, brotha. I hate Subban, but Price is a great tender and will get you guys to the playoffs.

The Kings are still really damn good, but with Doughty they're a Cup contender. Without, they're just another low seed playoff team.

Although this forward core is still pretty nasty, with or without Doughty:

Penner-Kopitar-Williams
Gagne-Richards-Brown
Clifford-Stoll-Hunter
Richardson-Lewis-Moreau
Westgarth, Parse

Needs more Loktionov

my habs are 1-6 in the pre-season, I'm hoping they pull it up in the regular season

Drew Doughty....8 yrs, 56 million. LA is officially the West frontrunner

OH MY GOD.

I'm so relieved. I can't even describe how relieved I am. I can't believe it.

For AT LEAST the next five years, the LA Kings have a core of Anze Kopitar, Mike Richards, Drew Doughty, and Jack Johnson. Wow.

I'm so glad this is over. Great deal.

I can't wait for the pre-season to be over so I can see how well my Habs do in the regular season.

I hope they can beat the Leafs Thursday anyways

Seems like not many people are posting here but I am so excited for the Wild.. finally a legit top line.. I realize today was our first game, and against the Jackets...

but we look like a completely different team, and I like it alot.

Buffalo has really impressed as I expected they would and surprisingly, Philly seems to have gelled rather quickly. My Wings start out 2-0 which is good for me, though last night's performance against the Avs was rather disappointing the first 35 minutes.

In regard to Minnesota, while they had a nice game last night, I still feel they're going to be a 1 line team and thus wont finish all that well. My guess would be 12th or so in the West

I think my Habs will take awhile to get the gel going but I'm not sure if they'll work.

the leafs are looking solid which they usually do at the beginning, let's see if they can keep it up (not trying to make fun of them) but their goalie might help them.

Buffalo's really strong now and it looks like Detroit and Philly are looking strong like usual.

Red Wings just came back from 2-0 to win OT. They're 4-0 now

my Habs aren't doing too great right now, with another loss, against Colorado tonight.

the Jets have yet to win a game, which is disappointing too, even though they're pretty much still Atlanta so I'm not surprised.

I'm surprised at the Islanders and Colorado tbh