NJDevs4978

Hmmm...I just looked up Hitch's record on the Flyers' website and apparently he did NOT coach another NHL team before the Stars, at least not as a head coach. Assistant, maybe you meant? He was an assistant for one team. So Don you'll have to change the wording of that one I think.

I've read that too Sue...that would preclude the Ranger$ from getting him, unless McPhee's definition of a contender is the same as Holik's circa July 2002.

Actually Don, Marty said: 'Ask me what team we beat in the 2003 final 5 to 10 years from now, and I'll have trouble remembering.'

I was actually glad Sakic scored his third goal cause they would have given the MVP to Messier otherwise Nieds was the best player but he was never going to get MVP unless he scored a couple of goals. BTW, how ironic is it that the supposedly inferior East roster won BOTH the skills competition AND the game?

Well I'm pretty sure about 2 and 7, I'll just flat-out guess the rest and hope I get lucky: 1. Chico Resch 2. Ken Daneyko 3. Good one I wasn't even aware Hitch had coached before Dallas. I have probably a 1 in 20 chance of getting it so I'll just say Vancouver? 4. I think the Devils' first game was against the Rangers? It could have been the first home game, though. In either case, I'll guess Don Lever. 5. Bruce Driver 6. Obstruction 7. Mike Peluso

Those are a couple of good stories...thanks for posting. Sometimes we forget the players are human too, the second story shows they are

BWAHHAHAHAHAHA (Of course Brooks is probably talking out of his a$$...but it's still funny as hell to read. And stranger things HAVE happened in hockey I suppose but this would be pretty frigging unbelievable)

Well if Burke didn't get injured every five minutes this might actually help the Flyers. But he does so it probably won't. Damn the deal looks even worse now that I've read the whole thread. Clarkie IS going to turn the Flyers into the Ranger$ in a few years if he keeps this up.

Already posted.

Didn't someone have a good picture of Holik and Messyface a while back? For the life of me I can't remember the thread, but it was captioned. Hopefully the person that did it reads this thread (unless I'm just imagining things)

Ouch, sheeps - worse than the Leafs with Quinn and Domi and Tucker and Marchment? Worse than the Flyers with Clarke and Hitch and Roenick? Come to think of it, now I do remember the anti-NJ jokes during the playoffs last year. What else is there; do tell...

I kind of agree - if only from the perspective of let's face it this 4-on-4 OT is not going away any time soon. Frankly it's unfair that some games have three points awarded and some two. Then again, tie games would still have only two awarded, but that's still far better than having chintsy OT decisions get three and regulation wins get two. I'm kind of a purist so I'd rather do away with this nonsense altogether and go back to the straight 2-1-0 point system, but I'm also a realist - they're trying to appeal to the casual fan and make the end of games more exciting and this quasi-pond hockey overtime does that. So if it's going to be around, might as well make it more fair at least. Even if it'll screw up all the points records. But heck, soccer did the same thing a while back - turning wins from two points to three and from what limited knowledge of the game I have, nobody batted an eye there. Probably red or moustic would know better than I, they're maybe the biggest soccer fans here.

Bettman Interview

Geez, we couldn't even sell out an All-Star game with Gretzky...yeah, there's no problems with our arena location

I don't think even Me$$ would be as arrogant as to ask Nieds directly...but I think he IS asking him indirectly through the media, hoping Nieds will volunteer to give it to him. To me, it makes no difference anyway; it's skanky and selfish either way. And for what - a freaking All-Star game, an exhibition! Come on! He should consider himself fortunate just to be IN the game for crying out loud Now he's gotta be captain too? Geez, I knew he had an ego, but this is over-the-top even for him

No doubt..by far the best mouth for the DEVS, Maybe we can hire him for radio play by play??? Also, like someone else pointed out earlier maybe Dano gets a job on the FAN now that the Devils are going to be a part of it...hell he's been on that radio station a lot already with Somers and Ed Coleman, among others.

Hate to disagree... the problem when madden & Pando go in 2 -1 and madden has the puck.... the Dmen cover the pass 100% they want madden to shoot becasue they have been told the goalie will make a save 95% of the time. there was a game abotu 2 weeks ago...madden and pando in on a 2-1 madden w/ the pcuk...he wanted to pass so badly...waited and waited anwaited, and then skated the pouck right into the goalies pad, never even shot!!! it was pathetic!!! The funny part about this is people used to prevent Madden from shooting at all costs, given that he was the only scoring threat on a 2-on-1 with Pando

Including those Hartford Whaler-like jerseys they wore against the Rangers?

Well that's really the way it's supposed to be. Mihkailov (sp?) was in his early 30's at that point. The Russians were amateurs in name only

Well all in all I suppose it wasn't a bad night, with the Devils apparently getting the Newark deal done at last and getting on WFAN for next year. Of course the game sucked oh well

Even if they sign a contract and start breaking ground on the arena? Hell if nothing else that alone would mean we could at least shut this folder down for the time being

Why is Larionov playing? Devs already down 1-0, Henrik Sedin scores...sheesh.

Ah...since I listen to the radio maybe two times a year I didn't realize it.

If this is Bobby when he's NOT detonated then I CAN'T WAIT for the explosion!

Well he doesn't feel that way about the Yankees anymore. It is hard to believe a Ranger fan would root for the Islanders before the Devils, though. He does have some CLASSIC anti-Ranger rants when they bite the dust though