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ChiaPetty

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Forum: NHLAug. 24, 2017 at 10:09 p.m.
Thread: How many games have you gone to?
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>rangersandislesfan</b></div><div><div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ChiaPetty</b></div><div>Blues in 2016
Nash in 2015</div></div>

ok, what game numbers? you don't need to tell me if you don't want to but you can.</div></div>

2016 blues 1st home game in Chi Kane took a dumb penalty and the blues scored the winning goal. I thought it was going into overtime before they scored. I remember sitting behind the net on the glass. It was my first game on the glass. If you are all wondering Crawford does look like he talks to himself the entire game.
2015 Nash the Saturday game of that series. 1st home game in chi. I remember vividly because it was my first ever playoff game. It was the intermission where Hossa was left in the box for a couple of minutes after the period ended. I remember Brent Seabrook (he's my favorite player) scored. My dad must have thought I was crazy. The people around me must have thought I was crazy because of how much I cheered.
I remember the WCF in standing room. Shaw had two goals to send the series back to Anaheim. Booing Corey Perry. Chant "Corey Corey Corey". When Crawford made an amazing save.
Honestly I could reminisce all night long about the games I've seen. I've seen Steven Stamkos play and he was amazing. I've seen the capitals get blown out in Arizona last year and I was sitting next to a bunch of caps fans.
Forum: NHLAug. 24, 2017 at 4:51 p.m.
Forum: NHLAug. 4, 2017 at 8:58 p.m.
Thread: Which Team will have the Highest Points Difference this Year?
Arizona and Dallas are good picks, however just based on the anomaly of a season they had, Colorado.
They finished worse than the McEichel Sabers who sold on top of selling. The team was not built to suck so bad. Duchene is probably going to have a better year and probably eclipse his usual 55+ points. Landenskog will probably reach 50 points. Rantanen will be a little older with some NHL experience to help him grow. Erik Johnson was hurt for part of the season. Zadorov was pretty decent at shot suppression. Barrie had a terrible shooting percentage last year and it will probably have a better offensive year. Also they have some decent to good prospects in JT Compher and Tyson Jost.
They aren't going to good maybe .500 give or take but not the .293 that they were last year.
Forum: NHLAug. 4, 2017 at 8:34 p.m.
Forum: NHLAug. 2, 2017 at 10:40 p.m.
Thread: Pacific Standings
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>rangersandislesfan</b></div><div><div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>ChiaPetty</b></div><div></div></div>

What's wrong with the Flames goaltending ... they got Mike Smith.</div></div>

I hope you are joking. You're right "all star" Mike Smith. He's average, which average goal-tending can take you to the playoffs in a weak division, which the West as a hole is becoming weaker, however he is good at blocking high danger shots, however he is below average against medium and low danger shots. He's like Eddie Lack in a way that he is streaky. I expect him to be somewhere between a .910 and .915 Save %. He is just average. But Goaltending has been Calgary's Achilles heel for the past 5 years. Elliot didn't work out, Hiller is in Europe somewhere, Ramo was placed on waivers in his tenure. Chad Johnson was at least serviceable.
Its not like we haven't seen what bad goaltending can do to a team. Price went down and Montreal didn't make the playoffs (not saying that Condon and Scrivy were bad) but some teams--any team--can live and die by their goaltending. Calgary is just one of those teams. They are not going to be a team that scores a lot of goals.
Forum: NHLAug. 2, 2017 at 8:27 p.m.
Thread: Pacific Standings
I've put some thought into the standings
1. Edmonton-it is kind of hard to root against McDavid and his band of merry men to finish first. Cam Talbot was unreal last year and I expect him to continue to be better. Jesse Puljujarvi will probably make the team and put up good numbers in the AHL (its hard for a teenager to put up a point a game in the AHL.) They do need to get a new backup because Brossoit is not going to cut it because I don't think that Talbot is one of those Price or Bob goalies who can play 65+ games a season.
2. Anaheim- It was tough not to say that Anaheim will win the division, they have one of the best, young defensive group. Bieksa can just sit in the press box every night and have their cheap guys play. It is their strongest feature by far. If Gibson can just stay healthy and Ryan Miller doesn't fall off a cliff that is a great tandem. The forward group is where I have questions, which I assume that young players like Sam Steel or Max Jones might challenge for roster spot.
3. Calgary-Bad goaltending will sink a team like a rock, reference the Blue Jackets in the 2015-16. Lazar can't fluke his way into another 1 goal in 37 games again. They have a great top 5 D and have some good D prospects. For forward Johnny Hockey and Sean Monahan are going to be good. They are going to live and die by their goaltending of Mike Smith and Eddie Lack. Lack is a fine goalie, who is prone to streaks.
4. San Jose- Just a solid team who I like could finish third. They are getting older and we will see how they will handle the up and coming teams. I don't know how they are going to handle the young speed.
5.Arizona-I love their off season moves but not this year. They are going to have one more year of missing the playoffs and might challenge for a wildcard spot. if Raanta and Domingue can hold the fort, they are going to be great next year. They have a couple of stop gaps. Much like Toronto, the young kids are coming. (I guess my 17 dollar tickets through ASU are going to go up a little.)
6. Los Angles-The sun is setting, they can't be too mad though. They'll just plug their ears with their cup rings. They have some great pieces like Toffoli and Muzzin. Kopitar will probably have a better year, but do they have some baaaaaaaaaad deals.
7. Vancouver- One more year of the Sedins, Then the rebuild truly starts. They have good pieces with Horvat, Boeser, Hutton. Demko, Joulevi, Goldobin, Dahlen plus a no worse than top 6 draft pick this year. They have pieces that are going to be good just have to suffer for a couple years. If they can send the Sedins away to contenders (which splitting them up proably won't happen) there are two first round picks right there. Sam Ganger is going to be a good stop gap and they can trade him too.
8. Vegas- I thought the expansion draft was going to be better than I think now. But Here is the good news, everyone is going to be traded. Before the trade deadline, Neal is going to be gone, Perron is going to be gone. Sbisa is going to be gone. Also over the next three years they have 10 picks in the first two rounds. Glass and Suzuki are going to be good.