So Lidstrom is retiring, sad day.
I want to say he was like Tim Duncan: Understated, fundamentally sound, caring only about winning, spending his entire career with a single franchise. But Duncan is a spotty free-throw shooter, and he can't shoot three-pointers, and you wouldn't ask him to dribble the ball up court unless everybody else on your team had fouled out. As great as Duncan was (and is), there are so many things that a 7-footer just can't do as well as a great 6-footer. So no, he was not quite like Tim Duncan.
I want to say he was like Joe DiMaggio, the mysterious genius, who rarely struck out and supposedly always threw to the right base and could help his team win a single game in a dozen ways. But by most accounts, talking to DiMaggio was like trying to get to second base with a porcupine. So no, he was not quite like Joe DiMaggio.
I want to say he was like Joe Montana, another third-round pick whose subtle gifts were hard to recognize, who seemed to get calmer when everybody else panicked. But Montana missed half the 1986 season and almost all of the 1991 and 1992 seasons with injuries, then battled desperately to come back from brutal injuries so he could determine how his career ended. Montana took a lot of hits, and his career is defined in part by his desire to play through pain. And besides, every once in a while, Montana threw interceptions. So no, he was not quite like Joe Montana.
If you don't follow hockey, this is hard to understand. But there has never, ever, in the history of sports, ever been anybody like Nick Lidstrom.
Only if NJ starts to play better than they have been. This was their best shot at getting to LA, and they failed.
I think Quick is a little more than a hot goalie. He's been solid all year.
That's quite the melrosesque analysis you got there..... What I saw was a tight game, with the devils not running thier forcheck as they have been, with LA, looking good, but not really much better than NJ who was struggling a bit. The 1st game was a conservative low shot game where the teams were feeling each other out.... 1-1 overtime loss...... One would be foolish to think that one could gleam that one team played horrible, and the other well. I think LA played better than NJ, but the win, didn't come easy.
Hey Rev, you are so heavily biased for the Devils that your opinions are pretty odd. LA came off a long layoff(playoffwise), did not play nearly as well as they normally do, and still controlled play most of the game. Notice that I did not say one team played horribly, that is you making **** up again.
I wouldn't say they controlled play most of the game.
Hey Rev, you are so heavily biased for the Devils that your opinions are pretty odd. LA came off a long layoff(playoffwise), did not play nearly as well as they normally do, and still controlled play most of the game. Notice that I did not say one team played horribly, that is you making **** up again.
I wouldn't say they controlled play most of the game.
LA takes another one in OT.
Captain Obvious says that the Devils have to find a way to get a lead in regulation.
Captain Obvious also says that LA has to find a way to put NJ away when they get a lead. Expecting Quick to get a shutout every game won't do it.
God your worse than a Rangers fan
The only thing worse, in hockey, than a Rangers fan is a Lighting fan.
Fixed that.
Tim Thomas announced that he is taking a year off...on facebook.
Why? Is this his way of retiring?
"At the age of 38, I believe it is time to put my time and energies into those areas and relationships that I have neglected. That is why at this time I feel the most important thing I can do in my life is to reconnect with the three F's.
Friends, Family, and Faith.
This is what I plan on doing over the course of the next year."
Those are the only words I have seen him say so far.
Well at 38 he doesn't have that many years left to play. Though he's won a cup, a Conn Smythe, and a Vezina what else is there?
The only thing worse, in hockey, than a Rangers fan is a Habs fan.
You don't squander 6 power plays. /facepalm
Kovulchuck looks hurt.
Kopitar is a star, but like all eastern europeans will fizzle in the next couple years. :ssst:
LA fans seem like they all are on valium.....
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