NHL Season 2015-2016

[FrostedFlake]

I think at this point, the rest of the season is just there to get final adjustment on the game, and then in playoff it's not always about being good all around. It's about changing your game to get advantage over 1 team. I feel good for wild at the moment, Parise is great since he's back from injury and i really think some guys will step up their game as the playoffs arrives. At some point, Dumba is like Subban, great player but a bit shaky some times and they make errors they shoudn't at their skill level.Still both really great players for sure. Losing 3 in a row at this point is not that bad, when the playoffs arrives, we start again at 0 and 1 team to face at a time. I understand some bad things can worry you but it doesn't mean it will be the same in playoffs.

[von Rantala]

4 lose row and I was mad to see happy faces in lockerroom yes they celebrated they clinch to playoff, but if you are proud hockey team, u shouldn't cheer after lost game, disappointed that, and its worry mean that they have that kind style, and explain a lot why team go long losing streaks every year, they dont care how much they lose if they has just won six straight or clinch to playoffs, lets be honest Wild was lucky to go in playoffs, if Roy would played Picard instead of shaky Varlamov, Colorado would be probably in the playoffs, after seeing they attitude after lost make me super mad, and I never been so disappointed to my team or to Koivu, and first time I really thought that if Wild not go long in playoffs I will start follow different team in future, team which try win and is not happy or careless after lost games. Ofc I somehow understand that team dont want panic when playoffs is coming, but to celebrate that u cant explain.

[von Rantala]

Wow this is hockey fans as best https://www.nhl.com/video/oilers-fans-sing-o-canada/t-279847092/c-43297203 that kind noise you dont hear so much in NHL than in EU, maybe because national anthem has singed so much more in NHL than in EU series, but you cant think about nicer way to say bye to old Rexall. Canada fans showed that when they sing they do it from bottom of they heart

Edited April 7, 2016 by von Rantala

[Sisje]

I need to learn that too I think
Should go fast if I go to many hockey games in Canada
Sad only 2 more maple leaf games to go and they totally sucked last game -.-

Edited April 7, 2016 by Sis <3

[Dak]

Wow this is hockey fans as best https://www.nhl.com/video/oilers-fans-sing-o-canada/t-279847092/c-43297203 that kind noise you dont hear so much in NHL than in EU, maybe because national anthem has singed so much more in NHL than in EU series, but you cant think about nicer way to say bye to old Rexall. Canada fans showed that when they sing they do it from bottom of they heart

Bravo!! nice to see.

[FrostedFlake]

4 lose row and I was mad to see happy faces in lockerroom yes they celebrated they clinch to playoff, but if you are proud hockey team, u shouldn't cheer after lost game, disappointed that, and its worry mean that they have that kind style, and explain a lot why team go long losing streaks every year, they dont care how much they lose if they has just won six straight or clinch to playoffs, lets be honest Wild was lucky to go in playoffs, if Roy would played Picard instead of shaky Varlamov, Colorado would be probably in the playoffs, after seeing they attitude after lost make me super mad, and I never been so disappointed to my team or to Koivu, and first time I really thought that if Wild not go long in playoffs I will start follow different team in future, team which try win and is not happy or careless after lost games. Ofc I somehow understand that team dont want panic when playoffs is coming, but to celebrate that u cant explain.

Really i would be mad too, making the playoffs is great .. ok .. but not a big accomplishment 16 out of 30 will pass..  I hate seeing this.. you can be happy about it but after like 10 seconds, be ready to think about playoffs ,, and its worst knowing that yes they are lucky to make it.. bad ''loser'' attitude

I may sound weird but in sports you want to be the king of your sport, and being happy to make the playoffs is like cheering like crazy that you are a prince.. like i said its ok to be happy for 10 seconds .. thats it .. no one will remember you if you lose in your first serie..

Same for habs, you can be cheering for the 10 first games streak in the beginning and look like heroes, and now you look like the worst of the worst.. 

 

I like hearing that crowd singing o' canada, i mean it's like that before every game in montreal, they let us sing. So bad not making the playoffs but really i'm happy i will get to see real hockey, players with great hearts giving everything to win.. 

[meow]

Sad only 2 more maple leaf games to go and they totally sucked last game -.-

 

You mean they totally sucked all year long.

[von Rantala]

Really i would be mad too, making the playoffs is great .. ok .. but not a big accomplishment 16 out of 30 will pass..  I hate seeing this.. you can be happy about it but after like 10 seconds, be ready to think about playoffs ,, and its worst knowing that yes they are lucky to make it.. bad ''loser'' attitude

I may sound weird but in sports you want to be the king of your sport, and being happy to make the playoffs is like cheering like crazy that you are a prince.. like i said its ok to be happy for 10 seconds .. thats it .. no one will remember you if you lose in your first serie..

Same for habs, you can be cheering for the 10 first games streak in the beginning and look like heroes, and now you look like the worst of the worst.. 

 

I like hearing that crowd singing o' canada, i mean it's like that before every game in montreal, they let us sing. So bad not making the playoffs but really i'm happy i will get to see real hockey, players with great hearts giving everything to win.. 

 

Yeah, let see Wild has won two division champs row in playoffs, i wish that we would get Dallas against us, if we lose, then we lose, but i think St. Louis is best team from West atm, Elliott has been great lately, i has sayed couple time already that he is in my mind most underrated goalie in NHL. St. Louis defence play is great too, i think they will win Chicago, it would help too for St. Louis if Chicago not get Crawford back in the net, i think he has been team MVP even that Kane probably win Hart trophy. But as long as there is hope, you have to keep believing, maybe there was something what we didn't know when they celebrated that clinching so much, its has been difficult season and maybe feelings just came out. Let see, Koivu is great leader and i trust that he know what he doing, i have feeling that if we go short this time, team might trade him to make Parise they captain, let see.

 

Btw will be interesting to see what will DeBoer do with goalie situation Reimer has played better after he came, he was bring to team for back up role, but he has played great hockey and could start first game, DeBoer is coach who have balls to make that move. Finnish coach Lauri Marjamäki has used two starting goalie in playoffs past years and won two finnish championship in row in style where he use hot goalie instead of "number one" that can work in NHL too. I think that if San Jose got Anaheim against them in first round they will win that serie, Anaheim is too much one line team, and look like both goalies Andersen and Gibson is injured (they pull out Gibson middle of game, so look like injury)

 

Will do my playoff pool from my early season prediction and from my mid-season news. I did predict Calgary to conference finals so that i missed, but if i remember correctly Calgary is only team who will not make to playoffs from my early season prediction and mid-season news from west, dont remember at all what i predict from east have to check those.

 

I feel nervous, and happy and sad sametime when regular season is ending already, this season has gone faster than any season before this, i has again badled against major depression and watching hockey has give me a lot strenghts, so i am sad that regular season is over already, but sametime i wish and wait long playoff run, i wish that this season can be season when we win Cup and season what will be my favorite season, now my favorite season has been 2009-2010 when Niittymäki was starter in Tampa Bay and played his best season in NHL. Havent able to watch old games anymore after NHL make that daam update, sad, i did like watch Niittymäki games from past years.

[FrostedFlake]

Yeah, let see Wild has won two division champs row in playoffs, i wish that we would get Dallas against us, if we lose, then we lose, but i think St. Louis is best team from West atm, Elliott has been great lately, i has sayed couple time already that he is in my mind most underrated goalie in NHL. St. Louis defence play is great too, i think they will win Chicago, it would help too for St. Louis if Chicago not get Crawford back in the net, i think he has been team MVP even that Kane probably win Hart trophy. But as long as there is hope, you have to keep believing, maybe there was something what we didn't know when they celebrated that clinching so much, its has been difficult season and maybe feelings just came out. Let see, Koivu is great leader and i trust that he know what he doing, i have feeling that if we go short this time, team might trade him to make Parise they captain, let see.

 

Btw will be interesting to see what will DeBoer do with goalie situation Reimer has played better after he came, he was bring to team for back up role, but he has played great hockey and could start first game, DeBoer is coach who have balls to make that move. Finnish coach Lauri Marjamäki has used two starting goalie in playoffs past years and won two finnish championship in row in style where he use hot goalie instead of "number one" that can work in NHL too. I think that if San Jose got Anaheim against them in first round they will win that serie, Anaheim is too much one line team, and look like both goalies Andersen and Gibson is injured (they pull out Gibson middle of game, so look like injury)

 

Will do my playoff pool from my early season prediction and from my mid-season news. I did predict Calgary to conference finals so that i missed, but if i remember correctly Calgary is only team who will not make to playoffs from my early season prediction and mid-season news from west, dont remember at all what i predict from east have to check those.

 

I feel nervous, and happy and sad sametime when regular season is ending already, this season has gone faster than any season before this, i has again badled against major depression and watching hockey has give me a lot strenghts, so i am sad that regular season is over already, but sametime i wish and wait long playoff run, i wish that this season can be season when we win Cup and season what will be my favorite season, now my favorite season has been 2009-2010 when Niittymäki was starter in Tampa Bay and played his best season in NHL. Havent able to watch old games anymore after NHL make that daam update, sad, i did like watch Niittymäki games from past years.

If you get Dallas in first round i will pray for you, what an offense! Need more to go to the stanley cup, but i think they will go deep. Elliot is obviously a great goaltender, but he has help too, good defenceman, i don't think that they have the experience required to go very deep, they are strong tho, winning vs chicago is a possibility, but atm i really think that the crawford situation is the key of who will win. Winning against CHI could give them the strenght and confidence to win another round, but west is so ridicoulously strong.

 

Really think Reimer is a no1 in NHL, so i would really consider making him play in playoff.

 

I think San Jose would pass Anaheim  too, i don't believe in any of these goalies (anderson or gibson), if they win it will be 4-3, or 5-4 games.

 

My prediciton will not be that far of what i predicted in the early season.

 

Watching hockey is the best (I also battled some anxiety problems and hockey, and humor shows, have helped me a lot). I understand that it's sad that regular season is over, but the better part is coming !!!

 

Well, great to see that you best season to see was 2009-2010, same for me but different reason: Habs came into playoff as 8th seed, down 3-1 in games vs WAS and we came back to win, then 2nd round vs PIT (defending cup champs) down 2-1 in games and we came back again to win. There was a crazy hype feeling in Montreal, it was insane.

 

Ok we went on and lose in conference final vs FLY and damn Umberger was scoring 2 goals per game, what the hell...

[von Rantala]

If you get Dallas in first round i will pray for you, what an offense! Need more to go to the stanley cup, but i think they will go deep. Elliot is obviously a great goaltender, but he has help too, good defenceman, i don't think that they have the experience required to go very deep, they are strong tho, winning vs chicago is a possibility, but atm i really think that the crawford situation is the key of who will win. Winning against CHI could give them the strenght and confidence to win another round, but west is so ridicoulously strong.

 

Really think Reimer is a no1 in NHL, so i would really consider making him play in playoff.

 

I think San Jose would pass Anaheim  too, i don't believe in any of these goalies (anderson or gibson), if they win it will be 4-3, or 5-4 games.

 

My prediciton will not be that far of what i predicted in the early season.

 

Watching hockey is the best (I also battled some anxiety problems and hockey, and humor shows, have helped me a lot). I understand that it's sad that regular season is over, but the better part is coming !!!

 

Well, great to see that you best season to see was 2009-2010, same for me but different reason: Habs came into playoff as 8th seed, down 3-1 in games vs WAS and we came back to win, then 2nd round vs PIT (defending cup champs) down 2-1 in games and we came back again to win. There was a crazy hype feeling in Montreal, it was insane.

 

Ok we went on and lose in conference final vs FLY and damn Umberger was scoring 2 goals per game, what the hell...

 

Yeah Dallas offence is maybe best of NHL, but they defence group and goalies are only avarage, lets be honest Nieme and Lehtonen is a lot better than they stats show, and thats a lot because team dont defence so much, Flyears was last team who got to finals with "poor" defence and goalie game, and ofc all can be possible, but i think Wild will win serie and not only because i am Wild fan. Wild have great defence group, one of best in NHL and they have gamestyle what suit very well against Dallas. Dallas did win our regular season serie, but we did lead 3 of those games what we lost and two was lost in overtime where we did suck whole season, luckly in Playoff we dont need to see 3vs3 hockey.

 

Yeah that season 2009-2010 was great, i did watch all Flyers playoff games in that year. It was first year without Niittymäki for flyers and only thing what annoyed me was that all Flyers goalies played awfull season in that year and if Niittymäki would have got new contract in there he would have win Cup for team for sure, Chicago goalie game was not great either in that serie. I think it was Kane who made that overtime winning goal, i still remember how it strike me, Timonen was in the ice and i was so hoping that he finally get his Cup and shot was taken front of him and puck made way to goal. Luckly Timonen got new chance to win Cup It was hard night (yes i did watch game live) i was so sad for Timonen, after that lost he was played in teams who had lost all finals games in several different level. Timonen lost Olympic final in 2006, World Championship tournament in 1998 and 1999 and World Cup in 2004 and Stanley finals in 2010, so that he finally win Cup in last year was huge thing for him.

[meow]

Btw will be interesting to see what will DeBoer do with goalie situation Reimer has played better after he came, he was bring to team for back up role, but he has played great hockey and could start first game, DeBoer is coach who have balls to make that move. Finnish coach Lauri Marjamäki has used two starting goalie in playoffs past years and won two finnish championship in row in style where he use hot goalie instead of "number one" that can work in NHL too. I think that if San Jose got Anaheim against them in first round they will win that serie, Anaheim is too much one line team, and look like both goalies Andersen and Gibson is injured (they pull out Gibson middle of game, so look like injury)

 

I dont care who's in net for the Sharks as long as they win !! xD

 

btw, ill be posting the playoffs pool as soon as we know who plays who. Might be tomorrow night or sunday if we're unlucky!

[++Sl@yer]

Is Calgary in it this year?. I guess the real rebuild starts now.  I think I saw a few of them on the golf course already. Kind of sad about the Canadian teams this season. Who should I root for this playoffs?

[von Rantala]

Is Calgary in it this year? . I guess the real rebuild starts now.  I think I saw a few of them on the golf course already. Kind of sad about the Canadian teams this season. Who should I root for this playoffs?

 

Wild mate, i watched Calgary games this year, so now its your turn to pay favor back

 

I think Calgary need goalie and couple veteran, i think they should keep Rämö, he did play well in there, but defence was just poor, they need more veterans forwards who are ready to come and defence too. Team was in the playoffs last year, so no big rebuild needed in my mind, and Calgary has been in rebuild mode like 5+ seasons.

[von Rantala]

In this last Wild regular season i was cheering Bäckström (CGY), daam it made me so happy to see him playing great game, he was like old Bäckström when he was Vezina finalst and winner of Jennings trophy. Thanks Bäckström for great memories, i still keep hopes a live and wish that i can see him playing in NHL in next season too, you cant imagine better back up goalie for your team than what Nikke is, lockerroom harderst worker and was probably most respected player in Wild lockerroom last couple season, he was dealing major injuries, and third goalie role, well, like adult and was always cheering his teammates and always smiling. Made me emotional when i watched his maybe last interview in NHL https://twitter.com/NHLFlames/status/719013732957814784

 

So Wild will see Dallas in first round and we go against them with 5 game losing streak where our play has suck and badly, our powerplay has been without goals last 5 game and pk% has been 55%, but i still believe that we can win Dallas in first round, i think it will take us 5 to 7 games to do it. In this season when Wild needed wins most they has taken those, so let see, if we win Dallas Torch probably will continue as our coach, but if not, then we probably looking new one, let see if Julien from Boston come free, i think they should not fire him, he is maybe third best coach in NHL, after Quenneville and Babcock. Arizona should keep they coach too, but i think CGY, EDM, CLB, MTL, OTT, WPG, and VAN should take new coach. Let see, i think EDM keep they current one, and CGY too, because Hartley just won Adams trophy in last year. CLB probably keep they coach too, but MTL, OTT and WPG probably will change coach.

[meow]

well I guess we'll have to wait until after tonight's games to know the matchups. With a win Anaheim will get past LA and Islanders can get past the Rangers.

 

As soon as the games end tonight I'll be posting the playoffs pool