[Chioster]

I already have the demo, just that COH and RTW is getting to me .

[Amicus]

for those of you who are in the sportsnet hockey pool. i've created a soompi group for us.

http://fantasy.sportsnet.ca/cgi-bin/sports...6/portfolio.cgi
group: soompi
pw: soompi

don't forget to join the yahoo league. tomorrow is the draft!

1. click: http://hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com/hockey
2. sign in or sign up
3. join: id: 35683 password: soompi
4. have fun! dont necessarily have to be active or participate in the live draft

[DOVAHKIIN]

Alright alright, i signed up

[Aznbanana]

Jack Johnson and Oleg Tverdovsky to LA for Tim Gleason and Eric Belanger.

WTFA?!@?!?@#!!@#!????!

Honest to god, what a deal by LA. This will nearly set them in the future. Like holy mini cooper, i would think that you could get a crapload more for freakin JJ. One of the best freakin Defensive prospects out there. Whatever, Rutherford is weird as hell. Maybe its good for the present, but trading someone who could become one of the best defencemen in the league is nuts.

Hey you Vancouver fans get to boo JJ more now, how nice lol.

[dark_chancellor]

wow..when the heck did tverdovsky get out of rehab?

I guess the Kings are rebuilding too.. at least they got Cloutier. Now they're all set! =D

[Chioster]

Ya, Cloutier is going to lead them to the cup . I wish the canucks had a cloutier .

[dark_chancellor]

dang it..tonight's gamed sounded like it was the best game they've played in since the preseason started.. I wish they'd put preseason games on TV too T___T

[Chioster]

Same, I just watched the highlights and O_O. What a SAVE by luongo in the dying moments on iginla. That was such a robbery.

[spyro]

just a reminder tomorrows our draft! last chance to get in on some awesome fantasy hockey action!

and woot six more days until the canucks first regular season game!

[DOVAHKIIN]

Ron Mclean playing ref yesterday, haha

[spyro]

^haha i heard about that.. how did he do?

[DOVAHKIIN]

Hockey Night in Canada host Ron MacLean signals an interference call against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday.
(Keith Srakocic/Associated Press)

Ron MacLean referees NHL game
Last Updated: Saturday, September 30, 2006 | 1:07 AM ET
CBC Sports

Hockey Night in Canada host Ron MacLean got a brief glimpse of what the average NHL referee goes through on Friday night.

MacLean served as a referee for the final two periods and overtime of the Buffalo Sabres' 4-3 pre-season win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

MacLean, a certified referee in the Canadian Hockey Association, called a tripping penalty on Pittsburgh veteran John LeClair with one minute left in regulation and the score tied.

"I was a little numb on that call, not that it had any bearing on the game, but that was the call that was most foreign to me because of my instincts," MacLean said. "But I was thinking about what we're trying to do with stick fouls.

"It's a far cry from Junior B in Southern Ontario. … The referee is so focused on the puck, that all the other things I took for granted like positioning … the general sense of where I am on the ice was shot. About 15 times I got caught in a position where I would never be."

MacLean has been an outspoken critic of the NHL's crackdown on obstruction in the past.

The popular HNIC broadcaster even criticized league vice president Colin Campbell face-to-face during the second intermission of Game 4 of last season's Stanley Cup finals for some of the calls and lack of calls made during the playoffs.

In the officials' room after Friday's game, Campbell gave MacLean a tongue-in-cheek critique of his performance.

"You can't call a penalty with a minute left in the game," Campbell jokingly told MacLean.

CBC Sports filmed MacLean's stint as an official and will air the footage as a feature during Hockey Night in Canada's season-opening broadcast next Thursday.
with files from Associated Press

[dark_chancellor]

^ They really ought to put games like that on TV >=O

[Mugen]

err whos starting for Florida? Auld or Belfour? Toskala or Nabakov?

[DOVAHKIIN]

The Montreal Canadiens traded forward Mike Rebeiro to the Dallas Stars for defenceman Janne Niinimaa on Saturday.

More to come.

[Volts]

^I'm glad they did the trade, we were in need of a defenceman since two of our starters are injured

[Chioster]

2? Huet and Abeisher? wow.

In other news, Luongo almost got injured today at a Golf Tournament held by the Canucks. A golf ball came sailing down 1 foot from his head. No one knows who did it but they say it came from the 7th tee.


Must of been Kiprusoff getting revenge j/k j/k

[spyro]

^ i think Volts means two of their defensemen are injured

AND montreal also gets a fifth round draft pick!

[DOVAHKIIN]

Fifth round... eww hahaha

[Hiatus]

lol if Ribeiro becomes another Leclair im gonna laugh once ppl leave mtl (some player) they tend to play the best hockey of their life -___- but not at mtl too much pressure by some ahem fans lol. At least we got Latendresse it should clam down the fans lol. we also got Patrick Traverse back... O_o..??