Any NHL fans?

[Knows3Chords]

Season starts tomorrow and for the first time in about a decade I am actually excited for the start. The Detroit Red Wings actually might have a competitive team this year. Any other fans of the game here?

 

[stxrus]

Many, many years ago we went to see the Dallas & Ft Worth farm teams. It was a great excuse to see some sports and drink beer. Good times!

 

[danielreid27]

Our National Sport ! Leafs Suck!

 

[Geoff738]

I live in Toronto, so ….

Cheers,
Geoff

 

[Nubs]

Uhhh no...

 

[Knows3Chords]

Sweet, Leafs fans. Always a classic original 6 matchup. Grew up watching them on CBC Windsor Channel 9. Saturday Hockey Night in Canada with Don Cherry was great.

 

[danielreid27]

Sweet, Leafs fans. Always a classic original 6 matchup. Grew up watching them on CBC Windsor Channel 9. Saturday Hockey Night in Canada with Don Cherry was great.

Frank "The Big M" Mahovlich #27 was my Idol....glory days.



Jean Beliveau was my 2nd fave player...

 

[jdl57]

I have two kids, both of whom were hockey players, a son and a daughter. Both played defense. My son actually made it to a couple of USHL tryouts but never made a team. They picked their favorite teams based on their favorite players, Joe Thornton and the Sharks for my daughter, and Niklaus Kronwall and the Red Wings for my son. I actually got him a Kronwall game stick one year for Christmas. The Wings have suffered since Babcock left, maybe the new guy can do something good.

 

[Billy3]

Let's go Blues!

 

[Knows3Chords]

Me and my brother played from age 5 to 18. Loved it, except when we had to play up in Ontario, Canada. It seemed they were all big farm boys. I have 2 daughters, and they both played as kids. I coached and reffed some little league games. Hockey is king in our family. Thornton and Kronwall were good choices.

 

[deytookerjaabs]

Hawks fan from birth....should lose damn near every game this season but I'll find a way to watch every single one regardless.

 

[lousy13]

Go Av's. I've been attending games since they brought an NHL team back to Denver. I also attended graduate school at the University of Denver. What a year last year for Hockey in Colorado.

 

[Knows3Chords]

I remember a time when the Wings and Avs games were insane. Rivalry seems to have died down lately.

 

[danielreid27]

 

[dented]

I've been known to show up at a few Kings games over the years.....maybe 50 years.

 

[Timbresmith1]

Two words:
Elmer
Soderblom

 

[Timbresmith1]

Go Av's. I've been attending games since they brought an NHL team back to Denver. I also attended graduate school at the University of Denver. What a year last year for Hockey in Colorado.

Mazur and Buium. Yes!

 

[jdl57]

Thornton and Kronwall were good choices

Once they were old enough to check, my son became rather infamous for his hard but legal checks. He basically shut down his side if the ice when he was out. One time, while he was walking to the locker room, he overheard a mother warning her son to watch out for him. I commented after one game that he checked like Kronwall, his reply was where do you think I learned that. He based his checking technique on watching videos of Kronwall.

 

[Rustbucket]

I’m looking forward to seeing NHL hockey in an intimate 5,000 seat setting when my wife’s Habs play my Coyotes in December.

Note I did not say NHL level talent.

 

[Knows3Chords]

Once they were old enough to check, my son became rather infamous for his hard but legal checks. He basically shut down his side if the ice when he was out. One time, while he was walking to the locker room, he overheard a mother warning her son to watch out for him. I commented after one game that he checked like Kronwall, his reply was where do you think I learned that. He based his checking technique on watching videos of Kronwall.

Another good player to watch when learning how to check was Scott Stevens way back with the Devils.