BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?

Subject: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Sep 10 - 10:54 PM

Thanks to a new cable package, we've been enjoying some preseason non-Pens hockey, and the great hometown commentators around the league. Tonight it was The Maple Leafs adding insult to injury over the Sens, who they beat in the game we saw, apparently for the second time this preseason.

Anyway it was obvious from the gitgo that these teams were not the best of pals on the ice. (Also that the Leafs might not be the "Laffs" this year-- they now have our old Pens' friend Colby Armstrong, for one thing.)

Who's your team, and who are the MOST-hated rivals we might watch for them to play?

Go Pens!
Go Hawks!
Go Leafs!
GO HOCKEY!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: GUEST,David E.
Date: 30 Sep 10 - 11:53 PM

Life long Bruins fan here and even though I'm suppose to "hate" other teams I really don't, though it wouldn't bother me to see Matt Cooke go down hard... and often. Looking forward to the season!

David E.

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: Beer
Date: 30 Sep 10 - 11:56 PM

Red Wings all the way and I hope the hell that Brooks Orpik(Pens player) gets his deserve in their next meeting. Dirty knee to J. Franzen was just that. Dirty. So it should be interesting in their next meet. A deliberate hit on a top player is not forgotten.
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: bobad
Date: 01 Oct 10 - 08:40 AM

The Maple Laffs have loaded themselves up with a couple of goons and a cheap shot artist and the GM says he's looking for more truculence from the team. The preseason games against Ottawa have featured at least two fights per game. Gonna be an interesting season.

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Oct 10 - 08:45 AM

The Cubs and everyone else?

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 01 Oct 10 - 09:46 PM

My pen-name is for the Leafs. I'll only follow them if they actually make the play-offs, though.

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: maire-aine
Date: 01 Oct 10 - 10:30 PM

Red Wings fan here. For me, the big rivalry is with Chicago Black Hawks, altho any of the "originals" is great fun.

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Oct 10 - 03:18 PM

OK, I forgot to name our rivalries-- and what I'm really asking is not who "you" hate, but who your TEAM hates. Or loves to play in a certain way due to that edge of mutual hatred for past insults.

Our teams: Pens, Hawks, Leafs (as Wings, but I detest Modano)
Their long-term, bitter rivals as I understand it: Flyers, Wings, Sens, respectively?

I dunno much about the West. I dunno much about the Rangers or Devils rivals. I have no idea who the Avs could possibly feel bitter towards.

I do NOT buy a Pens/Caps bitter rivalry just because League hype wants to sell ad time for a Crosby/Ovechkin thing which IMO is normal competitiveness between two very different types of players.

For us hockey is a big source of stress relief. (A lot of ministry involves separating combatants, need I say more?) So an even-strength fight is, for us, "just part of the game." We deplore real intent to injure and of course we grieve real injury-- but we do still enjoy the old footage of Jarkko Ruutu and (Darius?) Kasparaitus "holding" each other by the legs in one game, as each claims "victim" on their faces.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Oct 10 - 04:53 PM

WAS Wings is what I meant above--ypto.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: Beer
Date: 02 Oct 10 - 10:17 PM

Susan,
I have given your thread title some thought an I have to honestly say that I think it will be detrimental to our hockey contribution. I reflect back to my comment on the third post which I immediately sent an attack. Now you know Susan, this is not becoming of me to do. This is not the way to start the season. We all know Susan that your love for hockey goes beyond most of us that post., but let us all remember that this is one thread that can change to be a very vicious one. The Hockey thread has been revived each fall and has done so in the last 5/6 years. I think that the thread should just say "NHL Hockey 2010-11" and let the rest of our hockey friends decide its fate.

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 10 - 07:17 AM

And I think if I have a hockey question it's OK to ask it, and that if YOU want to start a thread for the year you are perfectly free to do so-- that is, if this is still Mudcat.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 02:42 AM

Please don't talk about the NHL, the NFL or the NBA until the final out of the World Series.
I thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 12:05 PM

:~) There is such a thing as baseball?!?!?!?

What is this futbol on which you speeg?

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: NHL Hockey 2010-11: Hot Rivalries?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 05 Oct 10 - 12:07 AM

Yes, the Cubs are on ice for yet another year.

I just learned how to spell Byfuglien and he's gone. Sports these days are pretty nuts if you ask me!? And how do you get "BUFFLIN" out of that word?

Hawks and Detroit will continue to bash each other.

Art