so everyone besides the flames organization, who are the only ones who matter

Fuuuuuuck Perry is on fucking fire.

Perry turns on god mode for the final stretch

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fuck perry could win the art ross if the sedins dont step up

Perry hits 50 goals....geez

pekka rinne should win mvp (Most Valueable Player) if u get scientific on the hart trophy

his numbers are great, but i find them a bit inflated due to Nashvilles playing style.

Perry looks MVP right now. the science behind that is that he has 50 goals and is carrying the team on his back. And without getzlaf for parts of the season...much like how hank was with dank last year

whoever finish the west conference gonna be so exhaust playing against the east..

there is like no bad teams in the west

I know this isnt the place to advertise items for sale. but i figure this thread would get the most traffic from the canucks fans!

selling a *like new* canucks hat. check out the link in my sig for more info.

We are all canucks.

just hope skinnypupp doesnt come in here and give u pts

I am sure that this question has been covered. Total hockey noob here.

Why does the NHL schedule their games such that each division play within themselves 5-6 games each season? Not saying the Canucks don't deserve the presidents trophy but if you play against teams that don't even make the playoffs half the time, of course your record is going to look spectecular!

Another thing that bothers me is that having Detroit and Chicago in the West is beyond me...

I grew up watching the NBA, please enlighten me.
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^they just dont have enough teams in the west and they want original 6 out in the west as well

btw care to explain the definition of "beyond me"

The divisions and how strong or weak they are evolve all the time. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad but at the end of the day you generally deserve where you land. Look at the 02-03 season, 4 of the 8 western teams in the playoffs were from the NW. How many President trophy's did Detroit win feasting on one of the worst divisions in hockey for years and during that time they were playing each team in there divison 8 times.

The majority of NHL teams are out East. Strangely, the Canucks used to be in the East Division when they joined the NHL.

The schedule was redone after the lockout to reduce costs. They said to "encourage rivalries" but that was bullshit. It was to reduce the travel costs of NHL teams so division rivals played 8 games against each other.

That was gay as hell because we had to play Minnesota all the damn time and never got to see the Caps or Pens or Habs, etc so now we play 6 division games, 4 conference games and every other team at least once (twice for three teams...I think we play the Eastern Canadian teams twice).

That really shouldn't take anything away from the Canucks season. Sure we destroyed our own division but the West is significantly stronger than the East.

By the way...Mother Russia wants Shirokov back.

I recently joined a Canucks blog so I wrote a demo of my writing style and such analyzing Shirokov and his future with the Canucks. In short...qualify the guy and trade his ass with Schnoo for whatever the Canucks need next year.

So glad to see the Ducks not take things lying down like they did last season, what a game! Score-y Perry for MVP!!

Oh and Canucks fans, you're welcome for eliminating Calgary...One more time for Tegra Devil :

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Thanks for the history and rationale behind this guys. I don't really watch other teams play and don't know enough about the NHL system so I can't really see the justifications behind the weird schedule.

Yea, maybe there's minimal effects on performance. But don't you think balancing out the games are much better? In terms of knowing you apponents in the playoffs? Traveling cost can be an issue... but they ticket sales and broadcasting revenue can make up for it.

Just thinking that it will be much better if the league is more balanced out.
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It's just how I phrase it. Can be replaced with "wow, wtf?"

In my mind, it's like placing edmonton in the eastern conference.. Chicago and Detroit are 3 hours away!
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its the NHL, its the cloest an original 6 team can get

phx moving to winnipeg should set detriot back to the east

What do you mean by original 6?
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Yahoo is reporting that Schneids is starting in net tomorrow. Not sure if he'll play the whole game but we'll see!

The Original Six teams when the NHL first started:

Boston, Montreal, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Detroit.

surpisingly not overly upset....we showed we were a very good team once things clicked...unfortunately that click happened after loosing 85% of our first 40 games.

i think a canucks vs flames first round would have been a lot more difficult than most canucks fans think.

depending on who the canucks get...chicago or anahiem, the nucks better fear anahiem...i think they will tear the canucks a new one if the nucks drift into the playoffs thinking they are the gods of the nhl

From Nickelodeon's 24th Annual Kids' Choice Awards, check out the hat Jaden Smith's wearing:
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The conspiracy theorist in me says NHL wants Hawks in and Flames out.

The league is full of blunders and favoritism, why stop at that Hossa goal.