Off-day open thread: Osgood, Draper, Colin Campbell

I kind of wish St. Louis’ sucky streak had started a bit later. I wanted Detroit to be the team to set it off on them.

Is Osgood really that close? I thought I read that he left practice early for some reason. Is there really anyone you would pull right now for Draper…I say no. I only think he gets in for an injury. Colin Campbell sucks…moving on. I really hate Montreal for trading Halak to the Blues. They are dangerous with him alone, even if they struggle scoring. If Halak is even close to the level he was at during last year’s playoffs, they will be a tough out. I don’t think he will be though knocking on wood desk. I really look forward to reading the Blues blog after we shell them tomorrow!

I just want to say that Sean Avery is a pussy.

I recommend reading the fight between Hawerchuk at Behind the Net and a few Avs fans who don’t deny that he’s right about their team being lucky last season, they’re just offended by how subjectively “mean” he chose to be in writing about it.

There is seriously an attempt at a quantitative analysis of how many negative things he said about Colorado versus Columbus, Minnesota, and San Jose.

Start here:
http://www.behindthenethockey.com/2010/11/11/1809111/what-is-it-with-avs-fans#comments

Then the fanshot on MHH with the “analysis” of Hawerchuk’s meanness:
http://www.milehighhockey.com/2010/11/12/1810183/mhhers-and-hawerchuk-are-we-really-overreacting

Hawerchuk pokes the bear right back:
http://www.behindthenethockey.com/2010/11/12/1810370/quantitative-analysis-by-avs-fans-finds-btn-is-biased-against-colorado#comments

This is one of the funniest internet feuds I’ve read in a fair bit. It even includes a healthy straw man argument about whether correlation equals causality, because that’s the best way to sound smart without actually saying anything.

I’d love to hear some dissent from anybody on the Board of Governors here, but we hardly ever get any stories about how the guys who really run the league think. I want to know what the owners think about what Campbell’s emails say about the way the league is run.

Ozzie should start, on average, every 4-5 games. Put him in one of the Columbus games, maybe even Atlanta. Sidenote: Atlanta is way better than I expected this season.

Avs fans are making me hate the Avs all over again. It’s great!

I don’t want Draper playing much. Depth is a great thing. Let’s call him Lindsay Hunter: just be alive to step in for someone and maybe throw in the extra little edge for the playoffs.

The Campbell thing and the lack of a professional response from him or anyone that matters makes me violently ill.

If anyone watched the STL/COL game on Versus last night, the in-studio guys said that Avery wasn’t being cheap or sucker-punching, that he just took advantage of what was given to him.

WAY more than hockey.

But entertaining nonetheless.

Let’s talk about those Blackhawks, shall we? 5 games ago, I made a comment about how the lowest point total from a playoff team in the last decade was 83 points and the lowest from the West was 89 (I believe). So, basically, no team makes the playoffs on a point per game rate as the Hawks were (15 points after 15 games).

I’ll be honest and figured that, by now, I’d eating my words. They’d have 26 or 27 points in 20 games and everyone would be talking about how the Summer the Blackhawk Cried wasn’t bad at all because all they lost were role players.

I am happy to report that, after 20 games, the Blackhawks are still on a point per game rate with just 20 points. They have just 2 less losses than the Wings have wins (they are 9-9-2). Oh, even better? They’re third in the division and have played 5 more games than everyone except for the Blues who they’ve only played 4 more games than.

Essentially, the Summer the Blackhawk Cried is becoming the Year the Blackhawk Wept.

It’s kind of a stupid ad to waste your money buying…

First I can’t believe that Collin Cambell isn’t completely fucked.
Secondly, looking at the all star ballot I am more than surprised that Alex Semin isn’t on there. I don’t really like the guy but he is an amazing player. Anyone else think there are some big names missed on there? Other than Howard obviously.

Been a long day in class. Haven’t read anything in the thread so i may or may not be repeating previous postings

Once Ozzy gets healthy, I see him getting his first action either in Minn. or maybe not until Atlanta on the 24th or Columbus on the 26th. Howard has been good almost every game he’s played in and i don’t see a reason to cool down his hot hands.. feet… stick… glove.. or mask, lol. Anyway, with two strings of day on, day off breaks in the next two weeks, sticking Ozzy in the middle of one of those strings makes the most sense to me.

Unless Howard throws a stinker of a game, then Ozzy starts the following game.

I just looked at my fantasy league. Seriously god, when you made Andrei Markov’s right knee did you have some shit left over from making Forsberg’s foot, or whole body for that matter? It is glass or something else worthless like pudding that you threw in there instead of muscle and bone. Obviously there is tendon, I know that because the guy can’t stop snapping the damn thing.