That should get x on board
- keaner17

XxNYIxX

One of the few things me and X agree on besides you know. I won't mention his name
- Cptmjl

Shhhhhhhhhh

XxNYIxX

No eddie, no dimenag darrell may he rest in peace.
- TrueBlue9182

Dimebag stole every lic he played from Dave Mustaine

XxNYIxX

Hey dee, from the look of it that Nash trade the rags made last summer is working out pretty good. And can we fire capuano already.

Doesn't fit. Plus some of the letters aren't even in there.

--u- g--pe-
- UIF

XxNYIxX

I went to the game. Of course Islanders lost in the end but I have to admit that Refs did a lousy job not only for Islanders but Rangers too. There were many missed calls and some questionable non calls. For example, A NYR player actually swerved on Okposo on purpose and I don't know if that was sufficient for an interference call. Lousy Refs but good game!

I love Page and Led Zep...but they took a hit for me when I saw that thing on how many old songs they just entirely ripped off without giving any credit...it's a good number of their biggest hits. Took me a while before listening to them again, but I'm over it now. Still though...look some of it up if you haven't. It takes a good part of the creativity out of it when you lift lyrics and riffs directly, improve on it, and pass it all off as your own without acknowledging where it came from.
- UIF

Oh I'm aware. It really was only an issue for thr first three albums. The Stairway/Taurus one is a major sfretch though. You also have to remember that EVERYONE was doing that during that period. Page's playing remains some of the most soulful on record and people don't realize how many effects he pioneered (backwards echo, fuzz, flanger) Songs like How Many More Times and Dazed and Confused definitely borrowed general riffs but my favorite stuff was theater stuff which remained quite original. Also remember that many of Hendrix's songs were covers as well.

I went to the game. Of course Islanders lost in the end but I have to admit that Refs did a lousy job not only for Islanders but Rangers too. There were many missed calls and some questionable non calls. For example, A NYR player actually swerved on Okposo on purpose and I don't know if that was sufficient for an interference call. Lousy Refs but good game!
- ISLES1119

When is Snow going to realize that Okposo is Kavasha2013 & part ways with him???

XxNYIxX

True...just pointing out why I like one and not really the other. But on the point of feeling, even less transformational players...Gilmour, or on the harder side even Cantrell...a guitarist I'd never put on the same level as Eddie ability-wise...I get more out of their guitar work personally.
- UIF

Love Gilmour and Cantrell. Cantrell is about as big and Eddie can as you will find. Eddie made me want to learn to play and be still makes wanna play. To each his own, but to me, Ed wrote the rock guitar bible. All the rest after him are just disciples.

When is Snow going to realize that Okposo is Kavasha2013 & part ways with him???

XxNYIxX
- XxNYIxX

KO is only part of the problem, there are other players that need to be gone as well

KO is only part of the problem, there are other players that need to be gone as well
- Ur Not Me

Ohh i dont disagree, but so much is placed on him, he has the A, they have him on the top 2 lines, on the PP he does not deserve or belong anywhere near any of that.

XxNYIxX

Oh I'm aware. It really was only an issue for thr first three albums. The Stairway/Taurus one is a major sfretch though. You also have to remember that EVERYONE was doing that during that period. Page's playing remains some of the most soulful on record and people don't realize how many effects he pioneered (backwards echo, fuzz, flanger) Songs like How Many More Times and Dazed and Confused definitely borrowed general riffs but my favorite stuff was theater stuff which remained quite original. Also remember that many of Hendrix's songs were covers as well.
- keaner17

I see Page more as a brilliant riff maker and orchestrator. His electric playing is quite sloppy. The BBC sessions sounds like he's got a broken hand. Hendrix was another brilliant song writer, but live he always had problems keeping the guitar in tune. A great innovator for sure, great soul, but the out of tune stuff kills me. Not his fault. The guitar just couldn't handle what he was doing to it back then.

Ohh i dont disagree, but so much is placed on him, he has the A, they have him on the top 2 lines, on the PP he does not deserve or belong anywhere near any of that.

XxNYIxX
- XxNYIxX

I went to the game tonight, and forget blaming the refs for calls or non-calls, I was so irritated with this team, that they need to ONLY keep a few players, and literally ship off the rest of this weak, non-checking team.
this team needs an identity, heart, and a poop load of talent......
dont care what the record is, or how many points we are close to a playoff spot, this team flat out stinks.....and the coaching is horrid....

How 'bout Grabner with three goals in the last three games, and getting them while put on, for all intents and purposes, the fourth line. I really feel like he's an afterthought on this team when he could be a main component.

I went to the game tonight, and forget blaming the refs for calls or non-calls, I was so irritated with this team, that they need to ONLY keep a few players, and literally ship off the rest of this weak, non-checking team.
this team needs an identity, heart, and a poop load of talent......
dont care what the record is, or how many points we are close to a playoff spot, this team flat out stinks.....and the coaching is horrid....

- Ur Not Me

I don't know...seemed to me like the Isles controlled most of the first half and got a goal for it, and the Rangers controlled most of the second half and got a goal. Without the OT penalty...if the loss came in the shootout or if the Isles got the W...we'd probably feel a lot different about this game.

I don't know...seemed to me like the Isles controlled most of the first half and got a goal for it, and the Rangers controlled most of the second half and got a goal. Without the OT penalty...if the loss came in the shootout or if the Isles got the W...we'd probably feel a lot different about this game.
- UIF

to many players on this team stick check, instead of body check, and it caused the Rags to use their skill and gain momentum,
just seamed a matter of time before the Rags would control game,

to many players on this team stick check, instead of body check, and it caused the Rags to use their skill and gain momentum,
just seamed a matter of time before the Rags would control game,
- Ur Not Me

They need a much more physical D. Not even necessarily players that steamroll over people...just ones that are willing to step up once in a while when the opportunity presents itself rather than just about all of them backing up all the time and giving the blue line. That'd make a huge difference I think. They allow teams to gain the zone way too easily and then they get into trouble in their own end.

I see Page more as a brilliant riff maker and orchestrator. His electric playing is quite sloppy. The BBC sessions sounds like he's got a broken hand. Hendrix was another brilliant song writer, but live he always had problems keeping the guitar in tune. A great innovator for sure, great soul, but the out of tune stuff kills me. Not his fault. The guitar just couldn't handle what he was doing to it back then.
- Charlie21

From 1968-1975 Page's playing was pretty precise. Funny you mention 'broken hand' because in 1975 he suffered one and switched to a three finger technique. From there he started to depend on things like a b bender. Page is my guitar god. I have the EDS 1275 and a Les Paul. So i can relate to the worship angle. To me if you're ranking players it has to be based on versatility, ability and ingenuity. I give Eddie props for the fretboard work but Page was the superior composer and shape shifter

Stephan Hagelin and Callahan are much better than Moulson Grabner and Nielson?
- mighty13duck

Is this guy serious?

Is this guy serious?
- Slimtj100

Moulson 25 points Grabner 13 points Nielson 11 points Stepan 15 points Callahan10 points Hagelin 12 points. Again how are they that much better?

Moulson 25 points Grabner 13 points Nielson 11 points Stepan 15 points Callahan10 points Hagelin 12 points. Again how are they that much better?
- mighty13duck

Please don't judge Callahan by points. He is so much more then points. Coaches wet dream of him every night wishing they had him. I wouldn't take all 3 of those guys for him in a trade

However I do know moulson has turned into a vg player. Is Tavares the reason tho?

Please don't judge Callahan by points. He is so much more then points. Coaches wet dream of him every night wishing they had him. I wouldn't take all 3 of those guys for him in a trade

However I do know moulson has turned into a vg player. Is Tavares the reason tho?
- Slimtj100

Tavares helps but Moulson can bury that puck as well as anyone. He is under rated to some degree still. Only 3 guys with more goals last three plus seasons. Nash isn't one of them

Tavares helps but Moulson can bury that puck as well as anyone. He is under rated to some degree still. Only 3 guys with more goals last three plus seasons. Nash isn't one of them
- Isles316

Moulson was NOTHING before he started playing with Tavares.

He has had 97 goals and 170 points the last 3 seasons playing with JT.

Nash has had 95 goals and 192 points in the last 3 seasons playing for the worst team in hockey with no-name centers.

I am sure if Nash was playing with Tavares the last three years those totals would have increased dramatically. After all, Tavares has been on the ice for 36 out of Moulson's last 37 goals.

If we go back the last 4 years Nash has 135 goals and Moulson has 98. Moulson is 29 years old and Nash is 28. Nash has 297 career goals. Moulson has 114.

I am not denying that Matt Moulson is an excellent goalscorer. He certainly is.

But, he has nowhere near the Hall of Fame talent and ability of Rick Nash.

The unique thing about Page is that he wrote songs for guitar that you can't play without figuring out how to tune the guitar the way he tuned it to play them, if that makes any sense. Those are the guys who are the "best" guitar players, to me- the guys who do unique things with the instrument. Another example is Steve Howe.

As for Van Halen, I can think of two guys who in my view set the table for him, right off the top of my head- Steve Hackett and Al DiMeola. Both play a very similar sounding style.....with a pick (listen to "The Return of the Giant Hogweed", for one example). In fact, if you listen to the version of "Fantasia Suite for Two Guitars" off the live album with McLaughlin and Paco DeLucia, you'd be hard pressed to convince me that Van Halen is anywhere near as good as DiMeola....just my opinion on that one.

I also think that of his contemporaries, I personally prefer Nuno Bettencourt (even though MOST of THEIR music is cr*p.....more on the difference between these two concepts below)- of course, it was still EVH's style that Nuno plays, so the credit must be given where it is due. All of that said, my all time favorite "metal" albums (assuming LZ, Sabbath and Deep Purple are above and beyond the concept of "metal") are King Diamond's "Abigail", and the live album Opeth recorded at Royal Albert Hall.

PS- to me, "the best" is largely a high school concept, that usually doesn't take some things into consideration. For example, if you ask me for my top ten favorite albums, I'm going to respond with a bunch of prog rock (Yes, Gabriel Genesis, Family, Gentle Giant), along with a couple of newer items (Lateralus, OK Computer). However, if you ask me what "the best" album is, the first thought that comes to my head is Aja, by Steely Dan, which barely makes my top 25 "favorites". The reason is that is one of the few albums recorded when it was recorded that doesn't really need to be RE-mastered. The engineering and musicianship is incredible- and it should be, as it took about 30 musicians and singers a whole year to record seven songs.....five of which still get played on the radio, pretty much all the time.

PPS- I remember seeing a movie of something by The Who ("The Kids are Alright", if I remember correctly) where you can set up the DVD to just watch each one of the four musicians exclusively. My suggestion would be to just watch John Entwistle....speaking of great "lead" guitarists .

All I have to say about last night is....yes, the officiating was cr*p.....how the he11 you go an entire game without a single penalty other than a coincidental minor is beyond my comprehension. That said, if our boys played defense the way they play defense, we'd have won that game, 1-0. If McDonald was on Tortorella's team, he'd have thrown his legs in front of that shot, instead of lunging with his stick, and there would have been nothing for Nash to tip into the net, end of story.....or he'd ride the pine, which is a concept that is lost on our "coach", if that's what you want to call him. They block every shot and every pass that they can physically get to. EVERY shot. EVERY pass. If the Isles played defense nearly that well, they'd win 70% of the time, guaranteed.