Just watch the Oilers


- Pecafan Fan

nice

Gonna try that with my Atoms

Once...just once...I would like to see someone try the flying V.
- DamnBrasKiss

Didn't they try it in an allstar game shootout type competition?

It was a miserable failure if I remember.

....
- DamnBrasKiss

notice the use of the word "total"

Why - so you can see the referee whistle the play offside?
- Atomic Wedgie

Ooops, my bad. They do keep it onside. My apologies to Coach Bombay.

I have debated going to one of Dozzer's shows to heckle.....
- jribout

go ahead.. we'll probably be drunk anyways

notice the use of the word "total"
- Dozzer

nice i need to start using that one....

go ahead.. we'll probably be drunk anyways
- Dozzer

They may go intending to heckle, but it won't take long for them to be caught up in the performance.

go ahead.. we'll probably be drunk anyways
- Dozzer

I have tried to outgrow that phase... I have already pissed off Kim Mitchell, Johnny Fay and had a snowball fight with the Pursuit of Happiness....

Didn't they try it in an allstar game shootout type competition?

It was a miserable failure if I remember.
- Aetherial

http://www.sbnation.com/n...-ducks-flying-v-formation

I don't know much about Babock so I can't defend that part!

But maybe they like his intensity behind the bench.. from what I've seen, Carlyle wouldn't move, wouldn't talk to his players during a game.. Babcock seems like the total opposite of that.. it might be the way he says things too.

Which boss would you want?

#1 - Why won't try this instead, maybe it'll be easier for you

#2 - Do it my way or GTFO


Maybe Babcock isn't like that at all! I wouldn't know.. but that's the impression i'm getting. Everybody seemed to love him in Detroit ...who knows..
- Delryk

The best thing I've heard Babs say, besides 'putting Canada's team back on the map', is that you have to coach 23 players 23 different ways. That's a total 180 from Carlyle. I fell in right then and there.....

http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2015/1/24/7885969/watch-nhl-all-stars-run-mighty-ducks-flying-v-formation
- Atomic Wedgie

And missed the net.

They may go intending to heckle, but it won't take long for them to be caught up in the performance.
- TheThrill

Smooth.... Smooth as a Golden

They may go intending to heckle, but it won't take long for them to be caught up in the performance.
- TheThrill

And for the smoke to chill you out..

They may go intending to heckle, but it won't take long for them to be caught up in the performance.
- TheThrill

thanks man, appreciate that.. the new sax player is coming along great too

pretty mature for his age actually

i mean.. compared to the rest of us

And for the smoke to chill you out..
- bixll

I never really thought that going to one of Dozzer's shows would be therapeutic....

I have tried to outgrow that phase... I have already pissed off Kim Mitchell, Johnny Fay and had a snowball fight with the Pursuit of Happiness....
- jribout

i gotta ask

http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2015/1/24/7885969/watch-nhl-all-stars-run-mighty-ducks-flying-v-formation
- Atomic Wedgie

That was humiliatingly bad.

It approached the level of the Senators Trojan Man for cringeworthyness.

How is it possible for NHL players to skate that slowly.

Got it.

Babcock right now is the golden boy, he's never lost a game as Leaf coach. I am sure he is prepared, intense, a great communicator, works hard, has a steel jaw and great hair and makes $8 M a year. Good for him.

We will see if he can get this team to be a contender. If in 3-4 years we are still floundering for lottery picks the knives will be out big time, like they are for every coach in the history of pro sports.

But in the meantime, I hope the team works hard, competes intensely and leaves it out on the ice every night.
- Rang

There will always be those who attack the coach - blame the coach REGARDLESS of the circumstances. Babcock has two maybe three things going for him that Carlyle did not...
1) the team hit bottom psychologically the past season - and EVERYONE fans. team management ,ownership and the players has recognized that publicly
2) Babcock was hired and signed with a player arrogance insurance policy - i.e. the amount of money he gets rivals the players - and he got term
3) because they sucked so bad last year - the make-up the team - the attitude will change

All great/good coaches get great goaltending - and Babcock doesn't have that yet. As much as the current season is about developing the young guys (mainly in JR or with the Marlies) it is about seeing what the goalkeepers can/will do inside a better structured system. This and along with evaluating what they really have in JvR, Kadri etc... are and will be Babcock's objectives for this season.

Whether he wins or loses this season really is of no matter in the big picture.

No one with a half an ounce of common sense will be complaining about Babcock for at least 3-4 years (so expect articles from Simmonds, Cox and Berger within two to three months... and of course DiManno - writing about whether he's too hard on those young developing kids).

I never really thought that going to one of Dozzer's shows would be therapeutic....
- jribout

Oh Buddy, you have no idea, how good you will feel the next day. Trust Me..

Oh Buddy, you have no idea, how good you will feel the next day. Trust Me..
- bixll

andy does have a kind and loving touch

I have tried to outgrow that phase... I have already pissed off Kim Mitchell, Johnny Fay and had a snowball fight with the Pursuit of Happiness....
- jribout

My friends and I went through about a 5 year phase where we would scream for bands in bars to play Bon Jovi.

It was hilarious, because 99% of the bands would think they were waaaaay too cool and sophisticated to play Bon Jovi (for the record, I was waaaaaaay too cool and sophisticated to actually like Bon Jovi) - we were just doing it to piss them off.

Start of the night:

"Play some Bon Jovi!"

"Uh, guys, we aren't going to play any Bon Jovi."

Middle of the night:

"Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi."

"C'mon, guys. Settle down. We already told you we aren't going to play Bon Jovi!"

End of night:

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeow! Yeeeeeeeeoh! BON JOVI!!!! PLAY SOME FRANKING BON JOVI!"

"WOULD YOU IDIOT ARSEHOLES SHUT THE FRANK UP! WE AREN'T PLAYING POOPY FRANKING BON JOVI!"

Ah, good times.

thanks man, appreciate that.. the new sax player is coming along great too

pretty mature for his age actually

i mean.. compared to the rest of us
- Dozzer

SO, he is more mature than the rest of you guys already ?

Source: Leafs & Oilers working on a MAJOR deal.

NOT JVR for Draisaitl + I'm told.

andy does have a kind and loving touch
- Dozzer

* shivers *

I never really thought that going to one of Dozzer's shows would be therapeutic....
- jribout

Five minutes of looking at Dozzer and you start to feel a whole lot better about your own life.