It's here!!  The 2011-2012 season starts today.  Six more months until playoff season.  EA favors Pittsburg to win Lord Stanley's cup this year.  I think it will be between Tampa and Vancouver.  But I am forever hopeful that the Wings will prevail and show everyone why they are the best!  Good luck to everyone and here's to a safe season of hard hits and awesome saves!  Go Wings!!

Avs in a close one.

Avs-6
Habs-5
Final/SO

Avs move to 4-1 on the season. Great road trip so far (4-0) with one game left. It was a great game to watch for either fan. Lets see if we can carry over this great hockey to next week against Toronto and Chicago. 

...and I see that the Wings won in overtime also. Can't complain with that though I picked them to win. 

Players are never the same after an injury that takes a long recovery process. And yeah this year shows some promising underdogs just like the NFL. I'm loving it so far. 

And on a positive note...sharks blew their game tonight. 

Well my beloved Stars are doing pretty good so far. We're not playing the most attractive hockey, but Lehtonen is rock solid and saved us quite a bit. Hopefully Benn keeps getting better and better this year and the new vets we got can hold everything down. I can't wait to see what the new owners bring with them, we need new ticket prices because that arena has been EMPTY lately... Mind you they're competing against the Rangers (World Series baby!) and the Cowboys (I've got nothing for that one...).
Also keeping a close eye on the Avs, Philly, and Toronto. I really like how they played so far.

Avs moved up to 4th on the power rankings. 

http://espn.go.com/nhl/powerrankings
Stars at 8, Wings at 2...

Toronto and Avs should be a great game tonight. I'll be watching that and MNF. Should be a good night. 

This week long interval between Wings games is killing me, but if it keeps them rested and they stay undefeated I'll deal with it 

BigTruck wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2011 at 12:34am:

Yeah well now you've played a real team and got you a** kicked! 

Not that the wings suck or anything. Avs pulled through and won in shootout again keeping our road streak perfect (6-0) and our horrible home streak (0-2) but the Avs move to 6-2 after last night and my fantasy hockey plan worked out perfectly with Varlamov and Crawford. Both played against eachother twice meaning I got automatic 2 wins. Came back last night to get 10 points from my skaters (FINALLY THEY PRODUCED POINTS) and won this week (because he has noone playing today). 

Why did the Wings play their backup against the undefeated Caps?? 

Anyways i'm playing you this week in fantasy...hopefully i'll be able to beat you. 

tcco94 wrote on Oct 24^th, 2011 at 7:39pm:


Jimmy Howard had a baby yesterday.  Conklin will be in the net tomorrow night too against the Jackets.  Good luck this week, for some reason I can't seem to put points on the fantasy board.   

You've got a power play on me, Pronger is out and I can't change my line up 

Wings got slaughtered twice in a row, with Conklin in between the pipes.  I blame him 

pfevrier wrote on Oct 29^th, 2011 at 12:12am:

I was considering ESPN but decided to go with Yahoo. I liked it alot better when NHL.com had it on there site back in 2008. 

As far as the Stars season going, I just got Lehtonen because Carey Price hasn't been doing good at all so lets hope the Stars keep up. Same with the Avs. Can't seem to win at home for some reason?!  We defiantly need to win Sunday to keep the confidence up because as history goes for the Avs in the past few seasons, when confidence is down we keep falling and falling.

And those Red Wings....when I rely on them to beat the Sharks. Ahhhhhh.....................................

I had Lethonen and Vokoun from the start, and I must say they  have posted great stats for me. Also, Vaclav Prospal and Milan Michalek have been solid scorers, and I just got Lupul in a trade. Along with H. Sedin, Tavares, Gaborik, Chara, Pronger, Duchene, etc... I expect to have a pretty solid year.

Looks like I barely beat you this week 

Thanks to David Jones 2 assists and 1 being powerplay.

Avs win tonight in a good game.  Finally got one down at home moving to 7-4

Avs-3
Kings-2

6 losses in a row now.   

On par with our last Stanley Cup season in 2008 

  Avs lost tonight.

  My team got two hat tricks this week so far.  I could win this week!!!

(One of them was Franzen of course, just sayin)

Versteeg got one tonight much to my surprise.  I just picked him up last week from the FA to fill in for Staal's sorry ass.

Av's cant catch a break. Slash to the face on McClemment then Heatley and Seto skate down the ice and score. The refs "talked" it over after the goal after seeing a trail of blood on the ice they still proceeded to call it a goal and no penalty. Ah pucks are not going for the Av's right now...... I'm just hoping we can get a win Sunday against the Sharks.

Ok Datsyuk just scored twice against LA.  I'll just move him to Utility and see how he does for a few more weeks before I bench him

Just picked up a good backup goalie to cover Luongo.  Number 1 in the NHL, sitting as a free agent lol.

Vokoun and Crawford finally start playing AND doing good right when I get Luongo and Emery. Seriously??? My luck.

Winter Classic was an outstanding game!!  Rangers come back from behind and win 3-2.

Awesome!  Should be a good time.  Wings beat the Stars tonight 5-4.  I got a Datsyuk jersey from my wife for christmas.

pfevrier wrote on Jan 5^th, 2012 at 9:46pm:

They have been all season. 

Avs got those Wings pretty good last night. And the Wings still almost made a comeback...

So how about them Kings? They are looking real, real good. In last nights game, Phoenix could barely get passed their own blue line without being pressured. The Kings have one heck of a forecheck.

Red Wings fan first, but coming from Southern California, I've always been a Kings fan too.