The Super Official Historic Hodgson Era Begins Sabres-Ducks Gameday Thread

[Philagape]

And it's Official.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n270/Philagape/HodgsonasSabre.jpg

[SkateZilla]

The Official, were 7 pts out, and we get to constantly do this 1 game, off, back to back games, off for 4 days, then repeat.

NHL needs to drop Back 2 Back games w/ Travel its dumb, and so many teams are getting the butt end of the schedule with these back to back 3 game in 4 nights BS, while other teams are chillin with game, off, game, off off, game, off. repeat

[OpIv37]

The Official, were 7 pts out, and we get to constantly do this 1 game, off, back to back games, off for 4 days, then repeat.

NHL needs to drop Back 2 Back games w/ Travel its dumb, and so many teams are getting the butt end of the schedule with these back to back 3 game in 4 nights BS.

They're not going to stop it because they want to put as many games on Friday, Saturday or Sunday (after football ends) as possible.

[OpIv37]

And any word on if/how much Hodgson will be playing?

[SkateZilla]

more importantly, Roy goes back to being invisible and useless now that the TDL is passed.

[SkateZilla]

Hodgson has decent stats vs Anahiem.

[Philagape]

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[chernobylwraiths]

Ha, when I saw the picture starting to boot up, I thought it was Roy. You forgot to photoshop the helmet!

I want to keep my expectations low.

[Philagape]

Three minutes was enough to spend on it.

[DrGraves]

I'm not getting my hopes to high but I'm excited to see a new face on the ice

[Mski]

just hopefuly he doesnt score two goals tonight

[DrGraves]

whats the deal with sulzer? is he playing?

[YardRat]

5:42 ice time in the first for Hodgson.

Roy's PPG is the 1-0 difference after one.

Sulzer is scratched.

[SabreEleven]

it's Terry Pegula, not Tony, Mr. Anaheim announcer.

[SkateZilla]

SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-Zah


wtf..

i thought it was SPEHZAH

[SkateZilla]

Kaleta shows some class making sure the goalie was ok,

BS penalty on getzlaf, it wasnt made of Gold.

[SkateZilla]

Nice pass to the duck player to give them a 2 on 1 Roy.

[SkateZilla]

make up call.

[SkateZilla]

i guess the refs are saying that stick lifting is a penalty...

[SkateZilla]

So far Hodgson look tons better, in the D Zone he actually skates with his man, and doesnt just stand there, he skates with him pushes and pesters him the entire time, feet are always moving.

[SkateZilla]

Ruff has Hodgson's Line out with the empty net, trying to get the new guy one?

[SkateZilla]

Getzlaf vs Weber,

isnt that a Penalty or Suspension? when the Losing team starts a fight in the closing minutes of the game?

[SkateZilla]

Perry your an idiot!

[SkateZilla]

Anahiem's New tactic, Fight all the Defensemen and start fights when we have an empty net breakout.

[SkateZilla]

Anahiem PBP said the bad word.

[SkateZilla]

oh wow, the team got balls all of a sudden.

Damn Myers, stop letting him hit you!, just knock him the eff out!

[Crisis]

why is myers, the guy who just came back from a wrist injury, fighting with no time left???

[Crisis]

last thing we need is a guy rehabbing a broken wrist to hurt it in a pointless fight

[Cali512]

That was an amazing end to the game, and it pointed out 2 things, 1 i think teams are going to do this alot with are security gone/hurt. 2, Hodgson seems great! He actually passes the puck accuratly, doesnt miss the net when he shots, and controlls the puck very nice. I love this guy!

[SabreEleven]

last thing we need is a guy rehabbing a broken wrist to hurt it in a pointless fight

That was two months ago. I wouldn't call it "right after a wrist injury"

[Crisis]

he was very clearly not trying to throw rights, the wrist still isn't 100%.

[SkateZilla]

he wasnt trying to fight, he came in to grab ass like most players do,

the anahiem player just ripped his helmet off and started swinging..

the sad part is, they slapped Kaleta with like 3 penalties one being a misconduct, so I betcha Shanny throws the banhammer.

[Skooby]

We won, so go F- a duck.

[SkateZilla]

Duck Soup.

[SabreEleven]

he was very clearly not trying to throw rights, the wrist still isn't 100%.

I don't think he wants to fight at all...was that his first NHL fight? I can't ever remember him fighting before.

[Mski]

I don't think he wants to fight at all...was that his first NHL fight? I can't ever remember him fighting before.all he had to do was stick his arm out, and the other guy wouldnt have been able to land a punch.

i think it was his second fight, if you want to call it that.... he grabbed the guy before he hit kaleta, then the guy he grabbed started swinging, throwing cheapshots

[Michael82]

How the hell do Perry and Getzlaf get the #2 and #3 Stars of the game when their team was shutout? What a joke!

[Mski]

How the hell do Perry and Getzlaf get the #2 and #3 Stars of the game when their team was shutout? What a joke!the 3 stars are voted for by the local media... and generally are a joke.... curious to see if shanny does anything with them starting fights with less than a minute to go both times the sabres were about to break out of the zone with an empty net