The Deer
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The regular season has some meaning right now, as in theory the better you do the more favourable your playoff schedule is going to be. In a league that's pretty much just for fun, that's enough meaning for me in the regular season. It's nice to have lots of people in the playoffs, what's wrong with a few extra guys getting to participate in a few more games? Besides, in a league with as much parity as the Gens A League, a #7 or 8 seed can take down a #1 or 2 seed......... in fact it happened all over the place in that league last year.
It's not perfect to have 16/18 teams make it, but if it was 16/20 I think it'd be close to perfect. Overall I think it's fine the way it is, but I don't REALLY care, I just wanna play.
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Hey, I just post write-ups of my games because that's what this sub-forum is for, others are free to post theirs too!
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For about the millionth time in history, Deer and Biff locked horns in NHL 94 last night, this time with my Nordiques taking both games of a home-and-home set against his Penguins to gain a small (very small) measure of revenge for his ousting me out of the third round of the playoffs last season as the Rangers.
The first game, at the Colisee, was a 5-1 Quebec win, and Nordiques coach Pierre Page feels that his team played its best game of the season to date in this game. "Anytime you hold a team with Mario, Jagr, Stevens, etc, coached by the best offensive player in the league in the94kid, to just one goal, you leave the rink knowing that you gave about the best defensive effort possible. I'm extremely pleased with my players, everyone was on the same page tonight."
In the rematch at the Igloo in Pittsburgh, Quebec silenced the crowd early by taking a commanding 6-1 first period lead. Pittsburgh fought valiantly the rest of the match and outscored the Nordiques 4-2 the rest of the way, but the first period was too much to overcome, and the final score ended up 8-5 Quebec. "For sure we had a fantastic first period, but we'll admit there was a bit of luck involved too", said Nordiques winger Owen Nolan, who had a hat trick in that torrid first frame. "Pittsburgh just wasn't getting the bounces tonight, and we recognize that. We definitely expect a war when we play them again next month", the Belfast, Ireland native added.
With the pair of wins, Quebec has now won six in a row, and nine of their last ten since losing three straight to Fenty and Schwartz.
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I don't know about anyone else on here, but I fell out of love with the NHL years ago, and I'm not sure the relationship can ever be restored to its previous state. The "trap era" soured me, possibly forever. I know that the hockey's improved in the "new NHL" but I still don't like it very much. I've become a junior hockey fan instead, I find I can identify a lot better with that level than I can with the far too "processed" NHL. Plus I can't handle the ridiculous amount of player movement that's come with the new salary cap. You can't go to the bathroom without missing some random no-name European go from Phoenix to Florida for no apparent reason. I don't know, I just don't find the NHL is for me anymore, although I'll still admit that it would be a thrill for sure to attend a game live. On TV though? Meh. I'll watch some playoff games out of some feeling of obligation, but it's almost a chore.
Doesn't mean I'm any less of a hockey fan, just means that I dedicate my time to following a different brand of hockey. I still eat, breathe, and bleed hockey, just not the NHL.
I guess the best analogy I can think of is that I'm like a guy who's really into the music scene but can't stand the Top 40.
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This pair of games was interesting because of the Eric Lindros factor, it was his first games against Quebec since snubbing them at the 1991 draft. The second game of the home-and-home was at the Colisee de Quebec and it was a ROUGH ride for big #88, as fans dressed in diapers and taunted him with pacifiers. The heckling set new unofficial NHL standards, and by late first period, the 20-year-old Lindros could take no more. He burst into tears and left the ice, forcing coach McMarkis to replace him with long-time Flyer Pelle Eklund, who had scored a key powerplay goal in the previous game in Philadelphia.
First game at the Spectrum was the tightest game Quebec has played all year. Philly's defence was just awesome, so so hard to get anything going, and two of Quebec's goals were lucky breaks more than anything, it was way too hard to get any goals based on sustained pressure. One of them was scored by Owen Nolan on a lucky penalty shot, and the other one was while killing a penalty, Quebec totally lucked out as the computer-controlled Nolan somehow picked off a D-to-D pass and went in and scored on a shorthanded breakaway. Super tight game that saw Philly tie things up twice in the third, only for Curtis Lescychyn (will never get that spelling right) to score a gusty/kind of ugly goal to put things away for good, 4-3 final Nordiques, once again tightest game so far this year.
Second game in Quebec was tied 2-2 about midway through but the whole "baby Lindros" saga seemed to cause the Flyers to collapse, and Quebec cruised the rest of the way to a 7-3 victory. It felt more like a 5-3 game or so though, Les Nordiques got a couple of lucky bounces. One of which was really lucky, seeing the Flyers set up a beauty one-timer and beating Quebec's Ron Hextall, only to see the puck sail way over the net and ring perfectly back off the glass right back to Joe Sakic, giving him a breakaway which he scored on.
I'd also like to point out that I was a huge fan of seeing former Cape Breton Oiler Greg Hawgood play some serious minutes on the blueline for Philadelphia, and score a great one-timer goal in the second game. Love to see any former CB Oiler appear in this game!
Anyhow, it was so tight that it probably should have been a split, so Quebec feels lucky to have taken both. What's even sweeter however, is to see the headlines in the newspaper the next day: "Lindros- Le Gros Bebe!!!"
Word has it that Eric doesn't even want to show his face at the Colisee when the Flyers return in the second half. -
Have a combined seven games this month I think it is against these four guys yet have hardly seen them online all season. Any of you guys know when you'd be available to play?
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Rudy might have a point- the current "deadline" situation might not be enough of a reason to get your games in on time. The way it is now, if you miss a game, it's OK because you can just make it up again later in the future if the other guy agrees to it, which most guys if they're not assholes do. I know the guys running the league don't wanna be going around "punishing" people, cuz that's not fun, but obviously there isn't enough urgency out there to get games played.
Last year's playoffs are proof that the league as a whole DOES suffer if things drag out too long. Most guys in the league seriously didn't give a s**t who won the SNES league by the end, simply because it had taken way too long to get through the playoffs.
Let's pick this up boys!
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Sometimes I take them just as kind of a psychological thing. Or just for the laugh of watching Fenty scramble to take one himself immediately after I take one.
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Agreed, pokerchamp. The Central Division was the one I was most interested in (aside from my own of course) heading into the season, as to me there seemed to be four guys who could each win the division, and it looked like it'd be a tight race to see who it was going to be.
Sure the final records might still end up being close, but it's not as much of a "race" when the teams have played such differing amounts of games.
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Ok! Thanks for the explanation.
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Adams Division rivals Quebec and Buffalo met in a two game home-and-home set this evening. Quebec won the first game 7-5 at the Aud in Buffalo and the second back home at the Colisee 11-1.
Despite having not played in a while, Buffalo outplayed Quebec in the first game and likely deserved the victory. A few quick goals by the Nords in the second period saved them in a game in which they were otherwise a bit outhustled. Buffalo held a 3-1 lead early in the second but Quebec then went on fire to lead 6-4 going into the third. With the score 6-5 early in the third, Quebec's goaltender finally woke up and realized he was playing in a hockey game, and made a few very key saves to preserve the win.
In the second game, it was all about the first period; 7-0 Nords after one. In the second and third periods, Quebec continued to pour on the shots on goal, but Grant Fuhr rebounded from the nightmarish first and put on a clinic in the final two frames.
GGs Buffalo.
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Ah this was "one of those games".
Full marks to Rudy for playing really well and capitalizing on his opportunities. Full marks to him as well for his strategy of dumping the puck out when so many guys would skate it out and risk having it stolen.
Having said that, this was definitely one of those "closer than the score indicated" games. I'll say that when I'm on the other side of the fence too, but I'll say it now for myself. Detroit deserved to win for sure, but the five goal spread was more a function of the fact that (by Detroit's own admittance) pretty much all the breaks went their way. For some reason, Quebec players decided to randomly miss routine passes left and right this game, and most of the time it would result in a scoring chance the other way for Detroit. The game was also frustrating (for both players) because of the ridiculous amount of penalties that were called; there was hardly any five-on-five action at all during this game. Detroit got nailed in particular, I think there were two or three occasions when they were down five men to three, including one time where they had three penalties up on the clock at once. Yeah I know, I complained that Detroit got all the breaks and then I go and admit that I got way more powerplays, but I (along with many others) don't really find that the powerplay makes it any easier to score in this game.
The game was a very tight 1-1 affair until early in the second period when something stupid and out of my ass happened. For a guy with an 8-4 record I sure have given up a lot of "stupid" goals so far this season. Detroit dumped it the length of the ice, and I took my goalie out to play it. Idiotically, the crawling puck bounced off of my goalie and back into play. I couldn't corral it in time, and Detroit pounced on it and scored. This opened the floodgates, as Detroit scored two more quick ones after that and it was too large a hole for Quebec to crawl out of, especially with momentum being broken up by the fact that it seemed like every 30 seconds or so the ref was calling another penalty.
Detroit's defence and goaltending were superb, and its offense opportunistic. Rudy was clearly on a roll today, as he scored two big wins over another opponent just before this game. Quebec didn't feel like they played very badly (unlike their other three losses), "average" at worst, but still ended up with by far their worst result of the young season. That's how it goes sometimes though, I know there are some guys I've defeated by large scores who didn't actually play that badly in the game at all.
GG man and giver the rest of the way.
PS- I'd also like to note that in last season also saw my worst defeat come at the hands of the Detroit Red Wings. They were then owned by Slimeball, and he defeated me 9-3. I guess I'm glad Detroit isn't in my conference.
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Glad to hear. The more washed up old guys who were prominent during the awful "obstruction era" that retire and give way to the younger, "new NHL" era guys, the better.
However I still don't know if anything can bring me back to being the NHL fan I once was. That era from about 98-04 may have turned me off for good. In the meantime I became a junior hockey fan instead and find it much, much more "for me" than the NHL ever was.
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Pretty solid game against Smack, Dallas's coach, last night.
Back and forth first period saw the Stars take early leads of 1-0 and 2-1, but very quick goals by Mats Sundin and Steve Duchesne (his second of the period) saw the Nords take a 3-2 lead into the first intermission.
Early in the second, Ron Hextall came up with a huge save on a difficult one-timer, and then passed the puck all the way down ice, where Sundin one-timed one in from Sakic to give Quebec a 4-2 lead. That's often how it goes; big save at one end, goal at the other. 4-2 instead of 3-3. Quebec then took a 5-2 lead as Owen Nolan just wouldn't go down in the corner despite an insane amount of Dallas attempts to hit him. He then hit Sakic in the slot for the goal. Dallas wouldn't go away though, as with two seconds left on the clock, Rusty Courtnall fooled everyone with his speed and slid home a beautiful backhander to cut the lead to 5-3 going into the third. This goal looked good on Quebec, as they stopped skating when they saw six seconds left on the clock and Courtnall still not even quite at the red line............ they just assumed they could let time run out. They assumed wrong and ended up with egg on their faces.
Quebec, embarassed, came back with an early third period goal to take a 6-3 lead and seemingly put the game away. But once again, Dallas just wouldn't die, scoring the next two goals to make it 6-5 with 1:22 to go. At this point Quebec called a timeout, and it seemed to pay off as Sakic slid home a great backhand goal soon afterwards to finally put things on ice for real.... 7-5 final.
Nice game and full marks to Dallas for twice getting back into the game when it looked like they may be done. Smack is a good player and a pleasure to play against, he keeps it real. gg!
Sidenote: After our league game, we played two more exhibition games, and in the last one, he dressed Tie Domi at right wing and I dressed THE TWISTER, Tony Twist, at left wing. Oh NHL 94, why did you ban fighting? What a classic bout we would have had right off the draw, and you know the two would have gone again as soon as they got out of the box!
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Thanks Shak!
How's your internet situation now? You gonna be ready to roll soon?
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I just happened to notice a possible error in my schedule.
I was under the impression that you played everyone from the other conference just once per season- correct?
My schedule has two games against Vancouver (both at Vancouver, which makes me think that maybe the same game was pasted twice by accident), but none against Chicago.
Perhaps one of these Vancouver games is supposed to be against Chicago?
They're games #3 and 16 on my schedule for reference.
Thanks for checking this out for me!
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I for one have never paid attention to the hot and cold stuff and can never be bothered to even check it out, but to each his own, I do know one guy I used to play against back in the day who used to lose it if you skipped past it!!
Although I doubt it, I wonder if it does have any actual bearing on who is actually going to be hot and cold during that game.............
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Yeah I still wanna do post-game writeups, I enjoy doing them, but I can definitely see how that last one was too detailed.
Our game was actually really tight in the first period and a half- you led 2-1 nearing the halfway point of the second period if I recall correctly, and I was having a hard time hitting your guys, you had me nervous for a while there. I scored a couple quick ones to take the lead, and it was still anyone's game nearing the end of the second period, but that goal with a second left in the second period was the backbreaker, and then I don't know what got into me in the third period, I went insane........ might be the best period I play this entire season, thinkin I shoulda maybe saved it for the playoffs.
I see though that you bounced back, 4-2 win over a real solid player in McMarkis.As for that L and R question, I'd expect it'd definitely improve once you get a SNES controller, but even the SNES controller isn't perfect sometimes. I TOTALLY know what you mean when you talk about sometimes having to push L or R 3-4 times to get it to actually activate the defenceman for you, and often by that time the puck is in your net. Ask the94kid about how often I complain about this in our games at his place........... I don't even have to verbally complain, all I have to do is start wildly/angrily hammering away on my L and R buttons after one of htose goals is scored against me and he knows exactly what I'm complaining about.
There are just some games where the computer seems to want to f**k you like that, but I'd definitely expect an improvement when you get the SNES controller. I for one know that my game improved by leaps and bounds when I got hooked up with a real SNES controller as opposed to the purple thing I played most of last season with. Thanks again Rudy!!
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Meh 15 minutes or so, I can type pretty fast. But you may be on to something- I re-read that and was like "s**t, too much detail"............ I really like geushneidt's recaps on the GENS writeup board, and while I definitely couldn't make recaps as hilarious as his (and wouldn't directly copy his style anyway because I'd be a tool to do so), I might kinda lean a little more towards writing them closer to the way he does.
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After a blockbuster start to the season, 5-0 with 41 goals for in the first five games, the Quebec Nordiques were in a slump. They had lost three games in a row and were playing pretty flat. What better way to give your flat team a jolt than to put them in a situation where they GOTTA play well? Play the defending league champion! That's what happened tonight when the Nordiques took on JotaC's St. Louis Blues last night at the Colisee.
From the drop of the puck, the Nordiques felt relaxed, yet focused, but most of all, fresh. Perhaps they had played too many games all lumped together to start off the season and could have slowed down on the msging people asking to play league games. Quebec came out hitting and with all five players playing accountable positional hockey, and it didn't take long for a great tic-tac-toe goal to result in a 1-0 Nords lead. This very tight period continued until Jota's Craig Janney tied the game on a sweet one-timer that beat both goaltender Ron Hextall and the defender who was also kind of in the net trying to help him out. 1-1 after one.
Early in the second, with Quebec feeling very good about the game up until this point, the Nordiques were challenged with a bit of adversity. St. Louis threw a puck the length of the ice and it looked like it would be easily touched up for icing. However, Curtis Lesyschyn (sp?) kept skating circles around the puck and couldn't seem to touch it. It bounced back out towards the top of the circle, where Joe Sakic was given a chance to touch up, but he too kept overskating it and missing it! It's odd how one moment you can be scoring a sick highlight-reel goal and the next you can't even touch the f'ing puck up for icing. Anyhow after those two agonizing attempts to touch it, St. Louis finally took control, and of course they scored. 2-1 Blues, and this was the type of goal against that could really get a team off their game (it's happened to me before, for sure), especially when you're slumping and have had a lot of breaks go against you lately, but the Nordiques vowed to keep their cool.
It paid off, as Steve Duchesne tied the game midway through the period, and late in the period, sub-in Valery Kamensky scored the go-ahead. He was filling in for Owen Nolan, who was injured for the period. I edited him in there as soon as Nolan went down, because if you just let the computer sub someone in for him, they'll sub in Gino Cavallini, and I truly believe that he is one of the worst players on the Nordiques' roster, if not the entire league. Anyway Quebec took a 3-2 lead into the third period.
In the third, Jota was all over me for stretches, and I have to confess that I deserved to have the game tied up on me, he had me beaten many times but just couldn't buy one. A few goal posts, a few beauty one-timers that had me beat but sailed over the net, and a couple of times he had my manual goalie beaten but the computer kicked in the automatic goalie to stretch out and stop what looked to be a goal. After a few minutes of this, Joe Sakic finally scored to give the Nordiques a much-needed two goal cushion. Jota resumed dominating in my zone, at which point I called a timeout. After the timeout, Mats Sundin went up the ice and with a little spin move in front of the net scored to pretty much put the game away at 5-2, and Quebec could finally breathe a bit easier, knowing they were going to finally win another one. A total fluke and meaningless goal with a second left to play made it 6-2, which is kind of too bad because that score doesn't at all do justice to the very very tight game that it was.
The boys poured off the bench and mobbed goaltender Hextall, who was just rock solid in this contest, and everyone breathed a very big sigh of relief that the three-game losing streak that had been bothering them was finally over. Great win boys, and great game Jota- very very tight. As Rudy said in a post last season, this guy might be the best checker in the entire league- you simply cannot expect to give one guy the puck and just skate around him. He seems to knock you down on the first attempt each time.
Good luck the rest of the way man and gg
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Good topic. I've completed just 9/40 of my games and even I have asked myself if I've maybe played a few too many so far out of excitement about the new season, and if I'm going to be leaving myself enough games to enjoy say in late October. It's true, people who almost have their season completed already are going to be bored this time next month!
Of course, last year we had the opposite problem, at least in the SNES League. Most of us didn't complete all 40 of our games, and then we remember the torturous snail's pace at which the playoffs moved.
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Oh man, please keep these up, I have people in the workplace looking at me wondering why the hell I'm laughing out loud at my desk here!!!!!!!
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Last season, Schwartz and I met three times, and I was lucky enough to have all three go my way, including an overtime win.
Payback sure is a b***h.
Schwartz and I hooked up for a home-and-home series today and he took em both to improve his start to 3-0.
The first game was in Quebec and boy were the hometown Nords snakebitten. Couldn't buy a goal, as Sean Burke was nothing short of razor sharp in the Whaler goal. Tight defence and timely scoring, along with the great play of Burke, saw the Whalers erase an early 1-0 deficit and score a 3-1 win on the road. Really tight game as evidenced by the low score, Quebec disappointed with how flat they were.
The Nordiques took to the road in search of redemption but had a TERRIBLE first period which saw them fall behind 4-1, including one of those terrible goals where you try to make a pass with your goalie and you get picked off and it's put into the empty net. Really demoralizing start by the Nords, but they were injected with a bit of life with a very late (and very cheap) Joe Sakic goal in the period's dying seconds. Really odd first period Schwartz and I both found (net must have come off about six times total), but the Nordiques vowed to regroup and show some character in the final two periods.
That they did, scoring two GORGEOUS tic-tac-toe goals to eventually tie the game 4-4 by the early third period, and then Mats Sundin scored on a gloveside deke to put Quebec ahead 5-4. What a great character win this could be to break out of that two-game losing skid, coming back from 4-1 to redeem a bad performance at home. But it was not to be. Schwartz scored two quick ones in the game's second-to-last minute to regain the lead at 6-5 and Quebec just couldn't come up with the equalizer.
Schwartz man you played great, you are an improved man from last season, and my hat is off to your fine defensive play, timely scoring, and EXCELLENT goaltending.
The Nordiques will try to stay calm and remember that they're still sporting a respectable 5-3 record, and will try to just relax against their next opponent.
ggs man
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A couple weird things that have happened to me:
- Scoring EXACTLY at the buzzer to end a period (i.e. scoring with 0:00 left on the clock) and the game just totally freaking out and freezing, with the celebration organ music stalled at just a single, piercing organ note the whole time.
- Hauling a guy down on a breakaway with like five seconds or less left in a period, causing a penalty shot. Period ends before I touch the puck again, so period ends before penalty shot can occur. It just goes forward to the next period, and it looks like the penalty shot is not going to happen. But when you push start to start the next period, the penalty shot screen comes up and it's his guy at centre ice iwth the puck. Looks like the penalty shot will happen. However, as soon as he touches the puck, the whistle goes and the "penalty shot" is over! Very weird, must be some kind of glitch they never worked out.
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LOL that was an awesome post, barely in English but awesome, keep that s**t up kgman!!