Lightning Flik

I'm going to be very surprised if the Bruins turn out better than my Edmonton Oilers... Ever think of converting to a Canadian team? At least then you'll know why your team isn't as great as they should be (Oilers). And then can be utterly surprised when they do so well (Flames).

Didn't realize he had TWO projects though. I only knew that he was working on TEW 2005. It's a good thing to know that they won't be getting my money should I ever decide to buy TEW2004. But I think I will wait till the next version.

That's never stopped anyone from making a sequel before. I would like a new Phantasy Star that continued on the old series, but since they pretty much wrapped it up, I doubt there will ever be a new Phantasy Star.

I think Microsoft recently purchased that deal.

To give that "anything can happen" feel to RAW. Because RAW needs the lovin'.

Last I checked, the Pro League is the National Lacrosse League. I watched it not that long ago when the season was still going and it ain't a nice sport. Lots of hitting, shoving, crosschecks and nasty stick work. I loved it personally. I think the other reason why the NLL isn't really given much notice is because the main winners of the NLL have been the Canadian teams. The team with the most Championships is the Toronto Rock. Although, this past season, the Calgary Roughnecks won the NLL Championship over the Buffalo Bandits.

But having injuries will make you learn the system, pretty darn quickly.

In TSM's, Blight BEAT Sephiroth. ...I think I don't have the records now.

Still though, if you decrease the amount of shots, you decrease the amount of quality shots. You can only get quality shots if the opposing team gets shots onto the net. The less shots, the less the quality of shots are being tossed at him.

That isn't what I'm debating. I'm debating Brodeur's greatness and how it was the New Jersey system and their sitting on a single goal that makes him so great, and how he doesn't face quality shots. I never once debated about Cloutier. Only about Brodeur's greatness.

Knew someone would bring that up. But you must also remember that Martin Brodeur also had the best people that Canada could provide in front of him. Best people = best stats. By best people, I mean most able to perform what is asked of them. Not in terms of "greatness" or "skill in one category". Oh and might I point this out (these stats come from CNNSI.com): Martin Gerber - Switzerland - GPI 3 - GA 4 - SV% .958 Mike Ritcher - United States - GPI 4 - GA 9 - SV% .932 Nikolai Khabibulin - Russia - GPI 6 - GA 14 - SV% .930 Tommy Salo - Sweden - GPI 3 - GA 7 - SV% .924 Dominik Hasek - Czech Republic - GPI 4 - GA 8 - SV% .924 Martin Brodeur - Canada - GPI 5 - GA 9 - SV% .917 Only Gerber beat Brodeur's GAA. However, these people beat Brodeur in terms of SV%. All of these teams were competing for the Gold Medal, might I add. I left off SA for a reason. Martin Brodeur faced 109 shots in 5 games and let in 9 goals. Brodeur faced an average of 22 shots. Gerber faced 95 shots in 3 games. He only allowed 4 goals. He also beats Brodeur out right. He faced an average of 32 shots. Ritcher faced 132 shots in 4 games. He only allowed 9 goals. Yet he faced 23 more shots and has the same amount of goals let in, in one game less. He faced an average of 33 shots. Khabibulin faced 200 shots in 6 games. He only allowed 14 goals. Yes, he let in more goals than Brodeur, but he faced on average 33 shots a game. Salo faced 93 shots in 3 games. He only allowed 7 goals. He faced an average of 31 shots. Again, about the same amount of shots, yet same amount of goals. Yet, more shots in a less of a span. Hasek faced 105 shots in 4 games. He only allowed 8 goals. He faced on average of 26 shots. He faced about the same amount of shots Brodeur did. Now then. Does anyone see what I'm saying? Brodeur sees less shots in total, and of course his totals will be lower. Might I also add that for a guy who is so great, why could Brodeur not get at least one shut out during this tournement? Especially in a 7-1 drubbing of Belarus!

YES!!! I'M GOING TO THE CHAMPIONSHIPS!!! WOO!!!

Stats taken from the Internet Hockey Database (http://www.hockeydb.com) Brodeur's first season in the NHL was 93-94, in which he only played 47 games. Top Goal Scorers Of Teams During That Period: Adam Graves - NYR - 52 John MacLean - NJ - 37 Dmitri Khristich - WAS - 29 Steve Thomas - NYI - 42 Bob Kudelski - FLO - 40 Eric Lindros - PHI - 44 Petr Klima - TB - 28 Sergei Federov - DET - 56 Dave Andreychuk - TOR - 53 Mike Madano - DAL - 50 Brett Hull - STL - 57 Jeremy Roenick - CHI - 46 Keith Tkachuk - WIN - 41 Kevin Stevens - PIT - 41 Cam Neeley - BOS - 50 Vincent Damphousse - MON - 40 Dale Hawerchuk - BUF - 35 Mats Sundin - QUE - 32 Geoff Sanderson - HAR - 41 Alexei Yashin - OTT - 30 Gary Roberts - CAL - 41 Pavel Bure - VAN - 60 Sergei Marakov - SJ - 30 Bob Corkum - ANA - 23 Luc Robitille - LA - 44 Jason Arnott - EDM - 33 Do you notice anywhere that there is an 70 or 80 goal scorer? NO. Most of them were 30s-40s, I'll admit. However, he only played half a season. Chris Terreri also played half the season. Let's check out his stats and compare them to Brodeur's. Martin Brodeur GP - 47 MIN - 2625 GA - 105 GAA - 2.40 W - 27 L - 11 T - 8 SVS - 1133 PCT - 0.915 SO - 3 Chris Terreri GP - 44 MIN - 2340 GA - 106 GAA - 2.72 W - 20 L - 11 T - 4 SVS - 1035 PCT - 0.907 SO - 2 Hm... Well look at that. Guess who has almost the exact same stats as Martin Brodeur. It's the only year the two play almost the exact amount of games as Terreri then goes on to be back up to every team he plays for. Now then. Wasn't someone ... I think it was you, Max Power, that said something about stats tell the story. To me this tells me that under the NJ system, Terreri would do the exact same as Brodeur and had. Yes, his GAA was above 3 before this season. However, before the 93-94 season in the 92-93 season, only starting goalies Ed Belfour of the Chicago Blackhawks (75 games) and Felix Potvin of the Toronto Maple Leafs (48 games) had GAAs of under 3. In the 93-94 season 16 goaltenders went under 3 GAA that were their teams starters (Terreri is considered one because NJ at the time went with both goaltenders till they decided on Brodeur). Did goaltenders suddenly get really good? No. This is when the trap was introduced to the game, and when teams decided to get defensive mind. Most players began not to "run and gun" their shots, but rather just wait for the "perfect shot". Hence the quality of shots goes down as well.

Agreed. Brodeur has better numbers than Patrick Roy. If Marty played in a Canadian hockey center, he'd be consider one of the best ever. But because he competes in the same division as the Senators, Canadiens, and especially the Leafs, his greatness and legacy is lessened. I honestly don't care what division he plays for. What I care about is that his team sits on a single goal lead in most cases and that's all they do. Most shots that Brodeur faces are not quality shots and can be easily saved. That's my problem. Then again, that's my problem with the whole league. No goaltender these days faces quality shots. There used to be at least 14-16 good shots that could be going into the net. Nowadays, I'm lucky if the actual GOALS are quality shots.

That's the problem. You need them to do a full padded scrimage at least once during the week. It's to help get them ready for the "real" thing with the hits and stuff. That's why you need that in your routine.

No, it's not. In today's game, a mediocre goaltender can look like a star because of the trapping system, lack of shots (many and quality shots), and also having the most stingy defensive minded team in front of him. And yes, I've always considered Martin Brodeur a good goaltender. As great as everyone makes out? No. If all a team does is get a goal and then sit on it, how can you honestly judge a goaltender? The whole team builds itself on keeping that goal as the "most necessary thing", and don't give the other team quality shots. Hence, I question Broduer's greatness because how often has the opposing team had good shots against him? Not very. Put him on a run and gun team and he performs like this, then I'll concede that he's a great goaltender. As has been made mention, a good goaltender is able to produce during any stitch and time in front of any one. Only goaltender I've seen do that is Roberto Luango.

Czech has a point. Grant Fuhr, who played on the Oilers of 1980s didn't have the GAA of 2.25 or less, or the SV% of .930+ (hugely inacurrate, I know), but he played like a fighting champion and made the saves that were needed for the Edmonton Oilers to win. A lot of people say that because of his not normal stats, Grant Fuhr isn't a great goalie, but he could face as many shots as there are in most of today's NHL games and a lot of times had to be the guy that bailed the Oilers out during two on ones or three on ones if they gave the puck up (which they did quite a bit). I doubt any goalie of today's game that plays for a trap team or in the East (oh hell I'll say that there's only ONE goalie who can do it in the game today) put them on any team from the 80s and have a GAA of 3.00 or a save % of .890. These guys don't face as many shots as they did before, they don't see them as often as they used to, and they get stuck in a shitty style of hockey that makes them, for lack of a better term, lazy in coming up with the big saves. And that only goalie that I think could be put in a run and gun team, set the amount of saves made by a goalie during the regular season last year. I think you all know his name.

Ouch... Because that's like two paperback novels I could buy almost. Then again, if it is really good, then I guess it doesn't matter the price, now does it?

Hiya all. I was just goofing around a little as I had a little time to kill before getting back to my school work and checked out Chapters.ca. I got this really weird idea (weird because I didn't think of it before) to check and see if maybe, just maybe, they had some newer mangas for sale. So I just punched in the first one I could think of, Love Hina. Low and behold, they had it in stock! Didn't think they would. Anyways, I looked at the price and it says 15.95. That the normal price for mangas?

Same here. It depends on their total amount of Leadership points. Whoever has the highest will show up for the coin toss. At least, so I think.

Yeah... But at least it was the Final Battle, which I could at least tolerate since it was the Final Battle, and not the freaking first fucking round.

Same can be said the other way around. When you get a player who wants to impress and isn't willing to back down, you can't help but like that as a coach. Not saying it is right or wrong, but it would be the same way either way.

Ok... This post not really has anything to do with EWR, but more about Adam, except I didn't feel like writing up a new thread. Anyways, due to one of the owners (Joe Stalling) of .400 Studios doing something complete against the LLC agreement (think that's what it was) that he had with the other owners and being a complete jerk about selling his shares in the company back at fair market value (as per the agreement), Adam Ryland (as well as Arlie Rahn and Gary Gorski) have resigned from .400 Studios. This probably also signifies the dissolution of the .400 Studios company which means the company will be no more soon. Thought I should make mention of that tidbit.

Well, I just looked up Love Hina. So I don't know about the other ones.

I was about to make that complaint. I know it seems silly, since they don't do much, but if they've got LANCE STORM, they should have Doug and Danny Basham. Ummm..you just missed the point of what he said. They ARE in the game. But the Dudz aren't. Geezus, I need to read better and not skim.