Random Friday Hockey Questions....?

Question

Due to the lack of hockey questions in the hockey section I thought I would try and get this day started off on the right foot...

1) Who is the most underrated player on your favorite team

2) Who is the most overrated player on your favorite team

3) Your favorite player shows up to your house and says he's hungry. What do you cook him or where do you take him?

4) Your favorite team has to change their team name, what would you want it to be?

5) What is your least favorite logo for an NHL team?

6) Al Mcinnis, Dion Phaneuf and Zdeno Charra show up at your house and say they want to play some hockey with you. You agree to go and take the 2 hour trip to the nearest ice hockey rink (your in Arkansas I guess). You get to the rink and all of a sudden Big Al throws you goalie gear and says they are going to practice their one timers and slap shots....what do you do?

7) If you had to change the color of the posts and crossbar, what would it be?

8) Should the restricted zone for goalies be reduced or completely done away with?

9) How can a penalty on a play be for tripping/hooking AND taking a dive? Does anyone else see how rediculous this is? PICK ONE!

BONUS:

What was the best goal of the year?

Best save?

Best hit?

Best win?

BONUS #2 Holiday Highjinx

What two New Jersey Devils have both gotten hat tricks on a holiday (pseudo-holiday that is).....Hint one was Halloween and the other was New Years Eve.....(different year)

Answer 1

1. Max Talbot. I hear his name mentioned sometimes, but he doesn't get the credit he deserves when he deserves it. Like Game 5 when the Pens won it in 3OT........the only person people were mentioning was Petr Sykora who scored the OT goal, but does people not remember who scored the tieing goal in the last 30 seconds? The guy who made it possible for Petr to even score that goal at 1 am?

2. Ha, I don't know. I really don't cosider Crosby, Malkin, Fleury over rated. I think I'll have to go with Staal. He's a good kid, but sometimes gets more credit than need be.

3. I'm not sure. I tell him to hop in my car and I'll bring him somewhere.

I'll just drive until I see somewhere that looks nice.

4. I don't care what their name is.....as long as it still starts with "Pittsburgh"

5. the Thrashers thing.

6. Tell them that the ride there was "fun" and that I've had enough excitement for one day, get in the car and drive off. I'll be dead before I let Al, Dion and Zdeno shoot at me! =O

7. Blue....it's my favorite color.

8. I think it should be.

9. Amen, brother. =b

I feel the exact same way.  

Answer 2

1. The most underrated player on my favorite team, the New Jersey Devils, is Jay Pandolfo.  With him, Brian Gionta becomes one of the best offensive players in the league.  Without Pando, Gio becomes a very ordinary player.

2. The most overrated player is Sheldon Brookbank.  This guy doesn't even belong in the NHL, yet coach Brent Sutter keeps putting him out there.

3. My favorite player is John Madden, and thank God it's not the coach-turned-sportscaster John Madden, or I'd never have enough food.  I'd serve Madden his favorite thing to eat: Roasted Ranger! With a side of smoked Flyer.  Maybe a few Leafs as a salad.

4. I never wanted the name to be "Devils." Besides, the Jersey Devil was from the Pine Barrens.  That's South Jersey, which is Flyer country.  (Ew.) Since they're so close to Newark's Penn Station, maybe they could cut a deal with Amtrak and rename themselves the New Jersey Metroliners.  Powerful and fast.

5. Favorite logo is tough.  It's a tossup between Montreal and Detroit.  They're both such classics, and relatively easy to draw.  (That was very important as a kid.  I remember hating the NFL's Denver Broncos because I couldn't draw their logo.) Least favorite? Any the Vancouver Canucks ever had.  Not a bad team, but they've never looked good.

6. I'll tell 'em to get their own d**n goalie.  Ain't nobody can pay me enough to take that job.

7. A deeper red, so it would still be visible.

8. Reduced.  Cdn24fan has it right: Most sports rule changes designed to hurt specific guys, which the leagues will never admit they're trying to do, end up getting beat by said guys anyway.  Like the NBA widening the lane to stop Wilt Chamberlain, or college ball eliminating the dunk to stop Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- and then bringing the dunk back after David Thompson graduated, hmmmm...

9. Taking a dive? Have you been watching Ranger games?

Best save of the year was in a Devils game against the Washington Capitals at the Prudential Center.  Alexander Ovechkin got the puck and I knew.  I just knew.  I jumped up and said, "Watch this!" I knew we were in for four seconds of truly great hockey.  Ovechkin fired, the puck made like a laserbeam for the upper right corner, and Martin Brodeur... snared it! Hall-of-Famer vs. probable Hall-of-Famer, and I knew this would be why I loved the game, no matter who won, and Brodeur won that one.  Unfortunately, the rest of the team played like c**p and the Caps won, 4-1.

Whatever was the best goal and the best hit, I didn't see.  Best win, as it is every year, is the last one, which was the Wings over the Pens.

"Hated for it"? Gotta be that traitor Scott Gomez.  All season long, there were guys walking around the Prucenter with masking tape over the 23s on their jerseys.  Which is weird, because in the first game I saw there, the first goal of the game was scored by the new Number 23, David Clarkson.

Answer 3

1) Max Talbot is incredibly underrated.  He doesn't have the raw talent that a lot of other guys in the NHL do but he's by far the hardest working player I've seen.

2) Although he's no longer a Penguin I think Ryan Malone is a little overrated (and now overpaid).  I love the guy and I wanted to keep him, but he played out of his head last year and I think the Lightning are going to be searching for a way to get rid of his big contract in a few years.

3) If you're talking past or present, I'd take Mario out to a nice steakhouse somewhere and get him the best bottle of wine they have.  Mario loves his wine.

4) I've never been good with making up names.

5) The Sabres.  Their logo is a buffalo, but thier team is the Sabres.  I still don't get it.  Go back to the old blue / yellow logo.

6) Assume the fetal position.

7) I don't know, orange?

8) Keep 'em the way they are.

9) There can definitely be a penalty for both hooking/tripping AND a dive.  If I hook you, it should be a penalty regardless of what that hook causes you to do.  If I barely hook you (still enough to be a penalty) and you flop to the ground like you just got shot, that's 'diving'.  The penalty is actually called embellishment, which means that you made something look worse than it really was.  You don't necessarily need to 'make something out of nothing' for it to be a penalty... if you make an effort to embellish something, it should be a penalty.

BONUS:

Best goal, hands down, was Nash's goal when he went through the entire defense and made everyone look silly.

Too many saves/hits to choose from

And the best win, and best game, of the season was Game 5 of the Cup finals (3 OT game)

Answer 4

1)Braydon Coburn.Guy does it all.

2)I guess Danny Briere

3)I take him to the local Sports bar and order up some cheesesteaks and when we sit at the bar I yell"My friend Mike Richards would also like a Yuengling"

4)"Iggles"..Might as well stay in the city names....Thats Eagles for people that don't know the Philly accent.

5)Penguins..A flightless bird holding a stick?C'mon?

6)I strap on the pads.I cant skate so playing D would be rough plus I tell people I stopped the 3 hardest shooters the game has ever seen.

7)White..That would be fun to watch players trying to pick the corners.

8)Done away with and you should be allowed to hit them..They want to play the puck they should suffer the consequences.

9)Ridiculous.Its either a dive or a trip..Many times they were not going to call tripping until they call the dive.

Bonus-

Goal-Nashs' goal was sick.

Save-Too early in the am to remember.

Hit-Too early in the am to remember

Win-Flyers over Caps Game 7.

2#-See Save and Hit answer.LOL

**EDIT-Scott Gomez for the NewYears Eve hattrick.

Answer 5

Of all the random questions that have been asked on here, that's the best you can do?  For shame.

1) None.  All the players that could be considered that had broken out at one point or another.

2) Andreas Lilja.

3) I cook some grilled sandwiches and take him home.

4) Honoring the automoblie heritage in Detroit, the Detroit Mustangs.

5) Anaheim's.

6) Put the goalie gear on and take it like a man.

7) Blue so that it would stand out.

8) I have no problem with the goalie zones as is.

9) I can't answer that one because it's not random enough.

Bonus: That Rick Nash goal.

Osgood poking the puck away to end the Finals.

Kronwalls knockdown of Malone.  Second would be Crosby tossing one of our big guys in the finals.

The game where the Wings scored 8 goals against Colorado.

Bonus #2: Pass.

FOR....

....SHAME!

Added: Sarcasm's a beautiful thing.  Perhaps you should learn about it.

Answer 6

1.) It was Sergei Brylin, but it doesn't seem like the Devils are going to resign him.  He's not the best player or anything, but he's reliable.  He goes out every night and does his job, back checking, etc., and does it consistently.  Even though he usually never has a night where he's the superstar, Brylin never has a bad game.  Plus he gets hit and smashed every game, but he still goes out and gives it his all.

2.) I have to admit, sometimes it's Brodeur.  He ended up getting the Vezina this year, but he's had some pretty awful games this season even though he ended pulling off a good overall season.

3.) Since I can't cook very well, I'll take him to go eat Chinese food!  I personally don't like it that much, considering I have to eat it all the time, but non-Asian people love Chinese food!

4.) No idea.  I'm not good at coming up with names.

5.) I really don't like the Ducks' logo.  It just says Ducks in an ugly font.

6.) I refuse!  Chara can shoot a puck like 103 mph!  I'll get killed!  I'll just watch them practice or something.

7.) Maybe black or silver.

8.) It should be taken away.  It reduces the chances of goalies ever scoring a goal, and I feel more and more goalies like to play the puck more.  Plus it restricts Brodeur.

9.) It is possible for someone to hook and trip another player, and it's forceful enough to be a penalty, but the other player decides he wants to dive anyway.  Usually that doesn't happen so it is pretty ridiculous for there to be two penalties.  The dive should only be given when it's obvious the player is embellishing the play.

BONUS:

BEST GOAL: Has to be Rick Nash's goal against the Coyotes.  There's no arguing that one.

BEST SAVE: Do you remember that crazy one by Brodeur against the Flyers when he made a save on the left side of the net, then dove and caught the puck in mid-air just before it reached the line?

BEST HIT: Anything by Nik Kronwall.

BEST WIN: I don't remember one in particular this season, but the one in recent years has to be the Devils' last game of the 2006 season against the Canadiens.  Devils were down 0-3, in a must win game to clinch the Atlantic.  They were already on a 10 game winning streak, and they couldn't to soil it in one of the most important games of the season!!   Gionta really came through with 2 goals in the 3rd (to beat Pat Verbeek's Devils scoring record!!), and Langenbrunner got the game winner in regulation.  The Devils went on to sweep the Rangers in the playoffs and end up with a 15 game winning streak :)

BONUS #2: Pandolfo got the one on Halloween against the Lightning (I was at the game, with freaking good seats!  My mom got free Goal Bar seats from work!)  

Ugh, and don't tell me the second one is Scott Gomez...I don't know the answer, and I sure do hate Gomez!

Answer 7

Wow, hockey questions! If it didn't cost a zillion points, I would have said ask them all separately to flood out the c**p! Anyway, my answers...

1.) Pat Kaleta. Everybody loves a hometown boy, but I think he deserves more credit because he isn't just an enforcer; he'll knock you down then steal the puck and make a great pass up the ice.

2.) Ryan Miller. Who the heck decided he was the best thing to hit Buffalo since Hasek left? Laaaaame. Honorable mention to Maxim Afinogenov.

3.) Hm, well I wouldn't want my housemates hanging all over Marty Biron like a couple of PB's, plus I'd be embarrassed to have him meet the ants who always make sure to come to dinner, so we're going out for Mexican food and margaritas!

4.) If anyone tried to change my team's name, there would be rioting in the streets of B-lo and Tom Golisano's house would be set on fire. Western New Yorkers are dangerously close to Canadian in our mindsets about our hockey team. No touchy!

5.) The slug still makes me very, very sad but I think I dislike the Thrashers logo slightly more because the colors don't even redeem that one.

6.) Whew! Now all I have to do is stay standing up and they'll think I just can't play goal, instead of realizing that I've never ice skated before in my life. If I can play paintball with a bunch of guys in no padding, I can take a few slapshots in full goalie gear.

7.) Let's make them hot pink so nobody ever wants to look at them ever again and there would be no way in he-double-hockey-sticks to misinterpret a close call about a goal on video replay.

8.) I thought it was stupid from day one. Get rid of it; if a goalie has puck handling skills then good for him! It slows the game down and denies the players and the fans of something, IMO.

9.) It angers me INCESSANTLY when both tripping and diving are called. The guy either got tripped or faked getting tripped. If he got tripped and embellished it, then let them both live with it and get on with things instead of stopping play for what amounts to a "no-fault"  penalty situation anyway.

Not gonna do the bonuses; there's too many to choose from!

Answer 8

patrick sharp,i guess lang, french restraunt,stay at blackhawks,penguins there arent even penguins in pittsburgh cmon?,i dont know luckily ray boroque wasnt there,black,done,?,  

Answer 9

First of all: THANK YOU for a hockey post

1) Who is the most underrated player on your favorite team: PETR SYKORA

2) Who is the most overrated player on your favorite team: BROOKS ORPIK

3) Your favorite player shows up to your house and says he's hungry. What do you cook him or where do you take him? TO A RUSSIAN PLACE, ITS EVGENI

4) Your favorite team has to change their team name, what would you want it to be? PITTSBURGH MARIOS

5) What is your least favorite logo for an NHL team? BLUE JACKETS

6) Al Mcinnis, Dion Phaneuf and Zdeno Charra show up at your house and say they want to play some hockey with you. You agree to go and take the 2 hour trip to the nearest ice hockey rink (your in Arkansas I guess). You get to the rink and all of a sudden Big Al throws you goalie gear and says they are going to practice their one timers and slap shots....what do you do? I WOULD DO IT. THEN HAVE BEERS WITH THEM

7) If you had to change the color of the posts and crossbar, what would it be? PROB, TO BLACK

8) Should the restricted zone for goalies be reduced or completely done away with? NO, I LIKE IT

9) How can a penalty on a play be for tripping/hooking AND taking a dive? Does anyone else see how rediculous this is? PICK ONE! HOSSA AND JAGR LAST YEAR. ITS PATHETIC

BONUS:

What was the best goal of the year? TALBOTS 3 OT GOAL IN THE FINAL

Best save? FREAKING NABBY AGAINST THE STARS

Best hit? ANYTHING AGAINST A FLYER

Best win? GAME 5 OF FINALS, PENS OVER WINGS

BONUS #2 Holiday Highjinx

What two New Jersey Devils have both gotten hat tricks on a holiday (pseudo-holiday that is).....Hint one was Halloween and the other was New Years Eve.....(different year)

-NO IDEA, TOO LAZY TO LOOK IT UP

GO PENS!  

Answer 10

1) Josh Gorges- the guy has developed into a steady defensive d-man

2) Latendresse- should still be in the AHL

3) seeing as Cooking is thought to be a city in China in my house... we will go out for a Steak

4) Sorry can't change it even if Quebec were to separate

5) Not a big fan of the Sens logo nor the Ducks

6) turn the net around backwards and hide in it

7) Black hides the puck, White hides the post so I guess Blue

8 Get rid of it, The idea was to limit the playmaking goalies like Brodeur but it has probably helped the good playmaking goalies as the can deal with it.  It hurts the avg guy more.

9) I agree- call the dive alone

Best Goal- I'm a homer the Andrei Kostishyn one that looked like the Ovie one- scored the same night as the Nash one.

Win- The one that turned around The Habs season coming back to win in Jersey in the third where they never win.

Jay Pandolfo was the Halloween one against Tampa?

Answer 11

1. i would agree with joe and say braydon coburn. i dont think people realized what he did for us until he got hurt and we didnt have him.

2. i would say danny briere because he is either on his game or completely off it.

3. all scottie would probably need is some beer ...

4. it would be kind of cool if they could be the broadstreet bullies. i know it doesnt have a city in it but i think it would be cool.

5. the ny rangers logo is too much like the nhl logo

6. suit up! who would pass up on that?

7. black or blue. i think black would look cool.

8. i think it should be done away with. they know the risk of going out there. let them be hit.

9. yeah it needs to be one or the other.



bonus

best goal= it would be between the game 7 overtime goal vs. the caps

-or- when danny briere scored the shootout goal against buffalo to break our 10 game losing streak

best save= hmm... its tough. a lot of birons saves in the playoffs were pretty huge. i'd have to say when he poke-checked it away from whoever was on the breakaway in one of the playoff games

best hit= mike richards hit on malkin

best win= probably game 7 vs. caps

bonus 2= no clue

Answer 12

1) Pandolfo , his salary was a bargain for his work ethic and overall ability! at least he's getting recognized now.

2) Zubrus , Geez am i disappointed.

3) Brodeur, id cook him pasta and Sprite to drink, why, because hed enjoy that! lol

4) NEVER, the devils dont change there jersey despite all these changes theyd never change there name! (as long as lou is around at least)

5) rangers, dam those rags!

6) not go in net so i can live to tell ppl about it.

7) i wouldnt, cause then youd have to change the red line then it wouldnt be called the red line.

8) that rule is biased to brodeur, not fair at all.

9) True they cant call a dive and a penalty, but then again they dont call enough dives.

BEST GOAL: gionta bats the puck by pittsburgh (even though they beat us handedly it was amazing)

BEST SAVE: brodeur on the sharks raises his glove blindedly and stops it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNHQG5pND...

BEST HIT: cant remember

BEST WIN: i still cant get over 2 ( the 7-6 comeback win against the leafs or the 4-3 win on the last day of the season to claim the atlantic.

3goals: PANDOLFO AND GOMEZ

Answer 13

1) Chris Osgood

2) It was Hasek, now I am not sure there is anybody who is overrated.

3) I would take him (Chris Osgood, and bias aside, he is always underrated) to somewhere local, low key.  Taking him to Hockeytown Cafe might prove to be chaotic.

4) I guess we could go back to being the Detroit Cougars/Falcons, but I would never want to make that decision.  I love that illogical, curious fusion of a red wing and a red wheel.

5) The worst is the Buffaslug, but I definitely hate the g*y Avalanche A and the Sasquatch foot on the shoulder, like Sasquatch causes avalanches or exists in Colorado.  Typical 90s purple and teal jerseys that all the mindless douche bag little kids that I grew up with thought was the sweetest thing ever.  They were the minority, but they still pissed me off to no end back in the day.  Bandwagon Avs fans between the ages of 6 and 11 back in the mid/late 90s were something to loathe in the Great Lake State.  Their feeble minds were so intrigued by the teal (EVERY kid's favorite color between 1994 and 1997) and purple new jerseys that they ignored the Original Six nostalgia of our boys in Hockeytown.  Let me reassert that they were the minority, as most kids my age knew the Red Wings to be the greatest sports franchise in history.  Still, I had a few friends in elementary school whose ignorance stuck in my mind.  It only intensified the rivalry, and gave me sh*t talking material later on down the road.

6) I strap on a kevlar vest, pop a few vicodins, and ask for a cigarette.  I then ask for a moment to utter my last, solemn words, but I stay strong and I don't shed a tear.  I state that my will is in my front right jeans pocket, with an envelope addressed to my mother.  The rest is in God's hands.

7) Tickle-me-pink

8) Goalies that purposely obstruct to protect the puck in the corner or behind the net (cough, Marty Turco, cough) or delay the game should be penalized, but the trapezoid should be thrown out.  I'm not really a fan of that rule, especially on the power play.

9) The same player getting both, or one for tripping and the other for diving?  A player could trip or hook an opponent and prevent them from making a play without dragging them to the ice, but the other guy could get the skates chopping and clearly embellish the obstruction.  I have seen numerous cases where only one penalty for tripping or hooking was called (a legitimate trip/hook call), but the opposing player made a blatant dive that was not called.  It doesn't seem logical, but I have seen situations where it would be the right call to send both players to the sin bin.

BONUS:

(The best plays of the Wings season/playoffs)

1. Pavel Datsyuk's goal assisted by Henrik Zetterberg, after Hank Z beat 4 Dallas Stars in the corner and dished it off to a wide-open Pavel Datsyuk in the slot.  Pav roofed it like the sniper he is, embarassing all of them.

2. Chris Osgood's save with 1 second left before the Wings' Cup win.  Got the stickhand out and covered the left post on the breakaway to stuff a Pen (I believe it was Malone, Hossa, or Sykora) on the doorstep.  There are a lot of prepositions in that last sentence.

3. Best hit, either Brad Stuart crushing Crosby in the corner, or one of Nik Kronvall's huge open ice hits.  The one on Radek Bonk in round 1 against NSH might have been the biggest.

4. Best win, Stanley Cup victory obviously.  I liked game 4 against Colorado too.

BONUS #2:

I will guess Jay Pandolfo and John Madden.

Answer 14

1) Who is the most underrated player on your favorite team

Mike green, i dont think enough people like em

2) Who is the most overrated player on your favorite team

hmmmmm. that would be an insult to my caps

3) Your favorite player shows up to your house and says he's hungry. What do you cook him or where do you take him?

we go to boston pizza. me an AO. to bad he cant speak well

4) Your favorite team has to change their team name, what would you want it to be? washington destroyers or the washington ovechkins

5) What is your least favorite logo for an NHL team?

canucks. i mean wtf?

6) Al Mcinnis, Dion Phaneuf and Zdeno Charra show up at your house and say they want to play some hockey with you. You agree to go and take the 2 hour trip to the nearest ice hockey rink (your in Arkansas I guess). You get to the rink and all of a sudden Big Al throws you goalie gear and says they are going to practice their one timers and slap shots....what do you do?

ummm tell them t otake it easy on me. good thing im a goalie lol

7) If you had to change the color of the posts and crossbar, what would it be? clear (see through) or invisible that would be fun

8) Should the restricted zone for goalies be reduced or completely done away with? it is stupid and i say they get rid of it

9) How can a penalty on a play be for tripping/hooking AND taking a dive? Does anyone else see how rediculous this is? PICK ONE! sean avery dives alot

BONUS:

What was the best goal of the year? rick nash. i didnt see many good goals this year

Best save? didnt pay attention

Best hit? lol ^

Best win? ^^

BONUS #2 Holiday Highjinx

What two New Jersey Devils have both gotten hat tricks on a holiday (pseudo-holiday that is).....Hint one was Halloween and the other was New Years Eve.....(different year) ^^^