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Post by Unocal 76 on Sept 14, 2012 15:24:04 GMT -5
I'm working on a hockey article project on the 1995-96 season.
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Post by triplethreatmark on Sept 14, 2012 15:30:39 GMT -5
I'm working on a hockey article project on the 1995-96 season. Cool. What's it about?
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Post by Unocal 76 on Sept 14, 2012 15:35:43 GMT -5
I'm working on a hockey article project on the 1995-96 season. Cool. What's it about? How that 1995-96 season was such a crossroads season. It was the last high-scoring season before the 2004 lockout. If anything, it was the last hurrah of offense over defense before the Dead Puck era. That was a watershed season in which offense was frequent, defense was inconsistent, there was a mix of young talent and old legends, and there was a wide gap between the haves and have nots. To put it in perspective, the 1995-96 Los Angeles Kings- who were the 2nd worst team in the Western Conference- scored 256 goals that year. The reigning Cup champ Kings scored less than 200 goals in 82 games.
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Post by triplethreatmark on Sept 14, 2012 16:53:47 GMT -5
How that 1995-96 season was such a crossroads season. It was the last high-scoring season before the 2004 lockout. If anything, it was the last hurrah of offense over defense before the Dead Puck era. That was a watershed season in which offense was frequent, defense was inconsistent, there was a mix of young talent and old legends, and there was a wide gap between the haves and have nots. To put it in perspective, the 1995-96 Los Angeles Kings- who were the 2nd worst team in the Western Conference- scored 256 goals that year. The reigning Cup champ Kings scored less than 200 goals in 82 games. Don't take this seriously, but f*** you on two counts. 1. For reminding me how horrendous the '95-'96 Kings were 2. How few goals we scored during this past season.
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Post by Unocal 76 on Sept 14, 2012 17:07:30 GMT -5
In all seriousness, 1995-96 was a season that is worthy of writing about.
You had Colorado winning the Cup after leaving Quebec, new arenas, old and new stars, player movement, offense galore, great playoffs, Florida rats, and what many consider the last offensive hockey hurrah before the Dead Puck era.
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Post by ICBM on Sept 14, 2012 20:54:40 GMT -5
Ok I'm lame. Explain dead puck. Also loved 95-96 for fox's blue haze around the puck and it went red during a hard slapper
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2012 21:00:22 GMT -5
Ok I'm lame. Explain dead puck. Also loved 95-96 for fox's blue haze around the puck and it went red during a hard slapper The dead puck era, IIRC, was when the neutral zone trap started being used more often. The biggest users being the Devils who used it to win 3 cup titles.
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Post by Unocal 76 on Sept 14, 2012 21:01:39 GMT -5
Ok I'm lame. Explain dead puck. Dead puck- scoring dropped for a stretch. To put it in perspective: from 1996-97 to 2003-04, there were fewer 50-goal and 100-point scorers. Goaltenders dominated (there were more goalies than ever with GAA's below 2. From 1973 to 1995, only 1 goalie did that). 3 different goalies recorded 3 straight shutouts in the playoffs (that had happened only twice in the previous 4 decades). 4 times, the NHL's leading scorer had less than 100 points. In 2003-04, Martin St. Louis led the league in scoring with 94 points on 38 goals and 56 assists. Vincent Damphousse, with those same goals-assists-points in 1995-96, finished 20th in scoring
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Post by Lupin the Third on Sept 14, 2012 21:54:54 GMT -5
Well, no hockey this year probably.
Have some hockey played by Goofy.
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Post by triplethreatmark on Sept 14, 2012 21:59:24 GMT -5
Ok I'm lame. Explain dead puck. Also loved 95-96 for fox's blue haze around the puck and it went red during a hard slapper The dead puck era, IIRC, was when the neutral zone trap started being used more often. The biggest users being the Devils who used it to win 3 cup titles. In their defense, they only really used it to its maximum power in 1995. They still used it in 2000 and 2003, but to much lesser extents. Besides, this is late 90s-early 00s hockey we're talking about here. Everybody was using the left-wing lock or the neutral zone trap.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 14, 2012 22:05:44 GMT -5
And it was popularized by the Montreal Canadiens during their dynasty. It also helped that Martin Brodeur didn't have the trapezoid to worry about and was a masterful pack handler. I love it when Rangers fans complain about the Devils' trap style of play when their team was pretty damn successful using the same style of play last season.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Sept 14, 2012 22:07:53 GMT -5
And it was popularized by the Montreal Canadiens during their dynasty. It also helped that Martin Brodeur didn't have the trapezoid to worry about and was a masterful pack handler. I love it when Rangers fans complain about the Devils' trap style of play when their team was pretty damn successful using the same style of play last season. The Rags use a collapse around the goalie strategy not a neutral zone trap
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Post by triplethreatmark on Sept 14, 2012 22:09:07 GMT -5
And it was popularized by the Montreal Canadiens during their dynasty. It also helped that Martin Brodeur didn't have the trapezoid to worry about and was a masterful pack handler. I love it when Rangers fans complain about the Devils' trap style of play when their team was pretty damn successful using the same style of play last season. Yeah but the Devils ever have Dan Girardi, Brandon Prust or Cally getting in front of pucks and making the Neutral Zone Trap? Yeah...didn't think so [/irrational Rangers fan] *Note: I don't hate the Rangers. I actually kinda like the squad they have. M.O.P just has a point.
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Post by triplethreatmark on Sept 14, 2012 22:19:39 GMT -5
Also loved 95-96 for fox's blue haze around the puck and it went red during a hard slapper Oh boy. Die hard fans will surely like you. [/sarcasm] I like the glow puck now simply because the concept is so deliciously 90s.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2012 23:01:36 GMT -5
And it was popularized by the Montreal Canadiens during their dynasty. It also helped that Martin Brodeur didn't have the trapezoid to worry about and was a masterful pack handler. I love it when Rangers fans complain about the Devils' trap style of play when their team was pretty damn successful using the same style of play last season. Not complaining. Just stateing what I remember'd about it.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 14, 2012 23:05:12 GMT -5
Didn't say you were. I just remember it fondly being a complaint among many Rangers fans during the mid 90's.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2012 9:18:50 GMT -5
Thank god I have the USHL. It's not the pros, but it's something close for me to enjoy. Go Stampede!!! Speaking of which, They had to move from the Coliseum... to the Fieldhouse. Pretty good place to play for the next two years.
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Post by pepsitwist on Sept 15, 2012 10:48:26 GMT -5
I might have to start watching English hockey more now.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 15, 2012 11:22:04 GMT -5
I hope MSG and its ilk shows AHL games with the Albany Devils, Bridgeport Sound Tigers, and Connecticut Whale to kill some time. Especially with Larssen, Henrique, Tedenby, and Josefson all going back to Albany so they can keep fresh.
And Martin Brodeur wanted a 2 year contract for this very reason.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2012 11:32:08 GMT -5
Well all the young Oiler kids are assigned to play in the AHL. I think this lockout actually works out in Edmontons advantage since now all the kids can play with some of the highly touted prospects early on and will bs great for development. Plus this works for Justin Schultz who has never played a AHL or NHL game so some experience and Taylor Hall doesn't have to rush into the season opener game and take time to recover his injury instead of coming in to soon.
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