I am surprised there is no thread on this yet. Is anyone else TOTALLY excited that hockey is back (Oct 5 baby, well pre-season actually but none of that matters).

I am the most obsessed hockey fan, I would scare you with my playoff rituals and crazy game reactions, lol!

GO VANCOUVER!! ALL THE WAY BABY!! LOL

Anyone else excited?

Your tight toups, it was a great game! The Sens are doing awesome right now!

I managed to score tickets over the weekend to the Leafs/Bruins game tonight down at the ACC in Toronto here. Man what a game. Best live game experiance I had had ever. 5-4 shootout win for the Leafs with Eric Lindros scoring the SO winner. Belfour was peppered with 50+ shots and while let in some softies early was nothing short of brilliance in the 3rd period and OT as leafs kept getting penalized! GO LEAFS GO! TIED FOR 1ST IN THE DIVISION....

mind you with 3 other teams heheh

Man the Sens lost their first game...and to Carolina of all teams? Ah well, they'll get it back.

The Power Ranking came out on ESPN today and they have the Preds #2, hell yeah! With the Red Wings #1 and Ottawa and the Canucks #'s 3 and 4. As of now the Preds are the only undeated team in all of hockey, which is nothing short of a miracle.

The Preds look to be on their way to their 8th victory as when I last checked they were up 5-2 over the Blackhawks. Predators 8-0 who the hell wudda thunk it? Canucks were leading 3-1 too and Colorado just scored to make it 1-0 over Edmonton in the 2nd period. Watching on TSN

Alright Canucks, they extend their winning streak to 6 games with a 3-1 defeat of the Minnesota Wild tonight.

YAH CANUCKS!!

They now move to 8-1-1 with 17 Points, #1 in NW Division, #2 in West, #2 in NHL!

Yay Canucks!

Nashville wins yet again 5-3 over Chicago and up next is the worst team in hockey besides the Penguins and that title goes to the Columbus Blue Jackets. detroit dismantled them the last 2 games, so I will be pissed if the BJ knock of my undefeated team. If we can somehow win tomorrow night, Saturdays game at home against the Oilers will tie the record for the best start in NHL history. I just cant believe the Preds are starting off this red hot!

Kirk I am dumbfounded by Nashvilles success (not to take anything away from it, obviously if they keep winning they deserve to)

I still don't understand how two big acquisitions in the off season is resulting in such success.

With the Blue Jackets next for the Preds, I don't see how they can't improve to 9-0 and the Oilers are simply put, sucking (although most of their losses are coming to very strong teams in the Northwest Division/Pacific Division). Should be a good game between Pred & Oilers, one I will get ot watch!

I wish I could go to the Preds/Oilers game this Saturday, but I am a bigger college football fan and must watch UT/SC which comes on ESPN/ESPN2 the same time the Preds play, plus I dont have any extra cash to spend for some tickets.

Forgot to add I was looking at the Preds schedule and they dont get the Red Wings at home until January 6th, what the [!@#$%^&*]?! They are in our division and we dont play them at home until 3 months into the season. On the bright side I will be back home(Christmas/winter break) in Nashville then, so I will definitely be there cheering on the Preds and by then they will hopefully be in either first or 2nd in their division.

Kirk I am dumbfounded by Nashvilles success (not to take anything away from it, obviously if they keep winning they deserve to)

As am I...who does Nashville have on their team?

Man I feel so bad for Gretzky, he's in way over his head, I think his team is too scared of him.

I think and hope Toronto won't make the playoffs this year.

Nashville has the best goaltender in the leauge imo. Voukon is awesome.

Nashville has the best goaltender in the leauge imo. Voukon is awesome.

They must have offence though right? I hope they're not one of the teams who cruises through the season and playoffs because of their goalie (like the Flames did).

I think and hope Toronto won't make the playoffs this year.

The Leafs are my team and I at the start of the season wasn't expecting much but they have certainly played better out of the gate than I thought. I think somewhere 6th-8th is a reasonable expectation. I hope anyway.

As for the Predators no they didn't add much in the offseason but they are one more year older, one more year experianced. And of course Voukun.... that first round playoff series in 2004 against the red wings really helped this team I think and then they added Paul Kariya to the mix. This team has been given time to grow with alot of the same players who started there in 1998-99 (their first season). Barry Trotz the coach has been there since day one so this is Nashville's time. I am so happy to see them undefeated. Its good for Nashville and the NHL overall. I do think eventually they will come down to eart a bit as do all teams but with this start all they gotta do practically is play .500 hockey from this point in and they basically are guaranteed a playoff spot... and with the way they have been playing they will play alot better than .500 hockey.