1993-94 NHL Regular Season
Ouch. A horrible debut for the
Panthers, who visited
Chicago. I can’t imagine how bad you have to be to only muster 4 shots on net. That has to be a NHL record.
Chicago wins easily, 5-0.
Anaheim gets a goal in their first game, but it still get beaten pretty bad.
Detroit runs it up in a 7-1 win.
Holly crap, the
Ducks, brand new, and without a win, just made what looks like the biggest steal in NHL history!!
Eric Lindros goes to
Anaheim for a goalie selected twice in the last 2 expansion drafts, and a 26 year old seventh defenseman!! I can’t believe this!
Lindros is a first line center, who was playing on the
Islanders 2nd line because
Mats Sundin is older and more developed. Now he’s
Anaheim’s franchise.
Marcus Ketterer is a solid goalie, but solid goalies are put on waivers every year. What a horrible deal for
NY. This is pretty much unexplainable!
Lindros will play in Anaheim!
Give it up to the expansion teams.
Florida acquires a number one defenseman!
Vladimir Konstantinov becomes a
Panther, and might play 60 minutes a night! All
Florida has to give up is 33 year old
Andy Moog, who is a good goalie, but again, good goalies aren’t hard to find. They also get
Jon Klemm, whose a 1.5 star player. I don’t know how these expansion teams are doing it. Not only are they getting the better player easily, they are also getting teams to throw in draft picks!!
Konstantinov will become Florida's best defensman!
That
Lindros trade, while stupid, hasn’t effected the
Isles this year.
Sundin, Bure and
Jagr are young and in their prime. They have
NY out to a 17-6-1 start.
Ray Bourque is still
Ray Bourque, and
Ketterer is playing, and playing well. Still wouldn’t make that trade in a million years, but maybe im stupid, because it’s been good so far.
Jagr leads the Isle's in scoring
Woah, the
Oilers continue to emerge has one of the teams to beat. After a great regular season last year, they were upset in the playoffs but are back this year. They have the best record in the west, and
Mikael Renberg has emerged as a star. He’s got 36 goals and 36 assists in 52 games so far. The 21 year old has half his points on that lethal powerplay, which feathers
Lidstrom and
Leetch on the points. I’m waiting for a
Edmonton,
Islanders final!!
Renberg has emerged as a legit goal scoring threat!
Wayne Gretzky has reached 700 goals, 1800 points, and is about to pass
Gilbert Perreault in the all time assists category. I don’t know if you could call it a resurgence, but since turning 30,
Gretzky has been better then his late 20’s. His game ratings are the highest in his career, and his team is winning more then ever. At the moment,
Wayne has 110 points in 63 games, leading the league.
Gretzky has been great in his 30s.
WOW, maybe the
Islanders aren’t that stupid.
NY picks up a potential defensive stud!!
Chris Pronger goes to
NY, in a deal that costs the
Islanders an 18 year old goalie prospect, and a 27 year old journeyman.
Marty Turco had a nice real life career, but 18 year old pixelated
Turco is a 2 star prospect, that has a long way to go.
Hurlbut is nothing.
Pronger was the 2nd pick in last years draft, and had 32 points in 59 games after making the
Islanders as a teenager. The game clearly values goalies too high in these deals. This trade is insane!
Pronger goes to one of the NHL's top teams!
An extremely busy trade deadline this year. 14 deals go down. Nothing is done worth mentioning, but the sheer number was worth mentioning!
Final Standings
The new playoff format means
Washington, who finished fourth in the Atlantic, will not qualify.
Quebec who finish 5th in the Northeast, make the playoffs. Maybe they are getting old, but the
Nordiques haven’t been this bad in a while.
Doug Gilmour was nominated for the Hart Trophy, but his team is the 8th seed. Come on….
Buffalo makes the playoffs! I can’t remember the last time they played a postseason game. Let’s check! 1985. That’s a long time ago. Amazingly, the
Sabres did this with only half a season from
Peter Forsberg, who tore a muscle in January.
Forsberg is out for atleast the first round.
The
Islanders win the President’s trophy.
Sundin,
Jagr and
Bure are all great, but
Ray Bourque was ALL TIME. He sets a single season record for points by a defenseman with 124! His 98 assists are tied for the 4th most ever!
Ray Bourque should be this season’s Hart Trophy winner, but he’s not nominated.
The
LA Kings fall from the Cup finals, to 20 games under .500 and 5th place in the Pacific. That division looks like the
Oilers to control for a long time.
Edmonton sets a franchise record with 119 points.
Brett Hull misses out on another 70 goal season by two goals! He’s now got 592 goals, which has passed his father,
Bobby Hull, who retired with 589!
Pavel Bure scores 56 goals.
Jaromir Jagr gets 122 points, while
Mats Sundin had 118.
Markus Ketterer finishes the year with a 2.20 gaa, and a .894 SP.
Eric Lindros, playing with no one in
Anaheim, gets 52 points in 66 games.
Florida’s leading scorer is
Vitali Karamnov, who finishes the seasons with 48 points.
Edmonton’s breakout star,
Mikael Renberg, scores 53 times, and leads the team with 110 points.