The season started last night and the Blackhawks started today with a shootout loss to the Panthers in Helsinki.

My prediction this season is a Calgary/Philadelphia Stanley cup final with Philly winning the cup.

I noticed there were games in Helsinki and Stockholm.

Blueshirts drop to the Pens 3-2 in the opener in Pittsburgh. Home game tonight at 00:00 BST against Ottawa at the garden. Then on Monday another season long rivalry with the Devils begins in Jersey.

Come on Bruins

My money is on Detriot. Although I'm a Calgary fan, so hoping they can win it

Chicago bounced back from the SO loss yesterday to beat the Panthers 4-0 with Niemi getting the shutout.

I decided to sign up for the NHL centre ice package on ESPN360-£70 for the full season,as the chap in the Aviva add says.......Bargain!!!

Go Leafs Go, lost to Montreal with 13 seconds left in OT on opening night, playing Washington tonight

btw, seeing as Hockey Season just started, a bit of Canadian Culture for you all www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD5pctWl ... re=related

btw, seeing as Hockey Season just started, a bit of Canadian Culture for you all www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD5pctWl ... re=related

Could do with a win against Tampa Bay tonight, not the best of starts for Carolina so far.

I wouldn't be too worried as you've played 2 of the best teams in the league in Boston and Philly.

Suppose, but a 7-2 loss to Boston last week doesn't scream "good start".

Good 3-2 win for the Blueshirts over the Devils. 2-1 record at the moment and another road game coming up on Thursday, against the Caps at the Phone Booth.

Great game last night between the Caps/Flyers with Flyers winning in ot.My prediction of Flyers/Flames cup final looking good so far.

Hawks trade D man Aaron Johnson to the Flames for left winger Kyle Greentree.

Big game for the Hawks tonight against the so far winless Wings, hope the Hawks can inflict a little more misery on the Wings in Hockeytown for their home opener. Be good to be 5pts in front of the Wings this early in the season.

Think this season will be an interesting one. In the Eastern Philly for sure will go well but still think they'll choke towards the play offs. Still think the Bruins will come on strong and will have learnt from their exit last season, the Habs also look to be a threat.

As for the Western hopefully as a Hawks fan we will yet again move forward and build on another improved season. Flames will agin prove a strong contender along with the Wings who you can never discount. Think there may be some big suprises this season in both conferences.

Make sure you win, Chris.

Love to see the Wings remain winless. lol.

Another night and another defeat for the leafs. After looking pretty good in preseason, we now look as bad as ever and no nearer to getting involved in aplayoff race.

Toskala is giving us problems between the pipes and looks dodgey and the PK was terrible last night.

Bruins beat Islanders 4-3 in a SO

Could the nordiques make a return to the NHL? It was mentioned on HNIC last night and mentioned here www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=294409 Would not be a bad thing imo to eventually have more teams in Canada. If I was BettmanI would be looking at Phoinex, Atlanta and possibly the preds as the teams to move.

Could the nordiques make a return to the NHL? It was mentioned on HNIC last night and mentioned here www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=294409 Would not be a bad thing imo to eventually have more teams in Canada. If I was BettmanI would be looking at Phoinex, Atlanta and possibly the preds as the teams to move.

It's looking like it's going to be a loooooooong season

Hawks make history with one of the biggest come back wins in NHL history against the Flames.

5-0 down halfway through the 1st period the Hawks rallied to take the game to overtime, then score the game winner 26 seconds in to OT.

Wouldn't fancy being a Flames player after that

As I have a soft spot for the blackhawks I'm looking forward to seeing the highlights on NHL on the fly later. However, I'll have to leave the room when it gets to the leafs LOWlights from another terrible performance.

Even though I'm a Hawks fan the Leafs are a team I follow with interest. I think its going to be a very very very long season for the Leafs. You only have to look at their roster to see how weak it is, with no real stand out players and with only Toskala & Gustavsson in between the pipes goaltending isn't great either.

For me the Leafs no longer have a core of players who gave their all for the team like Tucker, Corson, Roberts, Domi etc even McCabe and each season they have fallen further behind as each player left, plus they haven't recovered from Sundin going or replaced him.

Ron Wilson needs to do some big rebuilding and try to trade but apart from Kaberle, Stajan & Kessel the rest of the roster is very poor.

Another win for the Blueshirts. This time, a 7-2 battering of Toronto.



Not doing too bad at the moment. 5-1 and Tortorella has got them playing some good hockey. Made up for Stephen Valiquette the other night. First start for quite a while and he produces a shutout against Anahiem

Not looking forward to Penguins (5-1) @ Carolina (2-3) tonight if our form is anything to go by.