Nieuwendyk disses the Kings
 

Here's a funny quote from Nieuwendyk -

"To me, that L.A. team is nothing fancy," said Joe Nieuwendyk, whose goal ruined Garon's shutout 8 minutes 48 seconds into the third period. "That's a team we should beat."

Funny....considering Florida looked HORRIBLE out there (and their overall record proves it). Looks like Joe's going senile in his old age. Luckily he got a lucky bounce or we walk out of there celebrating a shutout. Roberts was the only FLA player who looked like he has a pulse.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/hockey...nes-sports-nhl

Nothing like taking verbal shots at a team right after they owned your team.:help:

Great. Now that someone has brought this topic up, I can break out this gem of a retort: Well, if the Kings are nothing fancy, I guess that makes the Panthers just plain nothing.

Your move, Joe...your move....

:)

Florida should be beating a lot more teams. They only won 1 game in November. Maybe Joe should shut his mouth since his team can't play with the big boys.

He and JR have the same PR representation apparently.

so what is the deal with that team? their roster doesn't look that bad.

Yeah, I saw that as well.

Maybe Dr. Keenan needs to up Joe's meds in the Florida Panthers retirement home. You know to keep him from going senile again and making comments like that.

Stumpel

Obviously Joe knew that this was the last time he would have to play against the Kings (barring a rematch in the finals). So he felt secure in making the statement knowing there would be no repercussion. The guy has alot of chutzpah!:D

'Nuff said.

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There's nothing wrong with what Joe said. Apparently, some Kings fans still think it's November. Teams with an atrocious 27th-ranked powerplay that have only one scoring line and haven't scored more than 2 goals in 6 games should be beatable by most teams. Of course, I'm not referring the Panthers; that's the Kings right now. The way the Kings have been playing, even the lowliest teams could beat them. If you were a Panthers fan, you'd consider the Kings a team you should beat at the moment, too. IMO, it's just slightly pathetic to call Joe way out of line and knock the Panthers with the way the Kings are playing. If the Kings want to be a team that is feared and respected again, they'll have to play a whole lot better because, right now, they aren't scaring anybody. Joe's quote should be a wake-up call to that fact.

Wait a minute... are you me?

I don't know about that. As bad as they've been playing, seems like the Panthers are worse. If they'd lost that game, the Kings could easily have been saying "that's a game we should have one." It's not like the Panthers are a clear-cut better team than the Kings. And the Kings've got a win column that doubles theirs to back it up. You can say that they were better in November, but it doesn't change the fact that the Kings won 18 games and the Panthers have only won 9. Even if you say that their play has declined lately, I'm pretty sure the Panthers have been playing like that pretty much all year(though I admit, I haven't seen a lot of them). They've done nothing to warrant a claim theat they should beat the Kings.

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Exactly.

Joe wanted me to tell you that he can't hear what you are saying because he has 2 of his Stanley Cup Rings plugging his ears.

...and Leon Spinks was the heavy weight champeen...for a few weeks...

I'm glad he has those rings. I imagine that having a couple of reminders that he used to part of a successful team are of great solace to him in the dressing room after all those games that the Panthers should have won.