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Alex DeBrincat is…. *reads notes* cool… …and….. *reads other side of first note* ….good.
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Eric the Mauve posted:I really like Ruhwedel for all the same reasons, but he's 33 and the next time he loses a half-step of speed he'll become useless overnight. (c.f. Dumoulin, Brian) I don't think they'd have lost much jettisoning him and keeping Friedman who IMO is a 5 years younger Ruhwedel pretty much. By no means am I saying they made the right player choice but the organizational calculus was "Ruhwedel is the consummate professional and Sullivan loves him" and they needed to move bodies and for whatever reason Friedman was the odd man out Maybe he was sour about being up and down the last season or something. Dubas obviously trusts his analytics team and that move is just not one that is fully explainable with a raw numbers analysis of what happened
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Oct 19, 2023 02:16
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Hell, Dubas and Sullivan could have just admitted to themselves that Harkins was a mistake--or better yet, admitted to the world that Carter was a mistake and release him--and dress 7 D until one of them inevitably gets hurt. Would have left the team no worse off. Obviously you're right that they have reasons that make sense to them (though I'm skeptical it goes any deeper than "old players good, young players bad" in Sullivan's case), but it's real annoying to watch them dump a useful player so as to keep several useless ones
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Oct 19, 2023 02:23
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Aphrodite posted:So is that just a change in type of locale, and smaller teams on site? Sounds like it. Don't care about the billion people onstage announcing each pick and giving the same preamble thanking everyone each time, but the idea of a team guy excitedly announcing their pick is more fun than Gary reading it. And it's neat watching guys walk down from the stands. If the draftees still show up and there's just one or two guys from each team as the pick reader/welcoming committee, that might be the best option.
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Oct 19, 2023 02:23
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Gonz posted:Alex DeBrincat is…. That’s cool because so far Kubalik suuuuuucks, and his role this year mostly seems to be blocking the Sens from signing Pinto. Luckily, Tarasenko is fantastic and seems to fit whatever the Sens have going better than DBC did.
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Oct 19, 2023 02:28
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Thank goodness for 2018 this would be unbearable without that miracle run
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Oct 19, 2023 02:50
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Tom Wilson is so slow now that he’s basically just Ryan Reaves, and his 7-year extension kicks in next season lol Josh Norris 2 goal game 
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Oct 19, 2023 03:31
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The Dirty Burger posted:Tom Wilson is so slow now that he’s basically just Ryan Reaves, and his 7-year extension kicks in next season lol who could have foreseen this
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Oct 19, 2023 03:38
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Guys it’s really tough being right all the time.
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Oct 19, 2023 03:39
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It's funny that Tom Wilson broke his body injuring people and now he's stuck in a role he physically and mentally can't keep up. He's a poo poo bird and he deserves it. Admittedly his punishment is a fat pile of money to get heckled by annoyed fans and maybe traded to Arizona at some point so it's not even that bad for him
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Oct 19, 2023 03:40
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Gonz posted:Alex DeBrincat is…. We're just four games into the season, so it's silly to get too excited about (flips the table) LEAGUE POINTS LEADER ALEX DEBRINCAT AND THE #1 POWER PLAY
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Oct 19, 2023 04:33
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Don't forget GAA leader James Reimer! We're sorry!
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Oct 19, 2023 04:45
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The Detroit Red Wings are unstoppable
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Oct 19, 2023 05:02
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Erik Karlsson scored a goal so... wahoo?
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Oct 19, 2023 06:07
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RIP to Dach - that's gotta suck being out for a season so early.
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Oct 19, 2023 10:05
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Diet Crack posted:RIP to Dach - that's gotta suck being out for a season so early. On the other hand: don't have to slog through this Habs season but still get paid
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Oct 19, 2023 12:18
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Dach has had the worst injury luck and is only 22. It's going to hamper his development.
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Oct 19, 2023 14:25
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Already looking at Celebrini videos.
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Oct 19, 2023 14:44
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ThinkTank posted:On the other hand: don't have to slog through this Habs season but still get paid Yeah but now he has to do something even worse, which is watch them play another 80 games.
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Oct 19, 2023 14:58
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Chad Sexington posted:Already looking at Celebrini videos. Can I interest you in 6'7 defenseman Anton Silayev who apparently came out of relative obscurity to pacing to break all kinds of U-18 and U-19 KHL defenseman records?
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Oct 19, 2023 15:25
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https://twitter.com/e_munson/status/1714820009489211682?s=46
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Oct 19, 2023 15:27
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Canadians did the insurrection?
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Oct 19, 2023 15:28
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Rejoice it's our favorite time of year - Rex bitches about Penguins bottom 6ers. JK Harkins sucks. Waive him into the sun. Carter is massively overpaid to not score though he's been fine on the 4th line. Dubas brain genius plan to have the bottom 6 never score or be scored on doesn't work when the Pens top 6 isn't as capable as hard carrying as Toronto's. Added the Letang has definitely moved past sliding to falling off the age regression cliff and welp not ideal. Jarry remains Jarry. Which is bad because he has not been near good enough since his playoff implosion....so rejoice Metro and NHL fans the Pens are back baby and they are exactly the same flawed shambling corpse they were last year. I will also add I think Sullivan isn't doing himself any favors by having the team play such insanely structured hockey when the talent at his disposable really lends itself to a more improv style. Bring back the gong show!
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Oct 19, 2023 16:04
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rex rabidorum vires posted:Rejoice it's our favorite time of year - Rex bitches about Penguins bottom 6ers. JK Harkins sucks. Waive him into the sun. Carter is massively overpaid to not score though he's been fine on the 4th line. Dubas brain genius plan to have the bottom 6 never score or be scored on doesn't work when the Pens top 6 isn't as capable as hard carrying as Toronto's. Added the Letang has definitely moved past sliding to falling off the age regression cliff and welp not ideal. Jarry remains Jarry. Which is bad because he has not been near good enough since his playoff implosion....so rejoice Metro and NHL fans the Pens are back baby and they are exactly the same flawed shambling corpse they were last year. I will also add I think Sullivan isn't doing himself any favors by having the team play such insanely structured hockey when the talent at his disposable really lends itself to a more improv style. Bring back the gong show! They look pretty much as we expected. They look like a team that will barely get in or barely miss. We hoped that EK and a revamped bottom six would propel them to greater heights than that but not looking likely so far. The lazy narrative if they struggle is going to be that they're old but the old players are actually playing quite well so far. It is - once again - the depth that is killing them.
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Oct 19, 2023 17:18
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to be fair I think it takes like 10-15 games for teams to kinda settle and you start getting enough data to see real trends
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Ginette Reno posted:They look pretty much as we expected. They look like a team that will barely get in or barely miss. We hoped that EK and a revamped bottom six would propel them to greater heights than that but not looking likely so far. If Kyle Dubas is good at anything, it’s adding depth players to a very expensive core 4 E: also remember when this dumbass took way less than market value to “keep the team together” when they paid Karlsson $11.5mil? lol https://twitter.com/jfreshhockey/status/1715043315056255127?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q The Dirty Burger fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Oct 19, 2023 |
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Oct 19, 2023 17:51
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He still ended up getting paid as dumb as him doing that was
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Looks like the Sharks walked it back and aren't waiving him.Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:He still ended up getting paid as dumb as him doing that was Turns out Labanc was more of a Cheechoo flash in the plan and rode Thornton's coattails in his last really productive year being a right hander with a nice shot. They also benefitted from playing on the third line while Pavelski/Hertl/Couture took the tougher assignments. He is a pretty good powerplay specialist (he had four points in that four goal major PP against VGK), so it doesn't make sense to me he can't crack a lineup that's giving Luke Kunin over 18 minutes a night. But he's a smaller forward who doesn't play the game the Right Way, so he's been in the doghouse for years now.
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Oct 19, 2023 18:53
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https://twitter.com/friedgehnic/status/1715066231751917685?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q 3-year contract lol
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The Dirty Burger posted:https://twitter.com/friedgehnic/status/1715066231751917685?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q Eh it can be fully buried in the minors. He would've always expected to split time between the NHL and AHL on that deal. It's effectively just a really expensive minor league deal.
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Oct 19, 2023 19:19
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Pens put Harkin on waivers. Is Dubas reading Rex posts?
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Allvin is currently being restrained by staff to stop him from putting a claim in on another former Pen.
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ThinkTank posted:Allvin is currently being restrained by staff to stop him from putting a claim in on another former Pen. Phil Kessel is available for the right amount of hot dogs
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https://x.com/PensInsideScoop/status/1715059347871457527?s=20 Time for EK to play 55 minutes a night?
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Oct 19, 2023 21:58
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Guess they'll be calling Friedman up then oh wait poo poo
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In Dubas' defense who would have imagined that Kris Letang would get injured??
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Mr. Fish posted:Pens put Harkin on waivers. Is Dubas reading Rex posts? Unless you have the 'Actually Jack Johnson is good' level spreadsheet he has been the worst statistical Penguin all year and there are already 2 players in WBS with way better career NHL numbers anyways. Why they decided to claim ZAR but with even worse offensive output to play on the 3rd line I don't know. Tanger being hurt is bad, but he's also been really bad. That said uhhhh Pens RD depth is exceedingly bad. So hooray.
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rex rabidorum vires posted:Unless you have the 'Actually Jack Johnson is good' level spreadsheet he has been the worst statistical Penguin all year and there are already 2 players in WBS with way better career NHL numbers anyways. Why they decided to claim ZAR but with even worse offensive output to play on the 3rd line I don't know. Giving away their perfectly cromulent 4th RD instead of just waiving Harkins 2 days ago makes so much sense let me tell you. poo poo like this was Dubas' weakness in Toronto too. He just doesn't have any grasp at all for how to fill out the bottom half of a roster.
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I think it's more Dubas wants to fill the bottom 6 with players that have 'jam' and just don't get scored on....which might work if the top 6 is so dominant that it doesn't matter they don't score. Of course in Pittsburgh that is no longer the case. Anyways hope you're excited for uh Xaiver Oulett or Jack St. Ivy? Ugh.
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