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Jfresh posted: "Did not have them pegged for powerplay merchant" Uh... The gently caress did you think was going to be the case?
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Diet Crack posted:Jfresh posted: "Did not have them pegged for powerplay merchant" the PRIMA Strategy Guide hosed it up. they have them listed as mostly an herbs and potions merchant
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https://theathletic.com/5018550/2023/10/31/paul-stastny-nhl-retirement/?source=user_shared_article LeBrun: Why Paul Stastny has decided to call it a career and what comes next Stastny and his wife and two kids, aged 8 and 6, are currently at their home in Summerlin, Nevada, a place they kept from their time in Vegas, but the plan is to eventually move back to St. Louis. A smart man.
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Duckman2008 posted:https://theathletic.com/5018550/2023/10/31/paul-stastny-nhl-retirement/?source=user_shared_article LeBrun: Why Paul Stastny has decided to call it a career and what comes next Wasn't Stastny one of the convoy/Maga-Dudes in the winnipeg locker room.
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Diet Crack posted:Jfresh posted: "Did not have them pegged for powerplay merchant"
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Diet Crack posted:I just saw the video of that Johnson incident, how the gently caress is that not an intentional kick? No. That Bedard goal was sick and he's the only sports excitement in this city
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https://twitter.com/capitals/status/1719723592366088699 I'll be a lot more sad if he's looked so bad this year because he's still in pain and the surgery didn't end up working for him, so I hope they're using the underlying injury as cover for coming to terms with just being too slow to play anymore.
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I'm glad he's finally retiring. It was really painful and sad watching him skate gingerly around way off the pace  e: at least I assume and I hope he will retire, he did not actually say so in the release
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I believe Carl Hagelin and Patrick Kane had the same type of hip surgery that Backstrom did, and they’re all around 35. Backstrom tried to come back but couldn’t skate at NHL speed, Hagelin retired, we’ll see which dumbass GM signs Kaner
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Spring Break My Heart posted:The Devils? Why would you expect that? They had the best even strength offense and an average powerplay with below average opportunities last year and none of the changes they've made should move the needle in the other direction I dunno I think you could have predicted Toffoli replacing Tatar would be an upgrade. I mean he's not gonna score 6 goals every week but having another finisher on the PP is balancing it nicely
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The Dirty Burger posted:Obviously if Pierre lied to McCrimmon about Dadonov not having a NTC that’s greasy as hell and deserves punishment, but it’s funny to me that his contract was publicly available on capfriendly and the trade still went through. Feels like hfboards posters put more research into these trades than the GM of a pro sports team Everyone knew he had a modified NTC, the problem is the modified bit which isn't public. So everyone knew he has a list of x teams he can't be traded to but not which teams. I don't remember if the process was player/agent sends list to the team and the team is supposed to keep it confidential and and not gently caress around or if they are supposed to forward the list to the league. I think they changed it to agent sends it to both the team and the league after this mess. The accusation, which is probably true since the trade didn't go through, was that the Sens either lied and said they didn't get a list from Dadonov or were incompetent and lost it. Either way, when the league/Vegas looked/asked for a list Ottawa said "it's cool. there's no list". And Vegas can't ask the agent directly since that's tampering (and I'm guessing Ottawa would not give permission in this case). There's even reasonable reasons for wanting to do it that way. If the team doesn't try to trade a guy it never comes up and there's no real upside in making deatils officially accessible since it just leads to stories like "90% of people with M-NTC/NMCs have X team on their list (the other 10% are on X)". And dumbass baby fans who go after players for having their team on their list. So the pros would be a little privacy for the player while the con is that a team can try to screw around, but no team would be stupid enough to gently caress around with something that is easily verifiable by the player, right? Not sure why there'd be a delay other than maybe they found some evidence of intentional deceit on the Sens part rather than incompetence? Like if the original investigation was something like Dorion saying he personally didn't know Vegas was banned and that they fired the AGM that M-NTCs get run through, the league might have accepted the firings of some scapegoats because they didn't have enough hard evidence to counter plausible deniability. I wonder what could be damning enough to reopening the books but not obvious enough that it didn't come out instantly. Like it can't be something super clear cut like a signed, notarized letter from Dorion to the agent confirming he got the list and promising not to trade him to Vegas.
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Eric the Mauve posted:I'm glad he's finally retiring. It was really painful and sad watching him skate gingerly around way off the pace It’s probably better for him financially to not formally retire till the offseason to keep getting a gamecheck or something. I don’t know how it works. I was ready to healthy scratch him each game the rest of the season, sounds like Carberry was too. He’ll probably formally retire this offseason though.
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Its November 1st and all but 1 team (San Jose 1 point lol) is within 4 points of the playoffs. So Eliotte Friedman can claim that his 4 point range still works for making the playoffs. It'll be 100% this year!!!
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It's intuitively obvious to anyone who cares and has a functional brain which teams are on a player's limited no-trade list. Like if a guy has a 12-team no trade, it's going to include the current sad-sack franchises that have lots of cap space (Arizona, Anaheim, San Jose, Ottawa, Columbus), the cities no one wants to live in (Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary), both (Buffalo). That's 9 that are on pretty much everyone's no-trade list right now. The other 3 can be player specific depending on whatever the hell he wants to prioritize. But mostly what every player prioritizes is making it as difficult as possible to trade him. Being traded sucks. But if you're a Winnipeg fan and don't realize your team's on every no-trade list then you're too delusional for help. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Nov 1, 2023 |
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The thing I noticed with Backstrom is that the skill is still there, but he clearly just couldn't skate and move like he wanted to. That's gotta be frustrating for a world-class athlete.
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glynnenstein posted:https://twitter.com/capitals/status/1719723592366088699 It does sound like a not-retirement retirement. End of an era. Nicky B was my favorite Cap. With Dowd out we might get to see both McMichael and Lapierre get looks at center. Not sure either one has a ceiling much higher than Top 9 tweener, but I guess we'll finally see.
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Also McAvoy got 4 games which seems about right based on the other suspensions this year compared to what he did
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Eric the Mauve posted:It's intuitively obvious to anyone who cares and has a functional brain which teams are on a player's limited no-trade list. Like if a guy has a 12-team no trade, it's going to include the current sad-sack franchises that have lots of cap space (Arizona, Anaheim, San Jose, Ottawa, Columbus), the cities no one wants to live in, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary), both (Buffalo). That's 9 that are on pretty much everyone's no-trade list right now. The other 3 can be player specific depending on whatever the hell he wants to prioritize. But mostly what every player prioritizes is making it as difficult as possible to trade him. Being traded sucks. I object to Ottawa on this post It should be in both with Buffalo. Signed someone who lives in Ottawa
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Eric the Mauve posted:It's intuitively obvious to anyone who cares and has a functional brain which teams are on a player's limited no-trade list. Like if a guy has a 12-team no trade, it's going to include the current sad-sack franchises that have lots of cap space (Arizona, Anaheim, San Jose, Ottawa, Columbus), the cities no one wants to live in, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary), both (Buffalo). That's 9 that are on pretty much everyone's no-trade list right now. The other 3 can be player specific depending on whatever the hell he wants to prioritize. But mostly what every player prioritizes is making it as difficult as possible to trade him. Being traded sucks. I think that actually there's alot of strategy that goes into the no trade list.. if you are a good player with term remaining on your contract you can leave off the worst teams San Jose or Chicago because you can safely assume that they would have no reason to ever trade for you this season. In the olden days you could also leave off your division rivals even if you didn't want to go there because teams wouldn't trade good players inside their own division but I don't know if that's as much of a thing anymore.. anyway with some good strategic use of the 10 team no trade list players can usually narrow down the field of potential trade destinations to only a couple actually viable options. But yeah most players having Edmonton / Calgary / Winnipeg on their list goes pretty much without saying, no matter what the quality of those rosters actually is.
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https://twitter.com/sportsnet/status/1719734873148043282?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q If there’s a garbage product harmful to society to make sponsorship money off of, this motherfucker is all over it The Dirty Burger fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Nov 1, 2023 |
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I'm not convinced Edmonton is even on all that many no-trade lists anymore. Like yeah it's probably not the most fun place to live but they look like a team with a very real chance to win the Cup, and who wouldn't want to play with Connor or Leon?
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Jamwad Hilder posted:I'm not convinced Edmonton is even on all that many no-trade lists anymore. Like yeah it's probably not the most fun place to live but they look like a team with a very real chance to win the Cup, and who wouldn't want to play with Connor or Leon? Spoken like someone who's never spent more than a few days in Edmonton
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The Dirty Burger posted:https://twitter.com/sportsnet/status/1719734873148043282?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q To be fair this Prime Sports drink is probably on the balance of things less harmful to society in general and the consumers in particular than sports gambling is.
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Backstrom seemed like an alright dude on the ice and I liked watching him despite his being a capital Fare ye well
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Prime is illegal in Canada. Edit: Oh they make a Canada compliant one now.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(drink)Prime Drink Wiki posted:Gordon Ramsay reviewed the drink on Heart radio, describing it as "like swallowing perfume", and giving it 0/10.
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Starsfan posted:To be fair this Prime Sports drink is probably on the balance of things less harmful to society in general and the consumers in particular than sports gambling is. lol if you think the two chuds behind PRIME aren't involved in the latter. Just another reason to discredit the Leafs as totally irrelevant in everything
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ok so maybe it is more harmful to the consumer than gambling is, but on a societal level I maintain that gambling is still the bigger evil.. probably **ok this paragraph from the Wikipedia article is particularly funny to me for a reason I can't quite place my finger on quote:In July 2022, Premier League club Arsenal announced a joint marketing agreement with the company, with Prime becoming the official sports drink supplier for the club.[24] In 2023, KSI had plans to make an Arsenal-flavored bottle if they were to win the Premier League.[25] However, after a loss to Nottingham Forest, which led to rivals Manchester City winning the Premier League, the flavor was shelved and plans were cancelled.[26] Starsfan fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Nov 1, 2023 |
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I don't know... Logan Paul is a pretty big stain on society
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I thought Auston Matthews wanted me to drink milk?
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Spelling Mitsake posted:I thought Auston Matthews wanted me to drink milk? I know, I wish he'd make up his mind. Gross liquid that comes from cows or gross liquid that will give me a heart attack. Just pick one.
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This summer at the beach I saw a father purchase his ~8-10 year old sons Primes and I did the surprised Pikachu face. I really don't think a balding NHL star from Arizona is moving the needle much for that demo though.
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What a loving pathetic league. Taking away a first for that poo poo but letting Chicago keep theirs is just inexcusable.
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https://twitter.com/vgk_pr/status/1719755135809884308?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q Apparently McPhee/McCrimmon were pushing for this really hard. The Mark Stone trade and winning the cup weren’t enough  Ruthless org lol
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Bettman read The Giver and understands the importance of precision of language above all else.
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