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I'm sure adding another no finish player will turn it around for the Pens. At least he was a bonafide NHL player unlike the dross they've been trotting out for the last 2+ weeks. I'm sure Jansen Harkins will be chipping in with points any day now...... Anyways Pens have hit the iceberg and the compartments are all filling. Just shuffle those deck chairs and can someone strike up the band. We're going to the bottom baby.
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Matt Zerella posted:Im going to Rangers Kings tomorrow night, really not looking forward to it after what I saw tonight, holy crap. Igor looks broken, no one’s helping him, Fox is invisible and I’m really starting to hate Zibanejad. Eric the Mauve posted:Do you appreciate that you sound exactly like PAS all those years, man oh man let me tell you all about how much I hate my team that's 7 points clear in first place Let the passing of the torch officially commence.
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T-Bone posted:how do the Caps keep winning The only graphic you need to look at when asking “how is [x] team doing this?” https://x.com/JFreshHockey/status/1733881109908209958?s=20 Similarly, if you ever find yourself asking “what’s going on with [x] team?” the bad GSaX graphic is in the replies.
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rex rabidorum vires posted:I'm sure adding another no finish player will turn it around for the Pens. At least he was a bonafide NHL player unlike the dross they've been trotting out for the last 2+ weeks. I'm sure Jansen Harkins will be chipping in with points any day now...... It's hilarious that the Pens will try literally anything except fire their coaching staff.
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Nick Cousins ran Erik Gudbanson and initially got a five which was reduced to a two minute minor. https://twitter.com/spittinchiclets/status/1733939233897816567?t=o4o6ZTTRN_mNgfDiFD7R-w&s=19 Gudbranson is now advertising he's gonna deliver extreme justice next shift. Great job, NHL.  https://twitter.com/Aportzline/status/1733938616605261976?t=dETWuuRTYdFA7DC0W56whQ&s=19 E- And Gudbranson just got revenge and it looked like Claude Lemieux and Darren McCarty. https://twitter.com/mark_scheig/status/1733942764985872666?t=s6h5hlfsrknwG72M9qNJSw&s=19 Just outstanding on the part of NHL officiating. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:Nick Cousins ran Erik Gudbanson and initially got a five which was reduced to a two minute minor. Instead of suspending Gudbranson, the punishment should be the blue jackets being required to play him 30 mins a game for 5 games.
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all that effort and violence over a hit gudbranson isn't even going to remember smh suspend em both
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The biggest rear end in a top hat in all that is Gaudreau imo Everyone else followed The Code.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:You know what:
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I swear, for a good offensive team, no one gets goalied by career AHL backups more than the Devils do.
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mcmagic posted:I swear, for a good offensive team, no one gets goalied by career AHL backups more than the Devils do. I guess you haven’t watched a ton of Leafs games the last few years
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https://x.com/mikecommito/status/1734021294310523369?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q Wonder how common this poo poo is, sup Matt Murray
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Ovi snakebitten (To add actual content I do think this is a coaching issue for the most part)
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The Dirty Burger posted:https://x.com/mikecommito/status/1734021294310523369?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q ltir cheating is extremely common. Vegas and Tampa both won cups using it I'm surprised that teams don't complain about this but I guess they probably all want to use it for themselves. And I'm certain that - given the chance - 100% of the franchises in the league would do it
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The Dirty Burger posted:Wonder how common this poo poo is, sup Matt Murray Matt Murray literally had major hip surgery, he’s not hiding out in a cabin somewhere. How is he somehow a poster boy for dodging the cap with LTIR when the league has had stuff like “oh, Marian Hossa suddenly can’t wear equipment anymore”
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PA ain't gonna say poo poo because it's the difference between getting your full contract paid out or settling for a buyout at 2/3rds And teams aren't gonna say poo poo because LTIRetirement is better than the lovely current system. If they just agreed to honor contracts after retirement but not count them against the cap they wouldn't have to get cutesy and they could work around mid season shenanigans at the same time
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MoaM posted:4th in the Pacific Division And somehow 23rd in the league
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That story isn’t even that shady, health is a spectrum and most professional athletes develop some sort of permanent damage/injury through their career. The choice to play through it, get major invasive surgery, or retire comes down to preference and context. In Tootoo’s case he did have a bad shoulder, told the club and they confirmed it through MRI. Sure he had been managing it, and could have decided to keep playing, but no doctor is going to support forcing someone with any kind of damage to keep going so it’s easy to get a diagnosis if a player wants one. Doesn’t mean he’s lying about his health, just means that what the public thinks of as healthy vs. injured is not actually binary in the real world.
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Ginette Reno posted:ltir cheating is extremely common. Vegas and Tampa both won cups using it Tampa did complain. Then the league did nothing, so they did it themselves. Which obviously makes them doubly as bad.
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Jonny Nox posted:And somehow 23rd in the league 20th by points percentage!!!
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Jonny Nox posted:And somehow 23rd in the league Irrelevant. All we need is Arizona / LA to have a bad stretch.
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Sat next to a Kings fan at the game tonight. He had an original lakers colorway Kings jersey with the fancy crown (Marcel Dionne on the back). That’s an A+ sweater.
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The Dirty Burger posted:https://x.com/mikecommito/status/1734021294310523369?s=46&t=2hVb1vPytx9OUpdE0UPz6Q It's the Blackhawks's organization hypocrisy that's the worst
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Matt Zerella posted:Im going to Rangers Kings tomorrow night, really not looking forward to it after what I saw tonight, holy crap. Igor looks broken, no one’s helping him, Fox is invisible and I’m really starting to hate Zibanejad. You worry too much
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WeaponX posted:You worry too much Eh that was a pretty terrible week for them. Hopefully the defensive effort I saw last night continues.
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HookShot posted:Ovi snakebitten Yeah. He's still leading the team in points. His shooting % is crazy low (5.6% against a career 12.8%) and his shooting rate is down too. He seems to defer to Strome a good bit at 5v5 who has scored a bunch. It's mostly that their powerplay is literal last in the league dogshit garbage. Yes, PAS, even worse than yours.
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Matt Zerella posted:Sat next to a Kings fan at the game tonight. He had an original lakers colorway Kings jersey with the fancy crown (Marcel Dionne on the back). That’s an A+ sweater. Kings sweaters are some of the best in the league. They’ve got a real deep bench (closet?)
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https://twitter.com/NHLPlayerSafety/status/1734039216848339385?t=edzBJ65KZWLli6f0FSTi_Q&s=19 Now do Cousins.
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My dilemma is that destroying the brains of either Cousins or Gudbranson should be legal, but I still wish to also see them punished.
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Surely LTIR cheating is only when you IR a person for the season and then bring them back the moment the postseason starts and the cap stops, a la Stone and Kucherov? Robidas island is broadly fine and serves to ensure people get paid as the poster above says
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/NHLPlayerSafety/status/1734039216848339385?t=edzBJ65KZWLli6f0FSTi_Q&s=19 Watching it again, Cousins turtling after deciding to smash him from behind must have been so infuriating lol can understand why he went ballistic Refs could have easily solved it by handing out 5 and a game for the hit but oops
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tarbrush posted:Surely LTIR cheating is only when you IR a person for the season and then bring them back the moment the postseason starts and the cap stops, a la Stone and Kucherov? I think the problem with changing it is that this way keeps players able to come back on the same contract if they decide they do feel good enough to leave the island. I can’t think of a way to punish the LTIR cheating while keeping Robidas island a potential two way road either.
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Koopa Kid posted:Doesn’t mean he’s lying about his health, just means that what the public thinks of as healthy vs. injured is not actually binary in the real world. Yeah, I'm pretty sure any top tier pro athlete could go into any normal doctors office to get a physical and the doc would find some sort of knee/elbow/shoulder damage where they'd sign off on at the very least reduced physical activity or rehab if not outright telling them to stop using that part if they are using regular patient standards. No lies or even embellishments needed, just to get to the NHL level, dudes are pushing their bodies beyond what it's supposed to handle.
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Jhet posted:I think the problem with changing it is that this way keeps players able to come back on the same contract if they decide they do feel good enough to leave the island. I can’t think of a way to punish the LTIR cheating while keeping Robidas island a potential two way road either. They can just make the cap still count in the playoffs if they want to prevent that.
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Matt Zerella posted:Eh that was a pretty terrible week for them. Hopefully the defensive effort I saw last night continues. Were always due for a “rough” stretch, maybe needed some losses like that to get their heads straight about defense
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Levitate posted:Were always due for a “rough” stretch, maybe needed some losses like that to get their heads straight about defense That will come in the playoffs.
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Chad Sexington posted:Yeah. He's still leading the team in points. His shooting % is crazy low (5.6% against a career 12.8%) and his shooting rate is down too. He seems to defer to Strome a good bit at 5v5 who has scored a bunch. It feels like the Caps PP wants the theoretically high-danger chances you get from stacking 3 guys in the royal road and ping-pong passes out from behind the net, but they're not using any movement to clear out coverage there so everything just gets clogged up. There may not be any movement because the system isn't asking for it or maybe everyone but Strome is too old and slow to do it, but either way you'd think just going back to trying to feed cross-ice passes to Ovie is the better option both for the PP and for his attempt at the record - win-win. Just seems like a bizarre choice to keep banging what's not working at all. They probably want to get it going sooner than later, too, because Ovie can still pass and shoot as well as anyone, but he has cement skates and is slow as hell to react to loose pucks so he's probably not gonna go on a long heater at 5-on-5 to bring up those numbers.
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