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I recently started watching hockey again, after a break of 10+ years. Signed up for NHL.tv and have been binge watching games. So many new names to learn. I was surprised to see that a German won MVP a couple for years ago. It’s a brave new world.
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Who is Jimmy Murphy and why is he trying to defend Pierre Mcguire from me? https://twitter.com/MurphysLaw74/status/1775927759987982582
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Jimmy Murphy is the co-host of Pierre's podcast, and therefore a completely unbiased source.
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Woof, riding copilot for Pierre. That's rough, man.
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Jack's Flow posted:I recently started watching hockey again, after a break of 10+ years. Signed up for NHL.tv and have been binge watching games. So many new names to learn. I was surprised to see that a German won MVP a couple for years ago. It’s a brave new world. Honestly if you're just coming back to hockey after a long break I'd recommend the PWHL over the NHL
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Eric the Mauve posted:Honestly if you're just coming back to hockey after a long break I'd recommend the PWHL over the NHL I think the PWHL is cool too but the NHL is better than it's ever been and currently a much better product than the PWHL. If you haven't watched NHL hockey in 10+ years there's a good chance you haven't seen a single minute of Connor McDavid or Auston Matthews' careers, among numerous others. There's more talent than ever, scoring is up, the goon poo poo is dying out. It is a great time for a casual fan to get back into hockey.
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Does anyone know this Collin Graf guy the Sharks just signed?
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Eric the Mauve posted:Honestly if you're just coming back to hockey after a long break I'd recommend the PWHL over the NHL Yeah no. I mean the NHL is horrible and prolly shouldn’t be supported in a moral sense but the actual play has been great.
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Habibi posted:Does anyone know this Collin Graf guy the Sharks just signed? He's a pretty good college player for a very good but maybe not elite program, which generally means bottom six NHLer or top line for your AHL team. A lot of prospects guys think he has some more upside though, maybe a middle six forward. A big reason he went undrafted is he was like 5'9 in his draft year, and he's 6'1 now and he scores more than you typically see from undrafted NCAA free agents.
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WeaponX posted:Yeah no. I mean the NHL is horrible and prolly shouldn’t be supported in a moral sense but the actual play has been great. The actual play in the PWHL has been great too, without the play-to-injure bullshit and the icky feeling of tacitly supporting rape by supporting the NHL. Don't get me wrong, I'm addicted to the NHL too, but I don't feel great about it.
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WeaponX posted:Yeah no. I mean the NHL is horrible and prolly shouldn’t be supported in a moral sense but the actual play has been great. You gotta cut Eric some slack he's used to watching the Penguins
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hockey is awesome and watching it doesn't mean you support rape or whatever lol (unless you're a blackhawks fan 🖕🖕🖕). not like you're talking about youth hockey hazing being awesome or w/e other freak poo poo.
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Buddy I am way too busy tacitly supporting 3 or 4 different genocides to have this discussion
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It is uncomfortable wondering if the demons from the Bad Place didn't kind of have a point.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:the goon poo poo is dying out. Agree with everything else, though. Thumbs up.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:I think the PWHL is cool too but the NHL is better than it's ever been and currently a much better product than the PWHL. If you haven't watched NHL hockey in 10+ years there's a good chance you haven't seen a single minute of Connor McDavid or Auston Matthews' careers, among numerous others. There's more talent than ever, scoring is up, the goon poo poo is dying out. It is a great time for a casual fan to get back into hockey. clearly not after that stupid loving display last night
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Women's hockey has its share of abuse scandals too, that's how you know its hit the mainstream
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mcmagic posted:clearly not after that stupid loving display last night Yes, because one game with some goon poo poo means the other 79 games this year where the Rangers and Devils didn't play each other are invalidated. Let's remember that Travis Green has to put his lineup in first. May as well just take the standings after everyone's first game and leave it at that too.
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Jhet posted:Yes, because one game with some goon poo poo means the other 79 games this year where the Rangers and Devils didn't play each other are invalidated. Let's remember that Travis Green has to put his lineup in first. I'm not defending the Devils. Any time they tried to do goon poo poo (including trading for macdermid) they made themselves look like total asshats.
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Avs vs Wild tonight! https://x.com/conormcgahey/status/1775933890211008799
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Eric the Mauve posted:Honestly if you're just coming back to hockey after a long break I'd recommend the PWHL over the NHL now that my team that has been dominate for decades is starting to be less dominate I think people should stop watching
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Nice
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Jack's Flow posted:I recently started watching hockey again, after a break of 10+ years. Signed up for NHL.tv and have been binge watching games. So many new names to learn. I was surprised to see that a German won MVP a couple for years ago. It’s a brave new world. Welcome back! not sure what else has been posted in this thread about what you should catch up on, but the New York Rangers have this new guy called Matt Rempe who's basically that one scene of Joe Pesci in Casino where he tells that fat banker guy that his (Pesci's) business is being a psycho who's too dumb to give a gently caress about going to jail. He's been lighting guys up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH2LTamuXuA (shouldn't have been a penalty) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnx7iP4bKmo and getting the poo poo kicked out of him mostly in fights. Since you've last watched, there's been a general trend of guys not knowing how to defend themselves from hits, so when a uncoordinated gleeful moron like Rempe gets in the league, it's extremely anxiety-inducing to watch him take big flailing idiot runs at the other team. We really like him in New York. He's gotten the Toronto coach to cry like a week after that same coach was calling for the game to be more violent, the Devils to literally trade for a goon and start a line brawl (happened last night, was very funny), and ejected from multiple games. He's a real throwback. He's not the most dangerous hitter in the NHL, that still belongs to Ivan Barbashev on Vegas, but for some reason guys aren't nearly as scared of Barbashev as they should be. I'd be terrified of him, the guy looks like he's made of steel. Oh yeah, there's a team in Vegas now and they cheat the salary cap incredibly obviously but don't get punished for it. All of their guys are like 6'3" and they might win the Cup again this year. They are probably going to play the Oilers in the first round and be favorites and probably beat them, which means another likely early playoff exit for Connor McDavid, who is the best player since Mario Lemieux. This will be tragic for those of us with no dog in the hunt who simply like Connor, but the posters "mennoknight" and "Misanthrope" (and probably many other Canadians) on these forums will probably have a 3-day bender from happiness.
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Is there a PWHL thread? I want to get into it but I have no idea which team to root for because there's nothing out west. Hearing about the different players might endear me to one. Currently leaning toward Minnesota just because they have a purple jersey ![]()
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Tagra posted:Is there a PWHL thread? I want to get into it but I have no idea which team to root for because there's nothing out west. Hearing about the different players might endear me to one. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4050897 And you should follow Minnesota because of the purple jersey and because 13 of them are from the state and even more went to play college hockey there.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:Welcome back! not sure what else has been posted in this thread about what you should catch up on, but the New York Rangers have this new guy called Matt Rempe who's basically that one scene of Joe Pesci in Casino where he tells that fat banker guy that his (Pesci's) business is being a psycho who's too dumb to give a gently caress about going to jail. He's been lighting guys up: also fyi Connor McDavid is a weird robot with no charisma or personality who lives in a perfect geometric cube but he has a cool dog name Leonard or Lenny that he considers his son so he's not all bad.
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Starsfan posted:also fyi Connor McDavid is a weird robot with no charisma or personality who lives in a perfect geometric cube but he has a cool dog name Leonard or Lenny that he considers his son so he's not all bad. it's LENARD and it's fuckin stupid
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loving Lenard
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HOLY gently caress posted:Avs vs Wild tonight! Does MAF get VIP parking in the areana? Can't say he doesn't deserve it.
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Crosby vs Ovechkin and both players are still good? Some things never change. Been watching McDavid highlights and it’s impressive how easy he makes the game look. So many ridiculous moves, passes and goals. Another dude who is amazing in highlight clips is Cale Makar. Will need to watch more Colorado games.
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I don't usually give much of a poo poo about the art ross trophy but it's a fun race this year
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I don't usually give much of a poo poo about the art ross trophy but it's a fun race this year it's the first time it's really been in contention for like 6-7 years at this point but it really is quite a drat show with those top 3
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The Pens are gonna inexplicably make the playoffs and it's gonna rule
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Caps picked a great time to turn back into poo poo.
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The only reason that any of DET, PHI, WAS, NYI, PIT are going to make the playoffs is because all of them cannot miss it.
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Fifty Three posted:The Pens are gonna inexplicably make the playoffs and it's gonna rule Lol yeah it does.
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Jack's Flow posted:I recently started watching hockey again, after a break of 10+ years. Signed up for NHL.tv and have been binge watching games. So many new names to learn. I was surprised to see that a German won MVP a couple for years ago. It’s a brave new world. Remember how the Red Wings were really good for basically forever? They still are, you can take my word for it, no need to watch any of their games to check
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Pens should have Ned as the main goalie now. i’ve missed a lot but this just feels extremely correct to me
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The least shocking thing for Jarry to regress from good to slightly below league average. Ned is also playing way above his head right now, but the Pens making it would be exceedingly funny.
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