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Kilza posted:The Edmonton Oilers are currently the best NHL team in Canada. I don't think anybody would have predicted that before the season began. I think literally everyone did assuming an uninjured McDavid.
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After the first third period comeback of the year, the Stars salute Dave Strader calling a game for the first time this season, while recieving cancer treatment. He was great. gently caress cancer. https://twitter.com/myregularface/status/833160030346153984
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real touching moment here. getting Dave back for the rest of the home games is the best reward that Stars fans are going to get this year.
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Leafs lost. Islanders lost. Cats win 4th in a row, last 7 of 8. Panthers in 3rd place in the Atlantic. 
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Feb 19, 2017 06:43
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Don Bradman in cricket averaged 99 runs which is pretty much never going to be done again and before you Americans all claim it's not a sport people watch you forget about the billion people in India who do.
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Feb 19, 2017 06:55
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Today's game was a great preview of the inevitable playoff rematch.
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HookShot posted:Don Bradman in cricket averaged 99 runs which is pretty much never going to be done again and before you Americans all claim it's not a sport people watch you forget about the billion people in India who do. Don Bradman: Immortalized https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=bduKfISw3ZE
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Erik Gudbranson is so astonishingly bad at hockey he makes Luca Sbisa look good in comparison. Check and mate, motherfuckers 
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grack posted:Erik Gudbranson is so astonishingly bad at hockey he makes Luca Sbisa look good in comparison. They'll still win tomorrow night 
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HookShot posted:Don Bradman in cricket averaged 99 runs which is pretty much never going to be done again and before you Americans all claim it's not a sport people watch you forget about the billion people in India who do. I don't know anything about Cricket and it's moon nonsense but even I know that Don Bradman is probably the greatest athlete of all time when compared to the rest of his peers
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kalensc posted:Don Bradman: Immortalized Holy poo poo i think I understand cricket now! (kind of) (but waaaaaayyyyyyyy better than before)
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dandaman posted:Leafs lost. Go cats
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:thanks for the serious replies! i guess i was thinking less in terms of iron-man type records, which are impressive but i don't view on the same level of achievement as production-related records. same goes for winning championships, which is why i specified 'individual' records, and for old timey sports fellas that set crazy records before electricity was invented I don't understand Cricket, but this guy shows up when "completely dominated game" talks come up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bradman Edit: beaten
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grack posted:Erik Gudbranson is so astonishingly bad at hockey he makes Luca Sbisa look good in comparison. Hopefully someone can serve Luca in a restaurant somewhere and let him know he isn't the worst defenceman anymore.
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dandaman posted:Leafs lost. The West is the bad conference. But yes, this win streak owns.
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DOOMocrat posted:After the first third period comeback of the year, the Stars salute Dave Strader calling a game for the first time this season, while recieving cancer treatment. Dave owns, Benn owns, please don't take Russ, Vegas.
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soggybagel posted:Jagr's still got it. god I love this and I love Jagr. I hope he lands on yet another team next season.
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So I haven't been posting or following the talk here this season, but just wondering what HAS was thinking the issue was with Plekanec this year? Just being older, or Therrien and we can expect good things from now on, or what?
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RC Cola posted:I think literally everyone did assuming an uninjured McDavid. I didn't think McDavid would be enough to drag that team around with him. I also figured with a healthy Price the Canadiens would be the best Canadian team but it turns out he's not unbreakable.
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Feb 19, 2017 17:51
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:Honest question -- is there a more unbreakable individual record in modern major sports than Gretzky's scoring lead? In baseball, pretty much all of the old starting pitching records are untouchable unless they allow pitchers with robot arms
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Feb 19, 2017 19:28
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Even if you exclude the 1880s like Old Hoss Radbourn winning 59 games, no one is still touching the modern record of 31. Or Nolan Ryan's 383 strikeouts in one season. Anyway as good as Gretzky's pure numbers are they aren't really that impressive when you watch film of how the game was played then. If a "greatest of all time" level talent had his career arc now, he'd have like 75% of Gretzky's point total. ElwoodCuse fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Feb 19, 2017 |
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Feb 19, 2017 21:12
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Yes it's Gretzky's fault he wasn't born 20 years later, what a dickhead. We should take away all his records for picking on the poor quality NHL players of the 80's and 90's.
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ANDREW MACDONALD IS A HEALTHY SCRATCH TONIGHT
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ElwoodCuse posted:Even if you exclude the 1880s like Old Hoss Radbourn winning 59 games, no one is still touching the modern record of 31. Or Nolan Ryan's 383 strikeouts in one season. Everyone else on that ice got to play against the same people and I don't see any of them with 2800 points.
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xzzy posted:Yes it's Gretzky's fault he wasn't born 20 years later, what a dickhead. We should take away all his records for picking on the poor quality NHL players of the 80's and 90's. I think we can admit that Gretzky's numbers are era inflated while still acknowledging that he was a beast. If he started playing in 1996 he wouldn't end his career with 2800+ points, but he'd probably have at least like 2300 which would still end up being 500+ more than any player who didn't play for 25 years
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So we're arguing whether his unbeatable record is actually supposed to be an unbeatable record with a slightly smaller number?
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I think they should put an asterisk next to his records because he was playing before the salary cap era, the mass lockout era, and the butterfly goaltending era
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hifi posted:I think they should put an asterisk next to his records because he was playing before the salary cap era, the mass lockout era, and the butterfly goaltending era but we can't make the nets bigger because
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Gretzky is a fraud. The greatest hockey player of all time is Mike Gartner.
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The only record that I take exception to because of eras is the goalie wins record because Parent did that when they didn't have overtime let alone shootouts. Gretzky scored 200 points in a season four times. Nobody else did it once. What that guy did is nuts regardless of his era.
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Shawn Cotureier posted:ANDREW MACDONALD IS A HEALTHY SCRATCH TONIGHT god bless
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:Honest question -- is there a more unbreakable individual record in modern major sports than Gretzky's scoring lead? Cal Ripken Jr's streak. Micheal Schumachers 7 WDC's, Tom Kristensen's 9 Le Mans.
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Schremp Howard posted:The only record that I take exception to because of eras is the goalie wins record because Parent did that when they didn't have overtime let alone shootouts. I wonder how many goals were called back or waived off the year Lemieux got 199. Gotta figure at least 1 scoring play got called back... it burns me to see him at 199.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Anyway as good as Gretzky's pure numbers are they aren't really that impressive when you watch film of how the game was played then. If a "greatest of all time" level talent had his career arc now, he'd have like 75% of Gretzky's point total. 80-81: Gretzky 164; Dionne 135 81-82: Gretzky 212; Bossy 147 82-83: Gretzky 196; Stastny 124 83-84: Gretzky 205; Coffey 126 84-85: Gretzky 208; Kurri 135 85-86: Gretzky 215; Lemieux 141 86-87: Gretzky 183; Kurri 108 It's not just the amount of points that Gretzky got that make him impressive -- it's also the amount of points relative to his peers that make him impressive. Like, until Lemieux became a force, Gretzky was outscoring his opponents at a ridiculous rate. In 83-84, he outscored the second-place Coffey by 79 points! Krime posted:I wonder how many goals were called back or waived off the year Lemieux got 199. Gotta figure at least 1 scoring play got called back... it burns me to see him at 199. Just imagine if he played one of the four games that he missed. He was only held pointless in 8 of the 76 games he played that year.
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CDX posted:So I haven't been posting or following the talk here this season, but just wondering what HAS was thinking the issue was with Plekanec this year? Just being older, or Therrien and we can expect good things from now on, or what? Honestly I think he's just having a down year. Dude is only 34 and plays a great 2 way game. He's still got 3-4 productive years in this league left. Lots of criticism right now that he's overpaid but I'll throw up the usual reminder that NHL contracts pay for past performance, and pleks has been a solid part of the team for a decade. In short, <3
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Red Wings decent this weekend. Fire Ken Holland.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Red Wings decent this weekend. Dead owner bounce. Also lol pens fans tears in the game day thread.
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:Honestly I think he's just having a down year. Dude is only 34 and plays a great 2 way game. He's still got 3-4 productive years in this league left. only 34? most players are definitely declining at that age not that he's going to be useless or something but a "down year" probably isn't quite an accurate description
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Twin Cinema posted:83-84: Gretzky 205; Coffey 126 It's ridiculous how large the gap was with his own teammates in second place. Even with Mario in the picture, he still kept two teammates in the top four for several years. There's a substantial gap from those guys to the next team-driving legend. 85-86 Gretzky 215 Lemieux 141 Coffey 138 Kurri 131 Bossy 123 86-87 Gretzky 183 Kurri 108 Messier 107 Lemieux 107 Gilmour 105
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I am really not happy today. Nairbo fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Feb 20, 2017 |
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