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Pancakes by Mail
Oct 21, 2010

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Goaltender Carey Price was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
@JohnLuTSNMtl

#Habs Julien on 27/28 errors: "With younger players & certain players u have to be patient...If you want them to be better you have to accept mistakes."


I'm feeling something...what's the opposite of despair

(That's Galchenyuk and Beaulieu for non-HAS folk)

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CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it


Remember when Jonathan Drouin was a pariah, in the AHL, and thought to be on the trade block? Then Stamkos got hurt or whatever and he rose from the ashes?

It's like the plot of a corny '80s movie wherein Drouin is the plucky underdog. Like Iron Eagle or something. But good for he and the Bolts because they're a fun second favorite team.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Pancakes by Mail posted:

@JohnLuTSNMtl

#Habs Julien on 27/28 errors: "With younger players & certain players u have to be patient...If you want them to be better you have to accept mistakes."

HEY DAVE HAKSTOL CHECK THIS poo poo OUT

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

Pancakes by Mail posted:

@JohnLuTSNMtl

#Habs Julien on 27/28 errors: "With younger players & certain players u have to be patient...If you want them to be better you have to accept mistakes."


I'm feeling something...what's the opposite of despair

(That's Galchenyuk and Beaulieu for non-HAS folk)

Truly the anti-Therrien.

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



Auston Matthews' on-ice 5v5 GF/60 is 2.68, but his personal 5v5 GF/60 is 1.60. Personally scoring 60% of the team's goals while playing 5v5, why the hell not?

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


eXXon posted:

Auston Matthews' on-ice 5v5 GF/60 is 2.68, but his personal 5v5 GF/60 is 1.60. Personally scoring 60% of the team's goals while playing 5v5, why the hell not?

goddamn :stare:

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
That really makes the dude at my workplace who thinks Eichel is better than Matthews (he's a Sabres fan) even goofier.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Technically that's just a sign his teammates aren't especially good.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Aphrodite posted:

Technically that's just a sign his teammates aren't especially good.

Well yeah it's still the current Leafs

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Aphrodite posted:

Technically that's just a sign his teammates aren't especially good.

Fair enough, but I said to this guy I'd rather have Matthews than anybody on the Sabres roster, and that Toronto's first line is better than Buffalo's and he acted like I was insane.

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME
Eichel is really good at it's probably a bit of a shame that he'll be overlooked compared to some of the other guys like McDavid, Matthews, Laine, etc

Getting hurt to start this year didn't help for sure

Darude - Adam Sandstorm
Aug 16, 2012

I find it funny that those guys keep getting spoken about as though they're comparable to Connor cause lol.

A Typical Goon
Feb 25, 2011
Eichel has the exact same ppg as Matthews while playing on a much worse team that plays no where close to as high event hockey as Toronto (60 CF/60 vs 50 CF/60)

Not that outlandish that Eichel could end up the better player or that he's a similar quality player right now.

Koopa Kid
Aug 21, 2007



Matthews has only played with rookies the entire season and his most consistent linemate is a guy shooting 6%, I don't consider that an ideal situation. He could easily have more points than he does currently, especially being 89th in TOI/G. He also leads the team forwards in possession-related stats which isn't true of most other comparables.

Eichel is really good, and he has a better Pts% iirc, so I get it. Matthews is most impressive in context of his situation on the Leafs.

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

Matthews linesmates are not good because he's a dirty american playing hero and not sharing the puck to linesmates you can see so because he has 28 goals and only 21 assists whereas good canadian boys like sydney crosby got more passes than goals

gretzky has had more assists than any americans have had goals that's how you know he was really a good team player

Spring Break My Heart
Feb 15, 2012

Levitate posted:

Eichel is really good at it's probably a bit of a shame that he'll be overlooked compared to some of the other guys like McDavid, Matthews, Laine, etc

Getting hurt to start this year didn't help for sure
If he actually turns into a superstar he won't be overlooked.

Kalenn Istarion
Nov 2, 2012

Maybe Senpai will finally notice me now that I've dropped :fivebux: on this snazzy av

DJExile posted:

Well yeah it's still the current Leafs

The leafs have 4 of the top 35 point scorers in the league

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Kalenn Istarion posted:

The leafs have 4 of the top 35 point scorers in the league

And are still 4th in what's easily the worst division in the league

the Leafs are better than they were, yeah, but they've still got a ways to go.

Chad Sexington
May 26, 2005

I think he made a beautiful post and did a great job and he is good.
Jack Eichel and Auston Matthews will be equals in my heart when they bring Team USA the gold in South Korea next year.

jk they will be passed over for David Backes and Justin Abdelkader

Spring Break My Heart
Feb 15, 2012

DJExile posted:

what's easily the worst division in the league
The Atlantic has a better collective goal differential and more points per team than either West division despite playing the only good division more.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Spring Break My Heart posted:

The Atlantic has a better collective goal differential and more points per team than either West division despite playing the only good division more.

don't come at me with your "facts" and "rationality" dammit

T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

jakes did this?

Chad Sexington posted:

Jack Eichel and Auston Matthews will be equals in my heart when they bring Team USA the gold in South Korea next year.

jk they will be passed over for David Backes and Justin Abdelkader

Is that really next year? Christ it's time for a :911: already:

Gaudreau-Eichel-Kane
JVR-Matthews-Kessel
Foligno-Kesler-Atkinson
Pacioretty-Pavelski-Wheeler
Oshie/Stepan

McDonagh-Byfuglien
Suter-Shattenkirk
Carlson-Jones
Werenski

Schneider
Gibson
Quick

of course Buff won't make it.

T-Bone fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Feb 20, 2017

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Spring Break My Heart posted:

The Atlantic has a better collective goal differential and more points per team than either West division despite playing the only good division more.

Yeah but they get to play the Atlantic more too. Checkmate.

Kilza
Oct 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/833786963824107520

Well okay then.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Seems like he's slumping this year but was a good puck mover in the past. Hopefully they didn't give up much.

Kilza
Oct 4, 2013

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Seems like he's slumping this year but was a good puck mover in the past. Hopefully they didn't give up much.

https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/833787923380187136

Yeah, that's barely anything.

e: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/833788256890281988

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
The retention as well as the fact that one pick is conditional makes me smile. Good deal, Brad. Hopefully he produces.

T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

jakes did this?
Anyway here's a quick and dirty team :fuckoff:

Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Benn-McDavid-Seguin
Tavares-Toews-Stamkos
Hall-Scheifele-Carter
Stone/MacKinnon

Keith-Doughty
Pietrangelo-Burns
Letang-Weber
Subban

Price
Holtby
Dubnyk

of course Subban won't make it

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


T-Bone posted:

Is that really next year? Christ it's time for a :911: already:

Gaudreau-Eichel-Kane
JVR-Matthews-Kessel


hot drat i'd love watching these two lines

Jamwad Hilder
Apr 18, 2007

surfin usa

T-Bone posted:

Is that really next year? Christ it's time for a :911: already:

Gaudreau-Eichel-Kane
JVR-Matthews-Kessel
Foligno-Kesler-Atkinson
Pacioretty-Pavelski-Wheeler
Oshie/Stepan

McDonagh-Byfuglien
Suter-Shattenkirk
Carlson-Jones
Werenski

Schneider
Gibson
Quick

of course Buff won't make it.

Saad instead of Foligno IMO. I'd like Trocheck to make it too but USA is just stacked at center nowadays. I also can't see them leaving Parise behind even if he doesn't really deserve to be there at this point of his career.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

T-Bone posted:

Anyway here's a quick and dirty team :fuckoff:

Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Benn-McDavid-Seguin
Tavares-Toews-Stamkos
Hall-Scheifele-Carter
Stone/MacKinnon

Keith-Doughty
Pietrangelo-Burns
Letang-Weber
Subban

Price
Holtby
Dubnyk

of course Subban won't make it

They'll leave off letang too because handedness

DJExile posted:

hot drat i'd love watching these two lines

I like JVR-Matthews-Kessel just to make Maple Leafs fans wonder what could have been

Stretch Marx
Apr 29, 2008

I'm ok with this.

T-Bone posted:

Anyway here's a quick and dirty team :fuckoff:

Marchand-Crosby-Bergeron
Benn-McDavid-Seguin
Tavares-Toews-Stamkos
Hall-Scheifele-Carter
Stone/MacKinnon

Keith-Doughty
Pietrangelo-Burns
Letang-Weber
Subban

Price
Holtby
Dubnyk

of course Subban won't make it

If your US team is playing Matthews I don't see how a Canada team isn't playing Marner.

T-Bone
Sep 14, 2004

jakes did this?

Stretch Marx posted:

If your US team is playing Matthews I don't see how a Canada team isn't playing Marner.

Canada has slightly more depth than the US and literally didn't take Crosby to the Olympics in his rookie year. Marner would likely make the US, he'll have a hard time making Canada, especially if guys like Duchene/MacKinnon rebound next year.

Jamwad Hilder posted:

Saad instead of Foligno IMO. I'd like Trocheck to make it too but USA is just stacked at center nowadays. I also can't see them leaving Parise behind even if he doesn't really deserve to be there at this point of his career.

I'm really high on Foligno but yeah Saad may be a better choice on Olympic ice. You could also do an interesting line with Rangers guys like Stepan/Miller/Hayes/Kreider.

T-Bone fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Feb 20, 2017

Kilza
Oct 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/NHLPlayerSafety/status/833793473560113154

Well, at least they suspended Trouba? Even though it really should've been longer? :shrug:

Nottherealaborn
Nov 12, 2012

Kilza posted:

https://twitter.com/NHLPlayerSafety/status/833793473560113154

Well, at least they suspended Trouba? Even though it really should've been longer? :shrug:

Terrible and irrelevant math means his hit was a third as bad as Nyquist's slash, which sounds about right. Both should've gotten more though.

Nairbo
Jan 2, 2005
Two games? :lol:

The only good thing to come of this is news that Stone has no apparent injury and according to Ottawa media, Hoffman, Stone and Wingels are all travelling with the team. Can't see Stone travelling if he was concussed.

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


Does that wheel of fortune punishment thing still exist?

Darude - Adam Sandstorm
Aug 16, 2012

Stretch Marx posted:

If your US team is playing Matthews I don't see how a Canada team isn't playing Marner.

There is approximately 0 chance Marner makes that team.

TITTIEKISSER69
Mar 19, 2005

SAVE THE BEES
PLANT MORE TREES
CLEAN THE SEAS
KISS TITTIESS




Cartoon Man posted:

Does that wheel of fortune punishment thing still exist?

http://www.nhlwheelofjustice.com/

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achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?
Looking at the weather in Pittsburgh and :lol: its going to be 74 on Friday and 60 on Saturday, they are going to have to play on water skis at Heinz Field

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