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Fact check: That duck is plucked but seems to still have skin. Also it was after the anthem, not during a stoppage.
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"Gold On the Ceiling" is a good rear end goal song, and i ordinarily hate country music but i guess nashville can be forgiven for using it because, well it's goddamn nashville
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I'm still really impressed with the way the Nashville organization brought hockey to Tennessee of all places. The Hockey 101 thing, the explanatory headsets, getting country stars on board... the whole thing was a clinic on how to build a brand.
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DJExile posted:"Gold On the Ceiling" is a good rear end goal song, and i ordinarily hate country music but i guess nashville can be forgiven for using it because, well it's goddamn nashville Uh, wat? That's country now? Also, country music is the least good thing about an otherwise very cool and very good Nashville. Ellis is a beast, Subban is a beaute, and those yellow sweaters look sharp AF.
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JoelJoel posted:Uh, wat? That's country now? They're referring to "I Like It, I Love It," which plays just before.
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flakeloaf posted:I'm still really impressed with the way the Nashville organization brought hockey to Tennessee of all places. The Hockey 101 thing, the explanatory headsets, getting country stars on board... the whole thing was a clinic on how to build a brand. IMO they muddled through a little bit when Craig Leipold was the owner but him and Balsille trying to move the team got them a lot of local support (ironically) and then the new owners brought in business-side execs that had worked in Dallas and Tampa and they worked harder on promoting hockey aside from just selling tickets. Plus the Titans and UT Football have been pretty bad through the last period where the Preds were relatively successfully, which probably helped.
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Infidel Castro posted:They're referring to "I Like It, I Love It," which plays just before. Yeah this, sorry I should have clarified
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https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/864876676970422272 Mark Streit maybe finally??
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Xtanstic posted:https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/864876676970422272 jesus christ have they not used Streit all playoffs?
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May 17, 2017 17:29
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DJExile posted:jesus christ have they not used Streit all playoffs? 
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They see Streit in practice every day. I'm sure if he were that much better than everyone else he would have had some games.
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Flyinglemur posted:I know the games are played on ice and not on paper, but I honestly don't see either East team beating either West team. Yeah rooting wise I'm out, but I'm pulling for Sens-Perds just so it guarantees a new team wins the cup. Which will be the Perds because they would dismantle the Sens.
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Sounds like Yahoo sports fired some of their hockey writers, Jen Neale and Josh Cooper at least.
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I only read r-lam's stuff on puck daddy anyway, and that's only because he used to post here + people get really mad at him in the comments.
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DJExile posted:jesus christ have they not used Streit all playoffs? Nope Granted with the attrition rate Penguins defensemen have maybe there's some merit to keeping a 
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Benson Cunningham posted:They see Streit in practice every day. I'm sure if he were that much better than everyone else he would have had some games. I don't expect him to be that much better than anyone else, but I also don't expect him to be worse than say, Hainsey or Maatta, and I don't see much of a downside in either skating 7D so we can spread out the ice time a bit more, or just giving those guys a day off here and there. I get that you don't want to take guys out of their rhythm or have them get cold from sitting out too long, but that kind of presupposes that they're in some sort of rhythm or showing signs of warmth to begin with, which I don't think you can say of the Pens D right now. I just wish they had done this earlier in the postseason so they didn't have to bring Streit into an ECF game after sitting out the past month or however long it's been. Even when Schultz and Daley were healthy, I think it would have been smart to have tried rotating Streit and Ruhwedel in just to see how they fared. Ruhwedel has looked great since he's been in. I don't think he can maintain this level of play for the long haul, but no harm in riding the hot streak and then if he shits the bed swap him out with someone who's maybe sat for a game or two and is itching to prove they deserve to be in the lineup to get a repeat.
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Fair enough. I think the argument for 7D has some merit. Pens have been weakest down low in their own zone for much of the playoffs. That said, it's more because our defense resorts to chipping the puck around the boards nearly every time rather than trying to carry it at all. That aside, I would start Kris Letang in a neck brace over Olli Matta at this point. I don't know what the Pens staff see in his performance that I'm missing (probably a lot).
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Yeah, basically gently caress you if you don't want the Preds to win it all. https://twitter.com/PeteBlackburn/status/864634652702724097
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Benson Cunningham posted:That aside, I would start Kris Letang in a neck brace over Olli Matta at this point. I don't know what the Pens staff see in his performance that I'm missing (probably a lot). Agreed, and I don't think you're missing something. I mentioned this earlier, but I think the Pens D is basically a circle of crap, which is why the TOI is relatively evenly split with no major sheltering. It's like, oh it just took Maatta 40 seconds to skate from the offensive zone back through the neutral zone and into the defensive zone, leading to a goal against? That's not good, get him off the ice -- Hainsey, you're up next. Oh poo poo, he just turned the puck over in our end leading to a goal against because he decided to hold onto it and battle through a 1:1 forecheck instead of making an uncontested breakout pass. Get him off the ice and get Cole out there! And so on, until Maatta is back on the ice again. We've kind of beaten the "why does Maatta suck so bad" horse to death over the past few weeks, and it's one of those situations where he looks bad via the eye test, and AFAIK the stats and analytics aren't really in his favor (esp. without Letang next to him) either. Unfortunately, JR gave him a 6-year extension last year (fortunately not too bad on the AAV, just $4M), and after his first couple years there was a lot of hope that he could be a solid #2 or #3 D-man (esp. with Letang next to him), so I'd guess there's a lot of organizational momentum towards trying to get him to deliver on the promise he showed early on. At the end of the day, there are far worse D-men getting paid far more than $4M per year who are far older than 22, so it's not the end of the world. Hopefully he can stay healthy and get back on a better trajectory. And hopefully this summer he does a lot of sprints and gets a skating coach or something, jfc
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Yeah, basically gently caress you if you don't want the Preds to win it all. I love it when a city's franchises support each other. 
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yellowcar posted:I love it when a city's franchises support each other. let's just hope lewan and ribeiro don't start hanging out
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Happy Preds won, but it sure was nice seeing Harry Zolnierczyk get lit up twice in the same game
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yellowcar posted:I love it when a city's franchises support each other.
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smilin' Hank has been to many games, and IIRC brought the Grey Cup to the CTC
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Skinned duck?  e- Oh, yeah, I get it now. Aphrodite posted:drat Nashville really went all in on child molesters for a bit there didn't they? They've also abandoned their Anthem singer for the endless supply of tight-shirt wearin' gentleman and blonde lady Country singers and he's hurt by it: quote:Dennis K. Morgan, who has been singing at Predators games for 17 years, told The Tennessean he has been hurt and disappointed by being upstaged by A-list country acts. Morgan said Underwood, who is married to team captain Mike Fisher, asked to sing in the first home game of the playoffs and he agreed to it. But the team kept bringing in special musical guests to sing. http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2017/05/16/upstaged-predators-anthem-singer-upset-by-a-list-replacements/ bewbies posted:lol what a stupid goddamn city and team The Tim McGraw song is actually the only part of their celebrations/chants I really like. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 19:19 on May 17, 2017 |
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The Preds had two goals disallowed in a 15 second span last night.
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ThinkTank posted:The Preds had two goals disallowed in a 15 second span last night. They still won, which takes the sting out of it.
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To be a little fair, those no-goals were legit calls.
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DJExile posted:To be a little fair, those no-goals were legit calls. Oilers/Ducks taught me those were all perfectly acceptable goals though.
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Flyinglemur posted:I know the games are played on ice and not on paper, but I honestly don't see either East team beating either West team. The Pens are Stanley Cup Champions until someone takes it from them, bruh
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ThinkTank posted:The Preds had two goals disallowed in a 15 second span last night. I think a better description would be "The Preds tried to kill John Gibson and then put the puck in the net immediately afterwards twice in a 15 second span last night."
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A goofy, totally unrealistic idea to help the NHL promote stars that occurred to me at lunch: If you beat a team in the playoffs, you get to pick one player from their roster to play on your team the rest of the season. Obviously there are a thousand reasons this would never fly, but it's fun to think about increasingly stacked teams facing off.
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Flyinglemur posted:I know the games are played on ice and not on paper, but I honestly don't see either East team beating either West team. If Maf stays a brick wall anything is possible.
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DJExile posted:Wasn't that kinda the way Chris Chelios played too? He was never a very physical guy but was able to play basically forever?
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Thufir posted:A goofy, totally unrealistic idea to help the NHL promote stars that occurred to me at lunch: If you beat a team in the playoffs, you get to pick one player from their roster to play on your team the rest of the season. Obviously there are a thousand reasons this would never fly, but it's fun to think about increasingly stacked teams facing off. The equally unrealistic idea I had a while ago was some sort of player loaning program from eliminated teams going into the playoffs (i.e., somebody gives the Isles compensation for a temporary John Tavares appearance on their team).
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CBJSprague24 posted:The equally unrealistic idea I had a while ago was some sort of player loaning program from eliminated teams going into the playoffs (i.e., somebody gives the Isles compensation for a temporary John Tavares appearance on their team). make it so each playoff team can only get one loaned player, each non-playff team can only loan one player, and the compensation is predetermined as a conditional pick 2nd/1st (in that years draft if possible) depending on how far they get. the couple days between the end of the season and start of the playoffs would be 
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xzzy posted:Except most of those stars are probably held together with duct tape and super glue by the time they finish a playoff run and are relieved to have a chance to rest. I mean, even a sorta-healthy 2nd pairing D would probably be pretty helpful to the Penguins right now.
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