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i cant tell id i prefer when the penguins are good and everyone wont stop posting about them, or when they are bad and everyone wont stop posting about them. no wait, clearly if the posting wont stop i also want the penguins to do poorly because i find it super easy to dislike the penguins as a team and the animal
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Wonderllama posted:i cant tell id i prefer when the penguins are good and everyone wont stop posting about them, or when they are bad and everyone wont stop posting about them. no wait, clearly if the posting wont stop i also want the penguins to do poorly because i find it super easy to dislike the penguins as a team and the animal This but if the Penguins get Bedard I will be very, very upset.
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Nov 16, 2022 17:08
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rex rabidorum vires posted:I would put Zucker on the top powerplay and considering swapping the matchups of Malkin/Zucker/Rakell against top line and GCR with the easier match up. Either Rust has a nagging injury or he's lost a few step and there is almost no replacement in the line up for him. I'd rather Rakell/Rust on pp1 because there's no rh shot option if he's not there except for Letang (lol) Wonderllama posted:i cant tell id i prefer when the penguins are good and everyone wont stop posting about them, or when they are bad and everyone wont stop posting about them. no wait, clearly if the posting wont stop i also want the penguins to do poorly because i find it super easy to dislike the penguins as a team and the animal fool. i will never stop posting about kasperi kapanen
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rex rabidorum vires posted:I would put Zucker on the top powerplay and considering swapping the matchups of Malkin/Zucker/Rakell against top line and GCR with the easier match up. Either Rust has a nagging injury or he's lost a few step and there is almost no replacement in the line up for him. The 5-6 times I've turned the Pens on this year, Zucker seems faster than he did the last couple? Not quite as fast as he was in his early 20s in Minnesota, but still plenty fast to gain a step and cause a d-zone breakdown. Guentzel should be that on Crosby's line, but he just seemed off his speed/timing a lot of shifts. Then completely on in other games. Maybe he's just hitting that spot in your late 20s where you start losing a step. They really need to make some moves even just looking toward next season either way. There's only two guys on the team under 26.
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Nov 16, 2022 17:10
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Ginette Reno posted:I'd rather Rakell/Rust on pp1 because there's no rh shot option if he's not there except for Letang (lol) Noooooo don't say his name, if you say his name he appears in your house and drifts aimlessly around for 45 seconds before returning whence he came
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Nov 16, 2022 17:14
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Eric the Mauve posted:Noooooo don't say his name, if you say his name he appears in your house and drifts aimlessly around for 45 seconds before returning whence he came Maybe I could attach some Swiffer things to his feet or a broom and get a little cleaning done... Speaking of powerplay stuff...man I can't remember the last time they had Geno on the half wall/circle just ripping 1 timers. They should go back to that look. Zucker in front and replace Letang with Petry firing for shinpads.
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Chad Sexington posted:I think the Caps are constitutionally incapable of standing down. Like they have never really done anything other than try and win since Ovi joined the team. I think they need to consider this year lost at this point and proceed accordingly. Who do they realistically pass to make the playoffs this year? Carolina is a lock, New Jersey is legit great so far, NYR is playing well and just getting some poo poo luck now, and Pittsburgh even with their bad start still has much better underlyings than Washington. And then they have to hope the Islanders fall back to earth as well. And even if they do scrape into the playoffs they'll be one-and-done again. That doesn't mean they need to undertake a 3-5 year rebuild, but they need to make some decisions. Laviolette needs to be canned yesterday. Guys like Eller, Johansson, Hathaway, and probably Sheary need to be traded. See if anyone would take on Oshie as well, though I kind of doubt it given his contract and injury history. They need to play McMichael at center and see what they have with him rather than dicking him around like they have been. And they absolutely, 100% need to trade John Carlson. I've been banging this drum for a bit but the dude exemplifies everything that has been wrong with Washington the past few years. He's got skill but he's dumb as a rock, slow as hell, has been getting dinged up more often, and has completely cratered every postseason since 2018. But he should still have a ton of trade value around the league because he's a right handed D who scores a lot of points. I think they need to do a mini-rebuild and try to compete for Ovechkin's final year or two, rather than trying to continually polish this turd.
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Yeah now Laviolette, I think he used to be a real good coach but that ended years ago and the Caps should (but hopefully won't) shitcan him.
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Caps aren’t gonna poo poo can Lavy because the owner is cheap and won’t want to pay for two coaches. Dude wouldn’t give Trotz a raise after he won them the frickin Cup.
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Duckman2008 posted:Caps aren’t gonna poo poo can Lavy because the owner is cheap and won’t want to pay for two coaches. Dude wouldn’t give Trotz a raise after he won them the frickin Cup. Laviolette is in his final year of his contract. They're spending to the cap every year and they've fired plenty of coaches before their lame duck years (Boudreau, Oates, Rierden in recent memory). They might not fire him but I doubt it's because Leonsis doesn't want to pay Laviolette the rest of this year.
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Nov 16, 2022 17:56
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Still not convinced on the Islanders but if they're going to get insane goaltending then sure why not they can be the 2022 Rangers. I think the East is settling in though. Pretty sure the top 8 now will be the playoff teams except like maybe the Isles for the Penguins if they ever get some goaltending.
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Nov 16, 2022 18:01
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For teams as ancient as the Caps and Pens, unless the coach is massively incompetent (which Sullivan certainly isn't and I don't think Lavy is, either) I doubt a coaching change would make any difference. The team is just old as dirt with everything that entails. Firing the coach isn't likely to make old guys play harder or better. If their bodies can't do it anymore then their bodies can't do it anymore, and if they don't care then they don't care. If Lavy was to be fired the time to do it was last summer. I'm skeptical doing it midseason will help, unless the team plays so poorly for so long that it becomes necessary for PR reasons.
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Nov 16, 2022 18:07
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T-Bone posted:Still not convinced on the Islanders but if they're going to get insane goaltending then sure why not they can be the 2022 Rangers. They have the best goaltending duo in hockey, getting good goaltending is kinda their thing It's also why some of the different fancy stat sites projected them to win the metro or be in the mix in the preseason
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Nov 16, 2022 18:13
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Iodised QQ posted:They have the best goaltending duo in hockey, getting good goaltending is kinda their thing they got "good" goaltending last year, this is Vezina caliber which is what it's going to take to get them in the playoffs and now here's joy: https://twitter.com/JFreshHockey/status/1592898593337544704 e: lol at that Sabres heater in 18-19
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T-Bone posted:Still not convinced on the Islanders but if they're going to get insane goaltending then sure why not they can be the 2022 Rangers. They're currently receiving better goaltending, thus far, than the Rangers last year. Isles are also scoring 57% of the 5v5 actual goals for while xG share is 47%. Last year the Rangers had a 4% gap of 51% actual and 47% expected. Point being all things are possible, but there is going to be regression at some point. Although the Caps and Pens are lawn darting while the Flyers we've expected and were waiting for have appeared so there is a decent opportunity to survive that regression. rex rabidorum vires fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Nov 16, 2022 |
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rex rabidorum vires posted:They're currently receiving better goaltending, this far, than the Rangers last year. Isles are also scoring 57% of the 5v5 actual goals for while xG share is 47%. Last year the Rangers had a 4% gap of 51% actual and 47% expected. Point being all things are possible, but there is going to be regression at some point. Although the Caps and Pens are lawn darting while the Flyers we've expected and were waiting for have appeared so there is a decent opportunity to survive that regression. Yeah that's my main reasoning for keeping them in. The Pens and Sens are still tracking pretty well analytically but man they've had some rough loving starts. And then who else is there? The Caps if they miraculously get healthy? Detroit and Buffalo still look like another year or two away and then everyone else is just bad.
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I thought he meant the Penguins replacing the Islanders in the playoffs if the Penguins get better goaltending
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Yeah that would be my main candidate at the moment. If the Isles goaltending drops off and the Pens picks up I could see it. As bad as Pittsburgh has looked lately they're the most capable of the non playoff teams.
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Eric the Mauve posted:For teams as ancient as the Caps and Pens, unless the coach is massively incompetent (which Sullivan certainly isn't and I don't think Lavy is, either) I doubt a coaching change would make any difference. The team is just old as dirt with everything that entails. Firing the coach isn't likely to make old guys play harder or better. If their bodies can't do it anymore then their bodies can't do it anymore, and if they don't care then they don't care. I don't think a new coach is going to get Washington to the playoffs, but a new coach will play Connor McMichael instead of like Nicolas Aube-Kubel for instance. A new coach will give guys like Lucas Johansen and Alex Alexeyev chances instead of trotting out Matt Irwin and Erik Gustafsson night after night. Washington needs to find out what they have with these players this season so that they know what they have to do next offseason. McMichael had a promising rookie year and then for whatever reason he's been jerked around by Laviolette this year. Is he or isn't he a top 6/9 center next year? We don't know at this point! And that's frustrating as hell.
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It’s frustrating that Ottawa has decent advanced stats this season because any poor soul that’s watched Sens hockey during DJ’s coaching tenure knows that the teams defensive play has been consistently awful. It’s now year 3 of being out of the playoff hunt by mid-November and Dorion pointing out “we have lost every game by 1 goal” is some absolute loser poo poo lol Top-10 in the league in high danger scoring chances sounds cool, but how many of that is Brady just smashing pucks into a goalies pads in the crease?
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Mind_Taker posted:I think they need to consider this year lost at this point and proceed accordingly. Who do they realistically pass to make the playoffs this year? Carolina is a lock, New Jersey is legit great so far, NYR is playing well and just getting some poo poo luck now, and Pittsburgh even with their bad start still has much better underlyings than Washington. And then they have to hope the Islanders fall back to earth as well. And even if they do scrape into the playoffs they'll be one-and-done again. I agree with you on Carlson, but I don't think they're going to touch the core and like it or not he is core. I only watched part of the game last night, but holy poo poo does he look slow. Him trying to back-check on the Barkov breakaway... embarrassing.
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The Dirty Burger posted:“we have lost every game by 1 goal” is some absolute loser poo poo lol Right up there with "we've been in every game" which is technically an irrefutable statement but one meant to imply far more than it does. All the Canucks players use it constantly. It has become their go to statement now. The loser's lament.
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quote:So this summer, Brodeur, along with general manager Tom Fitzgerald and New Jersey’s scouting department, extensively researched available goalies before landing Capitals backup Vitek Vanecek via trade on July 8. I know they have a big analytics department, but interesting to hear the Devils actually acknowledge a specific case
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T-Bone posted:I know they have a big analytics department, but interesting to hear the Devils actually acknowledge a specific case Imagine their analytics department hearing they got John Marino for Ty Smith and a 3rd
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I never thought I'd complain about Ryan Hartman being injured or not on the top line, but Freddy Gaudreau just doesn't have the hands or bulldog to post up and cause problems in front of the net. He's a good defensive center, but he's about half a tick slower on the hands than Hartman because of it and the scoring is just off right now. One of those things where you don't quite know if a piece is really that important until you don't replace it with a similar piece in the squad. Greenway being out still and again also means that line isn't really working either.
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https://twitter.com/wyshynski/status/1592953831624962050 for gently caress's sake, Wysh E: lmao he tries to clarify and just sticks his foot further into his own mouth https://twitter.com/wyshynski/status/1592980598804869120 DJExile fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Nov 16, 2022 |
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Was there a large decline in fighting even? It felt fairly consistent from the last few years, but that’s a feeling and not numbers.
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Did someone say Jonas Siegenthaler https://twitter.com/CJTDevil/status/1592985580354568193?t=lWvPPXN_4x9G64IOBw-7Og&s=19
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Jhet posted:Was there a large decline in fighting even? It felt fairly consistent from the last few years, but that’s a feeling and not numbers. https://www.hockeyfights.com/stats it's seen a pretty significant drop over the last 10 years or so, yeah.
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all of the women in my life have loved the fighting in the nhl lmao
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WoodrowSkillson posted:all of the women in my life have loved the fighting in the nhl lmao date better women, duh
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He's got a point, football is a violent sport and look how no women watch it
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DJExile posted:https://www.hockeyfights.com/stats Last 10 years definitely, but I'm just talking 20-21 to 21-22 seasons. It seems to have leveled out around 0.15-0.2 fights per game and from my napkin math it's about 0.14 per game this season right now. So that tweet looks even dumber considering it's been about the same since 2018.
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The Capitals, Penguins, and Bruins were the three teams that I thought might show their age coming into this year. But unlike the Capitals and Penguins, I now believe the Bruins will be a playoff team forever. Ok not forever, but for longer, anyway. Marchand, Bergeron, and Krejci are all 34 or older, but their other key players are either good for at least a few more years (Ullmark, Hall, Lindholm are 29/30) or younger (McAvoy 24, Pastrnak 26, Swayman 23, DeBrusk 26, etc). I don't think the Penguins or Capitals have anything equivalent.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:The Capitals, Penguins, and Bruins were the three teams that I thought might show their age coming into this year. But unlike the Capitals and Penguins, I now believe the Bruins will be a playoff team forever. Ok not forever, but for longer, anyway. Marchand, Bergeron, and Krejci are all 34 or older, but their other key players are either good for at least a few more years (Ullmark, Hall, Lindholm are 29/30) or younger (McAvoy 24, Pastrnak 26, Swayman 23, DeBrusk 26, etc). I don't think the Penguins or Capitals have anything equivalent. Guentzel/Rust I suppose for the Pens. Maybe add Rakell to that mix. But they're all at or near 30. I figured the Pens had a year or two left of contending in them but given how things are going this year it might already be over.
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/wyshynski/status/1592953831624962050 Ah yes, the gentler sex can’t stomach fisticuffs
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Ginette Reno posted:Guentzel/Rust I suppose for the Pens. Maybe add Rakell to that mix. But they're all at or near 30. Oh yea, I didn't mean that the Penguins or Capitals have nothing left once their stars are gone, because they definitely do. It just seems like they don't have enough left to make me think they'll stay in the playoff picture. Guentzel, Rust, and Rakell are good players, but outside of Guentzel I wouldn't really consider them guys you build a roster around, and even he is borderline. Capitals have Kuznetsov (who's already 30) and... I guess Mantha? Strome maybe? Feels like they're in an even weaker position.
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