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Pungry posted:I think the only thing Paul Maurice teams do well is make a young highly-touted goalie look good. Spencer Knight was incredible in the game against the Oilers and should've had a regulation win but a late too many men call on a power play gave the Oilers the momentum to tie the game with 4 seconds left and immediately win in OT. You can tell me the fancy stats should mean the Panthers will regress positively and start winning soon but night after night it's felt like this absolute disaster types of games for them. What has to happen for Paul Maurice to be fired? Is it just missing the playoffs? Because I will gladly see the Panthers miss. You will have Paul Maurice until he slams the window shut and nails it in place.
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:I definitely trust a list and stat saying Erik Gudbranson had one of the best offensive games of all time.
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Nov 29, 2022 14:08
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Does anyone have experience/some technical knowhow for dodging blackout restrictions? I have ESPN+ and a sub to Nord, but I can't get everything to line up. When I use Nord on my computer, I can get around the blackout no problem if I just choose a server outside the blackout region. On my TV, no dice. I have an Apple TV and a tp-link router. I have the VPN connection on my router, but I get an error whenever I try to watch any stream. When I use Nord's smart DNS, apps won't even launch; they just get stuck on their loading splash pages. This touches enough weird issues that I'm not even sure where to ask, but maybe this thread has someone that matches my set up close enough to give me some advice.
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Nov 29, 2022 15:47
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I actually think this Rangers group (excepting Captain Elbows) is the most likable of my lifetime, but it still brings me great joy when they lose.
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Nov 29, 2022 16:13
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I had a wild dream last night where the NHL overturned the Austin Matthews draft lottery results 5 years later and awarded Matthews to Vegas of all teams. And Mario and Zelda were involved somehow
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:I had a wild dream last night where the NHL overturned the Austin Matthews draft lottery results 5 years later and awarded Matthews to Vegas of all teams. And Mario and Zelda were involved somehow Your subconscious could run the league better than the people running it.
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Nov 29, 2022 16:23
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The Rangers were a pretty mediocre team with a goalie playing out of his mind last year imo. The goalie is playing a little worse and the rest of the team is still pretty mediocre. Hence .500.
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mcmagic posted:The Rangers were a pretty mediocre team with a goalie playing out of his mind last year imo. The goalie is playing a little worse and the rest of the team is still pretty mediocre. Hence .500. They've actually been significantly better this year 5v5. Top 10 in the league. Their PP hasn't been as good though and like you said -- just OK goaltending. They're still 10-4-3 with Shesterkin in though. Halak is 0-5-1 with an .881  The Devils are actually above water now on GS/GA above expected which is pretty wild after the last couple of years. 4.9 scored above expected. 5.91 saved above expected. I expect they'll lose a few more games here soon if Vanecek's play drops. That or he's gonna get a Vezina nom and this season rules harder than we can possibly imagine. T-Bone fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Nov 29, 2022 17:12
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Caps-Canucks is going to be a gong show tonight.
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Nov 29, 2022 17:16
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T-Bone posted:The Devils are actually above water now on GS/GA above expected which is pretty wild after the last couple of years. 4.9 scored above expected. 5.91 saved above expected. I expect they'll lose a few more games here soon if Vanecek's play drops. That or he's gonna get a Vezina nom and this season rules harder than we can possibly imagine. The last two games especially they were outplayed for large portions of the game and had a few bounces go their way so this tracks.
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Chad Sexington posted:Caps-Canucks is going to be a gong show tonight. Yeah no way I’m gonna watch that live with a 10PM puck drop on a work night…
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Chad Sexington posted:Caps-Canucks is going to be a gong show tonight. Caps played great against the Devils last game tbh. Not sure if that's repeatable or they're starting to look healthy but after that game I'm a little more in "they might stick around" camp. The Sonny Milano pickup was astute, he's a good NHLer. mcmagic posted:The last two games especially they were outplayed for large portions of the game and had a few bounces go their way so this tracks. They need to get the PP going. Luckily the PK has been good so it's evening out, but can't keep going 19%.
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Nov 29, 2022 17:21
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T-Bone posted:Caps played great against the Devils last game tbh. Not sure if that's repeatable or they're starting to look healthy but after that game I'm a little more in "they might stick around" camp. We lost that game cause that Hughes kid and Vanacek activated a cheat code.
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https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1597627767696560130?s=20&t=RXIwhQjXIKyFvNCgn0XhrA I was gonna ask if he's really been that good, but a brief look at his boxcar stats suggests "yes." e: that is a crazy shooting percentage from him. 15.8% or better since his rookie year.
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Nov 29, 2022 17:26
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What they are good at on offense is creating off the rush which is more conducive to 5v5 than the PP. I'm not surprised that the PP is just OK.
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T-Bone posted:Caps played great against the Devils last game tbh. Not sure if that's repeatable or they're starting to look healthy but after that game I'm a little more in "they might stick around" camp. Yeah, the Caps top two lines looked good and I'd expect them to perform better against the Canucks. And then the Canucks have scored 4 or more in their last six games and Lavy is for some reason sticking with the Gustafsson-Carlson pairing despite them getting caved in, so I think the Canucks will be scoring a lot. I bet the over, is I guess what I'm saying.
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Never been more punished than when I traded Hintz in a keeper league right before he blew up. I still think his on-ice results have a lot to do with Robertson though. https://twitter.com/IneffectiveMath/status/1597626807087497233?s=20&t=02QWBxBqYZBXzgcC_AVr7Q So Micah’s got a couple newish charts he’s throwing around, this one is essentially how much goals allowed sequencing has affected a team’s points in the standings and he’s got another up in the thread that’s the same for goals scored (didn’t want to poo poo the thread up with a million tweets). I have my reservations on how useful it actually is to track this stuff vs. what we always used to do which is look at goal differential at the trade deadline and target outliers for regression, but it’s very funny to me to see the Leafs basically uncontested in quadrants called “Clutch” and “Severely Punished.” Whatever this team is doing it’s never boring.
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Koopa Kid posted:Never been more punished than when I traded Hintz in a keeper league right before he blew up. I still think his on-ice results have a lot to do with Robertson though.] He was raising eyebrows before Robertson joined, but to your point he's looked even crazier since Robo has come up. A good line got better.
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https://www.broadstreethockey.com/2022/11/29/23484080/philadelphia-flyers-john-tortorella-quote-morgan-frost-toilet-seatquote:For Tortorella, to really hit home the point that Frost’s game-by-game play is a little erratic, he decided to pull an analogy from seemingly out of nowhere. it's just too easy at this point
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mcmagic posted:What they are good at on offense is creating off the rush which is more conducive to 5v5 than the PP. I'm not surprised that the PP is just OK. My gut/eyes/etc tell me that their movement has been pretty good but that they're not enough of a threat to shoot off the wall with Hughes/Bratt which allows teams to overplay their preferred mid-ice cross pass. I'd like to see Bratt/Hughes drive the net more often when they curl off the wall to draw defenders outside. They have the speed to do it and it should open up more seams. Hand Knit posted:https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1597627767696560130?s=20&t=RXIwhQjXIKyFvNCgn0XhrA pls take this deal jesper T-Bone fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Shinjobi posted:He was raising eyebrows before Robertson joined, but to your point he's looked even crazier since Robo has come up. A good line got better. Bit young for Dallas to sign to such a big contract though. Should have waited a couple more years. That's going to look like a great contract in a couple years I bet.
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Maybe! But given this is the same team that wanted to sign old man Ryan Suter to a multi-year contract, I'd much prefer trying the same with younger players that have a whole career ahead of em.
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Hand Knit posted:https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1597627767696560130?s=20&t=RXIwhQjXIKyFvNCgn0XhrA Nothin wrong with that deal other than they didn’t offer the exact same contract to Robertson last summer
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Shinjobi posted:He was raising eyebrows before Robertson joined, but to your point he's looked even crazier since Robo has come up. A good line got better. Yeah he’s certainly a good player in his own right, he looked like at least a 55-60pt high-energy guy without Robertson, but together they’re crazy good
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T-Bone posted:The Devils are actually above water now on GS/GA above expected which is pretty wild after the last couple of years. 4.9 scored above expected. 5.91 saved above expected. I expect they'll lose a few more games here soon if Vanecek's play drops. That or he's gonna get a Vezina nom and this season rules harder than we can possibly imagine. they could easily have lost games they won by 3+ goals recently. kind of expecting that run of carolina boston florida games in late december to be rough
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Goodbye, Gurianov. Cap casualty status all but confirmed. Hello, eight more years of this. https://twitter.com/grodysattva/status/1506470084755304448
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The Dirty Burger posted:Nothin wrong with that deal other than they didn’t offer the exact same contract to Robertson last summer yeah.... yeah  DOOMocrat posted:Goodbye, Gurianov. Cap casualty status all but confirmed. I still have hope they can work him into being a very useful player for them.. he's looked good since he came back from injury! the cap crunch is the next 2 seasons, after that everything frees up tremendously with alot of poo poo that's been clogging up the drain finally getting flushed out (Benn, Lindell, Faksa, Suter) Not sure if they can fit Joe Pavelski back under the cap for next season but I hope they give it an honest try **looking at the Stars cap picture going forward the key thing that jumps out to me is that they have to stop signing these depth players in free agency. They've got this amazing resource of all these players in their early to mid 20's on their AHL team who are locked in at league minimum contracts (more or less), time to use that instead of shelling out $1.5 mill for Luke Glendening to center your 4th line and $1.8 mill for Colin MIller to play on your 3rd defense pairing. Starsfan fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Faksa's probably not worth his deal still but now that he isn't leading the forwards in TOI and is being given realistic matchups instead of every matchup he's gone from "liability" to "fine" again, imo.
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man, Pastrnak is going to get like $11 million a year (and he would deserve it IMO)
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The Dirty Burger posted:Nothin wrong with that deal other than they didn’t offer the exact same contract to Robertson last summer I will never stop melting down over this Boxman posted:Does anyone have experience/some technical knowhow for dodging blackout restrictions? I have ESPN+ and a sub to Nord, but I can't get everything to line up. Kupo! fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Robertson wasn't ever going to get what he was worth without getting what was Jamie Benn's money. No asset they could move among those depth stinker signings and Esa's reward for breaking up the puck at the blue line for a few national games would have been positive. It sucks; it was inevitable.
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DOOMocrat posted:Robertson wasn't ever going to get what he was worth without getting what was Jamie Benn's money. No asset they could move among those depth stinker signings and Esa's reward for breaking up the puck at the blue line for a few national games would have been positive. It sucks; it was inevitable. The small upside here is that Benn just remembered how to play hockey and not just punch mans We’ll see if that’s sustainable, but it’s been entertaining so far
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Much like with Faksa, who knew not running the older guy with terrible wheels ragged means he performs better when he has legit chances. It's almost as if Bowness while one of the best players coaches to ever do it is dogshit at actual management. Edit: My pocket theory of the Benn revival is cocaine. He's thinner and more energetic, and quirkier.
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OldSenileGuy posted:Rangers top 9 needs to be some combination of Watching that full game last night and just comparing the Devils' rebuild to the Rangers. Both started around the same general time frame and both teams just won the lottery constantly and I hate them both for it. I feel like the non-lottery core of the Rangers is better than the Devils, but the Devils got two players worthy of their draft status who are now carrying their team and the Rangers got...Laf and Kakko Kakko has the fancy stats and can show stretches of being strong on the puck and good in the corners but doesn't generate many points and has a pretty weak shot. But at least he has a skill that can be pointed to as something to watch develop. But what can Laf do? I watch them pretty often and I just don't see any plus skills whatsoever and have no idea how he was a #1 overall pick. Even when I'm actively looking for him he has so many games where he does literally nothing until he takes some dumb stick penalty in the o zone late as his only contribution to the game. I watched young John Tavares get a lot of poo poo because he entered the league with his only plus skills being more intangible like his hockey iq and having good hands, but he was too slow and weak to use them often in space. But you saw flashes of potential and how he'd often position himself really well for easy goals as a rookie. He still got a lot of heat from places like the Toronto media who questioned if he had any dynamic ability to his game, but every offseason he would target one particular skill and just hammer it for months and you'd see vast improvements year to year. One offseason was skating. He'll never be a burner, but he went from an awful rookie skater to an average skater in year 2. Then it was his shot, faceoffs, etc etc. You'd see the year to year improvement and potential where if it came together he could be that poor man's Crosby grinder style kinda player. And that's exactly what he became. I just haven't seen anything like that from Laf at all and see no plus skills whatsoever. But he was obviously the consensus #1 for a reason. I'm not trying to bury a 21 year old just yet but is there something I'm missing with him?
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I would argue Dallas is in the honeymoon phase of the Peter DeBoer experience. They'll be fun and exciting this year, and then next year everyone will die, and you'll be wondering why they don't have any better ideas on offense than Jason Robertson shooting puck from the corner.
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Iodised QQ posted:Watching that full game last night and just comparing the Devils' rebuild to the Rangers. Both started around the same general time frame and both teams just won the lottery constantly and I hate them both for it. I feel like the non-lottery core of the Rangers is better than the Devils, but the Devils got two players worthy of their draft status who are now carrying their team and the Rangers got...Laf and Kakko It's really not right that Hughes and Nico are carrying the Devils. They have both been really good this year but Bratt might be the best player on the devils and he was a 6th round pick... And they completely redid the defense with 1 free agent signing and 3 REALLY smart trades, the high pick Dmen aren't even here yet.
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