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Laplacean Demon posted:But I how the hell is there is nothing for punching a guy in the back of the head knocking him out cold and injuring him for multiple games. thats the NHL baby
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Koopa Kid posted:https://x.com/friedgehnic/status/1734256022896676937?s=46&t=HQKtcRjDK4S81BLV4tbVnw Yes. For some reason it's insanely hard to find cromulent bottom pair guys who can handle top 4 minutes. Vancouver spent like $100m on such players over the past years.
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:I was having this conversation with a friend a couple weeks ago. The NHL really needs a formal medical retirement process. Some doctor can sign off that the player has some legitimate medical issue, the player agrees that they're retiring and can't stage a comeback later, and they get paid their full contract with no cap hit. It's already happening unofficially, and the stuff with Pronger shows that league is absolutely on-board with it. I suppose the big downside is that rich teams can benefit by trading for the purposes of retirement, but that's also already happening anyways. The contrarian take here is that this opens the door for teams to say "hey we'll drop the AAV and extend the term, but you won't play the last two years". Which is why you have the 35+ contract rule. But on the other hand, that would be easily thwarted by the NHL applying common sense to use their powers of discretion regarding punishments for cap circumvention...
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One of these days Auston Matthews is going to want to stop picking the puck out of his net at the end of important games, but today wasn’t that day.
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Aphrodite posted:Larkin was murdered by Joseph. Perron didn't see it and just went after the guy standing closest to Larkin. It looks to me like it was Kelly who did the actual murdering. Joseph shoves Larkin's head (very close to a crosscheck if it wasn't one), then Kelly comes in from the other side and puts a fist right into Larkin's chin. Either way, ridiculous that neither Kelly nor Joseph seem to have been ejected.
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It was loving scary because it looked like he died. Nobody was even looking at Perron, because there was an assumption of retribution. The whole building was very quiet, then very loud when the refs read the ruling.
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ZombieApostate posted:It looks to me like it was Kelly who did the actual murdering. Joseph shoves Larkin's head (very close to a crosscheck if it wasn't one), then Kelly comes in from the other side and puts a fist right into Larkin's chin. It's a team effort, but Joseph is why it happens like that since Kelly seems to just be going for a regular crosscheck to the back that are basically legal these days.
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ZombieApostate posted:It looks to me like it was Kelly who did the actual murdering. Joseph shoves Larkin's head (very close to a crosscheck if it wasn't one), then Kelly comes in from the other side and puts a fist right into Larkin's chin. Kelly was just coming in to clear him out and ended up catching him in the head as he went down, his hands were low and that's just bad luck. I dunno if Larkin was unconscious before or after the contact with Kelly but I don't really blame him much for it. Joseph, on the other hand, punched him in the back of the head or jaw and is the same dude who did this, in the first game Larkin was back after Jamie Benn took him out for months with a cross-check to the neck: https://twitter.com/SensProspects/status/1733653990594818551 But yeah, great look to give out a couple roughing penalties for knocking someone unconscious with a hit to the head.
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https://theathletic.com/5129384/2023/12/11/blues-jakub-vrana-waivers/?source=user_shared_article Jakub Vrana in limbo after being told by Blues he’d be placed on waivers Vrana on waivers. Not looking good for him if he can’t even stick on the (not good) Blues roster. Also: “With the Blues, his top skating speed this season is 22.75 miles per hour, which ranks in the 88th percentile of the entire NHL, and his top shot is 92.03 mph (77th percentile). Conversely, though, Vrana’s average distance traveled per 60 minutes this season is 9.6 miles (60th percentile) and his shot attempts are a mere 41 (65th percentile). In other words, Vrana’s speed hasn’t been effective because he’s not always moving and utilizing it, and he’s not putting himself into position to get shots, and when he does, they’re not accurate (4.9 shooting percentage).” Top skating speed and average distance traveled per 60 minutes sure seem like stats that do not matter to me.
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Is he free? Can he play? Come to Pittsburgh! Edit: At 5.25 million per nevermind......
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/SabresPlays/status/1734398767011344429 "A normal guy woulda been carried out of here. Felt good, real good! Gimme a stick, lets go!" - Rob Ray after getting this puck to the face
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/SabresPlays/status/1734398767011344429 let the blood flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJti352rU3o
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Duckman2008 posted:https://theathletic.com/5129384/2023/12/11/blues-jakub-vrana-waivers/?source=user_shared_article Jakub Vrana in limbo after being told by Blues he’d be placed on waivers drat was hoping he could turn it around. Mantha finally did this season.
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10 points in 21 on the back of 20% shooting. Yup definitely turned it around I think the Caps should extend him for 5x5.
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Not really sure why people are saying the Devils need a defenseman? Nemec has been very solid in his time up, if they add another veteran D, I guess they'll push Bahl out of the lineup? They're top 10 in expected goals allowed and one of the top teams in the league again at preventing odd-man rushes, it's just that every one of them winds up in the back of the net. All of the underlying numbers show that, while they're pretty top-heavy right now and some of their guys have struggled relative to last year (and Meier has been awful), that having just average goaltending would probably put them firmly near the top of the division at this stage. I don't think there is anything to panic about regarding the forwards group (Meier and Mercer will figure it out) and the defense corps. It's just goaltending imo.
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fawning deference posted:Not really sure why people are saying the Devils need a defenseman? Nemec has been very solid in his time up, if they add another veteran D, I guess they'll push Bahl out of the lineup? Devils should just play a whole game with the goalie pulled.
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https://twitter.com/lassialanen/status/1734600962151494133 seems good for a draft eligible fawning deference posted:Not really sure why people are saying the Devils need a defenseman? Nemec has been very solid in his time up, if they add another veteran D, I guess they'll push Bahl out of the lineup? Marino, Bahl, and Siegenthaler have been pretty poor. I don't think a trade is necessarily the answer (yet) but it's worth monitoring. speaking of: https://twitter.com/lassialanen/status/1734608647895052403 T-Bone fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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Ah yes, the classic move of calling up your worst farm goalie because he has a record of previously being bad. Also take a guess who the Leafs' top two defensemen in 5v5 FF% (Conor Timmins and Max Lajoie) and xGF% (Conor Timmins and Simon Benoit) are.
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It’s a good idea to never pay attention to rate numbers for sheltered bottom-pair defenders, but I do enjoy that as Timmins gets more comfortable with his game and the team he’s making more great offensive plays and also more mind-bogglingly lovely defensive plays.
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Good news Leafs: Rangers love to lose to teams when those teams are doing poorly/injured/playing 3rd string goalies
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WeaponX posted:Good news Leafs: Rangers love to lose to teams when those teams are doing poorly/injured/playing 3rd string goalies Is there a team's fanbase that does not believe this about their own team?
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Is there a team's fanbase that does not believe this about their own team? I know it’s a trope but also the Leafs have lost to the Blackhawks’ backup twice this season so it’s true for them
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Matt Zerella posted:Some other good news for Leafs fans: Key is out tonight. more minutes for gus though has there every been any updates on chytil
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Koopa Kid posted:I know it’s a trope but also the Leafs have lost to the Blackhawks’ backup twice this season so it’s true for them David Ayers Koopa Kid posted:It’s a good idea to never pay attention to rate numbers for sheltered bottom-pair defenders Yeah, sheltered D on good teams are going to look good just by the nature of their role. it's probably true of all teams, but just on the Leafs, they've had the likes of Corrado, Dermott, Sandin and Liljegren all put up great numbers in third pairing situations. Like during his rookie years, all the fancies said Liljegren was the best rookie dman in the league the same year Seider was a rookie. Because guy who only gets 15 minutes of handpicked ozone starts with good forwards away from the other teams best players is obviously going to put up better numbers than guy that goes out there 23 minutes a night mainly against the other teams best players with forwards that are also overmatched. Like Dom had a whole clickbait thing where the headline was something like Liljegren for Calder and the entire article was about context, understanding how stats work, how to use them properly and how to recognize when the stats are spewing bullshit. And the comments were all people who obviously did not read past the headline.
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Waiting to hear how long Connor is out and how boned the Jets are. Hard to replace his goal scoring
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what the hell does this even mean https://twitter.com/MollieeWalkerr/status/1734603971724239151 e: also https://twitter.com/lassialanen/status/1734618518224548234 Levitate fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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Koopa Kid posted:It’s a good idea to never pay attention to rate numbers for sheltered bottom-pair defenders, but I do enjoy that as Timmins gets more comfortable with his game and the team he’s making more great offensive plays and also more mind-bogglingly lovely defensive plays. It's better than doing only the latter, anyway. It's not that I actually think Lajoie and Benoit are doing a bangup job so much as it's indicative that Rielly, Brodie and McCabe are not handling their increased minutes particularly well, which should concern I dunno the GM or coach or whoever's in charge of getting better defensemen who aren't broken.
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Levitate posted:more minutes for gus though I forgot about the Gus revenge narrative. Haven't heard a thing on Chytil.
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Levitate posted:what the hell does this even mean So does that mean like the impact of the puck caused a piece of jaw bone to break off, cut through his gum, and he mistook it for a tooth and spit it out?
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Precambrian Video Games posted:It's better than doing only the latter, anyway. The Leafs need a legit top 4 real bad, Brodie’s slowing down and the McCabe trade looks worse and worse the more games he plays. Jake’s got tools but he might be the dumbest player on the team.
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