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happy jaromir jagr's birthday everybody https://twitter.com/NHLhistorygirl/status/831887006624018432
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Gunjin posted:If Caps win two or more playoff rounds The Caps front office is getting too self aware
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Feb 15, 2017 19:07
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tbh it always seemed kind of strange to me that most coaches are paid in the range of fairly average players
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Feb 16, 2017 03:42
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Zodijackylite posted:Until this hiring, the highest paid coach other than Babcock was Dave Tippett in Arizona. Jesus it's even worse than I thought. You'd think Barry Trotz would be worth more than $1.5 million, and Boudreau could command a salary a decent amount higher too.
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Feb 16, 2017 04:43
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Turbo Jesus posted:Since Anaheim was first on the list I couldn't but help notice Simon Despres on the list, man oh man poor guy. When the team that traded to you ends up with Ben Lovejoy and wins that trade you gotta feel bad. It sucks for the Ducks but at least he got a decent payday before apparently having his career ended by concussions.
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Feb 16, 2017 21:34
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fits posted:corey hirsch wrote a thing about his mental health struggles finally got around to reading this. i don't have anything to say that hasn't been said...but wow. that was a very vivid story. they really get across the sheer bewilderment of his problem, and you can really feel the relief when he finally gets a diagnosis. Ginette Reno posted:JR isn't afraid to make big trades so I wouldn't be surprised. What's more questionable to me is whether the Avs would accept a trade from the Pens. Surely another team can offer better than Maatta + first or whatever. i'd like rutherford to trade for duchene because i don't like the idea of counting on bonino magically finding his game just in time for the playoffs - being able to roll 3 scoring lines lines was so crucial for the penguins, and what team could possibly match up with 3 1st line centers (plus cullen, who's pretty much a 3C)? with that kind of center depth, plus the wingers the penguins have now, i feel like the defense almost wouldn't even matter. granted, what the penguins could offer the avalanche for duchene that they'd actually take is a mystery, because most deals i can think of don't make sense for the avs, but apparently it's a rumor with some traction lately
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Feb 16, 2017 22:51
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Aphrodite posted:I like how it hitches right when he does it so you can't see poo poo. yeah here's a better look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqSJQKCYrYo i admit, i have never played hockey, but i do own a pair of testicles attached to my body so i think that makes me qualified to say that was not an embellishment and was, in fact, a reasonable reaction to getting sticked in the nads also that penguins game left me with mixed feelings. schultz and maatta are dead, geno's probably going to get suspended, and fleury was bad...but sid got 1,000 (and 1,001 and 1,002), the penguins won, and it was exciting, so yay? Pornographic Memory fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Feb 17, 2017 |
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Feb 17, 2017 04:56
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Penguins recalled Cameron Gaunce and Steve Oleksy. I still barely know who Gaunce is but Oleksy is a lovely punchman so all I can hope for is that if he has to get into a pointless fight he at least gets Dubinsky good.
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Feb 17, 2017 17:27
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THE MACHO MAN posted:why the poo poo did Vermette only get 10??? Actually it was appealed and reduced to 5
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Feb 17, 2017 19:28
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a false posted:ive already posted this elsewhere but i am posting it here also because it is hockey related: last night i went to rangers - islanders game with my dad and cousin and uncle and the game was good but by far the best part of the experience was when this drunk loud 30 year old behind us who kept trying to start "JT (john tavares, captain of the new york islanders) SWALLOWS" chants which no one was interested in following along with got mercilessly owned by a 12 year old islanders fan further down his row who shouted "LOOKS LIKE YOU SWALLOW A LOT OF PORK CHOPS BIG BOY *slaps stomach*" and the guy tried to come up with a good comeback and couldnt and the kid went "WHATS THE MATTER, DID YOU JUST GET OUTSMARTED BY A 12 YEAR OLD" and the guy got extremely red and mad and started cursing out the kid and the guys girlfriend told him "you're arguing with a loving child, grow up" and he protested that the kid started it and she told him she didnt want to talk to him until he stops being a loving baby and i was extremely happy to watch this mans total emasculation at the hands of a preteen there's a lot to untangle in this story but one of my favorite parts might be that this kid probably would never come up with an insult like that if he was at a stage in life where he'd know what john tavares is supposed to be swallowing
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Feb 18, 2017 00:02
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"lets see him play for a couple decades like gordie howe before we make any claims about how great gretzky is  "i kind of love reading and watching people rip on gretzky just because it sounds so out there these days
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Feb 18, 2017 21:23
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hifi posted:I think they should put an asterisk next to his records because he was playing before the salary cap era, the mass lockout era, and the butterfly goaltending era but we can't make the nets bigger because
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Feb 19, 2017 21:56
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T-Bone posted:Anyway here's a quick and dirty team 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
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Feb 20, 2017 22:34
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:They've done one of these in Vegas my dude didnt that one get flooded by grasshoppers or some poo poo
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Feb 21, 2017 01:08
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The Blackhawks, Penguins, Bruins, Habs, and Jets have the most buttplug-like age distributions.
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Feb 21, 2017 02:06
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+/- sucks because it might as well be specifically made to penalize players for being leaned on by their teams offensively, doubly so if they're surrounded by lovely teams. If your coach only puts you on the power play but not the penalty kill? That only hurts your +/- because you can only get minuses while you're on the power play while penalty killers can only improve their +/-. Get lots of ice time because you're good, but your team is bad? That's just more opportunities for you to get minuses from your team mates' fuckups. Since it's a counting stat you're only going to go deeper into the hole the more you play. Not to mention if your coach puts you out for empty net situations because you're their best hope for scoring goals...more minuses!
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Feb 21, 2017 04:36
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Kalenn Istarion posted:Stop injecting alternative facts into my narrative sorry, i dont see you post enough to know if i should assume youre being ironic or not  Teemu Pokemon posted:Phil Kessel sucks he only has 8 hits phil kessel legitimately checked patrik laine off a puck during 3v3 last week and i couldnt believe my eyes. it was awesome
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Feb 21, 2017 04:59
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Look Around You posted:pix or it didnt happen i tried to find a shorter, root-announcer-less version, but this is as good as it will get - the full OT period https://streamable.com/ydems about 1/4 of the way in, during the sequence starting with about 3:50 left on the clock i mean yeah it wasn't a big hit, but he battled laine off the puck and thats as good as phil kessel is going to get with this kind of thing
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Feb 21, 2017 05:33
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Malkin got away with one with the Wheeler hit. Basically it comes down to the DoPS having no real fixed criteria or standards for what is or isn't suspendable or how long a suspension any infraction will get, so any given suspension is a crapshoot. It's pretty lucky that Wheeler wasn't hurt, at least. Chris Pronger probably saw Wheeler come back on the ice while Malkin was in the box and decided he put his head in the way of Malkin's elbow to draw a power play.
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Feb 21, 2017 20:48
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Look Around You posted:This reminded me that maatta got his hand messed up on a late hit in that same game and is out 4-6 weeks. Leaving us with 2 ahlers playing now from one game :/ at least maatta being on IR means cap space for the deadline
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Feb 21, 2017 22:23
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The Player's Tribune has a cool article about the Hockey Night Punjabi guy. It's pretty crazy that he wanted to become a broadcaster since he was like 4 years old and now he's living the dream having built up the Punjabi broadcast from the ground up.
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Feb 22, 2017 21:42
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JoelJoel posted:Is there any way to fix offer sheets or should they just get rid of them since we'll never see one again? get rid of the salary cap so team owners can weaponize them in pursuit of their petty rivalries with each other a la fedorov e: actually that wouldn't fix anything but i just wanted to mention it since the only other offer sheet everybody mentions is the also crazy weber offer sheet Pornographic Memory fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Feb 23, 2017 |
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Feb 23, 2017 00:57
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so i guess we'll find out the truth eventually but there's rumors that trevor daley's injury may have required season ending surgery and if that's true then i think jim rutherford should probably do whatever is necessary at the deadline to take advantage of the opportunity he has to ice a playoff team $7 million+ over the salary cap
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Feb 23, 2017 16:08
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Mind_Taker posted:I'm sure Ron Hainsey will fit in swimmingly with the Penguins up-tempo and puck-moving D. as long as he's competent at what he does he'll probably be ok. i mean this is a team that played ben lovejoy on their second pairing for significant stretches last season and playoffs, the penguins live and die by their forwards and the d as a group just needs to be not terrible, for the most part note: i know nothing about ron hainsey so i don't know, maybe this will actually be bad edit: https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/834785548854259713 
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Feb 23, 2017 16:41
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Slappy Pappy posted:I felt this way before they implemented them but I didn't realize the linesmen missed so many calls. Seems like more than half of the challenges are successful. Maybe we should just get rid of the linesmen and automate it all. Two less bozo's to clog up the ice. They'd still need linesmen just because they're basically the refs' muscle.
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Feb 23, 2017 22:08
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Why do hockey players fight each other so much anyway, it's only a game
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Feb 23, 2017 23:48
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despite alexander ovechkin and phil kessel being two of the most beloved players in the nhl, somehow i get the feeling that if you combined them not many kids would want (or be allowed to receive) their autograph Elite Prospects made a bunch more player mashups too, helpfully collected here.
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Feb 24, 2017 02:21
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Mind_Taker posted:Shea Weber only has 12 5v5 points on the year, which is the same number as Brooks Orpik or Andrew MacDonald. Weber has also played 200+ more minutes than both of these guys at 5v5. Wow you nerds and your fancy stats like "time on ice" and "even strength points", let me tell you something, I once saw PK Subban try and make a cute play with the puck...and lose it! Shea Weber won't do that, and he's big and mean, too. Because a guy hitting other guys so hard it makes them scared to do stuff and they play worse is a thing that happens at the NHL level. Plus Shea Weber is a good leader guy who knows how to win, which he's done a lot of during his time in Nashville, unlike PK Subban who just did so much losing in Montreal, except when some other guy lead them to winning.
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Feb 24, 2017 18:15
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Levitate posted:it's a pretty sweet pass to be honest but he didn't "anticipate a pass for a teammate sitting on the bench" he watched Miller get on the ice and skate to a position to receive the pass. yeah it was a good play, the description in the tweet just sucks. there's a lot of players who would probably just dump the puck in instead of holding onto it and going backwards in the neutral zone until a play presents itself also maple leafs #51 looks like he completely zoned out and didnt consider that he should maybe defend the guy right in front of him until "OH poo poo HE HAS THE PUCK NOW"
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Feb 24, 2017 21:44
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the flyers just played the canucks so pre-emptive gently caress the flyers for giving the penguins the mumps (again)
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Feb 24, 2017 23:05
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Ginette Reno posted:Schultz was on the top PP in practice and took line rushes in the top 6 so sounds like he's playing tomorrow which is good. in fairness this probably still only makes them equal with the flyers
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i hope david hakstol coaches the philadelphia flyers forever
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and the name of that veteran? albert einstein
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Pancakes by Mail posted:A veteran journeyman who had been part of many playoff pushes and been traded lots of times was waiting for the trade deadline to arrive. this is good but you forgot to say that the general manager "sneered quite statistically"
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Loqieu posted:Christ, didn't the first outbreak the other season take months to go away? This can easily continue into the playoffs. https://twitter.com/BizNasty2point0/status/836392853156745216 https://twitter.com/BizNasty2point0/status/836393317310947328 https://twitter.com/BizNasty2point0/status/836394122411823105 
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Pens will win the cup again but it will always be with an asterisk because the western teams will have to ice AHL/Euro Import rosters meanwhile the penguins are immune to the mumps because they all got it the last time it was going around e: hopefully
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Feb 28, 2017 03:22
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achillesforever6 posted:It turns out we are wrong PAS, we apparently need MAF to win a consecutive cup Murray is closer to the league lead in sv% than he is to MAF's sv% so anybody pretending they're near equivalent goaltenders at the present time is being downright farcical. If Murray is out for any reason in the playoffs MAF is going to have to have some of the hottest goaltending of his career to come near replacing him. That's hardly "depth", that's just having a starter and a backup like any other team.
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