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Thing I learned from tonight's very bad and boring "rivalry game": Chicago employs a gentleman named Schmaltz. As an aside, is it a rivalry because Pittsburgh crushed Chicago in the SCF in the 90's?
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My fav part of that video is watching the three defenders stack up in the slot leaving that dude time to just pick a corner. Like goalie doesn't challenge, defenders don't even stick check him until the shot is already in the net.
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Mar 2, 2017 14:17
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Honestly, from a business standpoint it makes more sense. Just like the loser point. Make a bad team seem competitive so a casual fan has a rooting interest because they have theoretical chance. Adding a play in game does this just as well. (It's a terrible fuckin idea from a hockey fan's perspective but if you wanna argue dollars, it puts more money in everyone's pockets. I know this as someone who experienced this phenomenon by being Pittsburgh Pirate fan adjacent for the past 5 years.)
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Mar 6, 2017 18:41
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You are the 3-4th best team in the league, congrats, you get to play the 2nd best team in the league because gently caress you.
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Mar 6, 2017 18:46
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Pornographic Memory posted:I'm glad Orpik is the Caps' problem now so I can enjoy his tough guy antics blowing up in his face like that I do miss his crazy rear end stare though.
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Mar 7, 2017 17:21
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The time the Washington fan needs to worry. Anytime they hear the words "game seven."
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Mar 7, 2017 18:21
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Thufir posted:Yeah IIRC someone figured the best guys add like 5-6 expected goals a season. I mean if you are strictly speaking goals, sure. But what about the defensive aspect of a good face off guy on the PK or a clean face off win starting the cycle in the offensive zone keeping the opposing team hemmed in their own zone. I mean the crux of your previous statement boils down to "it doesn't matter who has possession of the puck."
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Mar 10, 2017 04:24
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Best tool in a ref toolbox is being a passive aggressive dick and kicking the face off dude out. It's real good as a low stakes punitive measure. Also, throwing a good face off dude against a fuckin plugger will more then 50% of the time will result in the plugger losing the draw and also be switched positions with the center.
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glynnenstein posted:Ovechkin is also playing 2 minutes less a night as a result of both an intentional strategy to try to save him for the postseason more than in years past and because the team needs him less than it ever has with solid contributions from the other lines, especially the third. I mean, why don't they wait until the third round of the playoffs when they won't need him at all?
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Rotten Cookies posted:Ho-Sang to Tavares has me rock hard busting through my jorts. That's a weird song name.
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Mar 15, 2017 03:23
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I wanna take credit to be the first one that ever called him Super Nintendo Hjalmarson 6 years ago but I probably didn't.
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Mar 15, 2017 16:01
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My favorite hockey fact right now is the reward for being the third best team in the league is playing the 2nd best team in the league in the first round.
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Mar 18, 2017 18:46
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JawKnee posted:just wait for Kawalimus to show up They got Kawalimus and we got toxicsunset so it's a push.
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Mar 19, 2017 23:18
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Matt Zerella posted:He's always doomsaying. Always. I am pretty sure he was doomsaying the Baltimore Ravens next season hopes in the thread posted hours after they won the super bowl a few years back.
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Mar 19, 2017 23:50
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Much unlike a Trump Presidency, there are many intelligent people I like and respect that want the Caps to win.
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Mar 20, 2017 02:48
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How happy would Washington be If Boston fell out of the playoffs and the Lightning sneak into the 2nd wildcard? I hear they really like to play the Lightning, almost as much as the Rangers.
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Mar 22, 2017 02:51
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CBJSprague24 posted:They already deliberately scheduled the national championship pep rally right in the middle of Columbus' All-Star Weekend when there was a vacant, perfectly good Saturday the week before. I feel good for the Jackets, I really do. Lumbus is in just as an economically depressed area as the rest of us rust belt assholes but hasn't been able to pour their stress and fear into a pro-sports team and for the briefest of fleeting days feel like life is fulfilling. Not monotonous droning of disappointment and responsibility. "We did it boys," somebody who is definitely not projecting might say, "now we can rest."
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Mar 22, 2017 20:34
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I am a nobody but Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby both give me high fives at the same time while I sell them Range Rovers. Boy what nice guys to totally remember and acknowledge poor, unfortunate me.
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Mar 24, 2017 13:24
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Duke Chin posted:The blonde No Country For Old Men looking dude? Didn't know they were doing that poo poo last night I thought Phil the Stanley Cup guy played for the Penguins.
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Mar 26, 2017 13:58
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Hahah we are still talking about Sidney Crosby's slash? Man, for people who thinks everyone talks about him too much, ya'll talking big yay about the dude.
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Mar 27, 2017 02:35
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Suspicious posted:Sometimes it does result in a no-goal. In this instance it resulted in an Oh No! goal.
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Mar 28, 2017 03:27
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I know it won't happen, but a deep hidden part of me is afraid there is a David Poile-esque paperwork error and GM Rutherford forgets to protect Crosby and Malkin.
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Mar 28, 2017 22:25
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Mind_Taker posted:I think Bruce Boudreau is a really good coach but I really just don't know how you leave Ovechkin wide-open 3 times on the PP in his spot. Like...you coached the dude for 5 seasons and literally like half of his goals are from that spot. It's no secret he's going to try to sock a few dingers from the left dot. Literally every time it's brought up, you cannot have someone camp out on Ovechkin on the circle. You are giving up an incredibly likely goal to stop a somewhat less likely goal. It doesn't make sense, which is why you've never seen ANYONE do it. You think the PK coaches are like, "gently caress me, how come we never watched video of their powerplay!"
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Mar 29, 2017 04:39
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Okay, for our OilAS friends, the Stanley Cup playoffs is played in a best of 7 games series between 16 seeded teams with the winner of 4 games in a series advancing to the next round matched up against a winner of a different series. 16 games are needed to win the Stanley Cup! Good luck and have fun!
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Quote is not edit. I hope you enjoy playoff posting GuavaMoment and wayner.
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