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Nissin Cup Nudist
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ThinkTank posted:

The Kings last few seasons are probably the worst successful period for any franchise ever.


2011-12: 8th seed, win the Cup.
2012-13: 5th seed, lose in Conference Finals
2013-14: 3rd in the Pacific, win the Cup
2014-15: Miss the Playoffs
2015-16: 2nd in the Pacific, out in the first round
2016-17: Miss the playoffs

They never bettered 102pts over that stretch and managed a stunning 95 in their first cup win year. They genuinely never had a good regular season, and they have more cup wins in their history (2) than division titles (1). They just got hot at exactly the right time twice, but otherwise kinda sucked.

2 cups

That's the important part

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The NHL is so loving stupid

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Bring back ties, gently caress the shootout

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I wish the NHL could force out Katz over this a la Sterling

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Someone should give Jim Montgomery a good look

He's pretty good

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I think the Kings upper management is quite dumb

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fits posted:

stars hired hitchcock :laffo:

also isles make doug weight official head coach instead of just interm

:laffo: to all of this

ThinkTank posted:

There's nothing wrong with Carter Hart, but he's not some A level prospect or anything. The Flyers are the classic example of overdrafting based on short term NHL level need instead of long term outlook so now they have three goalies of the future and they won't be able to find ice time for all of them. That likely means they'll have to move or waive one or two and that's basically just a sunk cost in the end.

I disagree. Goalies are complete voodoo crapshoots, drafting one every year in hopes one finally pans out is a good move imo.

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Having watched a men's game and a women's game on consecutive days, the thing that most struck me was the speed. The women's game was slooooow and I'm not sure how you overcome that

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Jim Montgomery is legit, Denver was suffocating this year. Dude paid his dues at every level

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ThinkTank posted:

Future considerations have him at 28. There are a few goaltenders clustered around the late first/early second at the moment. Luukonen, Mike DiPietro and Oettinger are the prominent ones. It's a toss up as to who's best (probably Oettinger but then again it's very hard to project goalies and I don't follow European prospects). I could see the Rangers taking one of them in the late first round. They don't have any goalies of note coming up, but can be patient for a few more years while Hank closes out his career.

Is he related to Rick?

Oettinger was pretty good in the two games of his I watched

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Did Ryan Lambert use to post here? I saw "r-lam" pop in archives when I was looking for something

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Teemu Pokemon posted:

r-lam was actually a cool and good poster who is actually probably the best writer on puck daddy (though that is a pretty low bar to clear) completely independent of the justified reason you have said that caused him to leave

If r-lam is the best writer by stealing jokes from goons, does that mean goons are actually the best hockey writers around?

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I wonder how many Nashville players will get called as witnesses. The entire bench was looking at Wideman

#63 Nashville reaction is amazing

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Ummagumma posted:

On one end, some key players are getting up there in years and Nashville's speed clearly gave them fits all series. Some of the rookies who played pretty well in the regular season and made the top seed possible, on the other hand, looked pretty overwhelmed in their first playoff series (Hartman and Schmaltz).

And the fancy stats crowd did point to Nashville being a lot better than their regular season record, so it's not all smoke and mirrors with them, I think.

Someone pointed out that Nashville had a better GD than Chicago if you exclude empty net, OT, and shootout goals

Chicago was like +20 in empty net, OT, and shootout goals :lol:

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Firing Sutter to hire John Stevens is not a good decision imo

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DJExile posted:

Oh Holmgren :3:

post the Jeff Carter one

Thanks LA for voiding Richards' deal

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ThinkTank posted:

I'm sure a lot of people say "we just want a cup, I don't care who takes us there" but it's a different story when you have the plan on how to get there filtered through an interpreter every night. Less than 1 in 10 people in Quebec speak English. I'm sure that the "it doesn't matter" sentiment is commonplace in Montreal where it's more even, but I'm sure there are a poo poo load of fans on the Gaspe peninsula who'd beg to differ.

I think I found the problem. What do these people do when they have to interact with a non-Quebecois?

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Hahaha Flyers pick 2nd yeeeeeeeees

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tanking rules, you just gotta trust the process

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Brayden Schenn is alright

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Kalenn Istarion posted:

My son's baseball team had 4 Liam's on it.

How many Noel's?


I'm not sure Gudas even knew who he was punching. He saw a guy out of the corner of his eye and punched him for the hell of it. While Guess was talking to a ref. Its like that scene where Hulk punches Thor

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Hello Blues fans

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Kovy should go to Vegas

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fits posted:

msg has a special property tax exemption that immediately ends if rangers or knicks ever play a home game outside msg

hahaha this is a real thing that exists?

:capitalism:

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fits posted:

it was originally only supposed to be for 10 years but they didnt write that part into the actual law, so welp

hahaha good job New York



I made a draft thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3819952

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all time image right here

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Vegas offense should be alright if they continue their plan of signing the Russian National Tine

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Wrong thread

Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 21:40 on May 25, 2017

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Lou's problem is that he went senile a few years ago and no one told him otherwise

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Penguins also racist

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DJExile posted:

Flyers have signed Oskar Lindblom to an ELC

Yay

Easy call

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Someone post the slides from the Ottawa Sports Conference. Vegas will easily be better than Colorado and Canucks

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Flyers picked up the the Erie Otters coach to be an assistant

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Flyers Protection list

Forwards
Giroux (NMC)
Flippula (NMC)
Simmonds (NMC)
Schenn
Vorachek
Couturier
Laughton

Defense
Ghost Bear
Gudas
Manning

Goalie
Stolarz


Other options: Flyers can go with Cousins/Weal/Read/etc instead of Laughton. They're all kinda JAGy to an extent. Andrew MacDonald instead of Manning because the Flyers org really loves Andrew MacDonald for some insane reason

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Super teams are good when my team is the super team and bad when my team is not

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Girardi and Staal were pretty good once, right? They just got old and busted?

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Thats a neat trade

Big fan of swap deals

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Giving up Madsen kinda sucks

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DJExile posted:

yeah but it's not as if the well is otherwise dry on goalie prospects right now

which is a strange and foreign feeling, mind you, but yeah

They wanted to dump Cousins, sure. But why throw in Madsen?

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Steve Mason needs a job

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