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How do we know Lemieux's cancer didn't actually help him? Like how Daredevil's blindness improves his other senses.
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It's going to be fun watching the Devils overpay for a mediocre goalie I guess mediocre is a step above outright disaster, but gently caress it let's tank one more year
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Aphrodite posted:Test Cricket only has 12 participating countries. Hockey has 59. A billion people in India play/watch cricket, a full 1/7 of the world's population. Add in Pakistan and Bangladesh and you're almost up to one and a half billion. It's not a niche sport.
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HookShot posted:A billion people in India play/watch cricket, a full 1/7 of the world's population. Add in Pakistan and Bangladesh and you're almost up to one and a half billion. Yeah but almost no Americans and therefore its not relevant because only America is allowed to decided what is good.
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ThinkTank posted:American Football has two countries that play it so by that metric is the most niche sport imaginable. Gretzky's absolutely the best hockey player of all time, but "best athlete any sport has ever seen" is something else entirely. Gretzky dominated a league populated mostly by upper middle class Canadians, which, while they are very nice people and very good hockey players, represent a teeny tiny pool of athletic talent relative to more popular sports. I'd also argue that "number of participants" is a much more useful measure of a sport's talent pool than "number of countries that play it."
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HookShot posted:A billion people in India play/watch cricket, a full 1/7 of the world's population. Add in Pakistan and Bangladesh and you're almost up to one and a half billion. Yeah but they don't buy jerseys. quote:Gretzky dominated a league populated mostly by upper middle class Canadians Oh yeah you don't see any of that in Organized Colonialism.
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goldrush posted:vegas going 0-for-17 across 3 consecutive shootout losses is incredible, and very hilarious. thank you for blessing us, hockey gods Too bad, so sad Eich https://twitter.com/jackeichel/status/1456281107004108803?s=20&t=AcnPhSvI_PFRe0sJjLebtA https://cdn1-hfboards.mandatory.com/data/video/465/465851-3ea48d3801f78ec6931ed6635331ff55.mp4
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A front office so inept that they got fleeced by the Buffalo Sabres, while Kucheroving their best player for the privilege and missing the playoffs by a point. I can't imagine how in the hell anyone in the front office can survive this glorious debacle.
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Is it still former Caps GM George McPhee running the show?
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Eric the Mauve posted:A front office so inept that they got fleeced by the Buffalo Sabres, while Kucheroving their best player for the privilege and missing the playoffs by a point. I don't know if they got fleeced by the Sabres. Eichel is still an exceptional player coming off significant midseason surgery. I expect he'll be a lot better next year. Tuch is better than expected but Krebs is a pretty average prospect. I'd still do that deal from the Knights' perspective every time. The subsequent cap cheating blowing up in their faces is really, really fun though.
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Tuch is better than Eichel right now. I'd say he will probably always be better than Eichel, but playing for the Sabers broke Eichel and it'll break Tuch too, soon enough.Cartoon Man posted:Is it still former Caps GM George McPhee running the show? He's the PHO I think
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ThinkTank posted:I don't know if they got fleeced by the Sabres. Eichel is still an exceptional player coming off significant midseason surgery. I expect he'll be a lot better next year. Tuch is better than expected but Krebs is a pretty average prospect. I'd still do that deal from the Knights' perspective every time. The subsequent cap cheating blowing up in their faces is really, really fun though. Either the surgery worked and Eichel's going to bounce back, or Buffalo was right all along and Eichel sold himself as a bill of goods to Las Vegas.
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Sens' current lineup heading into next season: Brown - Stutzle - Batherson Tkachuk - Norris - Joseph Formenton - Pinto - White Gaudette - Kelly - Watson Chabot - Hamonic Brannstrom - Zub Sanderson - Holden (MDZ - Zaitsev) Forsberg Gustavsson (Murray) The forward group would look pretty good on paper if they added another top-6 winger. With the progression this year from Stutzle and Batherson, it doesn't seem unreasonable for those 2 to be close to PPG players next year. Tkachuk and Norris are both proving to be dependable 60-70 point players, and Joseph was scoring at a good rate with those 2 before he went down with an injury. Adding another winger would push Brown down to the third line, and give the team three fairly good scoring lines. If Pinto doesn't work out as the third line centre, they have White waiting in the wings, assuming he's not bought out. Feels like there might be some buyouts this summer, probably Murray and White. Buying out Murray would save the team $5m overall, and they've already signed his replacements in Forsberg and Gustavsson. I can also see Dorion trying to trade Zaitsev, since he's been replaced by Hamonic and he's got signing bonuses due in the next 2 years, though it would probably have to be an Arizona-type deal where he gives up an asset. Defence is still pretty weak outside of Chabot and Zub, but if Sanderson can have a big year, the team might be alright. Brannstrom remains an enigma. He has some games where he looks like he takes over, and others where he's a clear liability. For a smaller offensive/transition d-man, he puts up almost no points. Getting rid of Zaitsev would be addition by subtraction. If Hamonic is pencilled in to take his place with Chabot, the team's likely better than they were to start this year, even though Hamonic's still pretty bad. MDZ is likely on the outside looking in, even though he had a perfectly respectable year - .5ppg in limited minutes in Ottawa, and over a PPG in the AHL, without looking like a liability defensively. Biggest question, as it has been for Ottawa since Anderson left, is goaltending. If Forsberg plays like he did in the second half of this year, I can see them pushing for a wildcard spot. If he doesn't, it's likely going to be another finish like this year and last year, drafting between 8th and 12th. Would have been really nice if they picked up a potential top-6 forward like Sillinger with their 10th overall pick last year, instead of wasting it on a worse Nick Ritchie / the forward version of Dylan McIlrath. bub spank fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Apr 28, 2022 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:Tuch is better than Eichel right now I'm all for piling on the Knights but let's not go crazy here
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Yeah in the Knights games I've watched Eichel has looked like a really good player getting back up to speed after missing nearly the entire season. If he doesn't put up 75+pts next year then maybe he's a letdown, but he was perfectly fine for the Knights given the circumstances.
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Tage Thompson on the other hand, now that's an interesting question. Does he still have another step up to him? How the gently caress did he put up this season because nothing at any level in his career suggested he had this in him, but he was an absolute monster in the games I saw him playing
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Isn't Eichel still the top scoring player on Vegas despite having played like 20 games for them or something? I vaguely remember hearing something like that from the commentators when I was watching them play a few weeks ago.
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Over the 33 games he played yes. Way down the list overall with 22 points. I don't think it's controversial to suggest you'd rather have had Tuch than Eichel the past few months with Eichel still off the pace and avoiding contact like the plague. It's pretty much Phil Kessel Playing Center at this point and that's still pretty good but not what you're hoping for when you give up Tuch and tank your season Kucheroving your captain to game the cap for it. Placing a gigantic loving bet on Eichel's health and willingness to play a contract sport going forward is in character for Vegas at least.
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https://twitter.com/TSN_PR/status/1519723229048451072?t=0GYGF6Ry6VfzlA67lEJADA&s=19 this season just keeps getting shittier  Beyak is definitely getting old and has trouble identifying players sometimes but I still loved him and we're going to miss him badly. They keep bringing dumbass Kevin Sawyer back to do color so I don't have high hopes for the next PBP guy they hire.
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/trentbuhler/status/1519506311100047361 omg I want this so bad
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FBS posted:https://twitter.com/TSN_PR/status/1519723229048451072?t=0GYGF6Ry6VfzlA67lEJADA&s=19 Leah Hextall loves Winnipeg. I'm sure ESPN would be okay letting her go. I do agree it's a loss. I'll pick the Winnipeg feed to watch before most of the US options when I tune in.
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How is the Vegas cap situation going to look for next year? They have so many big name players signed, I can't believe it fits together without shenanigangs.
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Aphrodite posted:Oh yeah you don't see any of that in Organized Colonialism. Why are you bringing up rugby like that?
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Carwash oval office posted:How is the Vegas cap situation going to look for next year? They have so many big name players signed, I can't believe it fits together without shenanigangs. CapFriendly has them about $1M over with 18 skaters signed. The only real loss from what I can see is Reilly Smith, Friedman mentioned in 32 Thoughts that there have been talks about signing him but that seems actually impossible. Vegas is probably going to need to shed a big-ish contract I’m the off-season, my money would be they just work something legal out for Dadonov.
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Depending on how things end up with Lehner, they can probably be okay by trading Brossoit and running with Thompson as the full time backup, then dumping Janmark. The athletic post mortem highlighted how much they need to dump DeBoer. The entire roster is basically fun and gun, and he's a very deliberate pace controlling coach.
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he didn't do well in Philly for reasons beyond his control IMO. but if AV can still do it, he'd be great for that team.
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/trentbuhler/status/1519506311100047361 this rules
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https://twitter.com/scottcwheeler/status/1519740112854298624?s=20&t=rY1WLsOaLPAlUlnE6QxQRg The ref left the game. No word on his condition. I hope he's okay that's scary as gently caress. e: https://twitter.com/scottcwheeler/status/1519771192114266112?s=20&t=rY1WLsOaLPAlUlnE6QxQRg That's good. Still awful though. Poor guy.
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Daily faceoff posted an oral history of the 97 wings team which is pretty great, especially since it features my favorite player as a child being an absolute dick https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/oral-history-the-1996-97-detroit-red-wings-season/ quote:MCCARTY: I sat beside ‘Kozzie’ for 10 years. He’s the grumpiest man in pro hockey.
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First time in forever I can remember feeling this hopeful about Ottawas future, enjoy it in hell Melnyk. Hopeful that his daughters sell the team this summer and the new owner cleans house, starting with the Pierres. I used to think Trent Mann did a decent job with the draft, but after literally every pick was wildly off the board and followed it up with terrible d+1 seasons, it’s clear some new perspectives are needed. If there wasn’t a gigantic consensus of the top 3 picks in 2020 there’s no doubt in my mind they would have big brained the pick and taken like fuckin Cole Perfetti
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Good soup! posted:I'm going to watch the final flyers game just to give it the proper sendoff Come to the playoff thread and cheer for the Florida Panthers and our boy Claude.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:he didn't do well in Philly for reasons beyond his control IMO. but if AV can still do it, he'd be great for that team. AV is a control systems coach not a run and gun coach so that's kinda diagonal side grade
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I think the reality for Vegas is that they are no longer going to be three lines deep up front going forward. The harsher reality is that I don't think they can really even trust their Top 6. Marchessault and Pacioretty are getting kind of long in the tooth. Stone is turning 30 and entering into perpetually banged up territory. Karlsson stole a paycheck this year and is lucky Eichel was around to take the heat. Which leaves the giant question mark that is Eichel.
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Simplex posted:I think the reality for Vegas is that they are no longer going to be three lines deep up front going forward. The harsher reality is that I don't think they can really even trust their Top 6. Marchessault and Pacioretty are getting kind of long in the tooth. Stone is turning 30 and entering into perpetually banged up territory. Karlsson stole a paycheck this year and is lucky Eichel was around to take the heat. Which leaves the giant question mark that is Eichel. Lessail ? That you ?
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Alec Martinez and Alex Pietrangelo are 34 and 32 respectfully, and are gonna start taking steps back, and Pietrangelo has a full NMC through 5 more seasons. Pietrangelo will be 37 with a $8.8M cap hit and a full NMC. Vegas has 2 full NMC contracts, and 6 M-NTC contracts and have traded away a lot of picks and prospects over the years, they're gonna have a hard time staying competitive unless they can develop a bunch of their 2nd round pick prospects.
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The Dirty Burger posted:William Karlsson owns for hitting 40+ goals once and then never coming close again, his career goal numbers: 2, 1, 9, 6, 43, 24, 15, 14, 11. I'm not fully satisfied until we come full circle on the would you rather have William Karlsson or Josh Anderson debate.
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