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Ginette Reno posted:Wonder how long the Pens will wait before Ltiring Letang Usually meddling ownership is the worst thing in the world but I really hope in this case FSG steps in and refuses to let Burke trade away All The Draft Picks including the Bedard lottery ticket in a desperate effort to save his job. Without Letang, it's over. The time to detonate and start the rebuilding has come.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:If they take Dumoulin and Letang is LTIR'd forever they'd still need to retain a bit to make him fit. Throw in Kapanen and we have plenty of room then. They'd have to give San Jose like three 1sts but if they could pull a Kucherov and get Letang back for the playoffs, it could be just crazy enough to work. e: Dumo has a limited NTC amd and San Jose is probably on his blacklist though
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Dec 1, 2022 19:43
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That'll buy him another 4 months of drifting through shifts like a restless ghost
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Dec 2, 2022 03:48
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If a team like the Caps wants to sell, they should be selling now not at the deadline if an acceptable return is to be had, to maximize their Bedard lottery tickets. But they are not going to sell, because of Ovechkin. Just like the Penguins aren't going to sell as long as Crosby is there. Both teams will be buyers this year.
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tbh Bruce is almost 70 and may well be past it, both tactically and motivationally. But no, no he is definitely not The Problem in Vancouver.
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The Dirty Burger posted:And also that they have Unfinished Business Yeah they've been leaving a lot unfinished this year
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Binnington has some very serious anger management issues and probably needs therapy. Dude is out of control a lot.
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They've been making tweaks to goalie equipment rules to make them smaller every year or two for the past decade. The rising shot percentage is mostly due to that and slightly increased enforcement of interference/crosschecking (but probably more due to the extra power plays than the rule enforcement itself) Enjoy it while it lasts, inevitably they will get lax on enforcing those rules and scoring will plummet again
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I wonder what it's like for McDavid every November when he realizes, nope, not going to win the Cup this year either. He's creeping up on being old enough that it will begin to dawn on him that he is never going to win the Cup.
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Dec 7, 2022 22:53
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McDavid will finally get his Cup as a deadline pickup in 2030 as the Penguins lift their third Stanley Cup of the Bedard Era
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I get what you're driving at but that's a big oversell. Ovechkin was so dangerous that he warped the game hard in his team's favor just by being on the ice. He is a bit overrated in a historical context because his value is 95% on offense, but purely on offense he is right there with Gretzky and Lemieux as the most offensively valuable players ever, despite not being on their level as a passer/distributor (though he is underrated in that area). Crosby was the better player because Crosby was also an elite defensive forward, but Toews, Kane, Stamkos? lol come on. As for "most accomplished", well, the Capitals have won more games than any team in the NHL during Ovechkin's career, despite having zero (0) long term players besides Ovechkin who are likely to ever be in the Hall of Fame.
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Guentzel did two lovely things (slashing Anderson when it was clear the puck was frozen, then slashing Skinner) but Skinner obviously also went way overboard. Kind of surprising coming from a guy who really doesn’t fight or get many penalties at all. Yeah it was weird seeing Skinner give a poo poo, if only for a few seconds
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Spelling Mitsake posted:What happened with Skinner anyway? He seemed to completely collapse as soon as the Sabres resigned him, but now he looks to be back in his old form. Why was he so bad for a couple years? Yeah to restate what BB said more pithily, the answers are "he stopped giving a poo poo" and "much better linemates" respectively.
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Ginette Reno posted:Letang loves hockey. And he hates everyone and everything else.
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Mind_Taker posted:I just looked it up on Natural Stat Trick: So you're saying the best pure goal scorer ever is really good at scoring goals in this particular man advantage situation? Sounds suspect imo.
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DancingMachine posted:Some Kraken twitter guy speculates a Tolvanen-Wright-Sprong all-offense 4th line when Wright returns. Yeah that definitely sounds like the kind of thing Dave Hakstol would do
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Chytil is a good enough player but if replacing him is your biggest offseason problem you're in pretty good shape.
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kill me now posted:No one is betting on the ducks to win outside of someone hoping for a long shot. I am, in fact, betting on the Ducks to win, because Maple Leafs gonna Maple Leafs baybee
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Dec 13, 2022 22:39
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It's only a matter of time before all teams in all NA sports are in the playoffs every year and they do ladders. Playoffs = $$$.
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8 divisions of 4 teams, the 1st place teams all automatically go to the playoffs, intradivisional 4th vs. 3rd, winner vs. 2nd ladders for the other 8 teams. That's where we're gonna end upGinette Reno posted:Petry to IR: They'll be fine, I mean how important is it to have right defensemen really?
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Hey remember when CAS wanted Laviolette fired and the Caps to trade away everything not nailed down, way back like 2 weeks ago
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On the other hand, a career of conserving energy for the sole purpose of socking dingers is doubtless a major cause in the durability and longevity that will make him the #1 goalscorer ever.
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imo the Sens have decent talent and just need a competent coach.
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DancingMachine posted:Wait so you're allowed to just ram the guy with the puck coming down the ice? Why doesn't the defense just do that on every play? It's extremely difficult to hit the guy square on and pretty much requires him to not be paying attention, usually you'll whiff which takes you completely out of the play and also can get you injured. Plus it's hard to line him up without it being charging. Reaves can try it because hitting/cheapshotting/trying to injure dudes is his entire job and taking himself out of the play doesn't matter since he does nothing useful hockeywise anyway. But 95% of players will just infuriate their coach if they go for the big open ice hit and miss. It's actually one of the most obvious differences between hockey now and hockey 20+ years ago, watch any game from the late 90s and there are dudes flying around trying for big open ice hits and usually missing all the time. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Dec 15, 2022 |
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No it's fine when Ryan Reaves does it because it's Part Of His Game. Now I finally understand why it's actually cool and good when Tom Wilson routinely tries to kill people on the ice, sure any other guy should be suspended for months but for him it's OK since attempted murder is Part Of His Game.
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Seriously, we always wonder what the hell the DOPS is thinking. That is exactly and unironically what they and everyone else in hockey believes and why Tom Wilson and Ryan Reaves are genuinely heroes to them, brave knights errant, the last Real Men in hockey. It was the victimized player's coach that said that poo poo about "nah it's cool, that's just part of his game, our guy should have kept his head up".
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If you're talking about a player who can't really play but is on the ice for the sole purpose of trying to hurt people, I think Reaves is the last full time punchman. There are a few others that bounce up from the minors a few times a year for Rivalry Games or whatever bullshit. Otherwise it's guys like Wilson and Scheifle and Trouba, etc., who regularly take runs but are in the lineup because they can play.
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I keep telling you all, Tom Wilson is 100.0% going to be head of DOPS after he retires
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The Golden Man posted:That hit fuckin rocked... blew that dudes rear end up drat... Hi George
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Who had December 15 in the pool?
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I assume it basically means healthy scratch, i.e. still counts against the cap
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Calling it now, Ruff will be fired with the Devils in 6th place in late January
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rex has been over it in fine detail but Hakstol's system is practically designed to make his goalies look bad and feel bad. If you take the models at their word then he's got nearly a decade now of good defensive teams always being let down by their lovely goaltenders.
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You know what the NHL needs, even more back-to-backs for players to shuffle through like zombies. So entertaining! DUMP THAT PUCK! (stomp stomp stomp) DUMP THAT PUCK!
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Anyone should be happy to get 10:1 against the Penguins making the playoffs, much less loving 50:1. 98% that's just lunacy.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:I think Vegas is pretty on-target with them. 75% to make the playoffs feels right with 6 good teams in the Metro and 3 in the Atlantic. Yeah that's about where I'd put them, around 70-75%. I bet no way in hell would Dom actually lay 9-to-1 with his own money, much less anything close to the 49-to-1 he so confidently claims.
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eXXon posted:Why are there so many loving hockey players named Cale or Kale, I've never met a single C/Kale in my life are they all prairie farm boys? Is it something in the soil they can only grow them west of the Great Lakes? There are, uh, three Cales and one Kale that have ever played in the NHL, one of them 15 years ago? Jamwad Hilder posted:yea it's really noticeable lately. he struggles to speak sometimes. i think he's almost 70 so maybe he'll retire soon. I just listened to the Bruins/Knights broadcast and was wondering if he had a sore throat or something, it is very noticeable. He also messed up the names of Knights players several times.
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I kinda feel what you're saying, but if you think Hakstol and Maurice and Torts are running the same system as Cooper and Sullivan, I don't even know how to begin to respond to that
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clean ayers act posted:was bored at one point last night and watched a bit of a PHF game on espn+ (apparently it was an outdoor game??) That's because the NBA actively backs the WNBA way more than the NHL does the PHF.
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