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NHL October 2017 [OT]- Kneelin' and dealin'

lamaroo

Unconfirmed Member
Well surely the fact that we'll be 1-6-1 after tonight should be enough to trigger Molson to start making some calls, if he hasn't already.

It's a process.

Building a winner takes time.

There's going to be ups and downs.

Corsi.

Trading for players is hard.
 

Cake Boss

Banned
Capital Gains‏

we should really start calling him Coy Ceci because there's no D when he's on the ice

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Pikma

Banned
Clayton Keller is fuckin great (Hjalmarsson too) but the Coyotes are a mess right now. Tocchet isn't adding anything.

Goligoski and Demers can't play together because they form the worst pairing in the league when they do. Starting to understand why they didn't play together in Dallas.
This post made me laugh😂

Goligoski is a dumpster fire wherever you put him though
 

Ondor

Banned
Also, this is the hit that the Bruins scored 3 goals on the major on:

https://gfycat.com/ediblegloomycockatiel

...... Yeah that's well deserved. Ouch.

Fucking Gudbranson and Del Zotto can't go a game without one of them just fucking everything up.
It was a bad hit but I still don't think he deserved to get an instigator penalty on top of that.

Fucking MDZ, though. On ice for 4 goals against and only 2 goals for. He's a massive liability
 

Cake Boss

Banned
Boucher will get fired for his stubborness of overplaying shitty bottom 6 players and his inability to develop young talent at NHL level.

/🍰's prediction
 

Delryk

Member
Boucher will get fired for his stubborness of overplaying shitty bottom 6 players and his inability to develop young talent at NHL level.

/🍰's prediction

.. and thats why Tampa Bay was amazing the first year, ok the second, and fired the third i think. Tampa Bay's been getting better and better, so it wasn't a team thing (unless the players didn't want to play for him anymore)
 

Montresor

Member
So on Sportsnet highlights they just showed a tweet from Brad Marchand that said:

"At what point will the @MapleLeafs start playing Auston Matthews 1-5 to make it fair for other teams."

And the lady on Sportsnet said "Pretty high praise for Matthews". I raised my eyebrows at that. I get the impression that the tweet was completely sarcastic.
 

zroid

Banned
So on Sportsnet highlights they just showed a tweet from Brad Marchand that said:

"At what point will the @MapleLeafs start playing Auston Matthews 1-5 to make it fair for other teams."

And the lady on Sportsnet said "Pretty high praise for Matthews". I raised my eyebrows at that. I get the impression that the tweet was completely sarcastic.

Probably more facetious than sarcastic, I think
 

Reckheim

Member
So on Sportsnet highlights they just showed a tweet from Brad Marchand that said:

"At what point will the @MapleLeafs start playing Auston Matthews 1-5 to make it fair for other teams."

And the lady on Sportsnet said "Pretty high praise for Matthews". I raised my eyebrows at that. I get the impression that the tweet was completely sarcastic.

... it was 100% sarcastic and I am loving that our dumb media is eating that shit up.
 

Silexx

Member
Boucher will get fired for his stubborness of overplaying shitty bottom 6 players and his inability to develop young talent at NHL level.

/🍰's prediction

I saw someone on Twitter mention this, but a possible reason why the Senators have lost their home games and won on the road is that when Boucher gets the last change, he's starts playing chess against himself. Like if yesterday's game was on the road, Karlsson would have started that OT because Guy wouldn't have gotten the matchup he wanted, so might as well just put your best player on the ice.
 

Cake Boss

Banned
Daily reminder that Millard is the dumbest fuck to ever talk about hockey.

The best thing Bryan Murray did in his career was calling out that idiot during an interview. I don't remember the exact words but essentially it was " You are no James Duthie " to Darren Skunk Jay Leno Millard while he was interviewing him.
 

Cake Boss

Banned
I saw someone on Twitter mention this, but a possible reason why the Senators have lost their home games and won on the road is that when Boucher gets the last change, he's starts playing chess against himself. Like if yesterday's game was on the road, Karlsson would have started that OT because Guy wouldn't have gotten the matchup he wanted, so might as well just put your best player on the ice.

Still doesn't explain why Logan Brown gets to play 2 games in 2 weeks and averages 5 minutes of ice time.

If Boucher was coaching the Leafs, Mathews will probably be on a 4th line getting 9 minutes of ice time cuz of vets and 'reasons'.
 

Silexx

Member
Still doesn't explain why Logan Brown gets to play 2 games in 2 weeks and averages 5 minutes of ice time.

If Boucher was coaching the Leafs, Mathews will probably be on a 4th line getting 9 minutes of ice time cuz of vets and 'reasons'.

I wasn't discounting Boucher's penchant for veteran players over younger ones. I mean, it's plain as day that this is the case, but there's also a case to be made that Boucher seems to overthink things and doesn't like putting his best players against the other teams best players even when ours can outplay theirs.
 

MetatronM

Unconfirmed Member
Brett Cyrgalis‏ Verified account @BrettCyrgalis 4m 4 minutes ago
Vigneault said that Rick Nash is the "image" of #NYR. He's "a beast" and he's "working his bag off" -- but only has one goal.

Henrik Lundqvist gets the start against the Perds for brunch tomorrow.
 

Wingfan19

Unconfirmed Member
Sounds like the Wings may have a deal ready to sign AA for 1 year at 1.5 mil. We'd still need cap space. Things I've seen on some boards is that Sheahan might get traded to the Pens possibly?
 

PillarEN

Member
Sounds like the Wings may have a deal ready to sign AA for 1 year at 1.5 mil. We'd still need cap space. Things I've seen on some boards is that Sheahan might get traded to the Pens possibly?

Fine with me. Let some other team have a "has he scored yet" website for him.
 

Gunstar Ikari

Unconfirmed Member
Y.Weber practiced with Irwin, so he might be back tomorrow. I'm guessing that Bonino is going to be put on IR to compensate.

Aside from that and Salomaki/Aberg rotating on the second line, roster is similar to the one yesterday.
 

Solo

Member
I think I'm going to stay up late tonight and watch the game for the lulz. Hoping it's like 5-0 Anaheim after the first period and BargainBin is canned right on the spot.
 

imBask

Banned
I think I'm going to stay up late tonight and watch the game for the lulz. Hoping it's like 5-0 Anaheim after the first period and BargainBin is canned right on the spot.

it's friday why are you wondering if you're going to stay up past 10 or not granpa
 
I think I'm going to stay up late tonight and watch the game for the lulz. Hoping it's like 5-0 Anaheim after the first period and BargainBin is canned right on the spot.

Bob on some TSN radio show said he doesn't think Bergevin will get fired any time soon, no matter how bad things get.
 
Boucher will get fired for his stubborness of overplaying shitty bottom 6 players and his inability to develop young talent at NHL level.

/🍰's prediction

Seems premature to say he can’t develop talent. Dzingel, Claesson etc seem to have done well under him.

I’d lay the blame more on the GM for signing fringe players like Blowmoreturdowiecki preventing anyone else from getting a spot. There’s never any real roster spots open after training camp in Ottawa. I mean we finally got rid of Neil. I think Boucher will bench the shitty players toward the middle of the season. He’s not like MacLean who would have Chris Neil out there at key moments and never would dare bench him.

I may be wrong but comparisons to his time in Tampa aren’t accurate as he didn’t have any talent there outside of Stamkos.
 

Ondor

Banned
Brock Boeser broke McQuaid's leg last night when he blocked Boeser's shot. I don't like McQuaid but good god that must have hurt. I feel bad for him.
 
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