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[TUSR]

Sorry TUSR, I'm falling asleep here. No raids tonight for me.

im still writing up a report for a customer, ill have time tomorrow night.

sorry!

 

[RC]

Hate to say it but that Final Fantasy trailer looked good. Of course I thought the same thing about the FFXIII trailer.

 

[Dastardly Jerks]

Hey, I won't stand for a bad word being said about whatever FFXIII was meant to be!

 

[Quick]

Final Fantasy sux

Does it even shoot bro

 

[Freyjadour]

Really weird that Diablo 3 is having such a renaissance now. It deserves it after RoS fixed everything, but still really weird to see after playing that game at launch.

I need to get back around to playing it again sometime.

 

[Cake Boss]

Phil Kessel is one of the smartest hockey minds he’s worked with. Spott also marvelled at how Kessel — who Spott estimated during the lecture is “15 pounds overweight” — remains an explosive speedster.

Extra extra Kessel is fat.

 

[Kave_Man]

Good old Feschuk.

 

[Red_Man]

Teemu saying he'd still be playing if the Ducks had a different coach. Brutal.

 

[Samyy]

Teemu saying he'd still be playing if the Ducks had a different coach. Brutal.

Yikes just read the quotes.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

Come play for the best coach in the NHL Teemu, our old guy (Alfie) probably isn't going to play this year because he messed his back up again!

"NHL player survey: Detroit Red Wings' Mike Babcock is No. 1 coach

Cleary probably rigged the voting somehow.

 

[Calamari41]

Teemu saying he'd still be playing if the Ducks had a different coach. Brutal.

I love Teemu but he's just salty about being benched toward the end of the season. I understand where he's coming from, and Bruce may have done it too much, but Selanne isn't a spring chicken anymore. He can't be putting in Getzlaf's minutes.

Selanne also said that after the Ducks lost to the Kings in the second round of the playoffs, Kings Coach Darryl Sutter, who had coached Selanne in San Jose, told him the Kings were glad Selanne hadn’t played a greater role in that series because Selanne then might have turned the series in the Ducks’ favor.

Lol, Sutter straight trolling Selanne. What a cock.

 

[Curufinwe]

http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs..._hot_on_spotts_breakout_strategy_feschuk.html

In the days after Steve Spott landed a job as a rookie assistant coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs in July, he was tasked with a bevy of responsibilities by head coach Randy Carlyle.

Among them, Spott was charged with devising a new breakout play for a team that has long struggled to get the puck out of its own end. Spott thought he’d hit on an effective strategy — until, that is, he shared the plan with Leafs leading scorer Phil Kessel. When Kessel voiced displeasure, Spott discovered a harsh reality of life in the NHL. In some corners of the league, and apparently in Leafland, a coach’s learning curve involves bending to the desires of star players.

At least, such was the gist of an anecdote Spott shared at a coaches’ clinic at which he was a guest speaker last month, this according to interviews with three minor-hockey coaches who were in attendance.

“Spotter said that when he went to Phil (with the breakout play), Phil said, I’m not doing it,” said one of the attendees, a former professional player.

Said another: “Spott was saying (that) these are the things I’ve got to deal with now that I’ve never had to deal with. In the AHL (where Spott coached last season with the Toronto Marlies), when you’re the coach what you say goes. Whereas now that I’m here (in the NHL), I’ve got a guy telling me: No. I’m not going to do that.”


“Spott said Carlyle’s attitude was that we’re fired before (Kessel is) out of here, the hierarchy doesn’t want to deal with Phil. He scores 30 (goals) a year and that’s all they want,” said one of the attendees. “(Spott said) Phil hates coaches. He hates Randy. He hates me and I don’t even know him yet.”

One of the minor-hockey coaches who was in attendance said Spott spoke of Kessel’s alleged hatred of coaches with his “tongue in cheek.” Another said he was “shocked” at Spott’s candour. Indeed, given the club’s historic bent toward secrecy, the clinic amounted to a rare window into the inner workings of the Leafs.

Spott was complimentary of Kessel, telling his audience that the winger is one of the smartest hockey minds he’s worked with. Spott also marvelled at how Kessel — who Spott estimated during the lecture is “15 pounds overweight” — remains an explosive speedster.

 

[lamaroo]

Leafs season is off to a promising start.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

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Media and physical day for camp! Dat new season smell.


Edit: New page? New #HairForce1

 

[shadowkat]

Come play for the best coach in the NHL Teemu, our old guy (Alfie) probably isn't going to play this year because he messed his back up again!

"NHL player survey: Detroit Red Wings' Mike Babcock is No. 1 coach

Cleary probably rigged the voting somehow.

I like how you blame Cleary for everything.

Leafs season is off to a promising start.

*sigh*

 

[Unhandled Exception]

I like how you blame Cleary for everything.

Everyone needs a scapegoat

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

More on Josh Harding's injury:

On the eve of training camp, an exasperated Mike Yeo voiced his frustration over a dizzying goaltending merry-go-round that looks as if it’s going to circle for yet another season.

Josh Harding, arguably the Wild’s No. 1 goaltender heading into Thursday’s training camp, broke his right foot while kicking a wall after an off-ice altercation with a teammate and is expected to miss at least two or three months. And unsigned goalie Darcy Kuem- per was embroiled in a contract dispute that if not rectified Thursday means he will at a minimum be a late arriver to camp and thus put him behind the 8-ball.

Harding’s injury won’t require surgery, but he is out indefinitely. Yeo and an equally frustrated General Manager Chuck Fletcher were to meet with Harding on Wednesday to try to ascertain how he got hurt. Details are murky, but it’s clear he got into some kind of altercation with a teammate Sunday.

“We just have to figure out what happened,” Fletcher said Wednesday morning. “But I’m not sure I want to get into a whole public exposé of what happened.”

Harding is in the final year of a contract that pays him $2.1 million. In 2010, Fletcher suspended forward James Sheppard for an off-ice ATV accident days before camp that resulted in season-ruining knee surgery.

Asked if the Wild conceivably could do the same thing with Harding, Fletcher said: “I don’t want to get into hypotheticals. I just want to hear what happened and figure it out.

“… The bottom line is right now he’s not available to us, and that diminishes our depth at that position and it hurts our team. However it happened, it’s important to get the answers, but at the end of the day, it’s not going to change the situation.”

 

[Unhandled Exception]

His injury is the result of a tantrum? Alright then.

 

[Calamari41]

His injury is the result of a tantrum? Alright then.

He should think about subscribing to the Patrick Roy School of Frustration Management and start tearing doors off of hinges in order to get at his wife so that he can beat her with his fists.

 

[Samyy]

Mantha broke his tibia and is out 6-8 weeks, which means 0 chance he plays this year, sorry Crazed.

 

[Unhandled Exception]

He should think about subscribing to the Patrick Roy School of Frustration Management and start tearing doors off of hinges in order to get at his wife so that he can beat her with his fists.

This totally happened.

 

[lamaroo]

Mantha broke his tibia and is out 6-8 weeks, which means 0 chance he plays this year, sorry Crazed.

Cleary means business.

 

[Calamari41]

This totally happened.

The most critical part of the lesson is making sure they can't get to the phone to dial 911 first.

 

[Curufinwe]

Mantha broke his tibia and is out 6-8 weeks, which means 0 chance he plays this year, sorry Crazed.

That sucks. Did it happen in a game?

 

[Unhandled Exception]

The most critical part of the lesson is making sure they can't get to the phone to dial 911 first.

I would say the most critical part of the lesson is beating someone with your fists in such a way that there is no actual evidence of it.

 

[lamaroo]

Mckenzie 16 minute interview with Bergevin: http://www.tsn.ca/VideoHub/?collection=72&show=441825

 

[Samyy]

That sucks. Did it happen in a game?

Yea in their first rookie game I believe

 

[Calamari41]

I would say the most critical part of the lesson is beating someone with your fists in such a way that there is no actual evidence of it.

That's the capstone course

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

I would say the most critical part of the lesson is beating someone with your fists in such a way that there is no actual evidence of it.

In other news, Varlamov has to go back to school to retake some classes this fall.

 

[Calamari41]

In other news, Varlamov has to go back to school to retake some classes this fall.

Hopefully his classes require him to take a trip to Ukraine

 

[Unhandled Exception]

In other news, Varlamov has to go back to school to retake some classes this fall.

Pretty sure the class is only for phantom fist beatings, not drop kicks.

Hopefully his classes require him to take a trip to Ukraine

I'll bet they're all woman beaters.

Don't forget the rest of the crew.

 

[Heretic]

I love Teemu but he's just salty about being benched toward the end of the season. I understand where he's coming from, and Bruce may have done it too much, but Selanne isn't a spring chicken anymore. He can't be putting in Getzlaf's minutes.



Lol, Sutter straight trolling Selanne. What a cock.

Yeah, if Teemu wanted a bigger role he should have played like playoff Teemu more than once during the regular season.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

I like how you blame Cleary for everything.

Everyone needs a scapegoat

Guess what I also blame him for... This:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Mantha out 6-8 weeks with injury, which means he won't be able to actually try to make the team in preseason...

Spoiler

He was never going to make it anyways since Babs won't allow a youngster to beat out a vet

Injuries already starting and we haven't even made it to training camp yet!

 

[ZeroGravity]

Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin will be held out of the start of training camp, it was announced today by Pittsburgh Penguins Executive Vice President and General Manager Jim Rutherford.

Rutherford said the decision was made as a precaution after both players suffered injuries while preparing for camp.

Injuries everywhere.

 

[Unhandled Exception]

The fuck is going on

 

[CrazedArabMan]

INJURE ALL THE PLAYERS!!!

Cleary is to blame for all this, every problem in the world is Cleary's fault.

 

[Samyy]

INJURE ALL THE PLAYERS!!!

Cleary is to blame for all this, every problem in the world is Cleary's fault.

I beat theres a Cleary defence force in OT smh

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

My god. Pitt is dusting off the "TANK FOR CROSBY" battleplan. We are all doomed.

 

[Zombie James]

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/report-phil-kessel-leafs-assistant-spott-butt-heads/

According to an article by Dave Feschuk of the Toronto Star, new Leafs assistant coach Steve Spott, tasked with developing "a new breakout play" earlier this summer, was faced with some resistance from star forward Phil Kessel.

The former Marlies head coach told the story to colleagues at a coaches’ clinic in August:

“Spotter said that when he went to Phil (with the breakout play), Phil said, I’m not doing it,” said one of the attendees, a former professional player.

Said another: “Spott was saying (that) these are the things I’ve got to deal with now that I’ve never had to deal with. In the AHL (where Spott coached last season with the Toronto Marlies), when you’re the coach what you say goes. Whereas now that I’m here (in the NHL), I’ve got a guy telling me: No. I’m not going to do that.”

The article quotes another attendee, who said that when Spott went to Leafs head coach Randy Carlyle to discuss Kessel’s reaction to the new strategy, "Carlyle’s attitude was that we’re fired before (Kessel is) out of here, the hierarchy doesn’t want to deal with Phil. He scores 30 (goals) a year and that’s all they want."

"(Spott said) Phil hates coaches. He hates Randy. He hates me and I don’t even know him yet."

 

[yyzjohn]

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/report-phil-kessel-leafs-assistant-spott-butt-heads/

I don't believe anything Feschuk writes.

 

[Fata1moose]

I uh--I sent Josh Harding an anonymous tip the Matt Cooke slept with his girlfriend and we'll see how that works out.

 

[Socreges]

Drama. Drama for everyone.

NHL trying the NFL model for success.

 

[CrazedArabMan]

Drama. Drama for everyone.

NHL trying the NFL model for success.

What, the beat your kids/spouse model?

 

[Kave_Man]

I'm surprised this hasn't blown up as much as I thought it would.

Maybe it's because Feschuk wrote it.

 

[Cake Boss]

What, the beat your kids/spouse model?

Varlamov is already on it.

 

[Coldnoodle]

I totally forgot that Iginla signed for Colorado.

 

[MetatronM]

Rangers training camp roster

Forwards (37): Chris Bourque, Ryan Bourque, Derick Brassard, Nathan Burns, Anthony Duclair, Jesper Fast, Tanner Glass, Carl Hagelin, Ryan Haggerty, Kevin Hayes, Marek Hrivik, Keegan Iverson, Michael Kantor, Chris Kreider, Danny Kristo, Nickolas Latta, Paxton Leroux, Oscar Lindberg, Matthew Lombardi, Ryan Malone, Chris McCarthy, J.T. Miller, Dominic Moore, Chris Mueller, Rick Nash, Richard Nejezchleb, Logan Nelson, Josh Nicholls, Ryan Potulny, Michael St. Croix, Martin St. Louis, Lee Stempniak, Derek Stepan, Adam Tambellini, Nick Tarnasky, Andrew Yogan, Mats Zuccarello

Defensemen (20): Conor Allen, Mat Bodie, Dan Boyle, Troy Donnay, Dan Girardi, Ryan Graves, Tommy Hughes, Matt Hunwick, Steven Kampfer, Kevin Klein, Michael Kostka, Ryan Mantha, Ryan McDonagh, Dylan McIlrath, John Moore, Samuel Noreau, Marc Staal, Dallas Valentine, Daniel Walcott, Petr Zamorsky

Goaltenders (6): Cedrick Desjardins, Brandon Halverson, Henrik Lundqvist, Jason Missiaen, Mackenzie Skapski, Cam Talbot


Sounds like no captain will be named until just before the start of the regular season.

 

[bonesmccoy]

I'm surprised this hasn't blown up as much as I thought it would.

Maybe it's because Feschuk wrote it.

It's the whole "I talked to a guy who overheard this guy saying this other said this" aspect to it.

I'm surprised it was even published, but then this is same paper that pays Damien Cox and Rosie DiManno to write for them.

edit: I take it back. Carlyle says the comments were made 'tongue in cheek'. Uh oh!

edit2: Nonis says Carlyle doesn't have to change, because the Ducks were a possession team and hard to play against! Uh oh x 10^10!

 

[Coldnoodle]

Rangers training camp roster

Forwards (37): Chris Bourque, Ryan Bourque, Derick Brassard, Nathan Burns, Anthony Duclair, Jesper Fast, Tanner Glass, Carl Hagelin, Ryan Haggerty, Kevin Hayes, Marek Hrivik, Keegan Iverson, Michael Kantor, Chris Kreider, Danny Kristo, Nickolas Latta, Paxton Leroux, Oscar Lindberg, Matthew Lombardi, Ryan Malone, Chris McCarthy, J.T. Miller, Dominic Moore, Chris Mueller, Rick Nash, Richard Nejezchleb, Logan Nelson, Josh Nicholls, Ryan Potulny, Michael St. Croix, Martin St. Louis, Lee Stempniak, Derek Stepan, Adam Tambellini, Nick Tarnasky, Andrew Yogan, Mats Zuccarello

Defensemen (20): Conor Allen, Mat Bodie, Dan Boyle, Troy Donnay, Dan Girardi, Ryan Graves, Tommy Hughes, Matt Hunwick, Steven Kampfer, Kevin Klein, Michael Kostka, Ryan Mantha, Ryan McDonagh, Dylan McIlrath, John Moore, Samuel Noreau, Marc Staal, Dallas Valentine, Daniel Walcott, Petr Zamorsky

Goaltenders (6): Cedrick Desjardins, Brandon Halverson, Henrik Lundqvist, Jason Missiaen, Mackenzie Skapski, Cam Talbot


Sounds like no captain will be named until just before the start of the regular season.

Wish goalies could wear the C.

 

[Coldnoodle]

It's the whole "I talked to a guy who overheard this guy saying this other said this" aspect to it.

I'm surprised it was even published, but then this is same paper that pays Damien Cox and Rosie DiManno to write for them.

edit: I take it back. Carlyle says the comments were made 'tongue in cheek'. Uh oh!

edit2: Nonis says Carlyle doesn't have to change, because the Ducks were a possession team and hard to play against! Uh oh x 10^10!

Hmmm, I wonder why...