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  1. For those who don't believe that refs can control game outcomes, i present exhibit a: The recent Canada-Slovakia game. The refs directly assisted the Slovaks en route to their 3-1 lead, featuring 2 5-on-3 goals, and then directly assisted Canada en route to their comeback. At no point did it seem like a game that wasn't managed by the refs. Seen this affect the Canucks both positively (SJ 2011) and negatively (Bruins and Hawks getting away with bloody murder (2011, 2010, 2009) to affect series outcomes. What Ben Eager did as a shark would've been okay if he was a Hawk the year prior. How do we know this? Because we've seen him and other Hawks do the same kinda crap and it was uncalled. Games are managed via reffing. And therefore so are playoff series.
  2. While McGrattan is a useless plug, perhaps this was a case for the staged fight. If they just get it over with, Alberts is ok. Instead the idiot has to headhunt to get a fight going. Stage fighters wanna fight. So either get rid of em altogether, or let em go.
  3. Thought Paterson looked bad last game, and that was facing no pressure. Imagine how he'll look vs. Sweden. Canada doesn't take enough defensive defensemen. The Czechs just blew through some boardplay like it was nothing. And they looked lost several times in front of their own net. Sutter stands there and stares. McDavid was easily put off his game today. Oops. Overall, we know this team can play better than they did today. If not, goodbye medals.
  4. I made it out alright. Something about a dream envisioning the cheating death and then recovering from injuries. Not sure if it's 'life changing', but 'don't give up' sounds like a simplistic inspirational message to me. Yay.
  5. Santo has as many assists as Coho has points. For a fraction of the salary. However, Santo is a few years older, and much, much more motivated than Coho this season. Coho might coast for awhile now, considering he's got the contract and his teams stinks. Kassian's also motivated for a new deal, but it's not as urgent as Santo's situation. If Santo didn't perform well this season, that would've been it for him.
  6. "Santa exists and he's behind every conspiracy on earth." ... Merry Christmas, CDC!
  7. I like how Toews basically said, "If i'm going down, you're all coming with me." Referring to his current and ex-Hawk PED playoff buddies. But more than one team has done it. And while the PA and the league just wants to sweep it under the rug, eventually somebody's gonna come clean and/or get busted. If people down there cared about hockey as much as baseball, this would already be done.
  8. Kassian's shot is not Brett Hull's, yes. Or Garrison's. But he has one. Used it just the other day. So i guess that's where it is. Bullet? No. There? Yes. Same with Cody. (Whoops.)
  9. Good question. Certainly those seats in Chicago were all full before they started winning a ton of games. Yeah, i don't see why Chicago would benefit from being propped up. Also don't see why the league would like a huge US market to be successful. They'd stand to gain nothing.
  10. Richardson's numbers are irrelevant. So are Weise's, Higgins', Sestito's, etc. Because no one is whining about trading our future team captain for them. I'm alright with boosting Kassian's stats via weighted analysis, but what's being forgotten is that Coho's offense this season, such as it is, has come against top checking. Kassian's hasn't. And while Coho can play some more minutes per game, Kassian has shown a bit of inconsistency in that regard. However, while Coho has slowed down as of late and is now out due to injury, Kassian is slowly but surely getting better and more useful than his old self as of late. So the argument that Kassian helps us out more than Coho would've... Right now... Is a totally valid one. Still not ultra-impressed with either player at this point. But liking what Kass might turn out to be. If he does nothing in the playoffs, then that's a huge disappointment.
  11. More options on the draw isn't a bad thing. I think at this point you have to consider how a guy fits in. Florida is a loser franchise used to losing and all their top-end vet talent has already been robbed. I think we'd target NYR as a trading partner because Torts has obvious familiarity with their guys and they're a team in flux. Question is who?
  12. Suggest perma-ignore. Too much energy is being wasted on this particular user. Esp. in regards to Hodgson, where the agenda will not change.
  13. What i don't miss about Bertuzzi was all the boneheaded penalties he took at horrible times. Kassian seems to be a bit more disciplined. Anyway, Kassian is not Bertuzzi.
  14. No, Burrows should/could not have been suspended for that bite. Meanwhile, Horton was concussed by Downie in the series prior and was a non-factor in the finals. The Bruins lost nothing when they lost him to that 'staged' hit by Rome. This is because the outcome of the series was 'rigged.'
  15. If you google 'evidence NHL hockey is rigged', you'll actually find hundreds and hundreds of discussions with all sorts of evidence being presented. Bottom line is if the NFL, NBA, MLB, all soccer leagues, etc. have games that are fixed, even for sports betting alone, it's quite ignorant to think that the NHL doesn't have the same problem.
  16. The puck going off the stantion was luck. That series being just 5 games was reffing. I was talking about PED's, not just steroids. Other PED's are more beneficial than steroids in hockey today, but the NHL definately had a steroid era. It's called the dead puck era. People who's livelihoods depend on their performance level...Probably don't want it to be known that they and/or were cheating. Might explain why you're not in the loop? Would you blabber about something to your friends about it if you knew it could get you in deep, deep trouble? Not difficult to grasp. The Canucks laid down in game 7. They played an emotionless, loser brand of hockey that we didn't see all playoffs long because they all knew, one way or the other, that Boston was taking it. They pathetically lost 4-0, and looking at how the series went down, there were multiple things that transpired, esp. the precident-setting Rome suspension and the refs letting the raging Bruins get away with bloody murder from the Horton incident onwards, that would lead us to believe that it was over before it was over. That, after being gift-wrapped the SJ series in which that team was penalized much, much too often. Some injuries are real. Some are faked for cap compliance. The Canucks have used that in recent seasons.
  17. The thing about it being kept quiet is, yeah, why would they not? MLB had a steroid conspiracy for years and years. They were all pretty darn quiet until congress stepped in, weren't they. That's the players, other players, their relations, the management, and the owners. So why is it so difficult for you to understand how other pro sports leagues can act that way as well? Like the Nba reffing conspiracy. Soccer games being rigged. And y'know, typical weekend football bet rigging. Yeah, it's all there. Yeah, and you're not hearing a lot of them admit it straight up. And again with the 'Canucks have not one a cup' reasoning. As i've already pointed out, the Canucks have been benefactors multiple times. Just not fortunate enough to be an ultimate benefactor. The time will come. I'm afraid it is you who is living in a naive fantasy land thinking that pro sports leagues are honest. But really, to the average fan it won't even matter. They're going to lap up whatever the league dishes out and be quite content with the bs. Enjoy.
  18. As for the Bertuzzi thing, Laraque knew what he was talking about. There were rumblings among all the league's big-body stars that Bertuzzi was juicing. He wasn't the only one, certainly. People at all levels have taken a blind eye approach to the problem. Because the NHL is lower-profile than MLB, hopefully they won't be dragged down into the mud like they were. But don't kid yourself thinking PED use isn't still going on. That's insane.
  19. 1. Not all players are in on it. Not all owners are in on it. Why would they need to be? 2. Refs have more control than you think. With parity in the standings a single point can make or break a season. With goals at a premium in the playoffs, a single call or non-call can affect a game's outcome. 3. Some injuries are faked to gain cap compliancy. 4. Emotion shown by players is irrelevant in rigging. Esp. when not all players are aware of it. 5. Relationships to the players are also irrelevant. You know why Hossa went from Team A to Team B to Team C? Because he figured out which teams are going to be benefactors asap. 6. Salary is irrelevant. Some chose the millions (Kessel, various Rangers players) over the winning, and that's a personal choice. 7. As said before, 82 game seasons come down to a single point at times. But yeah, the bottom-feeders? Who cares. 8. You cannot execute anything without taking on risk, so that's irrelevant. However, lately the NHL has figured out how to ensure outcomes more clearly. Parity in the points standings and series management via. penalty control. PED useage when required. 9. 'Luck' of course isn't affected. So also irrelevant. Good luck can be countered by the end. As well as bad luck.
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