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  1. upper decker, another move out of the "how to be a douche" playbook.
  2. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=987598467934858 wow...
  3. yeah, he has defensive awareness... but he takes way too many low percentage shots/ tries to do way too much by himself to have a high hockey IQ. i'm not saying he has none, but high? you'd have to be to think he does. he certainly doesn't leave Virtanen in the dust in the hockey IQ category. I'd say they are fairly close, but neither are near the top of the top of the barrel. But that's fine, everything that isn't natural skill can be taught, and Jake already has shown signs of improvement.
  4. when i think of kesler, hockey IQ doesn't really come to mind...
  5. 30 min from Roblin? you must have grown up in Calder. Makes complete sense now.
  6. i wouldn't put money on it, but you never know.
  7. i was very impressed by crouse. you can see why he's trending to be a top 5 pick in this super deep draft.
  8. no, they would have to be supportive of the U-2 lead singer to get that designation...
  9. Before the season started I was pro-bo-staying, but only cautiously. then i was full pro-bo after training camp and preseason. now I'm confident it was the right choice, so much so that for my christmas present to myself (from my wife) i got the canucks team store to make me a Horvat 3rd jersey that I'll be picking up and wearing to the Buffalo game. It's the first Custom jersey I've owned since my old orca bertuzzi. Can't wait.
  10. or growing up in a small mountain town (like Osoyoos, where one of my friends from university was from, he had similar stories)
  11. i'm 15+ years removed from that age, i never did the crap you did, and i don't lament it in the slightest. but whatever makes you feel better about yourself i guess.
  12. as did I. for every "see that play where he did something i think might have been wrong" there were a number of plays that he did everything right that people couldn't complain about if they tried. as for the penalty, clean hit, got the kid in the chest/shoulder, drove him along the boards, not into them, definitely not boarding. he left his feet but it looked like it was post-contact (though i haven't seen a screenshot of the moment of contact), so even charging was out the window on the play. definitely was not a penalty in north american hockey. Edit: just qued it up and went frame by frame on my dvr, he definately made contact before his feet left the ice. really crappy call. him being younger definitely matters as far as physical and mental maturity. these kids are still growing/learning, him being the youngest kid on the ice that has already gone through the draft means something, doesn't mean it's a write off, but he's only one month away from being 2015 draft eligible instead of 2014 draft eligible. it makes what he did even more impressive.
  13. do you have 15 pens that you number from 1 to 15, and that holder is specifically for pen # 15?
  14. i only have the photos of TS that i took myself...
  15. no, Demko looks actually skilled and not reliant on ridiculously oversized pads to make stops. plus he's very technical (i guess that happens when you have to teach yourself goaltending by downloading training vids from the internet) whereas Giguere was all over the place.
  16. how should that have been our pick? he went 19th... are you saying he should have went at 6th? or that we should have traded down to 19th to get him? i am confused...
  17. eichel and his stupid hair is gone too. he really looked like he wanted to do it all himself but was shut down at every turn. the kid's got some hands but he bit off more than he could chew at nearly every opportunity. tried to do too much and ended up losing the puck or throwing it into heavy traffic praying that his linemate will somehow get it.
  18. the international equivalent. it looked like team usa had a sniper in the upper deck from the way the russians were dropping in the first.
  19. edit, looks like this one was legit.
  20. USA finally taking it to the russians like we all thought they would. I'd be surprised if the americans don't tie it up/win it here.
  21. he's doing his best, but damn are the american imploding in front of him right now.
  22. even though harvard and yale played recently (after their own small break, and they have another break right now), ncaa usually doesn't play over the christmas break/between semesters.
  23. that's an injustice of the american school system then.
  24. well you can see the chirping by the americans after the first whistle and the 3 punches before the opening faceoff just by re-watching the game, so there's video evidence to look at. i have no clue what your last sentence is supposed to be saying... are you, by chance, inebriated right now?
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