Rob_Zepp

Pretty accurate.  It's just a couple of complainers, but it baffles me how anyone could be less than optimistic about our prospect pool with so many kids shining in other leagues.

Best group of coach/management since the Pat Quinn era.

people are dum

ain't they got no learnin?

Coconuts - gotta love Pokemon with Drop D tuning!   

No doubt, and Jason's still got pipes! It's been like twenty years since the og theme and his voice hasn't degraded at all!

I can only speak for myself, but I soured on the entire Olympics thing years ago.  Turning point was the London summer games when the IOC's lawyers went after everyone for "unlicensed use" of the Olympic symbols, including primary schools having "Olympic" days leading up to the games.  Said a lot about how much it was about sport.  Haven't given the Olympics an iota of attention since.

The POs are far more about sport in my opinion.   Not a single of these athletes will play professionally and few will even get a few bucks here or there for an endorsement.   They are there for the love of sport and I love watching that.

Which he was ban for.  Did that ban not assume the OP (as foolish as the choice of title was to us) knew his title had that horrible connotation?  Maybe he was a young kid, who meant no disrespect?

Yes, a sickening title to us, but to the OP, perhaps not.  How do we know what his intentions were? 

the OP of that Nazi thread was told that it was inappropriate and given a lot of time to change it, but chose not to. In that case banning is justified imo. You have a right to free speech, just not anywhere you want it to be. 

@Alflives You don't have to play devil's advocate for the guy. He said he choose the name for shock value.

Once Reillys contract is finished

Nylander this season making 10 but thats only because of his signing bonus and the time remaining in the season when he signed. Hopefully they pay Rielly 10 mil. 

Reilly still has 3 years left on his contract so this is a mute point. 

any intel on the goalie pick?

I love how D heavy our draft was, they've all got varying skill sets too which is nice to have. Hughes and Woo have me tickled pink.

Finally a voice of reason

Somewhere Francesco is feeling like an ecstatic Kool Aid man crashing through the wall.

Idk why it’s so understand to grasp those concepts 

If the big players cannot skate, they are not long for today's NHL is what I am seeing.   That is why I am fine with Guddy as he skates very well for a big guy.    I don't disagree at all that size is important but when big teams all meet up, speed is the deciding factor.

Also interesting how some small guys (e.g Marchessault with 6 goals in 12 games) have been noticeable and sometimes even dominant and others (e.g. Ehlers who is zero for playoffs in 13 games) pretty invisible.   Skill is important, yes, but only if it can play with the speed and the intensity.

Interesting playoffs so far.  

All 4 remaining teams have a good mix of size, speed ans skill.  It's especially hard to argue Winnipeg and Washington haven't been using their size as an effective weapon.  Tom Wilson has been a huge factor for Washington and it's easy to see Virtanen being just as disruptive

Winnipeg 1st in the league with 74.1" average

Washington 6th in the league with 73.4"

Tampa Bay 30th in the league with 72.5"

Vegas 18th in the league with 72.9" 

https://theathletic.com/210035/2018/01/12/sizing-up-the-nhl-2017-18-nhl-teams-by-age-height-and-weight/

A ref in Toronto behind the net blows his whistle for a non-call against a Canuck at the blue line. How long does it take the sound to reach the Canuck player and realize he's screwed? 

If Tryamkin falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it....

10.59m/s brah

"I tried Frank, but my wife told me I look like a greasy whop when I slick it back. I'm a hockey player Frank, I love my quaff. I quit"

Like Bettman would want Vancouver to have 1st overall. 

i'm sure if there were no quality players in the draft, we'ld get first over all. good luck trevor. our loss, is your families gain. 

Yup. Learned that when I was younger.

Carlin evolved from the most gifted comedian, into a relevant, important social critic. I sure miss the bloke.

Can only chuckle to myself, imagining his likely commentary on today's society.

Yup but that is quite a few  years back now.   Always find August hard as not "training" for a camp still seems weird.    I do miss the "team" stuff for sure.   I don't miss bag skates, stairs, buses, idiots who cannot keep a puck on the ice in warmups or practice, stick technology that has taken every player and turn them into Ovie, wet pads, constant bruises, etc etc.    There, on balance I guess the change hasn't been too bad!

it must be twice as hard to bag skate with goalie skates on? doesn’t sound fair. a fellow, who had played in the boston chain, i coached minor hockey with claims he hated team mates shooting at his head during practises. i guess back then, there were no goalie coaches. he said when he asked wren blair how he wanted him to play, blair said, just stop the puck.

Only good thing about being a goalie is no one expects you to go fast when skating.   To be honest, it isn't that hard skating if it is line drills, it sucks if they are circle drills.   I had one enlightened coach who would get players who head hunted in practice have to stand in net with back turned and we got to use player sticks and aim at their assets from the hash marks.  No wind ups but I had a decent wrist shot.......

I don't even know the context, but this is pretty much Jordan Peterson in a nutshell.