Rob_Zepp

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.

I've found that I've been using the ignore feature more often than not lately. Must be that time of year.

Wish I could, but I can't ignore the state of the world :^(

Wish I was able to have some people on ignore. Lol

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/

@Rob_Zepp For sure. I think it'd be extremely hard to argue that Vancouver isn't in the top five this off season in terms of improvement. 

Other than the Aves and the Rangers, I'm hard pressed to think of a team that's improved as much as us.

Well, according to Sportsnet ...

glad to see you around again. what do you think of our goalie tandem? 

Very high on Demko and intrigued by Holtby with Clark.   I am still not sure there is enough minor league depth though.   LD was a loss in my opinion.   I can see the overall SV% and GAA being as good as better though given how vastly improved the D corps is.    Hard to believe Canucks got two top four Dmen for a sum total of a third round pick.

years ago, i coached hockey with a guy who said he had been in boston’s system. he never played in the nhl but said that wren blair was his coach. i guess there were no goalie coaches back then. he asked blair what advice he could give him? blair said, stop the damn puck. i think his first name was dennis but i can’t quite remember. he also said, in warm up, the players would shoot the puck at his head. when he complained to blair, he was looked down on.

Boeser was first Joe.  But JB has cleaned up in the other rounds too. There is a big bubble of young guys on their way.  I think that’s why JB traded for Miller.  

Boeser, Petey, Hughes, Podzolkin - these are they types of players you tank for. So we've done that. Time to try to win some games. 

if we sign myers we are laughing  sutter and tanev can be traded for prospects or picks time to cut some  of the fat

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON

Probably just minused some folks. People get real salty about that 'round these parts.

People that get salty over minuses need to grow up imo.

I thought we were having fun?

WHO the heck are you to tell me HOW to cheeer om my ttem, MR HELPER?!?

WHEN I SCREAM & KICK MY PETS they usually win dammitall!

You'd better go get help!!!

Nuxfanabroad - awesome!   Thanks for the chicle!!!

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?

Minus button has been tried numerous times and has failed and will continue to fail because we as a society are too sensitive to criticism. Its like that one Black Mirror episode, where everyone is incapable of being honest because they are terrified of rejection and ostracization. 

@Toews Actually the minuses were deactivated again because one of the software updates changed the reputation system.  It took away the ability to limit minuses.

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I remember reading an article where the journalist claims that Tampa Bay can't be considered the best until Toronto plays its best (paraphrasing, but the meaning is there). in other words, Toronto hasn't played its best, so it is 'guaranteed' to succeed. Meanwhile, Tampa Bay's success is unsustainable, so it is 'guaranteed' to drop.

I can't locate the article anymore, but it was really crappy journalism. The writer was so delusional that I was shocked that the editor would allow it to be sent out.

@King Heffy I don't think Tavares was a problem. I see the reasons why he left. Duchene on the other hand. 

That was a distraction. Nylander basically has got a great contract. But it's going to take him the rest of the season to catch up and get back into game shape. So they pretty much wiped out year one. NYI are making up for it by having everyone buy into Trotz system. 

I'm not saying that Tavares himself was a problem, just the media attention and uncertainty.

Nylander's absolute trash who had his numbers inflated by Matthews.  Guy makes Vrbata look like a workaholic.

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 

Replete with weather-weirding.. 10 days of record heat in Japan(killing about 100), after torrential downpours killed over 200! Tomorrow, a typhoon approaches us from the southeast(quite rare).

Afraid to see what's next...

@Nuxfanabroad...isn't it obvious?

Ohhhh No, there goes Sushi Roll..Godzilla!!!

gives me a lot of hope for our rebuild thats for sure. 

@Dazzleif they talked about Beagle, then ya, like that.   My feed didn't include any of that so not sure what was said between periods and so forth.   Seemed really obvious to me that their (Capitals) bench looked flat and in compare to last year where Beagle was pumping everyone up.   Some guys contribute a lot more to team success than just the stats they bring.

@Rob_Zepp I was talking to Brad Marchand because he mentioned Slavin. Slavin was specifically pointed out as being a highly underrated defenceman and that if he didn't play in Carolina, he'd be a "superstar". Basically what Brad Marchand said LOL.

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. 

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

agreed. First time ive looked forward to a season since 2011.

Really excited by the moves made this off-season.  In a vacuum, I was kind of angry about some of them as they happened, but taking a step back, and seeing that there is a general direction and vision to it....priceless.  We added 2 legit top 6 wingers, we added 2 defensemen that should change the complexion of the back end.  We should be strong enough to actually be....good!  You know how you fear this moment, like it's some kind of gift that is going to be snatched away?  I think a lot of fans follow this route where we can only win if we have multiple first overalls in the line-up.  But you look back at some of the recent drafts, and Pettersson and Boesser, both under-rated at the time.  Horvat improves every season like a beast.  We just need Hughes and Juolevi to join the party, and Virtanen to get 20 goals and 15-20 assists, and we're golden!  Oh, and goaltending, do we even have to go into that?

I watch most games but I wasn't terribly invested in watching last season, that'll probably change now that we should be gunning for the playoffs 

Making a strong run for a playoff spot would shut up a number of them (granted not all as they have an axe to grind).  Being in another lottery pick position will just give them more ammo.

Well i think if the Nucks miss the playoffs again, Benning is gone so problem solved!

You’d still troll it zep. 

The sunshine and lollipops everything Benning does is solid gold crowd.

maybe a thread for for the Benning can do no wrong crowd so they can go agree with everything their  told to think by there lord and saviour. Lol. 

You can Tuna Guitar but you cant tune a fish.....

you can, if you can get it's scales high enough. maybe high C.

Yar har har matey 

High C's, yar

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 think someone has been into the Green and Blue Kool-Aid a little early today.  

          @rob zepp don't mean to derail but I   just turned 59 , I really didn't think it was going to be this quick ,any way I felt the same way about the team leading up to the 94 run. after that ,similar to 2012 up to recent that version fizzled although not as quick. there are some similarities with this new version to the kesler burrows bieksa  sedins Hansen edler era  ..... injuries , I cant remember it taking it's toll like the last 2 seasons.

Love the optimism and we do have some promising prospects but nothing is for sure.  They could all $&!# the bed. Here’s hoping though. 

Lockus Interruptis? 

@Alflives - you can get treatment for that....

@Rob_Zepp That’s why I don’t start (threads) 

Same situation as the last time we took a defenseman in the first round.  Bourdon had a similar path to the NHL and was finally showing signs of putting it all together before the tragedy struck.  OJ plays a similar style of game and we will need to be patient.

I am really hoping the fans don't crucify Mikey when he lets in a bad goal in the WJHC.  This market is especially hard on goalies.

Yeah, that logic makes no sense. 

"He got injured! That makes him a bad pick!"

People view players as commodities and not people, that's why.

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.......