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Rob_Zepp

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  1. Friendly wager of avatar swap by choice of the other - I say the Sharks regret this after two seasons.
  2. Unless it is Benning or Green?
  3. Hopefully you both didn't start kindergarten at the same time......
  4. Are you 12? I don't think I heard the word sissies since Grade 6 and even then it was from a kid who probably should have still been in grade 3. Ignore? How could I ignore the comedic genius. So many that troll Benning from their single account are monotonous and largely get boring a week or three into their senseless rants. You use the different personalities well (that was a compliment) and go so incredibly obtuse with some of your positions it is a nice departure from the everyday " I hate Benning and Green" trolls.
  5. Do you even know what the acronym NMC or NTC stand for? Do you understand that "no means no" from a player isn't a veiled "yes"?
  6. Very easy for a poster to made a thread/board look bad too.
  7. Is that what they call getting "on the line"? This interweb thingy is confusing.
  8. No offence but you are probably not uniquely talented in that upon firing you, they can readily find someone to take over that contract. There are only so many upper end hockey players in the world. This discussion is really only relevant to a handful of players on each team. These are the cream of the crop of the most elite at what they do in the world. Don't expect their contracts to look like yours.
  9. One thing all should remember - from a Vancouver Canuck perspective it may be best if EP40 does NOT win this trophy. I very much get the sense this kid likes to prove people wrong and will develop very large shoulder chippage if he doesn't win which will bode well for Canucks, and poorly for the rest of the NHL, if he comes back into next season to prove all those who voted "wrong" just how wrong they were. Not quite the same as a the high school coach who cut Michael Jordan but MJ mentioned that every time the "what drives you" was brought up. EP40 has won pretty much everything a kid from Sweden can (in their top league to boot) so being "slighted" may be something that adds a few more reps at the gym, a few more seconds to the death stare, a few more pounds of torque to the slapshot etc. etc.
  10. I recall you and I were two of those not convinced he would 'get there' but wanted to keep our optimism. I was less sure only as I had benefit of seeing him play live at that point. I am not surprised at all he has crashed out of three NHL organizations now.
  11. Cool, too bad you cannot share though. It has zero use on a forum (not sure why you would even bring that up, perhaps as you don't share?) but helps with the job and I have no trouble sharing - in fact I open source and share with a number of people (who reciprocate). Perhaps one day you will share too.
  12. The stats and the visuals confirm the turnovers. No other Dman on this team had 65% of the turnovers he had in the regular season and no one more than 50% he had in playoffs. Those are the stats. Eye test was even worse as so many of those were unforced. That is simply factual. You calling it otherwise does not change the facts. Moving players three years ago has nothing to do with this guy not progressing and it being far from a lock he will be impactful in the NHL. I get the sense you are either his agent or somehow have something vested in this as you won't let this go - the fact that he took the key chunk of this development and has frittered it away in the KHL and has not improved. That is why the "temper your expectations". If he had gone to KHL and dominated and, more importantly, improved that would have helped but he took a bit step backward this past season. That is a fact. He isn't even ranked in the top 150 players in the KHL any longer.....think he has fallen to about 170 (KHL use "Priceless" as their ranking sponsor)..... https://en.khl.ru/players/17594/ You said you watched him in playoffs. Games against Traktor, particularly their third game, how on earth can you see him in that game and think he can jump back into the NHL in the top four??? He fought the puck so hard that night and, to make matters worse, seemed colourblind for almost all of his passes. You don't seem to get at all I am pulling for this kid and, in fact, all prospects the team has but I cannot make up stats, cannot deny what one sees and cannot sugarcoat when a guy regresses. At the very least you cannot deny that his last season was far less impressive than his first in the KHL upon bolting from the NHL...can you?
  13. Why would anyone look at my hometown as a girl on the cheerleading team? Toronto is an interesting city with more problems than most of Canada combined is more like the girl that got pregnant in grade 9 and who you mistake for someone's mother at your 10 year reunion. That all being said, good for the Raptors and given they won without a single lottery draft pick (highest pick was 15th overall) and won as a team, gives some freshness into a professional sporting world that is too often in need of a refresh. However, it does not turn Toronto into some kind of mecca as the city itself has poor weather, illogical layout, odd transportation options and too many self-important people trying to get nowhere far too quickly.
  14. Hard to answer without knowing what currency you are referring to and how they equate to dollars. Further, as long as there are no clauses on movement, then once you sort out that currency conversion (e.g. were you using PNG Kina? or.....) then it may work.
  15. If he isn't making the Canuck roster and is Canuck property, then Utica is a logical place. It isn't "punishment", it simply means he didn't make the team. Why do you try and spin everything in a manner that makes it sound like there is a conspiracy? Trolling is one thing, creating false narratives about professional hockey management is another and far from tasteful.
  16. No other "mascot" was used in same manner. No offense but as a 'Canes fan, few would find that works in compare to the other animals used for the other teams. I just find whether is be the media or even the Don Cherrys of the world, hard for them to get respect. They are a good hockey organization and proved this year they are an up and coming team.
  17. I have no idea what you are talking about bringing in the other players. I am too keen on seeing the Canuck organization improve. I have no idea why you think otherwise. Bringing in younger prospects, like they did with Tryamkin four years ago, is a good concept for sure. IF those prospects work out, great, if they don't and bolt and then don't improve, they consider bringing them back but temper the expectation accordingly. Isn't that possible without invoking narrative on unrelated players? Guess not.
  18. Seriously? You follow hockey and Lucic and don't know this? Even Google will help you here. I think @PhillipBlunt alluded to where he got the "attitude" from but his cohesion with teammates has been discussed many, many times. He may well have calmed down too as PB says but it could well explain his on-ice deterioration.
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