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Man, they're really giving us 1980s hockey.
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Just now, Ghostsof1915 said:
Am I missing something with that reference?
Apparently that is all he eats... like guys went out for sushi and he'd pack his own sandwich cause he wouldn't eat anything else.
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5 minutes ago, Barnstorm said:
There’s going to be a lot of people with gambling problems in the coming years the way it’s made so accessible , easy to do and pushed pushed pushed.
Huge problems in Britain after similar circumstances.Funnily enough, doing a semester abroad in England is when I started gambling. I'd always done Fantasy with friends... but never really bet on specific games (maybe the Superbowl). There is a pub and a William Hill on every corner and its very easy to spend your Saturday with a pint in one hand an an accumulator in the other.
I'd certainly disagree with the editor that this is a "cool thing" about Gaudreau, but it certainly is a thing.
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6 minutes ago, rychicken said:
$10 says it's even worse next season
Can I parlay that with whether Gaudreau will have a ham & cheese after the game tonight?
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The amount of gambling commercials on SN is gross. And I have nothing against gambling, I do it myself. But you get Bet365, SportsInteraction, DraftKings, all advertised on the same network (I think there is another one too) combined with the intermission panel providing live odds updates and it becomes clear that this is predatory.
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The Whitecaps were penny-pinchers, pre-Davies and the trend continues post-Davies:
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15 hours ago, UnkNuk said:
You beat me to it. I just came here to post about this. I don't really follow baseball all that closely but the Reds' situation has caught my attention.
Here's a rather lengthy article about the Reds' woes:
A main paragraph:
Winning is a communal experience. Losing is a collection of tiny, individual tragedies. And so far this season, Cincinnati has done a lot of losing. The team’s 9–24 start puts it on pace to lose 117 games, which would be the third worst season since the start of the 20th century. The Reds’ team ERA is last in the majors at 6.29; the Pirates, the next worst pitching team, have a 4.89 ERA. Recently, those Pirates have done their part to mask at least some of the ugliness. Cincinnati has its won three straight games, and six of its last eight, with five of those wins coming against Pittsburgh, another of the league’s worst clubs. At this time last week, following Greene’s shellacking and the last game before they played Pittsburgh, the Reds were 3–22, on pace to finish with a 20–142 record, which would’ve been eight more losses than the 1899 Cleveland Spiders—the worst team ever. At one point Cincinnati went 99 innings without holding a lead.
I feel like most professional athletes feel stronger emotions from losing than they do winning. I can't imagine being in that Reds' dugout.
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I think the first change is to the pitching coach. Is Martinez the problem? No idea. But there is a clear problem with talented players underperforming, and a new voice is a way of making a small change with hopefully a big payoff.
Watching the Jays with RISP is brutal. Might as well just watch to see if the leadoff hits a HR (especially if its Springer) and if not, change the channel.
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LAK Release:
Danny DeKeyser
Jordan Oesterle
Andrej SustrTyler Pitlick
Drake Caggiula
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FLA just doesn't know what system to play. Third goal was a product of one forward throwing a hit that put him way out of position, leading to a pinch with no support, leading to a Tyler Myer's style 2-1 where he just kind of slides into the corner without taking the pass.
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1 hour ago, shiznak said:
He doesn’t.
I even provided evidence that he doesn’t. As HSKR mentioned, the only time we’re putting Hughes out there against the tougher opponents, is when we’re trailing from behind or when we need an offensive spark.
The first two periods, he usually plays against far lesser matchup.
He's the third highest dman in terms of his quality of competition. Is he the first choice against teams' top lines? No. But the idea that he is going up against "far lesser" matchups is also not true.
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1 minute ago, canuck73_3 said:
Thing is Quinn does get favourable minutes against the second PP unit. More often than not it is Myers and OEL against the 1st PP unit.
I don't think anyone is saying otherwise...
Playing 4-5 is still difficult. Most top units will play about 90 seconds of a PP. PK shifts are hardly that long. Even if you're second unit PK, you're still likely to see some time against the first unit, even if they are towards the last half of their shift.
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6 hours ago, mll said:
Wouldn't use PK time as indicative of toughness of competition. Quite a few teams use their 3rd pairing Ds or guys that are otherwise healthy scratches on the PK. Going up against elite players at 5v5 is very different than on the PK - there's no icing on the PK.
Nashville shelters their 3rd pairing at 5v5 but will use them on the PK. Myers was even waived and loaned to the Marlies but when in the lineup he's on the PK. Ben Harpur too and has also split his time in the AHL. All very sheltered at 5v5 though. It's really not unusual with other teams doing it too.
Okay, that's what Nashville does... but that's not what Vancouver did. Green did the very opposite of that - purposefully NOT playing Hughes on the PK to try and give him sheltered minutes. Hughes was only -4 on the PK over 90 minutes. It wasn't as if he was put out there to perform poorly.
I'm not trying to bang on the "Quinn Hughes is defensively elite" drum... but I don't think he is a liability that can only be effective when given favorable line matchups.
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4 minutes ago, shiznak said:
Not misquoting myself.
Elite forwards = toughest matchup, more or less.
Hughes played 90 minutes on the PK, but how many of those minutes were against the top unit for the opposition? The OEL-Myers pairing gets the brunt of the top unit.
You said he doesn't play against the opponent's elite forwards every single night. He does. He isn't necessarily line-matched against them, but that doesn't mean he doesn't spend important minutes against top forwards, and the underlying stats support that. OEL took a ton of minor penalties this year, which meant Hughes was often playing important PK minutes on the left side.
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7 hours ago, shiznak said:
In terms of ice-time, yes Hughes is our #1 defensemen, but he doesn’t play against the opponent’s elite forwards every single night. In matter of fact, he usually plays against the opponent’s bottom 6 forwards.
OEL and Myers plays against the toughest match up.
6 hours ago, shiznak said:Hence why I said, “he doesn’t play against the toughest matchup every single night”, like OEL and Myers do.
You're misquoting yourself.
I don't know how you can argue he doesn't play against elite forwards when he logged 90 minutes 4 on 5. OEL logged about 160 minutes but was on the PK the entire year whereas Quinn's minutes basically came exclusively after Green was fired. In the post-Green era, he was certainly playing against top forwards.
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1 hour ago, bishopshodan said:
Rose's corner might have been the worst I've seen in a while.
Barry is cringe with her and had the worst advice. Wittman was a little better but should have taken the reigns.
Carla won, she didn't do much but Rose did nothing.
Her attitude is worse than her performance. Did she mention not wanting to mess up her face in that interview? the same girl that shaves her head because it's not about beauty? the same girl whose nickname is 'thug'?
She was once humble and real. She has a big head now....kinda reminds me of Diego Sanchez with her 'I'm the best' crap too..Do you remember Diego and his 'Yes'!' ?
Wittman got polar opposites from his fighters. Rose was overly tentative and Gaethje was so aggressive he literally punched himself onto the canvas.
Usually Wittman leads the cornering and Barry chimes in with some sort of emotional support, but this fight was different, with Barry basically doing everything. Wittman was in a weird position.
It is easy to $&!# on Rose, but also, she's been groomed by Barry since she was a 15 year old, so I'm not surprised that she is emotionally immature. That's right where a creep like Barry wants her. There is a massively problematic dynamic in MMA between female fighters and their coaches.
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53 minutes ago, Chicken. said:
CHUCKY BABY!!! WHAT A FIGHT!
thankfully it made up for the snoozefest Rose gave us
She did that after I explained to my friend that she's one of my favorites to watch, not just of women, but of anyone in the UFC. The performance+attitude was pathetic.
Happy for Charles. It is outrageous that so many people label him a quitter when you look at the adversity he dealt with as a child. He is a treat to watch.
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I didn't think that Pasta purposefully ran the goalie... but he was so stupid and reckless that he put himself in a position where he should have known that that would be possible.
Marchand, on the other hand, is just so chicken $&!#. Was useless for basically the entirety of April and its carrying over to the playoffs.
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... waits patiently.
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With Antti Raanta picking up a win last night, Boston's 5th round pick transfers to the LAK. I look forward to using that pick to select a player who will undoubtedly go undrafted in this summer's real-life draft.
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1 hour ago, NUCKER67 said:
well, I have to admit I don't know every player in the league, smart guy. This Morin dude only played 29 NHL games, and he's 26, so this isn't really news.
He was a high draft pick who played for Canada... but I don't get the impression you were genuinely asking for information on him. It seemed like you were asking "who?" the same way pathetic people comment on stories they don't personally find important as some way to diminish someone else. You're free to say that wasn't what you meant, and I'll be free to say I don't believe you.
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20 minutes ago, NUCKER67 said:Who?
If you don't know who it is, it says more about your knowledge than about the player...
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[PDF] Calgary Flames (P1) vs. Edmonton Oilers (P2) | Oilers win series 4-1
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The linesemen need to chill out and just let guys fight. I realize that they probably have specific instructions from the NHL, but post whistle scrums would end a lot earlier if guys knew they were going to take actual punches.