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  1. Playoff suspensions should be like 10 points.
  2. I mean, I want Edmonton to lose. I also want Calgary to lose. But I also don't want there to be a 25% chance that one of those two teams draft first overall. Conflicting.
  3. Man do I appreciate having hockey... and the work of @Nail et al. to keep this league running, which makes each game just that much more interesting.
  4. So the Marlins went out when they were in Atlanta. I mean, I understand that most professional athletes are a bit thick in the head... but how stupid can you be. The season hadn't even started and they were already breaking protocol. I've been out in Atlanta. There is like NOTHING there except for strip clubs (talking about downtown Atl).
  5. SN650 carved out an identity as a bit more of a homer-based station. I feel like 1040 wanted to carve out its own identity by going the opposite way. It's like the Dems/Republicans in the US. They will slowly begin to just take extreme POVs.
  6. The stretches that people will make to use data inappropriately when it supports their beliefs/opinions is pretty mind-melding. These are simply bivariate comparisons, not controlling for things like pop density, prevalence of testing, quality of hospitals, air quality, and on and on.
  7. Giving us exhibition hockey and then taking hockey away for two straight days is brutal. 

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    2. TNucks1

      TNucks1

      rather have it that way, they can regroup and get ready for the real games thats matter.

    3. King Heffy

      King Heffy

      Time for a couple of good hard practices to get the systems sorted out.

    4. TNucks1

      TNucks1

      im jonesing for more hockey though, need my fix especially after waiting around since march.

       

  8. Honestly, the level of arrogance you must have as a director to think that you can take a movie that sucked from top to bottom and re-cut it to make it look good. I do a lot of statistical analyses and the general saying is "garbage in, garbage out". You can't fix with stats what you bungled with research design. Editing this garbage flick is like polishing a turd. My favorite part of this is that it is apparently called "Zack Snyder's Justice League". It'd be like if I built boat's and called my remake "Down by the River's Titanic"
  9. No word of a lie. When my wife and I first started dating, she knew nothing about sports (still doesn't). When she was over, I told her that it was my fantasy hockey draft and that I needed a couple hours with the room to myself so that I could really concentrate. She literally thought fantasy hockey was about guys getting together and building a 'team' of the hottest girls imaginable. She was kinda pissed, but still stuck around (talk about a keeper). It wasn't until several hours after the draft that she figured out what we were doing.
  10. Cuthbert is the absolute best. CFL, NHL... he is great. Wish Ray was with him. Jim Hughson totally phoned it in ever since switching to the premium slot on HNIC.
  11. I really want to see the Oilers and Flames absolutely murder each other in a meaningless tune-up game.
  12. Is the fake noise generated in-arena so that players can hear it, or is it fed in through a studio?
  13. Derek Fisher struggggggggles with catching/holding onto pop flies.
  14. Breaking: The NHL's new concussion protocol will now involve testing whether players can walk over the hotel's carpet without feeling like they have vertigo/falling over.
  15. I would like to be friends with Brian Burke. I wouldn't want him running my hockey team.
  16. Some odd ideas in this thread about playing PK. This isn't the 1980s. The ability to produce SH scoring opportunities is waaay down. Guys like Petey play about 18 min per game. Asking for another two minutes on the PK is a ton of extra time. PK drains the legs. You might not cover as much ice as 5-on-5, but the stop/start read/react is way more draining. It also means you can't start him shift after a PK. Or you can, but you won't be getting the most out of him. Only players with great hockey sense excel on the PK. Say what you will about Sutter, but he understands positioning extremely well. You spend a lot of time on the PK reading both the offense and what the other forward are doing. Being good on the PK requires just as much hockey sense as being good on the PP. The only difference is that guys on the PK tend to lack the skill to be able to do the things that they see happening.
  17. So the Blue Jays will play in Buffalo. This is awesome: Some family business just walked into a $40 million endorsement deal.
  18. LA KINGS ROSTER Max Domi - Tyler Seguin- Alex Radulov Boone Jenner - Brock Nelson - Oliver Bjorkstrand Pierre Engvall - Drake Caggiula - Alex Chiasson Mathieu Joseph - Colin Blackwell - Christian Fischer Gage Quinney - Connor Bunnaman Jacob Trouba - Dimitry Orlov Devon Toews - Travis Dermott Carson Soucy - Brett Kulak Andreas Borgman Devan Dubnyk Jaroslav Halak Omissions: Evander Kane, Drew Doughty, Damon Severson, Connor Brown, Melker Karlsson Black Aces: D - Ethan Prow F - Shane Gersich F - Matthew Phillips D - Austin Strand Hopefully I did this right...
  19. Call the league soft if you want... but this is the exact type of hit they've been trying to get out of the league for 5+ years. Guys like Lemieux probably don't have the attention span to sit through a 3 minute video from the league explaining which types of hit they are trying to get rid of.
  20. Sick submission. You could see her looking over at her coaches for advice too. Wonder if that would have been as possible in a loud arena.
  21. Who are high profile guys with low PIMs? Okay. Yeah. Them. I wish PIMs wasn't an important indicator of gentlemanly play. Mark Scheiffle comes across as a guy that is a true gentleman yet he is also hard-nosed.
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