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Brian Burke on changing the Draft Lottery Format
oldnews replied to Generational.EP40's topic in General Hockey Discussion
Burke is the best combination of entertainment value and straight-shooter / unedited commentary out there. This morning - again - great stuff - saying that guys like Kesler are miserable, but tolerated because they take their misery with them onto the ice. Unfortunately I think it seriously limited Kesler's potential. His lack of 'emotional intelligence' seems to have spilled over into the kinds of decisions he'd make on the ice - notoriously unable to make linemates better, played 'angry' to the point it stunted him a lot of the time - squeezed his stick, forced hopeless wristers from other time zones instead of moving the puck - had a real lack of vision and creativity....Still made a whole lot of his talent, and worked hard, but you have to wonder what he might have been if he'd been aware of his weakest links. -
[Signing] Blues re-sign Jay Bouwmeester
oldnews replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Bouwmeester aint better defensively. St Louis also has a #2 named Parayko - and a blueline as a whole this is significantly harder to play against. Edler plays considerably harder minutes, and has better "possession" numbers on a worse team. Blocks more shots, throws more hits - has better goal metrics / goal differential...kills more penalties. Not all that is simply playing for a worse team - and the most significant indicators - the "possession' and goal metrics - being better while playing harder minutes on a worse team - makes it pretty untenable to claim Bouwmeester is better defensively. I's hard to find even a single cherry pick to qualify that. Edler aint signing a contract with Bouwmeester's as a 'comparable' - he's not really - and the gap only increases that much more when you consider Edler's production - twice that of Bouwmeester - and again that's not simply a matter of Edler playing more minutes - because he doubled Bouwmeester's production while playing 22 fewer games. -
True enough - but I've never found him particularly annoying - so maybe just semantics, but not sure he's a true "pest" as much as just a scrappy smaller guy who battles. Maybe it's just that I dont' recall him really rubbing people the wrong way. Who knows what tweaked Hamonic though - not much became of it - I just find it a bit off when a guy goes out of his way to engage players that much outside/below their weight class.
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Don't be a little punk and "bro" or "turncoat" me. Your laughable #proper-rebuild, inevitable Dynasty Leafing, combined with your categorical contempt for this team's, puts you in no position to call anyone else around here a 'turncoat' Otherwise I agree with everything you said about Boston - they were a gaggle of p.o.s. in 2011. But I also agree with Sean Monahan. There's little left of that Bruins team - I don't dislike Bergeron - the Clod, Dr Recchi, Thornton, etc elements are simply no longer there. The culture isn't even the same, in spite of the remains of asshats like Jack Edwards. Brad Marchand - I don't give enough energy to to continue to care about the guy. My dislike for Toronto long pre-dates any Spamaplan - so save your 'rebuild' drivel.
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It's just a perfect storm for the 26 yr old "rookie". I mean - he cleared waivers in September... He cleared waivers in 2017. He may have cleared more than twice, but at least twice. Imo - a 26 year old = isn't a "rookie". And he stepped onto one of the better rosters in the league - that happened to be having an absolutely horrible, underachieving, borderline mind-boggling season. The appearance of him taking them from worst to first is highly misleading imo. Regardless - when a guy is passed over twice by the entire NHL - his "rookie' status ends imo - he's been waiver eligible for years - but could not crack any NHL lineup.
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Really? Kadri cheapshot on Sedin Lupul attempts to behead Sedin - hits Kadri lol. Matt Martin jumps Troy fn Stecher. League responds with salt-peter for Gudbranson and the Canucks. We won't even touch their center-of-the-universe idiocy - the Shanahan DOPeShow - the Babcock 'it's (Kadri hit) reviewable but we have good people at the league and they'll look after that. It won't be a problem...", etc. People that cheer for Toronto.... Aren't "real Canucks fans' (whatever that is). Pathetic. Leaf-fluffers = even worse.
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Columbus sure has a hell of a mix of young talent and a deep lineup - great forward group, blueline and goaltending. It's just too bad that they've settled for Tortorella. Luckily though, if a Tortorella team is going to go anywhere, it's with the kind of heavy, up tempo young lineup he has to work with - otherwise I don't think his cookie cutter fits many teams. Luckily, they recovered from his pre-game rant - to overcome a 3-0 deficit with that impressive comeback. Someone must have told him to shut up in the intermission? jk....sorta. Reminds me of a University volleyball coach I once had. Pre-game - launched into a 'motivational' speech - insisting that what we needed to do was 'grasp the opponent by the throat, put their head underwater, and do not let them up until they could breathe no more"...... I was a rookie at the time, thinking wtf? is this? - when our captain intervened and challenged - "that's great and all - but what kind of blocking schemes are we going to run against this opponent?" Unforgettabe 'retort'.
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Brian Burke on changing the Draft Lottery Format
oldnews replied to Generational.EP40's topic in General Hockey Discussion
I agree with the idea that if you've won a lottery - say in the last 3 or 5 years - you should be excluded from subsequent lotteries for a period of time - perhaps 3 years. You simply stay in the draft order you fall - with no chance of moving up. -
[Signing] Capitals re-sign Nic Dowd
oldnews replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
That is a slippery kind of logic - comparing Malhotra's 30 pts in 2010/11 - on the highest scoring team in the NHL - (with slightly higher ozone starts if you're splitting hairs over faceoff percentages....) He played 16:10 that season to Beagle's 13:38 this year. The following year, Malhotra played 12:21 a night....had 18 pts in 78 games. When Malhotra scored 33 pts in San Jose = he did that with 44.4% ozone starts - and had 8 powerplay points... In Columbus the year before, 35 pts, 6 powerplay, 42.1% ozone starts.... They're (the Malhotra that played in Vancouver) extremely comparable in a whole lot of ways - if you don't see that, you're not looking realistically at it - have a perception of Malhotra that is either fair while you're not seeing Beagle, or you've relatively inflated Malhotra. Malhotra was brought here by Gillis to play a particular specialist role. He is putting up Malhotra numbers - you're simply over-emphasing modest production differences - a metric that does not define Malhotra - or Beagle - and needs to be kept in relative context. Moreover - it's harder to win dzone faceoff in today's NHL - with rule changes - than it was a decade ago. I'd understand why you were so high on Malhotra - at the same time - he coincided with contending years, so of course he has the advantage of nostalgia - but when it comes down to it - they're extremely comparable - and Beagle also has his relative advantages - ie he's more physical, hits more.....and was instrumental in a Championship run.