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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. I was really trying hard to pull for Calgary in this series....but they're making it difficult.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Calgary looking like losers in a win imo. Don't poke an opponent when they're down 4-0.
  9. she might not have a classic broadcast voice - she is a hockey player after all - but I think she's great - she was/is a legend, she knows the game and she's a pro the way she approaches colour - vastly superior to so many.
  10. Hrudey is embarassing. That said - I love Cassie Campbell - glad she's getting meaningful games.
  11. 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'.
  12. 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.
  13. Colorado has always seemed to play some fast, entertaining hockey. For the past 3ish or so years, they've badly exposed the Canuck's lack of footspeed - but that wasn't really the case this year - nice to see a Canucks team that could once again play that up tempo hockey.
  14. Funny thing - I seem to be noticing Lindholm - throwing the body - or am I just able to see invisible, disappeared players?
  15. 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.
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