Zipper
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Makes OEL's $8.5 seem pretty reasonable now.
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6 hours ago, Da Leafs said:
That you smacked around an employee? Lol.
Damn the man, save The Empire!!!
Haha, not that part. Just that I deal with crazy teenagers all day, and when I first saw the movie I was one of the crazy teenagers.
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It's my fave movie. I watched it on Saturday! I had the realization that I'm now Joe tho.
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6 minutes ago, byz said:
And it's gonna be an Oilers WIN!
Anything to keep them out of the lottery again.
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I like the new way better
. It’s way easier on mobile. Maybe you guys need to get your phones out! 😃
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Now getting rid of blue lines. There’s an idea.
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Veg is 100% right on this one.
Bigger rinks slow the game down and take away from scoring.
Bigger rink means players have more room to back-up when they can’t decide what to do with the puck.
There is less incentive to forecheck because they’ll just back up, and if you chase you’ll just be out of position when they attack.
Defending players are taught to not pursue a player if he is outside of the face off dots. Doing that creates lanes and wastes energy.
Bigger rinks do favour speedier players, but they also favour players who benefit from having more time (players with worse hands, and players who can’t think the game fast enough), so it doesn’t necessarily add to the skill.
It also hurts the ability to generate offence off the cycle. Once you do the work on the boards and beat a guy, you’re further away from the net, so the rest of the defending team has more time to react and get in shooting lanes.
Think of it this way: the scoring area remains the same, but now there’s more perimeter to work with. That doesn’t help with scoring.
I like that it would reduce injury. But the pace would slow down.
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Yea. What a jerk. I thought it was an unwritten rule in the preseason that vets take it easy on the physical stuff unless a young guy starts it. No reason for that at all, except to be a sociopath.
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29 minutes ago, James said:
Cough... TIM... cough cough.
Hahaha, I was hoping he would take a look. He's not the only one though....
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PCFL is stalling out. I think a couple of GMs think they are being skippeed, when they actually aren’t 🤔.
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3 hours ago, byz said:
Gotta say, I watched Pettersson versus the Oilers. He was nothing short of phenomenal. I don't know who's going to get the puck to him, but he looks like he'll be a star.
Yea. He’s something to be excited about. If he can stick at C then maybe he could make things happen with Eriksson and Baertschi. If he’s not at C then there’s no one good to put him with. Offense dies when Sutter touches the puck.
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Pretty much every Canuck has disappointed except Petterson. Demko, not good. Dahlen, meh. Goldobin, lots of turnovers.
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I think the discord can serve this role now.
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Maybe I’m doing it wrong? The problem comes when I go to another app and then back to the fantrax app. Then it either wants to start all over again, or launch the website.
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15 hours ago, djb738 said:
See the link above
Yea, I did that. But it doesn’t seem to
do more than launch a new page of the mobile site, but I obviously have the mobile site running at all times on my phone
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The app stopped working for me when I got a new phone. Is there an app for iOS? I can’t find it when I search the App Store.
The mobile site works great though. I rarely need a PC these days.
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Better return than I expected from the Habs. Not because of the value of Patches, but because of Bergevin’s incompetence.
All accounts are Kotkaniemi needed help at the prospects tourney. Glad he got some.
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Hahahaha, I'm shocked he didn't turn in to a high calibre sniper. Live and learn I guess.
Welcome back Fuku!
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That's Tom Wilson money!
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They win every lockout though. They get to roll back the salaries and start where they left off a couple years before.
And suckers like me can’t help but flock back to their TVs.
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33 minutes ago, leevaughn said:
The point was.. all those guys are power forwards and started to bloom late. I was in no way saying that Tom Wilson is going to be the next Cam Neely.
45 points and all those peripherals isn't a bad contract for 5 mill. Of course it could be better but you're not getting that kind of cross category production out of anyone else in the league at that high of a level.
I guess my point is that these guys showed a scoring touch in their first few years. Wilson didn’t, until paired with some of the best players in the world, and he still didn’t produce like an average top sixer.
Dustin Brown was producing at a Wilson type rate for years and he went unclaimed in most CHA leagues.
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55 minutes ago, leevaughn said:
As well I remember another big boy. No messing around type power forward. A little less on the shenanigans and PIM's. Took him a while to find his rhythm. He was 24 before he broke loose and had a couple of back to back 40 point seasons prior to breaking out. John Leclair.
Then I did a little google stuff.
Tocchet 23
Bertuzzi 25
Iginla - although he was way more talented and showed more younger. He didn't bust loose until 24.
Neely -21 . 4 seasons it took probably the best to ever be a power forward to cut loose.
These guys take time.
All of these guys had more points in their first full season than Wilson’s career high, which was an anomaly. Iginla got 50 points in his rookie year. Wilson got 35 last year, and that is almost double his career average.
Maybe Wilson’s 35 points was his breakout. I don’t think he’ll do more than that.
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Checks watch. Seems like we’re due for another lockout and salary rollback.
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Man, Torterella is as thin skinned as the president. What a snowflake.
Edler signs
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2 year deal. $6 million a year. The rare good contract by Jim Benning.