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grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
My team is bad because we went from "Luongo/Schneider" to "Lack/Some dude we picked up at the airport that's clearly never played goal before"

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grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Rotten Cookies posted:

Would you rather that, or having a team that sees Evgeni Nabakov in net and says "Yeah...that's good."

Yeah, let's see what happens in the offseason before I make a judgement on this.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

JawKnee posted:

did you see Markstrom last night?

The future is long and bleak.

Reimer and Miller are out there and the 'Nucks have cap space (especially when David Booth "disappears" three days before draft day)

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

VJeff posted:

Pens hire Trotz, sign Miller.

I quietly contemplate switching to basketball.

You don't do anything quietly.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Rotten Cookies posted:

What's next, Islanders? Are you "happy with [your] goaltending situation?"


I mean, maybe this is just to fake everyone out. Right, Garth?

We have this Jacob Markstrom chap. Look at his AHL and SEL numbers! He's going to be a HUGE NHL star!

What? No, he's never played in the NHL, why do you ask?

Edit: This avatar creeps me right the gently caress out

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

The Dirty Burger posted:

"Any idiot can spend to the cap"

Melnyk's interview made me want to die

On the other hand Homer

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

JawKnee posted:

How long do you have to keep that loving av?

Corey Perry smirking out at me gah

Beginning of next season and I'm back to Coach Totoro

And yes, the AV freaks me the gently caress out as well.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Clearly US Hockey is afraid of gingers.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Nah. Nonis is going to be fired and end up in Calgary, with Gillis hired to take over his role in Toronto

IT'S THE CIIII-RRCLE OF LIIIIIIIFFFFFEEE

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

JoelJoel posted:

Any GM that disregards any stat is an idiot. None are perfect and some are obviously inferior (+/-) but a diligent hockey mind would consider ever metric at their disposal.

gently caress Nonis. His contracts over the last year have potentially hosed the Leafs for some time to come. Obviously coaching is the most pressing issue but every time Nonis opens his over fed mouth my brain hurts.

Anyone have that :suicide: that was changed to a leafs logo and blue blood? I get the feeling I will be needing it a lot this coming off-season.

"Potentially"?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Rutkowski posted:

Linden presser.

"We will not fire Torts..."
:(

"...out of a cannon. We'll still fire him though..."
:D

"...with a catapult!"
Commence the 2014 Vancouver celebration riots.

Jokes on you, that's how Vancouver does urban renewal

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Admiral Goodenough posted:

Can someone explain to me why the Oilers are a bad team?

Bad management, bad coaching, bad player development, no defense, and (up until the second half of this year) terrible goaltending.

But Veskit is right, bad management is the most egregious problem

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Trevor Bird posted:

it'd be pretty awesome to get him, but this is nashville. they'll finish 6th or get a wild card spot and everything will be back to normal.


defense is outstanding and they have two top-level forward prospects that are ready. craig smith is also going to be a very good player. annoying to see everything forecast as dire and horrible in nashville when it's really not. they would've made the playoffs with rinne there all year. if they can manage to throw a truck of money at stastny then it's a much improved team. don't be surprised if they do, since firing trotz shows they're not really ready to miss the playoffs another year.

Yet Poile is still employed

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Trevor Bird posted:

i'll kill myself if this stuff starts up this offseason


end.

Well let's see what happens when Poile is canned midway through next season

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

JawKnee posted:

He already talked about it last night too, during the Sharks/Kings game I think, said he wasn't trying to insinuate anything, although in his mind he wouldn't want a ref from [area] where a deciding game is taking place.

Ron MacLean is an rear end and deserves the poo poo he got for saying that on air.


Also, Bishop didn't play in the series due to a dislocated elbow. It's quite difficult to dislocate your elbow.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

canuckanese posted:

His head looks too big for his body and it's weirding me out

Same here.

Either it's a really badly shot portrait or someone went a little nuts with the post-processing.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

The Dirty Burger posted:

Someone photoshopped it to make it seem even more punchable

Where's Sean Avery working these days?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Jordan7hm posted:

Ron just doesn't like anything the NHL does with their refs.

Having the Gatineau guy ref his first playoff game in that series was probably a mistake. It's not about whether or not there's any actual bias (there is, but there always is, and he could as easily be biased the other way), but the optics don't look good. The mess up in the fourth game was just everyday NHL reffing though.

What mess up are you talking about, the Paquette penalty or something else? Because the call on Paquette was 100% right, both by the rules and in the context of the game.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

mcvey posted:

You should be able to murder a guy with 2 minutes left in an elimination game heading into OT and not get called on it.


Bad call was bad.

It was a brutally obvious trip that had a direct impact on a puck battle. It's going to be called 100% of the time regardless of circumstances or your terrible opinions.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

I never really paid much attention to Kopitar but drat, that's pretty impressive.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
You suck St. Louis

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Charles De Mar posted:

i like your idea better than the one gaining some support on hfboards which is "maybe we should fire hitchcock and hire adam oates"

Why would you read hfboards for a reason other than "I have committed a terrible wrong for which I must perform penance"


Gunjin posted:

Some team is going to buy into some combo of it being GMGM and/or Ovechkin's fault and give Oates a second chance aren't they?

As long as it's not Vancouver.

Comedy option would be Toronto.

Apparently Linden was in Boston speaking with Cam Neely

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Austrian mook posted:

Yeah but they went from bottom 6 in the NHL to 2nd and 1st in the West, that's a pretty dramatic change.


Counter point: You could have put an actual duck in the head coach's role in Anaheim and seen a dramatic improvement over Randy Carlyle.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Porrima posted:

This is very hard to know. Ducks are terrible animals who enjoy rape and necrophilia, oft combined, so despite good coaching it might have been hard on the player morale.

I would also accept one of the following waterfowl:
Grebe
Swan
Canada Goose
Double-Crested Cormorant
Loon

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Hand Knit posted:

Relatedly, apparently at some point in the season Rielly and Gardiner made a pact to simply ignore Carlyle and invent their own plays/systems. This is of course the point where they really started to look standout-good on the Leafs, and they actually posted a 54.6% corsi together which, in the context of the team, is kind of incredible.

And the late second-rounders that Nonis gets for each of them are going to be so awesome

*ducks*

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

DOOP posted:

Nothing better to do.

Also so I can heckle throw batteries at Homer in person

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

stab posted:

:psyduck:

What the gently caress CAS why is your team confused and imploding

Go ask Mike Gillis

I think he was dumped overboard somewhere around the Queen Charlotte Islands

Austrian mook posted:

I really hope Torts joins the TSN pannel now

Smartest thing you've said so far.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Verviticus posted:

yeah where the gently caress did he disappear to he didnt even say goodbye :(

Goalie graveyard made an exception

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Furnaceface posted:

Oh man, now all we need is Carlyle fired and Toronto to pick up Torts to finish the cycle.

Toronto gets the GMs, not the coaches

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

The Dirty Burger posted:

Clutterbuck for El Nino lmao

God I hope garth starts the season with garth in net


Chicken Doodle posted:

So out of morbid curiosity how often does a team lose 4 in a row in the playoffs after winning 3?

Extremely, extremely rarely. This is #4 in the history of the NHL

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Volkerball posted:

I really hope the Avs being a couple pieces away helps them get some good defenseman in FA on cheap deals because goddamn our back line is sorry.

Matte Cooke is sitting in his evil lair, cackling maniacally

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

deafmute posted:

IIRC in NHL/NBA/MLB it has happened 13 times total combined. Jeff Carter and Mike Richards have done it twice.

So Jeff Carter and Mike Richards are the devil, that's what you're saying.

(Except when they're playing for Team Canada, of course)

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Captain Geech posted:

I wonder if Torts would've been given a second chance if he hadn't tried to storm the Calgary lockerroom.

Oh, but it turned in to such lovely AV material

(don't worry, Coach Totoro will be back even if Coach Totoro isn't back)

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Coach Totoro is officially done in Vancouver

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Could the Sharks please get around to firing McLellan so the Canucks can hire him?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

JawKnee posted:

Oh gently caress no mention of firing Glen Gulutzan

gently caress.

Apparently Gulutzan is being kept around because he was responsible for a lot of the improvement that Kassian and Tanev showed this year.

That's fine, guys. Just stop letting him run the loving PP

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

INSPECTAH DECK posted:

With TSN/Sportsnet/etc. they always do the generic highlight calls unless it's an especially good or important play, which just illustrates how bad the format of those really is. How they've never caught on to this, I do not know. It would even save costs and effort.

It worked better at TSN with Jay and Dan.

Come back, Jay and Dan, we miss you. :smith:

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Dangerllama posted:

He's not a bad coach. I think he's a great coach. He's just not San Jose's great coach. Why is this so weird for people to grok?

We understand what you're saying. People are disagreeing with you because it's a very stupid opinion.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Dangerllama posted:

Like I said. McLellan is a great coach. Sharks will never win a cup with him. It's a terrible opinion and the ages will surely prove me wrong.

No, it's a terrible opinion because the Sharks' problems having nothing to do with the coach.

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grack
Jan 10, 2012

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tofes posted:

"The Sharks won't win a cup because blah blah blah I'm an idiot" - a poster on the internet

Hey, knowing the difference between correlation and causation is really, really hard.

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