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Jagged Jim
Sep 26, 2013

I... I can only look though the window...

https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1349142223602987011?s=20

Ready for some Covid Hockey League action!

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Blackbelt Bobman
Jul 17, 2004

I don't need friends! I've been
manipulatin' you since the start!
All so I can something,
something X-Blade!


Putting the team names alphabetically is the only time you’ll see Buffalo on top of that list this year :smithicide:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Good morning to the dogshit garbage philadelphia flyers

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..
I’m excited to see Joe Thornton in a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey, tonight.

larkko
Oct 4, 2008

Let Us Go, The New York Rangers!

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 
If COVID doesn't kill me, Bergevin might finish the job.

Go Habs I suppose.

fits
Jan 1, 2008

Love Always,
The Captain
blood for the blood gods

go oilers

ZuluDashOne
May 1, 2020

#NeverForget

Go Wings!

:911:
Happy start of the season day to everyone.

Go Wings I guess.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

It's super weird that there's hockey today. Weirder still that they have had no real pre-games to speak of. Pens/Flyers starting up cold in the middle of a pandemic is either gonna be the most listless floating or a bloodbath

LowOnCyan
Feb 29, 2016

None of this matters
Cautiously optimistic about the Habs this season.
It seems good on paper and from what I've seen and read about in the off-season, but ya never know.

ThinkTank
Oct 23, 2007

CO-VID HOC-KEY *clap clap clapclapclap*

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

It's super weird that there's hockey today. Weirder still that they have had no real pre-games to speak of. Pens/Flyers starting up cold in the middle of a pandemic is either gonna be the most listless floating or a bloodbath

Good news, it can be both!

stab
Feb 12, 2003

To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high

Martytoof posted:

If COVID doesn't kill me, Bergevin might finish the job.

Go Habs I suppose.

Preemptive Fire Bergevin.

rex rabidorum vires
Mar 26, 2007

KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN KASPERI KAPANEN
I'm mildly excited for the dumpster fire of Covid Cup. Going to be super mad at checks roster Mike Matheson and Cody Ceci tonight and continue to wonder why Kaspy Kap isn't a 90pt forward. If both teams were anywhere near prepared Flyers/Pens could be a really good game. Tonight though going with gong show baby!

Aye Doc posted:

Ekblad and Yandle together:
61.55 CF/60, 52.78 CA/60 = 53.83% corsi for

Yandle without Ekblad: (numbers are krangled, built on powerful napkin math since I've lost my grip on the fancy stat community and couldn't anywhere to get the /60 numbers for a Yandle without Ekblad dataset)
53.3~ CF/60, 64.1~ CA/60 = 45.7% corsi for

that's uh. that's horrific shot bleedin', folks

https://evolving-hockey.com/ has an insanely useful combo tool (unlike Natural Stat's which is questionable). With Josh Brown - 48%, Pysyk - 39.5%, Stralman - 44%, and Matheson - 44.4%. Excluding Ekblad you're looking at a low of 46 CF/60 and a high of 54 CF/60. With Ekblad/Brown you're looking at 55-58 CA/60 and the remaining 3 other defenseman it's 65, 70, and 70. What's really wild about Yandle last year is the 55% actual goals for vs 45% expected outcomes. 10% spreads are sustainable right?

Darude - Adam Sandstorm
Aug 16, 2012

Happy Birthday to Connor McDavid. Oilers, don't let my friend down tonight.

Aardvark Barber
Sep 7, 2007

Delivery in less than two minutes or your money back!


Let's go Pens!

Gonna try to be more active around here this season! Hope it's a good one.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/domluszczyszyn/status/1349360145416019972


Godspeed, Dom

Duckman2008
Jan 6, 2010

TFW you see Flyers goaltending.
Grimey Drawer

My two hot takes for the season:

Washington craters

Chicago is worse than Detroit (in hockey, not as a city overall).

grassy gnoll
Aug 27, 2006

The pawsting business is tough work.
I'm excited for the next five-ish days of hockey before attrition really sets in.

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

I don't like how this is starting but the Stars are gonna rake in the points when every other team gets an outbreak mid season is what I keep telling myself.


E: go hockey :toot:

Blackbelt Bobman
Jul 17, 2004

I don't need friends! I've been
manipulatin' you since the start!
All so I can something,
something X-Blade!


Prediction: fired up by the success of the Bills, the Sabres are going to win several early games in the season, giving everyone hope, before inevitably sliding down the rankings and finishing 6th in the division.

JungleMan
Apr 6, 2004

Me and 5999 other Sens fans are excited about continued tanking.

Spelling Mitsake
Oct 4, 2007

Clutch Cargo wishes they had Tractor.

Hand Knit posted:

I’m excited to see Joe Thornton in a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey, tonight.

Unfortunately, Corey Perry the Montreal Canadien won't be in the lineup tonight.

Darude - Adam Sandstorm
Aug 16, 2012

I am happy for my friend JP being able to score goals for his friend Connor McDavid's birthday.

https://twitter.com/LonnbergMari/status/1349347466299269120

Hand Knit
Oct 24, 2005

Beer Loses more than a game Sunday ...
We lost our Captain, our Teammate, our Friend Kelly Calabro...
Rest in Peace my friend you will be greatly missed..

Spelling Mitsake posted:

Unfortunately, Corey Perry the Montreal Canadien won't be in the lineup tonight.

I thought that was just cap fuckery.

Darude - Adam Sandstorm
Aug 16, 2012

Hand Knit posted:

I thought that was just cap fuckery.

Can't play tonight if you were not on roster as of yesterday. Can play game 2 though.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:

I am happy for my friend JP being able to score goals for his friend Connor McDavid's birthday.

https://twitter.com/LonnbergMari/status/1349347466299269120

As a Pens fan, I hope McDavid is stuck playing with scrubs like Kassian his whole career
but as a general hockey fan, I would love to see what he can do with a winger with even a modicum of skill so I hope the kid makes it

Spelling Mitsake
Oct 4, 2007

Clutch Cargo wishes they had Tractor.

Hand Knit posted:

I thought that was just cap fuckery.

Just Marc Bergevin's favourite pastime of checking the bargain bins.

Darude - Adam Sandstorm
Aug 16, 2012

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

As a Pens fan, I hope McDavid is stuck playing with scrubs like Kassian his whole career
but as a general hockey fan, I would love to see what he can do with a winger with even a modicum of skill so I hope the kid makes it

He is playing with the Nuge this year!

JP is playing on the third line with Ennis and Turris to start. Probably gonna be fed soft o-zone starts. Tippett did a good job sheltering certain lines/d pairings last year and with a deeper team I expect he'll do a lot more of that this year.

mennoknight
Nov 24, 2003

I WILL JUST EAT ONE MORE SANDWICH
OH MY HEAD EXPLORDED I'M JAY FATSTER
Can't wait to watch the "best team in Canada" the Edmonton Oilers suck an absolutely huge donkey dick

sleep with the vicious
Apr 2, 2010
I hope nobody dies

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


https://twitter.com/JeffMcDev/status/1349378264842858502


lets fukkn goooooooooo

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
Top 10 anime betrayals; they didn't wait for the Stars



In any case, lets do a hockey baybee~~

Darude - Adam Sandstorm
Aug 16, 2012

mennoknight posted:

Can't wait to watch the "best team in Canada" the Edmonton Oilers suck an absolutely huge donkey dick

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



The Philadelphia Flyers are dogshit garbage

Henrik Zetterberg
Dec 7, 2007

Larkin named captain of Detroit.

https://www.nhl.com/redwings/news/red-wings-name-dylan-larkin-captain/c-320230766

Less predictably:

quote:

Additionally, centers Luke Glendening and Frans Nielsen will serve as alternate captains for the 2020-21 season.

Flocons de Jambon
Apr 11, 2015
Are they going to fire the cannon in Columbus?

fawning deference
Jul 4, 2018

I thought Frans Nielsen retired 5 years ago

fancy stats
Sep 9, 2009

A man's man, wears a lot of denim, tells long stories and has oatmeal saved from this morning.

https://twitter.com/IneffectiveMath/status/1349076124731629571

I am ready for chaos season :getin:

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FBS
Apr 27, 2015

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

Go Jets Go
FIRE PAUL MAURICE

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