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rex rabidorum vires posted:
I don't think they're deep enough to go on a long run, but they could feasibly get through a couple of rounds because McDrai makes up for their replacement level bottom six and then some.
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The thing that a lot of Oilers fans on twitter are dispirited about is that this is a team that has quite clearly hit their maximum level of performance, with basically no potential to improve over where they stand as a roster right now. As others have said, where they stand now is a top 4 team in a bad conference, but outside of the teams that you would pick as really solid contenders for the Stanley Cup. Edmonton is kind of in that 2nd tier where in the playoffs they'll basically go as far as their goaltenders take them, so hopefully Mike Smith has a good year in April this time! When they played Dallas it was pointed out on the broadcast that the Oilers have something like the 4th or 5th oldest team in the league.. In a lot of ways they are in a very similar position to Dallas (the oldest team in the league), in that the farm system is pretty barren of guys who make any sort of impact at the NHL level, the management and coaching staff seems to value way past their prime veterans at key positions, and it's not clear at all if the goaltending is actually any good or if the 3 or 4 guys at the forward position who carry the water when it comes to scoring can make up for the horrendous depth.
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I’d be surprised that no ones mentioned the NHL scoring leaders for the month of November Minnesota Wild, but east coast media and whatever. Honestly, this is just so much fun to watch.
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Jhet posted:I’d be surprised that no ones mentioned the NHL scoring leaders for the month of November Minnesota Wild, but east coast media and whatever. Minnesota Wild? I thought they moved to Dallas. Huh.
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THERE IS A SLIM CHANCE OF A BEER LEAGUER PLAYING AN NHL GAME TONIGHT PEOPLE https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/32772086/st-louis-blues-add-emergency-goalie-jordan-binnington-enters-covid-19-protocol "He had a morning skate today with his beer league guys and he said he was on fire and ready to go, so we're excited to have him in here," Armstrong said. give him the loving start doug, lets do ths thing
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Jhet posted:I’d be surprised that no ones mentioned the NHL scoring leaders for the month of November Minnesota Wild, but east coast media and whatever. It's because we hate them and think you're ugly.
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bewbies posted:THERE IS A SLIM CHANCE OF A BEER LEAGUER PLAYING AN NHL GAME TONIGHT PEOPLE not only that, because of weird cap rules the Blues are required to dress a beer-leaguer tonight. (the Blues are up against the cap and already using LTIR, and as such have to use an "emergency exception" rule to call up Charlie Lindgren from SpringyMA. HOWEVER, in order to use that rule, a team has to play at least one game with an EBUG, meaning that a 23-year-old graphic designer who played Tier III against a team that I did play-by-play for at the time gets to be on the bench tonight.)
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bewbies posted:give him the loving start doug, lets do ths thing gently caress that. I don't like taking the opening faceoff in beer league, I get too nervous. If I won the "dress for an NHL team" lottery and they tried to put me out there for an NHL game I'd barf all over the ice.
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I would allow 10 goals and be proud of it.
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A cool team would just let their non NHL goalie start, like Ottawa and Boston and Philly and
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bewbies posted:THERE IS A SLIM CHANCE OF A BEER LEAGUER PLAYING AN NHL GAME TONIGHT PEOPLE I thought Binnington was in COVID protocol?
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bewbies posted:THERE IS A SLIM CHANCE OF A BEER LEAGUER PLAYING AN NHL GAME TONIGHT PEOPLE Rearrange the schedule and have beer leaguer vs. beer leaguer between STL and CBJ.
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Aphrodite posted:It's because we hate them and think you're ugly. ![]()
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Any other bigtime Rem Pitlick fans out there?
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Aphrodite posted:It's because we hate them and think you're ugly. You’re probably right, but the referees are blind anyway. eXXon posted:Any other bigtime Rem Pitlick fans out there? He played reasonably well in his time at UMN, but I don’t know that he has much of a fan base yet. He’s been okay, and he moves with speed still, so by the time he’s 28 they’ll move him to Pittsburgh to play on the second line.
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Starsfan posted:The thing that a lot of Oilers fans on twitter are dispirited about is that this is a team that has quite clearly hit their maximum level of performance, with basically no potential to improve over where they stand as a roster right now. As others have said, where they stand now is a top 4 team in a bad conference, but outside of the teams that you would pick as really solid contenders for the Stanley Cup. Edmonton is kind of in that 2nd tier where in the playoffs they'll basically go as far as their goaltenders take them, so hopefully Mike Smith has a good year in April this time! Yeah, but that goalie can get hot baby! Also, yeah, the Stars are totally putting up 35+ and getting shut out tonight.
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https://twitter.com/SaraCivian/status/1466549854067470338?s=20 This is impressively bad
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clean ayers act posted:https://twitter.com/SaraCivian/status/1466549854067470338?s=20 April 1 already?
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One star for each banner they hung for almost making the Stanley Cup final
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i kinda like it. it's certainly different than jerseys we've seen before
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I don't like it at all but it's cool to try new things. Get rid of the SMASHVILLE text and it'd be a pretty good jersey.
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Lmao the lightning one looks like those 90s shark tooth SnapBack hats. I can’t even bring myself to link it. https://twitter.com/ShopTBSports/status/1466528351066099713?s=20 Wonderllama fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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The bones of that Nashville jersey are solid: great colors, nice design, but that SMASHVILLE, ugh. But that lightning one? Chef's kiss.
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clean ayers act posted:https://twitter.com/SaraCivian/status/1466549854067470338?s=20 I am not a fan, but I can see this becoming a cult item thing.
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clean ayers act posted:https://twitter.com/SaraCivian/status/1466549854067470338?s=20 What the gently caress is up with the size of that second “s”? All of the letter look like they are different sizes. Everything is so awkward, look at the captains “c” too
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the nhl better put the other 6 dragon balls on jerseys
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Jhet posted:I’d be surprised that no ones mentioned the NHL scoring leaders for the month of November Minnesota Wild, but east coast media and whatever. Fine, I'll say it -- Kaprizov is good.
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Caps loving suck at overtime and shootouts this year.
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The stadium series logo is actually pretty good, so what the gently caress happened with those godawful jerseys?![]()
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Those jerseys are fun. The NHL should do more fun stuff. Everyone rolled their eyes at the 90s logos at the time but now they're hot collectors items. Not every jersey needs to be an all-time classic piece. Doing something different and memorable for a dumb outdoor game is what the NHL needs more of.
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Cartoon Man posted:Caps loving suck at overtime and shootouts this year. Habs suck at everything
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https://twitter.com/ManGamesLostNHL/status/1466549741668470788?s=20 Anderson is now going to miss 2-4 weeks and Gally and Niku are out with covid too.
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Those are the ugliest jerseys since the Buffalo third with the cape
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Dumb jerseys are great, if nothing else they drive content by everyone posting previous dumb jerseys. Also this is excellent. https://mobile.twitter.com/Capital_Gains65/status/1466597020848771073
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MononcQc posted:https://twitter.com/ManGamesLostNHL/status/1466549741668470788?s=20 The only way the bubble size meaning "quality of players" to make sense based on that graph is if they just measure player quality in cap hit, which they should just say cap hit if that's what they're doing.
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VOTE1 posted:Dumb jerseys are great, if nothing else they drive content by everyone posting previous dumb jerseys. https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/977564370640158721?s=21
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clean ayers act posted:https://twitter.com/SaraCivian/status/1466549854067470338?s=20 I hate you Nashville.
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fermun posted:The only way the bubble size meaning "quality of players" to make sense based on that graph is if they just measure player quality in cap hit, which they should just say cap hit if that's what they're doing. yeah maybe it's my crappy eyesight, but to me those bubbles all look pretty much exactly the same size as one another..
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eXXon posted:The stadium series logo is actually pretty good, so what the gently caress happened with those godawful jerseys?
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WeaponX posted:What the gently caress is up with the size of that second “s”? All of the letter look like they are different sizes. They’re taking inspiration from quick cheap letterpress show posters, low-budget printing houses would lose letters from their type cabinets to time/degradation and also mix different styles of lettering together for spacing/decorative purposes. Like this, which isn’t vintage but is pulling off the style better: ![]() The problem is on a jersey you can’t show the damage to the letters or the spatter of ink coverage, and the rest of the elements crowd the letters to the point where it’s difficult to discern the differences immediately so it seems like a surprise instead of a conscious decision.
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