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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:NHL really only has 35 people that can GM a tram It takes years of experience to be able to solve the trolley problem.
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Dec 9, 2021 19:26
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Eric the Mauve posted:The Canucks are going to make a run at a playoff spot under Boudreau. They're not good talentwise but they have some star power and look around at the rest of the league, the Canucks' overall talent level is playoff fringe, not battling the Coyotes and Senators for top lottery position. if any coach can make that happen it's Boudreau.. the guy's track record in the regular season is practically unparalleled in recent history. I was so badly wishing for Dallas to pick him up the season after they canned Montgomery. And yeah.. the Pacific division is once again looking a lot like the weaker division in the weaker conference albeit with a rising Vegas golden knights team. Even if you give Calgary and Edmonton full credit for their hot starts (which I am not so sure on yet), there will be an opportunity for Vancouver to overtake the California teams for a chance at that last wildcard spot.
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Dec 9, 2021 19:26
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https://twitter.com/AGrossNewsday/status/1468981327848525830 https://twitter.com/AGrossNewsday/status/1468988749082202118 After Nelly and The Man Slaughterer join back up, Pulock is the only regular left. And maybe, just maybe, we'll start consistently getting those Ws again.
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Dec 9, 2021 19:35
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Jimmy Rutherford will bring us a cup thanks to his long history of success built through hard work, sly negotiation and having Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin in their primes.
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Dec 9, 2021 19:39
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Blues are once again dressing only 17 skaters and their 4th string goalie + Jon Gillies as backup. They could have 18 skaters, but that would require some COVID cap relief (and don't talk about cap management--if you want teams to spend competitively, this is what's gonna happen with mandated scratches for 14 days or whatever).
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Dec 9, 2021 19:40
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https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1469014955982786567 Old Boys Club reigns supreme
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Dec 9, 2021 19:46
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Man I hope Rutherford "mentors" whatever GM he hires for a really long time. The Old Boys Club is getting ridiculous.
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Dec 9, 2021 19:50
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Kilza posted:https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1469014955982786567  He's one of those sharp young minds from the Stanley Cup winning Pittsburgh Penguins. He's cool, he's sexy, he's 73 years old!
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Dec 9, 2021 19:54
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Starsfan posted:if any coach can make that happen it's Boudreau.. the guy's track record in the regular season is practically unparalleled in recent history. I was so badly wishing for Dallas to pick him up the season after they canned Montgomery. VGK is going to get healthy and start rolling. Calgary looks good on their splits, but are definitely over-performing due to goaltending. Calgary/EDM/VGK take the Pacific 3 spots. Anaheim has an 11 point gap on Vancouver with the same games played. Dallas is already ahead of Vancouver with 4 games in hand as well. They've been hot of late. Leaving even those 2 out there are 5 teams head with 2+ games in hand. The only chance for Vancouver, IMO, is if all of the Pacific start losing all at once except for the 2 teams at the top of the div. That's the only way I could see them sneaking in which EDM not being able to outscore their defense and goaltending would be extremely funny...it's probably unlikely.
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Dec 9, 2021 19:57
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JR is a really weird choice for a team that's not a contender. Even in an interim capacity.
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Dec 9, 2021 19:59
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I'm so sorry, Canucks fansGinette Reno posted:JR is a really weird choice for a team that's not a contender. Even in an interim capacity. It illustrates that the delusional owners still insist the team is a contender JR absolutely will get right to work trading away every future value he has for More Veterans
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Dec 9, 2021 19:59
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https://twitter.com/Gambo987/status/1469002187208413184 Waiting until the 9th to pay rent is relatable.
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Dec 9, 2021 20:09
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It blows my mind that these teams don’t ever even consider contingency plans. Benning has been on the hot seat for years but even pretending that his job was completely secure, you don’t ever think about who else you could put in that position? You don’t consider it to the point that you have to hire a 73 year old interim GM to mentor someone eventually? Why put somebody in the GM role at such a crucial time when you clearly don’t trust them to have that position permanently? How are these people so loving incompetent? they are rich and dumb
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Dec 9, 2021 20:11
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It's an impossible situation because no GM actually worth employing will even return a phone call from the Aquilinis.
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Dec 9, 2021 20:17
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I'll reserve judgement, but the most significant thing the last management group lacked was patience and I find it hard to imagine a 73 year old will have much more.
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Dec 9, 2021 20:21
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ThinkTank posted:I'll reserve judgement, but the most significant thing the last management group lacked was patience and I find it hard to imagine a 73 year old will have much more. Patience is not one of JR's virtues. Granted, I think it's easy to point at what a GM did before and assume that they'll behave the same way at their new position but I don't know if that's always true. Mcphee is in that President role for Vegas and Vegas is extremely aggressive about trades. If memory serves Mcphee was not a big wheeler and dealer with the Caps. Granted he's not the actual GM of Vegas, but even so I imagine he has a good deal of pull on what moves they make.
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Dec 9, 2021 20:25
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It’s going to be CoGMDS and CoGMHS learning from IGMJR.
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Dec 9, 2021 20:26
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Ginette Reno posted:Patience is not one of JR's virtues. To be fair, my and many Pens' fans reaction to JR's hiring in Pittsburgh was along the lines of "oh yeah, we just got the architect of those Carolina Hurricanes juggernauts that have made the playoffs once in the last decade" and then he ripped off one of the best/luckiest one-year streaks of transactions of any GM ever. To be fairer, that was going on 10 years ago now and he burned the Penguins all the way down on his way out. And they've made one first round pick in the last 8 years IIRC. (e: to be clear I don't mean they hit on one first round pick and whiffed the rest, I mean they actually literally only kept one of their last 8 first round picks, and traded the rest for basically nothing)
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Dec 9, 2021 20:31
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Eric the Mauve posted:To be fair, my and many Pens' fans reaction to JR's hiring in Pittsburgh was along the lines of "oh yeah, we just got the architect of those Carolina Hurricanes juggernauts that have made the playoffs once in the last decade" and then he ripped off one of the best/luckiest one-year streaks of transactions of any GM ever. If Rutherford wins us even one cup I will personally construct a golden idol to him and worship it daily while he trades away our next 30 first round picks.
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Dec 9, 2021 20:34
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Ginette Reno posted:Patience is not one of JR's virtues. McPhee mostly picked around the edges in Washington... Wideman was a decent acquisition, dumping Varlamov for a 1st was fine given their goalie pipeline, Neuvirth for rental Halak was solid, a 1st for Brouwer was... probably not ideal (that pick became Philipp Denault) but he was a decent middle six guy at the time But how can you forget this "aggressive" doozy 
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Dec 9, 2021 20:59
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Matt Zerella posted:https://twitter.com/Gambo987/status/1469002187208413184 Yotes: "I pay my rent on time EVERY month, I ain't never been late oncest!" State of Arizona: (holds envelope with December 8th postmark) ThinkTank posted:If Rutherford wins us even one cup I will personally construct a golden idol to him and worship it daily while he trades away our next 30 first round picks. Yeah, seriously, I could find something else to do for a few years if that track record meant my team won a Cup, let alone two.
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Dec 9, 2021 21:01
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Chad Sexington posted:McPhee mostly picked around the edges in Washington... Wideman was a decent acquisition, dumping Varlamov for a 1st was fine given their goalie pipeline, Neuvirth for rental Halak was solid, a 1st for Brouwer was... probably not ideal (that pick became Philipp Denault) but he was a decent middle six guy at the time It hurts a lot less these days since we did win a cup. But gently caress me it still hurts. All the good GM’s have that one trade they royally gently caress up.
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Dec 9, 2021 21:02
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Dec 9, 2021 21:08
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Schremp Howard posted:It’s going to be CoGMDS and CoGMHS learning from IGMJR. yup. i'm cool with it as long as the gm he hires in the meantime isn't dog turds. hopefully gilman
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Dec 9, 2021 21:08
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Honestly with the right coach that D would kick rear end to watch, buncha guys who'll allow 8 goals a game and try to score double that every night. Which brings up an interesting thought, this'll be the first Olympics since Mike Babcock's back-to-back run of making an offensive powerhouse play board-grinding chip and chase hockey. Could Team Canada be.... fun this year? no
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Dec 9, 2021 21:20
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Matt Zerella posted:https://twitter.com/Gambo987/status/1469002187208413184 Boooooo Really hoped Arizona was flat broke
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Dec 9, 2021 21:21
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WeaponX posted:It blows my mind that these teams don’t ever even consider contingency plans. Benning has been on the hot seat for years but even pretending that his job was completely secure, you don’t ever think about who else you could put in that position? You don’t consider it to the point that you have to hire a 73 year old interim GM to mentor someone eventually? Why put somebody in the GM role at such a crucial time when you clearly don’t trust them to have that position permanently? How are these people so loving incompetent? they are rich and dumb Convincing a guy who comes into the job knowing he’s going to be fired in 5 years like every other GM to actively trading his replacement is a pretty hard sell. The Leafs thought they were doing this when they hired Lou with a timetable to hand the team over the Dubas. Even in his initial press conference he said something like “If Kyle isn’t the next GM, I’ve screwed up”, but then Lou wanted to keep the job and supposedly froze Kyle out and made Shanny pick.
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Dec 9, 2021 21:28
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Boooooo lol if you think that money didn't come from Bettman's slush fund
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Dec 9, 2021 21:47
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Speaking of Dubas, it's kind of amazing how successful* he has been given his obsession with acquiring former Soo Greyhounds (this was written after the McCann trade; too bad they couldn't keep him):quote:It’s hard to imagine Dubas ever deviating, so here is a list of Soo Greyhounds alumni playing in the NHL that could be in the Leafs fixture sometime in the near future: Keefe, a bunch of scouts and Marlies coaches, Sandin, Muzzin, Campbell, Simmonds, Hollowell (AHL) are the others. *yes, yes, I know
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Dec 9, 2021 21:58
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https://twitter.com/dailyfaceoff/status/1469025854919430146?s=21 I believe in player safety and all but this looks fairly shoulder to chest, plus MacK placed himself in a bad position
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Dec 9, 2021 22:12
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Troy Queef posted:https://twitter.com/dailyfaceoff/status/1469025854919430146?s=21 I believe in player safety and all but this looks fairly shoulder to chest, plus MacK placed himself in a bad position 0 (but hey Jake, can you stop scrambling peoples brains?)
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Dec 9, 2021 22:29
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Koopa Kid posted:Honestly with the right coach that D would kick rear end to watch, buncha guys who'll allow 8 goals a game and try to score double that every night. If you don’t get excited for the best collection of hockey talent in history to play a neutral zone trap really well for 30 second shifts, that’s your problem
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Dec 9, 2021 22:33
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Troy Queef posted:https://twitter.com/dailyfaceoff/status/1469025854919430146?s=21 I believe in player safety and all but this looks fairly shoulder to chest, plus MacK placed himself in a bad position It's like it's a carbon copy of the Khaira hit a couple days ago.
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Dec 9, 2021 22:37
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Jhet posted:It's like it's a carbon copy of the Khaira hit a couple days ago. maybe they should talk to both of the guys who did them
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Dec 9, 2021 23:23
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My random Yotes related story is that last month I was in Phoenix for a work trip and went to a game to see the Yotes get bulldozed by the Wild. There were a couple of Yotes fans behind me discussing where the Yotes ranked amongst the league with forwards, defense, and goaltending and concluded they were the worst at all of them. I was so sad for them. I guess the team may be put out of its and their misery soon, but it sucks things arn't working out there.
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Dec 9, 2021 23:56
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He'll get no suspension because he wasn't suspended for the Khalia hit, which happened like yesterday and they are so identical
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Dec 10, 2021 00:03
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I'm kinda surprised the league is so against moving the Coyotes when that's a big fat relocation fee just sitting there waiting to be claimed.
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Dec 10, 2021 00:06
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get a load of this rear end in a top hat https://twitter.com/RinaldoZac/status/1469018881733844994
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marioinblack posted:I guess the team may be put out of its and their misery soon, but it sucks things arn't working out there. Never ever ever gonna happen as long as Bettman is alive.
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