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Boston's likely roster/lines below. There are a few names in the top-6 that might seem like a surprise to people who don't follow the Bruins. Marchand-Bergeron-Bjork DeBrusk-Krejci-Pastrnak Kuraly-Spooner-Backes Beleskey-Nash-Acciari Extras will probably be Vatrano and Schaller. If Bjork or DeBrusk struggle as rookies, which is possible, they probably get shifted down and Backes/Vatrano slot in there. Schaller's a guy who will compete for ice time in the bottom 6. Chara-Carlo Miller-McAvoy Grzelcyk-McQuaid Postma Krug is on IR for now after fracturing his jaw in preseason. He'll end up anchoring the second pairing with McAvoy or Carlo depending on how they rearrange things when he's back. Rask Khudobin Subban has been great in preseason but should probably go back to Providence. Unfortunately he's not waivers exempt so there's a real fear that he gets claimed by someone.
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Subban is going to get claimed and I am going to Be Pissed Off
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Oct 2, 2017 18:26
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the keeper league is very fun and competitive and I recommend it
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Oct 2, 2017 19:18
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The Golden Man posted:How does it work. what is it I'm going to pretend you've never played any kind of fantasy hockey so sorry in advance if you already know how it works to some degree. Everyone drafts a team. In this league each team has slots for two centers, two left wings, two right wings, five defensemen, and two goalies. There are also two generic slots that you can put any forward into (so two extra centers for example) and one extra Utility slot that you can put any forward or defenseman in. You also get two bench slots. There are a bunch of different stats that get scored like goals, assists, face offs won, hits, shut outs, etc., and basically your players need to have more goals or hits or whatever than whoever you're playing to win that category for the week. Whoever wins the most categories wins that week. Every team in the league has a $500 budget to spend on players and the draft is an auction that you spend the money in. In an auction draft people take turns nominating a player for everyone to bid on. So theoretically you can blow out your budget on 3 or 4 players and they'll all be really good, but the rest of your roster might be lovely. It won't let you spend the entire budget on a single player though since you need to have a full roster. A keeper league means that you're allowed to keep some players every year which can be good because if you got someone for a good deal last year you can keep him for a lot cheaper than if he were to go back to auction. For example, I got David Pastrnak in the draft last year for $4, and I'm going to keep him this year and next year. He becomes 20% more expensive every year. Our league only lets you keep players for up to three years total, including the year they were drafted, before they have to go back into the auction pool.
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Oct 2, 2017 19:33
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T-Bone posted:Ok it looks like he is but if he doesn't I'll message you. or maybe a third guy will want to join? then we'd have two new teams, although I assume that means they wouldn't get any keepers which is kind of lovely.
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Oct 2, 2017 19:48
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T-Bone posted:I can bump it to 16 yeah. I believe previously what we did is allowed the new teams to pick from the other teams eligible leftovers but it's been a lockout since our last expansion I think. Actually now that you mention it, I joined for 2013-14 and I think you're right. I vaguely remember choosing my keepers off of the leftovers on everyone's roster.
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Oct 2, 2017 19:53
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Chad Sexington posted:
That bottom six is still quite good though, all things considered. Caps fans are too used to having a really deep roster... Chad Sexington posted:I guess we find out today! Just bought tickets to the game against the Rangers in December. Hello $11 beers... Oh did they lower prices?
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Oct 3, 2017 14:00
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Vegas claimed Subban on waivers. I loving knew this was going to happen.
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Oct 3, 2017 17:09
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gently caress Vegas they're bad to me now. Realistically I assume they get first dibs on waivers, and Boston was going to lose Subban regardless once they decided they were going to go with Khudobin over him. Aphrodite posted:He's bad. He's 23 and he's been good in the AHL. He's a good prospect with upside that sucks to lose. Who do we even have in the pipeline now? McIntyre and Vladar? Jamwad Hilder fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Oct 3, 2017 17:14
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ThinkTank posted:I would love to see the NHL's all time lesser brothers team suit up for a game: No love for Joel Lundqvist?
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Oct 3, 2017 17:28
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Loqieu posted:Goalie Subban is still a good prospect with a lot of upside. Most goalies take time to develop anyway. I figured sending him to the AHL would get him more games as the starter. Little did I think someone would pick him up though, but I'm not surprised. I think he's an enticing enough prospect that a bad team would claim him and give him backup minutes, which is exactly what happened. A team like Vegas especially can probably afford to hold on to three goalies since they're going to suck no matter what.
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Oct 3, 2017 17:30
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Aye Doc posted:"urban" Aphrodite posted:His positioning isn't very good and he leans on his agility and speed too much. Yeah he's very much a reaction/instincts goalie, although his positioning has improved over the past season or two. His game is more Tim Thomas than Tuukka Rask.
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Oct 3, 2017 18:06
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Aphrodite posted:College guys never win the Calder. Anders Bjork is going to. I actually think he's a dark horse to win it but no one outside of Bruins fans has really paid attention to him at all. They've already said he's cemented a top-6 role through a strong preseason/camp and my man is currently playing on a line with Marchand and Bergeron, and if that experiment doesn't work they're slotting him with Krejci and Pastrnak. He's gonna score some points.
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Oct 3, 2017 20:25
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its fine the Bruins famously do better in the later rounds of the draft anyway!!! 2005 - Sobotka (4th) 2006 - Lucic, Marchand (2nd, 3rd) 2007 - ok not this one, at least Tommy Cross is still with the team I guess 2008 - nevermind 2009 - ok nevermind 2010 - Ryan Spooner and Zane McIntyre...errrr 2011 - nevermind 2012 - nevermind 2013 - Cehlarik is cool I guess
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Oct 3, 2017 21:21
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T-Bone posted:peter chiarelli is a real idiot It was Sweeney who passed on Barzal three times. That said, DeBrusk is one of the picks and he's got a real chance of making the team in a top 6 role, he did very well in the AHL and has been playing/practicing with Pastrnak and Krejci.
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Oct 3, 2017 23:14
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Chad Sexington posted:This is what made it so painless to make the Caps my primary team, beyond just living in D.C. The better av would have been Craig Laughlin talking about how much he loves Paisano's wings
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Oct 4, 2017 00:03
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hockey is back today but I'm not interested in any of the games, so that's disappointing
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Oct 4, 2017 16:29
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Powershift posted:8x$10 for Eichel, nobody's going to take that when he gets sick of losing un Buffalo. what do you mean by this exactly? I don't like the Sabres and I hope they continue to suck, but Eichel is a world class player and if he stays healthy I'd expect him to be right around the top 10 in scoring for the duration of that contract.
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Oct 4, 2017 18:18
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Levitate posted:I assume they mean when he demands a trade there aren't going to be many teams that can take on a contract that big or want to I don't think there are many teams that wouldn't find a way to make room for Eichel though
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Oct 4, 2017 18:24
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Powershift posted:I think he's going to be held back by a poorly run team, and he's going to end up like Duchene at $10m instead of $6m . Well my point is that Eichel isn't the type of player who gets held back by a mismanaged team with a poor roster. He's going to be extremely effective regardless of what you put around him. He was 19 last season and had 57 points in 61 games, which was top 10 in scoring starting at the game he returned. I think people tend to forget how good Eichel is due to some combination of him being injured last year and there being a lot of rookies/young players (McDavid, Matthews, Laine, etc) who sort of stole the spotlight, so to speak. I mean, for a huge portion of the draft year there were debates about whether Eichel or McDavid should be first overall.
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Oct 4, 2017 18:35
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I've upgraded Sweeney from "bad" to "average" after that Pastrnak contract and because a lot of his draft picks are starting to look like they were good choices.
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Oct 5, 2017 01:53
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every year, people coming up with conclusions about how the entire season is going to go for their team based on a single game in the opening crapshoot portion of the season is extremely funny to me
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Oct 5, 2017 13:43
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Sharks Eat Bear posted:just had an original thought, i think you guys are going to like this that would be cool with me if, logically, it also means Charlie McAvoy is the next Bourque
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Oct 5, 2017 19:49
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Bruins won and the score only looked close because the Preds had a 6 on 3 and a 6 on 4 in the last two minutes of the game, McAvoy got his first NHL goal (and two points), DeBrusk got his first NHL goal (and two points), Bjork had a good game (but only an assist), Ovie hat trick, Penguins got absolutely poo poo on. Overall it was a fun night of hockey for me.
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Oct 6, 2017 13:42
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hifi posted:yotes looked exciting and lost a close game, which was better than like half of their games last year. how did Keller look? I saw he had a goal but I didn't watch any of the game.
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Oct 6, 2017 14:07
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yeah, I also hope they don't make the playoffs
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Oct 6, 2017 17:08
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Didn't they have to send him and Theodore to the minors for some weird contract compliance stuff? I assume both will actually be playing - maybe not tonight though.
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Oct 6, 2017 18:16
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ThinkTank posted:They papered him down to the AHL because he's waivers exempt, but why on earth would they actually play their top line centre in a game in the AHL? Why not just call him right back up? Sorry, I meant: Have they not become contract compliant or whatever yet, and that's the reason for the holdup?
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Oct 6, 2017 18:21
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The Golden Man posted:Every single professional athlete is somewhere on the moron to outright criminal spectrum and it amazes me that people don’t immediately assume anyone paid to play sports is a complete creep Ken Dryden is basically the only athlete I can think of who isn't a complete idiot or a criminal.
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Oct 6, 2017 19:44
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a false posted:i'm not impressed with that supposedly good stars lineup ya I was looking at it and thinking the same thing. The top line is great, Klingberg is fine, but the rest of it is kind of 'whatever' to me. I don't get what the fuss is.
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Oct 6, 2017 21:01
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Mike_V posted:Couldn't the Leafs just claim Pickard when they sent him down the first time or is he waiver exempt? Or did they not want him with the big club? If I remember correctly, Vegas had already put him on waivers and he cleared. So Toronto doesn't have to waive him anymore to have him stay in the AHL. Seems like they wanted him but they didn't want to have to risk losing him to waivers themselves. As for Vegas, they got Subban off waivers and they turned a guy they got for free into a draft pick and a warm body, so that seems fine.
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Oct 6, 2017 21:21
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guys I think Ovechkin is still good
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Oct 8, 2017 05:19
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Bruins got shut out by the Avalanche which seems really bad because it's Colorado. Krug being back was good, but the forwards are a mess. Bergeron being out is the biggest thing but losing Backes and Acciari is rough too.
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Oct 9, 2017 20:41
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Who is Jesper Bratt
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Oct 10, 2017 01:31
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I just saw he's scoring a lot. I'm kind of happy for the Devils/their fans. Mostly because of how much I liked MoJo when he was on the Caps, but also Taylor Hall, Ginger Goalie, and Nico.
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Oct 10, 2017 02:15
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I dunno, once Brodeur retired I stopped thinking of the Devils as a good team. Don't hate em anymore.
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Kilza posted:The Vegas Golden Knights are the first ever NHL team to begin their inaugural season at 3-0. yeah well they got to play another bottom feeder twice, and Dallas. Mind_Taker posted:I miss Nate Schmidt Nah it'll be Shea Theodore whenever they figure out their stupid contract situation. I miss Schmidtty too, though
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Oct 11, 2017 14:18
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. He's gonna be the #1 in Vegas.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Boston averaged 14-15k a game until they got real good and look at that, started selling out. I guess that doesn't seem like "attendance problems" to me for a 17k capacity building in the same way that Pittsburgh averaging 10k-12k or Chicago at 11k-13k during their lean years was. Jamwad Hilder fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Oct 11, 2017 |
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Chad Sexington posted:Yeah I would go Caps games all the time as a poor undergrad student. The girl's hockey team at AU would partner with them for fundraising too, so I could get lower bowl seats for like $25. And those were the golden Ovie years too, when defensemen didn't know what to do against him and he was constantly scoring on the rush. So much fun. Yeah that poo poo ruled. My high school team did a promo with them in 06 or 07 where we got a bunch discounted tickets and then we got to play a game on Verizon Center ice after the Caps game was over. So I got to watch the Caps lose to New Jersey or something, and then my team got smoked by some rich kids from Loudon. I scored a goal on NHL ice though so it wasn't a total loss.
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