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I don't get what the Red Wings did this offseason. They won 33 games last year and they didn't really *do* anything this offseason, except not signing AA. At least the Canucks made a bunch of savvy UFA signings.
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stab posted:I haven't looked at the posts in this thread but has anyone mentioned how much of a goddamn brain dead idiot ken holland is yet because holy poo poo A few posts before this I speculated regarding the actions he made as a result of being braindead. But let's speculate about whether someone who is literally braindead could do a better job than Ken Holland! Ken Holland: Signed Trevor Daley to a three-year contract. Braindead zombie: Did not sign Trevor Daley. Winner: Braindead zombie Ken Holland: Signed AHL enforcer Luke Witkowski to a two-year contract after he beat up Anthony Mantha. Braindead zombie: Did not sign Luke Witkowski Winner: Braindead zombie Ken Holland: Didn't sign AA due to metaphorical lack of brain function Braindead zombie: Didn't sign AA due to literal lack of brain function Winner: Tie
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Robin Kovacs has been released from his contract and returned to Sweden. Losing Stepan and getting Shattenkirk was a wash in terms of unfortunate baldness, but we still haven't replace Carl Hagelin's immaculate flow.
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mennoknight posted:I am gonna come from Flames moves twice in one day Jagr will do that to you, just don't blackmail anyone with your selfies afterwards.
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Oct 3, 2017 00:56
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Aphrodite posted:His positioning isn't very good and he leans on his agility and speed too much.  Do the P Bruins not have a goalie coach or something?
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Oct 3, 2017 17:45
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Are this year's Rangers the least Canadian team in NHL history? Of their 23-man roster, only five are Canadian - Nash, Desharnais, Smith, Staal, and Holden. One of those will be an extra on opening night.
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Oct 3, 2017 18:02
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Remember when all of us armchair GMs wanted the Rangers to pick Matteau and they picked Skjei instead?
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Oct 3, 2017 23:27
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hifi posted:the coyotes are going to have 5 alternate captains... oel and hammer plus stepan/richardson/goligoski rotating. this seems dumb A good way to show that you don't have any leaders. See also Toronto and Carolina going years without a captain.
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Oct 4, 2017 21:52
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FBS posted:E Kane will be in Vegas when Eichel's raise kicks in. What line will he be playing? It is a gambling joke. 
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Oct 4, 2017 22:49
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Whoa, those weren't the Jets I expected to lose by a touchdown.
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Oct 5, 2017 02:42
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Kilza posted:https://twitter.com/renlavoietva/status/915975545200025601 Probably assuming that now is the best time to sneak a guy down on waivers? On day two of the season, the only team already looking for a spare goalie is the Jets.
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Oct 5, 2017 17:49
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Aphrodite posted:They have to waive Pickard, because either he or Subban needs to go down and if you claim a guy then immediately waive him that's seen as bad faith and Brian Burke challenges you to a barn fight. Who rents the barn now that Slats is retired? Lou?
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Oct 5, 2017 18:00
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Other than (maybe) Radulov, have there even been any big free agent signing that might be affected by taxes? Perhaps it's a bit more of a factor for smaller contracts and guys who don't have much earning potential?
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Oct 7, 2017 21:30
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RIP Habs They never scored
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Oct 9, 2017 02:43
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I don't even know what's wrong with the Habs, but the whole team didn't look good, except Price and Weber.
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Oct 9, 2017 03:14
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Get well soon, Quickie.
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Oct 9, 2017 18:13
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Some guy with a buncha confusing charts says he's a decent defensive fourth liner. https://twitter.com/IneffectiveMath/status/917077480539901952 So, he's a plug, but he scored ten goals last year.
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Oct 9, 2017 18:31
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I just realized that Cracknell played for Ruff in Dallas last year. Makes sense. Seems odd to get a slower guy when the team is all speed, though.
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Pornographic Memory posted:Nah, from what I've seen the Rangers are the total opposite - they rely a lot on speed to help them with their counterattacking, score-off-the-rush style, and they struggle to get zone time or at least convert zone time into shots. If Vigneault is old school it seems like it's mostly roster management (favoring veterans over young guys) and not believing particularly strongly in playing a puck possession game. Looks like Cracknell slows down the shot rate in general, both for and against? I mean, I guess that's what you'd expect from an average grinder who plays against bottom six and tends to dump-and-chase, cycle, and grind it out. Seems like it might be a useful option for that 12th forward until Fast gets back. If not, just double-shift Zuccarello, who led the team with 22:00 TOI last game.
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Oct 9, 2017 20:28
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Lessail posted:https://twitter.com/GoldenKnights/status/917537606849531904 That's awesome. Beats the hell out of mite hockey games and shooting pucks from center ice to win a two-year lease on a Volkswagon.
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What's going on with Shipachyov? Why the gently caress do they have ten defensemen on the roster? quote:They didn’t understand initially. But they do now. This is a roster move that’s not about performance. The three guys we sent down have all earned the right to be here. And we’ll get them here at the right time or as soon as we can. For all this army-man bullshit about being proud to be a Goldanite, it's symbolically awful and must be demoralizing to choose to play there and start a franchise, then be held out because your GM is incompetent? quote:I don’t know how long it will take but I prefer to be in this position where we have enough people rather than not enough. "I know you're our #1 center, but we're really worried that someone might pick up Deryk Engelland or Brad Hunt off waivers, so you're gonna need to go to limbo for a while."
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Lessail posted:The only problem is that it's been too long It's pretty lousy as a sentimental thing, too.
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Lessail posted:You say that yet suggested he should send down Engelland I guess that would be, too. I didn't realize he actually played. So I guess Hunt and Reinhart, who both played in the AHL last year.
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Oct 10, 2017 04:04
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Playing time is always a good thing, and it seems likely that he needs another year or two of experience before fitting into a top six in the NHL.
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Oct 10, 2017 17:57
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Hey fancystat people, I have a question for you. Is there anywhere that breaks down shooting percentage by strength/situation? I'm thinking that being able to look at 5v5 and 5v4 shooting percentages would be a convenient/easy way to guess future goal scoring, at a glance. NHL.com has the stats, but not in an easily-viewable format. I want to see it per player (all years), not one season at a time. For example, comparing two 15-goal scorers who took 100 shots, I want to see: Player 1) 15 ESG, 100 ESS, 15% ES shooting Player 2) 8 ESG, 64 ESS, 12.5% ES shooting | 7 PPG, 36 PPS, 19.4% PP shooting
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Oct 10, 2017 18:21
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Matt Zerella posted:If he's not on your first pair, you aren't getting the True Dan Girard Experience. More like a false Dan Girard experience.
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Oct 10, 2017 18:27
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Cracknell was significantly worse than double-shifting Zuccarello.
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Oct 11, 2017 02:59
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Five thoughts: 1) Despite the other defenders looking like a dumpster fire much of the time, Shattenkirk has been on the ice for most of the goals against the Rangers. I'm not sure he belongs on a top defensive pair, but I'm apprehensive - to say the least - that Marc Staal can keep up his play and earn that spot. 2) Kampfer and Holden managed to make a lot of mistakes, but not pay the price. Hopefully both are out of the lineup next game, because the shutout against the Habs wasn't a credit to the Rangers defense. 3) Steve Kampfer managed to high stick two guys on one swing of the stick, I've never seen that before. 4) The fourth line hasn't been bad, but Adam Cracknell and Paul Carey are very much marginal players who can't slot in anywhere else in the lineup for even a shift. Jimmy Vesey looked great in the top nine tonight, and Jesper Fast's return will also give them a player who brings good all-around play anywhere in the lineup. Still, I'm thankful the fourth line doesn't have a Chris Thorburn or Andreas Martinsen . 5) Mika Zibanejad has already matched his career high in power play goals, at 4. He's shooting a lot more, hitting the net more, and playing more minutes. It's strange to think, but before being put in this role, his career high in shots was 184 - he should easily be be topping 200, and well exceeding that. Last year only 119 of 226 shot attempts were on goal, but perhaps this reflects on the Rangers last year. It's crazy to think that a year ago they had Brandon Pirri pulling the trigger and dishing sloppy passes to Zbad instead of Shattenkirk and Buchnevich. The quality of play there is just so much better than last year. I suspect the frequent missed one-timers were partially a product of lesser passers on the power play unit.
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.Spec posted:You should only buy something from this site if you want the likelihood of your credit card info getting stolen to go up 4000x. None of the pages on the site are sent over HTTPS so everything you're doing is sent over the wire as plaintext. Wow, it's like the Rangers defense.
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Jordan7hm posted:Actually, Ovechkin and Selanne never won anything with their teams either, so there’s hope even if Toronto doesnt move. Uhm... 
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Mind_Taker posted:The fact that he's become a moderately successful penalty killer has caused a lot of Capitals fans to think that he will now unlock his offensive potential. Which of course is bullshit. To be fair, he literally watches video of his own hits.
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Oct 19, 2017 20:19
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I already can't find the tweets about Tom Wilson watching video of his own hits. Could someone relink that?
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Five thoughts: 1) Rangers seem to have settled on defensive pairings, and Tony D looks good with McDonagh, with Shattenkirk and McD picking up extra shifts. I think the permanent spot for Shatty might be the third pairing, first power play, and some extra shifts. Smith and DeAngelo seem to be getting the short end of the extra shifts, which also seems right. 2) Marc Staal has been surprisingly good. He has been confident going deep in the offensive zone, and not a mess in his own zone. He seems to be adapting to the unstructured offensive play that is in vogue right now. No guarantee of how long this lasts, but it's nice to see him playing well. 3) AV seems to be at the other end of that. He has been a master of set plays and certain aspects of structured plays, but his team looks both completely unguided and unable to adapt to any sort of imaginative play. 4) Not even Zucc, who is normally the most creative playmaker on the team. He has been invisible at times, while the rest of the team has looked stoned in the neutral zone. Take that whatever way you want. 5) Rangers scored a goal that was eventually overturned while Andrew Ladd tried to fight Jimmy Vesey. He also tried to sucker punch Vesey while the Rangers while celebrating. In the season of penalties, it is unusual that the Islanders only earned one tonight, as the refs swallowed their whistles towards much of what has been called this year.
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Rangers are terminating Malte Stromwall's contract. I wonder if they might be a trading partner with the Wings. Didn't they have a fourth line center for trade?
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Oct 20, 2017 23:05
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Or if Kampfer, Carey, and Cracknell go waivers and down to the AHL, which should happen anyway.
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Oct 20, 2017 23:21
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Correction: Cracknell could go on waivers and go back to wherever the hell he came from. Anywhere but here.
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Oct 20, 2017 23:22
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Stromwall and Kovacs were worth a shot, but it was a long shot. Hartford looks good, for once.
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Eric the Mauve posted:For all we know the Wings might legit have had someone offering someone slightly better than Wilson and so were able to extract a teensy bit of extra value from the Pens. It's funny if you imagine that the impending Matt Puempel trade was what forced them to do the pick swap.
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Levitate posted:Rangers doing 11 F and 7 D again tonight...then are going to talk about possible roster decisions? Dunno wtf they're going on about but it'll probably involve DeAngelo being sent to Hartford for some reason and Holden getting a lot of icetime. I'd rather not have one of Holden or Kampfer in the roster, but 11F works out very well because it means no Cracknell or Carey, and usually one of the Z-men double shifting in their place.
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