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Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Fil Forsberg is supposed to be back in for Nashville tonight, so that's cool.

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Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Bourne says no discipline for Gudas.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

DJExile posted:

Daren Dreger found Bob Mckenzie's old high school team picture. It's pretty great

Crazy that Bob McKenzie played hockey with that dude from Workaholics.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

The emergency goalie situation was mildly interesting.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Dang that seems like a lot

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Does a team even turn a profit at $10 a head? Like without somehow selling them some $20 beers?

The marginal cost of one extra person in the arena is probably pretty low, so in the short run it's probably than the seat being vacant.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
He's going to get traded to Nashville and the "LOL 'Nash-Ville'" takes will be insufferable.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Matt Zerella posted:

Their dumb hate boner for Vesey is really dumb because hes not a very good player.

I think most people are over it.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Aphrodite posted:

Mine is good.

same

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

heeheex2 posted:

Am I just missing the jets top 5 prospects or did he forget about the jets

1. Samberg
2. Vesalainen
3. Comrie
4. Foley
5. Stanley

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Is Grabner still really fast?

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Aphrodite posted:

He became good at scoring goals at 30 years old though which is always risky.

(Other than that one crazy year in NYI.)

He had some other pretty decent years with the Isles and they were mostly a bad team. I'd be cool with Poile going after him and watching him chase down PK lob passes for breakaways.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

T-Bone posted:


Wasn't Burrows in the lineup during https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9mV-CpolGc ?

That's some solid NHL-ing right there. Dude gets knocked out so kick him in the head a bunch of times while trying to fight about it.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Burrows got 10.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Slappy Pappy posted:

Also they should just do a playoff lottery. Top 16 teams make the playoffs. You find out who you play when Daley opens the envelopes.

Top 16 in the league make the playoffs and then it's re-seeded from there.

As of right now would be:

Tampa - Anaheim
Boston - Calgary
Vegas - New Jersey
Winnipeg - Colorado
Nashville - Pittsburgh
Toronto - Minnesota
Washington - San Jose
St. Louis - Dallas

Actually no, that's terrible. So many huge time zone mis-matches.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
So I guess they must have tried and failed to trade Smith already huh?

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

iospace posted:

He totally does. It's "Sign players from a Michigan school to big, full NMC contracts" and pray.

Jack Johnson's money problems are over!

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

hifi posted:

nashville lost a while back because of the scottsdale flu of all things

Well that flu was extra bad because Trotz decided to revenge-scratch two of their best offensive players for two home games and then the team only scored 2 goals in those 2 games.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Remember when people used to be worried about expansion causing "talent dilution?" Does anyone feel like that has happened? IMO there are enough mediocre/marginal NHL-level players around and coaching and goaltending is generally good enough that the NHL could probably have several more teams without seeing a ton of obvious difference but also that is a shame because watching good players clown scrubs is enjoyable.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

ThinkTank posted:

It's 2 weeks until the NHL trade deadline and the 31 teams in the league have completed 20 trades involving players who have appeared in the NHL this season since the season began. Of those 20, only 10 have included players who appear in their NHL lineups regularly. Of those 10, only 3 involved players that play above the 4th line/bottom pairing/backup position.

They claimed that the lack of trades was due to the looming expansion draft last year. What's their excuse this year because this GM inertia sucks. The NHL seems to be the only league that totally fails to recognize the incredible free advertising the excitement around big trades brings. The Cavs going nuts at the deadline was front page news and probably resulted in several million additional viewers for their next couple games. Why doesn't the NHL actively encourage things like that?

This might have something to do with it https://www.foxsports.com/nba/gallery/nba-players-with-no-trade-clause-2016-080216

Also I don't know anything about the NBA but I wouldn't be surprised if the weird NHL playoff format + loser points keeps a lot more teams on the bubble later in the season.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Twin Cinema posted:

This is a weird question. But I am wondering who is the most surprising player who is still playing. Like, a dude you haven't thought of in years, and then bam, they're still inexplicably in the NHL. The two names that come to mind for me are Ales Hemsky and Marian Gaborik. I think Peter Budaj also counts.

Chris Thorburn, Cal O'reilly, Steve Bernier

e: Dennis Seidenberg too. Does he still use those weird t-blades?

Thufir fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Feb 13, 2018

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Poile don’t trade Tolvanen or Fabbro for Nash, you have never made a good deadline addition trade

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Levitate posted:


Nash would be the Preds 3rd leading goal scorer, just 1 off the team lead. I bet he'd be a good add for them

He'd probably help the team but while they have nobody scoring a ton of goals individually, they have 5 guys with 15+, and are 10th in GF/GP and 3rd in fewest GA/GP, and that's with Forsberg missing 14 games so it's not necessarily the concern it has been in years past.

I could maybe wrap my head around Fabbro but beyond him and Tolvanen things are pretty thin and I think Fabbro is their only decent D prospect right now.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Who is the recently fired GM that Seattle will hire? Dean Lombardi?

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

iospace posted:

How much has changed?

It’s ‘Fire Bergevin” now.

Seattle Thrashers

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Are any of those players good?

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Don’t think he’s played in the big time this year

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Chad Sexington posted:

Not having President's Day off sucks. On the plus side, I will happily watch the Caps while at work.

I wonder how Flames fans feel about them playing at 2:00 local time on a Monday because of an American holiday.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Mrazek to Flyera for picks

E: Nashville is 0-6 vs mrazek so I am glad they traded him right before Nashville playa Detroit again.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Leafs traded Fehr to San Jose for a 2020 7th, which is like 1/2 step above "Future Considerations".

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Zodijackylite posted:

While we're waiting for TRADES, here's some trivia:

There are currently five NHL captains who have not played their entire career for their team. Name them.
-One is a co-captain
-One won a cup with this team
-Two have played for three franchises (the previous one and this guy)
-One was drafted by the Coyotes
-One has a family history of jumping

Bonus question: Four teams don't currently have captains. Why the hell not?

Derek Mckenzie is one.

e: Though it turns out I don't know the captain of a bunch of teams.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
TRADES

https://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/966462222833733632

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

Mind_Taker posted:

That Russian team would get shithoused in the NHL.

First of all, the equipment staff would run out of Vs to put on jerseys.

I'm kind of curious how good Kovalchuk would be in the NHL right now though.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Shea Weber is out for the year

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
TRADES
:siren:
Panthers get Frankie Vatrano from Bruins for a 3rd.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Carey Price is hotbrained

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
https://twitter.com/DarrenDreger/status/966877534762688513

edit: Rinne got his 300th win :glomp: tied with Vokoun for 33rd all time in the NHL.

Thufir fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Feb 23, 2018

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
https://twitter.com/travisyost/status/967110725037539328

lol

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."

So if I'm following this correctly, the bad and poorly run team resulted in less money coming in, so they need to spend less money on the team and make it worse, then...profit?

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Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
I’m sure NBC is mad but they probably weren’t showing the NHL games because all their hockey people are in Korea.

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