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Picture me just shouting a stream of incoherent, excited babble and occasionally blasting an air horn while I watch my team get swept
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# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 16:04 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 23:32 |
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None of the already qualified for the playoff teams gave the slightest poo poo from what I saw of their games. That was just a series of tune up games where they focused on not getting hurt.
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# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 20:35 |
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Misanthrope posted:Hockey players have the dumbest tattoos is what I'm taking away from the above post. I'm pretty sure Pageau has served me his take on the classic Vieux Carre at a whisky bar on Bloor St.
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# ¿ Aug 10, 2020 21:25 |
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Speaking of Marleau he will once again not win the cup. Given that he and Thornton are free agents this summer, it's quite likely they will retire as 1/2 in career games played without winning a championship.
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2020 13:36 |
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Jumbo is 41 and managed 31 points last year. At best you're looking at a guy who can manage 35pts playing 4th line minutes and 2nd unit PP. I think most teams would prefer to give that to a young guy these days. Signing him for even $1m is really just a personal favour to try and win him a cup and is that really the best way to manage a hockey team?
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2020 15:29 |
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So yeah that round Robin really was just about guys not getting hurt
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2020 20:09 |
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Just remembered that the owners decided they wanted a few games of TV revenue from the Blackhawks and Habs so expanded the playoffs to 24 teams for no reason only to end up inadvertently eliminating several of the most popular teams in the league in the process.
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2020 12:33 |
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The Vancouver Canucks are participating in a playoff game today. Didn't think I'd be typing those words anytime soon.
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2020 15:35 |
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Nothing says "I'm responding to the fans cries for change but I don't want to do anything meaningful" quite like firing the assistant coaches.
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2020 20:11 |
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Well the Caps sure blew that
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2020 23:54 |
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Really didn't expect a win. As wonderful as it is, please don't give me hope you idiots.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2020 12:45 |
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Wippersnapper posted:Even moreso because I feel like Sutter is playing good. In these unprecedented times...
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2020 15:28 |
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Canucks win one playoff game: https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1293930237772943361?s=19
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2020 17:32 |
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There were a bunch of fawning "THESE OILERS ARE JUST LIKE THE 2010 BLACKHAWKS" headlines back in April 2017 too.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2020 18:34 |
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Oh dear, get better Mr. Julien.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2020 19:08 |
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If they'd cancelled the playoffs this year all the players would be going on about how they'd prefer to play in front of empty arenas for a chance to win the cup and that they don't need fans to build that intensity. A hell of a lot of games have had bad blood even with the empty stands. I've not noticed the lack of fans for the most part.
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2020 15:52 |
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Luongo and Lundqvist are miles ahead of Belfour who was the Johnny Quick of his era. Like all things, there's no one way to build a cup winner and having a world class goalie helps but is also not necessary like all positions. Looking at the few most recent championship teams and drawing sweeping conclusions about team construction from them is myopic in the extreme. The only surefire way to win a cup is to build up a lot of talent and depth top it off with a massive dollop of luck. ThinkTank fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Aug 14, 2020 |
# ¿ Aug 14, 2020 18:36 |
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Gonna get rolled by the Knights but WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2020 05:23 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 23:32 |
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Hey isn't this thread for first round chumps? It's round 2 now baby and the Vancouver Canucks are in it.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2020 01:03 |