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The Ducks are cursed. They LOST to Robin LEHNER in a friggin' shoot out. They should have a bag skate for that.

Good thing he did. 4-3 w/ just over 4 left. Oullet w/ the answer back.

Fitzgerald getting the buffer goal back w/ just under 5 to go.

Way back when the Braves were playing the Jays in the WS, there was a clip of avowed atheist Jane Fonda in a praying pose I one of the games. The next Coaches Corner had Grapes asking nobody in particular just who she was praying to. That's still a favorite Coaches Corner memory for this kid.

One of the greatest workout songs is "All the Way." All the Way But "Magic Power" is their best song. Magic Power

Anderson is good. Pretty sure the gripe was that there's a real good chance he'll Pominville on us & then we're left with riding Tokarski (who forced his way onto this roster against at minimum the GM's expectation), or having him split w/ Dell who has been bad at the NHL level for a while or 1 of the 2 ECHLers. But will be very (plaesantly) surprised if he can keep it up all season. Especially if he has to keep performing the gymnastics he's needed to do the past 2 games. And Tokarski is angling to get Bales a raise. Good for him (& us) so far. Maybe, against the odds, he's this decade's Thomas. Would be nice to have finally gotten some "puck luck" here, but it is still a small sample size. And would like nothing more than to see Methuselah & Toker stay at this level. It would be an awesome story.

It's working, but no idea who got the Amerks goal. Dell's looked sharp with limited pressure. Amerks up 1-0 late in the 1st. Getting outshot slightly 6-5.

To the bolded, thank you. 🍺

You're actually comparing putting a player in the middle of a 3 segment logo, which is also done by at least MLB & pretty sure the NHLPA too, the shape of the segments being completely different with using the EXACT SAME leaf with capitalized block lettering climbing the logo at the same angle? Personally, wouldn't use that as a comparison. A more apt one might be Team USA wearing Bills themed sweaters at the outdoor WJC game. Which was also a money grab with a really cool kit that was approved by the trademark holder. And, most all (if not all) teams used the lacing at the neck opening of their sweaters back when the Sabres came into existence and started playing in 1970. Not sure how the Sabres stole anything from the Rags? With all due respect, you seem to be trying too hard here. Whether they are doing the right thing & giving Team Canada a cut of the proceeds or not and it would seem to be a safe bet that they did get approval from Team Canada to do so, they are blatantly trying to make money off the good will Canadians and others have for Team Canada & that '87 championship team in particular. You don't see it as cynically as some of the rest of us do. Which is a completely legit take. Truly do appreciate that as the owner of this board you allow people to take positions that don't necessarily align with yours. (Discussion boards are pretty dull if all people do is agree.) Personally don't put much faith in media conglomerates doing anything but pursue the mighty $. (Even though it's the Canadian one Rogers is after in this instance. It's still currency.) Guess this past couple of weeks have been in a cynical space. Life does that to one sometimes. And agree, this is much ado about nothing.

The 3rd Duck goal went in off of Cozens. He'd come on for R2 Rou2 who changed on the fly. The line had taken at least 1 shift earlier in the period. Not sure about ice time after that. They definitely played in the 3rd.

Cool. Hopefully my free Amerks TV subscription will work. Didn't sign up for it until the game UPL got shelled was starting & it hadn't registered in time to watch.

Very possible. But that's not the Summit Series sweater. It's the 80's version of Team Canada. The original "dream line" of Perreault centering Gretzky & Lafleur also wore a very similar sweater to the '87 version. The Summit Series had the weird maple leaf popping out of the bottom of the sweater almost like a shark swimming just below the surface. The '80's versions were waaaaay sharper.

Yes, they're trying to capitalize on Team Canada's good will. 😉

To a degree it is splitting hairs, but again almost positive there are years where 4 teams have hit the mythical "DeLuca 0.500" and yet miss the playoffs. (Posted the data here somewhere, but the search function is not overly helpful and don't feel like going through 20+ years of standings again to verify that). If reaching that milestone can still leave a 20% chance of missing out and in almost every season at least 1 team reaching it misses, then IMHO it isn't the "almost always" sure thing that it gets mythologized towards. And 0.600 is chosen as the cutoff because though some teams get into the playoffs below it, That's the demarcation point that pretty much does guarantee it and even teams that are really close (such as the '19 Habs) don't necessarily get in even though they were a full 6 games over the DeLuca 0.500. If you can have nearly 15% of a season's worth of wins over the line and still miss out, what's the point? And if 20% of the team's reaching the threshold can miss out, again what's the point? My 2 cents. Sorry for beating this one to death. 🍺

Change the colors to red & white & "Toronto" to "Canada" and that is the '87 Team Canada logo. They even use the same leaves on the shoulders. The piping is different, but that's it. Truly "original" and not a rip off of a different entity's intellectual property.

Yep. And Caggiula took a good angle against a Duck (Zegras) in the 3rd (?) to force him to stay wide so Anderson only had to defend the short side when it initially looked like Drake did not have the line to make that happen.

It is. And it is a blatant rip off of Team Canada.

Trying desperately to ride off any successful team they can find hoping it might rub off on them, so they steal a Team Canada design? That is soooooo pathetic.

When 24 teams made the playoffs, there were NO DeLuca 0.500 teams that missed the playoffs? When everybody played in their own division & the top 1/2 of the division made the playoffs & the bottom 1/2 didn't, there were NO DeLuca 0.500 teams that missed the playoffs? Both of those are truly shocking outcomes (if you aren't good at math). 😉 When Moe-ray-all went 44-30-8 and missed the playoffs in '18-'19, was that NOT a DeLuca 0.500 team?

Remains to be seen who actually comes out of the lineup, but that seems to be the most deserving pair. The 3rd Duck goal went in off his shin. Didn't see much of his line after that. Pretty sure that's the way a guy that won't speak bad of HIS guys speaks bad of his guys.

No, actually went through and looked at what teams made the DeLuca 0.500 & didn't make the playoffs some time during the shut down. It was rare to have no DeLuca 0.500 teams miss the dance & IIRC as many as 4 have missed in a single season. That was going back through the entirety of the loser point being a thing.

It happens every year that a DeLuca 0.500 team or 4 miss the playoffs. It never happens to an NHL 0.600 team. There's a post somewhere on this board w/ the data.

A DeLuca 0.500 team is a bubble team. An NHL 0.600 team is a playoff team. Would love to see both happen but this is still likely a sub-NHL 0.500 team. At least we've moved on from people expecting historically bad. As to the Q about the game; Anderson stole a point & the Sabres stole the other one as well.

You're probably right on that count but that pairing wasn't used much at all. He was far more often paired up w/ either Bogosian or Ristolainen his rookie year.

For what happened to Beach it doesn't. But for understanding the story & whether there is still another shoe to be dropped, as @Eleven stated, it does matter. Either the initial reporting was inaccurate or there are two more people that allegedly were victimized by the coach that we don't know about.