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Right now he has the lowest shots/game figure of his entire career, other than his rookie season. That makes me wonder about the part in bold, if he has weeded out some of the lower probability shots from his game.

Now they just need to get those assists back up there to get him beyond Draisaitl/McDavid territory. Whether it's trough a reunion with Skinner or continuing growth from Olofsson, the potential here is incredible.

The awkward camera work does seem to add a bouncing effect to the object in question.

To be fair to 11, I originally read your post the same way, like you were asking about the 60th anniversary.

The 90s had two both the originals and the goathead. I must have missed that game because I don't know what they did, but it's sounding like goathead from this conversation. But what about the guys who were on the team only in the early 90s and only wore the original, were they out there in the goat? But yeah, I get the main point of your question... do they dare bring the slug back out there.

I just paged the expert. Hopefully he'll solve this mystery.

And it worked.

Paging @inkman, you have a call on the white courtesy phone. @inkman, please report to the white courtesy phone.

But we need to whine about everything sabre related. Haven't you been reading the board lately?

So one bad trade now equates to "constantly" getting conned and suckered? That's one hell of a logical leap right there. I look through the rest of his deals and I don't see anything that come close to that label. I can see some people suggesting Vesey or Sheary, but I see those as more of a buy low swing and a miss.

It typically works better if you don't bother responding to him.

Brother matchups would actually be a fun one. There are so many options there. You now have me wondering if Marty Biron ever got a chance to play against his little brother (the little brother who was like 5 inches taller and 50 pounds heavier).

So mid-upper body

I can't wait until Pegula gets blamed for the merge.

It's even better when they back into the slanted parking spots. The angles involved in doing that, it's a complete s-show. And a follow-up on my traffic complaint. Yesterday on the way home, a car in the left lane decided to quickly come to a full stop because they missed their exit. A full stop in the left lane of a road with a 75 MPH speed limit. I'd label that one as suicide if it had gone bad.

Are you intentionally spamming us with 85 different threads all about the same exact thing?

@Taro T maybe crap shoot wasn't the right word, but teams have very different expectations in mind when taking a goalie in the 1st round vs. in the 6th. I'd have to imagine they're expecting an NHL guy (either starter or backup) out of that first round guy. It's only a hope for a guy like Ullmark or that 5th rounder in Miller, but I doubt you'll ever hear any GM say they expect that guy to make it. But regardless, it really doesn't mean all that much for the comparison being made, I'm mostly just thinking out loud on this one. I can live with it, although it's a bit more positive on Ullmark than I'd be.

Or when they replay a stunt from a different game and try to pass it off as live.

And that president is the one who hires the GM. It's lame that teams have to stage things like this.

Boston just turned into an interesting team to watch at the deadline. Backes cleared waivers and has refused to report to the AHL. So that should open the door for them to suspend him if they want, freeing up around $5 million worth of cap space. That doesn't mean they will go that route, but they'll have the option.

Marty replaced a legend. Ullmark replaced... Hutton. Marty was drafted to be a starter, taken mid-first round. I don't remember the timeline exactly, but they either had no idea what Hasek was yet or they didn't know if he'd stick around. Ullmark was a crap shoot draft pick.

Traffic has been ridiculous pretty much every day so far this year. I don't know if people have just turned all out idiot, but there's a bad accident at least 3 out of the 5 work days each week. This morning my ride to work took an hour longer than normal.

We're also talking about something that happened 25 years ago (my god, has it been that long?). The development path of every single position across the board has changed so much in that time. I haven't dug into it too much lately, but I'd imagine this idea that goalies are late bloomers has evolved since then. And as you said, Hasek was a complete aberration, a freak of nature. I know the suggestion was not that any of these guys could still be the next Dom, but some names just exist on a different plane and are best left out of anything that could be even remotely perceived as a comparison.

On it's own it's a good thing. The problem is that so few others on the team are doing the same. Even at his best, Girgensons should probably be topping out at around 8th on the team in goals, not 5th.

With just the slightest spark, he can boost that pace significantly. I don't think that's all that unrealistic. Whatever happens, I think we've seen his ceiling and his floor in consecutive season. Whether it's being on Eichel's wing or just finding more appropriate scoring line talent that gets him closer to that ceiling, they absolutely need to address it. The latter is a no brainer no matter which line he skates on.