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Yeah, I am not sure why Colorado gives them so much trouble to be honest. The Bandits roster is better top to bottom.

Soccer is becoming bigger, the problem is in this country you grow up wanting to be the next Josh Allen, Justin Jefferson, Aaron Donald, Jalen Ramsey, Lebron James, Kevin Durant, James Harden, Steph Curry, Nikola Jocic, and to a lesser degree Mike Trout, Ohtani, Bryce Harper, etc... Nobody in the US grows up wanting to be the next Lionel Messi or Kylian Mbappe. That's why it will never be majorly popular like it is in other countries...too much competition from other sports in front of it that drains the athletic talent pool, whereas virtually all the best athletes from other countries grow up loving and playing soccer with little competition.

The product is bad. Nobody cares about this jenky soccer league where good players go to boost their marketing ability in the twilight of their careers. Good young players don't stay here, it's like a feeder league for good clubs and not even really high level ones, like mid tier at best.

Crazy that every semi final series in the NHL and NBA could be a sweep if Vegas completes theirs tonight.

I hate both but my Uncle used to smoke a pipe growing up when he came to visit and I used to freaking LOVE the smell of that...

If he is as good as they say, probably not much.

It's novel right now...let's see what happens over the next 10 years. The average fan age is still mid 60s, and that is a major problem.

None...baseball is a dying sport

They should have a preliminary tournament with those 8 countries, split them into two groups and have the top 2 from each group advance to the actual tournament. Stop wasting time.

They could always call Ralph Krueger...I hear he does wonders 😂

I mean why do they even bother with some of these smaller countries? They should have to have a certain level of performance to make the tournament. Don't see the point of the 8-1 games or worse.

Not won, dominated all 3 playoff games. We owe both of those teams. Colorado defeated us in the finals last year and Calgary defeated us in the finals in the previous season before COVID cancelled the league for 2 years in between. Bandits trying to avoid a Bills like 0-4 in their last 4 finals appearances, although they have won it numerous times, the last being in 2008. 0-3 since then tho. If they play the way they did in the first 3 playoff games this will be a laugher and not even close with them sweeping either team. The two week break in between doesn't help the momentum tho.

It was over at halftime when they went up by 11-4. Toronto never got closer than 5 again. Watched the first game on ESPN+ and then listened to the second on WGR-550 as I was out and about.

Let's Go Ban-dits!! Smoked the Rock in back to back games...14-5 and 17-8 after beating the Knighthawks 20-8. Outscored the opposition 51-21 combined in the playoffs or an average of 17-7. Domination. Heading back to the Finals and they look pretty unstoppable. They need to finish it off this time. Only thing that sucks is that they will have 2 weeks off as Calgary tied the series up against Colorado last night and their deciding game isn't until next Saturday which means the Finals won't start until the following week. Not great for momentum when they are on a serious roll.

Why do NHL players die so young? That's almost 20 years younger than the general population's life expectancy for males. Seems strange although back then athletes didn't really take care of themselves the way they do today. Would expect that age to steadily increase as player starting in the late 90s began to really focus in on this.

did they move up, down or stay the same based on where they finished in the standings?

I'm not at all...he said he is really close with his brother and really looking forward to playing with him. May never get the chance again, why would you think he wouldn't jump at the chance?

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Agree...you can be physical without hitting a ton. Sabres are plenty big enough to be more physical if they want to.

Based on how difficult it is to play defense versus offense and the fact he led all rookies in ice time since they began keeping the stat in like 2007?(I think that's the year they said), Power should win it. He likely won't because one put up points as a forward as his team made the playoffs and the other helped backstop his team to the playoffs with solid, albeit not spectacular numbers.

Carolina is the 2nd least hitting team in the NHL and they seem to be doing fine...

Give that dude tubs of weight gainer and tell him don't come back until you hit 185 at least.

I would like to see a few tweaks to the D corp and maybe adding a forward, although we have a stockpile of young bucks appearing near ready, especially Kulich.

He traded away a lot of them.

Hahaha Boston goes out in the first round after the best regular season in NHL history. Didn't Tampa Bay also have a great regular season and go out in the first round a few years ago??