Hoss
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4 minutes ago, The Ghost of Yuri said:
This entire forum be like
Yup.
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Ralph wanted a second team in Detroit before he wanted the Bills. He was given the option of going to St. Louis, Cincy, Atlanta and one or two more … but he chose Buffalo. It wasn’t until 2022 that the team would win its first Super Bowl but the rest is history.
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Now this? THIS is the HUGE journalistic mistake. Thankful he corrected it.
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If this team keeps winning does the urgency and inclination to acquire "now" pieces become greater?
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8 hours ago, That Aud Smell said:
One thing I want to add - and I don't know if it's been addressed upthread: The fact that this happened with the Blackhawks organization is, I think, largely arbitrary. I venture that this could have, and most likely would have, happened with any other NHL franchise in a similar situation. The temptation in these morality plays is to tut-tut and shake our heads and "for shame, for shame" the Blackhawks. The reality is much, much more complicated, and messy. It's important to reflect on the fact that no one helped this young man. No one. Not the team, not the league, not his own union. The problems and the failings that led to this tragedy are not peculiar to a particular franchise -- they are endemic to our species. Hopefully, less and less endemic as we march on and the arc of the moral universe bends ever towards justice.
I would go a little further and say not only would this likely happen in other organizations, but I'd bet it HAS happened in other organizations.
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3 minutes ago, Taro T said:
Preseason, aka exhibition, hockey. 😉
Indeed. A hockey player. Playing hockey. For the Chicago Blackhawks. This isn’t inaccurate reporting.
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1 minute ago, Eleven said:
This is exhausting dude. There’s nothing wrong with TSN’s wording. There are pictures and videos of Beach playing for the Blackhawks. What do you call that?
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1 minute ago, Flashsabre said:
Maybe but face to face meetings always seem to get more accomplished.
The teams being in the same region doesn’t mean they’ll meet. I highly doubt they will. Maybe when the teams play each other. I don’t believe a small window of unrelated events are going to break what feels like an unmovable situation. (Doesn’t mean a trade can’t happen in the “window”)
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5 hours ago, LGR4GM said:
Buffalo is on the West Coast and Vegas has 1 game and then 3 days off. I think the window for the trade is between now and then. If it doesn't happen by Monday, I think we see arbitration/grievance being filed.
Interestingly the Sabres play Anaheim tonight and the Knights play them tomorrow so all the GMs could be in the same city at least for one evening. I mention this because the Ducks were another team potentially involved.
Just found the overlap interesting.
I don’t think where the Sabres and other teams are physically has any impact on this process.
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1 hour ago, The Ghost of Yuri said:
And others claim ignorance. I think Kane said the first he heard about it was when it was in the news.
Not sure I believe him, but whatev.
Kane is a dishonest pile of garbage, so this isn’t surprising. Hockey culture means dozens (maybe even hundreds) of players around the league probably knew. Teams poached that 2010 Blackhawks roster and it wouldn’t shock me if those players were talking about it in other locker rooms. This is a moment to shatter that culture. It can never happen again.
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5 hours ago, Eleven said:
TO clarify: This is not my point. At all. Please go back to the first post in this thread and the TSN article quoted therein: "two former Chicago Blackhawks players," and we don't have even one yet.
We do. Beach is a player and was on the roster with the Blackhawks. That makes him a Blackhawks player. Blackhawks prospect would be a safer way to handle that wording, but it also brings you unnecessarily closer to identifying Beach against his original wishes.
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I have a feeling the league’s soft penalty is because they don’t want one of their teams getting brutally crushed in a lawsuit and a harsh penalty might be an indication of just how much their investigation uncovered.
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19 hours ago, dudacek said:
Olofsson has 4 goals and 6 points in 6 games with Tage Thompson in his engine room.
I'm surprised @inkman didn't jump on this one, but I guess Tage only checks of the blonde part of his two-part checklist.
Speaking of assets, it's always a pleasure to read @LGR4GM. I keep telling myself I'll engage more on prospects (both in the system and in the draft) but life continuously adds more crazy and I just can't find the energy. Thanks for the good analysis.
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2 hours ago, Buffalonill said:
Jonathan toews should not be captain and kicked from the league
What a disgrace
I don't think he should be kicked from the league, but I think this is absolutely a chance for the team to make it clear it is not standing for this. The team should remove the C from Toews.
There was a reporter out of Chicago saying Toews can't be held responsible because he was so young and likely easily-influenced at the time. He was 23. Certainly not a cagy veteran, but he's also been hailed as one of the game's best leaders since that season. So which is it - was he a leader or was he too young to handle leadership duties? Even if it's the former, he should be held to a better standard than punting on publicly ripping the situation and then calling the people involved "good people."
A shameful, disappointing situation all around. And it's not even the only sexual assault allegations within the organization they ignored. Hello, Patrick Kane.
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3 hours ago, Indabuff said:
Just re-watched The Crow. Surprisingly aged well imo. Still love it.
Interesting timing considering all the buzz about the Rust set death.
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7 hours ago, inkman said:
FIFY
You’re one a kind. A good kind, at that.
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2 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:
You know all this discussion of how much of a player he was is irrelevant. Could have been a waterboy, doesn't change a thing. Team covered up abuse and they ALL knew. If the league does not kick out Quenneville and Chevaldyov it's still a cover up.
And all the players and ex players who say they didn't know are also full of sh##. It was all over the locker room and there were homosexual slurs tossed around and any captain like Toews and such who says they didn't know is outright lying. Glad this is exposed, but justice has not been served yet.
100%. The only relevance to his player status is that if he was a “star” or well-known player in the league it all likely wouldve played out differently from the start.
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3 hours ago, Eleven said:
Ok. Chicago recalled Beach on April 28, 2010: https://www.espn.com/nhl/team/transactions/_/name/chi/season/2010
For those wondering why this matters:
1. A lot of people are dragging Quenneville's name through the mud. He may not have known as much as people think.
2. I don't like inaccurate reporting, and referring to Beach as one of "two former Chicago Blackhawks players" sticks in my craw. He never was a Blackhawks player, and TSN would have done well do refer to him initially as a "player formerly in the Blackhawks system." And are there still two? The victim at UM doesn't count--his situation was separate.
If he was on the Blackhawks roster (he was, as you just pointed out), he was a Blackhawks player.
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7 hours ago, JujuFish said:
I struggle with this. Even if something is brilliantly written, I tend to not like a show/book/movie/whatever if there isn't any likeable people.
Right. It might be more reflective of real life, at least.
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18 minutes ago, inkman said:
I don’t get the Krebs hype. He doesn’t seem special in any way.
I’ve definitely fallen into just being told he’s a great prospect because I was never a fan … and now he’s someone I really want. Getting a big fast bust for Jack wouldn’t feel wonderful.
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For anyone keeping track, Goodell has now publicly stated Watson will not be going on the exempt list as the legal process plays out.
Houston Chronicle says the Dolphins and Texans have actually agreed to a trade but it’s contingent on Watson settling all of his cases and the NFL determining what a suspension would be. All … prior to November 2nd. That’s not happening.
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14 hours ago, inkman said:
Started watching You this week. Had I known it was a Lifetime show, I definitely would have avoided it. Seems pretty good, hoping when the show was moved to Netflix, they lose some of the more Lifetimey content. More killing, less relationship drama please.
I despised the first season. I stopped watching and just read the Wikipedia recaps after like the fourth episode because I was told season two is way better. It was true. Season two was worthwhile and a bit fun even if there’s only one likable character in the entire three seasons of the show. Third season got a little exhausting with repeating the same mistakes storylines.
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9 hours ago, JujuFish said:
Brees didn't lose his job. He was even franchise tagged by the Chargers in 2005, and then chose to sign with the Saints in 2006.
Edit. Lol, I'm blind and read Bledsoe as Brees. Ignore this! 😛
It’s fun to think about the fact that Brees actually chose to sign with the Dolphins but they failed him on his physical so he ended up in New Orleans instead. The rest is history.
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2 minutes ago, Radar said:
Is it time to close this thread?
Many have tried. None have succeeded.
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Jack Eichel: Trade rumors and speculation
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That’s old. Cody Glass hasn’t been part of the organization for months.