JoeSchmoe

The mental gymnastics will get easier once you're ready to get back in the "gym".

EJ was brought in because he knows how to win. Once you have this knowledge, stats are meaningless.

Haha! That was unintentional but I can totally see what you mean.

Congrats! I was wondering on how the detox went.

NO THANK YOU!

Gotta love it.

Agreed. The very best: 1. RJ 2. Bob Cole 3. Danny Gallivan Some other thoughts: Some real oldtimers will say Foster Hewitt is the best. I was too young to have heard him live, but on record, I don't think he holds up to the 3 in the list. Hate the Leafs, but I'll give Joe Bowen props for his homer Leafs broadcast. He's no RJ, but Leaf fans should be thankful to have him. Watching the Campbell hit clips the other day triggered a thought... Once/if we ever get good again, I worry that the hype around the team might never get back to the way it was with RJ. He was part of what made watching the games so good. I question if the hype can be the same without him... Especially with Dud-leavy.

With the notable exception of the Triple Lindy reference, there is a lot of really poor comedy in this thread. It's going to be a long F&$#ING offseason!

This, for sure!

If we're honest with ourselves are there really any slam dunk guys available right now? Especially one that ticks the box of needing someone to whip up this young core. Everyone has their wrinkles. I don't think Lindy is any better or any worse than anyone we could have got. All we can do is sit back and let the chips fall as they may.

Sorry to hear that. Hopefully you can find an even better landing spot, and enjoy the severance pay while you're at it! I'm not sure what the job market is like for doctors in the US, but I'll echo the comment that there's plenty of jobs here in Canada. The pay might not be as good, and with some exceptions, the cost of living is generally higher, but there are some perks to living in Canada... YMMV.

I was very surprised to see the Wings go into that slump since they had Kane and he knows how to win.

How about Patrick Kane? What about when perennial loser Ryan O'Reilly led his team to the cup? Vegas in their first year made the Cup finals. Ovechkin was a loser, until he wasn't. To win the cup, you need: -Talent -Avoid Injuries -Hot goalie -A little puck luck Every cup winner has some combination of the above. But because pretty much every team in the league has a veteran or two in the lineup, people are bound to claim their leadership played a role.

Crosby "knows how to win" better than anyone in the league. Now he's golfing.

I've always thought he sounded like a 420 enthusiast, but the extended interview confirmed it. Anyone else hearing that? Wonder if he'll be celebrating in a couple days.

Seems like fair value.

I'm not considering Levi since he's already played a lot of NHL games. For Kulich, look at his AHL points and then look at what our two 2nd liners Quinn and Peterka did in Roch. He's way behind them as a prospect.

Leadership? That was Eric Johnson's job. How'd that turn out. What we need is to score more than the other teams. For that, we need talent. No more Eric Johnsons, no more Tyson Josts, no more Clifton's.

The views are pretty good. The Wasatch are a lot more impressive looking than the Front Range mountains near Denver, and they're a lot closer too. On a clear day with snow in the peaks it's quite the scene. If you take the Cottonwood Canyons up into the mountains you can go from a high desert SLC suburb to a Rocky Mountain alpine wilderness in maybe 15 or 20 minutes. One time we saw a moose chilling on the side of the hill just off the road maybe just 5 minutes from the city. This video is old, but it's pretty cool. Spring in the drab SLC suburbs to full winter. From canyon entry to Brighton is about 20min. Because the Wasatch rise so high and so steeply out of the desert, and because they sit beside the Great Salt Lake which never freezes, the SLC ski resorts average 500 inches of snow / year

I've done 6 or 7 snowboarding trips to SLC over the years. The skiing and snowboarding up the Cottonwood Canyons (Snowbird, Alta, Brighton, Solitude) is far better than anywhere else I've been to in North America, including all the major resorts in Colorado. That said, the city is pretty grey in the winter and prone to heavy smog during temperature inversions (because the city sits at the bottom of the Great Basin and all the pollution pools down there). The downtown is pretty quiet and meh. While the drinking laws are very, very much improved, there's still a Mormon vibe that heavily pervades. Other than Park City, which is a pretty far commute in, I'm not aware of the type of neighbourhoods there that would appeal to NHL'ers. I'm sure they're there... but it's definitely not Scottsdale.

I like Tiger. He might be a hot head, and he might be a little too into Tiger, but watching him when he was at the top of his game was like nothing else I've seen in golf. The cynic in me also liked how he turned the blue blood golf establishment upside down. The Nicklaus vs Tiger debate is an entertaining one, but I'm firmly in Tiger's camp. Yes, Tiger likely won't win the same number of majors as Jack did, but in Jack's prime, there were far fewer golfers around the world, playing on far fewer golf courses, and only the well heeled played the game. Realistically, there were only a handful of guys capable of winning on a week to week basis, and a lot of them were stars in their own right. By Tiger's era, there were so many more people golfing... There were far more guys guys competing for 2nd place than in Jack's era... And maybe only Phil was able to gain any kind of real notoriety. By extension, if there's ever another golfer that dominates like Jack and Tiger did, he'll be able to lay claim that he was the best, since in the post-Tiger era everyone golfs!

The team with the best hockey players wins regardless of age. Dallas has a lot of good hockey players. At the same time it's hard to be the best team if all your guys young and still learning.

I didn't see the article itself, but the thread title says we're number 1 in "prospects". So they have to be talking about the pipeline, not players with multiple years of NHL experience.