JoeSchmoe
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13 hours ago, Billznut said:
Lol Crosby is golfing because his GM decided to be a seller at the deadline over Crosby’s objections. And Crosby was the Pens best player the final six weeks. So not sure your point.
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.
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34 minutes ago, Billznut said:
None of your “leaders” mentioned know how to win,
Crosby "knows how to win" better than anyone in the league. Now he's golfing.
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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.
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1 hour ago, Night Train said:
Trade for what ? A 2030 6th round pick ?
Seems like fair value.
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4 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Kulich and Levi? How many Amerks have have you watched this year?
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.
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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.
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42 minutes ago, Mr. Allen said:
Oh man. I’ve only actually stayed there twice. Flown into the airport a couple times too. I’ve always just been impressed with the views I guess
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
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3 minutes ago, Mr. Allen said:
Salt Lake City is such a beautiful area. It’s growing too fast for my liking, but even if you just drive though it, it’s hard not to notice how beautiful it is
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.
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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!
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4 hours ago, Sidc3000 said:
If veterans are not needed to win, explain Dallas who are basically the best team in the league. They have a total of 16 players north of 25, eleven are 30+.
Yeah let’s keep icing 20 year olds because you don’t need Vets to win or wait at least another 2-3 more years before our young players get more experience. I think the Sabres should hold out making the playoffs for a few more years anyway. Let’s hold out for a nice whole number like 15.
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.
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7 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
We have 2 1st overall defenders. And a 3rd overall defender. Sure, this season has been disappointing but not having a bunch of 1st pairing defenders in the pipeline is just inconsequential. We've probably got at least one that's a 4/5 which is more than enough.
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.
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Love these annual articles.
Unfortunately, I can't think of a prospect in the pipeline with a realistic ceiling better than a 2nd liner. And we're worse on defense.
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7 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:
We did. I'm the one you slipped the tongue.
To my angst about the forecast. The whole rapid clearing west to east was talked about so late. I actually picked it up on the cloud imaging site Don Paul was pushing. I will temper my bum epithet and just say they have a challenging job but dropped the ball.
With a tiny bit more advanced warning I would have gone straight to Erie ish.
That said, it's corny but things happen for a reason sometimes. I hung out with a grandpa and two little ones who started out from Harrisburg and ended up in that Walmart lot. Very heartwarming.
I don't know who he voted for nor did I care. Events like this show us how much more we have in common. Not sure it will move the needle of division, but it's nice to be reminded.
Also... Clouds are cool.
He voted for Mondale and still hasn't lived down the loss.
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Do we make the playoffs if Adams gets Kane?
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Glad most people got to see it. We had a great show here in West Niagara. I expected to be underwhelmed and was happy to be proven very wrong.
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Got my first glimpse through a brief break in the clouds here in West Niagara.
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21 hours ago, Big Guava said:
I would bet if a right handed kid wasn't given any instructions and just told to go shoot a puck most of them would shoot "left handed" because it feels more natural.
IMO, right handed people shoot "right handed" because they are taught that is the "correct" way, not because it feels normal.
On my street when we were kids, we all learned to shoot on our own without our parents' instruction. I ended up left, my brother was right. We're both right handed. It was random between my friends as well.
On a similar note, I was into rowing in my teens and twenties. In the boat you have oars going out to half the rower's left (starboard side) and you have oars going out to the the other half's right (port side). Again, it was random as to what side the athletes would gravitate towards.
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I don't think there's much correlation between hockey handedness and normal handedness. Kids just do whatever feels good, and it's kind of random.
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38 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
...JoeSchmoe dusts off guitar and jams out 2112 (however terribly and incorrectly) end to end.
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1 minute ago, K-9 said:
Isn’t that what we said last year?
Yes. Yes it was.
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4 minutes ago, Doohickie said:
I need the Sabres to win Sunday so that they are still in it to win it when I go to the game in Dallas Tuesday.
The saving grace for the rest of us is that as long as the Sabres aren't mathematically eliminated, we can avoid having to watch any more Comrie starts.
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Ok... "catch" everyone.
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Man... I'm watching scoreboards as much as everyone here, but we're not back in. Not enough games to pass this many teams.
I'm a glutton for punishment though and will watch to the bitter end. So bitter.
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Report: Patrick Kane is signing with Detroit
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I was very surprised to see the Wings go into that slump since they had Kane and he knows how to win.