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NHL January 2014 |OT| Bobby Orr, Bathroom Stalls, and the Battle at the Big House
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The Blues are cowards against your division, and their goaltenders are yellow. The only thing they're better at than Anaheim is roughhousing and growing hair.
bonesmccoy
Banned
You might hate these guys, but this article is I think a pretty damning, and accurate, assessment of what's gone wrong in Edmonton.
What I don't understand is why Edmonton - now heading toward yet another lottery pick - isn't moving a 1st, or a guy like Yakupov - for 2nd line forwards and/or 1 and 2 pairing defencement.
This is what I'm waiting for, I feel like they've decided on their core being Eberle, Hall and RNH. They won't have the money to keep all of them.
Though I assume a guy like Yakupov is hard to trade, one of their biggest assets and trading him makes a big impact on the direction of their franchise. If you mess up you don't live that down.
Unhandled Exception
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The thing about Edmonton is it's difficult to assess the value of the players they'd probably trade. What exactly do you give up for a guy like Yakupov?
Yep.There's nothing like scoring 25% of your goals in a single game.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
Obviously more draft picks
Unhandled Exception
Member
At this point if I'm Edmonton I'm trading away all of my draft picks and taking none because clearly I'm only capable of destroying myself with them.
I hope Subban scores 4 goals including the OT winner and his celebratory center ice dry humping of the Leafs logo at ACC gives Cherry a simultaneous stroke/heart attack.
There really is nothing wrong with the picks Edmonton has made, but they've neglected to build their D-core which is the problem. All the guys they took were consensus #1s and the rule of thumb is to take best player available and move them for positions of need down the road is it not?
Obviously they've utterly failed to provide any support to their top prospects, drafting isn't really the problem - they need some veteran help that can alleviate the pressure on these guys, especially Schultz.
Obviously they've utterly failed to provide any support to their top prospects, drafting isn't really the problem - they need some veteran help that can alleviate the pressure on these guys, especially Schultz.
Unhandled Exception
Member
The fact that they've moved no one except Dubnyk shows the mentality behind drafting the way they did, or at the very least makes it easy to be suspicious of. Right now it looks very much like they expected picking #1 to fix everything because #1 picks solve all problems.
Hey, they moved Smid.
Which... was completely counterproductive to what they should be trying to accomplish. so... LOLOILERS.
Also, I can't get over how awful that half/half jersey is.
Dastardly Jerks
Banned
Oh man, I had to jet after the 4-2 loss yesterday to have cheese and wine with mum and the +1... I just had the WEIRDEST dreams last night. Like seriously it was a cross between Far Cry Blood Dragon and NHL 94. Anyway, I was playing cyber hockey(!?) (it was like TRON) with a guy that looked like James Deen in New Zealand on the frozen lakes (do they even exist there?) I was being a terrible goalie and James Deen clone kept wiring shots that had laser trails, they kept going through my glove and everything. For some reason we decided to get marshmallows (I fucking hate marshmallows) after playing and ended up going on this adventure through the New Zealand mountains while these half polygon-"90s 3D" creatures kept trying to stop us from finding marshmallows.
Fuck cheese.
Ohhh nonono, you're not gonna reverse jinx just like Marvie did yesterday nooo nonono.
Exactly. We're a good team I guess but we're not like "Let's steamroll the whole fucking league whenever we want". The guys just play really hard and have a huge amount of confidence in the guys next to them and the guy behind them. And Bruce is a really good coach. If elite teams step up and want to defeat us, then they can and do (See: Sharks, Blackhawks, Kings etc). St Louis are going to be out for our blood and we're probably gonna shed quite a bit.
Just hopefully we make them bleed their own blood a bit too.
Fuck cheese.
Ohhh nonono, you're not gonna reverse jinx just like Marvie did yesterday nooo nonono.
Exactly. We're a good team I guess but we're not like "Let's steamroll the whole fucking league whenever we want". The guys just play really hard and have a huge amount of confidence in the guys next to them and the guy behind them. And Bruce is a really good coach. If elite teams step up and want to defeat us, then they can and do (See: Sharks, Blackhawks, Kings etc). St Louis are going to be out for our blood and we're probably gonna shed quite a bit.
Just hopefully we make them bleed their own blood a bit too.
Yea its looking like a big management issue, need to clean house.
The rumor is they wanted Coburn at the draft but only offered second rounders. That wasn't enough and now they're the worst defensive team in the league.
Dastardly Jerks
Banned
Oh and goodfuckingon St Louis for kicking ass lately. Sucked in Yzerman, this is what you get for picking fucking Kunitz over him.
Coldnoodle
Member
Yep.
They just sucked for three years and made no effort to build a supporting cast around the kids.
They haven't sheltered these kids at all.
ZeroGravity
Member
He has the smuggest look.Look who's back on the league leaderboards...
Kuro Madoushi
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lol wtf with this JVCD commercial!?
Coldnoodle
Member
What a shitty song.
CBC pls
CBC pls
Going down to the rink to the pond to the river theres a game going on going on forever
Coldnoodle
Member
ONCE A YEAR, IT COMES DEEP FROM WITHIN US
Canadians are the cause of winter confirmed
Theres more people in line for don cherry than a coyotes home game
7th greatest canadian EVER
Coldnoodle
Member
Never has SMH been more appropriate.
Its hockey day in Canada crap
It's the most Canadian day of the year!
Gotta keep Hall and Nuge. The problem with Yakupov is exactly what I was worried about. Primma Donna.
It really bugged me that he used the media to complain about ice time. Dude, you're the worst +/- in the league and allergic to back checking, you refuse to adopt any team system, you think you can dangle through the entire opposition, you're lucky you get the ice time you do.
Kid needs to do some serious growing up.
It really bugged me that he used the media to complain about ice time. Dude, you're the worst +/- in the league and allergic to back checking, you refuse to adopt any team system, you think you can dangle through the entire opposition, you're lucky you get the ice time you do.
Kid needs to do some serious growing up.
I want to punch Ron.
Dastardly Jerks
Banned
OK OK THUMBS UP LET'S GO
KEEP YOUR COMMIE METRIC SYSTEM AND YOUR EUROPEAN DOLLARS. I GOT CANADIAN TYRE DOLLARS. I KNOW SUITS AND I KNOW DOGS AND I KNOW GOOD SAVINGS JUST LIKE GOOD CANADIAN BOY TOEWS DOES.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
CHRIS HADFIELD?!
You Habitants are gonna get rocked tonight!
edit: the half French version?! Fucking shootout confirmed...fucking hell...
You Habitants are gonna get rocked tonight!
edit: the half French version?! Fucking shootout confirmed...fucking hell...
Coldnoodle
Member
This is painful.
Why Hadfield
Why Hadfield
You don't know Real Canadian Hero Chris Hadfield?
But seriously, CHRIS HADFIELD? AWWW YISS
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