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NHL April 2013 |OT| Darren Dreger: The NHL's Shane Kim
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I don't have a mic so I haven't been on vent. Not sure what you're talking about. That was a serious recommendation. Luigi's Mansion is ok too.
Weird coincidence that you both suggested a game that isn't an option (and I also happen to own).
lol derp. i thought you were asking for recommendations. In that case: Professor Layton if you like those games
sing to me, baby!
TemplaerDude
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Don't encourage him.
wsoxfan1214
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Smelly, are you done pretending to be drunk and social yet?
And here I thought CCF was joking when he said you liked that stuff.
And here I thought CCF was joking when he said you liked that stuff.
I said no one could take your place!
Song's been on repeat on my iPod since hearing it at random tonight.
Had to crash early, but just woke up to the discovery that the Rangers made the playoffs and it may be against Boston.
Best.scenario.ever. Please Habs, let Boston take the NE. Go back to your suck train for another game, k? We'll take them out for you and you can beat us later, injury-free.
Best.scenario.ever. Please Habs, let Boston take the NE. Go back to your suck train for another game, k? We'll take them out for you and you can beat us later, injury-free.
Dastardly Jerks
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Professor Layton, because hopefully it will make you less of a dumb cunt.
Reminder that I love you and think you're incredibly intellectual incase this salt hits a wound
Kuro Madoushi
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I said that for my 1st Japanese final.
We looked at some of the prior years and the tests were a joke.
I go to the final all confident and goddamn Ikuko Komuro-Lee pulls a fast one on us and throws weirs ass words and ideas at us like some goddamm eraser that can erase your dreams or some shit. And we had to write an essay in Japanese. None of this shit was in the earlier tests.
Literally said, "what the fuck is this?!"
Gotta get past the Leafs first brah.
equippedwithtowel
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brucewaynegretzky
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Looking at the standings I have to say the difference between the Flyers and everyone up through Ottawa is completely irrelevant. Basically the Flyers are worse at shootouts and losing in regulation rather than OT. Seems like a really freaking stupid distinction. At the end of the day we're not even going to be in 9th and have more ROW (aka games won by being good at hockey) than some playoff teams potentially.
The system is stupid. Also, I think this just highlights the effect of the shortened season. Over time these teams could have set themselves apart rather than getting all bunched together. Obviously you're probably still going to get clusters, but this is too many teams with virtually no way to distinguish between them.
The system is stupid. Also, I think this just highlights the effect of the shortened season. Over time these teams could have set themselves apart rather than getting all bunched together. Obviously you're probably still going to get clusters, but this is too many teams with virtually no way to distinguish between them.
ActStriker
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go leafs
KernelPanic
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Dat negative goal differential.
It's awfully rare a team that scores less goals than it lets in makes the postseason.
T.M. MacReady
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Isles/Rangers/Sens all have 54 points. Ottawa has a game in hand.
Seeding still TBD. Hope the Isles dont wind up stuck with the Pens in round 1. I dont want their shitty fans in my Coliseum
Seeding still TBD. Hope the Isles dont wind up stuck with the Pens in round 1. I dont want their shitty fans in my Coliseum
Uhhh no. Its called one team has something called defense and clutch goaltending to keep the team to going to OT or shootouts.
equippedwithtowel
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Fuuuck no.
You have Bryz, we have Anderson and the best PK in the league.
There's a difference.
brucewaynegretzky
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Shootouts have nothing to do with being a good hockey team. Losing in OT is still a loss and in the playoffs there is no difference between the two. They are horrible metrics of what makes a team good.
And the Flyers can go toe to toe with anyone in the league on special teams, so these "differences" are all pretty trivial.
What matters is a team's ability to win games by scoring goals other than by skating from the center dot straight at a goalie.
Flyers sucked all year...just consistently bad...except for the last 10 or so where theyve had a few streaks. I get what you're saying, but this year's Flyers is not the team to make your point.
oh ok so goaltending and defense has nothing to with the Flyers getting box stretched in almost every game in the playoffs last year.
T.M. MacReady
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The Flyers are where they are because they have lost 22 games in regulation. Sens have lost 16, Isles have lost 17, Rags have lost 18. Shootouts and other arguments aside, you can't lose 22 regulation games in a 48 game season (with the NHL scoring system) and complain that you're not making the playoffs. Want to play in May? Stop getting beat.
True. The flyers don't deserve to be in the playoffs. The NHL scoring system still needs fixed though.
I'm on my phone at the moment. Can anyone give him the link to the Off Season Thread?
brucewaynegretzky
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They made the second round....
I'm not saying the Flyers are good, but neither are 6 through 8 in the Eastern Conference.
Flyers have had problems with consistency all year, agreed, but I think a lot of people see the illusion of consistency in the current system.
And as much as people want to shit on the Flyers, they have pretty awesome special teams this year, and now with Mason look decent. I think making particularly large distinctions based on the number of OT losses is stupid.
brucewaynegretzky
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This is stupid. Losing in regulation is the same thing as losing in OT or a shootout.
EDIT: And honestly, I'm starting to think Flyers fans here just have higher expectations than say the Sens fans because we're USED to icing good teams rather than just mediocre ones. There were points this year when the Flyers have been piss poor, but they've had some really great nights too. We're a mediocre team in this league (particularly the east), and while we say the team "sucks" like I often do it's because it is nowhere near our expectations and is showing serious signs for concern for the future, not because the level of play is that far below the Isles, Rangers, Sens, Caps, and Devils.
T.M. MacReady
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Not really. Losing in OT or a shootout reflects that you hung with the team for 60 minutes and lost a tiebreak. Losing in regulation suggests that you got beat in 60 minutes and didn't play well enough to get an opportunity to win a tiebreak.
All of the other 29 teams have been playing under the same rules for years now, you can try to justify your crappy season all you can, but the end of the day the team didnt win enough games to get the points to be in the top 8.
brucewaynegretzky
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That's exactly how it works in the playoffs....
brucewaynegretzky
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I've agreed with them for years. The system is atrocious. There was only once in the last few years that the system would have even arguably affected the Flyers chances making the playoffs (2010) and THAT time we were just making it by the skin of our teeth when we had a really good ROW column.
This isn't justifying a bad season, it's saying other teams with bad seasons are getting rewarded.
T.M. MacReady
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So much of it
Zod the Bear
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No, clearly our team is bad and we should feel bad.
brucewaynegretzky
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Hey the Flyers make me feel bad even when they're good. At no point have a made the argument that the Flyers are good.
I'm just they're as deserving as the three or so other teams who are gonna get at least four more games this season.
So which teams deserve to be out and which teams deserve to be in?
Someone wake up Dopey.
brucewaynegretzky
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Go by ROW, then head to head record, then goal differential. Shootouts and OTL are useless. The shootout is one of the worst things to ever happen to the sport. At most those games should be 1-point games where the winner gets one point and the loser gets nothing.
Flyers would be fighting for the eight spot. Winnipeg would be in. Devs would be deader than a doornail.
brucewaynegretzky
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I'll leave when we have no games left damnit!
Haha I'm just teasing. I'll be in there soon enough I'm sure (Canucks fan, I want to believe this year is the year but I'm no Tabris).
I feel like you guys have the best chance of the three against the Pens, so I'd be happy if you stayed right where you are, thanks.
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