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NHL December 2013 |OT| I'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas

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ShaneB

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Osorio said:
I thought I saw in the writing thread that you got something of yours published.
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Nope. Spend plenty of time in the reading thread, but haven't written anything :p

Desibabu said:
I'm with you there. I'll be 31 in March. Us early 80's bros need to stick together.
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I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that some days I have to think for a minute about how old I am since the time is flying by. =( I'm always so close to just walking into my bosses office and giving my notice and just running away and starting all over again.
 
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FUBAR McDangles

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I turn 21 in August. I looked back a few pages and it looks like I might be youngest.

Did everybody see [url="http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?hdpid=49&id=500643&lang=en]Harding's awesome save from last night?[/url] It was a pretty good one.
 
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Marvie_3

Banned
SCHUEY F1 said:
All you people in your 20s make me sick, haha.
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Unhandled Exception

Member
I'm pretty excited about Chris Bigras getting the WJC invite. If he pans out our defense may not have to rely on average players being better than they really are.
 
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Curufinwe

Member
http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Bill...-Paul-Dissecting-Flyers-Scoring-Woes/45/56151

Here are a half-dozen interrelated reasons why the Flyers are one of the worst offensive teams in the NHL this season:

1. Breakouts are often laborious.The Flyers are plagued by errant passing, especially from defensemen to forwards, and by forwards who become stationary rather than moving their feet. The team fails to clear its own zone too often under even moderate forechecking pressure and takes too many needless icings. Additionally, too many would-be rushes go offside or, worse, end up as turnovers between the bluelines and potential counterattacking chances for opponents.

2. Can't carry pucks in, can't dump in and retrieve. The Flyers often have trouble navigating the puck over the blueline. When they attempt to dump pucks behind the net, the opposing defense or goalie often gets to them first and the opposition breakouts are all too easy. It is the rare night when the Flyers string together multiple consecutive shifts of good forechecking pressure or even have more than a couple sustained cycling shifts to wear down the opposing team.

3. Too many perimeter shots, not enough rebounds. Even on nights where the Flyers generate a healthy number of total shots, the shot quality is often lacking. Opposing teams give up the perimeter and there are too many one-and-done rushes where there is no rebound opportunity or rebounds are easily steered to the corners and then cleared.

4. The offensive puck support is often poor as a team. The Flyers have reverted to losing the majority of the battles along the walls. This has been especially true in the offensive zone, where the Flyers' forechecking work has frequently been subpar. Again, when you can't carry the puck into the offensive zone and you can't get the disc in deep and then retrieve it by winning the battles in the trenches, there won't be enough puck possession time to generate scoring chances.

5. Shot attempts do not get through traffic. For all the talk about the number of Flyers shots from good shooting range that miss the net, an equal concern from my standpoint is the team's inability to get the puck to the net in the first place rather than having them blocked down by opposing teams.

6. No one consistently and effectively crashes the net. The Flyers play too much of a perimeter game much of the time. They talk the talk about scoring "greasy" goals off deflections, rebounds and loose puck scrambles in close but even when they manage to get the pucks to the vicinity of the net, the Flyers attackers too often get boxed out or their stick gets neutralized. Players like Wayne Simmonds do go to the net but often end up either in too close to get to pucks or otherwise fail to claim the puck and stash it home.
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Red_Man

I Was There! Official L Receiver 2/12/2016
Reimer looks like he might have a few strippers hiding in his basement freezer.
 
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Merguson

Banned
Heretic said:
Hm...


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BakyrChIcAAB5uO.jpg:small[/MG]

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BakzcRqCAAAQad5.jpg:small[/MG]


Hopefully the orange is deeper than that...





and the queens:

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BakxHhwCMAAAvrY.jpg:small[/MG][/QUOTE]

What are those suppose to be? 3rd jersey?
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CrazedArabMan

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Ansar Khan ‏@AnsarKhanMLive
Zetterberg out minimum 2 weeks with small herniated disc per Ken Holland.
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Just as we start to play good and HBO starts filming for the Winter Classic, hopefully he isn't out for that but it isn't looking good, same back problems it seems. But if we are missing both D and Z for a week or 2, we are going to suck. Well at least we had a nice winning streak, enjoy the Winter Classic win Toronto since he may not even start practicing in 2 weeks. I was just enjoying winning again too, welp, back to losing, it was fun while it lasted. :(
 
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pringles

Member
CrazedArabMan said:
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Just as we start to play good and HBO starts filming for the Winter Classic, hopefully he isn't out with that. But if we are missing both D and Z for a week or 2, we are going to suck.
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I can't remember when I last saw a Red Wings game with neither Pav or Hank playing.
We're gonna be without them both for a week minimum and much longer in the worst case, they both have injuries that can really drag out.
 
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scissorfight

Banned
pringles said:
I can't remember when I last saw a Red Wings game with neither Pav or Hank playing.
We're gonna be without them both for a week minimum and much longer in the worst case, they both have injuries that can really drag out.
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terrible news.

at least the schedule is easier this month...hopefully they can go around .500 with them both out.
 
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Quick

Banned
Red_Man said:
Reimer looks like he might have a few strippers hiding in his basement freezer.
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"Yeah, you know, I thought I'd keep them preserved for their families to see later, you know. Just thought it would be a nice thing to do after I murdered them, you know."
 
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