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NHL October 2013 |OT| Racism, Pokémon, and the Pursuit of Saltiness

Have you heard of manic depression? Your local MD can tell you more.

Yeah, no. Just angry at stupid junk and mostly at not being able to try out my new stick at drop in yesterday and then getting told we can't go on the ice because the kids working just wanted to go home.

So the good news is that the Atlantic will have 5 playoff teams because there is no way the Metro is getting any of the wild card spots.
 
I once high-fived someone after yelling "White Power!". True story.

...

-high fives dastardly- WHITE POW- wait a second

:lol

YEAH MA NI-... ninja. My ninja.

True story, I got to say "Black power" a lot today. Until I realised my coworker was talking about Black POWDER (a pre-workout supplement).

Gonna be some fierce competition for the bottom this season. Philly and Buffalo man.

Yeah, ain't nobody topping Buffalo this season.

It's impossible to not. At this point I'm like, fuck it keep him, just because he's such a contributing factor right now and we got money to buuuuuuuuuuurn

Keeping him up is a really really really silly move.

BRAINTRUST.
 

Cake Boss

Banned
Jeremy Milks ‏@BlackAcesOtt 15m

A little bird just told me there might be some good news on Zibanejad today.

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Who the fuck is Jeremy Milks? Is that Ottawa's version of Eklund?

If he's going to play 8 minutes a game with Kassian and Neil leave him in Bingo.
 
And yet Nyquist still sits in the AHL thanks to our old guys still taking up roster spots. Looks like a move is going to be made this week since Helm is coming back. Too bad it looks like TooToo is the one to go, he has played great and really gives us that spark, but nope, had to sign Sammy and Cleary.
 

sammich

Member
WOOT FLAMES!!!

When Stajan comes back we should be a bit better with faceoffs and defensive coverage. I would rather he be on the 3rd line though or maybe 2nd. Only prob is i dont think Backlund(whos doing fucking amazing this year) should be below the 1st or 2nd line. Colbourne should be no lower than 3rd and hes finally playing better and catching up to the Flames system. Mony should be 3rd as he is usually slotted. That leaves Stajan as 4th which hes too good for. Either way, they arent a great team, but fucking hell they work their asses off. Stempy, hudler, GIO, Brody, Wideman...

NOW KICK SOME COYOTE ASS TONIGHT. Make Smith cry.
 

Plinko

Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
And yet Nyquist still sits in the AHL thanks to our old guys still taking up roster spots. Looks like a move is going to be made this week since Helm is coming back. Too bad it looks like TooToo is the one to go, he has played great and really gives us that spark, but nope, had to sign Sammy and Cleary.

Holland is a complete moron if he gets rid of Tootoo. The guy has been 100 times better than Samuelsson. He even had two great scoring chances last night when they were few and far between.
 
Holland is a complete moron if he gets rid of Tootoo. The guy has been 100 times better than Samuelsson. He even had two great scoring chances last night when they were few and far between.

The problem is Sammy's terrible contract (thankfully his last year) and that he gave him a stupid no trade clause.
 

Var

Member
New line combinations at practice:

Lecavalier - Giroux - Raffl
McGinn - B. Schenn - Voracek
Read - Couturier - Simmonds
Hall - Talbot - Rinaldo
Hartnell - Newbury - Rosehill

Timonen - Gustafsson
Grossmann - Coburn
Streit - L. Schenn
Gill - Meszaros
 

Silexx

Member
What the actual fuck.

I had a feeling that Zibanejad being called up would be at the expense of Pageau. That said, I'm getting conflicting reports here.

Dan Séguin says Pageau is being sent back but Sylvain St-Laurent reports that hasn't been confirmed and that Pageau is still on the ice practicing with the team.
 
Prac lines:

Flash-Barkov-Versteeg
Huby-Bjugstad-Winchester
Mattias-Goc-Kopecky
Upshall-Gomez-Boyes

Soup-Kuli
Gilbert-Weaver
Gilroy-Gudbranson

Thomas in net
Best goalie on the bench


Nice to Bjugs in the top 6 looked great v Minny. But WTF is Dinnen doing at RW?!? Why in Winchester on the 2nd? Why in the blue fuck is Boyes on 4th duty while Steeg on line 1?!? Jesus Dinnen our leading goal scorer on the 4th? Seems legit. It should be Boyes, Steeg, Winchester, Kopy down RW.



#FireDineen
 

Plinko

Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
The problem is Sammy's terrible contract (thankfully his last year) and that he gave him a stupid no trade clause.

I like Eaves, but I'd much rather get rid of him than Tootoo. Of course, you know Tatar is going to sit again even though I thought he played really well last night.
 
I had a feeling that Zibanejad being called up would be at the expense of Pageau. That said, I'm getting conflicting reports here.

Dan Séguin says Pageau is being sent back but Sylvain St-Laurent reports that hasn't been confirmed and that Pageau is still on the ice practicing with the team.

Both made sense from a certain perspective.

I can see why having four undersized/no physical centers could be seen as a liability, but on the other hand any checking line we put out is just too freaking slow to be a threat.

No perfect option, but I'd rather have Pageau then not.
 

MetatronM

Unconfirmed Member
Lundqvist is not skating at practice today for the second day in a row. Yesterday he was "given the day off" and wasn't at practice. Today he has a "minor issue."

Hmmm.
 

Cake Boss

Banned
Michalek-Spezza-Conacher. MacArthur-Turris-Ryan. Greening-Smith-Neil. Grant-Zibanejad-Condra"

Fuck my life, Zibby had better wingers down in Bingo, he should ask to go back.

Philips injured wooop wooop.
 
I like Eaves, but I'd much rather get rid of him than Tootoo. Of course, you know Tatar is going to sit again even though I thought he played really well last night.

Yup, unfortunately he was never the same after his injury, clearing out Sammy and Cleary would have allowed us to keep some of these good bottom 6 guys, but that isn't the case at all.
 
Michalek-Spezza-Conacher. MacArthur-Turris-Ryan. Greening-Smith-Neil. Grant-Zibanejad-Condra"

Fuck my life, Zibby had better wingers down in Bingo, he should ask to go back.

Philips injured wooop wooop.

Heh told you ... what's the point of calling him up to play 4th line minutes with scrubs.
 

MetatronM

Unconfirmed Member
And according to Dreger, it doesn't sound like Nash is close to returning.

Nash is effectively out indefinitely until we hear otherwise. The fact that he's still not at practice after 2 weeks is not a promising sign.


New PP units once again!

PP1:
Kreider-Stepan-Brassard
Del Zotto-Richards

PP2:
Pouliot-Boyle-Miller
Moore-McDonagh


At least Pyatt is off the power play. Zucc is supposed to be a PP specialist, though.
 
Yeah, no. Just angry at stupid junk and mostly at not being able to try out my new stick at drop in yesterday and then getting told we can't go on the ice because the kids working just wanted to go home.

So the good news is that the Atlantic will have 5 playoff teams because there is no way the Metro is getting any of the wild card spots.

Lol, no. Sorry if you took that seriously, I was making a joke because you either despise or adore your team :p
 
Lol, no. Sorry if you took that seriously, I was making a joke because you either despise or adore your team :p

:lol

There is no middle ground, either I hate them or I love them, or love them and just hate Cleary/Sammy.

So anyways, Ouellet looked great for his first NHL game, our close to NHL ready prospect pool (especially our D) is stacked!
 
New line combinations at practice:

Lecavalier - Giroux - Raffl
McGinn - B. Schenn - Voracek
Read - Couturier - Simmonds
Hall - Talbot - Rinaldo
Hartnell - Newbury - Rosehill

Timonen - Gustafsson
Grossmann - Coburn
Streit - L. Schenn
Gill - Meszaros

The league is on notice now. It is on bitches. Flyers are totally going to score more then 2 goals in a game now.
 
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