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[vatstep]

Bruins are done. Commence the tank.

 

[Unhandled Exception]

Bruins are done. Commence the tank.

Yeah you know they're fucked when they can't even properly injure a guy anymore.

Patrik Nemeth has 3 points.

 

[Pikma]

Yeah you know they're fucked when they can't even properly injure a guy anymore.

Patrick Nemeth has 3 points.

I'm honestly happy that former garbage can is doing good things for your team.

 

[vatstep]

Yeah you know they're fucked when they can't even properly injure a guy anymore.

Topical humor, in 2012 maybe.

 

[Unhandled Exception]

Topical humor, in 2012 maybe.

Yeah who am I kidding. Thing of the past.

I'm honestly happy that former garbage can is doing good things for your team.

I won't comment further on Nemeth. What's a Nemeth. We don't have one of those.

 

[Korgill]

Did you know that the Golden Knights are having their best season ever?

Spoiler

I heard this "joke" at least 50 times today at work. Is it too early to start hating their fans?

 

[Unhandled Exception]

Did you know that the Golden Knights are having their best season ever?

Spoiler

I heard this "joke" at least 50 times today at work. Is it too early to start hating their fans?

Wait till Neal breaks character and reverts back to being a shit head. If they defend him, that's when you start hating them.

 

[vatstep]

Yeah who am I kidding. Thing of the past.

Damn, I forgot that the Bruins are only team in the league with players who've been suspended. You got me.

 

[Unhandled Exception]

Damn, I forgot that the Bruins are only team in the league with players who've been suspended. You got me.

Just one of the few where that’s par for the course

 

[Marvie_3]

Lol kings

 

[a916]

Kings almost have 40 shots... Mike Smith probably expected things to be a bit easier in Calgary lol

 

[Pikma]

Did you know that the Golden Knights are having their best season ever?

 

[Ondor]

Did you know that the Golden Knights are having their best season ever?

Not surprised. Bringing in Gallant over the off-season was a great move by front office. I think the new system he's bringing will really turn the team around.

 

[lupinko]

So who's going to tank for Rasmus Dahlin?

 

[Pikma]

So who's going to tank for Rasmus Dahlin?

Stars

 

[Marvie_3]

So who's going to tank for Rasmus Dahlin?

Fallin' for Dahlin?

 

[Smiley90]

Fallin' for Dahlin?

ALL. IN. for Dahlin

 

[Marvie_3]

ALL. IN. for Dahlin

oooooh thats even better. Congrats Fubar!

 

[Livingskeletons]

Wow that was a nasty game for so early in the season.

Brown must have really hated Sutter, he is a completely different player this year.

 

[Pikma]

I wasn't feeling so well earlier so couldn't properly shit on the future stanley cup winners Toronto Maple Leafs so please let's pretend it's 7:30PM:


what a damn shredding

Andersen stole a point....
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Oh wait no he didn't

Also

QUACK

And finally

 

[Marvie_3]

❤️ Pikma ❤️

 

[Unhandled Exception]

Yak City Baby

 

[PillarEN]

I'm happy Nail is having a good time. He always seemed like a fresh water fish in a salty sea. Now he's in the proper pond.

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

Did you know that the Golden Knights are having their best season ever?

Spoiler

I heard this "joke" at least 50 times today at work. Is it too early to start hating their fans?

It's all because of my boy Flower

 

[Cake Boss]

So did the Leafs cup parade get temporarily postponed?

 

[CreeperBlocks]

So who's going to tank for Rasmus Dahlin?

The Habs

 

[Cake Boss]

The Habs

What's the point, you guys will make him into a 3rd line RWer 5 years from drafting him.

 

[CreeperBlocks]

What's the point, you guys will make him into a 3rd line RWer 5 years from drafting him.

But he’s a Defenceman

 

[Solo]

What's the point, you guys will make him into a 3rd line RWer 5 years from drafting him.

Why are you trying to hurt me so

 

[Cake Boss]

But he’s a center who scored 30 goals in that position

fify

 

[Solo]

fify

Whhhhhhyyyy

 

[Solo]

Seriously though.....am I crazy, but is the best solution to getting an offensive player who sucks on defense going maybe......just maybe, NOT to put him on the fucking 4th line whose duties are DEFENSE?!

I dunno, maybe Lord Clode sees something I don't. Lord knows that 4th line demotion in the playoffs really lit a fire under him. Oh, wait.

Just trade him. He's been my favorite Hab since he was drafted but just trade him. It's best for him to get a fresh start (even though we'll get fleeced hard when another team magically puts him in a position to succeed and he does), and putting him at 4th line LW probably hurts the team more than helps it. Or, maybe, just maybe....separate the chemistry-less Drouin and Pacioretty. Give Patches back his buddy Danault, and put AGally and Drouin together. I think a line of Drouin-AGally (yes that's right, back to centre)-Lehkonen could be dynamite. But hey, what do I know.....

 

[bonesmccoy]

Seriously though.....am I crazy, but is the best solution to getting an offensive player who sucks on defense going maybe......just maybe, NOT to put him on the fucking 4th line whose duties are DEFENSE?!

I dunno, maybe Lord Clode sees something I don't. Lord knows that 4th line demotion in the playoffs really lit a fire under him. Oh, wait.

It seems like a very common thing in the league to do with young players who need to improve their defensive game.

The strange part is how Galch - who is obviously talented - either can't or won't improve.

 

[Solo]

It seems like a very common thing in the league to do with young players who need to improve their defensive game.

The strange part is how Galch - who is obviously talented - either can't or won't improve.

I just think Galchenyuk has deficiencies in his game that aren't going away (defense lol). So, you're faced with 2 options:

1. Live with it, give him a defensively responsible winger, and try to utilize him purely in offensive situations.
2. Trade him.

But because we're in Stupidtown, Population: Montreal Canadiens, we've invented another option:

3. Throw him on the 4th line to try to beat the defense into him and the confidence out of him for good, all the while reducing his trade value to next to nothing

It's not like Galchenyuk is the first defensively-putrid, purely offensive player in NHL history.

 

[Solo]

Like, is anyone going to be surprised when AGally goes pointless for another 4 games playing with Mitchell and the ghost of Hemsky's past while playing 10 minutes a game on the 4th line?

 

[imBask]

again you're saying that like he didn't get his chance

he started pre-season on the 2nd line, ended up on the 3rd, now he's on the 4th. He's not a rookie, he's getting what he deserves for the effort he puts out. It's not gonna help him, but we're 5 years past the "help" point

 

[Solo]

Then its time to trade him for a bag of peanuts. Simple as that.

Send him to Colorado and let him reunite with Yak.

 

[Fate_Shirou]

you guys going to start this so early lol

 

[Solo]

It's been going on for 3 years now though.

 

[imBask]

you guys going to start this so early lol

oh sweet child, you just wait a week or two when I get on board with Solo against Pacioretty

 

[jello44]

Wait till Neal breaks character and reverts back to being a shit head. If they defend him, that's when you start hating them.

James "The Elbow" Neal.

It's only a matter of time.

 

[Fate_Shirou]

It's been going on for 3 years now though.

oh sweet child, you just wait a week or two when I get on board with Solo against Pacioretty

its 9am, dont ya have breakfast to eat and anime to watch

 

[Ondor]

its 9am, dont ya have breakfast to eat and anime to watch

Do you actually watch anime before breakfast?

 

[Line_HTX]

James "The Elbow" Neal.

It's only a matter of time.

At least Neal is not a lowly shithead like Tkachuk. Maybe that cretin should bleed.

 

[Alucard]

Story on the Score is just blaming good ol' puck luck for the lack of Habs scoring.

They're okay, guys. You can Bergevin and chill.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

After their second game on Saturday, the Panthers will play their third game today.

 

[Solo]

Habs should try to trade for Neal if they intend to make any kind of an attempt to make the playoffs this year. Unless he intends to sign in Vegas he's gone by February anyway. And him being a shithead doesn't bother me in the slightest.

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

After their second game on Saturday, the Panthers will play their third game today.

Wild are in the same boat. What a horrendous wait.

 

[CreeperBlocks]

Habs should try to trade for Neal if they intend to make any kind of an attempt to make the playoffs this year. Unless he intends to sign in Vegas he's gone by February anyway. And him being a shithead doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Neal for a couple of picks?

 

[Cake Boss]

again you're saying that like he didn't get his chance

he started pre-season on the 2nd line, ended up on the 3rd, now he's on the 4th. He's not a rookie, he's getting what he deserves for the effort he puts out. It's not gonna help him, but we're 5 years past the "help" point

I am a neutral party here, but you act like no one else is struggling to score on the team except for him. The team can't score and it seems like he's the only that gets punished for it. Casperetty doesn't get demoted, neither does Pleccsex, BGally, Drouin,Lekonen etc. The dude just seems to get singled out, probably for a good cause because he isn't producing, but don't pretend everyone else on the team is.