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NHL Off-Season 2013 |OT| Celebrate Good Times Come On
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Kuro Madoushi
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Price top 5 Canadian goalie though? Kinda hard pressed to put 5 other goalies from Canada ahead of him.
Translation: Bergevin and Craig Button.
I'm sure some reputable people believe(d at some point) that Price could be #1, but reputable people say hyperbolic things all the time, particularly if there's a camera in front of them.
If we're going to say Price could be the #1 goalie in the league, let's extend that to another 25 active goalies as is necessary and make the claim irrelevant.
The stats are dumb because they don't agree with you?
Marvie pls.
Yeah sure he can be top 5, problem is Canadian goalies are sketchy as fuck right now.
Does anyone even know who will be the starter of the Olympic team right now?
CrazedArabMan
Member
Yeah.................. no
Luongo. He'll be fresh and ready to go after sitting out the season.
equippedwithtowel
Member
For price to be #1 someone would have to go fuck up Quick beyond repair.
Price is good-great but he's not winning any Vezinas
Price is good-great but he's not winning any Vezinas
Giant Bomb fans here? The news today, fuck
Yeah, it's unbelievably sad. I think Vinny and Jeff are the only people I haven't met in person who I have spent more time listening to over the past five years.
I got you, this season is definitely the make it or break it year for Price with Montreal. It's not going to settle what his actual ceiling is, or whether he can go to another city and dominate, but he only has so much time left before we can stop using the potential excuse.
Or playoff series in the past five years.
Basing a goalies potential on his past two seasons where one was shortened an one was one of the worst season for a team in their history is pretty stupid. Lots of goalies struggled last year, but keep on fighting the good fight, it's funny seeing how you like to compare Lehner's accolades to Price's as proof of his worth.
Just like Subban wasn't going to ever win any Norris'? Price was already robbed of a Vezina nomination a few years back.
Foreign Jackass
Member
Price's year to shine is this coming one. After that, if he doesn't make it, he'll have Fucale in the rearview mirror.
SpectreFire
Member
Price has talent, no one disagrees with that, but he's not very consistent and clearly has holes in his games that needs to work on. I see him as someone who would either turn into an elite goaltender, or a Fleury. Unless he's able to mold that raw talent into something consistently usable, he won't be a top 5 goaltender.
Price is also still extremely young for a goaltender, and you can't say for certain where his development will take him yet.
Price is also still extremely young for a goaltender, and you can't say for certain where his development will take him yet.
Pretty much, this is why this season he needs to turn it on and prove it, if he falters again this season then I'll agree he's not up there and probably will never be.
lol which goalies struggled last year because it was a short season? his play doesnt count because it was a shortened season? what kind of excuse is that, its even worse when hes posting those stats and the team he is playing behind finished 2nd in the East. So when the team sucked the year before that it wasnt his fault, but when they are good last season, its because it was a short season? Ok there chief.
Yeah I compared Lehner's accolades to Price WHEN HE USED TO BE A TOP 5 GOALIE, because he used to be a goalie you want your prospect to compare to, but the last 2 seasons he has declined. He is not a top 5 goalie anymore, he has top potential, but he hasnt shown it lately, he still has time though.
SpectreFire
Member
He reminds me a lot of Edler. They're both players will the tools to be elite players and absolutely dominate, and once in a while, you see them do that, but they're wholly inconsistent, and there's just something in their head that isn't clicking for them most of the time. It's extremely frustrating.
Foreign Jackass
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Cake_Boss needs to calm down
Foreign Jackass
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This article makes sense : http://www.sportingnews.com/nhl/sto...3-the-winners-curse-vincent-lecavalier-flyers
Unhandled Exception
Member
Giant Bomb fans here? The news today, fuck
Laughing and crying a lot today.
T.M. MacReady
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Who was the last Ranger to be nominated for the Norris? Leetch?
Foreign Jackass
Member
The Norris favours offensive stats. The Rangers are a great defensive team.
Anything else?
Foreign Jackass
Member
Most of the time it just looks like you've got a ton of repressed anger.
You're like a non self-aware Manics
Cake Boss has a point though. You can't use "lol worst team ever in front of him" and then "lol shortened season" to explain two crappy seasons. With the "worst defense" excuse it means every goalie who has ever played on the Leafs is probably amazing. Reimer would post .975 save % on a great defensive team!!
T.M. MacReady
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I never realized what a ridiculous pedestal some folks have the Rangers D-Men on. They're an average group that gets a huge boost from having one of the world's best between the pipes. But if people gonna get butthurt, by all means nail me to the cross.
Foreign Jackass
Member
I'm pretty sure the Leafs's defense two years ago was incredibly better than the Habs one.
Franson, Gunnarson, Phaneuf, Schenn, Gardiner, Liles, Komisarek...
vs.
Campoli, Diaz, Gill, Gorges, Kaberle, Spacek, St-Denis, Subban, Weber, Yemelin...
Subban and Yemelin were on their first years, Spacek and Kaberle were arguably on their last ones...
That's standard Cake Boss posting.
He hasn't played like it the last two seasons but he's still considered one of the top 5.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=662735
Pierre McGuire, Brian Burke, numerous scouts, etc have all claimed he's one of the best even this year. Hell he got top Vezina votes in the East by Bob Mackenzie's polling this season even though he shouldn't have. There's more quotes that I don't feel like spending 2 hours searching for and I don't copy and save them to a document titled "Price rullezz!11!".
Why not? You could have put Quick in net on the 2012 Habs team and his stats would have shit the bed, Quick, Lehtoen, Rinne, Luongo, Smith, etc all had worse seasons this past year. If you don't think a lockout and not playing doesn't affect a goalie then I don't know what to say.
Two years ago Franson was in and out, Komisarek played over half the season and Ron Wilson the non defensive coach was around. We also had the worst penalty killing in the history of hockey. Oh and we had the pylon slow-foot Schenn.
KernelPanic
Member
Fleury is on that list :lol
He has had great regular seasons, just issues in the playoffs. Anderson is also at 5.
Didn't Hiller have a sub par season as well last season leading to Fasth playing so much? Or was it just because Fasth was just that good?
Edit: ^^ Ah.
Fasth got a vote.
Foreign Jackass
Member
Didn't see it getting posted :
Evolution of Luongo's smile...
Evolution of Luongo's smile...
Didn't see it getting posted :
Evolution of Luongo's smile...
Happy Drunk Drunk Stoned
Rapist Serial Killer Serial Killer Happy Serial Killer
Freyjadour
Member
The last image ruins the progression of unhappiness.
Foreign Jackass
Member
lol Schneider dextered him
It was supposedly taken after Schneider got traded... dunno if it's true but hey
Didn't see it getting posted :
Evolution of Luongo's smile...
Lol, after last years "well at least this stupid situation is almost over, they'll be trading me soon so may as well be a good soldier for a few months. I'll be shocked if I'm not in Florida for Christmas" grin I can't wait for next season. Hopefully he's just flipping off the camera.
That's when he found out Gillis was trying to trade him, they've yet to add the one after he got the news of Schneider going to NJ.
Edit: God damn it Calder :lol
SpectreFire
Member
That shows the exact moment he snapped.
Foreign Jackass
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KingHenrik30
Member
Which has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
The grasping at straws is quite funny though.
Translation: Nobody agrees with me and I look like an idiot.
T.M. MacReady
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you think too highly, I think too lowly, the difference is I'm not a fucking prick about it.
Foreign Jackass
Member
You kinda are, though