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NHL Off-Season 2017 |OT| Weve Been Here Since October
- Thread starter Fata1moose
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Not surprised to see r/leafs and hfboards coming to the full defence of Matthews' comments, dude could probably murder someone and they would find a way to spin it as a good thing.
I'm not sure when r/leafs turned into a cesspool but seriously, any form of criticism to the players or management gets downvoted to all hell.
I'm not sure when r/leafs turned into a cesspool but seriously, any form of criticism to the players or management gets downvoted to all hell.
This led me to his wife, Lexi Lafleur, who seems pretty awesome.
https://twitter.com/lexilafleur/status/912339887591972864
and smoking hot
ShinRPGamer
Member
Is Matthews trying to 1up Crosby in being a disappointment?
Also as an aside, I'm turning 22 today. Am I still among the youngins of NHLGAF?
WEE WITTLE BAYBEEEE AWWWW
I think you are? Silver was the youngest (RIP) so I don't know who holds that title anymore
So some actual solid information about how our roster is shaping up. Going into camp AV said that the plan was going to be to have JT Miller start the season at center, basically making our center depth chart go Zibanejad-Hayes-Miller-Desharnais. This is no longer the case. JT is going to start the season at wing, due to the play in training camp of Lias Andersson, Filip Chytil, and Boo Nieves at center. Which pretty much guarantees that at least one of those three is making the opening night roster as a bottom six center, possibly even two or all three of them (with the others obviously as the 13 or 14 Fs).
All three of those guys are going to be in the roster tonight, so now it's a real fight between them to make the team. Gonna be about as fun as preseason can possibly be (which is to say, "not very," but at least it's something).
Right now I'm thinking opening night looks something like:
Kreider-Zibanejad-Zuccarello
Vesey-Hayes-Nash
Miller-Chytil-Buchnevich
Grabner-Desharnais-Lettieri (another surprise out of camp)
Andersson, Nieves, Fast (IR)
McDonagh-Shattenkirk
Skjei-Smith
Staal-DeAngelo
Holden/Pionk
Lundqvist
Pavelec
Realistically, Staal has no right being there. I would be absolutely shocked if he's not, though. Among the forwards, we haven't seen a lot of Puempel, which makes me think he's going to be on the outside looking in, though he will get a chance tonight. He is basically going to be fighting to keep Vinny Lettieri from taking his roster spot.
All three of those guys are going to be in the roster tonight, so now it's a real fight between them to make the team. Gonna be about as fun as preseason can possibly be (which is to say, "not very," but at least it's something).
Right now I'm thinking opening night looks something like:
Kreider-Zibanejad-Zuccarello
Vesey-Hayes-Nash
Miller-Chytil-Buchnevich
Grabner-Desharnais-Lettieri (another surprise out of camp)
Andersson, Nieves, Fast (IR)
McDonagh-Shattenkirk
Skjei-Smith
Staal-DeAngelo
Holden/Pionk
Lundqvist
Pavelec
Realistically, Staal has no right being there. I would be absolutely shocked if he's not, though. Among the forwards, we haven't seen a lot of Puempel, which makes me think he's going to be on the outside looking in, though he will get a chance tonight. He is basically going to be fighting to keep Vinny Lettieri from taking his roster spot.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Blake Wheeler too
http://twitter.com/mikeoncrime/status/912347949715349505
Tampas owners would have JTs back too, they are paying to remove confederate statues...
Creeper is a cat and most cats die before 14 so probably creeper.
More of this please. Gotta balance out the fuckery
Kristen Shilton ✔ @kristen_shilton
Auston Matthews well-spoken today on political climate in the ����. Supports athletes speaking out, but wouldn't kneel himself during anthem
Ok, not quite as bad as I thought. I was under the impression that he was against any player protesting during the anthem.
Auston Matthews well-spoken today on political climate in the ����. Supports athletes speaking out, but wouldn't kneel himself during anthem
Ok, not quite as bad as I thought. I was under the impression that he was against any player protesting during the anthem.
So, both sides then. He said kneeling is dishonourable. That's at the heart of this protest. It isn't about people tweeting their displeasure with institutional racism.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Im 22 too
Don't get me wrong, I'm not absolving him of anything. His family apparently has a military background, so he's equating the act of kneeling with "dishonoring" American soldiers. That's a very narrow-minded and ignorant viewpoint considering how closely protesting the anthem is tied to race issues, but at least he isn't against the act of protesting.
MultiJhonny
Banned
Damn, I'm 24 - I used to be the youngin around here.
Guess I'm getting old now
I thought you were older. I'm 24 too
ShadowSoldier89
Member
fucking yungins
Fate_Shirou
Member
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Sorry--when Dale Earnhardt Jr. of all people takes a more favorable stance than you do, you screwed up.
Schuey is gonna have a lot of people to shake fists at when hes done eating prunes.
I agree with you! (see my post above)
All I'm saying is that the original tweet that was posted makes it seem like Matthews is against other athletes kneeling during the anthem, which isn't true. Either way, I disagree with him.
Apparently hfboards has a politics sub-forum but you have to have an account to go on it? Oh lawd I can only imagine the level of discourse on there.
ShinRPGamer
Member
Good guy Wheeler.
I think Creeper and I are the youngest with Silver being perma'd.
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't you closer to my age Shadow? If true, You're pretty close to a yungin yourself
.To be fair, the entire thing over the weekend that precipitated all the questions around this is in direct response to Trump calling NFL players "sons of bitches" if they knelt during the anthem. A lot of those guys were kneeling to protest against Trump and not because of the original issue. Now it's suddenly a hot button topic in sports, which side do you stand on? Kneel or stand? I'd be interested to know exactly what question they asked Matthews, if they even mentioned the racism angle or just framed it as "do you consider it disrespectful to kneel during the anthem?" Matthews also said he believed everyone had the right to voice their own opinion, unlike Trump's stance.
I would listen to that little voice of yours.
That's very concerning.
Galchenyuk is so soff that Joe could literally just tell him he's using 27 now and I doubt he'd say anything
Always assume the worst from NHL players.
A lot of them were already exposed as Trump supporters earlier this year, why would their teammates, who grew up in the same conditions as them and hang out with the exact same people, be any different.
They are a bunch of rich uneducated dumbasses
A lot of them were already exposed as Trump supporters earlier this year, why would their teammates, who grew up in the same conditions as them and hang out with the exact same people, be any different.
They are a bunch of rich uneducated dumbasses
bonesmccoy
Banned
Expecting deeply woke af responses - to media folks looking for a hot comment - from a 20 year old seems like the kind of thing to do if you love disappointment.
I did expect more awareness from Crosby though. He's been in the 'game' long enough to know better, and has the requisite stature to effect change - or at least initiate conversation.
I did expect more awareness from Crosby though. He's been in the 'game' long enough to know better, and has the requisite stature to effect change - or at least initiate conversation.
Age and/or experience is absolutely not an excuse, let alone the reason, these people are showing support for a scumbag
Well...
I mean, it's more nuanced/neutered than Trump's outright objection to kneeling, but it's effectively the same position.
So since Colin Kaepernick, you suddenly have to kneel during the anthem to show that you're against the systemic racism that's been part of the U.S. for hundreds of years? Who decided this is the correct form of protest now? Like I said, a bunch of those guys yesterday were protesting against Trump and his words, not against the original racism angle.
ElephantShell
Banned
Y'all need to stop posting consecutively because it's just too much Jim too fast.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
I'm 28Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't you closer to my age Shadow? If true, You're pretty close to a yungin yourself
bonesmccoy
Banned
Didn't say it was.
But no, I don't think Matthews saying that he doesn't agree with the kneeling, but respects people's right to kneel, makes him a frothy-mouthed Trumpist. That's a harsh judgement to to make based upon 1 conversation that none of us were around to hear.
Unhandled Exception
Member
The free speech argument gets made a lot as if it shields a person from the consequences. That's definitely an ignorant position to take, and Matthews is young enough to be ignorant in that way. And if that's what's going on, he'll either learn or he won't. Crosby has zero excuse though.
Well then what does this mean?
See, you are more than free to give him the benefit of doubt for whatever valid or invalid reasons you come up with, just don't mind me if I don't
I've been actively avoiding comments on social media sites for years. I've been told that they've been getting even worse recently...
I've been hating Crosby long enough to expect exactly the response we got from him.
In other news...
Make that 10-0-0, 1.34 GAA, .951 Sv%, and 2 shutouts. In 49 appearances since the start of last season: 41-4-1, 1.58 GAA, .940 Sv%, 10 shutouts.
Holy shit at those stats
Goddamn, Lundqvist is going to be traded to Calgary by next year at this rate.
Reckheim
Member
one thing to remember is that he is playing for SKA. Its like an NHL team playing in the AHL.
Not that his numbers are not impressive regardless, they just might be a bit inflated.