The Swamp

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Florida's best player has missed a bunch of games due to injury, and their 1B goalie is in rehab. Tkachuk is still Tkachuk. There's a lot to like on that roster. They'll be better next year. Thanks for linking to the offseason thread. Funny to see Degen's concern about trading Huberdeau at the deadl...

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Rumors are there is interest in Weegar. Imagine signing a player to a 8 year extension and then trading him before that extension even kicks in. Can a team get away with this? Like, why would a future free agent sign long-term if he's just going to be flipped a few months later? (This is part of th...

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Yzerman clearing up the roster glut of forwards. Sundquist and Suter are apparently available, as well, although that was before Vrana got moved. I doubt if the Vrana move has any bearing on anybody else on the roster. Didn't seem to be a part of their plans going forward. Is he even going to stay ...

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TradeCentre on TSN! Had no idea that this would be simulcast on ESPN+, so I don't even need to look for a stream on some sketchy Russian site. They've been on the air since 8:00. Is there anything left worth talking about at this point? There have been over 40 trades made in the past couple of weeks...

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It kinda feels like you should just never pay for a UFA goalie, even if you badly need a goalie. Like Ullmark has obviously worked out on a very similar deal, but goalies are such freaks that the ones you can safely bet will be top ~10 just aren't available. Þ Goalies are black magic. It's impossib...

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Campbell seems like an exceptionally easy guy to root for. When he signed last summer, the line was that the Oilers probably had the friendliest goalies in the league. But a friendly goalie with an .884 save percentage doesn't really help much. The Columbus game last weekend was a killer. He gave u...

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So, bapo!, do you think the Oil will roll with Skinner in the playoffs? He’s been better than Campbell for most of the season, but might they feel obligated to go with the veteran with the big contract? (I guess the Wild have the same issue between Gustavson and MAF.) There's no way that the Oilers...

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Bruins now have one pick before the 3rd round (their 2025 1st) in the next three drafts. Same with Bolts I'm sure that fans of these teams are willing to trade a bad prospect pipeline in five years for a Cup now. Tampa already has a couple. Boston has the best team in the league. This is the time t...

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Caps were part of that cattle call... That return seems pretty ridiculous. I know how it feels, Linner. It was reported that the Pens coach asked GM Ron Hextall specifically to trade for Chychrun. That obviously did not happen. But Hextall just dumped Teddy Blueger (likeable bottom-sixer having a d...

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Speculation is that the cost was so much lower than expected because most teams on him wanted retention. Which is ... not great for the league? Yet they're retaining on the Patrick Kane trade. It's the Coyotes. This kind of news is commonplace now. Nothing they do can make me do anything more than ...

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Chychrun to Ottawa for conditional 2023 1st, conditional 2024 2nd, 2026 2nd Um, wow. After waiting 18 months for this trade, and after witnessing the insanity of the past week in the NHL, this seems like an underwhelming return for Arizona. This is the opposite of the Jeannot trade. Well, as a slee...

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So many trades, I can't keep up. By Friday afternoon, there won't be any players left. San Jose and Arizona might have to dump Karlsson and Chychrun for late-round picks so that they won't feel like outcasts. The Oilers didn't get either of those guys, but they got Mattias Ekholm from Nashville. Gav...

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You’re really sticking to your principles! I’ll admit I was trying to support the other Kane when he was in San Jose. At least until he made that untenable. My reaction when Edmonton picked up Evander Kane last year was something like, 'Really? This fucking guy?' But the Oilers are a completely dif...

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I've spent an embarrassing amount of time on the hockey interwebs the past couple of weeks, reading trade rumors and fan angst relating to the Penguins and Oilers. Funny how two fanbases can feel the same frustration about their front offices for completely different reasons. The Penguins are a brok...

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i have nicknames for my favourite swampers too but i'll never tell In this thread, we guess Max's nicknames for fellow Swampers. I'll go first. rass -- Halberstam wlu_lax6 -- Wahoo sancarlos -- Rhiannon chedda -- Awesome Bill from Dawsonville. (Yeah, I know that chedda's name isn't Bill, but I've b...

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TNT; Rage Cage; Tah-jayy You have nicknames for your favorite players? How cute! Reminds me of how I used to call Pavel Datsyuk 'my precious.' A few years ago, I thought that Tage Thompson had the worst hockey name I had ever heard. Then I learned that he has a brother named Tyce. Fuck those parent...

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rass wrote: ↑Mon Oct 24, 2022 7:20 pm Of all nights for bapo! to show up.

Yep. Pens/Oilers is a holiday around these parts.

That Bouchard-to-Hyman goal made me smile. Hyman is such a wonderful player.

Crosby just scored. He's kinda wonderful, too.

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Copy/pasted from Carwash's thread: Oh hell yes.

These two threads* will get me thru the long, dark winter. Thanks, rass.

*And mozzarella sticks.**

**And Lacey Chabert.

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Oh hell yes.

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Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:09 pm Anybody else having problems seeing embedded tweets lately?

Yes. Too many of them.

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Even Kane’s ex-wife joined in with a $200 donation. [/b] This is tremendous. Kane has actually added a lot to the Oilers since his arrival. He's played well and scored a bunch of goals. But just as important, just adding another top forward has allowed Edmonton to spread out the offense a little bi...

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Filed my taxes today. Finished a couple of books. That calls for a celebration. Beer and hockey? Yes, that's what I was thinking, too. Edmonton has been on a great run, probably not enough time to catch Calgary. The issue is that Edmonton (and Toronto) are the best in the league on power plays and 3...

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Just watched the 'Roadrunner' doc on CNN. (They had been advertising it for a few Sunday nights, but that pesky Russia/Ukraine war kept preempting it.) It's worth watching. As I've said before in many other threads, I care more about writers/directors than onscreen talent. But occasionally, I'm draw...

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Fifteen years ago, when I was debating whether or not I wanted to sign up for this g-dforsaken place, one of the factors that pushed me over the edge was the existence of a couple of cold, heartless, numbers-driven baseball guys. I felt like I shared a kinship with them. Flash-forward to 2022, and I...

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µ Yesterday, Crosby sucker-punched a guy. Today, Malkin crosschecked a guy in the mouth. (And, hilariously, Borowiecki was called for slashing to quasi-'even out' the calls.) Man, hockey is complicated enough -- I don't want to have complicated feelings about my favorite players. µ Nothing complicat...

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New Holland Dragon's Milk. 11% stout aged in bourbon barrels. Very nice indeed. I'm late to these kinds of beers. I didn't drink them when they were all the rage because I didn't like bourbon then. Whatever. Just pretend that I'm typing this in 2014. (I would have been watching the Pens lose to the ...

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Well, the Avs did acquire Kurtis McDermid at the trade deadline. I think his middle name is “unnecessarily violent”. Wonderful. Now we just need Brian Boyle to score a lacrosse goal, and then we'll have some fireworks. I've been watching Colorado more often in recent weeks. Makar is so smooth and f...

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Pens/Aves. Should be a good night to be a hockey fan, but a bit too much 'skilling it up' for my tastes. Hopefully things turn unnecessarily violent soon. Bowen Byram back in the line-up for Colorado. I'm going to be nervous anytime anybody is close enough to breathe on him. I really hope he can sta...

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Time this evening for another installment in the greatest rivalry in all of sports - Kraken/Golden Knights Is there, like, a 'new kid at school/detention center' energy here? A lot of fights and tests of strength? I'm watching Oilers/Blues. Mike Smith in goal. Kassian and Archibald back in the line...

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Reaper wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:57 pm One of only three Eagles jerseys I own. Still my favorite jersey, but they never seem to win when I wear it on gameday.

And the others are...Brian Westbrook and Brian Dawkins?

Ricky Watters and Jerome Brown?

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rass wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:20 pm The color of the tags are a code.

Like, how the twist-ties correspond to the day of the week the bread is baked on? That blew my mind when I learned it a few years ago.

And yeah, 'Utah vibe' kinda makes sense with this commercial.

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Anyway, this is just an excuse to talk about '70s commercials, especially Canadian commercials. They were so wholesome! A lot of singing about cars and airlines and beer. Saw a ridiculously over-the-top commercial buried in an old local newscast. It's a full-on musical number about bread. I downloa...

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Pittsburgh, then Carolina, then Florida or Tampa Bay. That's a gauntlet to run. Yeah, the East is stacked. I really like Pittsburgh, but not enough to think they can get past all of those other teams. I think they can beat anybody, but not everybody, if that makes sense. They would have to be perfe...

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sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:32 pm John C. Holmes's ...

Okay, let's not go too far here. I would buy whiskey that somehow used John Coltrane's reeds. Old hockey sticks? Sure, sign me up.

Can you get taste out of Roger Federer's rackets? I don't care -- I would still drink it.

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brian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 5:08 pm Would be all private money so at that point I definitely don’t care.

Yeah, that's definitely better than Buffalo/Erie County taxpayers being on the hook for almost a billion dollars.

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But a batch that spends time in barrels made from David Ortiz's bats? Oh, for fuck's sake. Okay, I read your link and this Food and Wine link , and it's not as bad as I thought. As a memorabilia geek, I was afraid that they cut up game-used Ortiz bats to build barrels, but that doesn't appear to be...

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Las Vegas is the only city in the world with five arenas of 8,500 capacity or more within two miles of each other This sounds utterly ridiculous, but if they're all functioning and making money, good for them. I don't think that model would work in Pittsburgh, but it's a slightly different cultural...

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Okay, this is interesting. Thanks for the input, d. How much do you like this team? Good enough to win a series or two this spring?

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I think my last concert was Fozzy back in 2018 or so. Very curious on this. As stated earlier, I'm a huge Chris Jericho mark. And I have a friend who's a lapsed wrestling fan who loves Jericho as much as I do. So when Fozzy rolled thru town a few years ago, we decided to go even tho we had never li...

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Georgiev, on the other hand, kinda sucks. I was really high on Georgiev a few years ago. And then I started to hear about Shesterkin and thought, 'What do they need him for? They already have Georgiev.' As always, I know nothing about goalies. The talk around Pittsburgh recently has been that the P...

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