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There are plenty of pervs like you out there, so it's possible to make a guesstimate from google IS. I don't know man.

I met Scott Stevens years ago, just after he retired. He was wearing cargo shorts, so I didn't get to check out dem thighs, but his calves were awe inspiring. He was like, my eyes are up here buddy.
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rass wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:06 am There are plenty of pervs like you out there, so it's possible to make a guesstimate from google IS. I don't know man.

I met Scott Stevens years ago, just after he retired. He was wearing cargo shorts, so I didn't get to check out dem thighs, but his calves were awe inspiring. He was like, my eyes are up here buddy.
I guess I didn't realize how absolutely ripped almost all NHL players are until I saw that photo from the VGK trip to Cabo during their "off week" last year, but like every single dude on the team has a six pack and enormous legs and I guess it makes sense. Then I learned that's basically what every NHL player looks like.
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Except Pat Falloon.
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mister d wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:38 am Except Pat Falloon.
And Phil Kessel.

But yeah, I'm pretty convinced hockey players are the most fit professional athletes around. You have to be seriously strong and have the lungs of a horse to play at a top level.
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Sabo wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:46 am But yeah, I'm pretty convinced hockey players are the most fit professional athletes around. You have to be seriously strong and have the lungs of a horse to play at a top level.
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Keenan, no saint but never a smoker, was shocked.

"I had just come from Philadelphia, where there really weren't a lot of guys who smoked," he says. "But I walk in and see those ashtrays everywhere, and the first thing I told the guys was: 'OK, no more smoking in the dressing room. If you gotta smoke, do it out in the hallway.' So I'm coaching my first exhibition game and I go into the dressing room after the first period to talk, and there's no one in there. I'm wondering what in hell is going on, and take a walk out to the other side of the hallway and the whole team is out there, smoking cigarettes."
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That's fucking bizarre. And let's not act like smoking was cool back in 88. I mean, it was certainly more prevalent than it is now, and I had a number of friends in high school that were casual (drinking) smokers. But there was a pretty dark stigma attached to it.

I guess those guys would've been born in the 60s, which was the absolute peak of smoking culture in the US. But I find it really crazy that professional athletes... and entire NHL team... would be smoking like that.
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Nonlinear FC wrote: Thu Dec 06, 2018 2:51 pm That's fucking bizarre. And let's not act like smoking was cool back in 88. I mean, it was certainly more prevalent than it is now, and I had a number of friends in high school that were casual (drinking) smokers. But there was a pretty dark stigma attached to it.

I guess those guys would've been born in the 60s, which was the absolute peak of smoking culture in the US. But I find it really crazy that professional athletes... and entire NHL team... would be smoking like that.
Soccer players were known for this back in the day (and apparently not just back in the day). I remember reading stories about Johan Cruyff (google Johan Cruyff smoking and you see pictures of him puffing at halftime)
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I remember being in the Tigers locker room in the mid-90s and being legitimately shocked at how many players smoked. Of course, baseball is vastly different from hockey in terms of cardio, but it was still about like a third of the team including Mickey Tettleton (who chain-smoked) and Alan Trammell.
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Do the Capitals play the Knights anymore this season? I’d pay for that ticket.
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No they have already played twice.
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Fuck you NHL.

This is a 2 game suspension.



This is not a penalty.



Lomberg also got a 2 games suspension which is correct.
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Instigating in the last couple minutes is an automatic suspension, so no question on Lomberg.

Koivu was injured and is missing his next game, so that likely caused the suspension wheel o' justice to spin against Giordano. It was a surprising dirty play, but if no injury, probably no suspension.
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sancarlos wrote: Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:40 pm Instigating in the last couple minutes is an automatic suspension, so no question on Lomberg.

Koivu was injured and is missing his next game, so that likely caused the suspension wheel o' justice to spin against Giordano. It was a surprising dirty play, but if no injury, probably no suspension.
Sure.

And the Dumba hit? Backlund is out for 2 games and maybe more.
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Dumba hit is probably NHL legal and should be out of the league. Lomberg’s reaction is why I’m not 100% against fighting in some form.
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Ha ha. Congrats, Degen!

Feelgood story for the Sharks tonight. Game tied 3-3 late in the third period. 28 year-old Czech rookie Lukas Radil, recently called up from the AHL, puts a nifty backhand over the goalie's shoulder to score his first NHL goal and win the game.
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Fleury getting the start in second half of back to back again. Not sure what the hell is up with Subban.
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NHL scheduling is about as baffling as their suspension rulings.

Monday’s game was the fifth straight in which the Sharks changed time zones. That’s the second time this season that’s happened.
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This is the most obvious result possible but of course since it's the NHL it probably won't happen. My hot take:

The NHL keeps Fertitta at arm's length for at least a year to try and work out the arena/ownership situation with Arizona, but eventually submits in time to move the Coyotes to Houston for the 2020-21 season. Arizona sells for about $500M and Fertitta has to pay a $250M relocation fee. (The NHL will want him to pay more than the Seattle group to enter the league even if it has to artificially inflate the value of the Arizona franchise. Of course once it moves to Houston, it'll easily be worth about $750M or so.)

The NHL will move Houston to the Central for 2020-21 and then just slide Seattle into the Pacific as planned for 21-22.

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I still have no clue how the Panthers aren't a bigger candidate to move.
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govmentchedda wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:55 pm I still have no clue how the Panthers aren't a bigger candidate to move.
There is no place geographically to move them.

And dont say Quebec, that's suicide.
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degenerasian wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:07 pm
govmentchedda wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:55 pm I still have no clue how the Panthers aren't a bigger candidate to move.
There is no place geographically to move them.

And dont say Quebec, that's suicide.
If Ottawa doesn’t get its shit together they could be moving to Quebec. Ottawa is the Canadian Arizona. Not in terms of weather.
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brian wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:13 am
degenerasian wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:07 pm
govmentchedda wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:55 pm I still have no clue how the Panthers aren't a bigger candidate to move.
There is no place geographically to move them.

And dont say Quebec, that's suicide.
If Ottawa doesn’t get its shit together they could be moving to Quebec. Ottawa is the Canadian Arizona. Not in terms of weather.
Ottawa is still a much better market than Quebec. The problem there is Melnyk.
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degenerasian wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:56 am
brian wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:13 am
degenerasian wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:07 pm
govmentchedda wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:55 pm I still have no clue how the Panthers aren't a bigger candidate to move.
There is no place geographically to move them.

And dont say Quebec, that's suicide.
If Ottawa doesn’t get its shit together they could be moving to Quebec. Ottawa is the Canadian Arizona. Not in terms of weather.
Ottawa is still a much better market than Quebec. The problem there is Melnyk.
Sure, but the point stands. Phoenix isn't a bad a market as people think. First of all, it's something like the 6th or 7th biggest city in America. They just have bad/revolving door ownership and an arena in a shitty location. Sound familiar?
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brian wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 10:16 am
degenerasian wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:56 am
brian wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:13 am
degenerasian wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:07 pm
govmentchedda wrote: Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:55 pm I still have no clue how the Panthers aren't a bigger candidate to move.
There is no place geographically to move them.

And dont say Quebec, that's suicide.
If Ottawa doesn’t get its shit together they could be moving to Quebec. Ottawa is the Canadian Arizona. Not in terms of weather.
Ottawa is still a much better market than Quebec. The problem there is Melnyk.
Sure, but the point stands. Phoenix isn't a bad a market as people think. First of all, it's something like the 6th or 7th biggest city in America. They just have bad/revolving door ownership and an arena in a shitty location. Sound familiar?
Absolutely, but they're moving to a bigger city, Houston. The NHL would never move Phoenix to Hamilton, or Quebec or even Seattle because Phoenix is a much better market then them. But Houston is different.

Ottawa could move somewhere and so could Calgary. But not to Quebec City. Quebec city is tiny with no corporate money.
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That's fair, but I'm not convinced Phoenix to Houston is much of a change all things considered. I think Houston will probably support the team fine, but Phoenix would be salvageable with some decent/consistent ownership and a downtown arena. Just like Ottawa would as well. As it stands, it's more embarrassing to have a team in a Canadian market drawing crowds of 70 percent of capacity than it is to have Arizona drowning.
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brian wrote: Wed Dec 12, 2018 11:26 am That's fair, but I'm not convinced Phoenix to Houston is much of a change all things considered. I think Houston will probably support the team fine, but Phoenix would be salvageable with some decent/consistent ownership and a downtown arena. Just like Ottawa would as well. As it stands, it's more embarrassing to have a team in a Canadian market drawing crowds of 70 percent of capacity than it is to have Arizona drowning.
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Regarding the Glendale problem for the Coyotes, it's amazing how the location and quality of the arena matters. The San Francisco Giants almost left town in the 1980s, because fans were tired of having to wear their parkas out to Candlestick in July. Then they moved to a nice new park right in town, next to the CalTrain stop, built to protect from the wind... and voila, regular sellouts!
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Interestingly enough, every team in the NHL except Chicago has beaten Vegas also.

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Flames just scored two goals with the goaltender pulled and then won in OT.
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Pacific Division starting to look a lot better lately. Except LA and Arizona of course.
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At this point if VGK extends Karlsson at 7yrs/$56M I think they’re still getting a steal. He’s gonna get paid one way or another.
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brian wrote: Fri Dec 14, 2018 7:50 pm Pacific Division starting to look a lot better lately. Except LA and Arizona of course.
Cut that out, Flames need a cushion.
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Ovechkin with another hat-trick to get to 635 in his career.

With the NHL game opening up, could he get to Gretzky's record of 894?
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degenerasian wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:35 am Ovechkin with another hat-trick to get to 635 in his career.

With the NHL game opening up, could he get to Gretzky's record of 894?
That'd take six years of 40 goals avg. I don't see that happening.
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Are you counting this year? He could get 40 more.
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degenerasian wrote: Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:05 am Are you counting this year? He could get 40 more.
I don't think he can keep up this pace.

Also, an interesting note to the fact that the Pacific teams have improved lately - Vegas has played 20 road games but only 14 home games. That will work in their favor later. Anaheim is the opposite.
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Pens Caps game was great. Murray was great, Wilson gave a beating and Crosby is a puss (he and Ovi jawing at each other).
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:47 pmand Crosby is a puss (he and Ovi jawing at each other).
Explain how that makes him a puss? (I didn't see the game.)
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