The Swamp

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:33 am Just saw Tom Wilson from last night. No problem at all with what he did.

Yeah, that's a pretty easy one to get behind. Classic "unwritten rule" violation.

Best part was Kuzy cursing on live TV in praise of the beatdown.

Good thing they were not in DC, they could have ended up being very late with WMATA's reliability.
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Got a hilarious interaction with a Columbus fan (teaser on my on my Twitter feed) that I gotta share here when more sober/after the game.

Poor Michael DiPietro. If he was any younger, the Canucks would have been charged with child abuse. Due to some injuries, somehow Vancouver managed to not have any signed professional backup goaltenders available this week, so they pulled 19 year-old DiPietro up from his junior team on an emergency basis. They didn't plan on playing him at all, but had to last night when their starter and last remaining option pulled up lame. Vancouver's defense gave the kid no help at all and the Sharks put 7 goals on him - most of them due to great chances allowed by his teammates.

San Jose has been hot lately. Last night's game completed a four-game road sweep across western Canada from Winnipeg to Vancouver. The Sharks now have one more point than Calgary - the most in the Western Conference - although the Flames do have two games in hand.

brian wrote: ↑Sat Feb 09, 2019 11:48 pm Got a hilarious interaction with a Columbus fan (teaser on my on my Twitter feed) that I gotta share here when more sober/after the game.

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I've been mostly just watching condensed game highlights of the Caps this year, but it is very weird to see this team giving up so many damn goals every game. Feels like the need 6 to win almost every time.

No great insight, but that shit's not sustainable.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:05 pm

brian wrote: ↑Sat Feb 09, 2019 11:48 pm Got a hilarious interaction with a Columbus fan (teaser on my on my Twitter feed) that I gotta share here when more sober/after the game.

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Yeah, so before the game I'm having a beer with my buddy outside T-Mobile and a couple Blue Jacket fans sit down next to us so we're just shooting the shit. My buddy was born in Columbus and is a tOSU fan, but was rooting for VGK, so we're mostly just making small talk and I was telling the guy (truthfully) that I really dig the Blue Jacket unis/logo and that I think it's cool that there's a pro sports team that has a name that celebrates the Union (truthfully) given all of issues with Confederate nicknames and iconography, though I was actually quite a bit more diplomatic about how I termed it because I legit wasn't trying to troll these guys.

But then they get all quiet and give me a weird look and then the one guy sitting nearest to me starts stammering about how it's "removing history" to get rid of Confederate statues (about which I said nothing about) and then they just walked away and all I could think to do as they were walking away was just say "I just like your team's nickname, bud!"

The takeaway is that Ohioans are ridiculously easy to troll, even accidentally. I wonder how many Blue Jacket fans are legit upset that their nickname is a Union reference.

Nice job. Forgot how great the ESPN NHL fanfare was.

(and wish the game was on a Thursday so I could go, too much crap going on every other night of the week)

Curious if the Caps are gonna deal Burkovsky next week. They are rounding into form, but their bottom 6 isn't producing like it did last year, at least not consistently. They're leaning really heavily on Oveckkin, which isn't sustainable when shit gets real in April.

Torts...

Probably doesn't meet the threshold (especially if true).

Once an asshole always an asshole.

Devante Smith-Pelly put on waivers by the Caps...initial thought was it was going to be Jaskin, but nope. Caps are apparently interested in bringing MoJo back.

God that's the perfect nickname for you to use.

Haeglin to the Caps

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I dunno. That's a dirty hit and deserves a suspension, but might be a "you just made the list" type deal.

It should be the same suspension as if Leddy hit McDavid like that.

My best friend produced this movie.

Will be released across Canada, but not sure about the States. It's going to be pretty dark.

(By the way, the couldn't get rights to use the NHL team logos - the League didn't like the way the old days were portrayed. The NHL actually asked for approval on the final script and edit.)

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:02 am It should be the same suspension as if Leddy hit McDavid like that.

Yes, agreed. But, that won't happen.

suspended two games!

shocked!

Think the Oilers should just shut McDavid down for the rest of the season, especially for any games against Vegas they have remaining. Can't be too careful.

LOL Oilers Media and Oilers twitter going insane and really crying.

You'd have to be a bit of a dim bulb to think THAT is the reason the NBA is more popular.

Yeah, that is a reason not to enjoy the NBA. Frustrating to the infractions Harden et al get away with.

Caps also pickup Jensen from the Red Wings for Bowey and a 5th round pick. Jensen also gets a $10 million, four-year extension.

Good pregame point from Mike Rupp - rain probably means no Gritty

Noooooooo! Gritty can get wet!!!!!

Gonna look like a googly eyed traffic cone when he gets wet.


I’m going to pretend Letang is fine until I know better and just worry that the Pens are screwed if Dumo is out for a long time.

I was watching the Sharks/Redwings game today, and the broadcasters came up with a couple surprising stats.

Dylan Larkin of Detroit is the only forward in the NHL to lead his team in average time-on-ice per game. (For every other team it is a defenseman). And, he does it despite also leading his team in penalty minutes. And, he also leads them in goals scored. And, in assists.

I knew he's a good player. But, I didn't realize he's a one-man gang.

And now officially everyone loses the Zuccarello trade. Brutal.

San Jose can save a lot of money firing their amateur scouting department since they won’t have any draft picks the next three years.

Handsome and sensitive

The price for trades seems really high this year.

Even though San Jose got Nyquist, I don't believe the Flames will make a move of any substance. Not anything involving a first round pick anyways.

They are not going for it this year, this the first of hopefully many playoff runs.

degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:16 am The price for trades seems really high this year.

Even though San Jose got Nyquist, I don't believe the Flames will make a move of any substance. Not anything involving a first round pick anyways.

They are not going for it this year, this the first of hopefully many playoff runs.

Yeah, despite what seemed like snark up above I get where San Jose is at and the moves make sense.

After this window of two to three years as a contender, they're going to be absolute garbage for a bit with an insanely old overpaid core, no prospects and no draft picks for about four years (in fact it's going to be interesting to see what exactly they're planning on putting out on the ice from 2023-24 forward but I guess that's neither here nor there).

But in Calgary's situation, no sense in trading any big pieces or draft picks for a rental. The playoffs are such a crapshoot anyway that I really don't understand why year after year GMs are shamed or scared into trading away valuable pieces for rentals.

I don't quite get Winnipeg's moves either though they're closer to San Jose's situation than Calgary's even with some really good, young players like Laine.

brian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:34 am

degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:16 am The price for trades seems really high this year.

Even though San Jose got Nyquist, I don't believe the Flames will make a move of any substance. Not anything involving a first round pick anyways.

They are not going for it this year, this the first of hopefully many playoff runs.

Yeah, despite what seemed like snark up above I get where San Jose is at and the moves make sense.

After this window of two to three years as a contender, they're going to be absolute garbage for a bit with an insanely old overpaid core, no prospects and no draft picks for about four years (in fact it's going to be interesting to see what exactly they're planning on putting out on the ice from 2023-24 forward but I guess that's neither here nor there).

But in Calgary's situation, no sense in trading any big pieces or draft picks for a rental. The playoffs are such a crapshoot anyway that I really don't understand why year after year GMs are shamed or scared into trading away valuable pieces for rentals.

I don't quite get Winnipeg's moves either though they're closer to San Jose's situation than Calgary's even with some really good, young players like Laine.

Rumors keep floating around here about Mark Stone and that the Flames have walked away because the Sens are asking for a 1st, Valimaki and Dube which is a non-starter. Plus the flames would not have the money to keep Stone who has reported already turned down 5x10.5

The pressure is on the Sens now with Winnipeg presumably out. Do they circle back to the Flames for a better offer closer to the deadline? Are Nashville and Vegas still interested?

Friedman is saying Vegas is talking to Ottawa again about Stone. At this point I'd rather Vegas hung on to all its picks and prospects unless they can talk Ottawa into taking a couple of the second-tier prospects like Hague and Elvenes along with a first.

(To my mind, Glass and Brannstrom should be absolutely untouchable. This team is going to need young, talented players on their entry level deals going forward and I think McPhee gets that.)

ETA: I don't mind parting with the first rounder as much because I think Vegas would have a better than average shot at extending/re-signing him because of the McCrimmon connection. Assuming Stone doesn't want a seven or eight year deal I think there's room to make that happen.

brian wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 12:58 am San Jose can save a lot of money firing their amateur scouting department since they won’t have any draft picks the next three years.

I don't think that's true. They received two seconds from Florida in the Hoffman trade. One of them just went to Detroit in the Nyquist deal. I'm not really worried about the pipeline anyway. They've got some blue-chippers in juniors and the AHL, Their AHL team is leading the league with a very young team.

I've been reading articles about San Jose's window closing for at least five years, and it still hasn't happened.

More importantly, why isn't it Maple "Leaves"?