Ongoing NHL Thread Part IV - A New Hope

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Why are so many people tripping about arbitration numbers? You think a team is insulting a player by making low-ball arb asks? Wait until they get in the room and play a 2 hour video of Every. Single. Fuckup. that player made last season and commentate it with "Player X who makes approximately what your client is asking for never fucks up like this".

Remember when Subban and the Habs went to arbitration and PK left all sullen and upset and saying how "it was a learning experience"? 24 hours later he had an 8 year deal and was the third highest paid player in the NHL (AAV).

It's a business. One goes low, the other goes high, eventually everybody plays hockey and moves on.

 

[puckhead]

A forward, a defenseman and a goalie were sitting around a campfire.

The forward says: "In junior, I scored 87 goals and added 126 apples. Those were the days"
The D man says: "That's nothing. I had 200 hits and 304 PIMs and was a +31. You forwards always bragging and don't do nothing."

that sounds like the QJMHL

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

 

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Speaking of 31 (and man I am feeling old)...

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Speaking of 31 (and man I am feeling old)...

Sid and I share a birth year and I resent this caption.

/Goes back to looking for a nice area rug on Amazon

 

[puckhead]

one more reason not to allow fans to vote on shit (see #20)
either that or Benning got the steal of the summer. but yeah, no.

 

[mattola]

one more reason not to allow fans to vote on shit (see #20)
either that or Benning got the steal of the summer. but yeah, no.

Can't wait to see him play in the all Star game

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Sid and I share a birth year and I resent this caption.

/Goes back to looking for a nice area rug on Amazon

Naw man, you need to be able to touch and feel the rug to know how it will feel under...er...Jeff Skinner is still only 19, yeah?

 

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one more reason not to allow fans to vote on shit (see #20)
either that or Benning got the steal of the summer. but yeah, no.

It's a fan vote so yeah take it with a huge grain of salt. That said, Moneyhands came in the league the same year as Barkov, I know goals/points aren't everything, but he's crushing him in those categories. Getzlaf is a shell of the player he used to be, as for Zibanejad and Beagle, well it's just funny to see those names haha.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

If I had to pick ten right now, I think it would go McDavid, Crosby, Bergeron, Malkin, Tavares, Mackinnon, Backstrom, Kopitar, Stamkos, Seguin.

Matthews, Barkov, Kuzy, Monahan and Eichel would battle it out for the next 5 spots.

 

[forty_three]

That's inside the Air Canada Center. Or whatever they call it now.

 

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That's inside the Air Canada Center. Or whatever they call it now.

That looks like the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Toronto has this recent problem were all of our infrastructure is dated as hell and anytime we get even a remote bit of excess rain the power system fails and streets flood and trees fall everywhere and you can't drive on the DVP for two days because the lower Don overflows if you spit in it and they won't have the river diversion done for 10 or 20 years depending on how long the 5 year project is delayed.

But yesterday it seems like every roof in the city decided to open. ACC is above, here's Skydome:


City hall:


The Royal York (was totally renovated only a couple of years ago):


It was like every roof in the city failed at once.

Also, a basement elevator flooded and almost drowned two people:


I mean, they needed marine units to help people in cars on flooded streets:


Infrastructure matters.

 

[forty_three]

Hey, at least it's more recycle bins than trash cans!

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

America's getting a lot more McDavid and Matthews.

Your 2018-19 NHL on NBC TV schedule

7 Edmonton games, 6 Leaf games, 5 Jets games.

No Leafs-Oilers broadcast though.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

America's getting a lot more McDavid and Matthews.

Your 2018-19 NHL on NBC TV schedule

7 Edmonton games, 6 Leaf games, 5 Jets games.

No Leafs-Oilers broadcast though.

How does "Wednesday Night Hockey" differ from hockey on a Wednesday night?

/Glad they dumped the Wednesday Night Rivalry garbage.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

How does "Wednesday Night Hockey" differ from hockey on a Wednesday night?

/Glad they dumped the Wednesday Night Rivalry garbage.

It's just continuing the US tradition of pilfering Canadian program names. CBC's Hockey Night in Canada now contends with NBC's Football Night in America and now TSN's Wednesday Night Hockey (RIP) is now NBC's Wednesday Night Hockey. Both had Pierre McGuire.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

It's just continuing the US tradition of pilfering Canadian program names. CBC's Hockey Night in Canada now contends with NBC's Football Night in America and now TSN's Wednesday Night Hockey (RIP) is now NBC's Wednesday Night Hockey. Both had Pierre McGuire.

Checkmate.

Well played Canada.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Sweet throwbacks for the Blues this year.

 

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Love the BlueNote, one of the best threads in the NHL...