Thursday Caps Clips
by J.P. on Aug 12, 2010 6:47 AM EDT
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Your savory breakfast links:
- Experience: you usually need it to get it and can't often get it without it. And the Caps' D as presently constituted doesn't have it. [Peerless]
- I've long waited for the day I'd read an interview with Alexander Semin in which he was translated as having said, "Yes, she sculpts my dumplings." [kp.ur via Google Translate, with a much better translation over at Alex Ovetjkin]
- The stats say Chris Bourque, Alexandre Giroux and Keith Aucoin should be pretty decent NHLers. This concludes today's edition of "Why You Shouldn't Rely On Stats Alone In Formulating Your Opinions." [RMNB]
- Sasha vs. Sasha: click through for the outstanding lead image, stay for the analysis. [Jumping the Glass]
- The Prince of Wales engraving error hoax? Not so much a hoax. [Puck Daddy]
- Eric Belanger has reportedly signed with someone, but he's
too embarrassedwaiting to announce who the lucky team is. [PHT] - Take note: a sports radio station talking pucks (with Steve Kolbe) in August with the you-know-who's opening their preseason in two days. [Lavar and Dukes]
- An overview of the Caps' off-season. [TFP]
- The Caps' second-line center spot, at least in the short-term, would seem likely to be filled by an asset already in the organization... but I certainly wouldn't pencil in Mathieu Perreault for it quite yet. [OFB]
- What about Marcus Johansson for that gig? [Rink Rebel]
- (You all know my bet for opening night 2C rhymes with Flomas Teischmann.)
- Eric Fehr will be playing some puck for a good cause tonight. Why do I worry that he's going to hurt himself every time he steps on the ice? [Winnipeg Sun]
- Ovechkinception. [YouTube]
- NHL stars like Mike Green and Alex Ovechkin... in video games, I think. [FanShot]
- Speaking of Ovechkin, Damien Cox and Gare Joyce's book on AO hits Canadian bookshelves on September 20 (but you can order yours online here). More importantly, Cox joins Japers' Rink Radio on Saturday to discuss the book and other topics.
- Cody Eakin is ready to play some puck. [Prairie Post]
- Could the Bears and Baby Pens play a January 1 game at CONSOL in conjunction with the Winter Classic? [PensBlog]
- Bryan Helmer on concussions. [The Voice of Sport]
- Sweet coupon alert - $20 of food and drink at Tony and Joe's for just $10. [SB Nation Team Pick]
- Finally, happy 27th birthday to Jiri Novotny.
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Take note: a sports radio station talking pucks (with Steve Kolbe) in August with the you-know-who’s opening their preseason in two days.
I did indeed. They’ve got my love and attention for that alone.
It takes...something? Anything?!?
I was ridiculously excited to hear Steve Kolbe’s voice when I got in my car yesterday.
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You need to get out more. Too much time listening to your neighbors.
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by Carl Putnam on Aug 12, 2010 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions
hey, I heard Kolbe before yesterday’s awful sounds got started!
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You know what would fit in perfectly in that Inception themed AO video? Snapshots from a video of AO, all smiles, going to receive a big silver trophy from Gary Bettman, in between each highlight during the second minute crescendo. :(
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Here’s a form to save everyone some time later in the day:
JP, you’re a crazy jerk for leaving [name] off the monument. You must not have watched the Caps at all during [timespan] because he was clearly their [best player] [heart and soul] [hottest player]. I don’t know where the team would be today without him. Meanwhile [name] clearly does not belong because [he hasn’t done enough yet] [he was not enough of a leader] [he was not physical enough] [his stats are just a function of the era he played in] [I don’t know who that is]. Maybe you should go back and learn something about the Washington Capitals before you start posting on Puck Daddy.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Aug 12, 2010 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions 10 recs
Love the picture you chose to accompany this post, JP. Can’t wait to see more RAHJC…
John Carlson - Glory follows him.
Is that what you say when you ask a player for his autograph?
(Yes, I know about the avatar hounding - just pretend mine is invisible.)
Sort of OT but still genius.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AuEuYyfL0o
The ice will show everything.
I pretty much hate Pensblog with a passion and won’t click on it, but I was curious about the Baby Pens/Bears post. But when I click the link, I get the graphic header, but the text won’t load. Does Pensblog hate me back, or are other having the same problem?
"It's always good to have vikings."
Proud member of the Oxford dictionary police.
Yeah, I’ve had trouble with their site in IE7, but none in Firefox.
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The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins have a deal in place to play a regular season game at the Consol Energy Center on New Year’s Day.
There’s no way that their opponent is anyone else but the Hershey Bears, their most hated rivals.
That’s basically it.
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by red army line on Aug 12, 2010 8:21 AM EDT up reply actions
There’s also another article there about how they’re offering 400 seats out to the WBS season tix holders and none to the Hershey people.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 8:24 AM EDT up reply actions
/seats at the Winter Classic
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 8:24 AM EDT up reply actions
Without reading it, maybe that’s from the Pitt allotment?
It takes...something? Anything?!?
by Bald Pollack on Aug 12, 2010 8:34 AM EDT up reply actions
No idea. They weren’t very big on details (other than posting the picture of Perreault and calling him a popular slur for homosexual…how edgy).
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 8:39 AM EDT up reply actions
Have to assume the chances of a non-Penguins fan getting a ticket are somewhere between none and when hell freezes over? I assume that game would be in the evening after the WC. Also, not likely I’d want to spend more money and stay in Pittsburgh for another night; it’s just a comment.
"It's always good to have vikings."
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"Yes, she sculpts my dumplings."
Ya know, the world will be a far, far less entertaining place when Google perfects it’s auto-translate feature.
I want a set of hand sculpted, hand painted, nested dumplings.
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“Dumplings” would be a fantastic nickname. I’m just saying.
I’d settle for “Pelmeni”
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Aug 12, 2010 9:48 AM EDT up reply actions
apparently sculpts is what Semin actually said. TJ said it’s a Siberian phrase in the comments in his blog post.
by vtcapsfan99 on Aug 12, 2010 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Great interview with Semin.
Has anyone ever seen his parents at the VC or Kettler? Just curious.
Wonder if he reads any of the blogs….
Can you describe yourself on the ice in two words?
I don’t know what I’m on the ice. I just play. Maybe I feel like one person, but I appear to others different. It’s up to you.
The ice will show everything.
by cuqui on Aug 12, 2010 8:31 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
He looks like Scut Farkus in the animated one.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
He really does, but who would be his Grover Dill?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 8:44 AM EDT up reply actions
.....
He’s about the right size
BTW…Scut Farkus today
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 8:46 AM EDT up reply actions
Think his eyes could get any closer together?
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
He’s missing the green teeth….so help me God, he had green teeth!
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 8:54 AM EDT up reply actions
I believe it was Grover Dill who had the green teeth, Scut Farkus had yellow eyes.
"Now wait a minute. This is just purely a social call. You know, just two adults getting a stew on, man."
by The Ghost of Bebop on Aug 12, 2010 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions
I thought Farkus was described as having green teeth to go along with his yellow eyes?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions
Nope you’re right. Dill had the green teeth.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions
I will never get tired of that picture
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 8:34 AM EDT up reply actions
Cause and effect?
The peerless article on D experience doesn’t convince me that the number of games played by defenseman was a critical factor. I’m not saying it isn’t, just that the stats are not convincing of the need for more D experience.. I’m curious how the caps stack up against all teams, not just winners. How many teams in the NHL actually try to play a season with such little D experience? How many teams with the high numbers of games that the champs had totally flopped in the regular season?
by vzotsky on Aug 12, 2010 9:07 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Correlation does not imply causation
But if Dman experience is somehow indicative that your blueline is ready to win a Cup, I’m all for it.
How many teams in the NHL actually try to play a season with such little D experience? How many teams with the high numbers of games that the champs had totally flopped in the regular season?
Even if 1/30 of the teams with enough experience win it all, zero without enough win, so I’d go for some chance as opposed to none.
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by red army line on Aug 12, 2010 9:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, Peerless’s post didn’t convince me of the need to add veteran D – the past two seasons did.
Peerless quantified some empirical evidence of it nicely, though.
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If they can’t get Willie Mitchell, I wouldn’t mind throwing some money and a brief deal at Jay McKee.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 9:17 AM EDT up reply actions
Another shot-blocker who broke down midway through the season. Not so sure he’s the answer.
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As a 6/7 D? Who doesn’t have to shoulder a lot of ice time? Could do worse…
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 9:22 AM EDT up reply actions
He wasn’t good in Pittsburgh. Generally if you block a lot of shots then you’re playing in your own end too much. That’s pretty much McKee’s game.
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by red army line on Aug 12, 2010 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions
He didn’t stand out to me on screen, and he was considered a disappointment on Pensburgh (whose community’s assessment I trust).
McKee was blocking the most shots per 60, but faced low Corsi QualComp. That’s different from say Volchenkov who faces top notch competition.
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by red army line on Aug 12, 2010 9:49 AM EDT up reply actions
We only need him to be a 6/7/8..
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
I don’t think it’s impossible to build a 1-6 of top-4s when you have four guys in RFA years. I also don’t want the team to have to rely basically on the top 4 and no one else, especially on the road when the other team can get their top line against the third line.
Basically, McKee doesn’t look competent enough for me to want him. The Caps play D by attacking, and McKee doesn’t fit.
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by red army line on Aug 12, 2010 10:10 AM EDT up reply actions
Neither does Erskine or Sloan, and McKee would be an upgrade over them. And likely a cheap one.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
I’d rather have someone significantly better, I guess. That was my originial line of thinking.
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by red army line on Aug 13, 2010 3:00 AM EDT up reply actions
Aaron Ward?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions
Didn’t he just get an infection or something?
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
I thought he had one in his foot or something like that
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions
....
NOT A FINGER!!!
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 12, 2010 9:29 AM EDT up reply actions
Do. Not. Want.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
by Rather Bengt on Aug 12, 2010 9:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Ugh. He’s washed up, slow, and broken down. Not a good triple threat.
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Yeah, you don’t want McKee.
He was pretty good the first half of the year but then he got hurt and was really bad. I dreaded anytime he was skating backwards. All you have to do is chip the puck behind him and by the time he turned to retrieve it the other guy was by him.
And McKee’s puck handling skills were about on par with what I imagine my grenade handling skills would be: a sloppy hurry to get rid of it as soon as possible. (With pants shitting)
"Game's the same. Just got more fierce."
The most powerful argument in that post, in my mind is that in the last ten seasons, no Stanley Cup winner had a defensive corps in the playoffs that started the season with fewer than 2,000 combined regular season games of experience (only one had fewer than 2,500). The Caps sit at 1,813 (I didn’t do the playoff experience level, but given that five of the defensemen have played their entire NHL careers with the Caps — and the Caps have advanced past the first round only once since dinosaurs roamed the earth — I would hazard a guess that the gap between the Caps’ playoff experience and that of the other ten teams depicted there is even more stark). Does that mean the Caps won’t win a title? No. There are too many moving parts in a hockey team to make that emphatic a statement. But the defense, whatever you think of its skill level, is still green in terms of playoff readiness.
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Right but my question would be, in the past 10 years, how many NHL teams have started the season with less than 2000 games played amongst their defensive corps, regardless of playoff success?
by vzotsky on Aug 12, 2010 10:49 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
That would take time to compile (we’re talking more than 250 teams), but I would guess that quite a few did. But that calculation becomes a bit more complicated in that you’re dealing with more teams that used a lot more defensemen, too. Just picking one at random, the 2000-2001 Blue Jackets — a team that finished 13th in their conference — dressed 12 defensemen that season.
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by ThePeerless on Aug 12, 2010 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions
Oh I definitely understand not being able to compile that much data and don’t fault anyone for not doing it, but I do think it’s what’s required to draw that conclusion on a statistical basis. As JP suggested, there are certainly other ways to draw that conclusion
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While he’s far from a big name or impact player, Eric Belanger is still one of the better centers remaining on the free agent market. Sources say that he’s chosen the team he’ll sign a one-year contract with..
If Belanger could have been had for a one-year deal, it should have been with the Caps. I’m still trying to figure out what McPhee is doing with the center positions on this team. Heading into the season with Flash and Mackan/MP as your second and third line centers is preposterous for a team with Cup aspirations.
I have to think McPhee is keeping an eye on some personnel who might be shaken loose later in the summer or nearer to opening night as a few clubs struggle to get under the cap.
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I hope you’re right because heading into the season with Flash/Mackan/MP as your #2 & 3 centers and Sloan and Erskine as your 6/7 defensemen is insane. Especially when you’ve got almost $6 million in cap room.
I’d rather them go in like that then spend money on the wrong guy just because..
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
by jordanDC on Aug 12, 2010 10:09 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
If Belanger will take a one-year deal, I think the caps may still be in the mix.
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but if the team is trying to clear cap space to fit Belanger in….I don’t think it’s the Caps.
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A team near or above the cap… has to move a bigger contract to fit Belanger in… and it’s not Toronto (according to Mirtle).
I’m thinking… Philly?
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by ThePeerless on Aug 12, 2010 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions
maybe. Do they need another C? they’re have a little less than $900,000, so they need to create cap space AND a roster spot. They have 23 on the roster right now.
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ha ha ha, ignore! I see that Mirtle just confirmed Belanger is bringing his School of Dentistry back to F Street.
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So the “I have to keep it quiet until they make a move” is either a smokescreen, or someone’s getting moved for a roster spot/defenseman.
"It's always good to have vikings."
Proud member of the Oxford dictionary police.
Looking at the list of pending UFA D-men, Bieksa’s one likely target.
In terms of thinking about which teams need top-6 forward help, I suppose Eric Brewer is another possible target as well.
Come to think of it, I know of another team near the cap that starts with “P” that plays in PA that could use a skilled winger like Fleischmann…
….But there’s no way those two teams would make a trade, right?
"Game's the same. Just got more fierce."
by Hooks Orpik on Aug 12, 2010 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions
You sending Staal back this way?
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Oh. Intriguing.
Never happen.
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I could see the Caps getting a Staal out of this, but it he ain’t currently a Penguin (or a Hurricane either)
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by Gould Old Days on Aug 12, 2010 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed Gouldy. Although Jared Staal is Hurricane property.
Staal is one of Shero’s favorite players. He’s not going anywhere in the first place, but especially not for (presumably) a deal with Fleischmann as the centerpiece.
"Game's the same. Just got more fierce."
by Hooks Orpik on Aug 12, 2010 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Caps would have to send a bit more along with Fleischmann in order to get Jo. Staal back from the Pens, even considering the disparity in salary.
Nice to think about, but not gonna happen.
Marc Staal is an interesting idea, though.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Depends on what he wants to be paid, no? I forget what Staal was looking for but wasn’t it around $4 million?
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Oh, I know. But I liked the idea of yanking Hooks’ chain.
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kid tested…. mother approved
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by TheFuryUnleashed on Aug 12, 2010 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Nah, PHI needs W help, not C help. They have too many C’s as is.
Lockout talk makes me want to go out and choke an old lady - Elliotte Friedman
I think he meant Philly moves a contract (either in trade to Washington or someone else) so they could fit Flash in. And play him as a W.
"Game's the same. Just got more fierce."
That might be how they start the season. It will not be how they end it. And that is where the $6 million in cap room would come in handy — at the trading deadline.
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by ThePeerless on Aug 12, 2010 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
This is how I look at it. I wouldn’t mind seeing them pick up Willie Mitchell, but if that doesn’t pan out, then wait until the deadline or the middle of the year. There’s always a team that has a catastrophic injury and a need to fill.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
There’s also a plethora of good FAs coming up, though some may be signed before the deadline.
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by red army line on Aug 12, 2010 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions
Mirtle just tweeted that the deal is with the Caps:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/globe-on-hockey/belanger-to-sign-with-capitals/article1670370/
if this is true, this bit of news makes me happy on several levels. I wanted the team to keep Belanger, he’s a good 3rd line center, and a one year deal works for the team. Trading Flash makes me very happy, and trading him for a d-men makes me even happier. Anyone to replace Sloan/Erskine as the #6 is an improvment.
by vtcapsfan99 on Aug 12, 2010 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Am I the only one who can’t believe Novotny is only 27?
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Congrats to Katie Carrera for finally getting her face on Caps Insider.
She’s a lot easier on the eyes than Tarik < grin >
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Aug 12, 2010 10:37 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I’m just gonna put this out there as is…
Discovered via twitter:
wyshynski: RT @mirtle: According to sources, Eric Belanger’s deal in wait is with the Capitals: http://bit.ly/bclHF9
"I am ready for his provocations"
by PaintDrinkingPete on Aug 12, 2010 12:23 PM EDT reply actions
(Possibly) GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!
Belanger’s deal is likely with the Caps.
And they’re trying to ship out Flash.
According the article I linked to above, the Flash trade isn’t related to the Belanger signing (if true), but are separate transactions.
"I am ready for his provocations"
by PaintDrinkingPete on Aug 12, 2010 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions
You know what else makes me happy?
“We are not in discussions with the Capitals about Tomas Kaberle,” [Brian] Burke said. “Not once.”
by Wheeler on Aug 12, 2010 12:28 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Does he speak in any other kind of way?
"I am ready for his provocations"
by PaintDrinkingPete on Aug 12, 2010 12:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Of course, now that Mirtle put it in print, forget it.
"It's always good to have vikings."
Proud member of the Oxford dictionary police.
Right, but what Mirtle is suggesting is that Belanger is being signed to make way for a trade involving Flieschmann. I’m assuming the notion is that Belanger can fill in at 2C in a pinch if Flash is traded.
"Now wait a minute. This is just purely a social call. You know, just two adults getting a stew on, man."
by The Ghost of Bebop on Aug 12, 2010 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions
That’s because it was snark.
It takes...something? Anything?!?
by Bald Pollack on Aug 12, 2010 12:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I get that now — sorry, missed it the first time. I should have known better coming from you.
"I am ready for his provocations"
by PaintDrinkingPete on Aug 12, 2010 12:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey, we’re all in offseason form brother.
It takes...something? Anything?!?
by Bald Pollack on Aug 12, 2010 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions
FanShot to discuss the Belanger “news”
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...need some help here.
My brain is just kind of gibbering at this (on my tweet list):
@Mulator I’m gonna say it. I think we either make Green a Wing, or give him the ax. Can’t skate, can’t play position, no puck control.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
(not) on my tweet list (anymore)
Best solution I see.
Eat, drink, and be merry! And then drink some more.
by SmallZ827 on Aug 12, 2010 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I’m looking at more “how do I set this guy straight?” I’m not sure if I can, though, with someone who thinks Green can’t skate.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
This one should shut him up about the skating, I would think.
Eat, drink, and be merry! And then drink some more.
I just suggested he pay the Rink a visit as this has been discussed before.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Twitter is not a good medium to hold a stats discussion.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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