Friday Caps Clips: On the Move
by EmilyB on Feb 3, 2012 7:27 AM EST
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- An otherwise routine off-day optional practice at Kettler turned into an afternoon filled with breaking news. [Dump 'n' Chase]
- Mike Green skated! For the third day in a row! And smiled for the first time in forever. [NHL.com, WaPo, WashTimes (and again), CSNW, SB Nation DC, What's Up Ya Sieve, Caps365 (video)]
- Alex Ovechkin worked on his shot. And yes, he's missed hockey ... [DCEx, Caps OT, Alex Ovetjkin]
- ... and Caps hockey has missed Alex Ovechkin. [106.7 The Fan]
- ... and Caps hockey has missed Alex Ovechkin. [106.7 The Fan]
- Joel Rechlicz talked the talk, and hopes he'll get his chance to walk the walk. [WashTimes, WaPo, CSNW, Caps Examiner, PHT, SBNation DC, KOL]
- Cody Eakin practiced, then packed for Hershey. [WashTimes]
- A cryptic tweet from Bears teammate Ryan Potulny broke the news - centerman and AHL points/assists leader Keith Aucoin has been recalled. [WashTimes, WaPo]
- The Japers' Wayback Machine brings us these observations from 2009. [Japers' Rink]
- Sk84fun_dc found this gem from 2010. That's some nice hand hardware in the picture. And the story's a good one. [Ice Time]
- Two trades at the AHL level were also announced. [@WashCaps, Patriot-News, DC Pro Sports Report, SHoE]
- The Bears' blueline got younger but potentially scrappier as Kevin Marshall arrives from Philadelphia's organization and Danny Richmond leaves for the Lake Erie Monsters. [WashTimes, Broad Street Hockey, Half Smokes]
- And centerman Mike Carman arrives from the Avs organization as winger Matt Ford was sent to Adirondack.
- The Bears' blueline got younger but potentially scrappier as Kevin Marshall arrives from Philadelphia's organization and Danny Richmond leaves for the Lake Erie Monsters. [WashTimes, Broad Street Hockey, Half Smokes]
- This just in - the Caps are missing their stars. [CSNW, and again]
- So sorry. [THN]
- John Carlson is your D-man fantasy stud in a keeper league. But for this year? Not so much. [THN]
- Breakdown of a breakdown: that ugly goal in Sunrise. [BrooksLaichYear]
- Entitlement town? [Sick Unbelievable]
- John Erskine, Jason Chimera, and Jay Beagle upped their ADORBS/60 games by helping out at Dreams For Kids. [Caps Outsider, Caps OT]
- Alex Ovechkin has Friday night plans in Montreal - co-hosting a charity fundraiser with Max Pacioretty and Vlad Tretiak. [Montreal Gazette, Gameworn.net]
- The Caps may be ninth in the Eastern Conference but they are number one in DC Lottery promotions. [WBJ]
- 7-1-0, a shutout, a 1.66 Goals Against Average, and a .935 S% have earned Philipp Grubauer ECHL Rookie of the Month honors. [ECHL.com, DSP, Rays the Roof]
- With six goals and six assists in just nine games, Evgeny Kuznetsov was named the KHL's Best Forward for the month of January. [KHL.ru]
- Kuznetsov and Alexander Radulov are the poster boys for today's big match between upstart Traktor and defending Gagarin Cup champs Salavat Yulaev. The game is live and free on the KHL's YouTube channel beginning at 8am. [KHL on YouTube]
- Finally, happy 44th birthday to Frantisek Kucera, the centerpiece of one of the most important trades in Caps history.
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So Sam Gagner had a pretty memorable evening, no?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 7:30 AM EST reply actions
The last 8-point game in the NHL was on Michal Repik’s birthday. Not the anniversary of his birth, mind you, but the actual day he was born.
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by J.P. on Feb 3, 2012 7:34 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Talk about a team that just has another team’s number…Chicago STINKS against Edmonton.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 7:37 AM EST up reply actions
Along those lines… if you had “Carolina sweeps Boston,” congrats.
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Boston is looking pretty ordinary lately: 4-4-1 in their last nine, and it looks as if Claude Julien has taken to alternating goalies. If Thomas gets the Penguins on Saturday, that probably means Rask again on Sunday.
If you've read this far...seek help.
I guess cooling off was to be expected after they went on that crazy 20+ game run where they pretty much didn’t lost at all.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:08 AM EST up reply actions
/didn’t lose
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:08 AM EST up reply actions
I believe KPD tweeted last night that the B’s haven’t had a lead entering the third period in nine games.
If only they had a cupcake on the schedule soon that could help them right the ship…
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Well, they ARE playing Pittsburgh saturday….
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:14 AM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Further to this, the blueprint to beating the B’s?
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And, blueprint or no blueprint, you’re not going to win a ton of games when the other team’s shots bust through the top of the effin’ chart:
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Who do they think they are, the Capitals?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 9:36 AM EST up reply actions
I suspect the charts from the Montreal series look real similar.
The rope-a-dope. Don’t show this to Hunter. He’ll be feeling all kinds of vindicated.
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In Game 6 the Caps had 54 shots on goal, 17 that missed the net and another 23 that were blocked. That’s 94 shot attempts in 60 minutes, or one every 38 seconds.
They had 18 PP SOGs.
And one goal.
Total.
Thanks, f_d… I needed that.
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years of therapy, completely undone by one post.
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by RedBirdie on Feb 3, 2012 10:10 AM EST up reply actions 5 recs
Fuck you guys. Right in the eye. And when you’re done. . . fuck you in the other eye.
I was having a decent Friday.
Unleash the Apathy.
by D'ohboy on Feb 3, 2012 10:27 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
well, don’t think I’ve seen that before.
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interesting read. I thought when I clicked the link it would simply be a picture of Cam Ward.
This part was stunning to me
The Thursday loss to Carolina represents the 11th time in 15 losses this season that the Bruins have dropped a game to a team with a losing record.
I don’t think even the Caps managed that during their high-flying days.
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Nothing on Chip Alexander’s blog or in his Twitter feed.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 9:45 AM EST up reply actions
Mario Lemieux actually had an 8-point game in the playoffs more recently. He had five goals and three assists in a 10-7 win over the Flyers in Game 5 of the second round of the 1989 Stanley Cup playoffs. That would be the last game the Penguins would win that season. The Flyers won Games 6 and 7 to close out the series. And Lemieux was not even the first player to accompish that feat. It was first done the year before by New Jersey’s Patrik Sundstrom, who had three goals and five assists in Game 3 of the second round of the playoffs…
…against the Caps.
If you've read this far...seek help.
I certainly remember the Sundstrom game. Ugh.
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That was the year Jersey made the playoffs for the first time, correct? And made Gary Thorne’s career in the process.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 7:55 AM EST up reply actions
That was Vokounian-like rebound control there from Panger.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 7:56 AM EST up reply actions
And a special moment from that Caps/Devils series.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 7:58 AM EST up reply actions
One of the strangest plays I ever saw. It wasn’t even that hard a shot, but it seemed to get Peeters’ mask where the cage is bolted to the helmet, striking that point as it did seemed to be enough to knock him unconscious.
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To show you how much things have changed, I remember seeing that on “Super Duper Hockey Bloopers”. That made a fucking BLOOPER REEL.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:17 AM EST up reply actions
Yakety Sax playing as they stretchered him off, no doubt.
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Narrated by Doc Emrick, IIRC.
This also made the blooper reel (more justifiably)
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:23 AM EST up reply actions
run it backwards, and it is the greatest save in the history of hockey…off the posts…butt bump off the crossbar and back out to the ice!
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by ThePeerless on Feb 3, 2012 11:53 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
He’s doing the reverse Carey Price.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 11:57 AM EST up reply actions
Schony. Clip-on suspenders.
C’est tout.
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I saw those too! Between that and the Koharski Incident, that may have been the greatest spring of his coaching career.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:02 AM EST up reply actions
Was Thorne a local guy for the Devils, or was that game on the Deuce?
I liked Thorne and Clement when they called games for ESPN.
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According to Wiki, Thorne was Mr. New Jersey Devils from 87-93.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 9:23 AM EST up reply actions
At that time Doc Emrick and Bill Clement were doing ESPN.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 9:25 AM EST up reply actions
That’s right, because IIRC, wasn’t Clement wearing his tie on his head by the 3rd OT of the Easter Epic?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 9:36 AM EST up reply actions
(and RIP Tom Mees)
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 9:39 AM EST up reply actions
(That’s the last regular season 8-point game, I should say.)
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Gagner tied the second-best February point total of his career last night. In one game.
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by J.P. on Feb 3, 2012 8:20 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Of course, Gagner was taken one pick after the Caps faked like they were taking him and took Karl Alzner. Gagner had as many goals last night as Alzner has in his career.
(And of course I’d still take Alzner ten times out of ten… just a funny number.)
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Also, lock that 68 would’ve had 8 (or more) if he’d taken a regular shift in the third period of his seven-point game @FLA.
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That night he could have had 10-12 points. But then the Caps were running up the score as you recall from the commentary afterwards…
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 9:07 AM EST up reply actions
It would’ve been 10-12 if, y’know, it wasn’t so hard to get up for games in Sunrise.
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by J.P. on Feb 3, 2012 9:09 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Hah! Except that game was at the Verizon Center. ;-)
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 9:27 AM EST up reply actions
hard to get up for games at the VC back in those days.
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Nah, the Caps made the playoffs that year… it was their last Pre-Ovechkin playoff team and the season ended with a 6 game loss to Tampa, with the Caps winning the first 2 games in TB before losing 4 straight to the Bolts. The 6th game ended in triple OT with Marty St. Louis scoring on a 5-on-3 PP.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
St. Louis iced Caps in the last Playoff series they played too.
Man that guy is so, so awesome. But I HATE playing against him.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 10:32 AM EST up reply actions
The Caps aren’t alone in not wanting to play against MSL. There are 28 other teams that dislike it as well.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
And dude is 36, but you would never know by watching him play.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 1:56 PM EST up reply actions
Here’s another question though.
Is MSL a HOFer? I would say, just by looking at his raw numbers, borderline"yes". Man’s got 5 straight 80+ point seasons, all after turning 30, which is crazy, along with a Ross, Pearson, a Hart, and a Cup. Gives a couple more really “good” years, and it becomes a “most definitely”.
33/35/68 in 63 playoff games too.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:01 PM EST up reply actions
I’d say he probably is.
I can’t believe Flames fans don’t bitch more about his Cup. Maybe I just don’t pay attention to them but they have a more legit gripe than Sabres fans.
Please, call me F&B.
Agreed. I can’t believe that shit wasn’t even reviewed. Definitely more legit than the Sabres whining.
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by Killer_Carlson on Feb 3, 2012 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
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With this guy?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
Actually, it might surprise you, but Esa Tikkanen actually is in my personal Hall of Fame.
He’s the one carrying around the piss bucket, and he accepts tips.
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by J.P. on Feb 3, 2012 2:12 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
I tried to, but Jagr wouldn’t give it up.
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by J.P. on Feb 3, 2012 2:14 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
I would think he’d be out back cleaning up the stables.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:14 PM EST up reply actions
He would be, but that’s Bruce Cassidy’s job.
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Baby diaper changer post-ham and strained peas?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:16 PM EST up reply actions
Corvo gets stuck as the fluffer.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:15 PM EST up reply actions
I don’t know how you can credibly make the argument that a guy with a Hart, multiple nominations, a Ross and years of consistent elite play on both good and bad teams isn’t a HoF player. He’s been outstanding for a long time, he just took longer to develop than most.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:09 PM EST up reply actions
Depends on how much you figure longevity enters into the conversation. To some people 6 “great” years isn’t long enough.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:11 PM EST up reply actions
I think he should be in there. I’m just trying to think like a hockey writer would when voting.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
And go skin bald!
/Cox’d
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
Remove reason and accountability
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by fat_daddyo on Feb 3, 2012 2:50 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Those people are dumb. If anything, longevity in and of itself is way over-represented in Halls of Fame.
In my book, if you were elite for more than a few years, you’re in.
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Well, Ovi’s elite years were more elite in my book, so there’s that.
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It was the Sam Gagner’s Last Night of years.
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by J.P. on Feb 3, 2012 2:16 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
AO had five elite years – his first five, in which he ran away with the league goal-scoring lead for that period and accumulated two Harts, a Ross, two Rockets, and three Pearsons. I think he’s got one or two more elite years in him when the pucks bounce his way or he figures out how to change, so call it a push, or slightly better for AO if you’re optimistic.
And as JP points out, AOs elite years were better than MSL’s elite years, which counts for something, I think.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:21 PM EST up reply actions
If AO’s career ends tomorrow (sorry…), is he a Hall of Famer?
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If Sid never plays another game, he’s going to the Hockey Hall of Fame, yes.
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He’s got his own wing even now, just about.
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by sydtron on Feb 3, 2012 3:19 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Then Jagr is going to be real busy whenever the hockey media come to visit the HOF.
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by Killer_Carlson on Feb 3, 2012 3:16 PM EST up reply actions
I think he is. At least three seasons in which he was in the three best players in the league, a Ross, a half a season that saw him finish in the top 15-ish in goal scoring and on a pace to beat even AO’s 65g season, his performance in the playoffs, the whole bit. Sid has five-and-a-half elite years, some of which are at an absurdly high level.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
Plus, the Golden Goal. Plus, the sympathy vote.
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plus they reserved his spot in the Hall when he was 15, and those deposits are non-refundable.
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by RedBirdie on Feb 3, 2012 2:37 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
Lindros is wondering what happened to his sympathy vote.
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Plus if his career ended today there would be a tragic slant to it that would get him huge consideration (well, assuming that’s why his career ends)
On the other hand, what if he cripples Gomez on a dirty hit and then says, “Fuck it, I’m out”?
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(Oops… thought we were talking Alex.)
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Works either way…
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
If he does that, there’ll be a lot of unhappy folks in Montreal who want free booze.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
Yes.
Related: It’s a fucking travesty that Pavel Bure wasn’t in on the 1st ballot and that he’s not in now.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:26 PM EST up reply actions
He’s Russian and didn’t play for the Red Wings. It doesn’t count.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:29 PM EST up reply actions
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Those people are dumb.
Hey, they’re all great in my book!
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:14 PM EST up reply actions
This would be my argument. St. Louis’ career just isn’t long enough. Great peak, but he just started too late.
You know who else had a similarly short career? Eric Lindros, and I don’t see many people trying to defend him.
I did and have repeatedly. If Cam Neely’s in, Eric Lindros should be in.
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I think it’s harder to replace guys that were great than it is to replace guys that were good for a long time. Longevity is overvalued, in my opinion.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:51 PM EST up reply actions
ironman
Don’t tell that to O’s fans about their great 8.
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Cal wasn’t just longevity, though (he revolutionized a position), and The Streak is different from just playing a lot of games.
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Basically. Cal was a two-time MVP and had some very elite years at the SS position. Playing 2500 consecutive games is also a totally different kettle of fish than staying in the league for 20 years.
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hey, that’s 2,632 consecutive game!
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I know Cal is remembered for the streak (which is incredibly impressive on its own) but as J.P. said, he also changed the position completely. If you read up on some of his stats, there’s no question he was a first ballot guy. Fourth best MLB season in history (as measured by WARP), 3000 hits, gold gloves and home runs. Things that people had never seen from a shortstop before.
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by Alz Well That Ends Well on Feb 3, 2012 3:03 PM EST up reply actions
Totally agree. While longevity is certainly admirable and a great trait to have, I’d rather it be a Hall of great players than good ones who hung on for a while.
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There’s a pretty large community of Lindros/Hall people.
Problem is, there’s also a lot of people that REALLY hate his guts.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:55 PM EST up reply actions
MSL has won every possible award in the NHL, including a Stanley Cup, Hart Trophy… he’s a lock for the Hall.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 2:29 PM EST up reply actions
Didn’t win the Conn Smythe, but yes. Dude’s got lots of hardware.
Another thing about MSL that’s undervalued – he takes very, very few penalties. That doesn’t show up in point totals, but it definitely helps the team win when they spend less time on the PK.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
Well, that’s sorta valued in all those Lady Byngs, but yeah.
And I personally marvel at how durable he’s been, despite obviously not being a big guy – he’s managed to avoid big contact, but it hasn’t kept him out of high-traffic areas.
What a fuckin’ player.
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Yeah, but those Lady Byngs are always an afterthought – I don’t know of anyone that takes those seriously in HHoF consideration, do you?
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:34 PM EST up reply actions
Who was the guy that won the Lady Byng so often, they gave him the original trophy?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:39 PM EST up reply actions
Found it
After Frank Boucher of the New York Rangers won the award seven times within eight years, Lady Byng was so impressed that she gave him the original trophy to keep. Lady Byng then donated a second trophy in 1935–36. When Lady Byng died in 1949 the NHL presented another trophy and changed the official name to the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy.3 In 1962, the original trophy was destroyed in a fire at Boucher’s home.6
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:39 PM EST up reply actions
I should hope not.
I know I’ve told this story before, but on one trip to the HHOF I was in the trophy room (cool room, lobby of an old timey bank, if I’m not mistaken), and walking around looking at all the hardware.
A dad and his kid (maybe eight or nine years old) are doing similarly, and he’s telling his boy what each trophy is for. “That’s the Norris Trophy, for the best defenseman… That’s the Hart for Most Valuable Player” and so on. Then the kid points to the Lady Byng and asks, “What’s that one for?”
“That one’s for the biggest pussy in the League.”
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by J.P. on Feb 3, 2012 2:39 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Absolutely happened. I swear.
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And a young Donald Cherry IV did not know it yet, but the torch had just been passed to him.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:56 PM EST up reply actions
And that child grew up to put on eye blindingly flashy suits and yell at kids on Saturday nights on CBC.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:56 PM EST up reply actions
awwwww, father son bonding, old-timey Canadian style.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
Regarding the wayback machine:
Instead, the Caps allowed 5 goals, including rookie defenseman Anssi Salmela’s first NHL goal, and fired 50 shots on Kari Lehtonen.
I think if the Caps fired 50 shots now, there’d be some sort of tear in the space/time continuum.
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Which reminds me of a Steven Wright joke…
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ’Yes, but not in a row.
The Caps had 50 shots?!?!!?
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Thought it was notable that GMGM went and got another centerman for Hershey on the same day they called up Keith Aucoin.
Maybe one has nothing to do with the other and they made all those other moves so there’s a bit of a plan there. But if it does, that can’t be good news for Nicklas’ recovery.
I wish Coiner good luck and let’s hope he can help out on the power play.
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I guess Gouldie is feeling vindicated right about now.
Aucoin makes a bunch more sense than Eakin at least at this point.
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Plus Aucoin is wearing Gouldie’s old number 23….
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•The Japers’ Wayback Machine brings us these observations from 2009. [Japers’ Rink]
Love looking at those old posts, except for my +1 comment. Must have been breathing through my mouth that day.
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I’m still making “number two” jokes three years later. I need new material.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:00 AM EST up reply actions
After a recent embarrassing loss to Atlanta, Caps’ bench boss Bruce Boudreau heaped praise upon a single player, dimunitive pivot Keith Aucoin.
“Here’s a 5-foot-7 guy, there’s a reason he’s leading the American league in scoring.” Boudreau said. “He’s160 pounds soaking wet and he’s finishing checks and winning battles against big guys. There’s no reason that our other guys can’t do that.”
For that effort, Aucoin was rewarded with a healthy scratch the next game when Sergei Fedorov returned to the lineup and a subsequent demotion before seeing another NHL game, which was an interesting message to send to a team whose energy level has left a lot to be desired for a while now.
breed16’s comment: “this speaks to one of the (very few) frustrating aspects of Boudreau’s coaching style: a meritless rewards system.”
Ha. Old school, pre-accountability Bruce.
And then the exchange in comments with Forsch was pretty awesome. I miss Tyler (around here, that is).
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by J.P. on Feb 3, 2012 8:11 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I also miss Tyler, he made me look like less of a dick.
And who is that David Getz guy? He should come around more often.
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That exchange with Forsch was the Rink’s fascist close-minded elitism at its finest.
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No kidding. Damn shame we’ve gone so soft.
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Yeah, marriage, turning 30 and added on-blog responsibilities have really mellowed you out.
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by J.P. on Feb 3, 2012 9:35 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
As I noted on teh Twitterz last night, I like the Aucoin recall as a potential short-term spark, especially on the PP. In 09-10, Aucoin had 5 points in first 7 games; in 08-09, 5 in 9; in 07-08, 6 in 11. And he’s dominating the A. Almost literally can’t hurt.
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Not only can it not hurt, he’s earned it. If he weren’t a C, he might have been up before Eakin, and rightfully so. What I am interested to see is if his lack of size matches up well against a brutal team like Boston. MP85 sure made them pay for their lack of speed and maneuverability. I hope that this weekend we’re all raging about how the Coiner should have come up earlier.
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2012 first-round draft pick update: 11 and 14, at the moment (but the teams behind COL in the standings have some games in hand).
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They aren’t quite lottery picks, but should grab some nice prospects.
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Central Scouting’s Midterm NA:
1 Yakupov, Nail Right Wing Sarnia OHL
2 Grigorenko, Mikhail Center Quebec QMJHL
3 Murray, Ryan Defenseman Everett WHL
4 Faksa, Radek Center Kitchener OHL
5 Rielly, Morgan Defenseman Moose Jaw WHL
6 Maatta, Olli Defenseman London OHL
7 Dumba, Mathew Defenseman Red Deer WHL
8 Reinhart, Griffin Defenseman Edmonton WHL
9 Trouba, Jacob Defenseman USA U-18 USHL
10 Pouliot, Derrick Defenseman Portland WHL
11 Gaunce, Brendan Center Belleville OHL
12 Girgensons, Zemgus Center Dubuque USHL
13 Matteau, Stefan Center USA U-18 USHL
14 Sissons, Colton Center Kelowna WHL
15 Finn, Matthew Defenseman Guelph OHL
16 Ceci, Cody Defenseman Ottawa OHL
17 Koekkoek, Slater Defenseman Peterborough OHL
And European:
1 Forsberg, Filip Center Leksand SWEDEN-2
2 Collberg, Sebastian Right Wing Frolunda Jr. SWE-JR.
3 Hertl, Tomas Center Slavia CZREP
4 Aberg, Pontus Left Wing Djurgarden SWEDEN
5 Pokka, Ville Defenseman Karpat FINLAND
6 Lindholm, Hampus Defenseman Rogle Jr. SWE-JR.
7 Teravainen, Teuvo Left Wing Jokerit Jr. FINLAND-JR.
8 Bystrom, Ludvik Defenseman Modo Jr. SWE-JR.
9 Prokhorkin, Nikolai Left Wing CSKA 2 RUSSIA-JR.
10 Vainonen, Mikko Defenseman HIFK JR. FINLAND-JR.
11 Lindell, Esa Defenseman Jokerit Jr. FINLAND-JR.
12 Djoos, Christian Defenseman Brynas Jr. SWE-JR.
13 Slepyshev, Anton Left Wing Novokuznetsk RUSSIA
14 Osnovin, Vyacheslav Center Chelyabinsk 2 RUSSIA-JR.
15 Vasiliev, Valeri Defenseman Spartak 2 RUSSIA-JR.
16 Andersson, Calle Defenseman Farjestad jr. SWE-JR.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:31 AM EST up reply actions
Girgensons, Zemgus
I don’t think there will be a better name in the draft than Zemgus Girgensons. That’s phenomenal.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:32 AM EST up reply actions
I hope the Caps can draft him. That might be better than Zenon Konopka.
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by Steckel Me Elmo on Feb 3, 2012 8:33 AM EST up reply actions
Dwayne Zinger!
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 10:35 AM EST up reply actions
On other hand, JoeB would prefer Filip there.
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by apk3000 on Feb 3, 2012 8:38 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Christian Djoos is great too. I only wish he was Dutch, because the “Orange Djoos” jokes would write themselves.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:42 AM EST up reply actions
Even better, Christian might be the son of Per.
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Cool, thanks for the verification!
Now based on YLM’s post below, I’m going to quietly sob for being old.
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Max Iafrate’s birthplace is listed as being Baltimore, so he would be the fifth NHL player from my beloved home state of Maryland.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 9:03 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Per Djoos
(Yes, I could have resisted, but I chose not too…)
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…but they ain’t makin’ Djuus like Jesus anymore.
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by fat_daddyo on Feb 3, 2012 9:46 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Mmmmm….kinky!
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 9:51 AM EST up reply actions
Jesus?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
I can relate…
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 9:10 AM EST up reply actions
Does Marin Frk even fall in the top 30 total? I remember seeing a draft prediction that had the Caps taking him (Which, judging by these lists, would be a very off the board, bad, pick.)
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by Steckel Me Elmo on Feb 3, 2012 8:35 AM EST up reply actions
Frk is listed at 25.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:40 AM EST up reply actions
And if you want to feel 1,000 years old, Max Iafrate is at 78.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 8:41 AM EST up reply actions
Good article, if only for this line:
Ironically, Max has never had his slapper clocked.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 12:02 PM EST up reply actions
He had a bad concussion at the beginning of the season and missed a good portion of the first half. Has been about a point per game player since coming back but losing time definitely hurt him.
I hope Frk goes in the first round and then can sign for enough money to buy a vowel. They still sell for $250 on Wheel of Fortune? (Where’s Pat Sajak when you need him???)
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Drinking too much Per Djoos.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 9:14 AM EST up reply actions
Ew…just….ew.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 9:14 AM EST up reply actions
I saw a blurb on CSN last night about a hockey playing family with the last name of “Hockey”.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 9:55 AM EST up reply actions
15 Finn, Matthew Defenseman Guelph OHL
Well, I don’t think GMGM will be drafting him…
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by renstar on Feb 3, 2012 9:25 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I’d bet money that Dumba goes higher than 7th NA skater. I’ll be surprised if he’s still on the board at 7th overall, actually.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
Lines tomorrow afternoon?
8-85-90
26-21-28
25-15-22
54-20-42
I put 26 on 2nd line based on DH’s latest line incarnation and the assumption that 54 and 20 are here to play. IMO, better would be:
8-85-90
22-21-28
25-15-42
54-20-26
You could twist my arm to swap 26 for 42, sit 42, and add 83 to fourth line.
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20’s still Brouwer. And where’s Brouwer?
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Damn.
8-85-90
20-21-28
25-15-22
54-Aucoin-26
Sitting 42 and 83?
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I sure as hell hope Recker isn’t in the line up on Saturday. Yes it sucks that Nick is out and Bourque is playing but putting an AHL goon into the lineup to go after Bourque is silliness.
But… giving the Habs something extra to worry/think about can’t hurt. If they get obsessed with wondering where 54 is and he’s stapled to the bench, not the worst thing.
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But he has a chance to be a hero.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 9:24 AM EST up reply actions
As Hoagy Carmichael would say, that would show a lot of Heart and Soul on their part.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 9:35 AM EST up reply actions
23, I think (don’t know).
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So, let’s try this one more flippin’ time:
8-85-90
20-21-28
25-15-22
54-23-26
Sitting 42 and 83? If you don’t sit 42 and you play 54, then do you sit 22? 26? I’m stumped a bit.
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I’d half wonder if they’d flip 15 and 23 based on that, otherwise Aucoin’s spark stays on the fourth line. And who does that?
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25 and 23 together could be interesting.
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They brought Aucoin up to get the offense going, so I bet he gets minutes with Ovechkin and/or Semin.
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Added bonus: Young Cody will probably get 18-20 min. down at Hershey this weekend, versus the 5-8 min. he was getting up here, which can only help his development.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 10:09 AM EST up reply actions
I posted this last night about this subject:
This next game, I could see Ovie-MP-Semin, Laich-Mackan-Brouwer, Chimera-Halpern-Hendricks, Knuble-Aucoin-Rechlicz/Ward.
Failure is always an option.
I think the team’s seen enough of MJ90 at center for the time being. I’d be mildly surprised if he wasn’t a wing the rest of the way this year.
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If 90 is at center, no need to recall another center, unless 21 moves to wing. I don’t see 21 moving to wing at this point, so that’s that. 85, 15, and 23 are clear centers.
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Seems reasonable. What lines would you put out there?
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by Rob Parker on Feb 3, 2012 9:30 AM EST up reply actions 4 recs
But seriously:
8-85-90
28-23-20
25-15-21
54-26-22
If 26 can’t handle taking the draws for the 6 minutes that line plays you could push down 15 and push up 22, moving 21 to wing.
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Does the team have the sack to sit 42? I’m not sure. Unfortunately, if 42 doesn’t sit, I worry that 22 will.
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How about:
8-85-90
28-23-20
25-21-26
54-15-22
Hendricks and Laich have been playing well together, and by putting 15 on the 4th line, he can be used to take defensive draws when the top line is out there (meaning they can align as 8-15-85.)
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 10:11 AM EST up reply actions
Not really a bad option, all things considered. Just be careful of those random drug tests.
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How could we get Andrei Laktionov from the Kings? Semin to LA and we maintain .8 of his cap hit – is that allowable? No one wants Semin but he might work out in LA.
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MJ90 as wing….is D’oh finally vindicated?
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I’d argue that this isn’t acclimation anymore, but I think he has a case.
He’s definitely vindicated here and here.
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Think MJ90 watches the game from the press box? What good is a wing that won’t shoot?
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So you are sitting Ward or Rechlicz and Beagle. That’s where I am.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 10:37 AM EST up reply actions
I admit I’ve got a bad case of fan-love for Aucoin, but I do think a serious case can be made to try him at 1c, especially if 22 is on the wing opposite 8. 22 and 8 would help make up for Aucoin’s lack of muscle, while having a pure shooter and a net-crasher is about the ideal set-up for a pure passer like Aucoin.
(The problem of course is draws. Aucoin has become a lot better with them at the A level, but it remains to be seen whether his veteran guile can offset the freak-of-nature centermen on the N level.)
And why even list a 4th line with Hunter behind the bench? (I say that as criticism of Hunter.)
28-85-90 seem to be developing some chemistry, and I’d like to see if that continues to develop.
A few thoughts/comments about the minor league trades, roster moves, etc.
Hershey had a vet issue, related to the AHL vet rule and how many could play in any one game. From the beginning, the Richmond signing was questionable, IMO, and he was odd man out in terms of the vets when everyone was healthy. Still one extra ‘tweener vet’ with Greentree and King (well, when Aucoin isn’t on recall), but much less of an issue than before with one less vet even with Aucoin in Hershey.
Ford contributed to the team and good luck to him. Had to trade someone to get someone scenario, IMO. From my perspective, he was the quiet one in the Hershey line-up, contributing to the team but never really caught one’s eye. Ford’s playing on his first NHL contract and going to an organization with more opportunity for him at the AHL level. A Phantoms’ perspective on the Ford/Marshall trade. I’ve never been a big Marshall fan, nothing horrible, thinking back I think it’s his skating which has caught my eye because it’s not the greatest, but maybe I’m thinking of a different player?
The other teams, they traded a F for D or a D for F. For Caps/Bears 1F/1D out, 1F/1D in. Of note, Caps got the younger player and a player still on an ELC for this season (RFAs this summer) in both cases, plus Hershey has one less vet on the roster.
About Carman, center who plays on the PK. He had a broken foot to start this season, which is why his games played look low if you look at his stats for the season.
Short-term move for now: Eakin sent down, Aucoin recalled; makes sense to me given Caps recent play and injuries, plus the current coaching staff’s roster utilization during games. 23 players on the Caps active roster.
12 games before the trade deadline on 2/27 3pm. With Rechlicz added and the other 2 NHL contract swaps, Caps have 47 players counting as under contract for right now (Galiev and Anderson not counting due to age and assignment to juniors.) With yesterday’s trades, Caps didn’t add or subtract NHL contracts since all 4 players are on NHL contract.
by sk84fun_dc on Feb 3, 2012 9:57 AM EST reply actions 14 recs
Good stuff. Rec’d.
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by nogoodtrying on Feb 3, 2012 10:04 AM EST up reply actions
thanks, just my view of the moves
Also, Marshall plays a stay-at-home’ish willing to play tough game from what I have seen so in that context at the AHL level skating isn’t as important an issue. Richmond liked to push and shove, yeah, even during training camp; I wasn’t a fan so fine with him moving on.
Any thoughts on how this might affect the clear day list at Hershey…about a month away, isn’t it?
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Doesn’t change the number of D or F on Hershey roster for now.
Still plenty of time between now and then for Hershey to make moves and for Washington to make moves which impact Hershey.
Yes, AHL CDR lists usually due a week after NHL trade deadline.
I noted last night, I don’t expect Aucoin to stay up that long, but if it was closer to the trade deadline and CDR than that would be a topic of discussion, like it was with Beagle staying up last season.
Jimmy Howard out 2 weeks with a broken finger. Sucks for Detroit.
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Do they get in the goalie market for cheap back up somewhere? I mean, it’s only two weeks, so I guess they feel they might be able to ride it out with Conkblock and Joey MacDonald.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 10:04 AM EST up reply actions
I think they’re just going to have to suck it up and hope to baby jebus that Conklin and MacDonald don’t suck too much.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 10:15 AM EST up reply actions
suck it, suck it dipped in Tang!
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There’s this underperforming team that has a star goalie on a 1 year $2 million contract.
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star goalie turned down Detroit once…..
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Vokoun? Why on earth would the Caps do that? And from every metric I’ve seen, the fact that he’s been playing completely out of his mind lately is pretty much the only thing keeping this team afloat.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 10:24 AM EST up reply actions
Which is exactly why you have to trade him in the next few weeks if the Caps don’t go on a tear.
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by cainoo7x on Feb 3, 2012 10:41 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
Vokes has Ye Olde Clause of No Movement.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 10:43 AM EST up reply actions
interesting. I thought GMGM swore up and down he’d never ever had out a full NMC again.
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I would guess he’d never do one for a multi-year deal, but for a one year deal? Doesn’t seem like it should be a prob, especially for an older veteran with more considerations than a younger player.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
granted, I heard GMGM say this before Vokoun essentially fell out of the sky and right into GMGM’s lap. When he was talking about never doing NMC’s again, yeah, he probably didn’t expect to get a near-elite vet goalie dirt cheap on a one-year deal.
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Vokes left FLA to play for a contender. His current team is fighting to get in the playoffs, DET is #1 in the West. Think he’d go ahead and drop it for a few months in the Spring.
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He could have left FLA last deadline to do the same thing, and didn’t do it.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 11:16 AM EST up reply actions
Curious, has anyone ever seen that confirmed by a local reporter?
I don’t recall anyone reporting an NMC at the time of the contract, but there was a lot going on at the time, especially with focus on the cap hit on a one year deal. Even with McPhee’s view of NMCs, as noted, this is the type of contract where it’s less risky to hand out and makes sense Vokoun would have wanted one, but looking for a source other than capgeek to confirm.
yeah, ConkSieve. The central is so damn tight, Detroit can’t afford to be losing every game he starts.
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just saw your tweet…..all those guys were out on the ice when they visited DC and still gave up 7 goals :)
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Given where Phoenix and Colorado are in the standings and Caps fans interest in Colorado finishing as far down the 30 as possible, sounds good.
Of course, Detroit has a few forwards and dmen to help out the team with Howard out.
Yup. Hence my tweet that RedBirdie mentioned. Yotes aren’t good enough to win just because Conk is in goal.
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I’ll go stick pins in my Wings voodoo dolls if you think that will help. How else do you think that caps managed to win? :)
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For those with twitter blocked at work – could someone post the “cryptic” tweet from Potulny? Gracias in advance……..
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by fat_daddyo on Feb 3, 2012 10:06 AM EST reply actions 15 recs
I fell asleep listening to that game. Fell asleep before the fight, apparently.
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I knew fighting can be dangerous, but that it has an effect on gravity???
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 10:13 AM EST up reply actions
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by ThePeerless on Feb 3, 2012 10:18 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
They’re gonna make it after all!
Dingos are involved. Best not to ask.
by alex_k on Feb 3, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Hey, go watch our latest Lunchbox (now on the front page), with the super-awesome Joe B. joining Kellie and myself.
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I was thinking that if the Caps do in fact make the playoffs, that their chances of a play-off run might be better than in year’s past. Their current style of play may be more conducive to playoff success as it may frustrate opponents.
I just think it would be funny if the Caps beat out FLA for the three seed and then went on to win the Cup or come out of the East. I honestly would have no words.
I’m not an opponent but their style of play sure as hell frustrates me.
by Ahberg on Feb 3, 2012 10:19 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
I believe that this has been the theory, right? The question, of course, is whether a style built for the playoffs prevents the team from even getting in the playoffs.
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by CapitalCentre on Feb 3, 2012 12:27 PM EST up reply actions
Green skating for a fourth day in a row, good news so far for Green and as it relates to the Caps knowing his status and how it will impact decisions made before 2/27 3pm.
skating in full gear, it looks like.
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Mike Green about to take the ice in full gear and new "MaxProtect" uniform system from Reebok
Rock that red, Mike…
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by ThePeerless on Feb 3, 2012 10:44 AM EST up reply actions 6 recs
After Vokoun, Green is the MVP of the Caps team when healthy. Please be healthy ThugPuppy
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Uh… ever heard of Nick Backstrom?
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by J.P. on Feb 3, 2012 10:50 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Amazing that you have to get down to the four-spot before considering you-know-who.
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reading the description of you-know-who in the article on Aucoin sk8 found was depressing.
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Ha, I hadn’t read the article in awhile, had to go back to see what you were talking about. I just kept it bookmarked because I liked the picture with the rings (he’s added one to his collection since that picture.)
great article. I really enjoyed it. Except for all the reminders about how awesome Ovechkin used to be.
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by Bald Pollack on Feb 3, 2012 12:20 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, he’s a goaltender though right?
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by nogoodtrying on Feb 3, 2012 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
@SkyKerstein
#Caps Forward LInes This AM:
8-90-28,
26-21-20,
25-85-22,
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54 and 83 in blue jerseys
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FTFY
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by JediChewbacca on Feb 3, 2012 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
If it means they actually play the 4th line, great.
One key as was noted already in the clips, need to draw penalties, giving the Caps power plays.
As to 54, I wonder if his recent comments will impact decision to dress him tomorrow.
Yep, that’s been an ongoing problem and a byproduct of a no-possession/passive system.
The Caps spend less time 5v4 per game than any team in the League other than COL. Now, part of that is obviously “good” in that everyone would rather a PP end before the two-minutes are up as the result of a goal-scored, but they’re opps/game are near the bottom as well.
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Without looking at stats, I have a feeling the Caps limited 5v4 time is due a lot more to lack of opportunities than # of PP’s that end before the 2 min mark b/c they score……..
by CapsDegenerate on Feb 3, 2012 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
Well, it’s a combination of the two. Like I said, they’re near the bottom in opps, but they’re right in the middle in goals-for/60 at 5v4.
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Cool. I can’t follow links at work – I’m not trying to avoid the stats behind your argument. Good to know they actually put it in at a decent clip when they get the chance.
Now we just need to get the refs to call penalties when Alex Semin is tripped……
by CapsDegenerate on Feb 3, 2012 10:53 AM EST up reply actions
Or boarded (last minute in FLA).
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8-90-28,
26-21-20,
25-85-22,
23-15-42,
That talent. Those players.
This team should be good.
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Eh, there’s not much playmaking there. Decent number of guys who should be able to crash the net and score ugly goals, but I do think the skill level is overrated (especially with 19 and 52 out, obv.).
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Maybe I’m overlooking some snark… but you see Matt Hendricks as a win on the second line and think “This team should be good?”
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by iwearstripes on Feb 3, 2012 11:24 AM EST up reply actions
So much misleading information on twitter about waivers and Aucoin.
If any are reading here – writers, reporters, bloggers – if you cover the NHL on a regular basis and don’t understand the basic waiver rules, learn the waiver rules, please.
(thanks for letting me vent)
writers, reporters, bloggers, if you’re reading, just admit defeat and hire sk8! She might be more knowledgeable of waivers rules than some NHL GMs.
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by RedBirdie on Feb 3, 2012 10:47 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Thanks. Really, I’d be fine if people would just take a few minutes to research or think about what they are tweeting. I know, I know, my expectations are unrealistic.
They probably do read here frankly. Every game I hear Joe B or Locker cite a coulple stats or observations that I had read just that day from someone on Japers rink. As far as I can tell most of the Caps journalists in the area appear to get all of their material from this blog. I read it here first then the next day in all the local media.
Locker follows Neil on twitter. resulted in Neil pulling some stats together for Locker to use in a broadcast, credited to Neil.
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“Somebody fucking GOOOOOOO!”
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by D'ohboy on Feb 3, 2012 2:19 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
I feel like May would be a ton of fun in the comments.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 1:12 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Seriously. And FWIW, I recently started following you on Twitter.
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by nogoodtrying on Feb 3, 2012 11:01 AM EST up reply actions
Ha, don’t set your expectations too high, but thanks.
It’s funny, whenever Vogel, JP or Leone RT one of my tweets I add a follower (once in awhile 2) and gain plenty of spam.
Watching the game is still optional tho, right?
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by NGreenberg on Feb 3, 2012 11:04 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I missed the problem. Who said what or at least, what was said?
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It’s been going on since yesterday, multiple people; cumulative effect type thing.
The last was a tweet stating there was a risk in bringing Aucoin up implying that waivers was a concern right away, which it isn’t. Aucoin is not subject to waivers again (he cleared at the beginning of the season) unless/until he plays in 10 NHL GP or is on the NHL roster for 30 days (cumulative).
Waivers question:
If waivers are required, is the player’s cap hit calculated from the day they are called up or the day they clear?
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Coming up, recall day counts as a day on the active roster, going down does not, if the club notifies the player early in day. I think being on the active roster counts toward the cap.
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To be clear, waivers and re-entry waivers (coming back up, if required) are two different things and the most recent two cases with Aucoin and Eakin did not require waivers.
paraphrasing…see 50.9 in the CBA for exact wording on some of this as it relates to the cap and days on the roster
5pm (NY time) is a key time in the day unless the player practiced or there was a day game.
Aucoin should start counting today; called up late, not on roster as of 5pm, eysterday; didn’t practice with the NHL team and no game last night. FWIW, I’m assuming the Caps had planned to announce Aucoin’s recall today not last night before the twitter news, but doesn’t matter, he shouldn’t count against the cap and in terms of days on the NHL roster should start counting today.
Eakin should count for yesterday since he practiced with the team before being sent down.
Those examples don’t involve waivers. As it relates to re-entry waivers, a player on re-entry waivers cannot be placed on the NHL team’s active roster until they clear re-entry so they would start counting once they cleared, that is my understanding, but I will confirm.
by sk84fun_dc on Feb 3, 2012 11:56 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Can you imagine all of the hullabaloo if Potulny had outed the call-up in some way in which the cap was devalued? Lulz all around.
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by nogoodtrying on Feb 3, 2012 12:00 PM EST up reply actions
Thanks.
As it relates to the Rechlicz waivers news below, is a player considered still to be on an active roster until they have cleared? (Meaning Caps are at 23 until Rechlicz clears)
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I’m 98.5% sure the answer is yes. On the roster until noon tomorrow.
Note, it’s an issue when trades are made, etc., teams want the flexibility to be able to send a player down if bringing in a player.
Minor trade: @stevezipay: Breaking: NYR trade Erik Christensen to Wild for F Casey Wellman, who’s going to AHL
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In spurts, Wellman has played well for the Wild. IIRC, he hurt his wrist/hand last time he was up. Going to be interesting to see how he does in the NYR organization.
Note, Hershey plays Connecticut (NYR AHL affiliate) Saturday night in Hershey so I’d expect Wellman will play against Hershey this weekend, along with Bouchard’s return to Hershey.
For a guy like him — probably in his late 20s — do you just go with it, and just play out your career as a wanderer? Or do you try and go to Europe and sign a long-term deal with some SEL or KHL team?
Remember when people thought the Pens gave up too much for Hossa when they dealt Christensen, Armstrong and Angelo Esposito for him?
Oops.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
The Pens also got Pascal Dupuis in that deal. Don Waddell is the worst.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
Sounds like he was working for the Pens then, too.
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by Alz Well That Ends Well on Feb 3, 2012 11:42 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Morons.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 11:42 AM EST up reply actions
Okay….here’s one from Bleacher Report (lulz)
Here’s one from TheHockeyWriters
Another one here from SBNation Pittsburgh in 2011 that concludes the trade was “worth it” because Dupuis was re-signed.
Part of why Shero pulled the trigger on the deal was that he felt the Penguins could re-sign Hossa in the offseason. However, when Hossa ended up signing with Detroit, the question quickly became (almost to the point of meme status on message boards), “Was the trade worth it?”
Three years later, I can now definitively say, “Yes, it was worth it.”
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 11:48 AM EST up reply actions
That “one point” was long before the actual draft in which he was taken.
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A shock to fans, doesn’t seem like a shock to most GMs. Seems pretty clear that there were huge red flags that 28 out of 30 NHL GMs wanted nothing to do with.
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by Rob Parker on Feb 3, 2012 11:55 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Esposito is now playing for the Texas Stars, with former Caps pick Travis Morin, and Andrew Raycroft (!).
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 11:56 AM EST up reply actions
He did have that injury. But the way his career was going, I’m not sure an even 100%-healthy Esposito is/will be ready for the NHL. From everything I hear, he’s just lazy. I mean, he’ll be 23 this month, a first-round pick, and he was in the ECHL this year.
I’m leery of Galchenyuk for that reason. Lottery talent, but re-constructed knee at that age (and missing that much development time) is a massive red flag.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 12:43 PM EST up reply actions
But he doesn’t have the work ethic issues, does he?
And where the hell have you been? You pop in now?
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Writing cover letters and tailoring resumes like it’s my job. I may have something coming down the pipe, but there are at least two other candidates who are equally qualified or better. Going to come down on the delta between what we want on salary versus what the hiring manager thinks of our contribution potential, or whoever he likes better, or whoever has the biggest codpiece bulge.
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Trying to get a job like it’s your job. Nice.
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Should be “trying to get a job like it’s my internship” based on compensation.
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by Rob Parker on Feb 3, 2012 1:16 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
It is the method that’s most likely to end in success…
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by CapitalCentre on Feb 3, 2012 1:22 PM EST up reply actions
Nah – you can’t beat the “related to someone who has a job to offer” method.
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Damn, that’s what I’ve done wrong.
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by CapitalCentre on Feb 3, 2012 2:30 PM EST up reply actions
I haven’t heard of any work ethic issues, and he is skating, but missing that much development time probably doesn’t help his overall ceiling. If he’s still available and the Caps are picking at 10-15, then by all means, select the guy with 1C upside and a strong two-way game. Just be aware that there’s significant projection risk and he may not ever reach that upside.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 1:11 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe… but he’d dropped to 8th among NA skaters in Central Scouting’s final rankings.
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Pity that Couturier doesn’t look like he’s headed down that path.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 1:16 PM EST up reply actions
Here is something from Empty Netters: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08057/860564-383.stm?cmpid=emptynetters.xml.
It seems half-and-half. Pens fans really, really loved Armstrong.
Atlanta also used that first rounder from the Pens on Daultan Leveille, who is still playing at Michigan State.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 11:42 AM EST up reply actions
Really? I thought it was universally accepted as a steal for PIT.
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Depending on salary, I’d take a flyer on Christensen. He’s dynamite in the shootout and that’s actually worth a fair number of standings points if you don’t have a lot of those guys already (and the Caps definitely don’t). He can’t be worse than the stiffs they’re rolling out as part of the 4th line for three minutes on a nightly basis and he provides some upside? Yes, sign me up.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 12:41 PM EST up reply actions
It’s good reasoning. The Wild are playing a pretty low-event brand of hockey, if I recall correctly, which means that they’d likely see more ties and hence more shootouts. A guy that converts ~50% of the time versus ~33% of the time might mean an extra two or three points in the standings.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 1:15 PM EST up reply actions
So while this season has thus far shown why such a sentiment is NOT faultless, now is as good a time as any to cling to it as an iron-clad truism. Caps’ fans should not boast to see the team’s future, to predict their imminent successes or failures. It is foolhardy and a road to "I-told-you-so’s" and red ears.
What they should do is keep the faith, knowing full well that the season still holds for the Caps 30 games, a trade deadline, and two of the team’s best players’ endeavors to return to the ice.
Yes yes yes yes yes yes times infinity.
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Chimera and Wideman are injured now too?
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Wings are chock full of good news today. Someone might want throw some bubble wrap around Datsyuk.
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Joel Rechlicz tells me he has been sent to Hershey. #Caps #HBH
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No Caps player was injured during his tenure. Well done, sir, well done.
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Feb 3, 2012 11:55 AM EST up reply actions
Remember when GMGM was play on easy mode in the off-season? I think his copy of NHL ’12 has been corrupted.
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by Alz Well That Ends Well on Feb 3, 2012 11:55 AM EST up reply actions
So an open roster spot again…. a trade in the works, a recall or just leaving the spot open for now?
with Ovi back I don’t think thats true
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by JediChewbacca on Feb 3, 2012 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
well JP corrected me the other day :)
Caps were only carrying 22 on the active roster plus Ovechkin while Ovechkin was suspended. Eakin for Aucoin was a 1 for 1 swap yesterday.
well then…. I had a dream we swapped Semin and Schultz for Patrick Kane and “Peggy” from the Capital One commercials… Peggy really added the grit we needed to get over the hump
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Peggy and Kuz as linemates.
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by nogoodtrying on Feb 3, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
With Eakin and Rechlicz assigned to Hershey:
2G: Vokoun and Neuvirth
7D: Alzner, Carlson, Erskine, Hamrlik, Orlov, Schultz, Wideman
13F: Aucoin, Beagle, Brouwer, Chimera, Halpern, Hendricks, Johansson, Knuble, Laich, Ovechkin, Perreault, Semin, Ward
IR: Backstrom
LTIR: Green and Poti
My ignorance – but how many can they carry? You show 22, plus one IR, and 2 LTIR.
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I mentioned this earlier, but I think his comments to the media hurt his cause for playing this weekend, well along with his actual play.
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Well done, Mr. Rechlicz.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
Wait, what will we do to avenge Backstrom tomorrow?
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by Bald Pollack on Feb 3, 2012 12:19 PM EST up reply actions
Well that’s just crazy talk.
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by Bald Pollack on Feb 3, 2012 12:23 PM EST up reply actions
Fair enough. I’m just over it and at this point if they repeatedly take 2 points from the Habs and just happen to stick a hell in Bourque’s eye in the process, fine. Otherwise, meh.
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by Bald Pollack on Feb 3, 2012 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
What the Caps did last time: Win
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Feb 3, 2012 1:42 PM EST up reply actions
Ok, more waiver info. Rechlicz is on waivers because up until now he has not cleared waivers this season. Because he just signed his NHL contract for this season and this is the first time he has been assigned to Hershey this season while on an NHL contract.
Rechlicz’ contract status and years of pro hockey; this is his 5th season as a pro, IIRC (and his ELC was a previous contract with the NYI so it’s not his first NHL contract year.)
Funny if the Habs claim him and put him in the lineup tomorrow.
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His sticks have been donated to the Occupy protesters to use as firewood.
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by dcsportsfan1 on Feb 3, 2012 12:11 PM EST up reply actions
I am sorry to bring this up again, but I still don’t understand. What “value” – if any – did the Caps lose with the Rechlicz contract fiasco? That is, could GMGM have used any of these ‘resources’ (cash) as part of a trade package?
There was a minimum cash (cap hit) output. Only issue is number of pro contracts. GMGM probably figured he wasn’t going to add many contracts between now and July when his contract is up.
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by dcsportsfan1 on Feb 3, 2012 12:15 PM EST up reply actions
grrr,
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Joel Rechlicz on waivers because he signed entry-level deal with Islanders in 2008. Also would’ve needed it because he signed mid-year.
No, it has nothing to do with signing mid-year. If this was his first NHL contract and he was waiver exempt, a mid-year signing wouldn’t impact waivers, because he was playing in North America in the minors. The mid-season waiver rule relates to players playing overseas after the NHL regular season starts.
waivers is not something people should be attempting to explain on twitter. cannot be done in 140 characters.
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You are correct, I’ve said the same in the past.
And he wasn’t referring to the rule I was thinking he was; he was noting what I noted earlier here that he requires waivers because he was just signed now and needs waivers to be sent down since he hasn’t cleared before this season.
I figured he was attempting (ATTEMPTING) to explain that Rechlicz was on waivers because he was being assigned to Hershey for the first time this season, just like all the other non-ELC guys with NHL contracts have to pass through waivers to go to Hershey at the start of the season. Rechlicz’s situation being he didn’t sign an NHL contract until mid-season. But, obviously, that’s a lot of info to cram into a tweet.
watch, I’m sure I mucked something up in attempting to explain why Rechlicz was on waivers today :)
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On the bright side, at least he didn’t say Rechlicz had to pass through waivers because he was on a one-way contract.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:03 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Budaj expected to get the start tomorrow for the Habs.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:03 PM EST up reply actions
He’ll one up Sam Gagner and drop 9 points.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:07 PM EST up reply actions
On the PP with a JC74 miscue while semins in the box for hooking in the offensive zone
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I was reminded (on other message boards) that the Friday night college hockey game on NBCSN tonight is Cornell vs RPI at 7:30.
Caps draft pick Pat Koudys is a sophomore dman for RPI. Wears #4.
Cornell licking their wounds after a home and home sweep from their rivals. Austin City Limits still going strong with his Hobey Baker bid.
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by Rob Parker on Feb 3, 2012 1:21 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
is Walton calling tonight? Or this that a different game?
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Now I have absolutely no idea what the strategy was behind calling up Joel Rechlicz. Oh well, hopefully Keith Aucoin will contribute this weekend……
The personnel strategy since Hunter took over has looked an awful lot like flailing to me.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
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That line gets more painfully ironic every passing day.
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by Rob Parker on Feb 3, 2012 2:00 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Gonna say that Rechlicz was related to one thing and one thing only: Downie’s bout with Alzner in the prior game with the Bolts.
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Sad, if true. As discussed the previous two days, I wish our management team were focused more on puck possession, the power play, Fenwick, etc. etc. which is where our real issues are. Maybe Brouwer or Ersk (i.e. not Karl or Hendy) can rearrange Bourque’s nose but, if not, let’s just hustle and win.
Was that worth burning a contract on? Especially for a team that probably wants to make at least one move towards the deadline? I’m just so confused by this, the handling of Schultz, the handling of Kundratek, Erskine, Eakin, Aucoin, etc.
Why is a developing player like Eakin playing five shifts a night in WSH instead of sowing his oats in HER? Why was Kundratek getting NHL minutes instead of guys that can actually play in the NHL, like Schultz, or Erskine in spells? Why was the team burning a contract and salary cap dollars to do that?
Why is a guy like Joel Ward not playing on the PK? His entire value is on the defensive side of the puck and eating harder minutes so that your skill guys can take advantage of the scrubs. I don’t get it.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:08 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
They’re only at 47 contracts right now. Very unlikely the 50-K limit is going to prevent them from doing anything.
Agreed on all the rest, though, you know that (though the cap dollars don’t matter, since the team has been well into LTIR all year).
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Adding extra contracts now might not hurt this year (at 47 it probably won’t), but it might hurt next year, or the year after.
Good call on the LTIR stuff, but I still don’t like burning actual dollars when the team isn’t swimming in cash, a la the Maple Leafs or the Habs. Not that a half-dozen game checks for Kundratek and two for Rechlicz is going to break the bank, but it’s the principle. Just like Steckel and Erskine and Poti didn’t look like terrible overpays at the time, but cumulatively, they’re the difference between having Matt Hendricks on your 4th line and Marcel Goc.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:16 PM EST up reply actions
Marcel Goc isn’t a 4th liner on any team I can think of, which is my point. Goc would push someone else down to the 4th line and you’d end up with two stronger lines.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:18 PM EST up reply actions
1st?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:18 PM EST up reply actions
Let’s do a thought exercise: How about we assume that there’s a shutdown line that’s going to get hard-matched to the other teams’ first lines.
The current, healthy (humor me), roster looks something like
8/19/20
42/21/25
90/15/28
26/(83/85/50)/22
Let’s say that you get Goc and you want him as your hard minutes C.
The lines look more like:
8/19/20
42/Goc/21
90/15/28
25/(85/26/83/50)/(22/26/50).
Those lines look a lot better to me, and I think those lines are a move or two away from looking a lot better than that. The current lines, even with a healthy roster, are hard to envision a winning roster with.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
But the Rechlicz contract is off the books July 1.
Obviously the cumulative effects point is well-taken, generally, but I don’t think the Recker deal fits this point. It’s just a fucking embarrassment, that’s all.
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I think there’s a non-zero chance that McPhee wants to take on four contracts between here and Feb 28th. High chance? No. Probably in the low single digits. But why potentially bind your hands for even that small chance?
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, it makes no sense for a number of reasons (though I still say the odds of them taking on four Ks without moving at least one out is incredibly small).
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Not as many candidates as some years, especially with the recent trades:
- Paquette (but signed for next year)
- Sjogren (signed for next year)
- King?
- Stevenson (signed for next year)
Not sure they’d want to give up the D depth in Hershey, but when healthy on D, Miskovic is the one who is typically odd man out.
Ditto on the confused part here.
I agree with you on all the points you raise.
Just pointing out why I thought Rechlisz spent a few days on the roster. As for whether it was worth burning a roster spot, it comes down to whether his presence averted another Downie/Alzner fight. If it did, then it was worth it. If not, then probably not. Pretty hard to prove a negative, so we’ll likely never know.
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I actually think the Aucoin recall is the first (NHL) move they’ve made that’s made sense in a long time. Desperate? Sure. But at least it theoretically addresses something that needs to be addressed (namely playmaking center, especially for the PP).
But yeah.
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Yeah, I actually don’t mind that move at all. The other stuff, though, is totally baffling.
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by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
i don’t mind aucoin coming up, but i feel like he is who he is. he’s a career AHLer who can occasionally have a stint in the NHL.
as long as it is a band-aid, i’m fine. but i doubt he’s the solution……
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I don’t think anyone sees him as “the solution.”
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i’m just desperately clinging to the fantasy that GMGM is in search of a solution………
by CapsDegenerate on Feb 3, 2012 2:15 PM EST up reply actions
Unfortunately, that solution this year is HCl.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:17 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:20 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Ok. Granted, Alzner doesn’t fight. But, he was fine and there was no foreseeable sequel with Downie.
That requires a goon presence, but getting a crack at the guy who sidelined our best player doesn’t??
But if it’s that big a deal, you don’t give Bourque the choice.
And Downie’s not fighting Rechlicz.
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Story about Clint Malarchuk in his own words on Deadspin
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I think about death every day.
I’ll tell you. I want to live now more than I’ve ever wanted to live before, because I’ve struggled with depression most of my life, and sometimes death looked better than living. And now, where I’m at, I want to live. And it always scares me because sometimes you—it’s like when you go, be careful what you ask for, be careful what you pray for. It’s like sometimes in life, when you’ve finally got things figured out, things change. And I’m kind of afraid of that. I’m kind of figuring things out now. I’m getting everything under control, and that scares me because as soon as you do that, God’s going to say, OK, come on [laughs]. But then I always think, no, God, you had me here. I’m walking around with a bullet in my head and a scar on my neck. There’s a reason. I think you want me to grow old and help people and be a wise old man.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:26 PM EST up reply actions
Amazing read.
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Evason’s expression in this picture is awesome
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It kinda looks like Huntsy just cut one, and Evason got a whiff while he was talking to the ref.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:45 PM EST up reply actions
Well enjoy it for the next couple months.
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by Rob Parker on Feb 3, 2012 3:03 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
From your lips to the front office’s ears.
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by Bald Pollack on Feb 3, 2012 3:03 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
And meanwhile, where’s that image breaking down the different moods of Dale Hunter? This one would be “incredulous.”
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It needs to be put on one of those chart things, with just that look repeated over and over again.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:48 PM EST up reply actions
That’s exactly what it was. C’mon… someone hook us up.
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by J.P. on Feb 3, 2012 2:51 PM EST up reply actions 8 recs
There ya go.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:57 PM EST up reply actions
Hungry
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I have $50 to Olie's autism charity or So Kids Can and a beer on the under for 50/57/107 as AO's final stat line for 2011-'12
And on Pekka Rinne's PK SV% dropping under .920 by the end of the '12 season
by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 3:02 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Kid behind Hunter has a face that ranks very highly on the punchable/60 lists.
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I have $50 to Olie's autism charity or So Kids Can and a beer on the under for 50/57/107 as AO's final stat line for 2011-'12
And on Pekka Rinne's PK SV% dropping under .920 by the end of the '12 season
by Knee high to a duck on Feb 3, 2012 2:48 PM EST up reply actions
It’s just the whispy hint of moustache that does it.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:49 PM EST up reply actions
Dude really does have the worst nostrils in the NHL.
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he reminds me of a pig that got beaten with the ugly six a few times.
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AO is fat comment.
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It’s supposed to say “Khristich” but it’s spelled wrong.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 3:03 PM EST up reply actions
Hendy enjoying Casual Friday at Kettler
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…or maybe he lost a bet.
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Anyone there today? Did they do the version of the shootout game where lose an item every time you miss or did they change up lines/jerseys at one point?
Don’t they usually at least wear long sleeves under the pads? Seems like the elbow is a little vulnerable…
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He drew “Michael Ontkean” in the Slapshot actor game.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Feb 3, 2012 2:58 PM EST up reply actions
“Nobody wants to fight us since we signed Chris Simon.” An update from Novokuznetsk, Russia.
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Christ, I may be late on this but kingkarls comments the other day have made front story on the NHL Yahoo page….nice
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Poor Jouds. Played in that awful “extra time” loss to the Kings and shipped right back down.
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Based on talks with scouts re: 2012 draft class, won’t be surprised if 1st round picks used as trade currency in coming weeks. #draftnotdeep
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Yeah, wasn’t this supposed to be a really deep draft class not long ago?
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by Killer_Carlson on Feb 3, 2012 4:17 PM EST up reply actions
That’s why my eyebrows were raised. I wonder if any of it has to do with the rash of injuries among the top draft stock? Or if someone’s just trying to mess with everyone’s heads.
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wasn’t it being compared to the 2003 draft class recently?
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Honestly, that’s what i had been hearing for months now. I just dont really know what defines a “deep” draft class. # of kids from the OHL? # of kids on WJC rosters? How well there going to do in the NHL?
In the end, i feel like a lot of these predictions are irrelevant due to the complex, unknown nature of the development of any one hockey player.
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Lot of injuries, and I think overall the draft-eligibles at the WJCs were underwhelming.
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I think that’s really it. The draft is deep, but a lot of the guys on the medium-high end carry more injury risk than perhaps GMs would like.
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I don’t think that’s it so much as the projected lot from where playoff teams will pick—16 to 30—isn’t particularly highly regarded. The top 10-15 or so is. Beyond that I don’t think there’s been as much separation or huge jumps in development as many would hope. Still some key months ahead for that to change, of course.
Per Aucoin…“with Patick McNeill who is one of the better offensive defensive in the league who can move the puck around..”
Look, I realize this is an old topic (but for me one without a real conclusion…or me being dismissive).
Just curios why has P. McNeill never been given a shot in Wsh (and I do not count his call up when I saw on the precap ice in ANA in Feb 11…ahh..those were the days with Bruce).
I know Vogs is a proponent of Patty and I also question why has the kid never been given a shot (is Kundrátek THAT much ahead of the dude?)
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