Pre-Game Talk: 2023/24 Training Camp

[Chiarelli]

if you guys are hoping to get any meaningful answers from that nuke presser i've got some bad news for you

 

[Foppa2118]

Avs will have media trained Nuke to answer every question with "no habla ingles".

They should tell everyone he's gonna use a translator app on his phone, but really he just has Jean Martineau on speaker.

Then Val can say "Go f*** yourself" in Russian to every question and Martineau can "translate" with the scripted responses they have drawn up.

 

[lionsDen]

if you guys are hoping to get any meaningful answers from that nuke presser i've got some bad news for you

Lol let them be outraged. It’s simpler to point and laugh, self-righteous indignation. They wear clown shoes

 

[Foppa2118]

Altitude is already hammering health as their talking point. This team had the second highest MGL in the covid short season with months of offseason. They have the highest MGL in the league since the year 2000.

Where did last year rank in those 20+ years though? I don't know if it was the worst in terms of total man games lost, but it sure felt like the most injury plagued season I've ever seen the Avs have.

They were literally never healthy. And the injuries were to key players too. When one guy would come back they'd lose another guy the same game almost every single time. It was nuts. Not to mention key players playing injured all year like Makar and Val.

When people talk about the Avs having better luck injury wise next year, it means just that. Better luck. But the counter arguments are always that we shouldn't expect the Avs to be healthy or play 82 games, which is just a strawman. They don't have to be healthy or play 82 games for it to benefit them more than last year.

They don't even have be in the top half of the healthiest teams in the league next year for it to be a big step up from last season. They just have to not have one of their worst injury plagued seasons ever, and for it not to continue into the playoffs, which isn't at all unrealistic to hope for.

It was so bad last year, that if we're just talking in terms of pure probability, the odds are a lot more likely they'll have less injuries than they did last year, than it is they'll have as many, and as consistently over the full season.

Last year was an outlier even for a team with the most MGL since 2000, and that ranking hasn't prevented them from winning 2 Cups, 7 division championships, and 2 President's Trophy's (almost 3) in that time.

 

[AllAboutAvs]

Where did last year rank in those 20+ years though? I don't know if it was the worst in terms of total man games lost, but it sure felt like the most injury plagued season I've ever seen the Avs have.

They were literally never healthy. And the injuries were to key players too. When one guy would come back they'd lose another guy the same game almost every single time. It was nuts. Not to mention key players playing injured all year like Makar and Val.

When people talk about the Avs having better luck injury wise next year, it means just that. Better luck. But the counter arguments are always that we shouldn't expect the Avs to be healthy or play 82 games, which is just a strawman. They don't have to be healthy or play 82 games for it to benefit them more than last year.

They don't even have be in the top half of the healthiest teams in the league next year for it to be a big step up from last season. They just have to not have one of their worst injury plagued seasons ever, and for it not to continue into the playoffs, which isn't at all unrealistic to hope for.

It was so bad last year, that if we're just talking in terms of pure probability, the odds are a lot more likely they'll have less injuries than they did last year, than it is they'll have as many, and as consistently over the full season.

Last year was an outlier even for a team with the most MGL since 2000, and that ranking hasn't prevented them from winning 2 Cups, 7 division championships, and 2 President's Trophy's (almost 3) in that time.

The bolded is really what made last year so different than other injury-filled seasons. It was one star after another. At one point we had three top-6 out for a decent amount of time. Just crazy.

 

[dahrougem2]

if you guys are hoping to get any meaningful answers from that nuke presser i've got some bad news for you

Bad News Barrett? Is that you?

 

[Chiarelli]

Bad News Barrett? Is that you?

I'll take obscure references for $500

 

[henchman21]

Who cares about regular season? Make it in and get healthy for April

Certainly more important in the playoffs, but regular season injuries cause players to get overplayed and increases their risk of injury.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[BaconNater]

Could Babcock be hired as Nukes personal accountability coach for the team?

 

[UncleRisto]

Could Babcock be hired as Nukes personal accountability coach for the team?

 

[the_fan]

Could Babcock be hired as Nukes personal accountability coach for the team?

They can hire him as a phone cleaner. If those who don’t know what that is, it’s simple. You know how over the years your phone gets filled up with bunch of pictures and videos which you spend tons of time to go through them and erase them, the ones you don’t need. Well you hire someone to do it for you. I think Babcock would be great at that job

 

[MarchessaultCantRead]

Calculating chances Nichushkin will say anything like this: ***00.0043%***
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Yeah…much more likely to get a response like, “I like hockey, I also like sex and party…I ready to play hockey with puck now.”

 

[UncleRisto]

They can hire him as a phone cleaner. If those who don’t know what that is, it’s simple. You know how over the years your phone gets filled up with bunch of pictures and videos which you spend tons of time to go through them and erase them, the ones you don’t need. Well you hire someone to do it for you. I think Babcock would be great at that job

Oh, you actually delete old useless pictures of bullshit?

 

[the_fan]

Oh, you actually delete old useless pictures of bullshit?

Well yeah, I mean don’t you? 80% of the stuff in my phone is bullshit

 

[cccoltsicehockey]

I thought the solution was just always to buy a phone with more storage. You mean there is actually a delete button?

 

[henchman21]

I'm the person with nearly zero actual photos, but 4 pages of apps, shortcuts and widgets... and 100+gb of gifs and memes.

 

[UncleRisto]

Well yeah, I mean don’t you? 80% of the stuff in my phone is bullshit

Well, no, because you don't have to.

 

[the_fan]

Well, no, because you don't have to.

But you do if you don’t want your coach to see them

 

[JoeSakic13]

I'm the person with nearly zero actual photos, but 4 pages of apps, shortcuts and widgets... and 100+gb of gifs and memes.

 

[the_fan]

Most of the picture in my phone are outdated work documents which I don’t need but I’m too lazy to go through them and erase them. The only thing valuable in my photos are pictures of my kid and couple of my wife. I can hire Babcock to go through them and erase all those docs I don’t need

 

[sethro109]

I'm the person with nearly zero actual photos, but 4 pages of apps, shortcuts and widgets... and 100+gb of gifs and memes.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

My iPhone SE (1st Gen) is just about on its last legs.

I'm torn between ditching the smartphone all together and getting a dumb flip phone or trying out the Android side of things for the first time with the new Razr smartphone. Really, unless I'm traveling I only use my phone for is for its bluetooth capabilities (I like to listen to my iTunes in the car). The traveling thing though...I do go international once a year and since my Spanish sucks, having a translation app is handy but probably also a crutch preventing me from just practicing and getting comfortable enough to get by.

 

[Avsboy]

Strangely I just bought a new phone today: a linux smartphone!!

 

[the_fan]

Strangely I just bought a new phone today: a linux smartphone!!

Can I go through your pictures?