2024/2025 Around the League

[LOFIN]

Not a coincidence that the Rangers tried to go Full Thug after that once Drury took over, and like most teams who try that, it was a miserable failure. Ryan Reaves didn't do anything of consequence, and Sammy Blais barely played for them.

Blais was a complete failure. Reaves actually was pretty good during his first season, and yes, the Rangers did actually become tougher to play against.

I mean wasn't this whole thing highlighted last spring? The Rangers had become the Capitals, Rempe was Tom Wilson. And Devils were the Rangers when that statement was made. Rangers dominated that team physically, and the Devils were forced to acquire MacDermid.

Becoming tough doesn't mean you become a good team though. But they did become tough in a span of few years.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[Pokecheque]

Blais was a complete failure. Reaves actually was pretty good during his first season, and yes, the Rangers did actually become tougher to play against.

I mean wasn't this whole thing highlighted last spring? The Rangers had become the Capitals, Rempe was Tom Wilson. And Devils were the Rangers when that statement was made. Rangers dominated that team physically, and the Devils were forced to acquire MacDermid.

Becoming tough doesn't mean you become a good team though. But they did become tough in a span of few years.

Exactly, instead of addressing the obvious issues, like the lack of a true #1 center instead of just relying on Zibanejad to wildly outperform his abilities every year, they decided they had to goon it up, and traded their best two-way forward in order to do it (and yes, I know trading Boosh was inevitable, but the return was absolute shit).

Also, Rempe is an objectively horrid hockey player. Wilson isn't a star or anything but he was at least able to hold his own on the ice in his prime. I sure hope Rempe doesn't suffer from the same things that ultimately cost guys like Boogaard and Rypien their lives.

If anyone wants to see how to become "harder to play against" the right way, they should look at what Bill Zito did with the Panthros.

Oh, so THAT'S why Trudeau is getting the boot.

 

[Tralfamadore]

Canada is a shit hole right now. The richest province in Canada is poorer than the poorest state in the US. We suck.

 

[Balthazar]

That's completely and totally not true, I have no idea where in hell you got that idea.

Davidson and Gorton had nothing to do with that statement.



The Rangers publicly claimed the statement and the resulting fallout had nothing to do with both of them being fired, but anyone with half a brain knows that's bullshit.

Not a coincidence that the Rangers tried to go Full Thug after that once Drury took over, and like most teams who try that, it was a miserable failure. Ryan Reaves didn't do anything of consequence, and Sammy Blais barely played for them.

I stand corrected...the public statement was from the owner and not from the GM. I thought it was the other way around for some reason.

 

[Murzu]

Canada is a shit hole right now. The richest province in Canada is poorer than the poorest state in the US. We suck.

That can't be true? Wow.

 

[Tralfamadore]

That can't be true? Wow.

With respect to median earners yes it's unfortunately true.

GDP Per capita would rank Alberta 14th in the US.

 

[AllAboutAvs]

With respect to median earners yes it's unfortunately true.

GDP Per capita would rank Alberta 14th in the US.

What am I missing here? You say it is true but Alberta would rank 14th out of 50 states.

 

[Tralfamadore]

What am I missing here? You say it is true but Alberta would rank 14th out of 50 states.

Well those are two different statistics. Median income of it's population vs the province's gdp per capita.

 

[AllAboutAvs]

Well those are two different statistics. Median income of it's population vs the province's gpd per capita.

Ah ok. It looked like you were using your 2nd post to explain the first one.

With that said, your first post surprised me a lot. Do you have a link for that so I can read up on it?

 

[Tralfamadore]

Ah ok. It looked like you were using your 2nd post to explain the first one.

With that said, your first post surprised me a lot. Do you have a link for that so I can read up on it?

Canada Is Poor | National Review

Ten years ago, commentators were telling Americans their northern neighbor was a middle-class success story. Now, every province has lower median earnings than every state.

www.nationalreview.com

"A new report from the Fraser Institute, a Canadian free-market think tank, looks at income instead of output, and its findings are even worse for Canada. In a ranking of the 50 U.S. states and ten Canadian provinces by median earnings per person, all ten provinces line up at the bottom, occupying spots 51–60. Every U.S. state has higher median earnings per person than Alberta, the richest Canadian province."

 

[Metallo]

Byram is not the problem with Buffalo. That team's culture and fundamentals are f***ed, and the other defenseman aside from Dahlin are sieve prone.

Power skating back for the puck tips it back into the slot for the gong show first goal.

Clifton leaving the entire right side of the ice with Laine wide open on the PK for the second goal.

Jokiharju with a soft as butter battle for a loose puck, and then McLeod skating circles around the goal scorer without touching him for the third goal.

Samuelsson pretending to dive to block the one timer, but slowly sliding away from the puck, and then Power screening his own goalie on the fourth goal.

Clifton with no interest whatsoever blocking the shot on the PK for the fifth goal in the video above. He keeps looking over and knows it's coming, but just slowly moves over and seems to intentionally let it get through.

Power with dog shit defense can't stop a backdoor pass that goes right at him for the sixth goal.

The ref deflected the puck to the slot for the 1st goal, not Power.

 

[Pokecheque]

Hey did anyone watch the Canes kick the crap out of the Isles last night? Tyson Jost did two things he normally doesn't do--won a board battle and scored a goal off of it.