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All The Kings Men
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I spoke to a skills coach a season or two ago who suggested that goalies may have to start getting smaller in order to make more accurate reads on puck location coming off the stick because the slapshot is dying and stick technology allows players to hide the release point more.
No idea if it's true or not but... it was an interesting conversation.
That is interesting. And maybe the reason Kings jumped at the chance to take Carter George earlier in the draft.
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
That's what Quick's early strengths were, and what I think guys like Saros and Wolf are doing at a higher level than bigger goalies
Who can forget Quick going all crab and looking thru people's legs to get the puck and then it sticking to him like glue, that's how he kept the puck out of the net and it was still effective in the playoffs because he rarely left rebounds around for people to bang away at
Like you say I don't know how true it is but it's one reason I got a little miffed at people (not here) overlooking guys Wolf's size
I also remember Quick complaining the least about pad size reductions. I think he already used smaller pads.
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AbsentMojo
F-ing get up and hunt! Cmon Todd!
Herby
How could Blake have known?
He has no flaws to his game, he's not going to be McDavid or Bedard level, but he looks like a more offensively gifted Toews, with all his intangibles. This will be a massive homerun for the Guppies.
AbsentMojo
F-ing get up and hunt! Cmon Todd!
Dude is a goal scoring machine.. everywhere he's been, its close to 1 goal per game avg - even this season in a 3 game sampleHe has no flaws to his game, he's not going to be McDavid or Bedard level, but he looks like a more offensively gifted Toews, with all his intangibles. This will be a massive homerun for the Guppies.
This is a 1C that everyone will drool over for many years to come assuming he stays healthy.
A few years back there was a set of Quick game used leg pads for sale at the Staples Center store. I tried them on and they were basically the same size I (5'9, 5'10 on a good day) use for my beer league.
I have a set of 2001-03 era Brodeur pads that would fit me as well. But I picked up a set of his ~2013 pads that are ginormous. I think Brodeur went from 34" to 36"+1" as he started playing more butterfly towards the end of his career.
johnjm22
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Vilardi with 51 goals in his last 124 games. 34 goal pace.
Bandit
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Yeah but we’ve got Darcy Kuemper.
johnjm22
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Pierre Le Dud is on pace for 7 goals, BTW.
DoktorJeep
Luc and Rob are a waste of time and money.
Rob Blake flew to a game in Minnesota to offer Faber a contract. The college player declined because he wanted to play at school for free instead of getting a big league contract.
Most players would have a hard time saying no to a fat paycheck from a HOF’er. Guess Faber learned his lesson.
Most players would have a hard time saying no to a fat paycheck from a HOF’er. Guess Faber learned his lesson.
Ziggy Stardust
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Yet another year of the Ducks sucking ass. Too bad they don't hand trophies for supposedly having the best prospect pool.
Schrute farms
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Do they hand out trophies for barely getting into the playoffs and winning 1-2 games while losing the 1st round series each year?
participation awards.
inscribed with the words "We were SO close" and
"sous etions si proches"
Ziggy Stardust
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Would you really rather be in the Ducks position right now? Have you even watched them play this season?
Schrute farms
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I didn't say that i would. But two things can be true at the same time.
Since you brought it up, at least their fan base knows that they have a plan. That's what you hope for as a fan. They are rebuilding and in young asset creation mode. Whether they can eventually grow those young assets and turn them into a winning product is yet to be known. But they have a goal/plan and are sticking to it.
The Kings plan -- lol....like a rudderless ship. Basically the plan is to not suck and be a playoff team (getting 2-3 home playoff games). I guess mission accomplished to some. Congrats, we're Kings of the middle of the pack in the league. For me, it's the horrible black hole. Why bother? I'm ok sucking as long as there is a plan.
Ziggy Stardust
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No playoffs for seven years versus no playoff wins for 10 years. I don't see a winner here.
Ziggy Stardust
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But at least they have Trevor Zegras to entertain the fans, right? The same guy who is now being outscored by… Trevor Lewis.
They also have a gm who isnt the laughingstock of the nhl and gets bent over by every gm he deals with versus a guy with a vision of building a team through draft picks toward a goal of a championship and not a goal of burying young talent to maintain cost control to show max profit. And insulting the fanbase with meaningless slogans like "tradition moves us forward".
So yeah, anaheim at least has an honest direction thier following while los angeles only discernible direction is pump thier fanbase full of manure.
So yeah, anaheim at least has an honest direction thier following while los angeles only discernible direction is pump thier fanbase full of manure.
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This is like selling a spoiled meat sandwich by saying at least it's not a sh!t sandwich.
