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I didn't watch the series but I don't see a lot of forwards on that roster who can be trusted to skate with the Oilers.
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I didn't watch the series but I don't see a lot of forwards on that roster who can be trusted to skate with the Oilers.
Exactly. When you really break down this Kings roster, who can they rely on for goals? Well there's Fiala, who always seems to lose effectiveness when the open ice gets choked off in the playoffs There's Kempe and Byfield, and that's about it.
I don't include Kopitar in this assessment, because I just don't believe he has many more years in the league. And it's the same with Doughty. And if we have serious questions about the tandem of Skinner and Pickard in Edmonton, compared to Darcy Keumper of the Kings, they look like the second coming of Jacques Plante.
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idk how closely everybody is following the team canada trial but man cal foote’s lawyer is grasping at straws
a sign that those five guys are cooked or just standard defence attorney games(wo)manship?
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a sign that those five guys are cooked or just standard defence attorney games(wo)manship?
Foote's lawyer focuses on choice of language at hockey sexual assault trial
A lawyer for Cal Foote challenged the complainant in the trial of five former NHLers accused of sexual assault in June 2018 on Tuesday about her choice of language in her testimony.
Not following the trial closely. But, from the few clips I read, their lawyers are trying to cast as much doubt about that evening's events as they can. Not denying some type of act occurred, but the consent and her credibility is what they are trying to criticize.
From what has come out, I doubt, even with a not guilty verdict, that any of these 5 will ever play in the NHL again. Just not the PR a team would want to deal with.
From what has come out, I doubt, even with a not guilty verdict, that any of these 5 will ever play in the NHL again. Just not the PR a team would want to deal with.
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except we could have kept him on the roster by not making a hail mary pass for sprong who was on the roster opening day.
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looking at how good podkolzin is in these playoffs, and looking back at how badly he has been coached and utilized in the past, one can only cry thinking about what Manny would have done with this player in Abby
such a massive, massive miss - getting 4th liners at $1m AAV who can up their game in the playoffs is just as important as not overplaying and wrecking your stars, as witnessed last night where the series deciding goal was done by Podz and Kapi with McDRai gasping on the bench, in a zero-zero game no less
what did the Canucks get for Sprong? a first round pick?
such a massive, massive miss - getting 4th liners at $1m AAV who can up their game in the playoffs is just as important as not overplaying and wrecking your stars, as witnessed last night where the series deciding goal was done by Podz and Kapi with McDRai gasping on the bench, in a zero-zero game no less
what did the Canucks get for Sprong? a first round pick?
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They’ve won less playoff rounds than us over that span and we’ve only made the playoffs twice.
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Sure, in hindsight, but there were a large number of people here who project Sprong to stick on Pettersson's wing. I guess that's kind of the point - why go back and revisit these nothing moves?
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if (when) skinner falls apart again and they can’t get it done, i wouldn’t be surprised at all if edmonton is planning seriously on carter hart
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Does Podkolzin have to be a huge miss for it to be a miss?
Without any development, he was a 4RW checker here. Had Sprong not taken his spot, that would have been fine.
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Sprong only had that spot because Joshua was out with cancer.
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jr is that you? we revisit it because the support for pods being traded in the first place was based on an appeal to authority, aka this management group and coaching staff are doing good ergo we will give them the benefit of the doubt that they have done all they could before giving up on this well liked hard working cheap player with some talent.
and absolutely nobody with an ounce of common sense predicted that sprong would stick on pettersson's wing. it was always an eyebrow raising longshot gamble on a talented player with massive holes in his game and personality and it looked increasingly worse as he made the team after being not at all good or changed in his play in camp and in preseason.
and trading podz was not a nothing move. it was giving up on a top 10 pick with jam who then proceeded to stick in the lineup of another team with a much better record than ours for 82 games averaging 13 minutes a game. it only makes it worse that we did it to take a gamble as bad as sprong.
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I thought Raty was the placeholder for Joshua, but fine. Then are we saying Raty cost Podkolzin his spot? Aman?
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this is canada so they're not called attorneys. you also don't see a lot of gamesmanship in canadian criminal trials although juliana greenspan started out practicing criminal law in the us so i guess maybe a little. she is canadian. her dad was considered the best criminal defence lawyer and cross examination in canada for over 20 years so she went south to get out from under his shadow. by reputation she's very good and especially at cross examination.idk how closely everybody is following the team canada trial but man cal foote’s lawyer is grasping at straws
a sign that those five guys are cooked or just standard defence attorney games(wo)manship?
Foote's lawyer focuses on choice of language at hockey sexual assault trial
A lawyer for Cal Foote challenged the complainant in the trial of five former NHLers accused of sexual assault in June 2018 on Tuesday about her choice of language in her testimony.
i'd say those questions were reasonable and go to the heart of the defence. if the witness consistently called them boys in a police statement it does speak to a hindsight agenda if she now ostentatiously takes care to call them men and then explains that by saying "i now understand they are men". the whole theory of the defence is that she consented at the time but changed her mind after the fact based on a new understanding of events. those questions speak exactly to that point. what she understood and agreed to then is what matters in a criminal trial not what she thinks now. i am sure every single thing she has done to cast events in a different light in her recent testimony compared to earlier statements shed made will be used to hammer home that point.
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