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4th line culture said:
Green had no choice but to play beagle 18 minutes a night
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He had a choice but he wanted to play Beagle. I highly suspect Green pushed for Beagle to be signed in the first place. It was reported that he wanted the team to add PKers which is what Benning tried to do that offseason.
 
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Scary stuff. LTIRetirement for Letang?
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He'll likely be on blood thinners for a few months, but I would think he can resume normal activity after that as long as no arrhythmia or idiosyncratic blood flow is detected. The main complication of PFO and the surgery to treat it is the potential for clots. Blood likes laminar flow, and it's made for it. When the flow of blood is interrupted or changed by an inserted catheter, an arrhythmia, etc, platelets basically start bumping into each other and forming agglomerations, ie clots. Platelets are designed to clot under certain conditions and non-laminar blood flow creates those conditions where they shouldn't be, hence the necessity for anti-coagulants for people with PFO, atrial fibrilation, etc.
 
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I feel that the Myers contract was the worse, because he was Benning's replacement for Tanev (at least IMO that was Benning's thought process)
 
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Canucker said:
To each their own, but I didn't find Sutter or Sbisa very useful despite their ages and Benning was virtually negotiating against himself when offering those dumb deals...Myers as a $6m defenseman was abysmal. Beagle at least had the excuse of coming off a cup win where he had a relatively good playoffs.
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Now let's not diminish Sutter's monster contributions in March and April once the team was out of the race.
 
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Knight53 said:
I’d give away Hughes for free if it meant a proper SJ style rebuild.

These next two years are going to be torturous with these bald idiots just wasting assets trying to compete with a mid roster and dinosaur coach. Clowns already got nothing for Boeser and Suter. Need Hughes to ask out to save ourselves.

That 2016 draft really f***ed any chance of competing. Needed that Tkachuk level piece to put us over the top.
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Most of what you say isn't wrong, but sending Hughes for nothing is pure hyperbole.

Whether they screwed up their re-tool (they did, threading the needle is very difficult), and are still making mistakes (they are), the path is set. Doing a deeper re-tool or rebuild was 2 years ago, not now.

Just have to hope they get lucky.
 
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Bleach Clean said:
Most of what you say isn't wrong, but sending Hughes for nothing is pure hyperbole.

Whether they screwed up their re-tool (they did, threading the needle is very difficult), and are still making mistakes (they are), the path is set. Doing a deeper re-tool or rebuild was 2 years ago, not now.

Just have to hope they get lucky.
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For the record, its the Benning regime that screwed up the proper rebuild. not that this Regime has been perfect, the clearly have not been perfect.
 
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There isn't a C in the league who gets tougher deployment than Dowd - % oz starts is less than half of the next lowest in the league - and he wins his minutes handily

Jay Beagle got buried in far less difficult minutes/deployment scenarios.
 
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Come on Canes wake up! Beat the Habs in regulation! make tomorrow exciting!

Sure would be great to see Columbus in the playoffs after what happened in the summer.
 
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tantalum said:
Come on Canes wake up! Beat the Habs in regulation! make tomorrow exciting!

Sure would be great to see Columbus in the playoffs after what happened in the summer.
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The compulsion that Canadians have to cheer for the Habs at every opportunity is so “basic”. It’s like buying into the Cowboys being “America’s Team”. They have a great game atmosphere, sure, but they are very much the NY Yankees of the NHL and it is absolutely not anyone’s patriotic duty to like them.

If they are going to milk success from a pre-draft era with five opponents for glory and adoration, then they can move over a few more decades and let teams like Columbus have a turn.
 
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Knight53 said:
I’d give away Hughes for free if it meant a proper SJ style rebuild.

These next two years are going to be torturous with these bald idiots just wasting assets trying to compete with a mid roster and dinosaur coach. Clowns already got nothing for Boeser and Suter. Need Hughes to ask out to save ourselves.

That 2016 draft really f***ed any chance of competing. Needed that Tkachuk level piece to put us over the top.
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You may well end up never getting a player as talented as Hughes through a full teardown, or you could have similar talent but be stuck in an endless cycle of suck. If you have generational talent in their prime, you ride it.

If Hughes was signed for the full 8 years, we could've maybe done a "quick tank" like the Avs in 2016-17 or the Bruins this season. So to be reloaded 1-2 years from now. But the reality is that if the team isn't competitive right now, we lose the best defenseman we've ever had in his prime and we'd be hard pressed to ever replace him without lottery luck.
 
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Jyrki21 said:
The compulsion that Canadians have to cheer for the Habs at every opportunity is so “basic”. It’s like buying into the Cowboys being “America’s Team”. They have a great game atmosphere, sure, but they are very much the NY Yankees of the NHL and it is absolutely not anyone’s patriotic duty to like them.

If they are going to milk success from a pre-draft era with five opponents for glory and adoration, then they can move over a few more decades and let teams like Columbus have a turn.
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Ya. Watching a game in Montreal is awesome. Walking through that place with all the pictures etc. is amazing.

But I can’t stand them. Only time I’d cheer for them is if they are playing the Leafs, Oilers, and Flames.
 
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tantalum said:
Ya. Watching a game in Montreal is awesome. Walking through that place with all the pictures etc. is amazing.

But I can’t stand them. Only time I’d cheer for them is if they are playing the Leafs, Oilers, and Flames.
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Habs control their destiny. Get a point and they eliminate CBJ. If not, they need the Isles to at least take CBJ to extra time.

Wild were down 1 to the Ducks but scored in the final 30 seconds to get the game to OT and the 1 point they needed to clinch.

Up to them to get it done.
 
bandwagonesque said:
He'll likely be on blood thinners for a few months, but I would think he can resume normal activity after that as long as no arrhythmia or idiosyncratic blood flow is detected. The main complication of PFO and the surgery to treat it is the potential for clots. Blood likes laminar flow, and it's made for it. When the flow of blood is interrupted or changed by an inserted catheter, an arrhythmia, etc, platelets basically start bumping into each other and forming agglomerations, ie clots. Platelets are designed to clot under certain conditions and non-laminar blood flow creates those conditions where they shouldn't be, hence the necessity for anti-coagulants for people with PFO, atrial fibrilation, etc.
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Why does it burn when I pee?
 
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EpochLink said:
Habs up 3-1 with Carolina pretty much resting their players.
Looks like they got this.
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Carolina rested Slavin. Playing 7 D, so Burns reducing his minutes. They've been locked into NJ for weeks now. So, for them, they just want the season to be over and no injuries. Not going to try to mount a fierce comeback. Habs just need 1 point.
 
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