Around the NHL — Episode XLXVII

Tuna99

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Sep 26, 2009
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I like what Cirelli brings (this year) but I am leery of Guys brought for their defense only. Despite a great start this year, Cirelli's best year ever was last year at 45 points. Zaumner when he went to the Olympics was coming off his best year ever of 50 points and a great world championship the previous spring.
Guys ho historically are closer to 0.5 PPG that go on a hot streak and put up PPG over 20 games are still not PPG players.

This may work out but there is more risk in taking a Cirelli over a Thomas or a Suzuki

But gold medal teams have had Kris Draper, Maltby, Brendan Morrow. Pretty normal for Team Canada to have a couple of roll players
 

Mark Stones Spleen

Trouba's elbow
Jan 17, 2008
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I knew there was a reason I did not play Pro Hockey.. so you know... this wasn't it

Interesting.

I'm curious to know how much WWE contributed. I just watched the Vince McMahon documentary on Netflix and they completely disregarded the theory that wrestlers were getting concussed. After some negative press, they flipped the script, but my guess was that they weren't doing a lot, thought it was just a mirage.
 

Xspyrit

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Jun 29, 2008
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Rest of the rosters for the 4 nations face off seem set. Surprised on:
-Arvidsson made it on Sweden over Eklund or Zetterlund
-Nelson & Kreider made it over Caufield or Tage Thompson
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Caufield is not a Top-20 American forward, very small and pretty unidimensional too

For me, the 4 big snub among US forwards are :

Jason Robertson
Tage Thompson
Clayton Keller
Alex Tuch

I would easily have each one of them over Kreider. Nelson has a strong case, very underrated player.

Why did Columbus dump Laine again?

It must be because he has a high cap hit and misses games every season. But I still wish we were all in on these moves.

Laine - Stutzle - Batherson
Tkachuk - Norris - Giroux
Greig - Pinto - Joseph

Don't sign Perron, give the 2nd to another team to retain an amount of Laine's AAV
 

Mr Hat

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Crazy to see Duchene lighting it up with 14g and 28p in 24 games playing only 16 minutes. Happy for him and Stars will definitely be my bandwagon team assuming Sens keep on being Sens. With Seguin out they can load up at the deadline and go full Vegas.
 

Silencio

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Every season at some point I think "ok this is finally the year the Leafs aren't going to make the playoffs in the Matthews/Marner era" and then of course they go like 12-1 over the next stretch of games. So f***ing annoying.
 
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