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Amazing Kreiderman said:
With their slide, they were coming dangerously close to missing the play offs. Them winning, puts them in the buyers-section for the trade deadline. I want their 1st round pick
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Fair point.

I want them to finish 8th so that the Islanders finish 9th.
 
BringBackLibertys said:
The Ducks are shuffling deck chairs on their mini-titanic is all I am seeing with all these trades. Not doing anything to really improve at all.
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Its Murray. He is patient. Won't fire coaches mid-season. Nothing rash. All his trades are months in the making. Painfully mulls the decisions over. I'm not sure he does anything major in season. Loyal to the coach. Loyal to the players. They will get a chance, for better or worse, to fix this themselves.
 
Yes but Nino Niederreiter might get Carolina going - I like the move earlier today after they lost against us.
 
Yeah Dahlin got off a bit slowly offensively with like 5 points in his first 15 games but he's been steadily getting better and better with every game. Plus the Pettersson hype definitely over shadowed his debut.

Worth remembering that Hedman was a 20 point defensemen for 3 years before his game really took off.
 
Trxjw said:
Yeah Dahlin got off a bit slowly offensively with like 5 points in his first 15 games but he's been steadily getting better and better with every game. Plus the Pettersson hype definitely over shadowed his debut.

Worth remembering that Hedman was a 20 point defensemen for 3 years before his game really took off.
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Yeah some of those examples are going to very important to remember as Kravtsov, this year's top-10 pick, and other rookies come on board.

I can't help but feel that as the league's become younger, we've almost gone too far in the other direction expecting kids to step in and hit the ground running.

If teams don't keep that perspective, there are a lot of kids who 3 and 4 years from now are going to be coming alive with their second teams because the team that drafted them got antsy.
 
Edge said:
Yeah some of those examples are going to very important to remember as Kravtsov, this year's top-10 pick, and other rookies come on board.

I can't help but feel that as the league's become younger, we've almost gone too far in the other direction expecting kids to step in and hit the ground running.

If teams don't keep that perspective, there are a lot of kids who 3 and 4 years from now are going to be coming alive with their second teams because the team that drafted them got antsy.
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I moved here to Pittsburgh at the end of 2005. So the start of the 2006 season was the first year of really the "new era" of Penguins hockey. 19 year old Crosby, 20 year old Malkin, and a 18 year old Staal. I used to have conversations with hockey guys and all they could talk about was just how incredible it was that these kids broke into the league looking like seasoned vets. Fast forward to today and some of those same guys "have major concerns" when a 20 year old hasn't put it all together yet.

Kids are better suited now for quick jumps to the pros than ever before, but theyret still kids and they all develop differently. Unfortunately a lot of people around here pegged the rebuild as a failure 8 weeks ago because Andersson was in the minors, Howden started falling off, and Chytil wasn't on a 30 goal pace. So im not that hopeful that Kravstsov, Miller, etc, will be given much of a leash. Maybe folks will prove me wrong though.
 
Trxjw said:
I moved here to Pittsburgh at the end of 2005. So the start of the 2006 season was the first year of really the "new era" of Penguins hockey. 19 year old Crosby, 20 year old Malkin, and a 18 year old Staal. I used to have conversations with hockey guys and all they could talk about was just how incredible it was that these kids broke into the league looking like seasoned vets. Fast forward to today and some of those same guys "have major concerns" when a 20 year old hasn't put it all together yet.

Kids are better suited now for quick jumps to the pros than ever before, but theyret still kids and they all develop differently. Unfortunately a lot of people around here pegged the rebuild as a failure 8 weeks ago because Andersson was in the minors, Howden started falling off, and Chytil wasn't on a 30 goal pace. So im not that hopeful that Kravstsov, Miller, etc, will be given much of a leash. Maybe folks will prove me wrong though.
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The risk is that we love them so long as we can dream about them and project them.

It's when reality sets-in that the love starts turning into anxiety and doubt.
 
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Machinehead said:
Not NHL, but I wasn't sure where to put this.

Dominic Moore has recently joined Kevin Klein as a member of ZSC Lions.

Klein now co-captains the Lions, wearing the C for away games.
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Probably the best food I've ever had at a hockey game, in Zurich. That arena is a bit weird, but man, they have a French cuisine restaurant in the arena. Very fancy
 
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