OT: Around the NHL: That Bedard kid is okay at hockey

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BusinessGoose

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I remember wanting the Pens to offersheet one of these two:

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Sidney the Kidney

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but Analytics say Pettersson is one of the best offensive WAR defensemen in the league!



I do find it hilarious that Anaheim traded 4 of the defensemen on that chart tho.

You know there's something wrong with how people interpret "analytics" when one would insist that Marcus Pettersson is one of the better offensive ANYTHING defensemen in the league.

There's using analytics as a tool, and then there's looking like a tool because you fanatically adhere to what the stats say about a player even when common sense (and, you know, actual production) tells you otherwise.
 

Andy99

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Of course the two Metro teams playing today are winning..the Caps predictably will pass us in points percentage lol
 

Big Friggin Dummy

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I mean, the kinda bigoted garbage and rape apologia that was allowed to fester around here during the Kyle Beach stuff was pretty f***ing egregious. And yes, even this board (I don't bother going anywhere else on this septic tank of a site).

Say some "sunglasses in profile pic" boomer shit? Whatever.

Jokingly say Ovechkin's on steroids? GOOD HEAVENS, CLEAN IT UP!
 

Honour Over Glory

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Gonna be some language you young wankers might not like. But it’s hockey and listening to this, like I feel like Sullivan and Babs are not that dissimilar.

 

Big Friggin Dummy

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I mean, I get that Sully sucks, but Babcock is a f***ing *bad person*. Sully's the wrong coach for this team. Don't conflate the two, it glosses over the lesson of just how shitty Mike Babcock is. He almost drove Franzen to suicide.

Mike Sullivan just plays the wrong top line and favors gruntwork vets, like everything single coach in this league, past, present and future.
 

Honour Over Glory

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Never has been.

And don't get me started on how it's been modded here on HFB the past. Nothing with our mods, thankfully.
Our mods are great - shout out to the wankers three - @Zirakzigil @Scandale du Jour @BHD

I definitely put those three to work when they don’t want to, ha, I wish I was kidding.

But been? It’s still bad on the main board. The misogyny, racism, and just vile bs is still very much present on the main board. The moment it’s about a difficult topic, you really see the types of losers this board has that we luckily don’t experience on our board unless you venture out into the main board.

I mean, I get that Sully sucks, but Babcock is a f***ing *bad person*. Sully's the wrong coach for this team. Don't conflate the two, it glosses over the lesson of just how shitty Mike Babcock is. He almost drove Franzen to suicide.

Mike Sullivan just plays the wrong top line and favors gruntwork vets, like everything single coach in this league, past, present and future.

Sullivan is not shy to petty behavior is the point. What Babs did to Commodore and the general dislike players had for him after he was fired, Babs was petty as shit but more notably a massive bully.

Sullivan is definitely petty af.
 

Honour Over Glory

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Murray getting hurt, again, while being up and down in his last few games and opening the door for a goalie to take over is just very much on brand for his career the last 4 years.

Also speaking of Sullivan and petty, Ian Cole was definitely being railroaded I guess? That’s crazy. Someone can just go on and make some claims and not have to back it up and he gets ruined. Person should be ashamed for the stigma they attach to actual assaults when this bs happens.
 

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LMAO…Dylan Larkin wants more than $8M per on an 8 year contract…he just turned down the Wings latest contract offer to that effect apparently lol…he has 43 points in 47 games and is their number one center…he’s 10 years younger than Geno isn’t anywhere near as good as him even at age 36…

thank god the Caps lost…
 
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Big Friggin Dummy

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Our mods are great - shout out to the wankers three - @Zirakzigil @Scandale du Jour @BHD

I definitely put those three to work when they don’t want to, ha, I wish I was kidding.

But been? It’s still bad on the main board. The misogyny, racism, and just vile bs is still very much present on the main board. The moment it’s about a difficult topic, you really see the types of losers this board has that we luckily don’t experience on our board unless you venture out into the main board.



Sullivan is not shy to petty behavior is the point. What Babs did to Commodore and the general dislike players had for him after he was fired, Babs was petty as shit but more notably a massive bully.

Sullivan is definitely petty af.
That's just NHL coaches, they're almost all pricks. Herb Brooks, Pat Quinn, Lindy Ruff, Hitchcock, Laviolette, Tortorella, Therrien, Julien, Maurice, the list goes on and on for decades. Especially guys who bark like Sully. Their whole thing is trying to get the respect of the room by barking and being tough, and pretty often that causes a rift because players are also grown adults and that kinda shit's stupid. :laugh: Shit, Bylsma wanted so desperately to be one of the guys and be liked by his players that he was pathetic, but even he had his favorites, drove young guys off the team like Despres, and never, ever would've made playing Jake, Rust or Sheary a priority.

It's still another universe from the kinda shit Babcock did though, and I think it's shitty to try and even a little bit equate the two. His players hate his guts because he's a repugnant piece of shit, not because he was a gruff coach. He was, and probably still is, a complete scumbag human.
 
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Big Friggin Dummy

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Murray getting hurt, again, while being up and down in his last few games and opening the door for a goalie to take over is just very much on brand for his career the last 4 years.

Also speaking of Sullivan and petty, Ian Cole was definitely being railroaded I guess? That’s crazy. Someone can just go on and make some claims and not have to back it up and he gets ruined. Person should be ashamed for the stigma they attach to actual assaults when this bs happens.
Agree on that last part. The disservice done to actual victims on the (extremely rare) occasion that something like that happens is f***ing psychotic. Prosecute those people as harshly as you'd prosecute the predator.
 

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LMAO…Dylan Larkin wants more than $8M per on an 8 year contract…he just turned down the Wings latest contract offer to that effect apparently lol…he has 43 points in 47 games and is their number one center…he’s 10 years younger than Geno isn’t anywhere near as good as him even at age 36…

thank god the Caps lost…
It's not even February, Andy. You need to conserve that negativity. April is coming, I promise!
 

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LMAO…Dylan Larkin wants more than $8M per on an 8 year contract…he just turned down the Wings latest contract offer to that effect apparently lol…he has 43 points in 47 games and is their number one center…he’s 10 years younger than Geno isn’t anywhere near as good as him even at age 36…

thank god the Caps lost…

Might as well try to maximize his contract given he'll be the best C on the UFA Market.
 

Andy99

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Might as well try to maximize his contract given he'll be the best C on the UFA Market.
Is he though? I haven’t looked at the UFA lists but woof, paying him smells like paying JT Miller an ungodly sum and look, he just disappeared this season lol
 

Big Friggin Dummy

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I wonder if Larkin's gonna find another level if he leaves Detroit or if he's always gonna leave his team/GM/fans wanting more from the dude.
 
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