Pre-Game Talk: Look at me, I’m the Mr Kot now. EDM vs. UTA - 7 pm on Tuesday

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Ah shit, here we go again
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I guess they’re not a pushover


Its even funnier because the PDO champ Canucks scored 6X on 15sog in previous game so just figured half ass it. They got complacent with one undeserved win.

What a bunch of rubes.

Heres a thing to which is so obvious and you could set a clock to it. The lil whiney baby Petersson who was crying to management that JT Miller is unpleasant, and getting his grill decides to show up the moment JT Miller is gone. All the tears dried up and he can see again.
 
If we're going to lose a game the rest of the way, I would live with it being this one.

Let's at least give them a loser point.
I would prefer to beat them, and beat them soundly. And then, they can continue on their winning ways.:D
 
Can we please just blow them out? I want a nice, relaxing game that doesn't make me clench my ass for 60 minutes.
Running up the scores is what got the oil started with the bad habits; low percentage plays. Perimeter play globetrotteresque bullcrap. It's turnover-machine hockey.

I'll take a 1-0 game from here on out if the forwards start taking inside lanes, the low percentage blind passes stop and the perimeter crap ceases.

We want the team rounding into form as the playoffs approach.
 
ayo that meme?!?!? you know what that guy says right
Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce special orders don’t upset us. All we ask is that you let us serve it your way…
We can serve your broiled beef Whopper fresh with everything on topper. Anyway you think is proper, have it your way… have it your way, have it your way! At Burger King, eat at Burger King! :sarcasm:
 
Weird I’ve never seen that before, def just looked it up lol

I mean there’s a face photoshopped on it. Although apparently I can’t say the name of the person faceswapped because of “politics”

Which also seriously HF moderation? The mention of someone even completely out of context leads to post deletion? That’s absolutely lunacy.
 
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Running up the scores is what got the oil started with the bad habits; low percentage plays. Perimeter play globetrotteresque bullcrap. It's turnover-machine hockey.

I'll take a 1-0 game from here on out if the forwards start taking inside lanes, the low percentage blind passes stop and the perimeter crap ceases.

We want the team rounding into form as the playoffs approach.

I don't think this is true.

League-wide, teams have won by 3 or more goals 39.0% of the time. Using that percentage over 39 wins would suggest 15.21 of Edmonton wins should have been by 3 or more. Edmonton has won by 3 or more 12 times

League-wide, teams have won by 4 or more goals 16.15% of the time. Using that percentage over 39 wins would suggest 6.3 of Edmonton wins should have been by 3 or more. Edmonton has won by 4 or more 7 times

League-wide, teams have won by 5 or more goals 4.95% of the time. Using that percentage over 39 wins would suggest 1.93 of Edmonton wins should have been by 3 or more. Edmonton has won by 5 or more once.

Edmonton doesn't blow out teams more often than average in general. In fact, 46.3% of all their games have been decided by 1 goal where the league average is only 38.3%.

Oddly, on average teams win by 3 or more goals more often than they win by 1 goal, whereas Edmonton has 18 wins by 1 goal and only 12 by 3 or more.
 
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Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce special orders don’t upset us. All we ask is that you let us serve it your way…
We can serve your broiled beef Whopper fresh with everything on topper. Anyway you think is proper, have it your way… have it your way, have it your way! At Burger King, eat at Burger King! :sarcasm:

Ding fries are done! Ding fries are done! I got to run. I got to run. I work at Burger King, I make flamebroiled whoppers, I wear paper hats. Would you like an apple pie with that? Would you like an apple pie with that?
 
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Never having lived in an NHL city , I have always wondered how this works. A guy like Kane - is he around the team all year? Like at team meetings ? Social events ? Dinners? Or he is he effectively a ghost? Similarly, is a guy like Frederic hanging with the group to create some familiarity ?
 
Never having lived in an NHL city , I have always wondered how this works. A guy like Kane - is he around the team all year? Like at team meetings ? Social events ? Dinners? Or he is he effectively a ghost? Similarly, is a guy like Frederic hanging with the group to create some familiarity ?

I'm not sure. I think it's up to the individuals and the team and how long the injury is.

I've heard ex-players say in interviews that injured players typically just stay in the home city of the team to get treatment and that they don't spend a lot of time with guys at the rink other than attending home games and coming down to the room after the game.

I'd assume they are always invited to team social events, though.
 
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