NHL News/Notes XIX

[Cas]

Huh

As a longtime baseball fan, I am often reminded of similar decadal leader lists that include such luminaries as Mark Grace and Jack Morris, and this list has nothing of the sort.

 

[landshark]

As a longtime baseball fan, I am often reminded of similar decadal leader lists that include such luminaries as Mark Grace and Jack Morris, and this list has nothing of the sort.

Woah. That's pretty crazy. As a reformed Cubs fan who watched Grace daily back then, wow. He never had more than 200 hits in a season. He topped out at 193 hits in 1993 but the next year was 120... That's pretty crazy.

I was pretty shocked Jumbo was on the list for the 2000's.

 

[Cas]

Woah. That's pretty crazy. As a reformed Cubs fan who watched Grace daily back then, wow. He never had more than 200 hits in a season. He topped out at 193 hits in 1993 but the next year was 120... That's pretty crazy.

I was pretty shocked Jumbo was on the list for the 2000's.

Grace was a durable high-average hitter whose prime years perfectly coincided with the 1990's. Basically perfect timing.

I suspect great players tend to lead any given ten-year period lists in any sport, but sometimes you get weird results, and when we artificially confine ourselves only to calendar decades, we notice them more and tend to give themselves more credence than they deserve.

I was mostly just interested to see that this particular list doesn't have any odd outliers like that.

 

[LadyStanley]

State of the Stanley Cup drought: How close are Sharks to winning first title?

The San Jose Sharks have been fixtures in the NHL playoffs for most of their history, but they've never been able to get over the hump.

sports.yahoo.com

Yahoo Canada doing ten longest Cup droughts/never wons. Sharks are #2 in then ten part series. 31 years and counting.

Looks at the organization playoff history and claims sharks had one of the worst prospect pools and probably won't be contending any time soon.

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[LadyStanley]

Sting Thank Staubitz for 8 Years of Contributions as he Steps Down as Associate Head Coach

Sarnia Sting General Manager Dylan Seca announced this morning that Associate Head Coach Brad Staubitz has stepped down from his role with the Hockey Club to relocate to the United States with his family.

www.oursportscentral.com

Former Shark Brad Staubitz leaves OHL Sarnia Sting as associate head coach. (Moving to US)

 

[LadyStanley]

Hanging up the skates

 

[LadyStanley]

RIP

 

[LadyStanley]

 

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[LadyStanley]

For reference

 

[LadyStanley]

8 more years of facing the pest.

 

[landshark]

8 more years of facing the pest.

At least no one died on this one. I read your other two posts in the other threads and I'm like, "Damn, LS going for the hat trick of dead folks..?"

 

[LadyStanley]

At least no one died on this one. I read your other two posts in the other threads and I'm like, "Damn, LS going for the hat trick of dead folks..?"

Things often happen in 3s.

 

[landshark]

Things often happen in 3s.

Yah. There's one more, uh, shoe to drop then... 3 shoes is kinda weird tho.

 

[LadyStanley]

 

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[LadyStanley]

He gets the good guests

 

[LadyStanley]

Hanging up the skates

 

[landshark]

He gets the good guests

LOL Nickelback.

 

[LadyStanley]

RIP

 

[LadyStanley]

Hits close to Sharks

 

[LadyStanley]

Good luck in retirement

 

[LadyStanley]

Wasn't that guy part of EK65 trade