Out of Town Thread - New Year's Edition!

[waffledave]

I've always felt this ended up being his breaking point. For a guy so obsessed with machismo, to lose his cool, break down and sob openly during an interview must have destroyed him.

 

[rik schau]

Dwight King. He was so slow, he made his linemates look like Conner McDavid.

I'd make Dwight King look like Usain Bolt,lol.

 

[ArtPeur]

I've always felt this ended up being his breaking point. For a guy so obsessed with machismo, to lose his cool, break down and sob openly during an interview must have destroyed him.

I thought injuries made him slower.. but he didn't miss much all career long and that's kinda surprising considering how he plays (or used to)

 

[le_sean]

Good on Stammer with his 500th.

Would have got there a lot earlier if it wasn’t for that horrific leg injury. He’s averaging over 0.5 goals per game in his career. An incredible player.

 

[red devil]

Not accurate,he had 38 last season.

Your correct I only looked at his points with Montreal last and forgot to look at his Colorado points. The way he is playing he will pass that in a week.

 

[sandviper]

I'd make Dwight King look like Usain Bolt,lol.

Well, end of the day, he was in the NHL...

That said, I forget what game it was but there was a sequence where he was chasing an opposing puck carrier and man, it was quite brutal to watch. Even though the whole thing took just seconds, it looked like I was watching King skate 10 minutes there.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Matt Dumba a healthy scratch. Not an injury, but rather a hockey decision

 

[red devil]

Pacioretty non contact injury



Added Brind'Amour quote from after the game

 

[Ozmodiar]

Pacioretty non contact injury

Achilles?

 

[the]

That’s awful for Pacioretty. Hope it‘s nothing serious but it looks bad.

 

[red devil]

Achilles?

Looks like it but I have no idea. Unfortunately usually non contact injuries end up serious

 

[Adriatic]

Jets are a first place in team in the west

 

[Team_Spirit]

 

[Runner77]

This whole tank thing by the fans of all bottom feeding teams is getting ridiculous.

 

[JuJu Mobb]

Can anyone explain what happened to Pac?

 

[JianYang]

That’s awful for Pacioretty. Hope it‘s nothing serious but it looks bad.

From the Chara incident to these two achilees injuries.... Pacioretty has had 3 catostrophic injuries that most players will go a whole career without.

 

[JianYang]

This whole tank thing by the fans of all bottom feeding teams is getting ridiculous.

It's embarrassing, and a huge stain on north American pro sports.

 

[Runner77]

It's embarrassing, and a huge stain on north American pro sports.

If only one of the major North American pro leagues would adopt a perpetual draft model that would do away with the insanity of cheering for failure — maybe it might get the other leagues to follow suit.

 

[ReHabs]

It's embarrassing, and a huge stain on north American pro sports.

Tanking is disgraceful. They need to end it immediately.

 

[ReHabs]

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Subban is on the verge of tears every time he’s back in the Bell Centre

Weber, under contract for 6m last season and still technically captain, avoids his cratering young team like the plague and refuses to visit. The following year he is hunky dory coaching his new team in their training gear.

Some Habs “fans” and media fanboys: Subban is a narcissist and a bad guy, Weber had a special aura.

 

[Lshap]

Can anyone explain what happened to Pac?

He had recently returned from an achilles tendon injury. Best guess is that the tendon was re-injured last night.

 

[waffledave]

Subban is on the verge of tears every time he’s back in the Bell Centre

Weber, under contract for 6m last season and still technically captain, avoids his cratering young team like the plague and refuses to visit. The following year he is hunky dory coaching his new team in their training gear.

Some Habs “fans” and media fanboys: Subban is a narcissist and a bad guy, Weber had a special aura.

It rubbed me the wrong way how Weber refused to be around the team.

 

[RabbleMasterBlaster]

It rubbed me the wrong way how Weber refused to be around the team.

Weber probably never wanted to be here. Let's not forget that he did to his team as a young player. That kind of ego tends to carry over. But he played the proto-Hockey guy to perfection so was always seen as some kind of God. Good riddance.

 

[sandviper]

I dunno… I love PK, but I don’t think it’s fair to criticize Weber on his his caring for the team. He really was innocent through this as he didn‘t ask to be traded either. I’m sure he was loyal to the Habs and loved the guys but it was a job for him, as it is most players. He wasn’t homegrown so I understand he didn’t have the same attachment as PK, drafted and developed by us and grew up as a diehard Habs fan in Leafs Nation.

 

[sandviper]

If only one of the major North American pro leagues would adopt a perpetual draft model that would do away with the insanity of cheering for failure — maybe it might get the other leagues to follow suit.

It’ll never fly, but they can reverse the order where if you miss the playoffs, lottery odds are reversed where the shittiest teams have the worse odds. This would force bad teams to play for something and maybe cut back on the obvious management tactics of gutting a team.

I’d redo the odds a bit though. Maybe instead of giving #16 an 18.5% chance, I’d make it 8.5% and adjust all the odds accordingly.

Shit teams still can win the lottery and pick 1st, but this system would reward teams actually trying to make the playoffs.