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Speculation: Roster building thread XLIX ”U Can’t Always get what U Want”

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RGY said:
Drury looks like he has put on a few pounds. I wonder what he has been eating
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Most overrated trash pizza. My friends love it. I think it's garbage. Thin sliced, smaller sized. Limited toppings. Meh.

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Tawnos said:
Well, look... culturally speaking Russia is a different place than the rest of Europe, so I get why people might think this way. I agree though, the need for it is overstated.
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Ehh, I don't really agree. I've lived in Eastern Europe for several years now and Russians have more in common with much of the population here than do Western Europeans. This derives from their status as post-Soviet countries.

Generalizing Europe as one group is really not possible. Moreover, I think a lot of Americans visit major international cities and thus define populations through those lenses, when in reality, they're not that accurate.

Visiting Rome does not show you Italy, just as visiting Warsaw does not show you Poland. It's like defining Americans through only New Yorkers, it's terribly inaccurate.

Just an example, Chytil was raised in a small village/city. I am confident his upbringing was nothing like that experienced in the West and was very possibly more similar to upbringings in Russia. My wife is a few years older than him, and was raised in a bigger city in Poland, that I have visited multiple times and still acts and appears extremely Soviet-like.

The other aspect is young hockey players, especially good ones, are traveling all the time and generally have international interactions. I mean, Buchnevich was playing in international tournaments long before he joined the Rangers. This also gives them exposure that does not make it some complete culture shock to up and change.
 
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DutchShamrock said:
In multiple earlier posts he dropped teams, possible assets and types of targets. Later on, he outlined the structure of THREE possible trades. Then he slapped the board over the head and pointed to the bread crumbs.

I'm sorry, if we want any reliable insight around that is all we get. Anything more, and an unpaid intern can trace the info and we are stuck with Fast and Vesey for McDavid level speculation from uninformed fans. Dagoon... I would be insulted if I was vetted and got linked to him as a comparison. He was wrong a whole lot more than he was right. I would rather have vague and reliable info instead of attention seeking promises that somehow went off the rails last minute.
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Faceless said:
Ehh, I don't really agree. I've lived in Eastern Europe for several years now and Russians have more in common with much of the population here than do Western Europeans. This derives from their status as post-Soviet countries.

Generalizing Europe as one group is really not possible. Moreover, I think a lot of Americans visit major international cities and thus define populations through those lenses, when in reality, they're not that accurate.

Visiting Rome does not show you Italy, just as visiting Warsaw does not show you Poland. It's like defining Americans through only New Yorkers, it's terribly inaccurate.

Just an example, Chytil was raised in a small village/city. I am confident his upbringing was nothing like that experienced in the West and was very possibly more similar to upbringings in Russia. My wife is a few years older than him, and was raised in a bigger city in Poland, that I have visited multiple times and still acts and appears extremely Soviet-like.

The other aspect is young hockey players, especially good ones, are traveling all the time and generally have international interactions. I mean, Buchnevich was playing in international tournaments long before he joined the Rangers. This also gives them exposure that does not make it some complete culture shock to up and change.
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Granted, I was thinking more about Fenno-Scandia than I was about Czechia and the rest of Eastern Europe. But the point I'm working with there is that the cultural differences between northern, western and southern Europe are smaller than the cultural differences between any of those regions and Russia (and by proxy, eastern Europe). Even though the gaps I'm talking about are smaller, you could say much the same thing about New Englanders, New Yorkers, and Mid-Westerners compared to Southerners here in the States.

The rural/urban divide exists everywhere.
 
Not a fan of Barstool but i watch every pizza review that finds itself on my screen, and I can tell you an 8.4 is an amazing score. Dave never misses an opportunity to knock on someone if their pizza is trash, 8.4 is higher than i thought it would be. Good on Chris Drury for owning a solid joint.
 
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Kupo said:
Bacon Egg and.. Pizza?
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I've always been one of those people who eats non-breakfast foods in the morning, even when I was kid.

And now that I am good and hungry, I get to hop on a plane for South America.

I'll probably buy some Wifi time, but I'll likely be out of contact for the next 90 mins or so.

Not ignoring anyone and no one should read anything into the silence.
 
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Edge said:
I've always been one of those people who eats non-breakfast foods in the morning, even when I was kid.

And now that I am good and hungry, I get to hop on a plane for South America.

I'll probably buy some Wifi time, but I'll likely be out of contact for the next 90 mins or so.

Not ignoring anyone and no one should read anything into the silence.
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To be fair, bread cheese oil and tomato isnt exactly the anti-breakfast. It’s strictly the stigma around it. In my culture we can have Hachipurri for breakfast and that has all the same ingredients minus the Tomato sauce.
 
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TheKingsCourt said:
Not a fan of Barstool but i watch every pizza review that finds itself on my screen, and I can tell you an 8.4 is an amazing score. Dave never misses an opportunity to knock on someone if their pizza is trash, 8.4 is higher than i thought it would be. Good on Chris Drury for owning a solid joint.
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Thanks for watching for me. I can't watch or support that garbage. Next time I'm passing through CT, maybe I'll go out of my way to visit his joint.
 
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Chalfdiggity3 said:
Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening pizza at supper time, you can eat pizza on a bagel, you can eat pizza any time lol
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LOL. I am generally pretty forgiving with pizza and pizza-products, but Pizza Bagels are up there with St. Louis style, Cleveland style, shit like Mama Celeste, Tombstone, and Elio's, etc. I draw the line there.
 
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