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Waived: [STL] F Kasperi Kapanen waived by the Blues (claimed)

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1specter said:
Wanna hear one better? Your boy Dubas traded for McCann, only to leave him exposed in the draft because he wanted to protect Justin Holl. f***ing wanker traded assets for a 40 goal scorer just to give him away for free
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Just when you think someone can't do any worse, Kyle Dubas comes in and outdoes him.
 
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crowi said:
If you're drunk driving then you should go to jail. It doesn't matter if no one got hurt. It's not a minor mistake.
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His case is completed, he served whatever punishment was handed down, yea it's a minor mistake in the grand scheme of things and not worth bringin up in his waiver thread.
 
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Filthy Dangles said:
It’s a reference to him being arrested for ‘extreme dui’ in his home country, means he was ‘really’ drunk according to their laws.

.12 I think, wouldn’t have met the standard in the US for extreme dui…

But I guess a minor mistake where no one got hurt will be held against him by some people…
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What a joke. "A minor mistake" as if he didn't choose to get that hammered and drive. No excuses for DUI. Ever. As someone who has seen multiple members of her sports teams outside of hockey die while driving drunk, and more importantly, has had a friend die to someone who made the same "mistake" as Kapanen, there's no excuse just because no one got hurt that time.
 
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Night Shift said:
To be fair, we haven't had many father to son recent successes.

Stephan Matteau
Martin Brodeur (2 sons drafted in the NHL)
Claude Lemiuex

Maybe I'm forgetting others but Kasperi was atleast a half successful than the peers mentioned above.
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Take it or leave it. I know he is a polarizing personality. But Mark Madden described him as a guy more interested in being a hockey player than playing hockey. Likes the money and fame but gets by on his natural ability rather than trying to be the best player he is capable of being.

Summed up his time in Pittsburgh pretty honestly. He was insanely frustrating to watch as a player because you could see what he was capable of, it would come in glimpses, but he would never put it together outside of flashes.
 
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Hobnobs said:
I guess he's referring to Arizona stupid names for DUIs

There the normal DUI then extreme DUI and then SUPER EXTREME DUI
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First of all, she.

Second of all, I'm referring to what his crime was in his native Finland. Aggravated/extreme DUI. He was well over the legal limit and decided to drive. He's lucky that nobody got hurt when there are so many cases where people have died.

Anyone who commits DUI/DWI is playing Russian Roulette with their lives and the lives of others. I don't care if he f***ing drank himself stupid in his own home and slept it off; that's his prerogative, but when he got behind the wheel after being that drunk, that's where he crossed the line, especially since there's cabs available, especially since he's rich enough to afford a cab.
 
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He only had 1 20 goal seasons, thought it was more.

Anyways he wasn't good enough to play with Crosby/put up points with Crosby in Pittsburgh that's how you know he's not it.
 
Memento said:
First of all, she.

Second of all, I'm referring to what his crime was in his native Finland. Aggravated/extreme DUI. He was well over the legal limit and decided to drive. He's lucky that nobody got hurt when there are so many cases where people have died.

Anyone who commits DUI/DWI is playing Russian Roulette with their lives and the lives of others. I don't care if he f***ing drank himself stupid in his own home and slept it off; that's his prerogative, but when he got behind the wheel after being that drunk, that's where he crossed the line, especially since there's cabs available, especially since he's rich enough to afford a cab.
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Sorry for wrong pronoun.

I don't think it's called extreme DUI in Finland. That's a Arizona thing to my knowledge.

As for the rest of I'm in full agreement. Don't f***ing drink and drive.
 
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Romang67 said:
Nylander is probably the most recent really good one?
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Tkachuk brothers? Sam Reinhart? but we've seen more recent ones, such as Jake Sanderson.

We are probably seeing more NHL players make the league that are NHLers kids due to the opportunity at a young age combined with cost of the sport. Hockey is rarely something someone can pick up late like Football and Basketball where sheer rare athleticism can get you far. If you are skating at a young age you have an advantage. If your parents can afford high-level opportunities it's an advantage. Hockey more than any of the other big 4 North American sports relies on starting at a young age, and playing at a high-level at a fairly young age both of which add up to an expensive youth sport when including the cost of ice time and equipment.
 
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Hobnobs said:
Sorry for wrong pronoun.

I don't think it's called extreme DUI in Finland. That's a Arizona thing to my knowledge.

As for the rest of I'm in full agreement. Don't f***ing drink and drive.
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Fair enough. Not from Arizona (St. Louis native) but aggravated (what it's called in Finland)/extreme DUI are quite similar, and there has to be heftier punishments for those who are egregiously hammered and still decide to drive. As in have their license taken away and have to serve jail time if convicted and work their ass off to re-earn it as a result. So, I think it's a rare thing Arizona does right.
 
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Memento said:
First of all, she.

Second of all, I'm referring to what his crime was in his native Finland. Aggravated/extreme DUI. He was well over the legal limit and decided to drive. He's lucky that nobody got hurt when there are so many cases where people have died.

Anyone who commits DUI/DWI is playing Russian Roulette with their lives and the lives of others. I don't care if he f***ing drank himself stupid in his own home and slept it off; that's his prerogative, but when he got behind the wheel after being that drunk, that's where he crossed the line, especially since there's cabs available, especially since he's rich enough to afford a cab.
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You seem a little wound up, sounds like a night to relax and have a few drinks at home eh? There are a few games on tonight to boot.

i don't recommend driving though.
 
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Memento said:
Fair enough. Not from Arizona (St. Louis native) but aggravated (what it's called in Finland)/extreme DUI are quite similar, and there has to be heftier punishments for those who are egregiously hammered and still decide to drive. As in have their license taken away and have to serve jail time if convicted and work their ass off to re-earn it as a result. So, I think it's a rare thing Arizona does right.
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I'm not sure they do it right. As I can recall it when the Cardinals GM got caught with extreme DUI his own team gave him a worse punishment than the state.

Police put him in the drunk tank and that was it basically. While the cardinals suspended him, fined 200k and he wasnt allowed to return to the team before completing counceling and a dui education course.

In finland the fines are pretty tough as well a mild drivers licence suspension for first time offenders which turns into very hefty suspensions if repeated.
 
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Night Shift said:
You seem a little wound up, sounds like a night to relax and have a few drinks at home eh? There are a few games on tonight to boot.

i don't recommend driving though.
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I don't drink, and I'm only wound up because people think to joke about this. It's a sore spot. One of my close friends died to a drunk driver. A mother of three. Gone. Because some asshole decided that driving drunk, running a red, and hitting her car dead-on to get wherever the f*** he was going was more important than her life or anyone else's lives.
 
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Memento said:
I don't drink, and I'm only wound up because people think to joke about this. It's a sore spot. One of my close friends died to a drunk driver. A mother of three. Gone. Because some asshole decided that driving drunk, running a red, and hitting her car dead-on to get wherever the f*** he was going was more important than her life or anyone else's lives.
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Understandable.
 
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Night Shift said:
To be fair, we haven't had many father to son recent successes.

Stephan Matteau
Martin Brodeur (2 sons drafted in the NHL)
Claude Lemiuex

Maybe I'm forgetting others but Kasperi was atleast a half successful than the peers mentioned above.
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Jason Blake's kid looking like a good one in a small sample size so far
 
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