Dunny

Good for him. He stuck with it. Very uneven development.

Turns out the Czech trainer dude was just pumping him full of meth so he looked spry for Insta.

Such a fucked up atmosphere around this team. 4 days ago, they all had Keefe's obituary wrote. The media. The blogs, the influencers.. Now, he's a genius again.

2 days ago  Samsonov was only there out of necessity. To be waived the instant Woll came back.. Now, he's a vezina candidate

It must be so exhausting. 

Their blue line personnel are really something else. Morgan Reilly, 3 guys years past their expiration date, and 2 guys that just dropped in from, what I presume, was the Savannah Ghost Pirates. 

They have Papi, though, so they keep winning. 

1 hour ago, Sharpshooter said:

About 20 games too late, but alright.

5 years too late

1 minute ago, Pete said:

It's what came up when I searched for "eek" face. It's not that deep.

 

I don't even know why you're reading that much into it. It's a reaction GIF, not a statement on pop culture.

 

And yea, I'm a Jay Z fan. Deal with it.

Would you let your daughter listen to his degenerate, criminal, misogynistic "art"?

Just now, Pete said:

But one of the incidents you're discussing involves a photo that was meant for one person and was shared with many.

 

If that happened to your daughter, and your response was "well you shouldn't have sent the picture... "

 

 Jay Z. Very fitting 

6 minutes ago, Bugg said:

It's unfair to blame hockey for bad behavior. This sadly is a human thing. These guys happened to be hockey players. Could have been a rock band, a fire company, college professors. If they're bad guys and it's proven they did this,  that's on them.

 

Western cultural elites think they're gonna solve every problem with a new program or law rather than simply punishing bad behavior as warning enough. The legalistic bubble wrap afterward is pointless if you don't instill right and wrong in children.

100%. There will  undoubtedly, be bad humans in hockey until hockey ceases to exist.

For me, I have a 2016 who is already getting invites to play all over Ontario. This will be an absolutely invaluable lesson for him in decision making. Women and booze are the worst enemy of a teenager with aspirations. This is the basic truth of every adolescent athlete. Both should be avoided.

That's no fault of women, it's mostly the fault of mixing male teenage hormones with alcohol. Almost nothing positive can happen.

31 minutes ago, Pete said:

That's fair, but it doesn't mean that there shouldn't be consequences.

 

I wonder what you'd consider frivolous if it happened to your daughter.

I 100% understand my daughter is a female, and I understand they can have motives, as well, yes.

I played junior. There's a type here that wants hockey player dick, and nothing but. It cuts both ways.

Now, if they drugged her, and raped her, whatever, sure, like I said, they should swing from a tree, but we don't know. 

Just now, Pete said:

I mean the incident was about 5 years ago. What's "long gone"?

What's that got to do with this? We supposed to ignore gang rape because "other sports do worse shit"? Holy whataboutism. Jesus.

That culture, which 100% existed, if not exactly how some describe it, is gone. Hazing doesn't happen. Rookie parties (which was a big time risqué activity) don't happen. 

Junior players have their supervision cranked up 11. They are more interested in nutrition, education, and video games than ever before. Nobody cares if there's a minority on the team, anymore. Half the kids are minorities. Attitudes have changed. I live it everyday, at the rink. 

The pointed education they get around these events is a big deal. 

5 years ago doesn't seem too long ago, but these kids wouldn't be too far removed from the previous culture.

I don't know the facts, none of us do, but I've seen enough of cases like this to remain suspicious. Cases like Mailloux and Virtanen (and Trevor Bauer) were ultimately pretty frivolous.

17 minutes ago, Br4d said:

This is going to be 5 convictions or plea deals.  The authorities wouldn't have gone to this length without enough evidence to secure convictions.

This isn't the USA lol

This is going to cause such a pearl clutching fiasco in this country. It'll be nothing but "toxic hockey culture" for months. 

I'll probably have 5 new mandatory courses to complete to match all the "touching little boys penises is bad" mandatory training from the Grahaeme James Era.

If they truly truly did something egregious then I hope they swing from a tree, if only for the fact I'll have to listen to talking heads tell me why hockey is evil for the next 12 months. I guess we'll have have to wait for it to play out.

It's hard for me to fathom how much more sanitized the game can get at the grassroots level, if there was a problem at one time, it's long gone. Long long gone, but nobody will care. They'll latch on to this like nothing ever seen before.

Anyways, at least the NFL still gets a free pass. 

If they were in the NFL this would be worthy of one sentence in a rotowire report.

Crosby was pretty close to this point, now it's not a thing. Hasn't been a thing in 15 years.

I'm not convinced that it's not like IBS or fibromyalga. You see what you want to see. 

They have a 81 year old building their team. It would be good for us if he stuck around another decade.

There's hundreds of coaches out there with ideas, the easy thing to do is just go with the defacto guy on the old boys list. 

Not that that he was necessarily the wrong choice. I don't know, nobody knows, yet. 

Good thing we got that coach all the puck knowers wanted. I'm excited to see how he turns it around. All the adjustments and stuff. Lots of adjustments.

He definitely has problems. He can neither skate, or shoot and he's 175 pounds.

Who cares? He's the poster child for deception, and his brain is a Pentium 166 w/ MMX while everyone else is still running a 486.

Deception is the newest shiny thing and he is the best at it.

Lias Andersson

Nils Lunqveest 

Vitaly Kravtsov

Lindbom

Remember when they drafted a couple Czech overagers? lol. 

It's pretty obvious 

He prefers to use his face

That's absolutely insane. I spent 10 years out there and never witnessed it that bad. Hopefully you didn't go with the government rebated heat pump lol

Our depth had Blidh out

2 hours ago, LindG1000 said:

Jonathan Quick is outplaying him in front of the same team. 

 

They're the same goalie at low danger - both at .971. They're the same goalie at medium danger - both at .876. At high danger? Quick is at a league-leading .848, performing literally 17% better than expected. Shesterkin is at .736 - and that is still around 7% better than expected, but that's such a huge delta. There's no meaningful difference in the xSave% across the board between the two, suggesting that the team isn't giving up better or worse chances to either goalie.

 

Shesterkin isn't making the hard saves a great goalie makes, and his backup having basically the same expectations and the same outcomes except for "Quick makes the big saves" bears out that Igor's a problem right now.

 

 

Quick gets all the muffin assignments, though. High danger chances trying to be converted by lesser than finishers. That's real.

The more Quick plays, the more he'll be exposed. The answer isn't Quick, the answer is Igor playing better, or else there is no answer.

His play is definitely an issue. It's going to be a down year for Igor. Just one of the many reasons investing more than 6 or 7 million in a goalie is bad business. 

Just now, Pete said:

And It's fixable. First thing is to get healthy. Second thing is to get a center, we can't keep trotting Bonino out there. He's been personally responsible for at least one goal in each of the last three losses. A center who is here for his defensive game simply cannot be -7. 

It is important to keep their injury issues in mind when grading the team performance, but that's on the FO to a degree. 

High danger chances are cool, but they're not all created equal. So many high danger chances the Rangers get feel like I would make the save as they are telegraphed.

What opposition is doing seems different. They have guys popping in and out of nowhere, causing chaos and leading to a number of basically unstoppable chances.

(Shersterkin also needs to stop the run of the mill grade A chances, which he isn't doing)