TwoMinutesForNothing

My wife likes iced coffee so I got her a cold brew machine for her birthday.  OXO Good Grips cold brew maker.  It had the strongest reviews and only cost $50.  Takes 12-24 hours to make, you have to let it sit overnight to extract I guess.  I got her some local beans with some interesting flavors from a roastery here in Shreveport that is supposed to be good.  Their most popular flavor was Pecan Pie.  She'll be opening it all on Weds so I'll report back.

Oh and my mother was in Hawaii the last couple weeks and picked me up a bunch of different Kona beans from different plantations that I'm excited to get my hands on.

1 hour ago, shestYORKin said:

love a well rounded analytics nightmare every once and a while. this should hold me over until the Reavo hatty. 

We got more hits.  Must be why we won. 

Hot garbage so far.  We've played 4 games and thus far I've been unable to watch 2 of them.  Got home from work all excited to watch, avoided the score all day and then log on to see the game is not there.  Fuck them.  Typical ESPN. 

First shutout last night.  He's 4-1.  Goalies development can be weird but he seems pretty solid.  May be our best goalie prospect since Shesty. 

4 hours ago, Dunny said:

I have a different issue. I can't bring myself to give a shit. I don't like half the team. I've come around to your POV on the coach, I talked to some people who know. Gallant may have an IQ of 80. Nice guy, though. 

Hopefully it's just because it's October, but I think I may be entering my curling years. 

Also, LOL @ The Padres. 

Oh the Padres.

Played his first NCAA game.  Lost in OT but saved 30 of 32 shots. 

Finally playing his first hockey since being drafted.  Scored 2 goals tonight for Barrie.

On 10/6/2021 at 10:19 AM, Drew a Penalty said:

You're not making a convincing argument for any of Othmann, Lamb or Grubbe. Sorry. You're just convincing me that you still don't know much about them.

You act as though Othmann is trying to be sold as something other than a middle-six support type. There's nothing wrong with drafting that type of player in the first round especially midway through and during what was considered one of the worst drafts in years. The talent level in 2021 was always expected to be below that of 2020 and a number of the drafts that preceded it except 2017. Were they supposed to pick a player they've convinced themselves is high-end in a weak year? That's more like Ryan Gropp. No one has even come out and said they think Othmann is some hidden offensive talent. J.T. Miller was the exact type of pick as Othmann. He turned out just fine despite people calling him a less talented grinder.

You didn't even know how Lamb played his game. I'm discounting anything you say about him. I'm unconvinced you've done anything besides look at his numbers.

"Scouting reports." for Grubbe. Those aren't the best things on him, that's just all you were able to find on him. Cool. All that shows to me is that your sources for information are flawed if that's the best information you have on him.

The scouts do make the picks. Do you think GMs are fully versed in players beyond the first round? No. They defer to their scouts to make the best arguments for players to be selected. It's almost entirely decided by committee with some deference to seniority. Chris Drury wasn't the one making the Jayden Grubbe pick. I doubt he's really even seen him play. But one of the members of the scouting staff, someone who literally served the year before in 2020, did. There were no significant changes to the scouting staff. The only differences between the staff available for 2020 and 2021 is that Gorton, Davidson, and Bobrov weren't around anymore. Of those three, only Bobrov was actually involved in scouting. That's it. So how were there different people making choices this year? There was no turnover. 

Hell, can you even convince me that their draft rationale changed? You're slobbering all over the class of 2020 but they're all mostly grinders anyway! What do you think Cuylle is? What do you think Rempe is? Do you think Berard is just some skilled player? No! He's known as annoying little grinder. A rat. It's not as though the Rangers suddenly changed their direction. They were drafting less-skilled support players in 2020 just as they did in 2021. The William Cuylle pick was lambasted by the same people and charts across the web that you normally parrot. He was thought to be way more like Ryan Gropp than Othmann. Rempe was just some big character pick at the time, but you're hyping the fact that he had an okay camp and 2 goals just a game into the season.

Your argument doesn't read as convincing, it just reads as the same angry ramblings you've been harping on since Drury was hired. It doesn't come off as sincere because we very much know your take on Drury. Then it's compounded by the fact that you ignore the changes and difficulties with scouting, that 2021 was widely known as a weak draft year, etc. I mean, it's even a "no duh" argument to suggest that 2020 will be a better draft for the Rangers than 2021. They had two first round picks and a second in 2020 and just a first rounder in 2021 until picking again in the third round. So they had three picks in the first two rounds in a deeper draft and one in the first two rounds in 2021. No shit 2020 is likely to turn out better just going off odds. But then there's this idea that the drafting philosophy changed which is absolutely false. They drafted for character, just the same as 2020, but did it in more of a crapshoot draft that you just happened to not know much about. Simple as that. You can sing from the rooftops how much better you think the 2020 draft class is, but are you even really convinced yourself of that fact? You're disparaging the 2021 class before most of them have even 10 games played. Tell me there's no other bias at play here.

Not getting dragged back into this argument, but saying scouts make the picks is ridiculous.  They present the players to the front office and the front office then chooses the players based on the advice of scouts regarding the types of players they are looking for.  The scouts don't make the choices, they describe players and make cases for ones they like.  Draft philosophy is up to those running things.  If you can't see the shift in player types being targeted from previous draft to the most recent then there's nothing more I can say.  This past class has continued to be underwhelming because their most lauded assets are intangibles. 

We have a top farm system because of the work done by the previous regime and thankfully they were able to get us Berard before they were dismissed.  

So back on topic, he's pretty clearly far above any player chosen in the 2021 draft and is looking more like a star with every game.  5 goals in 5 games played with 7 points and he's just a sophomore who only played 19 NCAA games last season.  Also seems to have a bit more of an edge to him with 17 PIM, already topping last years total.  Very exciting guy to watch rise up our system.  Excited to see him at WJC this year. 

Pretty solid win.  Shesty looked great.

I actually do like all of our players, I just think our team is poorly constructed and lacking skill and I don't think our coach does much.  At the end the assistant was doing all of the coaching while Gallant was looking at his piece of paper and staring off into the crowd as he stood at the other end of the bench.

Goodrow has been pretty terrible but I have hope he can do better even though I hated the signing.

Trouba on the other hand is relentlessly awful. 

10 hours ago, Kevin said:

At the end of the game he had Zib in Panarin's spot with Panarin where Strome has been and moved Strome into the bump spot.  I think they got more looks like that.  These guys are all the best offensive players on the team.  Not quite sure why you'd expect a coach to do otherwise.

Not have 4 right handed shots on the same unit so that there actually a threat of a one timer form the right side, which will prevent the defense from anticipating the shot on the left.  it's not too much to ask. 

On 7/27/2021 at 7:04 PM, josh said:

 

now close it so we don't have to talk about him in the Rangers section :rofl:

Wanted to put this in the around the NHL section, but that thread was closed.  

Anyway, guy is lighting it up on the PP like he does.  On pace for 164 points so far.  Hell of a player. 

I mean he didn't even change up Quinn's nonsensical PP units with guys shooting on the wrong side.  He definitely showed up and was like, "hey guys who do you like to play with?  We'll go with what you like."

Couldn't watch this one, forgot it would be blacked out for me here.  Another loss and I take it our wonderful "coach" still contributes nothing to what occurs on the ice.

Don't think I ever really looked at Goodrow's actual scoring stats until just now.  His career high is 26 points and his career high is 8 goals.  Now he's on our 3rd line with an offensive minded center with the expectation that it's going to be productive?  How will it?  We have very bad depth.  He should be our 4th line center, but they paid him too much for that.  

Blais-Goodrow-Hunt

Great 4th line.

You don't need Rooney, rotate Reaves with Hunt when you need him.  Play Chytil with Gauthier and Kravtsov and be an actual hockey team. 

Goodrow POTG.  Can't say anything bad about him tonight. 

At least we can hold our heads up high after that one.  

2 minutes ago, Blue Heaven said:

He's in the Rangers head.  

I wonder if this game led Dolan to drink.

Drury is probably on the hot seat after this game.

I doubt Drury was even able to figure out what channel this game was on.  

3 minutes ago, Phil said:

And a tribute to diabetes?

Lol yeah what a weirdo. 

4 minutes ago, Capt said:

I will say it's refreshing not to have constant fucking with the lines

 

You mean coaching?  Yeah this guy would never lol.

Marcel Dionne has turned purple as a tribute to the Kings logo.

I mean we may have lost on the scoreboard, but at least we really went after Wilson and fough.....oh wait.  Why was Tinordi in again?  Must have been his sparkling defensive abilities. 

Just now, Xander said:

How long until TMFN and The Dude start saying DeAngelo would’ve been a difference maker tonight?

Maybe if he was coaching.  I mean someone really should.  It tends to help team have structure. 

Just now, Sharpshooter said:

Blueshirts Brotherhood vs. TwoMinutesforNothing and The Dude has been more entertaining than this game.

They should do more Wayne Gretzky interviews mid period.  Really brings the viewers in.

Cuz it certainly isn't silent for Dean Blais.

Is the "S" actually silent in Blais or are these guys just stupid?