RobRock
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I don't know what scares me the most about David Frost.
He told Danton to make a deal because he said Danton would never win in court. In actual fact, he was protecting his own ass, literally, from what could certainly be a number of civil lawsuits, if not criminal prosecutions. It's not just an agent guiding his client through a career. As was said in this story, it was a puppet master pulling strings and watching this kid dance.
He's STILL an NHLPA-certified agent, and he had Bob Goodenow as his best ally. And we thought Bob's judgement during the lockout was screwy. Ted, if the only thing you ever do is revoke Frost's status, then do it, for the sake of the junior and midget players coming up through the system.
But the scariest thing of all is the fact that they interviewed Frost at a hockey arena. This futhermucker still gets to have access to young hockey players, with the promise of making them NHL players. There should be pictures of Frost posted on every entrance on every rink on earth. If you see this guy, shoot the bastard between the eyes, then shoot him ten or twelve more times.
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Arrogance Wears Maple Leaf Blue
In case anyone wasn't watching TSN, the hockey reporter from Tampa wrote an article about the Leafs on the day they visited the Lightning. As you can well imagine, TSN did a story on it, complete with perennial-Vezina trophy candidate and former Leafs great Glenn Healy questioning, in his words, why a reporter from Tampa would even qualify to be mentioned amongst the mighty Maple Laffs. I'm just glad that someone else gets it, and not just us non-Leaf fans north of the 49th.
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I'd cut off my left nut to see a certain top-line Calgary Flame forward "square off" against Avery. Just to see if Sean could turtle any faster or further than he did against Hordichuk.
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CBC's the fifth estate has the story on Danton airing tonight at 8 pm ET. Both TSN and Sportsnet have run the clip, so you may wanna check out their sites for it.
Just based on that clip, I wouldn't let David Frost within 100 miles of my kid. Period. Danton does not have any mind of his own. I hope he can find a way to get Frost out of his system, for his own sanity.
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After Kovalev chose to have surgery(?), people wondered how it would affect the team. I don't think many people would have thought that it would have this much of an effect.
Sure, the offense has suffered, but there's one thing that shouldn't have been affected at all, because it seemed like everyone was doing it, from the first line to the fourth. Based on the last four or five games, going back to the Capitals fiasco, the team just doesn't forecheck like it used to.
Early in the season, the key to the team's success, and their main source of offense, was their ability to cause turnovers and their transition game. At both ends of the ice, they seemed to be able to break up passes and get scoring chances as a result. Even in odd-man rushes against them, they'd manage to break up the play and turn it up the ice. Now it seems like they can't generate those opportunities anymore, even to the point where the forecheck isn't nearly as aggressive as it was a month ago. When they do manage to get the puck, the passes are missing guys, the shots aren't even generating rebounds, and basically the play is just sloppy and half-assed.
The wins attained in October were very close games, but they were also attained through hard work, effort, talent and, yes, luck. Luck comes and goes, as we can see now, but the other three should always be present. The talent is still there, for the most part. There are still guys out there giving the effort, but in all honesty, I haven't seen a lot of hard work being done for an entire game.
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Just as long as you don't watch Hockey Central. I wanna reach through the TV and rip Wilbur's head off and cram it down Kipper's throat.
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Actually, sitting him for game or two might be a good idea. Julien did it last season when Mikey developed a habit of extending his shifts by an hour or so.
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Originally posted by Dave from Vancouver
Colorado also picked up Turgeon, another Montreal native, for only 1.5 million, and he's kicked in 25 points! I think he could have helped that second line...
We're talking about Pierre Turgeon, correct? The same guy who bolted from Montreal first chance he could get. He was in such a hurry to get out of town he had his belongings shipped to his new home in St. Louis. He couldn't handle the pressure of playing for the Canadiens. If he weren't wearing the C, that might of made a difference, but he played on a pretty damn good team at the time, but he just couldn't handle it.
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["I play against the top lines every night, If [a top-line] player wants to square off against me, that's fine." -Sean Avery
http://www.latimes.com/sports/hockey/nhl/k...ack=1&cset=true
24 GP, 6 G, 13 Pts, -2. 11 min per game. He's not exactly a Selke nominee at this point. And what coaches are playing their top lines 11 minutes a night?
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If he does, I'm sure the hat will be passed.
Didn't Patty have the same problem with the Flyers? He couldn't buy a regular season game against Philly.
And, if you're Claude Julien, would you consider playing Danis against the Leafs on Saturday, January 28? After beating Montreal in their first game of the season, the Sens put Emery in for their second meeting, and I wouldn't be surprised if he started tonight's game.
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Huet stated earlier this year that he didn't expect to be with the team, or even in the league for that matter, after this season. I'm eager to see him play his first game.
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If you put Ryder on the first line - which I would like to see - what happens when Kovalev is ready to return? Do you move Ryder back with Ribeiro and hope that you've found a third winger for that by then? Do you move Zednik down with Ribeiro? You certainly would agree that Kovalev would stay on the top line, just because of the chemistry he and Koivu, and even Zednik, have developed.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Ribeiro needs to bulk up some. He's listed at 6', 177 lbs. Frankie "Bam Bam" Bouillon is 5' 8", 196 lbs. If Ribeiro could add 15 lbs to his upper body, I don't think it would hurt his game at all. Bouillon carries a lot of weight on a smaller frame, yet he skates like the wind and plays like a guy who's 6' 2".
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Does anyone else think Avery would make a half-decent pro wrestler?
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Danis played very well. The first two goals were cross-ice one timer that he didn't have much of a chance on, and the third one was Connolly's where he skated into the middle and shot back across the flow of play. But everything he saw, he stopped and the rebounds weren't really a concern. It was just that the Sabres capitalized on their chances.
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Originally posted by redondo
I don't think we can bring kids up from Junior until the season ends
You can only recall junior-eligible players on an emergency basis, and only for a limited period of time. The last time Montreal did it was when they had to recall Olivier Michaud from the Quebec League a number of years ago. In most cases, it either has to be logistically impossible to get a guy from your minor league team - say flying a guy in from Utah or Winnipeg or driving in from Chicoutimi or Drummondville - or you just don't have enough bodies to ice a reasonable team.
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Especially when it comes to the Ryder-Ribeiro-mystery winger line, I have to agree that he's got to leave someone there with those two for a full slate of games and not move guys around from one game to the next. Higgins has been doing all that he can out there, but at times I feel like he's not being utilized as much as he should be by the Mikes. They're so used to having a new guy on the wing every game that they've relied more on each other to make plays than whoever Julien puts out there with them. Instead of Julien throwing every other winger out there, he should be telling Ryder and Ribs to use Higgins or Pleks or Zhogey more cause he's not gonna rotate them in and out anymore.
I actually think that during the bad old days, previous coaches were guilty of doing the exact same thing. It would seem like a trio had some good games put together, but once they had a bad game or two, changes were made.
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He was not turtling. He was looking for his contact lens.
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When Koivu got the blue line, Bulis was between he and Kovalchuk. While Kovalchuk has more speed, if Bulis had kept skating, Ilya would have had to get around Bulis in order to Koivu, either by trying to skate ahead of Bulis or by moving back around him. Moving back around wouldn't have helped, so Kovalchuk would have had to skate in a straight line ahead instead of diagonally. By the time Kovalchuk could have reached Koivu, he would already have been in on net. Bulis wouldn't have had to hook him or hold him or anything. All he had to do was keep skating straight to the net.
He did follow up on the play to get the pass, but he seemed a little surpised when Koivu sent it back to him. He tried to kick it up to his stick, but he kicked it more to the corner.
[Edited on 2005/11/25 by RobRock]
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Originally posted by olematelot
I believe you only get a minor for delay of game. Sakus' stick isn't illegal to begin with, next time they show a close up of him taking the face off you'll see it has very little curve in it.Originally posted by JMMRThey dont beacuse if the player can change sticks quickly to a legal one and the challenge is incorrect you get a double minor. So you would have to do it while the player was far enough from the bench. It is a tough call and you just never know its a huge risk.
It's not only the curve of the blade they measure, but the height as well. But the coach has to be specific in what part of the stick he wants measured, the curve or height of the blade.
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Anybody with any kind of sense that plays with an illegal stick knows that you change sticks in the third period, when most coaches resort to the stick measurement minor. Most players can tell by eye who's using a banana blade. In fact, I believe there was one player, Petr Nedved I think, who used to tape his stick in such a way that it made it look like it was illegal. When an opposing coach as to measure his stick, the curve was legal, and Nedved's team won the game.
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If he were on that line, he wouldn't need to be a scorer. He wouldn't be the guy with the puck all the time and making plays. He'd be the guy working the corners with Ryder and forechecking, creating turnovers. He'd be the guy sitting in front of the net and jumping on rebounds. But I do think he's better in the role of grinder and penalty killer.
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I also thought about Gainey getting Sykora and putting him alongside Ribeiro and Ryder. If Burke has announced that he's available, it wouldn't take a whole lot to get him, a mid-round draft pick should be more than enough, maybe even Hainsey if he's no longer in their plans.
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Originally posted by Bulis_the_HabbieOriginally posted by olematelot
That's not a bad idea, worth a try IMOOriginally posted by MacaskillThe time has come...
to put Michael Ryder on the first line...
Ryder-Koivu-Bulis?
Did you see what Bulis did on Koivu's breakaway? He had the opportunity to prevent Kovalchuk from backchecking, and Saku could have gone in uncontested. Instead, he stopped skating at the blueline, and then when Koivu was forced to drop the puck to him, he couldn't control it. That's not a first line player. Put him back on the checking line where he contributes.
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Originally posted by shortcat1Originally posted by simonus
2pts for a win
0pts for a loss
simple.
Yup, that's the way to go. I don't know of any other major North American sport that has ties in it's record keeping.
I expect that, in a few years, the NHL will remove the tie from its record keeping.
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The biggest league in North America, the National Football League, allows for ties. The last tie game was back in 2002. Pittsburgh and Atlanta played to a tie during that season. But given that there's four different was of scoring worth different amounts, it's less conducive to tie scores.
http://www.nfl.com/standings/2002/regular
But if everyone's so bothered by the current point-for-losing system, there's a very simple, painless, and equitable solution to the problem. It goes something like this.
0 points for a loss, a tie and a win.
The NHL is the only North American major pro sports league that doesn't base its standings on a team's winning percentage. If it developed the balls to throw out the points system altogether, then everything would be equal. Most wins, fewest losses. Doesn't matter if it takes 60 minutes, 65, 70, 65 and a shootout. A win is a win is a win.
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So Joseph will be number three? That's where Theo was for the World Cup, and probably where he'd be for the Olympics. I still think it's gonna be Brodeur and Luongo 1-2.