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Fewer than 50 players with at least 200 career goals had a career shooting percentage of at least 17%. Only four of whom were born after 1970.

Wow. It's not every day somebody I've never heard of gets traded for two firsts and two potential late bloomers, much like Hagel himself.

hockey-reference has steered me wrong! A number database is one thing they have over hockeydb, but obviously not perfect!

Enough about retired numbers... How about speculation as to when someone will be the first to wear 50, 66, 69, 87, 96, 97, or 98?

That would definitely be the difference. I watch most everything that doesn't involve judges whenever it is on TV. Cross Country and Alpine I pay for a streaming service for all that NBC doesn't show, which is more and more recently. Biathlon I get replays from Eurovision. Luge is often available online, though I do tend to forget about it more than the others. I feel like the Olympics just brings more attention to China's horrible human rights record. I feel like average people had never even heard of Uygars until the diplomatic boycots. Then again, I tend to assume the average person is an uninformed idiot.

Haha, forgot I'd done that and commented on how it was already being ignored in 2012, haha. Guess it takes NHLers in the winter games to get any real hype going around here. But as good as Canada is in the Winter Games, still surprising NOBODY wandered into the lounge. In some ways, the time difference makes it even better. You can just records everything overnight and be able to watch everything faster. Just takes a little avoiding of the news and social media. When there are 8-12 hours of coverage you want to watch most days, being able to skip commercials and events you don't care about is a necessity. US men and women got off to a good start in curling, but hitting some bumps now. Men got wrecked by Canada yesterday. Curling is probably the most annoying sport to deal with the time difference, because of how NBC covers it. Because curling tends to do well for them, they out it on the longest delay, with overnight games being saved till the evening most days before the live game at night. This year that has meant many games being condensed into a 2 hour window, including commercials and stupid commentary. They skip entire ends at times, and often the first 8 stones of an end. US finally got a monkey off their back in speed skating, getting our 1st medal in an individual event since 2010, and the first women's individual medal since 2002 with Erin Jackson taking the gold. She is the 1st black woman to medal at the Olympics. She had won 3 of 6 world cups in the 500m this season, but had a slip in the qualifying event and finished 3rd, out of an Olympic spot. There was a rule to protect medal contenders that they get a reskate if they fall, but she stayed on her feet and finished the race instead of going down. Brittany Bowe, who already qualified in the 1000m and 1500m where she is more of a medal threat, gave up her spot in the 500m so Jackson could go. In the end, Bowe also got to skate when other countries did not fill their allocated spots in the event, so it was nice that she didn't have to give up her spot in the end. Scary moment in biathlon this morning. Ingrid Landmark Tandervold appeared to have bronze locked up in the Pursuit when they cut away to show the Marte Olsbu Roiesland cross the line for gold. Then Elvira Oeberg came across the line and 2nd, but it was Tandervold'd fellow Norwegian Tirill Eckhoff in 3rd. Then all sorts of athletes started coming across the line with no sign of Tandervold. Finally, she appeared on screen barely at a walking pace in 14th. Her body had completely given out on her in the last kilometer and she needed medical attention right at the finish line. Sound like she is ok now, though.

I'm finally caught up enough to talk some Olympics and not even a thread for it. Ouch. On the plus side, the US got a bronze from Jessie Diggins in the cross-country sprint and Scott Patterson put up a really solid 11th in the Skiathlon. Deedra Irwin put up our best ever finish in the biathlon Individual at 7th, and the mixed-relay team was in the thick of it until the final leg. Lindsay Jacobellis finally got redemption from giving away the 2006 gold in snowboard cross. On the down side, the mixed doubles curling team finished a lousy 8th. Our medal contenders in the men's and women's 1500m speed skating didn't come close to the medals. Our male lugers all made the top 20, but none were in contention. Our female lugers did even worse, with only one of them even making the final run. And then there is Mikaela Shiffrin... And NBC made her look so bad last night. They kept the camera on her while she was sulking on the sidelines for more than 10 minutes. They made it look like she was having a meltdown that was holding up the entire race, but no, the competition was still going on in the background.

It seems like they announced the whole team got the first dose during a little break in the regular season, then the second dose after the 2nd round sweep. You misunderstand. I didn't ask if they were putting only close contacts into protocol. I was asking if the only close contacts who had to go into protocol were unvaxxed people. I seem to recall that as soon as they all got the 2nd dose, it took a positive test to require quarantine.

Weren't they only putting close contacts in quarantine before the team was fully vaxxed?

Third time around... He got it both during the regular season and the playoffs last year. He is clearly walking around licking doorknobs.

Exactly, and I don't disagree. But 60 points and hoping for 65 is not worth the contract he just got. He got the contract for an established, consistent 70+ player. Even with a 70-80 point season, he still won't have the resume of Zibanejad has, and Zibanejad's contract is buying out more UFA years. And that is an especially good contract to compare if you're going to make the tax argument, as New York's taxes are closer to Montreal's than any other US city.

Love that he is locked up, but that is a CRAZY deal for such an unproven player. Mika Zibanejad put up two 70+ point seasons (and was on pace for another in the shortened 2021 season) before he got paid like this. I feel like this is the contract he should have gotten AFTER putting in a good season in the spring.

FYI - It looks as though the remaining Habs pre-season games will be available on ESPN+ in the states and wherever else they are the primary carrier of the out-of-market package.

He didn't coach under Torts... He was just hired by Larsen this offseason. He never actually got behind the bench in Columbus. Was not enthused about the hire and am not the least bit upset about him being gone, but the fact he was hired at all says a lot about Brad Larsen. Jackets gonna suck.

Reminds me a lot of Carey Price's career trajectory when they kept giving him the job Halak had earned. Worked out pretty well. Like Price, Caufield has an it factor about him. He was instantly their most dangerous player and will have to play his way out of a major role.

Ouch. That's why the only name/number I've gotten on a jersey was a replica Columbus Chill jersey earlier this year, with number 33 and the name "Mad Cows".

Ok, let's put it this way - he's not a 2nd line center on a team with playoff aspirations.

I just don't see a 2nd liner when I look at Christian Dvorak. A solid two-way forward with an apparent ceiling of 45 points screams third liner to me. A #2 center has to at the very least put up 50 points consistently.

Seriously? For a 25 year old player whose best season was on pace to barely crack 45 points? Is he some kind of defensive stalwart like Danault that I don't know about?

I haven't missed that point at all. There doesn't have to be a qualifying offer made if the team who owns his rights next year works out a contract with him. If a team he is content playing for offers him a 3 year deal at a salary he and his agent feel is fair, he will more than likely take that deal. With the ever present risk of career ending/altering injuries in pro sports, very few athletes are willing to play on a series of one year deals, which is the only way he will be making 6 million on his next contract unless he puts up a season worthy of such a salary. Most players are going to take 12 million guaranteed over 3 years rather than hoping they will be able to get a 6 million deal every year. Sure, he might make 18 million in those same 3 years. He also might have a terrible season and end up making league minimum after the team doesn't qualify him, in which case it would take 6+ seasons to make back the 6 million he lost by not taking the longer deal.

That is only true if Kotkianiemi is comfortable playing every season on a one year deal. Very few athletes are willing to go for an extended period playing on one year deals where there is more money now, but is gone completely with a bad injury or poor play that results in the team not tendering him a qualifying offer. It is far more likely that if he players relatively well, he signs for 2 or 3 years at the going rate for a player of his age and performance and instead of waiting for a qualifying offer every year.

That isn't even close to being comparable.

Have fun owning a team the players would boycott!

Interesting. Very interesting.