Your take on Portland is complete utter right wing misleading truth bending biased bullshit, UW, no offence, hope you don’t mind me saying. We have loads of friends there and we go to Portland annually, sometimes twice a year, so your assessment IMO just caters to the right wing MAGA cause, all p ...

New Jersey Devils are closing in on a seven-year, $63MM contract with their lone remaining restricted free agent, Luke Hughes. The Devils quickly confirmed the contract, also sharing that Hughes will join the team for practice tomorrow. Year 1: $8MM salary, $1MM signing bonus Year 2: $8MM salary ...

Portland is high on property crime but average on violent crime. One would think the latter to be more indicative of being "war-ravaged". Meanwhile, Memphis has the worst crime rates in the US. But it's a red State. St. Louis is second worst. Also a red state. So I'm thinking definitely 4. Probably ...

Ha. So if Kris Bryant is Quinn Hughes does that make EP Rizzo? Ditto Ramirez Ortiz. I remember the Red Sox much better. Hughes is both Ramirez and Ortiz and Varitek and let's throw in Pedro Martinez. Boeser is Curt Schilling. Jake DeBrusk sort of has a Johnny Damon thing. EP40? Didn't you know. He ...

donlever wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 12:36 pm Define killed in a broad scope.

We are all dying a slow death as fans of the Canucks.

Lead characters have to die in Shakespearean tragedies. Otherwise there's no drama.

And while we know this is a tragedy, there's always the 2004 Red Sox and the 2016 Cubs....

My wife is starting to get pissed off with me, I need to quietly remove myself from this echo chamber and get back to the living. Most of us are here after the wife got pissed off.... This might be an echo chamber because the same things are said over and over about certain topics, but honestly ...

Our "from afar" perception of leadership is not well versed enough as we do not see behind closed doors or in the room activity. And this is yet another good topic. Do you ever wonder how many of the vaunted leaders didn't really inspire their teammates, and actually a lot of them considered the ...

Almost as well…..but only in contract years. The biggest knock on the majority of them has been inconsistency. The trio you list, as well as Kucherov, Bure, and Datsyuk, are the only ones that immediately come to mind as those who were consistent. Yeahbut plenty of non-Russians were inconsistent a ...

Don't forget Tryamkin. :mrgreen: Yeah. Zubov. There's a good foundation for conversation here. I remember Zubov (and Gonchar iirc) being good defensemen, but I didn’t watch them enough to comment on them as leaders/pushers who put the team on their back in the playoffs. Tryamkin though…..he was a st ...

Almost as well…..but only in contract years. The biggest knock on the majority of them has been inconsistency. The trio you list, as well as Kucherov, Bure, and Datsyuk, are the only ones that immediately come to mind as those who were consistent. Yeahbut plenty of non-Russians were inconsistent a ...

donlever wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:14 am All Kapril has to do to earn his keep is put butts in the seats.

On that score, Kaprizov is NOT undervalued or unknown to the Minnesota faithful, and its fanbase is hockey saavy. He is all my hockey friends in Minny talk about.

donlever wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 10:42 am For Christ's sake?

Demand affects ticket prices. Ticket prices (and sales) affect the cap. The cap affects salary increases. Hockey econ aside, this is a pretty Wild deal. There may be an interesting conversation here as to what the attendance structure will be like moving forward and where ticket demand ends up in ...

5thhorseman wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 7:07 am That's shitty. Players returning part way through the season rarely hit it in full stride. Another meh season from Hogs incoming.

Now with more excuses!

Breezeboi is injured. Does he collect NHL money if he is still injured when the season starts? Yup. His and Woo’s (and Hogs) salaries all count against the cap, trimming cap accrual once the season starts. I don't think that's right regarding Woo. If a player is on a two-way deal and was on an NHL r ...