AROUND THE LEAGUE - 25-26

[Ronning's Ghost]

Are you comparing Demko to a DeLorean?

None of the specific cars I squeezed that last few 10s of thousands of kms out of would be a fair comparison, because none of them were ever great cars, and at his peak, Demko was one of the top 3 goalies in the world.

I'd say at this point we'd be talking Lotus, or maybe an Alfa Romeo.

[donlever]

47% 2nd or 3rd round eh?

We will take the 3 "all the ways" as false bravado.

I admire the early season confidence.

To be fair 24% stated all the way.

So there is that.

Canuck fan surveys should be asterisked.

I am on par with this pretty much Dude.

There are a lot of IFS with respect to the Canucks (I suppose true of many (all?) teams but it seems more prevalent with respect to us.....but....we are so solid back end, Hughes I think will take another step forward...Foote I think is the right coach...so...IF Demko...IF EP40...IF Special Teams...IF Lekkerimaki...IF Kane....I can see us in the post season.

I do not see the 2nd 3rd round success others predict however.

[Carl Yagro]

I'm glad you pulled a Doc out of the DB there...

No attack on Corn's previous hopeful post, but I was thinking... man, that's a lot of IFs.

But I see you also had doubts going into this season.

I kind of wish I got back into the spirits earlier because I see that during the preseason poll, a lot of CC was ingesting mushrooms... because, no offence to anyone, that's pretty fuckin' delusional.

[donlever]

.....a lot of CC was ingesting mushrooms... because, no offence to anyone, that's pretty fuckin' delusional.

I blame Cuz.

A Datsyukian team he tagged them as I recall.

(....plus he supplied the 'shrooms...)

[Cornuck]

No attack on Corn's previous hopeful post, but I was thinking... man, that's a lot of IFs.

"Look, I'm just a bitter old man, ok! " looking for a reason to stay interested and somewhat positive.

Honestly, I think this team will weakly fight for a wild card spot - enough that no assets will leave to improve the team in the future.

Injuries suck, but we deep down know that Chytil and Demko were not going to survive the season. I'm not sure many of us thought it would be this early.

Losing Hoglander, Blueger, and Forbert just meant that our depth players got replaced with AHL guys that water down the whole lineup.

[Ronning's Ghost]

but we deep down know that Chytil and Demko were not going to survive the season. I'm not sure many of us thought it would be this early.

Honestly, I thought there was a shot that, with a carefully managed load, Demko could play enough to help.
(This would be analogous to going ahead and replacing the water pump, just to have the fuel pump go a few months later.)

And there have been occasions -- relatively rare, I admit -- where players who had a concussion history finally bit the bullet and took enough time off to actually heal up all the way, and then don't get concussed every time they are bumped, anymore. I thought Chytil might have done that.

I do not see the 2nd 3rd round success others predict however.

It might be a question of interpretation, but I didn't see that response as predicting 2nd round success. I thought it meant that they could win 1 round, and thereby make the 2nd round.

There's no way to be certain how alternate histories might have unfolded, but if all of the IFs had come up favourably, I still think that would have been possible.

But in retrospect, it was foolish to predict that as a probable outcome. If all of the IFs really were 50/50, and Don listed 5 (I think there were actually more) then (0.5)^5 = 0.03125, or a 1 in 32 chance of winning one round.

The Canucks don't have a monopoly on bad luck, though. It's a fast, poorly-officiated, contact-intensive league, and a couple of the teams ahead of them could suffer injuries that are, by the end of the season, just as deleterious, or worse. Not that I'm hoping for that.

[donlever]

What response?

The poll (as you can see only 2 realists exist here... )

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[Carl Yagro]

Hehe, no ill intent, my good Corn.

Positivity is always good.

There's been a lot more healthy, reasonable, respectful discussion here lately and I can still interject with some awful puns.. part of the reason I've participated more again.

Not that it wasn't fun and more interesting before with the characters and massive trolling. We can stay interested in different, more civil ways I guess because...

"Look, I'm just a bitter old man (too), ok! "

EDIT: Damn, those are good 'shrooms!

[Cornuck]

It might be a question of interpretation, but I didn't see that response as predicting 2nd round success. I thought it meant that they could win 1 round, and thereby make the 2nd round.

That's how I imagined it, and how I voted (based on winning at least 1 round).

With the current season 25% over, I might be making adjustments™

[2Fingers]

I am a sports fan with high expectations I believe I picked a 2nd/3rd round appearance.

I thought Lankinen could hold the fort if Demko was injured, still need to see
Chytil - expected him to be injured but never really counted on him for the entire season
D - thought it was good enough to win those 2 - 1 games

Seems I was wrong in many assumptions.

Edit - I am also a grumpy oldish man.

[Megaterio Llamas]

Another grumpy old man checking in. Pittsburgh has placed Phil Tomasino on waivers. https://puckpedia.com/

[Cornuck]

Another grumpy old man checking in. Pittsburgh has placed Phil Tomasino on waivers. https://puckpedia.com/

Another first rounder getting waived... a centre, even...