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			Leon Draisaitl  24 yrs, 119 days
		
		
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			12-17-2023, 11:54 PM
			
			
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				What? Linemates don't matter. Ovie should instantly make everyone on his line WAY better. 
			
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Yes one of the greatest goal scorers of all time, Stanley cup winner, and  38 year old winger may need help. Dont compare this to Huberdeau haha
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			12-18-2023, 02:54 AM
			
			
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			12-18-2023, 03:23 AM
			
			
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				Yes one of the greatest goal scorers of all time, Stanley cup winner, and  38 year old winger may need help. Dont compare this to Huberdeau haha 
			
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The fact that the Hudredeau apologists have to resort to using Grandpa Ovie as a comparable says all we need to know about his level.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			12-18-2023, 08:16 AM
			
			
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			And that was THE LAST thread that wasn't about Huberdeau. Gone. **** me, this place, haha.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			12-18-2023, 07:08 PM
			
			
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				And it's not just about keeping up, top goal scorers rely on quick reactions, the wiring from brain to hands ultimately gets slower and it usually happens very quickly, watching AO he is now missing easy one-timers or is taking that extra split second to get the shot off which is enough time for the goalie. 
 
Unless mother Russia finds some kind of miracle "treatment"(don't count this out) to revive his twitch muscles I say he's done. 
			
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100%. And normally I'd be bummed to not get to see this record attempt happen, but with his ugly political support, I'm happy he's looking like he's toast.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			12-18-2023, 07:11 PM
			
			
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				And that was THE LAST thread that wasn't about Huberdeau. Gone. **** me, this place, haha. 
			
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Let's go talk about Ovechkin in the Huberdeau thread.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			12-18-2023, 07:15 PM
			
			
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				He needs a Huberdeau. 
			
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			12-18-2023, 07:27 PM
			
			
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				And that was THE LAST thread that wasn't about Huberdeau. Gone. **** me, this place, haha. 
			
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My post was all in good fun. I do not take this year seriously at all. Wins are nice but I still hope for a top pick. Love the youth movement. We can live with  Huberdeaus contract if we get some more skilled young guys.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			01-21-2024, 12:30 PM
			
			
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				And it's not just about keeping up, top goal scorers rely on quick reactions, the wiring from brain to hands ultimately gets slower and it usually happens very quickly, watching AO he is now missing easy one-timers or is taking that extra split second to get the shot off which is enough time for the goalie. 
 
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I'd argue the current embargoes and sanctions may have already ended his "treatments"
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			01-21-2024, 07:22 PM
			
			
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				I'd argue the current embargoes and sanctions may have already ended his "treatments" 
			
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Other people have alluded to this before.    Was he known to have been bypassing NHL testing and using performance enhancing drugs?  Or was it a scenario where he wasn't getting caught?
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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				Other people have alluded to this before.    Was he known to have been bypassing NHL testing and using performance enhancing drugs?  Or was it a scenario where he wasn't getting caught? 
			
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			01-21-2024, 11:40 PM
			
			
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			01-23-2024, 08:04 AM
			
			
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				I couldn't name you a Russian who hasn't juiced. 
			
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			It's obvious the NHL has a PED problem, no way everyone's clean and the last suspension I recall was Jose Theodore in like 2006.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			01-23-2024, 11:09 AM
			
			
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If Andrei Zyuzin was juicing then, just like his on-ice play, he sucked at it.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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			Who was that 6'6" Russian we got years ago that announced he's a pacifist the day he got here?
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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				Who was that 6'6" Russian we got years ago that announced he's a pacifist the day he got here? 
			
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