06-16-2016, 11:04 AM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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Kings name Kopitar Captain
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06-16-2016, 11:08 AM
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#2
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Good for him. Astonishing that Kopitar went 11th overall way back in the Crosby draft.
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06-16-2016, 11:08 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Great choice. I have been jealous since the day the Kings drafted him.
Easily the best player from the 2005 draft not named Crosby.
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06-16-2016, 11:09 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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Kopitar is a beauty. Easily a top 5 center in the NHL right now and will go down as an all time great when it's said and done.
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06-16-2016, 11:10 AM
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Kopitar is a beauty. Easily a top 5 center in the NHL right now and will go down as an all time great when it's said and done.
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Not sure about that. An all time great King perhaps, but league wide ever? That might be overstating it.
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06-16-2016, 11:10 AM
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Franchise Player
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Uh-oh! Clearly the first stage in circumventing the cap by getting rid of his contract! 
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06-16-2016, 11:10 AM
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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Easy choice. Kopitar is something else to watch.
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06-16-2016, 11:12 AM
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Great choice. I have been jealous since the day the Kings drafted him.
Easily the best player from the 2005 draft not named Crosby.
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Carey Price could be up there.
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06-16-2016, 11:14 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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shocker....
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06-16-2016, 11:14 AM
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First Line Centre
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Down goes brown
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06-16-2016, 11:18 AM
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ruttiger
Not sure about that. An all time great King perhaps, but league wide ever? That might be overstating it.
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He said "a top 5 center [sic.] in the NHL right now," which I take to mean one of the current top-five best centres playing today. And he would be correct: can you name another five presently better than Kopitar?
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06-16-2016, 11:19 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DionTheDman
Carey Price could be up there.
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True true.
I should say best skater. Hard to compare them against goalies directly, but I am Price fan for sure.
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06-16-2016, 11:20 AM
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Franchise Player
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They're definitely going to be "finding" a bag of cocaine in Brown's locker someday soon.
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06-16-2016, 11:22 AM
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#14
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Calgary
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Well deserved.
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06-16-2016, 11:26 AM
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How do most clubs select their captain?
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06-16-2016, 11:28 AM
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2005 is a really weak draft, looking back at it.
After Crosby and Kopitar, the best forward selected in the 1st round is TJ Oshie. Kris Letang is the best D in the entire draft, taken with the 1st pick of the 3rd round. The three best D in the 1st are Niskanen, Marc Staal and Jack Johnson. Yikes.
Neal and Stastny are the best forwards outside the 1st.
Darryl is in fine form here, swinging for the fences with two 5th round goalies (Keetley and Kevin Lalande - I'd forgotten about him, did he even make it to a development camp?) and burning a 1st on Matt Pelech.
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06-16-2016, 11:32 AM
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Self-Retired
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Pardon my ignorance, but when was Brown stripped of the captaincy?
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06-16-2016, 11:33 AM
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aka Spike
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The Darkest Corners of My Mind
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Quote:
Originally Posted by IgiTang
Pardon my ignorance, but when was Brown stripped of the captaincy?
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According to this: http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=154807
March 27th
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06-16-2016, 11:35 AM
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#19
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Textcritic
He said "a top 5 center [sic.] in the NHL right now," which I take to mean one of the current top-five best centres playing today. And he would be correct: can you name another five presently better than Kopitar?
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I think you should re-read his post start to finish.
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06-16-2016, 11:49 AM
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#20
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
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I'm actually surprised by this, happy for him
I would have thought Doughty would be the easier choice but without being in the room and the happenings with the staff, one never knows and obviously can make the wrong assumptions
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