05-05-2017, 12:16 AM
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#21
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Strathmore
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In Vegas now, picked up a golden knights hat the other day.
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05-05-2017, 03:33 AM
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#22
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Crazy Weather City
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Quote:
Originally Posted by getbak
The Ship & Duke, it's like the name of an English Pub in a strip mall.
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Awesome. Hopefully Vegas will take Brouwer. Now they have, "The Ship & Anchor". Like a familiar pub downtown, we know at least one of them is really drunk.
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05-05-2017, 03:49 AM
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#23
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Cambodia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by getbak
He wears #87 (his birth year), so the outrage from Pittsburgh should be coming in any time now.
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People born in '87 are 30 years old now? 
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05-05-2017, 07:51 AM
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#24
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In the Sin Bin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mister Yamoto
Hopefully this is foreshadowing for the type of team that they want to build. I don't want this round of expansion to cause the reinvention of the trap.
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Adding 23 players to the NHL is not going to cause a reinvention of the trap. Particularly given the trap requires skill to execute, and diluting the talent pool spreads the skill out.
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05-05-2017, 08:24 AM
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#25
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Adding 23 players to the NHL is not going to cause a reinvention of the trap. Particularly given the trap requires skill to execute, and diluting the talent pool spreads the skill out.
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Executing the trap requires less skill than scoring buckets of goals. This is why expansion teams used it the last time around. They chose the tactics that gave them the best chance of winning with the skill level that they had.
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05-05-2017, 08:37 AM
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#26
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Adding 23 players to the NHL is not going to cause a reinvention of the trap. Particularly given the trap requires skill to execute, and diluting the talent pool spreads the skill out.
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It usually takes ~ 30 players to get through an NHL season and I don't think the NHL is going to stop at 31 teams.
And sure the trap takes skill to execute, but it takes less skill. That is why teams used it during the last round of expansion.
When every third liner becomes a top 6, and every bottom pairing D becomes top 4 it is going to change how the game is played.
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05-05-2017, 08:45 AM
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#27
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Help, save, whatever.
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Probably a pretty good idea. Could build a decent team by poaching the best players from the KHL and European leagues.
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05-05-2017, 08:50 AM
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#28
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
Probably a pretty good idea. Could build a decent team by poaching the best players from the KHL and European leagues.
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Definitely. Would solve the lacking of top 6 skill problem they are likely to have.
Now that they have Shipachyov, I wonder if Kovalchuk would expand his list to include Vegas. I'm sure NJ would rather he head out West anyways.
They should also go after Dadanov (if they haven't already).
That'd be 3 of the top 4 scorers from the KHL team that won the championship IIRC. The same one Datsyuk went to.
They could also go hard after Radulov as well.
Load up the top 6 with highly skilled Russians.
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05-05-2017, 09:12 AM
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#29
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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Rumor from Russia that Dadanov is about to sign with the golden knights as well:
https://m.championat.com/news/sport/hockey/2791738/
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05-05-2017, 09:15 AM
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#30
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wired
In Vegas now, picked up a golden knights hat the other day.
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I was in Vegas when the Flames were eliminated. This resulted in me buying a bunch of Knights gear. I'm back to normal now.
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05-05-2017, 09:23 AM
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#31
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Cowtown
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Quote:
Originally Posted by getbak
He wears #87 (his birth year), so the outrage from Pittsburgh should be coming in any time now.
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I patiently await the next Sidnechy Crosbanoff.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by puckhog
Everyone who disagrees with you is stupid
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05-05-2017, 09:34 AM
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#32
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Strathmore
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I got the hat because it was cool. Who knows, the team may be good, and I might have another team to cheer for.
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05-05-2017, 09:46 AM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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they should have named the team the red army
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05-05-2017, 09:49 AM
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#34
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Taking a while to get to 5000
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Setting up a nice landing spot for Ovechkin when Washington decides he isn't worth it anymore.
Kidding. Sort of.
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05-05-2017, 10:17 AM
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#35
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gargamel
People born in '87 are 30 years old now? |
I know.
Let me age you further. People born in 2000 will be turning 18 next year
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05-05-2017, 10:21 AM
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#36
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Oil Stain
I could see them signing Jagr too. He likes money.
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Yeah, almost as much as he likes gambling. It's a match made in heaven.
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05-05-2017, 10:24 AM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Europeans love Las Vegas
Could be the first sign that having a team in a -- let's say unique -- environment will help with FA signings. No income tax always helps too.
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05-05-2017, 10:43 AM
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#38
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sureLoss
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They can afford to gamble on these guys as they aren't going to have a lot of star power initially and if any of these guys can add an excitement element to the team it will help draw fans.
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05-05-2017, 11:25 AM
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#39
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Section 120
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Shipachyov is a Centre.
-1 for Stajan
+1 for Brouwer
Brouwer is also quite good at faceoffs, if Shipachyov needs a mentor / someone to take important draws on his line.
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05-05-2017, 12:08 PM
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#40
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Barthelona
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George McPhee must have a good reputation with Russian players. Didn't he convince Kuznetsov to come over after he was rumored to have no real interest in the NHL?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by snipetype
k im just not going to respond to your #### anymore because i have better things to do like #### my model girlfriend rather then try to convince people like you of commonly held hockey knowledge.
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