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View Poll Results: Thoughts on the James Neal signing?
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Love It
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Love the add, worried about the term
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37.15% |
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Neutral
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Wait and see
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Hate it
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12-31-2018, 10:20 PM
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#1441
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#1 Goaltender
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Neal silences the critics with a beauty game winner.
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12-31-2018, 10:22 PM
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#1442
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hackey
Neal silences CP for one night with a beauty game winner.
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Fixed.
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12-31-2018, 10:30 PM
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#1443
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hackey
Neal silences the critics with a beauty game winner.
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Not if it takes him another 20 odd games to get the next one
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12-31-2018, 10:38 PM
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#1444
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Neal may never not score again!
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12-31-2018, 11:46 PM
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#1445
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The Bay Area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
Not if it takes him another 20 odd games to get the next one
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But what if it doesn't?
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12-31-2018, 11:51 PM
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#1446
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Franchise Player
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Neal could easily have 10 goals right now...so many tough luck plays. Hopefully a few more go his way in the second half.
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12-31-2018, 11:53 PM
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#1447
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hackey
Neal silences the critics with a beauty game winner.
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Don't be silly. He didn't score a goal. Neal can't score a goal. And Smith's #### goaltending cost us the game tonight. What an idiot that Peters is for putting him in!
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01-01-2019, 01:34 AM
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#1448
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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So Neal actually scored? I didn't hallucinate it on New Year's?
Ahahahahahahahahah I love it.
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01-01-2019, 11:06 AM
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#1449
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Franchise Player
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On the replay you can see it was an intentional move with his skate to deflect it. Nice skilled play. Something to build on.
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01-01-2019, 12:46 PM
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#1450
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#1 Goaltender
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Guy finally gets the monkey off his back. Not exactly a beauty, but hell take it. Hopefully it doesn’t take him another 2 months to get the next one. I like the top line and 3M line together, so if he can find a way to produce meaningful goals on a consistent basis with Jankowski, Bennett or whoever else. Then I think this team might just have the additional secondary scoring to make some serious noise in the playoffs.
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01-01-2019, 01:45 PM
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#1452
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Disappointed that Neal didn’t credit a new stick.
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I bet he is too. I noticed he had the toe of his skate to the heel of his stick, forming a straight line, to give him the best chance of deflecting the shot that he clearly was expecting. If the puck had been a couple of inches closer to the net, it would have bounced in off his stick and he could have given that the credit.
Not a pretty goal, but a smart, smart play.
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01-01-2019, 03:11 PM
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#1453
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Scoring Winger
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Doesn’t matter how you score thrm I guess, glad for him that he scored. Let’s hope it’s the start of a consistent run of a goal every fourth game on Average
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01-01-2019, 04:33 PM
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#1454
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: North Vancouver
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Hopefully that goal sparks a strong 2nd half from Neal in terms of production. I have a good feeling he'll be a beast for us in the playoffs this year.
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01-01-2019, 05:07 PM
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#1455
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First Line Centre
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Before last night James Neal only had 3 goals through 38 games.
He'll likely end the regular season with at least 14 goals. (if he remains healthy)
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01-01-2019, 05:10 PM
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#1456
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David Struch
Before last night James Neal only had 3 goals through 38 games.
He'll likely end the regular season with at least 14 goals. (if he remains healthy)
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This is pure wishful thinking. His huge goalless drought just got broken because of a bounce off his body in a game where everything our team touched went in the net.
I don’t think he breaks 10 goals this year.
Last edited by neo45; 01-01-2019 at 05:16 PM.
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01-01-2019, 05:16 PM
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#1457
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by neo45
This is pure wishful thinking. His huge goalless drought just got broken because of a bounce off his body in a game where everything our team touched went in the net.
I don’t think he breaks 10 goals this year.
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On the other hand he also rang one off the post
Get chances and luck eventually evens out
Given how horrible he's been, he still only needs 6 goals to reach double digits. So seems entirely possible.
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01-01-2019, 05:24 PM
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#1458
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: California
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Quote:
Originally Posted by neo45
This is pure wishful thinking. His huge goalless drought just got broken because of a bounce off his body in a game where everything our team touched went in the net.
I don’t think he breaks 10 goals this year.
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Bounce off his body? He intentionally deflects it in on his skate. You don’t need to minimize the skill required for the goal to make your point that one goal doesn’t end his drought.
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01-01-2019, 05:30 PM
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#1459
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GGG
Bounce off his body? He intentionally deflects it in on his skate. You don’t need to minimize the skill required for the goal to make your point that one goal doesn’t end his drought.
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Fair point. He made the right play
But come on the puck went past Dell 8 other times that night. It doesn’t indicate anything in terms of Neal turning things around
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01-01-2019, 05:39 PM
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#1460
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Originally Posted by neo45
Fair point. He made the right play
But come on the puck went past Dell 8 other times that night. It doesn’t indicate anything in terms of Neal turning things around
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Meh
He has been getting the looks. He has one of the worst shooting percentages I have seen and that is the kind of thing that will regress to the mean. He most likely has been putting a ton of pressure on himself, and I believe that the crowd letting him know that they were pulling for him goes a long way.
Technically the requirement for a turnaround is to actually get a goal. Check.
Why not simply choose to be positive about the potential for him to respond well, and for the timing of the statistically likely outcome to coincide with a somewhat fortuitous goal?
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