09-08-2021, 09:25 PM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Crosby has wrist surgery, out at least 6 weeks
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The team announced Wednesday that the two-time Hart Trophy winner will be out at least six weeks after undergoing wrist surgery.
General manager Ron Hextall said Crosby had been dealing with the injury for years and that the team exhausted all minimally invasive options before deciding surgery was the best course of action.
"We all, including Sid, wish we had known this a month or two months ago," Hextall said. "That would be great, but we are where we are."
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https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...east-six-weeks
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09-08-2021, 11:13 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Crosby only won two Hart trophies? That surprises me.
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09-09-2021, 07:38 AM
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Franchise Player
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Crosby is broken and will never be the same. The Penguins better dump him for anything they can get before the rest of the league catches on! /snark
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09-09-2021, 07:40 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Time flies as the Sid the kid is 34 years old. With his all around game he should be an effective player into his late 30's providing his body holds up.
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09-09-2021, 07:41 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Thunder Bay Ontario
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Crosby is washed up, at this point in his career he's being carried by Teddy Blugers.
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Fan of the Flames, where being OK has become OK.
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09-09-2021, 07:46 AM
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Taking a while to get to 5000
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He'll be back just in time to face the Flames on the 28th
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09-09-2021, 08:25 AM
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Franchise Player
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With all the injuries Sid has sustained, it’s amazing people are so bullish on Eichel.
21st century Medical science is truly magic
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09-09-2021, 09:27 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
With all the injuries Sid has sustained, it’s amazing people are so bullish on Eichel.
21st century Medical science is truly magic
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I think Sid’s accomplishments, despite numerous injuries including concussions, are precisely why people are willing to take a chance on Eichel.
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09-09-2021, 09:29 AM
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Taking a while to get to 5000
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Eichel is worth taking a chance on, absolutely. Its the gross overpayments suggested by some coupled with the perhaps too optimistic timeline for his recovery that has people like me shaking their heads.
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09-09-2021, 09:34 AM
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Franchise Player
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This player is excellent at every single facet of the game. Skating, passing, shooting, leadership, physicality, defending, faceoffs, etc.
It is so crazy that the Pens got Lemieux/Jagr then Crosby/Malkin. Like come on.
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09-09-2021, 09:35 AM
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Taking a while to get to 5000
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Thats a franchise that knows both how to tank, and win a GD lottery
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09-09-2021, 01:04 PM
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Franchise Player
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If only the Flames knew how to do it...
He'd make a nice captain for the Flames 
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09-09-2021, 01:16 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Toonage
Thats a franchise that knows both how to tank, and win a GD lottery
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TBF, their most obvious tank job was the Lemieux draft and there was no lottery then. So they managed to guarantee the pick for sure.
Since the lottery began in its various incarnations in 1995, the actual last place team has won about a third of the time, if my math is right. But the rules keep changing, so tanking has been more or less beneficial depending on those rules.
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09-09-2021, 01:18 PM
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#14
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Franchise Player
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I'm a little perplexed on why they waited till Sept to have the surgery
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09-09-2021, 01:18 PM
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Taking a while to get to 5000
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GioforPM
TBF, their most obvious tank job was the Lemieux draft and there was no lottery then. So they managed to guarantee the pick for sure.
Since the lottery began in its various incarnations in 1995, the actual last place team has won about a third of the time, if my math is right. But the rules keep changing, so tanking has been more or less beneficial depending on those rules.
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I was trying to reference the two times they grabbed 1st OA. Lemieux (tank) and Crosby (GD lottery). Didn't mean to infer Lemieux or that draft was lottery related
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09-09-2021, 01:27 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Toonage
I was trying to reference the two times they grabbed 1st OA. Lemieux (tank) and Crosby (GD lottery). Didn't mean to infer Lemieux or that draft was lottery related
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Mario was the best example of surefire tanking though.
Crosby was pretty lucky for the Pens. That was after the lockout and all teams were in it with 1-3 balls, and the Pens had the same odds (6.3%) as 3 other teams. Calgary had 2 balls in the machine like 9 other teams, for a 4.2% chance. Calgary would have had 3 balls like Pittsburgh but for their 04 PO run.
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09-09-2021, 01:37 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Toonage
I was trying to reference the two times they grabbed 1st OA. Lemieux (tank) and Crosby (GD lottery). Didn't mean to infer Lemieux or that draft was lottery related
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They also got Fleury 1OA and Malkin 2OA. They definitely have the luck with the draws.
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09-09-2021, 01:44 PM
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Taking a while to get to 5000
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Forgot about MAF! Well then.
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09-09-2021, 02:06 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Toonage
I was trying to reference the two times they grabbed 1st OA. Lemieux (tank) and Crosby (GD lottery). Didn't mean to infer Lemieux or that draft was lottery related
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I seem to remember some story about the coach of the penguins being forced by management to sit certain players (I think the staring goalie for one thing) on the final game of the season to ensure they finished last and got Lemieux. There was a bit of controversy I believe because the coach did not want to play to lose. I could be wrong about that.
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