Let's follow hockey in 2019/2020

by **pinback** » Thu Dec 12, 2019 6:46 am

Nearing the halfway point of the season, the Avs are #1 in the Western Conference, with the highest goal differential in the league. See, I told you they weren't going to fade this year.

by **pinback** » Sun Nov 03, 2019 1:29 pm

The formerly great Avalanche can't win a game no more, but almost all their good guys got hurt, so I'm not willing to throw up my hands in an awkward fashion and say "here we go again". Yet.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:11 am

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by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 9:02 am

pinback wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 5:43 am Not a joke, I dunno where that came from. Yes, Marc "Andre" Fleury. But with all the new players on the Avs, I barely know their names either.

That has been the biggest thing. The names. The people. The players. The sauce. The cheese.

I knew every guy on the 92 Flyers and Sabres. I knew every team's best player, I had at least heard of all the guys on the top two lines, plus the goalies and the offensive defensemen. Part of that way playing hockey video games and being in a fantasy hockey league and watching lots of games.

I am struggling HARD to remember and recall and learn just the roster of the Sabres. It took me two years to memorize "Linus Ullmark and Carter Hutton." Hutton throwing shut outs every week has made that easier, but still.

I started with just trying to learn the names of the guys the Sabres drafted in the first round, but even that wasn't great because they have busted so regularly. We're working, family men, Pinner. This is going to take real effort to do.

But at least the league is not obviously, hilariously fixed like the NFL, so there ya go. I am willing to swap NFL knowledge for NHL knowledge.

by **Tdarcos** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 9:01 am

pinback wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 6:06 pm Well, after opening 4-0 at home, the Avalanche embarked on a 6-game road trip, ending at 4-1-1.

Yeah! The Avalanche rocks! Or maybe I should say The Avalanche is full of rocks. Not sure yet.

by **pinback** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 5:46 am

Wait, I DO know where it came from. For the last several months, during my daily walks, and often in the background while I'm working, I listen to 1999 Neil Rogers shows, and he was a big hockey guy, so when he was talking about the Avalanche that year, he'd always mention Theo Fleury. So I hear the name a lot more regularly than most.

by **pinback** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 5:43 am

Not a joke, I dunno where that came from. Yes, Marc "Andre" Fleury. But with all the new players on the Avs, I barely know their names either.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Oct 25, 2019 8:22 pm

pinback wrote: ↑Fri Oct 25, 2019 6:06 pm Well, after opening 4-0 at home, the Avalanche embarked on a 6-game road trip, ending at 4-1-1. The OTL was disappointing, and the first regulation loss was not good, but 4-1-1 is excellent, and in the last game of the road trip tonight in Vegas, they made the Golden Knights look like a girls team, ran "future Hall of Famer" Theo Fleury halfway through the second, and just generally kicked their big, fat, smelly ass.

I think you might have been making a joke, I dunno. I don't want to go AXXXTHUALLY ITS MARC ANDRE.

I do think Theo Fleury should be in the hall of fame. Everything Paul Kariya did, Theo Fleury did after having gotten molested.

by **pinback** » Fri Oct 25, 2019 6:06 pm

Well, after opening 4-0 at home, the Avalanche embarked on a 6-game road trip, ending at 4-1-1. The OTL was disappointing, and the first regulation loss was not good, but 4-1-1 is excellent, and in the last game of the road trip tonight in Vegas, they made the Golden Knights look like a girls team, ran "future Hall of Famer" Theo Fleury halfway through the second, and just generally kicked their big, fat, smelly ass.

This is by far the best Avs team I've seen since I've been watching. I would not be SHOCKED to see them regress like they always do, but for the first time since I've been a fan, I would be surprised.

by **AArdvark** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:35 pm

Re: one liner from Grease.

Dur, its where I got it....Except I thought it was Porky's

by **Tdarcos** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:21 pm

AArdvark wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:59 am Why must we bribe you? Couldn't you just be an athletic supporter?

Aw come on, 'Vark, you can do better than that! Besides, they already did that joke as a throw-away line in 1979's Grease:
Principal over PA system: If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.

Casual Observer's posting of a jock strap was perfect as when you used the above line I was thinking of the tern and the line from Grease.

Hey, it just occurred to me, if this was used in grease from 1979, it must be pretty rancid by now. [SFX: Rimshot] (You may now groan over that pun.)

Jonsey, this bbs warns me I am forbidden to use the [🄼🄴🄳🄸🄰] tag to inline videos.

by **The Happiness Engine** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 3:55 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:05 am I am posting this not because I think anyone will watch 8 minutes of hockey videos, but because it is amazing to me how nice the NHL looks in HD.

I always got time for 9 minutes of highlights and that looked just great.

by **Casual Observer** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:38 am

AArdvark wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:59 amWhy must we bribe you? Couldn't you just be an athletic supporter?

Wait, you want Paul to be this?

by **AArdvark** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:59 am

Why must we bribe you? Couldn't you just be an athletic supporter?

by **Tdarcos** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 4:18 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 4:46 pm Can we count on you to be on the Buffalo Sabres' side for the 2019/2020 season, Commander??!

pinback wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 6:14 pm I'd like to think Paul is all about dem Colorado Avalanches!

I have a question. How much of a bribe do i get for supporting a team?

After all, I have important things to pay for, like my addiction to Starburst and Ritz Cheddar Cheese cracker sandwiches. As the Material Girl put it, "They can beg and they can plead / But they can't see the light (that's right) / 'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash / Is always Mister Right."

- - - -
"I wasn't shocked that I could be bribed; almost anyone below the income of Carlos Slim, Warren Buffet or Bill Gates can be bribed. What really saddened and shocked me was how cheaply I could be bribed."
- Paul Robinson, February 17, 2014

"If your asking price doesn't sicken you by making you realize you're being a greedy pig, your price is too low."
- Real Estate Investor Carleton Sheets

"How much is 'enough'? Heh, heh, 'just a little more.'"
- Wilvert Kissell in David Westheimer's Going Public

by **AArdvark** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 6:22 pm

Nah, Sabres!

by **pinback** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 6:14 pm

I'd like to think Paul is all about dem Colorado Avalanches!

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 4:46 pm

Can we count on you to be on the Buffalo Sabres' side for the 2019/2020 season, Commander??!

by **Tdarcos** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 3:16 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:05 am I was trying not to get too excited, because the Sabres did win 10 in a row last year and they let all their progress slip and didn't make the playoffs. I have no memory of a team winning 10 in a row and failing to make the playoffs.

It's pretty rare. From The Buffalo News, December 1, 2018: "The only team in history to run off 10 in a row and not make the postseason was the 2016-17 Philadelphia Flyers, who only finished the season with 88 points in a year where three Metropolitan Division teams were at 108 or more." Inside the NHL: A long winning streak doesn't guarantee a big finish to a season

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:05 am

I was trying not to get too excited, because the Sabres did win 10 in a row last year and they let all their progress slip and didn't make the playoffs. I have no memory of a team winning 10 in a row and failing to make the playoffs.

Some things also have to fall into place for a fucking awful team to get good in sports - you have to rip someone off (that LeClair, Dionne and Desjardins trade for Mark Recchi back in like 1996 that the Flyers executed against Montreal propelled them into becoming a playoff team). Or you have to unearth a player out of nowhere, and I think that the Sabres might have done that with Victor Olofsson, who was a 7th(!) round pick that is now on the first line of our team playing left wing with Jack Eichel and Sam Reinhart.

I love the ideas of teams finding a skill or two that a player has and taking advantage of that skill. And not worrying about what they cannot do. Olofsson has a wicked shot - so our coach has put him on the power play where he plays at the same time with the best offensive players on the Sabres, and Olofsson has responded with six power play goals. He's leading the league!

That makes me so happy because that is something a smart organization would do. I have not had the opportunity to be a fan of many smart organizations. (The general management of the Blue Jays, for instance, is probably one of the dumbest in the league.)

I am posting this not because I think anyone will watch 8 minutes of hockey videos, but because it is amazing to me how nice the NHL looks in HD.

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