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MarqHusker

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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #28 on: May 16, 2018, 11:17:13 PM »
They do, from what I gather.   San Jose also does quite an elaborate opening.   It's over the top, but again, it probably should be, given what it is.

Hard to root against either of these teams.   I gotta pull for Winnipeg.   One of the fishing guides we hire in Canada is so hardcore,   We fish a few hours east of Winnipeg.   He was so excited the see a team come back, and was always wearing Jets gear in the boat.

I was looking ahead to next week as I have to go to DC for a few days and for like the 4th straight time, I barely miss a Caps home game, I've been trying to make it to an NHL playoff game for years, and I get so close.   Oh well, Padres at Nats it is.
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ELA

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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #29 on: May 17, 2018, 08:56:45 AM »
Quote from: MarqHusker on May 16, 2018, 11:17:13 PM
Hard to root against either of these teams.   I gotta pull for Winnipeg.   One of the fishing guides we hire in Canada is so hardcore,   We fish a few hours east of Winnipeg.   He was so excited the see a team come back, and was always wearing Jets gear in the boat.

Same here.  My dad does business with a guy from Winnipeg, and we have a family friend who played for a Stanley Cup winning team, so he got to go to his day with the Cup.  I thought that was a cool thing, when my dad mentioned it to his Winnipeg partner, you would have thought he told him he had been in the Beatles.  The guy lost it.  It means so much to those fans up there, and they haven't won one.  I like the Vegas team well enough, but I can't really feel bad for fans of an expansion team not winning it.
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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #30 on: May 17, 2018, 09:58:36 AM »

Plus they have to live in a place that has appropriately been nicknamed Winter-peg, Mani-snow-ba.
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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #31 on: May 18, 2018, 12:49:30 PM »
Pulling for the Jets, but I think Vegas wins this series.   Still getting comfortable with Nashville owning a soccer team.... Vegas..... 

While the Vegas story is interesting, I'm sure hockey fans as a whole don't like it.   Basically, the NHL gave them a championship caliber team....
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ELA

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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #32 on: May 18, 2018, 01:11:29 PM »
They really didn't though.  They got lucky that the Penguins had two great goalies, but beyond that they got guys nobody wanted.
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Entropy

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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #33 on: May 21, 2018, 05:42:28 PM »
I'm not sure I'd say "nobody wanted"...   They were not the stars from other teams, but they were wanted...   I know my memory is foggy, but I don't recall other expansion teams having this level of depth or skill in year one.  

Yes, they're motivated.  Yes, several guys are having great years and the coaching/decisions are working.    Yes, having a great goalie makes a team look a lot better... but they've been skating circles around the Jets.   Those are not guys who were unwanted...  For example.. the last expansion draft, teams could protect between 12-15 players... this one, 9 to 11.  They also had a lot of salary cap room that allowed them to make trades others could not or moves that others could not...   I wouldn't say these guys were unwanted.  I think they had options other teams have not in past expansions.  They also were set up to compete right away. 

I think you'll see changes if the NHL ever expands again.  jmo, of course
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NickSmith4Three

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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #34 on: May 22, 2018, 11:13:24 AM »
Quote from: Entropy on May 21, 2018, 05:42:28 PM

I think you'll see changes if the NHL ever expands again.  jmo, of course
Well it's coming fairly soon with Seattle
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ELA

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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #35 on: May 22, 2018, 11:15:41 AM »
Quote from: NickSmith4Three on May 22, 2018, 11:13:24 AM
Well it's coming fairly soon with Seattle
Is it officially Seattle?  I thought Houston was still out there too.  Hell, I think the NHL and it's owners love this, all it's doing is driving up the price to buy the expansion team, if you know under this model you don't have to suck for 5-6 years first.
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NickSmith4Three

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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #36 on: May 22, 2018, 11:19:05 AM »
I am not sure its official yet.  
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Entropy

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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #37 on: May 22, 2018, 12:37:09 PM »
I didn't think it was official..  

btw... NHL playoffs >>>> NBA playoffs    While the playoffs are much better with the Detroit in them, there have been some great games this year.
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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #38 on: May 24, 2018, 11:19:10 AM »
Vegas vs Caps

One team completely built by George McPhee, the other team largely built by George McPhee.
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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #39 on: May 24, 2018, 11:59:26 AM »
I think of all possible Stanley Cup Finals matchups once we got to the Conference Finals, this is the one I thought would be the most interesting
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Entropy

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Re: ~2017-18 NHL Thread~
« Reply #40 on: May 31, 2018, 12:26:48 PM »
the first two games of the finals have been really really good.   The Capitals seem to have figured out that Vegas will overplay and that has given them some opportunities the Jets did not have...  Still impressed with Vegas' ability to disrupt.   
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