Around the League 31: when's the last time last years finialist finished dead f***ing last?
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I spent way too long researching the new question and came back with bad news. Then I read the post.
Trouba put on his butt, by… Skinner!?
LakeLivin
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It was only a few years back that there were times when the only fire on the Canes team came from Skinner. I've only been following the Canes closely since the 2014-15 season, but the most embarrassing Canes moment I can recall in that time was a game in Buffalo when the whole Slugs team was running Skinner and not one of the Canes came to his defense.
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Trouba is in the middle of everything these days, and Skinner pushing people on the bench lol. The last week or so around the league has been wild.
HisIceness
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Man I was excited for that 2002-03 season, next thing I knew we were trading for Bruno St. Jacques
Well damn, Rangers get another 2 points.
Well damn, Rangers get another 2 points.
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Dahlin would be perfect for a Southwest Airlines "Wanna get away?" type commercial right about now.
HisIceness
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That dude is having a rough season. Brandon Tanev beat him for a short-handed goal last week now this.
That last shot of him says “resting Eichel face” if I’ve ever seen it.
sabremike
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tarheelhockey
Offside Review Specialist
Offside reviews are as bad as crease reviews circa 1999. The league is absolutely tempting fate with this crap. It’s gonna come up in the Finals and it’s gonna give the league a league a black eye to determine games on something this stupid.
Identity404
I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious
Biron is a super homer. You really have to stretch the idea of what constitutes control of the puck for that make any sense.
This was clearly offside.
That's why I'd put a limit of 30 seconds at 1/4 speed for review (or similar). If after this they can't see enough to overrule well that's that. When it takes 3 minutes with 4 angles frame by frame and they still get it wrong, well that's f*cked.
Officials are making these calls at full speed. When after dissection they are shown to be wrong it is at least understandable and ya know, shit happens.
WreckingCrew
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Yea in the frame before 26 was still pirouetting fully offsides and the puck had already been pulled across the line. It's cherry-picking for confirmation bias to choose a frame where they tagged up after the puck was pulled 2 ft over the line
sabremike
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Biron is literally the only guy on the broadcast team who will criticize the team.
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Playmaka
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Montreat easily worst cup finalizer in my life. No 1c no elite offense driver. Just bunch of guys who block shots trying to emulate Debils of 20 years past.
Poor man's Brodeur. Poor man's Steven's. No Elias.
Poor man's Brodeur. Poor man's Steven's. No Elias.
TheReelChuckFletcher
Former TheRillestPaulFenton; Harverd Alum
The thing with Montreal is that Suzuki had 1C potential, they had Price, and they had Danault. Now they have neither Price nor Danault.
HisIceness
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When my non-Hockey friends ask me to define Offsides for them, even I don't know how to explain it. It's like PI in the NFL, who really has the right to the ball?
Identity404
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sabremike
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tarheelhockey
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So they’re saying the stick has to be in direct physical contact with the puck in order for offside to be called?
That’s not in the rulebook.
So we’re at the point where not only are we disallowing crucial goals for insane, irrelevant reasons… not only are we getting those calls wrong after review… but now we’ve got Campbell legislating from the bench in mid-season.
FFS just get rid of these idiotic reviews. Fixing a handful of actual bad calls a year doesn’t come close to justifying leaguewide disruption of entire games.
bleedgreen
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Well I think it wasn’t offsides. A player can punch a puck over the line, knowing he can’t touch it yet and wait until his line mate touches up before himself touching it. That’s pretty standard. That happens all the time actually.
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