If he's so great, why is he tied with Jeff O'Neill for most goals in a season by a player from Richmond Hill Ontario?
Asking the important questions.
Now that this information has been unearthed, O’Neill will be on my 1st or 2nd line for ATD 2022.
I think McDavid is 1/3rd of the player O'Neill is... mass-wise.
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Anyone who drafted Clarke, Nighbor, Gainey, Carbonneau, C. Ramsay, Walker, Provost, or Keon, . I hope you win your first round match.
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Anyone who drafted Clarke, Nighbor, Gainey, Carbonneau, C. Ramsay, Walker, Provost, or Keon, . I hope you win your first round match.
You're welcome. I'm no expert, but those are my personal favorite def. forwards regardless of their line irl or in the ATD.Thanks for the support! Provost is a beast!
Got curious with some listed weight numbers...I think McDavid is 1/3rd of the player O'Neill is... mass-wise.
Let's say your favourite team had to run 3 lines of 6 guys each, using pre-NHL positions. I'm going to have a go at the Leafs:
Zach Hyman - Auston Matthews - William Nylander
Mitch Marner
TJ Brodie
Jake Muzzin
Alex Kerfoot- John Tavares - Wayne Simmonds
Morgan Rielly
Travis Dermott
Justin Holl
Ilya Mikheyev - Joe Thornton - Jason Spezza
Nic Petan
Mikko Lehtonen
Zach Bogosian
A few things:
- Funny that I didn't end up using Morgan Rielly as my first unit rover. Ultimately, if I were to use a defenseman in every rover position (as offensive defensemen are commonly called "Rovers" today), I'd end up dressing 9 defensemen, and we'd be subjected to 3rd unit point Martin Marincin. No thanks. Mitch Marner plays a style that's pretty consistent with historical descriptions of what the rover actually did (except he can pass forward), and he's a better player than Rielly, though they'd both be valuable in a setup like this.
- Likewise, Brodie, Dermott and Lehtonen fit what I'd consider to be the analog of a cover point in the modern game, as nothing they do is particularly unusual for an NHL defenseman, but their skating and puckhandling are their best assets.
- Don't really care if Lehtonen or Sandin are the 3rd unit points. Sandin will be better as soon as (checks watch...)
- Considered getting kind of weird with it and using Lehtonen as the 3rd unit rover and the solid, mobile but offensively inept Pierre Engvall as 3rd unit cover point, but I went with Petan instead, who plays like Marner except he's not very good. Maybe the rover role would be more suitable for him than he currently is as an NHL forward.
This was actually kind of challenging...it's almost like the current team isn't set up this way.
Anyone want to try their team?
I feel like I had some information in the back of my brain about who invented the hip check and when, but it's gone and I can't find it. It certainly isn't a natural thing that you'd fall back on if you were about to run into a guy and didn't know what you were doing.Did they still have the two dmen who just sat back and tried to throw hipchecks like a few years later?
I feel like I had some information in the back of my brain about who invented the hip check and when, but it's gone and I can't find it. It certainly isn't a natural thing that you'd fall back on if you were about to run into a guy and didn't know what you were doing.
My thinking is that the layered formation of the point and cover point, plus the lack of a forward pass to worry about suggests that the cover point would have been more concerned with man-to-man defense, while the point man had to be a little more situationally aware to pick up the next guy.
But you'd probably get a better answer if you looked into Victorian era rugby strategy, and I'm sure there's something written about that somewhere.
I now believe in my first conspiracy theory. I think the Flyers have been tanking since 1976. I don't believe it's possible that while other teams were making draft steals such as Hasek, Brett Hull, and Gilmour, or even good picks such as the 2 Pavels (Datsyuk and Bure) and McDavid that the best player they could draft is Giroux (or whoever you like best since 1976). My D&D dice could draft better than their front office.
Tanking is the wrong word.I now believe in my first conspiracy theory. I think the Flyers have been tanking since 1976.
I was obviously joking that every Philly front office since 1976 was tanking. Get a sense of humor.Tanking is the wrong word. ...
While the Flyers have been inconsistent during his tenure, Giroux has been anything but. Season after season, Giroux continues to drive the Flyers’ offense while being a responsible two-way player. He’s made six All-Star teams and finished top five in MVP voting twice. Assuming health, the career-long Flyer will pass Bill Barber for second on the franchise’s all-time point list next season. He will likely retire as the second-best Flyers skater ever.
Top 10 NHL draft picks in Flyers historyRookie of the Year. Scoring title. League MVP. Forsberg has all of those on his mantle. Unfortunately for the Flyers, he won them all as a member of the Colorado Avalanche. Forsberg was the key piece in the trade that landed the Flyers Eric Lindros. Forsberg would return to the Flyers for parts of two seasons toward the end of his career but the organization missed out on the prime of arguably the greatest Swedish-born forward ever.
The best pick for the Flyers (not the Avs) was Giroux... And the best player they drafted was Peter Forsberg ...