Minnesota Wild General Discussion VI

[DANOZ28]

what does his opinion have to do with "old man status"? please explain or apologize.

 

[57special]

Really showing your 'Old Man' status now. I bet back in your day if you were bullied and asked for help it meant you were a ***** and you walked to school up hill both ways. What someone makes has nothing to do if one should or shouldn't show sympathy for another person. The fact that you obviously don't care about someones well being makes me glad I only see you on a message board.

Talk about bullying.

 

[tomgilbertfan]

 

[MuckOG]

If they weren't likely to make the playoffs anyways, an injured Parise virtually guarantees the Wild will have a lottery pick.

 

[57special]

If they weren't likely to make the playoffs anyways, an injured Parise virtually guarantees the Wild will have a lottery pick.

Can't be serious, I don't think.

 

[tomgilbertfan]

 

[TaLoN]

I allways liked Finnesota i remember Waltz, Laaksonen, Nummelin, Koivu... i am so sad Fenton trades Granlund away . Fiala is good but... I have alot good memories. i wish you good luck for future.

Walz is Canadian

 

[TaLoN]

 

[Wild11MN]

The Athletic conducted an NHL players' poll. Spurgeon came in 4th for "most underrated" in the league.

Some other interesting tidbits:
Crosby got 48% of the vote for best all-around player, compared to just 25% for McDavid.
Most underrated went to Barkov.
Most overrated went to Subban pretty easily, but only at 23%.
For the team with the best fans, Vegas won handily with 26%. I was surprised at that, especially because the visiting team always brings a good chunk of fans along there.
60% wanted the playoff format changed.
99% wanted NHL players in the Olympics. Crazy.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

Really showing your 'Old Man' status now. I bet back in your day if you were bullied and asked for help it meant you were a ***** and you walked to school up hill both ways. What someone makes has nothing to do if one should or shouldn't show sympathy for another person. The fact that you obviously don't care about someones well being makes me glad I only see you on a message board.

WTF are you talking about?

 

[TaLoN]

Really showing your 'Old Man' status now. I bet back in your day if you were bullied and asked for help it meant you were a ***** and you walked to school up hill both ways. What someone makes has nothing to do if one should or shouldn't show sympathy for another person. The fact that you obviously don't care about someones well being makes me glad I only see you on a message board.

Uhh... because he doesn't have sympathy for an under-performing hockey player stressing about the deadline?

I don't have sympathy for him either. It comes with the job. You don't live up to your contract standards, you have no reason to expect the team to want to keep you.

He got that $5m+ because he scored 30 goals. He's not keeping up that same level of play, so it's no surprise that the team wants to get out from under that contract.

He can either get his game back on track, or he'll be playing elsewhere. It's a fact of life in pro sports.

 

[tomgilbertfan]

 

[nickschultzfan]

The Athletic conducted an NHL players' poll. Spurgeon came in 4th for "most underrated" in the league.

Some other interesting tidbits:
Crosby got 48% of the vote for best all-around player, compared to just 25% for McDavid.
Most underrated went to Barkov.
Most overrated went to Subban pretty easily, but only at 23%.
For the team with the best fans, Vegas won handily with 26%. I was surprised at that, especially because the visiting team always brings a good chunk of fans along there.
60% wanted the playoff format changed.
99% wanted NHL players in the Olympics. Crazy.

Players have a pretty good sense of things.

NHL not being in the Olympics is like Penguin Books not wanting to be on Amazon. Yes, ideally they would like to go through their own distribution channels. But it's a huge platform for casual fans.

 

[Bazeek]

They said yesterday that Parise would practice today. If that doesn't happen he may end up being out for a while.

 

[Nharris31]

Elliotte trying to put positives out there for Zucker.
Elliotte Friedman, Author at Sportsnet.ca
13. Early in my career, the Toronto Raptorstried to trade a player named Victor Alexander, only to have the deal voided because he failed his physical. (One of the reporters carved him in print, and Alexander came looking for him on press row after he returned. That was a good lesson.) Jason Zucker didn’t fail a physical, but knows this weird feeling after his near-trade to Calgary, involving Michael Frolikand what’s believed to be a first- or second-second-round draft pick, fell through.
It’s awkward, but Steve Yzerman was nearly traded to Ottawa and things sure worked out for him. Only Mike Comrie’s refusal to pay back a signing bonus to the Oilers in 2003 prevented Corey Perry’s Anaheim career from ending before it began. Worked out pretty well for him, too. Zucker gets some control over his situation — a partial no-trade — on July 1

 

[Bazeek]

They said yesterday that Parise would practice today. If that doesn't happen he may end up being out for a while.

So that's good. Or bad, depending on your priorities right now

 

[Digitalbooya]

So that's good. Or bad, depending on your priorities right now

Honestly, there's so much young blood getting top minutes right now that making the playoffs and getting that experience for them would be pretty cool.