Well, sorry I didn't see this since I can't see your posts but I found it by luck! Since you are attacking me, I guess I'll play the game and defend myself
You proclaim this quite often. "I'm the rational one, everyone who disagrees with me is not!"
I never said that. If people are rational then we can have an intelligent discussion (what I am looking for), agree or not. But yes, I call out pure biased haters who have no substance and I have absolutely no problem doing it.
My favourite was when you went around calling anyone who criticized players or Murray "paranoid" despite you clearly having no idea what the word meant.
http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/conditions/paranoia-and-delusional-disorders
Paranoia involves intense anxious or fearful feelings and thoughts often related to persecution, threat, or conspiracy. Paranoia occurs in many mental disorders, but is most often present in psychotic disorders. Paranoia can become delusions, when irrational thoughts and beliefs become so fixed that nothing (including contrary evidence) can convince a person that what they think or feel is not true. When a person has paranoia or delusions, but no other symptoms (like hearing or seeing things that aren't there), they might have what is called a delusional disorder. Because only thoughts are impacted, a person with delusional disorder can usually work and function in everyday life, however, their lives may be limited and isolated.
I stand by what I said. A certain amount of posters are paranoid. Factual evidence can't help them getting out of their biased hyperbolic ways.
Closely followed by your argument that "rebuilds take between 11-17 years, so stop criticizing Murray!
I find that trying to twist people's words is a bit weak but if that's what float your boat...
All rebuilds take a different amount of time. I was saying that people should be a bit more patient before proclaiming it as a failure as the Sens were in their 5th year, and then I named rebuilds like LA and Chicago, which took a long longer...
" You're a master of mental gymnastics, and your passive-agressive jabs and belittling of other posters gets a free pass here because you kiss up to the mods enough.
I never "kissed up" any mod
, I get quite a bit of infractions. Lately I got 3 in some kind of "social experiment". I tried to call out some posters the exact same way that they were calling out a player. Looks like it is not permitted
My conclusion is that I find ridiculous that people here can flame out players as they want because we assume that they have no account on HF or are not reading
As for your assessment, maybe you take it like that but I need to remind you that none of this is personal. It's only related to hockey posts on a hockey forum. I am NOT insulting people (but get quite a bit of insults though
). I am calling out people who are posting crap about hockey players and AFAIK I have the right to do that. People are at times very hard on players/management/coaches, do you expect me to be soft? They are people too and I choose to defend them over random people on the internet. Clearly, I am taking the players side. I always take the side of people who accomplishes things rather than people who sit on their ass whining at everything, that you can be sure.
So, you can perceive it the way you want, interpret it like I am doing this or that, it's up to you. Reality is I have nothing against anybody on this site, just calling out some people's baseless opinions. Nothing harmful really. I know I have my haters because I can turn their biased opinions into ridicule but I also have a lot of supporters and I receive appreciation private messages on a regular basis so I must not be the Evil like you think I am
You're being quite the critic here with an holier-than-thou attitude, but what do you think you are doing here exactly? (and seriously, every time you quote me you are flaming me out like crazy! hahaha)
Matthew 7:3 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
"Play for free?" They saved $4.2 million, most of which goes towards player raises. And Phaneuf's salary will definitely have an impact on other raises/new contracts down the line. What they did was pay Phaneuf money they were already going to spend and must still spend with him here. There is no "playing for free" here.
Looks like you didn't get it. I was doing the analysis year per year. I have always done it for the whole 5.25 years (average ~ 4 millions per season) but then you were talking about this season, next season, etc.
What league do you watch? Guys who are still good contributors at 35 are the exceptions, not the norms. For every one player you can name who is, there are exponentially more who either never made it to that age playing in the NHL, or who are minor role players.
Oops, looks like you missed another curve!
I said "most non-marginal NHL players", what do you think it means?
And seriously, you don't think it's possible for Phaneuf to get slower because he's already slow? The lack of logic here is frightening.
If he doesn't get leg injuries or doesn't put more weight, I don't see a "logical" reason why he would become slower from 31 to 35. Phaneuf is a bull on skates. He is built like a truck. Actually, he could realistically sacrifice a bit of mass to gain a bit of speed, like Chris Neil did, I repeat.
I am not known for somebody who lacks logic. Actually, I am a bit annoying with logic at times apparently, but nice try.
What this trade is amounts to a stop-gap solution for a playoff bubble team whose mentality is just to get in. Basically what the Sens have largely been since Murray became GM (save one year they finished 5th in the East off the strength of an 11 game win streak. A streak where if they'd gone even 6-5 during that stretch they would have missed the playoffs).
I think JD1 already pointed out how ridiculous that win streak argument was, but for the rest, I would just say welcome to Ottawa. The only way I could see them contending is to strike gold on several prospects in a short period of time, until they are not able to pay them all again. Under the cap era, the Ottawa Senators are a team that has to fight to stay competitive every year and "just get in". If you want a team that doesn't face that kind of reality, you have the choice with teams nearby like the Habs, Rangers or Leafs. They can spend to the cap, spend money on staff, buy out contracts, bury them, attract good UFAs, make trades with taking back salary, put more money on scouting/development, etc. It's just a matter of accepting reality or not.
With all that being said, I propose "peace"