It could just be the angle but McDavid looked taller to me
Found last year's thread about this camp. If anyone needs me I'll be jumping off a bridge...
Nurse looks monstrous. Haha, holy ****. Someone was busy this offseason.
Too bad Adam Larsson didn't go to the Biosteel camp.
You seem sad, but I have a feeling you will be very happy seeing a team with a truly competent defenceman.
Also, I was thinking today...
Imagine we ended up having to pick Marner/Hanifin last draft. There would have been absolutely no hope for this franchise. I had stopped watching a lot of the games. Last year I watched 81 of 82.
McDavid changed the entire organization, and I believe without him this team would have been guaranteed another 5-10 years of bottom feeding. Stanley Cup teams need a generational centre and we got ours.
Also, I was thinking today...
Imagine we ended up having to pick Marner/Hanifin last draft. There would have been absolutely no hope for this franchise. I had stopped watching a lot of the games. Last year I watched 81 of 82.
McDavid changed the entire organization, and I believe without him this team would have been guaranteed another 5-10 years of bottom feeding. Stanley Cup teams need a generational centre and we got ours.
Stanley cup teams do not need a generational centre.
If they needed a generational centre then Pittsburgh would have won every cup since Gretzky since they've had the only generational centres. People are too liberal with generational.
Maybe not generational, but certainly a top 3-4 centre in the league.
Here are the centres who have led their teams centres in points during the playoffs to cups in the past 20 years.
Crosby/Malkin
Toews
Kopitar
Datsyuk/Zetterberg
Getzlaf
Staal
Richards(Brad)
Yzerman
Sakic/Forsberg
Modano
So perhaps not "generational", but certainly you need a top 5 centre league-wide carrying your team. Only exception in the past 20 years to this rule is New Jersey who won with Gomez and Niewendyk as their top 2 centres. Their back end was the best in the NHL at the time with Stevens, Niedermayer, Rafalski, and Daneyko.
RNH and Draisaitl are nowhere near nor will they ever be near the top 5 centres in the league. So, unless we were suddenly blessed with Larsson, Klefbom, and Nurse all improving to being top defencemen in the league, the hope of getting close to a cup simply wouldn't be there in my mind.
20 years is a good sample size I think.
? Where's Krejci for Boston's run? Both him and Eric Staal I think are quite questionable for top 5 centre league wide.
Draft year Nurse.
Nurse is really filling out (bonus Gazdic)
Hall looks jacked. ****, I miss him already.
Me too... Sucks that he got traded to a bad team too. Would've liked to watch him in the playoffs!
Me too... Sucks that he got traded to a bad team too. Would've liked to watch him in the playoffs!
Nurse looks like a 45 year old MMA fighter.
He looks 2x the size he did last offseason. Holy smokes.
Connor's comments on the Oilers now:
"I think we're just so different than we have been before, we're so much bigger .... of course losing Taylor is a big loss but you add in a guy who is y'know one of the toughest guys in the league (Lucic) if not the toughest guy in the league, and you know he has so much respect, and you add in a defenceman like Larsson who I think is pretty underrated and you don't really know how good he is until you've actually played against him on the ice, I've played against him a few times and it's not very fun, definitely glad to have him on our team"
at the Larsson no fun bit.
Also says getting the captaincy would "mean so much" to him, something he'd be so proud of, but doesn't want to talk too much about, wants to go into camp and show people "he's not an 18 year old kid anymore".
What's BioSteel putting in their juice? Nurse looks like Jon Jones from this angle
no surprise really, but: