i (srsly!) welcome your input here. this is hardly the place for analytics, tho. the athletic is pretty good
but as a pens fan . . . maybe go to bed and think really hard about how different the world was in 1967
― mookieproof, Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:43 (nine months ago) link
i enjoy sean mcindoe's stuff on the athletic; he's a long-suffering (as if there were any other kind) leafs fan
― mookieproof, Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:46 (nine months ago) link
sean mcindoe is the best
― symsymsym, Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:58 (nine months ago) link
he's probably the main reason I subscribe to the athletic, but their hockey coverage is generally good.
― symsymsym, Sunday, 17 December 2023 04:01 (nine months ago) link
ok sick i already subscribe there. GO LEAFS GOOO
― francisF, Sunday, 17 December 2023 07:55 (nine months ago) link
the hockey guy on YouTube has good all around coverage for all 32 teams
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 17 December 2023 22:19 (nine months ago) link
yeah, i love hockey guy. i’ve watched a bunch of his league rundowns
― francisF, Sunday, 17 December 2023 22:45 (nine months ago) link
thanks guys. May 2, 1967’s #1 was “A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You” by the Monkees. Sid is the best: he made this casual, no-look backhand pass off the boards to a guy behind him like it was nothing. hockey is the best when you see those flashes of natural talent
― francisF, Sunday, 17 December 2023 23:08 (nine months ago) link
relatedly, i shot a UA commercial once w/Subban and i'm standing on the ice a bit shakily, he starts flitting his stick super-fast between my ankles, just barely grazing each time (i would've ate ice otherwise!). It was actually crazy to experience the otherworldly talent to even do that. Super fun dude, my favourite.
― francisF, Sunday, 17 December 2023 23:29 (nine months ago) link
winning in philadelphia: step one
Kyler Murray reporting for work in Philly wearing a Penguins Sidney Crosby sweater pic.twitter.com/qjkne3ep8v— Omar Ruiz (@OmarDRuiz) December 31, 2023
― mookieproof, Sunday, 31 December 2023 21:06 (eight months ago) link
this cutter gauthier/flyers thing is a train wreck
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 02:43 (eight months ago) link
Pretty weird but I've moved on already. Drysdale seems great (other than the injuries).
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 02:49 (eight months ago) link
i think they did pretty well with the trade return. but it raises questions like 'why would a top prospect simply not want to play there?' and 'why would anyone, draftee or free agent, want to get involved with a fan base that sends its former players death threats?'
and while i've no idea if it had anything to do with gauthier's situation, i suspect there aren't too many players itching to work with torts at this point
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 03:26 (eight months ago) link
I was not a fan of the Torts hiring at the time. They need(ed) a long term rebuild, and he tends to raise a team's floor in the short term but wear on his players in the long term. That still could be the case, but seeing him up close, my view is he asks things of players that any good coach should be asking (play hard, play smart, play D). He seems open and straight forward and doesn't play head games.
Rumors are that Gauthier was salty that the Flyers wanted him to go back to BC for a second year.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 12:56 (eight months ago) link
welcome to the Island, patrick roy
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 January 2024 23:18 (eight months ago) link
this canucks season is so enjoyable
― symsymsym, Sunday, 21 January 2024 01:06 (eight months ago) link
what a jinx
― symsymsym, Sunday, 21 January 2024 01:23 (eight months ago) link
did not expect Patrick Roy at all, but it was time for a change. Isles do have a more offense approach this year, but it seems to have come at the expense of 1) no longer being able to close out games in the third period 2) allowing way too many shots per game
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 21 January 2024 18:43 (eight months ago) link
brutal elbow to the face from brendan gallagher last night and he won’t even have an in-person meeting for it, meaning the suspension can be no more than five games
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 January 2024 16:50 (eight months ago) link
that guy is a real pos imho
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 26 January 2024 23:00 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0faZG1iFzeo
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 January 2024 00:24 (eight months ago) link
That now makes it 13 NHL head coaching changes since the end of last season: NYR, Calgary, Anaheim, Washington, Nashville, Columbus (twice), Edmonton, St. Louis, Ottawa, Minnesota, NYI and now LAK.— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) February 2, 2024
― mookieproof, Friday, 2 February 2024 17:24 (seven months ago) link
TmC has been on borrowed time for the last month
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 2 February 2024 17:32 (seven months ago) link
real shame that the oilers failed to match the 1993 penguins' NHL-record 17-game win streak
(tbf, they got goalied)
but
Since the Penguins’ 17-game winning streak in the 92-93 season is receiving much attention at the moment, a reminder: Mario Lemieux, in those 17 games, put up 27 goals, 24 assists and 51 points. And he did it only weeks after undergoing two months of cancer radiation treatments.— Josh Yohe (@JoshYohe_PGH) February 7, 2024
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 February 2024 05:12 (seven months ago) link
I don't really follow hockey much anymore so don't post here much, but I was following it very much in 92-93 (good year for a Habs fan) and that Mario Lemieux season continues to be the most impressive thing I've ever seen in sports.
― silverfish, Thursday, 8 February 2024 14:58 (seven months ago) link
I was 13-14ish at the time and I don't think I realized just how crazy it was that he could do it, but as an adult, holy shit.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 8 February 2024 15:12 (seven months ago) link
he's 58 now (born the same day as patrick roy!) but in the back of my mind i somehow keep vaguely expecting him to make another comeback
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 February 2024 03:42 (seven months ago) link
i know i've said this in several earlier threads but nevertheless the last time i saw anything more terrifying than mcdavid coming out of his own zone with the puck and a full head of steam was barry bonds circa 2001. and you can't walk mcdavid
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 February 2024 03:52 (seven months ago) link
i can understand why morgan rielly was upset about losing to a shitty team but crosschecking a guy in the head has nothing to do with Respect or The Code
The Code says you drop the gloves, at which point grieg either gets his ass kicked or ducks and runs. what rielly chose to do instead was throw a tantrum, so fuck him
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 08:12 (seven months ago) link
even if they are on your team you can’t defend that kind of stuff
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 16:34 (seven months ago) link
happy 52nd to jaromir jagr, whose number will be retired in pittsburgh on Sunday
https://theathletic.com/5263536/2024/02/12/jaromir-jagr-stories-pittsburgh-penguins
as i understand it, he's still occasionally playing for kladno (which he now owns) in czechia, so the hall of fame has no idea what to do with him
what a player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwoh4HGmfdQ
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 February 2024 05:15 (seven months ago) link
A thread of my favorite Jaromir Jagr goals for the Penguins. To both celebrate his jersey retirement and educate the young among us, let's travel back down memory lane and have ourselves a nostalgic Sunday.— Jesse Marshall (@jmarshfof) February 18, 2024
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 February 2024 03:01 (seven months ago) link
nice goal
CHARLIE MCAVOY WITH A BEAUTY TO WIN IT FOR THE BRUINS IN OVERTIME!#NHLBruins pic.twitter.com/aDEC5VAGqu— Hockey Daily 365 l NHL Highlights & News (@HockeyDaily365) February 22, 2024
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 February 2024 06:18 (seven months ago) link
reading about how Auston Matthews was the fastest to reach 50 goals since Lemieux in '95-'96 reminded me how great Mario was, he did that after missing a season and a half (69 goals in 70 games!) then he retired again, and after three seasons he came back and scored 35 goals in 43 games.
― omar little, Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:09 (seven months ago) link
tbf, the goalies matthews faces are much better and his average opponent is much faster than those in lemieux's era. and those mid-90s penguins teams were absolutely stacked with hall of famers and all-stars. and lemieux didn't have all of southern ontario calling him a loser for never leading his team past the second round
otoh, lemieux *also* had a league-leading 92 assists that year (matthews has 24). and there's the whole back surgery/cancer stuff. and that holding and interference were all but ignored 30 years ago
anyway matthews is super-impressive. somewhere i saw an 'era-adjusted' stat that gave him a slight edge over lemieux re: goal-scoring
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 February 2024 23:06 (seven months ago) link
52 now, ten in the last five games, six-game leafs win streak after blowing out the reigning champs on the road
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 February 2024 06:33 (seven months ago) link
waiting for leafs fans to panic that they're peaking too early
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 February 2024 06:37 (seven months ago) link
No, usually they peak right about Period 1 of Game 7 in the first round.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 23 February 2024 13:21 (seven months ago) link
i take no pleasure in noting that the rangers have won 10 straight (for the first time in 51 years) and are now atop the league
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 February 2024 23:06 (seven months ago) link
Cackling uncontrollably, where is Bill Magill
Patrick Kane wins it in overtime in his return to Chicago.No. Way. #Blackhawks pic.twitter.com/uWRyZiPMHs— Charlie Roumeliotis (@CRoumeliotis) February 26, 2024
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 26 February 2024 01:51 (seven months ago) link
rip the penguins' sidney crosby era : /
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 March 2024 06:09 (six months ago) link
(tbf he's still awfully good, but he can't do it himself)
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 March 2024 06:10 (six months ago) link
tom fitzgerald doesn't seem to understand that when you fire a new jersey devils coach this late in the season, you replace him with yourself
show some cultural awareness ffs
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 03:45 (six months ago) link
sorcery
Barkov JUGGLED the puck to assist on Reinhart's goal 😱 pic.twitter.com/OSko3aVSYv— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) March 5, 2024
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 04:39 (six months ago) link
that is awesome but seriously almost all NHL players -- even the shitty fourth-liners you wish would fuck off -- could (theoretically*) do that
these guys are the best ever and it is incredible <3
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 04:50 (six months ago) link
sometimes it's useful -- when you think to yourself, 'my team has games in hand; maybe they could go on a heater' -- to see said team blown out at home by another also-ran
anyway i feel like these playoffs could be really great? unless you're a leafs fan, i mean
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2024 04:30 (six months ago) link
btw we really need to go back to conference 1-8 playoff seeding rather than divisions imo
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2024 04:34 (six months ago) link
seems like not a huge price for Guentzel (wish the Canucks had got him)
― symsymsym, Friday, 8 March 2024 06:01 (six months ago) link
love him but i'm not sure how much more you can get for a guy who is a pending free agent
wish that 'conditional first-round pick' was much more likely to happen tho
he's so smart/sneaky -- poster boy for color commentators talking about finding empty areas (that are nevertheless prime scoring areas)
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2024 06:18 (six months ago) link
and by far the greatest hockey player ever born in nebraska
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2024 06:21 (six months ago) link