dekedangle_rpfanon | #24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Bob Mckenzie said Edmonton and Vancouver are the 2 primary suitors if he doesn't sign in LA. It's basically the combined Chiarelli effect (hard-nosed, big body, the way we want to play the game, yadda yadda) plus the "Connor McDavid effect" which is this wacky idea that soon the Oilers will be good again so Lucic might want to sign here??

I keep seeing 6x$6 and then break out in a nervous sweat.

https://twitter.com/Du24theboyz/status/742799138744635393

Dumo tweeted that and I don't get the caption, help?

As a person who has confused oranges and mandarin oranges on more than one occasion, I still think confusing plums and eggplants is one level weirder...

Well, I don't count 2011-12. I didn't remember Quick playing so much last year, but last year there was a reason for it, because we were on the bubble so much of the time. This year, even when our position was quite secure, Sutter seemed reluctant to give Enroth the start. Except against the Sharks, ironically.

I don't think there's a coach in the NHL who trusts younger players. Whenever you see a coach playing younger players, it seems like it's always the former AHL coach, who has already been coaching those guys. I'm not too concerned about it. It's really only an issue if you have an aging guy who doesn't play well versus a young guy who is playing great. The Kings don't have that issue. It'd be Mersch or Kempe versus Nolan or Andreoff, and I'm sure Sutter would make the right choice. Although, I will admit, I did not call him given Versteeg so few minutes.

I've made my peace with Scuderi. I suspect that was more of an off-ice trade than an on-ice one.

Agreed that they shouldn't sign Lucic because of Brown, though.
Not to mention this is the last year of Toffoli's contract.

I suspect that was more of an off-ice trade than an on-ice one.

I heard on Twitter not that long ago that the Kings traded for Scuderi bc Doughty asked them to after Scuderi got sent down to the AHL. Which if true lololol

His bio says he graduated from college in '13, so maybe it's to do with that?

Nominations will close tomorrow (Wednesday) around 2 p.m. eastern.

I have a nom left if anyone needs it.

The hockey pairings that have already been nominated are:

Beau Bennett/Jeff Zatkoff
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare/Antoine Roussel
Radek Faksa/Ales Hemsky
Radek Faksa/Ales Hemsky/Jaromir Jagr
Beau Bennett/Jaromir Jagr
Carl Hagelin/Phil Kessel
Danny Briere/Claude Giroux
Jack Eichel/Connor McDavid
Jack Eichel/Sam Reinhart
Jason Demers/John Klingberg
Johnny Gaudreau/Sean Monahan
Kari Lehtonen/Antti Niemi
Matt Duchene/Patrick Roy
Mattias Janmark/John Klingberg/Patrik Nemeth
Nicklas Backstrom/Alexander Ovechkin
Nicklas Backstrom/T. J. Oshie/Alexander Ovechkin
Sidney Crosby/Alexander Ovechkin
Sidney Crosby/Claude Giroux
Sidney Crosby/Jack Johnson
Tanner Pearson/Tyler Toffoli
Tomas Hertl/Joe Thornton
Tyler Bozak/Phil Kessel
Tyler Johnson/Ondrej Palat

I think whoever said that probably misspelled Sutter.

I am not the anon you were talking to before. I didn't say anything when you guys were chatting before, because I don't actually mind Maclean & I like Kypreos. But I watch it on TV, which I think projects a different impression than listening to it does.

Anyway, I always skip Glen Healy episodes whenever he is on. It's never worth listening to.

Not my team, but a whole new team! Looks like Las Vegas is a go. For some reason people think the name of the new team will be the Black Knights.
https://twitter.com/NicholsOnHockey/status/742818925142908928

I don't get the name. What does that have to do with Las Vegas? Is there a reference here I'm missing?

I don't know if you meant this as a joke, but in case not, they definitely didn't. People asked, they said they had an inside source who's friends with Doughty or something like that.

Knights as in Vegas nights

DA
I think I remember from social media in the past that the BC hockey team likes to tease/chirp each other about which graduating class is the best, or something, so I'm pretty sure this is it.

On a side note I felt a weird spike of alumni pride at those pictures of him drinking 3 beers at once. #goeags

The owner went to West Point or something.

Is that a thing? And if so, the Vegas Black Nights would be 10000% cooler than the Black Knights.

I don't understand what you mean lol.
Vegas Nights= a reason or the reason to visit Vegas, Knights is a sports appropriate pun on that

I think the Knight has to do with the Jack in a deck of cards. The Vegas Black Jacks just doesn't have the same ring as Black Knights.

My main reaction was: is there a Black Knight at Excalibur's Tournament of Kings? Or is that just at Medieval Times?

I would have expected something card related, which Knight isn't, quite.

But 'Knight' is really over-used as a mascot, aside from having nothing whatsoever to do culturally with the American SW. If Vegas Nights are a reason to visit Las Vegas, then own it! Name the team that! The imagery is way more vivid and specific to the locale.

And no, I don't think the Jack => Knight connection counts; if anything, Knights bring chess to mind, not playing cards.

Signups are open:
http://hockeyflashfic.tumblr.com/post/145921504211/sign-ups-june-2016

New wrinkle:
For the next two months, the exchange will be non-playoff-team centric!

This month’s teams are the Jackets, the Oilers, and the Avs. This means you can ONLY request pairings from players on these teams.

I didn't have time to sign up this month anyway, so this saves me from feeling bad about it - there's no one I'd want to write or request on those teams. But perhaps relevant to other nonnies' interest?

I'm really sceptical about their success attendance-wise and I felt bad because my first thought was "maybe Carolina won't have the lowest attendance anymore then", lol.

I doubt it, I don't think most people even realize the jack is supposed to be a knight so that connection seems tenuous.

I've seen "Aces" tossed around a lot by fans as the preferred option which kind of makes me laugh because it's the name of the team in check please. I doubt the serious sports dude journalists talking about it are aware of that though (or ARE they).

I thought the same! Just name then "Nights", rock it like Minnesota! (And do a funky logo, too!)

I personally was into the idea of something alien/Area 51 related because I would almost definitely buy hockey merch with a spaceship on it. But it seems inevitable that we're probably getting a cheesy Vegas pun instead. At least it's not like the "wedding elvises" or something.

Oh, that could have been really fun! Maybe a bit too esoteric? But they could have gone so many fun places with it.

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