#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Re: General post-SCF thread

[(Anonymous)]

ngl Jon Cooper kind of looks like a squirrel to me.

Re: World Cup of Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I immediately thought of him and Hanifin getting baked and then getting online to troll. Responding as ayrt when they aren't, misinterpreting what people said, What About the Pens-ing, etc.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Then the confusion is that that's not a uniquely bad position. Rebuilds take time for all teams. If it wasn't one thing, it'd be another.

Re: World Cup of Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Gaudreau is the one who is adamant that, no, eggplants and plums ARE really hard to tell apart.

Re: World Cup of Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Gaudreau probably can tell that eggplants and plums apart IRL. He's just pretending not to.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

[(Anonymous)]

Sa

But it was a really fair deal; the pick was thrown in because Dillon was a RFA after that season so they could resign him cheap. SJ took about a million of Demers's salary but paying Dillon + retained was less than Demers's cap hit if they kept him.

On paper, it's equal.

Re: General post-SCF thread

[(Anonymous)]

No Mike Yeo, either. Congrats on leveling way up in coach hotness in 2017, Blues fans!

Re: World Cup of Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Classic Gaudreau comment!

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

USers work longer hours and more days a year. They can't be walking to & from the grocery store daily with one day worth of meals every day and so on and so forth.

Re: World Cup of Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

lol, I wanted to say Hanifin, too. His constant slightly "baked bro on the hunt for nachos" look just makes me think he'd enjoy it!

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Does this mean European laundry machines are quieter, I wonder?

Re: General post-SCF thread

[(Anonymous)]

That's one way to attempt to impress the new in-laws.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

[(Anonymous)]

Nashville kind of did a quick rebuild depending on if you put Weber and Rinne in the same group of core players as Legwand and Erat, I guess. I don't think most would consider them part of the core right now at least when you're talking about a window to win in. Still haven't done much on either side of things though compared to Tampa.

Re: General post-SCF thread

[(Anonymous)]

I really don't find Yeo attractive. He looks like a professor I would hate.

Re: World Cup of Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

Burakovsky can't tell Latta and Wilson apart.

Re: General post-SCF thread

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it's no fun if it's a nice professor.

Re: World Cup of Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

This is clearly the correct answer

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

[(Anonymous)]

IMO, Nashville did a rebuild ("rebuilding on the fly", as Poile put it), but they didn't have quite the same amount of boom and bust as some anons think rebuilding requires. They went from what was considered a bit of a contender, lost a big name player and traded away a top line winger, had a horrible season thanks to injury to land them a top pick (which still wasn't a 1C...), and through some savvy trades managed to land top line players while prospects panned out. It's not glamourous and there's no Cup, but that's pretty much how it should be done.

Re: World Cup of Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

DA I vote this means they have the important team bonding orgy while wearing masks.

Re: General post-SCF thread

[(Anonymous)]

Yeo reminds me of an anime villain.

Re: General post-SCF thread

[(Anonymous)]

I mean legitimately hate, not sexy tension hate.

Re: General post-SCF thread

[(Anonymous)]

Shouldn't that be a year by year measure anyway? Clumping all the years together seems deceptive and not like it would tell you much.

Re: World Cup of Hockey

[(Anonymous)]

This actually made me laugh out loud, lmao. <3

Re: General post-SCF thread

[(Anonymous)]

It tells you the trend. This is a generally healthy/unhealthy team, based on the usual amount of man games lost. Which smooths out really good and bad years' worth of data.

Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition

[(Anonymous)]

But I'm not arguing about whether or not rebuilds take time!! I'm NOT saying the Hawks' position is bad because their rebuild will be slow. I know that full rebuilds do take time for all teams! But they also require moves to carry them out, and my point is that the Hawks will mostly not be able make those moves because of their contract situation (which yes is uniquely bad, because no one else has that many NMCs, that many 10.5 mil contracts, or that many long front-loaded contracts subject to recapture), or if they do, those moves will continue to hurt their future a lot going forward. I think that because they know they cannot rebuild, they will try to contend, and that will hurt them.

You said that IF the Hawks are bad and get the first overall pick, then they will start to rebuild. But you generally only get bad enough for the first overall pick if you are actively trying to rebuild (in a way the Blackhawks can't for the foreseeable future), or if you have made a disaster of not rebuilding and trying to be good (which will be costly and hurt the rebuild going forward). You don't have to think any of that is important in light of three cups, given how many fans would probably agree to never win again in exchange for that. But you seem to continue to think I'm saying something that I'm not, even after I repeatedly clarify. I'm not "confused" simply because I don't agree with your assessment of what will happen to the Blackhawks post-Cups. Plenty of fans know the experience of perpetual mediocrity that only hurts the team's future going forward, and that's what I think will happen to the Hawks, not Cups --> bad --> start a rebuild. Let's just amicably agree to disagree on that.