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Re: General post-SCF thread
From: (Anonymous)Re: General post-SCF thread
From: (Anonymous)(UMASS IS IRRELEVANT)
Re: General post-SCF thread
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From: (Anonymous)Re: Random Hockey Thread
From: (Anonymous)Does anyone remember that story of where he met the gay couple on the plane back from Paris and they told him they got married on Consol ice and he thought that was so cool?
What? When did this happen?
Re: General post-SCF thread
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From: (Anonymous)I always found this tweet really funny https://twitter.com/TLTomVenesky/status/721859038221377536
Re: Random Hockey Thread
From: (Anonymous)Re: Random Hockey Thread
From: (Anonymous)http://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/Best-of-the-Burgh-Blogs/Beyond-the-Cookie-Table/February-2016/Real-Pittsburgh-Weddings-2016-Seven-Adorable-Moments/
Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition
From: (Anonymous)I believe a rebuild means booting a majority of your core (or the foundation of it) and finding new pieces to build around. Toronto moving out Phil and Phaneuf are a rebuild. The Flames trading Iggy was a rebuild.
To me, the Pens retooled. They changed around a lot of the periphery pieces and added Phil to the core, sort of, but it's still Letang, Crosby, Malkin at the center of that team. St. Louis getting rid of Oshie would count as minor retooling to me too. Tampa letting Stamkos go would not be in rebuilding mode, but retooling I think as they'd have most of the same core in place.
Re: General post-SCF thread
From: (Anonymous)Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition
From: (Anonymous)Crosby is a generational talent and so is McDavid. (Some called Eichel that in his draft year, but it seems unlikely they'll continue doing so.) There is only one player at the Crosby-level right now and that's Crosby. When McDavid reaches Crosby-level, Crosby will no longer be that good. Generational players are meant to be peerless within their age group and functionally within the league. There's (usually) only 1, maybe 2, generational player(s) at a time.
Presumably you're talking about Toews and Kane, maybe Keith when you used the term. The're elite and certainly franchise players but there are a handful of players of their type at this time in the league. And that's generally true of players at that tier. Bergeron and Kopitar are the Toews comparables. Ovi, Kessel, and Stamkos for Kane maybe (in terms of being elite pure scorers types, not necessarily style comparables and I know Stammer's a C). And Keith is quite similar to Letang and Doughty.
Just thought I'd throw this out there. Obviously these 3 players are HoF shoe-ins, but generational player is a label that really should be used more rarely.
Re: General post-SCF thread
From: (Anonymous)Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition
From: (Anonymous)Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition
From: (Anonymous)I'd argue that Ovechkin is also a generational talent, purely because he's one of the best scorers of all time, but yeah, right now it's just him and Crosby. He's already 33rd all time in goals scored with 525, and literally the only other person drafted after the year 2000 in the top 100 is Nash, at 99th with 393.
Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition
From: (Anonymous)You're right that the thinking I used while writing this comment is stricter than in colloquial usage.
That's probably due to how much I absorbed the recent discussions surrounding McDavid as part of that succession of generational players. It's been a while since I watched the pre-draft stuff but Canadian media had more than a few TV packages that pretty much said that the generational player title could only be limited to Gretzky, Lindros, Lemieux, and Crosby. With McDavid probably in tehre down the line.
Not coincidentally all those guys are Canadian, so there was definitely bias there that I hadn't thought of until I'd already posted my comment. Ovi and Malkin definitely have been discussed as being generational too.
You're right that the Highlander/There Can Only Be One thing does sound ridiculous. But I do still think there's merit to logic they used that someone can only be a generational player if they're consistently the league's best player. It's just that in the modern NHL domination/separation from the pack seems to be more difficult than before.
Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition
From: (Anonymous)It occurred to me shortly after posting the comment that it may start wank over whether Ovi and Malkin may be generational talents as well. I've certainly heard them called such, though to a lesser extent than Crosby.
I don't disagree with the argument for Ovi as you present it. Although I am a bit conflicted over whether generational players are Highlanders and 'There Can Only Be One' as above anon has said. I guess it depends on who you ask and a lot of pundits last year were firmly on the side of 'only Crosby right now (and previously 3 other Canadians)'!
Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition
From: (Anonymous)Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition
From: (Anonymous)...actually, three, if you count the cartoon.
Re: General post-SCF thread
From: (Anonymous)Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc — rarepairfest
From: (Anonymous)You can request 3-10 fandoms and offer 3-10 fandoms. The tagset is massive (4020 relationships in 664 fandoms) and eclectic and there'll probably be something for everyone:
http://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/1234
The Hockey RPF and hockey-related fandom ships in the tagset are as follows (hopefully I didn't miss anything out):
Hockey RPF
Amanda Kessel/Conor Sheary
Amanda Kessel/Matt Murray
Beau Bennett/Jeff Zatkoff
Braden Holtby/Washington Capitals Ensemble
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare/Antoine Roussel
Radek Faksa/Ales Hemsky
Radek Faksa/Ales Hemsky/Jaromir Jagr
Beau Bennett/Jaromir Jagr
Carey Price/P. K. Subban
Carl Hagelin/Phil Kessel
Connor McDavid/Dylan Strome
Danny Briere/Claude Giroux
Eddie Lack/Jeff Skinner
Eddie Lack/Roberto Luongo
Jack Eichel/Connor McDavid
Jack Eichel/Sam Reinhart
Jason Demers/John Klingberg
Jeff Carter/Mike Richards
Jeff Carter/Mike Richards/Justin Williams
Johnny Gaudreau/Sean Monahan
Kari Lehtonen/Antti Niemi
Marc-Andre Fleury/Matt Murray
Matt Duchene/Patrick Roy
Mattias Janmark/John Klingberg/Patrik Nemeth
Mitch Marner/Dylan Strome
Nick Leddy/Brandon Saad
Nicklas Backstrom/Alexander Ovechkin
Nicklas Backstrom/T. J. Oshie/Alexander Ovechkin
P. K. Subban/John Tavares
Paul Martin/James Neal
Ryan Strome/John Tavares
Sam Gagner/John Tavares
Sidney Crosby/Alexander Ovechkin
Sidney Crosby/Amanda Kessel
Sidney Crosby/Claude Giroux
Sidney Crosby/Jack Johnson
Tanner Pearson/Tyler Toffoli
Tom Wilson/Washington Capitals Ensemble
Tomas Hertl/Joe Thornton
Tuukka Rask/Tyler Seguin
Tyler Bozak/Phil Kessel
Tyler Johnson/Ondrej Palat
Women's Hockey RPF
Amanda Kessel/Hilary Knight (Women's Hockey RPF)
Amanda Kessel/Nana Fujimoto (Women's Hockey RPF)
Amanda Kessel/Noora Raty (Women's Hockey RPF)
Brianna Decker/Hilary Knight (Women's Hockey RPF)
Gillian Apps/Meghan Duggan (Women's Hockey RPF)
Kacey Bellamy/Marie-Philip Poulin (Women's Hockey RPF)
Kacey Bellamy/Meghan Duggan (Women's Hockey RPF)
Nana Fujimoto/Jenny Scrivens (Women's Hockey RPF)
Sidney Crosby/Amanda Kessel
Crossover Fandom
Claude Giroux (Hockey RPF)/Olivier Giroud (Football RPF)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Football RPF)/Aaron Rodgers (NFL RPF)/Sidney Crosby (Hockey RPF)
Sidney Crosby (Hockey RPF)/Aaron Rodgers (NFL RPF)
Goon (2011)
Doug Glatt/Ross Rhea
Doug Glatt/Xavier LaFlamme
Eva (Goon)/Doug Glatt/Xavier LaFlamme
Check Please!
Adam "Holster" Birkholtz/Justin "Ransom" Oluransi
Adam "Holster" Birkholtz/March/Justin "Ransom" Oluransi
Alexei Mashkov/Kent Parson
Chris "Chowder" Chow/Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Chris "Chowder" Chow/William "Dex" Poindexter
Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter
Eric Bittle/Alexei Mashkov/Jack Zimmermann
Eric Bittle/Kent Parson
Eric Bittle/Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann
Jenny/Mandy (Check Please)
Kent Parson/Jack Zimmermann
Kent Parson/Original Male Character(s)
Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Shitty Knight
Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon
From: (Anonymous)Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition
From: (Anonymous)I used the phrase "generational talent" because the airt used it, it was already pretty clear what they meant without nitpicking and arguing over semantics, and I didn't want to start wank about what a generational talent is and WHO is a generational talent, especially when the players under discussion were Kane, Toews, Crosby, and Malkin. I believe that you meant well by your comment but it comes off as really condescending -- I don't think that people who got into a long argument about the minutiae of rebuilds needed it explained that Crosby and McDavid are rare players and better than other players.
Re: What is <i>up</i> with your team? –– non-SCF edition
From: (Anonymous)