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#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba
This is the twenty-fourth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.
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Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:44 am (UTC)(link)Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:54 am (UTC)(link)I'm starting to think that perhaps it's just the Pens core (especially Sid, Geno, Flower) that occasionally get labeled as chokers - as opposed to the Pens franchise/team itself. Could this be what's causing the disconnect?
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:57 am (UTC)(link)The way the MSM seems to think that the core is the entire team and that any failure of the team is in fact a failure of the core (see: articles after game 5 of the TBL series of Sid being a bad leader despite having both Pens GWGs in the series at that point), I'm not sure it makes a substantive difference.
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 12:59 am (UTC)(link)Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:02 am (UTC)(link)Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:13 am (UTC)(link)Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:04 am (UTC)(link)Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:19 am (UTC)(link)By which I mean, Hockey media is garbage and needs to be more creative about the content they produce.
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:22 am (UTC)(link)On this, I think we can ALL agree.
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:33 am (UTC)(link)He's TWENTY EIGHT.
Sorry, anon, not yelling at you, but good grief they really did jump the gun with him. Forwards peak at what, 26 or 27?
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:05 am (UTC)(link)Yeah, when people talk about the Pens being chokers, they're very much talking about the Crosby/Malkin Pens. The choking/underachieving narrative attached to these Pens teams is really an extension of these same narratives attached to the star players themselves, so the previous cups that Mario's Pens won have nothing to do with it. Whereas people make fun of the Caps as a franchise, and while there are plenty of hot takes that talk about the Caps' lack of playoff success as a personal failing of Ovechkin's, the Narrative of the Caps being chokers far exceeds whatever part of that is attached to Ovechkin (who as far as I know, for all the shit he gets, isn't widely panned as a player who disappears who in big games).
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:35 am (UTC)(link)Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 01:42 am (UTC)(link)The one where any given goal scorer who fails to score goals does it because he's "not a playoffs guy" (or worse, because he "doesn't want it enough") is the one that really comes to mind. Adam Gretz had a great cranky article about how goal scoring is always going to be streaky because of the low number of goals scored in general.
I feel like if the hockey media and fans could wrap their heads around the idea of small sample sizes (and by extension, luck), a lot of stupidity could go away. Although that's probably too optimistic on my part!
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
(Anonymous) 2016-05-28 02:03 am (UTC)(link)