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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Thu Nov 01, 2018 2:43 pm

Nah, eff him. He can go back to Russia.

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Postby MR25 » Thu Nov 01, 2018 3:19 pm

He beat and bloodied his wife, and the details are rather gruesome. It wasn't an isolated incident.

IMO, he had one chance at the professional athlete thing. He blew that chance with a rather heinous act. He shouldn't get a second one, at least in North America/the NHL.

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Thu Nov 01, 2018 3:24 pm

There are also reports that he laughed about it afterwards, which makes it utterly despicable.

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Postby Gaucho » Thu Nov 01, 2018 3:28 pm

**** him.

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Postby Tomas » Thu Nov 01, 2018 3:53 pm

According to Czech MF Dnes daily, NHL and Prague O2 Area owners are "close" to signing a 5-year deal to start bringing NHL teams to Prague again. The deal would include 3 years worth of regular season games and 2 years worth of pre-season tune up games against Czech Extraleague teams (at this point, the sequencing - i.e. which years the "real" regular season games would be played - is yet to be determined). And, of course, it's the NHL that has to announce the deal first...

Incidentally, the Friday Panthers vs Jets game in Helsinki was apparently sold out in 5 minutes!! :scared:

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Postby mikey » Thu Nov 01, 2018 3:57 pm

To be clear, it wasn't a loaded question nor did it have an agenda or opinion behind it...it was a legit ask. Thanks.


Re: Finland. Barkov vs. Laine.

I guess for the Czechs, you immediately go Boston/Philadelphia to start...Pasta and Krejci vs. Voracek and slime ball Gudas...

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Postby meow » Thu Nov 01, 2018 5:34 pm

Let me ask you this genuinely...

Would he ever be allowed back if you were in charge? Can he never pay his due for whatever it is that he did?
The National League is a privilege. Wife beaters don’t deserve any privileges

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Postby mikey » Thu Nov 01, 2018 6:42 pm

I think that's a good point.

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Postby Tomas » Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:00 pm

"The Perfect Kiss" - Canadian movie masterpiece :)



The Czech movie review I just read goes:

25% =

10% for "bizzarely fun mixture of movie design kitsch"
10% for "winter: deep, true, omnipresent, rarely seen, and a good fit for a pre-Christmas romance.. But even the magic of snowdrifts cannot withstand such doze of craftless filmmaking."
5% as "the expression of gratitude for a reasonable length"


Why in "Hockey randomness"? Because the movie was financed with a sizable loan ($300,000 or even $500,000?) from MTL Tomas Plekanec and the movie's main star is Plekanec (soon to be ex-)* wife Lucie Vondrackova.

* = Plekanec/Vondrackova are currently in the middle of a very nasty and a very public divorce. They frequently smear each other in tabloids, and the movie loan is one of the points of contentions...

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Fri Nov 02, 2018 5:26 pm

@mikey what's you're take on the Yanni Gourde contract? 6 years, 31 million.

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Postby mikey » Fri Nov 02, 2018 7:35 pm

Seems fair. Gordo can play for me any time...real strong glue guy, works his bag off, good hands near the net...he's their Hornqvist basically...

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Postby meow » Sat Nov 03, 2018 6:36 pm

Preds extent Rinne for two years at $5m per for some reason. This is a bad move

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Postby mikey » Sat Nov 03, 2018 7:49 pm

Saros leads the league in wins...expensive backup...

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Sun Nov 04, 2018 2:45 pm

LA Kings have relieved Head Coach John Scott and assistant coach Don Nachbaur of their duties.

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Postby Gaucho » Sun Nov 04, 2018 3:56 pm

Marco Sturm joins the Kings as an assistant coach.

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Postby crusherstasiak » Sun Nov 04, 2018 4:21 pm

will be interesting to see whether Greiss can keep this up

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Postby mikey » Sun Nov 04, 2018 6:03 pm

Marco Sturm joins the Kings as an assistant coach.
Already starting to see the effects of the 2018 Olympic performance by the Germans...soon (2021, 2022) will be reflected in NHL Entry Draft as well..

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Tue Nov 06, 2018 9:31 am

Everything seems to be going well in Ottawa.


The five-minute recording, shot from a camera mounted by the rear-view mirror, was subsequently posted on YouTube and Twitter. The bulk of the conversation centres on the team’s defensive woes — the Senators stand near the bottom of the league in terms of penalty-killing and are dead-last in shots allowed per game.

“Marty Raymond, the only coach in NHL history to have the worst power-play and the worst PK within a calendar year,” says Sens forward Matt Duchene, in reference to Martin Raymond, an assistant coach in charge of the team’s penalty-killing this year and power-play last season.

The remark is met with laughter and only invites more jest from the players.

Defenceman Chris Wideman, sitting in the front passenger seat, chirps in: “Do you notice that when (Raymond) runs the video, if you actually do pay attention, he doesn’t ever teach you anything? He just commentates what’s happening.”

Then Duchene can be heard replying: “Here’s the other thing, too. We don’t change anything, ever. So why do we even have a meeting? I haven’t paid attention in three weeks.”

The driver appears unaware of who the players are and, early in the ride, asks what team they play for. Newcomer Chris Tierney is seated behind the driver and can be seen and heard looking up team statistics on his phone, finding the Sens 29th in the 31-team league in terms of penalty killing.

Defenceman Thomas Chabot can also be seen in the middle of the second row of seats. When Wideman says, “I also hate how he quizzes us,” the conversation meanders and Chabot says, of the next potential meeting: “No, please ask a question, just so he says ‘great question.’”

Though obscured through much of the video, the other players getting out of the third row of seats are defenceman Dylan DeMelo and winger Alex Formenton, who has since left the team to return to his junior club, the London Knights, in the Ontario Hockey League.

There is evident frustration at how the team is fighting off penalties or handling breakouts from their own end.

“In practice, when we break out against you guys,” says Duchene, “We get in every time.”

Similarly, Wideman makes a reference to not being able to slow down opponents, but it’s unclear whether he is referring to the Las Vegas Knights or the Arizona Coyotes, both games the Senators lost during last week’s trip.

“The best part about their break is the fact that we don’t even slow them up. They come in with, like, blazing speed too. Andy’s ‘like oh, s—,’” he said, in an apparent reference to starting goaltender Craig Anderson.
“We want to apologize publicly to Marty Raymond, our teammates and coaches for our comments in Phoenix Arizona on October 29. Our private conversation was recorded without our knowledge or consent. We’re passionate about our team, and focusing on growing together. We are grateful for the support of our fans and organization. This is an important learning experience, and we will do better.”

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Postby shoeshine boy » Tue Nov 06, 2018 9:32 am

Blackhawks have relieved Coach Q of his coaching duties

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue Nov 06, 2018 9:35 am

Yeah, just saw that. Wow.
The Chicago Blackhawks have relieved Joel Quenneville of his coaching duties and have named Jeremy Colliton the 38th head coach in franchise history.
In addition, the Blackhawks have named Barry Smith an assistant coach on Colliton’s staff. The Blackhawks have also parted ways with Assistant Coaches Kevin Dineen and Ulf Samuelsson. The rest of the Blackhawks coaching staff will remain with the team.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue Nov 06, 2018 9:37 am

As Keith Olbermann said last night on Twitter, that video is the first video of the Senators in action worth watching in two years.

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Postby dodint » Tue Nov 06, 2018 9:47 am

Looked it up out of curiosity, that recording is surprisingly legal in Arizona. They have one-party wiretap laws, meaning as long as one person involved in the conversation knows that a recording is occurring it's okay. Also, their invasion of privacy tort law covers bathrooms, bedrooms, and anywhere else you would have a reasonable expectation of privacy and an Uber is not that kind of place.

There is some left to interpretation so I might entertain filing a civil suit, but with no real damages other than hurt pride there isn't much to go forward with.

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Postby meow » Tue Nov 06, 2018 10:20 am

Blackhawks have relieved Coach Q of his coaching duties
Oh boy

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Nov 06, 2018 10:22 am

Some other team's going to drop the hammer on their current coach just to go after him.

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue Nov 06, 2018 10:35 am

LA will go after him. However, Yeo is somehow still employed.

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