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Started by Madferret, July 11, 2011, 02:28:51 PM

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herman

https://theathletic.com/3337916/2022/05/30/vasilevskiy-lightning-goalie-draft-playoffs/
QuoteSenators GM Bryan Murray asked after the combine if they could interview Vasilevskiy in Ottawa, where the goalie prospect was training. They were going to fly in Russian defenseman Sergei Gonchar to help in the talks. But the day before the scheduled interview, Vasilevskiy went to a water park for a few hours.

"It was a very, very hot day," Tyjnych said. "He was burned. He was so red. So I called Ottawa and said, 'I'm so sorry, he's feeling bad, maybe some fever. Can we postpone for two or three days? They said 'OK,' but seemed disappointed.

"They never called me back."

Ottawa picked 15th that draft, and it was a beauty.
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Zee

Quote from: LittleHockeyFan on June 23, 2022, 02:48:09 PM
what ever happened to madferret and SuckerPunch?

Once the Sens turned into garbage they couldn't easily troll Leafs fans anymore so they stopped posting.

bustaheims

Quote from: OldTimeHockey on June 24, 2022, 10:02:07 AM
It's the perfect spot for a rink with the Redblacks and 67's playing right next door.

Lebreton Flats is hardly next door to Lansdowne Park/Frank Clair Stadium/TD Place...
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

OldTimeHockey

#3349
Quote from: bustaheims on June 24, 2022, 10:58:34 AM
Quote from: OldTimeHockey on June 24, 2022, 10:02:07 AM
It's the perfect spot for a rink with the Redblacks and 67's playing right next door.

Lebreton Flats is hardly next door to Lansdowne Park/Frank Clair Stadium/TD Place...

My bad on that one. Not sure why I had that impression.

Regardless. Closer to downtown than Kanata.

L K

#3350
Alfredsson going into the Hall of Fame.

https://twitter.com/HockeyHallFame/status/1541497877809315840

Luongo, Sedin, Sedin and Riika Sallinen and Herb Carnegie (builder)

CarltonTheBear

I wish there was only room for one of the Sedin's and they had to pick between the two.


bustaheims

The Hall just keeps lowering their standards. Sad. ;D
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

CarltonTheBear

I looked up this NHL.com article after Luongo retired asking whether or not he should be in the Hall and 6 of the 7 columnists/writers asked said he shouldn't be a first ballot guy.

Which is funny because, I mean, he was... and because I think he's arguably the most deserving one in the bunch this year. Wild he never managed to win a Vezina in his career.

bustaheims

Quote from: CarltonTheBear on June 27, 2022, 02:33:24 PM
I looked up this NHL.com article after Luongo retired asking whether or not he should be in the Hall and 6 of the 7 columnists/writers asked said he shouldn't be a first ballot guy.

Which is funny because, I mean, he was... and because I think he's arguably the most deserving one in the bunch this year. Wild he never managed to win a Vezina in his career.

Unfortunately, his best years were in the "Brodeur wins the Vezina, because Brodeur" years.
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Nik


I don't think Alfredsson is the worst choice or whatever but I do think he represents two things that are, generally speaking, not good. One is a sort of general lowering of the standards and the other is rewarding a guy not so much for his play but for the optics of a guy spending the entirety of his career for a Canadian team and being the face of their franchise. I've made the comparison before but Alfredsson going in over Patrik Elias, to me, is a perfect example of how the HHOF's standards are a moving target that say more about the people doing the inducting than the inductee.
I wish to hell I'd never said "Winning isn't everything it's the only thing". What I believe is, if you go out on a football field, or any endeavour in life, and you leave every fibre of what you have on the field, then you've won.
- Vince Lombardi

bustaheims

Quote from: Nik on June 27, 2022, 04:26:51 PM
I don't think Alfredsson is the worst choice or whatever but I do think he represents two things that are, generally speaking, not good. One is a sort of general lowering of the standards and the other is rewarding a guy not so much for his play but for the optics of a guy spending the entirety of his career for a Canadian team and being the face of their franchise. I've made the comparison before but Alfredsson going in over Patrik Elias, to me, is a perfect example of how the HHOF's standards are a moving target that say more about the people doing the inducting than the inductee.

That sums things up nicely. To me, Alfredsson was the epitome of a guy whose career fell just short of the HHoF. Very good overall numbers, but missing out on some of the standard measuring sticks, some seasons where he got consideration among the best at his position but rarely in serious contention for being the best, not much in terms of end of season awards, etc. Strong international results help boost him up, but I never thought of them as strong enough to push him over the top, but rather, right up to the edge. Guys like him and Elias were essentially the measuring stick for me - they're among the best of the not quite Hall-worthy. Except, I guess, now one of them is.
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

herman

Quote from: CarltonTheBear on June 27, 2022, 02:33:24 PM
I looked up this NHL.com article after Luongo retired asking whether or not he should be in the Hall and 6 of the 7 columnists/writers asked said he shouldn't be a first ballot guy.

Which is funny because, I mean, he was... and because I think he's arguably the most deserving one in the bunch this year. Wild he never managed to win a Vezina in his career.

https://twitter.com/ThomasDrance/status/1541812707665489921
Luongo has a Jedi-mode
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herman

https://twitter.com/6thsens/status/1544725304131870721
Ottawa appears to be very smitten with Anderson and Dvorak and might be throwing that 1st rd pick onto the table
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Nik

#3359
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/34946851/senators-begin-sales-process-say-team-stay-ottawa

Sens are for Sale.

Ordinarily I'd wonder if the talk on preventing relocation was necessary as I still don't think there are any obvious places to move a team right now but Ottawa might be the one team where it made sense to move them to Quebec City.
I wish to hell I'd never said "Winning isn't everything it's the only thing". What I believe is, if you go out on a football field, or any endeavour in life, and you leave every fibre of what you have on the field, then you've won.
- Vince Lombardi