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That's quite the rumor, sounds more like wishful thinking to me. Holland's just cool with going to Seattle Tampa's just cool with releasing Yzerman Yzerman's already not cool with Blashill Yzerman's already cool with Bylsma That's a lot of moving parts, and lil too "perfect" IMO It sounds like one of those rumors where someone on the business side told one of the trainers that Yzerman will definitely be our GM within the next year... and it's snow-balled from there. Would be pretty crazy if true thou

Does anyone know when the law takes effect? Get ready. Here in Washington we've had legal weed for a few years and it's chaos. Hundreds of people overdose on marijuana on a daily basis and murder their entire families. Just yesterday I smoked a marijuana cigarette and decided to run naked thru the streets brandishing a weapon... luckily a nice homeless man gave me some relaxing hard liquor to calm me from my murderous naked rage. Also the taco bell drive thru is always around the corner. Sux. Move while you still have the chance.

If you need me, I'll be eating ALL the snacks in my house.

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FML! But most of us aren't in a nursing home.

No you definately have a good point. I agree that the better roster usually always wins. And I'll expand on that... that's also exactly why I think hiring Q is a pointless excercise of futility for us... and also the exact reason why I think bad/average coaches often win cups. Because the roster is 90% of the battle. Off the top of my head I think Coach Q is overrated, I think Darryl Sutter is overrated, I think Jon Cooper is overrated. I can probably think of more with more time.... I think Babs is the tiddies. I think Torts is extremely undervalued. I liked Lindy Ruff for a spell. Again can probs name more with more time but who really cares... But to answer your question head on, in particular I think LAK is a bad team. I think the last few cups they won were won by average rosters. I thought 2006 Carolina stunk. And a lot of other average rosters have come remarkably close to winning it all recently. The year NJ almost won comes to mind. Think that was against the Kings too... Anyway thats my thought. IMO Chicago has had the best roster over the last decade.

So let me ask...How many coaches won the Cup with a piss-poor team? Kinda like asking how many netminders are in the Hockey HoF that had never won the Cup...

He's having a better year this year 5 wins, 1 loss 2.17 GAA, .907 Sv%

One of my favorite things about Joel Quenneville for a long time was that he always lost to the Red Wings in the playoffs...and then the Wings would go on to win the Cup Coach Q lost to Red Wings in round 1 with St. Louis in 1997 Coach Q lost to Red Wings in round 2 with St. Louis in 1998 Coach Q lost to Red Wings in round 2 with St. Louis in 2002 Coach Q lost to Red Wings in round 2 with Colorado in 2008 Coach Q lost to Red Wings in WCF with Chicago in 2009... well, for a while they won the Cup. At least they made the finals. Almost had him in 2013 too... If it had actually happened, my favorite thing would be if he'd actually fought Joe Kocur in that game where Kocur threw the chair on the ice.

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Nope, that had nothing to do with it. They thought he was drafted too early for his talent.