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Super important disagreement we're having here I see.

Surprised this wasn't discussed anywhere, but what the f*** are these lines? Nielsen and Filppula on the same line? Glendening centering Athanasiou and Hirose? de la Rose in the lineup? Daley in over Bowey? I know this is going to be a painful season, but come the f*** on... This is terrible...

Over there the role I'm going for is arrogant rude turd burger. Over here I've resigned myself to arrogant rude turd burger + silly banter. Big difference

On that board?

Lets say an average NHL season for an average team is like 40 wins. Translation factor for an AHL player in 2018 was 0.48. Lets just assume that means the AHL is like half the league the NHL is. So maybe a good AHL team would get like 20 wins in an NHL season?

A really good AHL team could beat a really bad NHL team, in theory. It's not out of the realm of possibility. You'd never want to bet big money on it, but I think it's silly to pretend it couldn't happen.

I just can't make the switch to that place. They pat their own backs like their a premier hockey think tank or something. November/December of last year I - in a few more words - let them know how overrated Zadina is and it pissed a lot of people off lol. Now they all seem to be much more receptive of the view point. Figures. I'm gonna go dig up my olds posts and rub it in their face later. If anyone wants to see the HF hive get rocks thrown at it and me get stung by a swarm of angry bees later it should be a good time. Bring a beer.

I was half serious. As CRL pointed out, a Swiss League team with less talent than GR just beat an NHL team, so yeah, it would be possible. A 1 in 10 chance maybe. Good teams get beaten by bad teams all the time, that's why even the best team doesnt go 82-0. And bad teams beat teams who are better than they are which is why even the worst teams never go 0-82. If the Griffins were in the NHL they would be a bottom feeder for sure, but they wouldnt lose every game. There would be some nights they beat better competition. Thats how sports work. Otherwise no one would bother to watch.

I would counter by playing Seider 40 min. Nuff said. Flyers just had a train run on em by HC Luassane. And theyre a lot better than us. And offhand i think Luassane is worse than Griffs.

All valid points. Doesn't mean the Griffs would win a game. Against an AHL team, the Red Wings would just play AA-Larkin-Mantha, Hronek-DK like 30 minutes a game and win 75-1. It would be a blood bath. There's not a single player on the Griffins team that could do a single thing with Anthony Mantha. Hence why they're all still playing for the Grand Rapids Griffins. Edit: All of the best players in the AHL each season are guys who can't even crack NHL rosters. Wade Megan led the league in scoring a couple years ago and couldn't touch an NHL roster. Martin Frk and Teemu Pulkkinen were superstars in the AHL and blow in the NHL. It's a whole different game.

You're like Vegan in a hummer with leather seats. Pick a side and blindly follow it.

If these are the actual lines they are planing on running in the premiere you would have to assume they are purely ice time related. AA sat out the last preseason game so maybe he gets less time on ice to get back on his feet. Haven't read anything on Hirose though. When AA is back to form he takes his place on the second line and Val or Frans goes back to centering the third. I fully expect to see Glendawg going up and down the line-up all year long. The Blashill Blender© will be in full effect the first quarter of the season. The fourth line is gonna be a turdstew no matter what ingredients you use. Daley over Bowey I suspect is injury related too. But, yes, this is terrible.

NOPE NOT WRONG Pretty pissed about Seider's demotion though. But I'm afraid the only one you need to be worried about is Yzerman. Guy's lost it.

Yup, Lidstrom playing parts of two seasons with McCrimmon is the reason he went down as one of the best defensemen of all time... Who knows what Lidstrom would have become if it weren't for the guidance of The Beast... May have ended up back in Sweden after a year or two... Who knows...