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Context matters here. In the two seasons it took Jakub Vrana to get to 99 games he averaged 11:30 minutes per game. As a rookie Zadina played over 13:30 A/TOI and his ice time has increased every year since. He's been given every opportunity to score and hasn't done so consistently. Vrana was a victim of circumstance, Zadina just isn't that good.

What kind of ice time? More 5 on 5? More powerplay? Kinda hard to give them more penalty kill considering ideally your team would spend zero pk time in a game.

Counterpoint Skip, Ohio is an artificial construct of the mind much like proper names. To famed Buddhist monk Thich Naht Han none of hockey, Ohio, Jeff Blashill, or his players are distinct from one another. They're all just one thing, and that thing is a big ball of annoying garbage that insincere people faux debate on the internet when they're bored (or lonely).

Yawn...can we get back to talking about things we ACTUALLY think now? This entire discussion is being conducted in bad faith. It's like watching Skip Bayless debate Shannon Sharpe about something neither of them care about. #phony

I'm trying to manifest this into existence, the Wings should try to acquire Jack Roslovic from Columbus. He was kind of a throw in to the Laine/Dubois trade. He's young, fast, a good playmaker, and would look really good centering Vrana and Veleno. For some reason he's run afoul of Columbus' new coach and has seen his icetime plummet despite putting up really solid numbers the last two years.

Soderblom man, what a revelation.

It’s a sick goal, but can anyone tell me why nobody played the body? He had no puck support.

Simon Edvinsson with two more points today. That’s 9 pts in 15 games as an 18 year old in the SHL. We now have a a #1 dman

On at least two different occasions last night Dekeyser got walked for scoring chances against. The dude cannot play. Let him finish out the year (and his contract) as an injury call up and then let him ride off into the sunset. The dude can't skate anymore, he's a liability. I feel bad for him though. He signed with Detroit right as we were declining, presumably because he's a Michigan guy, and then played his whole career on a garbage team. Now he's permanently injured and likely will never play again. It's rough because he was a hot commodity coming out of college, he could have signed anywhere.

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Sick burn. Do you need a safe space?

Do you not like people posting about sociopolitical topics on LGW? That's odd. Sorry I triggered you.

Maybe conservative Canadians do. I'm more skeptical about American conservatives. Unless Trump Tweets and Qanon blogs count. In all seriousness Jordan Peterson has routinely stated he's not a conservative and doesn't share their values. I think American conservatives gravitate toward him because he's the smartest person that they can find who sorta seems like them sometimes.

Listen nerd, books are for Liberals and grandmas. Same with school in general. Keith doesn't need a book, goddammit, he needs a Budweiser. I'm surprised that Keith "Education My Ass" Petruzzeli wasn't a bigger hit around here TBH. @GMRwings1983 and he certainly share a similar worldview.

Poor Keith. Can't blame him for doing what he did, he was just trying to do what's best for his career. Really put Detroit in a bind though. Stinks. I almost hate to do it but let's check in on our top goalie prospect, I don't even remember his name at the moment... https://chl.ca/article/red-wings-prospect-cossa-named-whl-goaltender-of-the-week 8 games, 1.37 GAA, .948 SV%, 5-2-1 record. Oh...oh dear.

Tavares is a pretty good player, but he'd make on hell of a cheerleader.

The Maple Leafs are covered in Canada exactly like all American football games are covered in the U.S. Joe Buck: Let's go down to our sideline reporter Erin Andrews. Erin, what can you tell us about Tom Brady's performance? Erin Andrews: Well Joe, Tom is well known for drinking only distilled water, but did you also know that for the last 14 years he's also been gluten free? Joe Buck: Hahaha, I bet Gisele's happy about that huh Erin? Erin Andrews: Hehe, She is Joe, and she said the effect it's had on his tummy is just an added bonus hehe. Back to you Joe. Joe Buck: Great stuff as always Erin!

TSN Voters Poll for Play of the Year: Akim Alieu "drags" toxic hockey culture after Bill Peters Interveiw vs. Jason Spezza scores "The Michigan" goal in 7-2 Leafs loss. Seriously the ONLY thing the hockey media loves more than sociopolitical stories is "The Michigan" goal. Dozens of actual children pull off this move every single season and yet whenever it happens TSN replays it 700 times as if they're witnessing literal magic.

#confirmed

Wait, there was a hockey game yesterday? I'd never have known.

Right on cue...

I hope to one day love anything as much as the hockey media loves "hockey stories" that are actually stories about mental health/trauma/addiction/etc. Yesterday an article about Colin Wilson's drug addiction was shared about 2,000,000 times. Today it's all Blackhawks. Did anything notable happen in any of the 100s of hockey games played throughout the world yesterday? Who know? Who cares?

I can't get enough of watching KRsmith's favorites bust in Detroit, which he inevitable blames on Detroit's coaching, until they bust elsewhere too. It nourishes my soul.

I knew he was in the Marines but I just looked it up and he was medically discharged before ever doing a tour of duty because he broke his sternum in a mountain biking accident. Kudos to him for volunteering, but it's not like he's some badass. Edit: That sounded way more cynical than I meant it to. I really like his films. Especially Logan Lucky, that "cauliflower" scene gets me every time.