FlashyG
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Where you been, flashy?
Switched jobs, moved and don't have enough free time this season. Hopefully once I've been at this place a while I can work from home a little more often so I have time to do some more GDT's and post a little more.
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Not only will the Wings be unlikely to part with the assets required to get him, I don't think they have the salary cap space to take his 4 Million cap hit without shedding nearly equal salary going to Columbus
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I agree with F Michael.
While the charges sound scary, it could simply be the case of him bringing his gun with him to hunt.
Simply having the gun to begin with would be "possession in an unauthorized place" getting it there is "unauthorized importing" and not having enough trigger and case locks, or not having certain accessories stored separately would be "careless storage".
Could be as simple as he just brought a gun (or two) up to hunt with not fully knowing all the laws and regs, and got the book thrown at him to make an example.
The Unauthorized possession of a firearm charge means he didn't have a license to carry at all, and the breach of recognizance means that he was already in legal trouble and failed to show up at his court appearance.
You also seemed to miss the fact that the gun was a prohibited firearm in Canada which means it was either a handgun with a barrel equal or less than 105mm in length, an adapted rifle or shotgun (ie. A sawed off shot-gun), or an automatic firearm that hasn't been altered to fire only one bullet per trigger pull.
Even if your proposed version of events were true, which is unlikely, its pretty stupid to go hunting when:
- You're not authorized to even carry a gun.
- The gun you're carrying is illegal
- You also have said gun improperly stored
- You're already wanted for failure to appear in court and
- you have a prior criminal history.
There's a reason he was remanded into custody and not just fined and let go, and its not because Canada has a strict criminal justice system. He's in real trouble.
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I'm home from Toronto this weekend and am going to the game... really dissapointed that mrazek isn't playing I was really hoping he would. I think it shows blash has more faith in mrazek to get us a win on the 2nd half of back to backs.
Either way I am very lucky the magic man happens to be back tonight. I'm calling a magic goal. 4 to 2 wings!
I doubt Blashill has any issues with confidence in either of his goalies. They've swapped back and forth for almost every game this season.
They also have almost identical numbers.
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I'll take tomorrows vs San Jose if nobody minds.
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Brilliant! I didn't even notice the crowd until the 2nd time I looked or it! Awesome! I was searching hard for the famous Hudler face or Doan face, but still absolutely brilliant!
damn. I wish I had thought of the Hudler face. I could've used one to replace Eddie O.
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I'm not sure what losing a scout has to do with Babcock. His involvement with scouts would be minimal at best.
Shanahan would be the one who poached him, but I think it has more to do with him getting a promotion he was never going to get in Detroit. The Wings have Hakan as their director of European Scouting and I'm sure Shanahan was well aware that Vuori has spent the past few years learning from him. Who better to choose to become your own director of European Scouting?
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There is nothing wrong with that, but some people are acting like he's some kind of goal scoring God who will score 40+ a year and anyone who disagrees is a hater.
Negativity and Pulkamania, 2 things that don't go together brother.
NHL...Whatcha gonna do when the Pulkster runs wild on you?
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I agree with Gretzky, Nyquist should have started that season in Detroit, also I agree last season, Jurco should've spent the year in GR, considering he had the exemption, he would've developed a little more to the NA game. Not that he would've been a big hit here, but we would have never lost Nestrasil for nothing. Sure, the log jam this year would've been a body larger, but who knows...I know he wasn't a huge loss, but you guys know my disgust with losing someone or nothing.
ALTHOUGH, after Nyquist was called up he was the hottest scorer in the league practically, could you imagine the contract he'd have now (as opposed to $4.75M) if he had played that entire season and scored at that pace for 65-82 games?
I don't think you'd shed any tears if the team lost Franzen for nothing.
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Nope sadly a yahoo link and their site is just....https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-game/despite-decreased-ratings--rogers-rates-first-year-of-nhl-deal-a-success-212225823.html
I'm just saying it's super-teams that people even not interested in the sport are going to know about, the more super-teams the better and even better if those teams can keep their talent.
The Kings are far from being done, they'll get rid of the Voynov contract sign someone else to replace him yeah the Richards thing (rightfully) is going to hurt them but given their age group LA's run is far from over. Wouldn't be the least surprised if the win it all this year.
Canadian ratings are down, but that has more to due with Rogers being awful than the product being bad.
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Sometimes its easy to forget that while Dan Cleary the player has long since outlived his usefulness as a Detroit Red Wing, that Dan Cleary the man is actually a great person and a wonderful ambassador for not just the Red Wings but professional athletes in general. That story above my post is a good reminder of that.
In no way do I want him taking a roster spot up on the team anymore, but I'll always respect how he turned his career around with the Wings and his contributions to the team over the years.
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The sad part of Nyquist getting a new deal is that this will probably be the last year of him being a fan favorite, unless of course he significantly improves.
We as a fan base love guys who overproduce for their salary but when they get a salary that's more in line with their production we heap unrealistic expectations on them.
Gus could put up the exact same numbers he's put up the past 2 years and because he'd be making 4-5 million a season instead of his current .95 million a year it will be seen as not good enough.
If he has another couple playoffs like his first couple, he'll be in the doghouse with Franzen.
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The mistake many making here is assuming that this case even gets before an arbitrator.
Neither side wants that, no player wants to hear his employer explain all his shortcomings in an effort to cut his salary. Nyquist has excellent regular season production but he'd be roasted on his awful playoff numbers to this point. Still I think he'd get a better offer by going to arbitration than what I think he's going to sign before it gets there.
I expect him to take a deal in the 3.75 to 4.25 million range, similar to Kadri's but perhaps a little longer.
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I don't think it'll make as much of a differance as people hope.
In the AHL before 3 on 3 overtime 35.3% of games that went past regulation ended before the shootout.
After going to 3 on 3, that number jumped to 75%.
It should be even more effective in the NHL considering the NHL will have 5 full minutes of 3 on 3 vs the 4 minutes of 3 on 3 in the AHL.
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He managed to find us a RHD we've been looking for since Rafalski retired, he addressed our lack of center depth after buying out Weiss. More importantly he did both without tying us to either player long term so even if they don't work out, it won't be a disaster.
To top if off he and Mr. Ilitch already worked out a pretty awesome new dance routine with our new additions.
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Overrated a bit? Perhaps. Most certainly by some here. But the opportunistic angle I don't hold against him.
What's wrong with the best teams wanting the best coach?
You want to land the best coach? You better have a good team.
If you're the best coach, you want to coach the best team.
It's pretty simple to me. I'd call it a luxury of being the among the best in the business for a long time more than I'd characterize it as opportunistic.
I was just pointing out that he's not the type of guy who can build a team. He is, however fantastic at taking an assembled team and getting the most out of them.
Bowman is often treated as a god, whose mere presence within an organization will bring them cups. (Call it the Bowman effect). When in reality he just always picked the team that was most likely to be the next big winners and attached his cart to that horse. He's a fantastic coach, but he's no god.
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I don't understand your hatred for Bowman. After 4 stellar years of coaching the Blues the Canadiens hired him where he won 5 cups. They brought him in for a reason, because he brings the best out of the team and knows how to make them win. Red Wings would win zero Cups had Bowman not shown up.
As a GM what exactly did he do to you FlashyG? How did this man hurt you so much?
When I think of 'among worst GM' I think along the lines of Mike Milbury... there's just no chance Bowman is so terrible, he wouldn't have the success he did if he was terrible at personnel changes.
I don't hate Bowman, I think he's the greatest coach in NHL history. As a GM however he was bad, very bad.
I didn't say he was the worst though, there are many GM's who were even worse than he was, but that doesn't make his record as a GM any better.
He won 5 cups with Montreal, but he had no part in building those teams. Sam Pollock built them, and the core of those teams were in place before Bowman took over as coach.
With the Wings Bowman had to be stripped of his GM powers because he was attempting to trade Yzerman to Ottawa for Alexei Yashin. He played a huge role in their success in his time here, but as a coach, not as a builder of the teams, that credit should go to Jim Devellano, Jim Nill, Bryan Murray, Hakan Andersson and most of all Ken Holland.
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Khan says Wings are no longer interested in Phaneuf. I'm betting Babcock nixed any deal, like most of us believed he would.
It was probably Babcock that wanted him all along. He seems like Babs type of guy.
It will be interesting to see if the Leafs still trade him elsewhere or if he stays in Toronto.
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Bowman's first coaching job was with the newly created St. Louis Blues, in the first 3 years of the Blues existance and the first 3 years of Bowman's coaching them, he took them to the Stanley Cup Finals THREE YEARS IN A ROW.
They did this with expansion draft players and a 40 year old goalie. This is one of the most astonishing coaching performances ever, and you fail to even recognize these were Stanley Cup Finals, 3 of them as a rookie coach with a rookie team.
But when you say he's the most overrated person in NHL history, with the fact that in the 48 years in the NHL, 19 of them have been in the Finals... I wonder if maybe you're thinking of Drayson Bowman... no maybe Ralph Bowman? Are you even talking about hockey?
The Blues were in a conference made up of ALL expansion teams. Every team they competed against to make the finals were also made up of guys from an expansion draft.
His teams did not win a single game in any of those 3 finals against non expansion teams.
I'm not sure being the best of the terrible teams in the league constitutes the most astonishing coaching performance ever.
As a coach I'd agree that Scotty is the best the game has ever seen, as a GM he was among the worst I've ever seen though and its the credit he gets as a "Builder" that makes me call him the most overrated person in hockey history.
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I'm touched anyone even remembers me around these parts.
I still lurk from time to time here and on HFboards and Reddit but my posting slowed down when the fan base became insufferably negative for me. Maybe I'll surprise everyone with some new photoshops this upcoming season.