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You are an idiot. This is a blatant straw man (continued). The sad part is you're not only twisting the argument, you don't even seem to grasp it. Sad. Anyway I love how when I critique Zadina's play in 2018/19 all the Zadina shills go "WHOA WHOA WHOA IT'S TOO SOON" *Zadina plays 28 games in 2020*: "Clearly Zadina has proved he's bound for greatness" You guys have little to no understanding of Zadina's game. And you don't care. You'll use whatever argument you can to shill for your big time snipey boy, including fallacy and blatant inconsistency of thought.

Good lord ur dense. In a paragraph about Zadina's defense with a comparison to Hossa you picked up that I think Zadina is Hossa... lol You're like Eva Unit Zero. Fire power Hudler! Fire Power Zadina! Both future 1A wingers fersure dude. The next Kucherov.

I downloaded NHL20 when it came out but haven't played it much at all I looked at the roster when it came out though and saw Athanasiou was listed as a powerforward or something and Rasmussen was a sniper. Like wut? Lol EA f*** you To hijack the thread, can we talk about the NHL game soundtracks for 5 min? Each year I think they can't possibly get any epicly worse, yet somehow they seem to outdo themselves each year. I'm actually impressed by this feat.

You guys are such Datsyuk apologist shills. The Eastern Orthodox Church is expressly against homosexuality and views it as a sin against god and the laws of nature. Datsyuk: "I'm Orthodox". How dense do you have to be to not be able to read between the lines there? He's telling you his views on homosexuality in a very polite but clear way. A. Orthodoxy doesn't like g-ays B. Datsyuk is Orthodox A + B = C Get over it. Datysuk is entitled to his religious beliefs, no matter how screwy they are compared to the modern public perception. Datsyuk: "I'm KKK" Neo: "That doesn't necessarily mean he dislikes blacks" Ya'll be slow. gotta keep em' seperated

"I'm an orthodox; that says it all" AKA I don't like homosexuals. What's confusing to you about this?

There is a significant difference between Hudler and Hossa. What's your point? That you don't understand my line of argument and simple comparisons? There's also a significant difference between someone without the IQ to understand my argument and some who does. Guess which camp you fall in.

Datsyuk is a homophobic religious nut job

I'm about to slap both of you. I've argued since day one that Zadina = Hudler. Go check. November 2018 is my first mega long book about Zadina. If you view Hudler as radically different than Tatar and Nyquist sorry my bad. I view them as much more similar than different. So no, the argument hasn't changed. And forgive me for being frustrated, but I've posted my views on this player - analyzing his game from top to bottom - probably more than any other player. No one argues back when I break down his game, yet my viewpoint is consistently misconstrued months later to the point where I've had to rewrite it multiple times. It's getting old. If you wanna talk Zadina lets do it, but so far that means I post a text wall and then everyone moves on. I know you dumbies read my posts because I immediately noticed that after I commented about how good his defensive stick work is, and asked why no one was talking about this, Zadina fans started mentioning how great his defensive stick work is. Ur welcome. I won't name names. And this is why I will call Zadina a bust again. Because none of you know why you like him and can't explain why you like him with any substance. You just know you're supposed to like him cause Red Wings and 6th overall. "He's the next big sniper!" "Actually now he's a passer!" You're a mess. And you deserve to hear that he's a bust again until you stop moaning about it and actually come up with an independent thought about him.

I understand those teams POV. But I have no real morals or ethics beyond "Make Red Wings good NOW". Give me my unfair Lafreniere. I will only stroke harder if someone whines about us each time he scores.

Pretty solid take from Simmons. I'm glad he's echoing the point that half the league would be suspended if we could see their phones. I'll switch sides and play devils advocate here though. Shouldn't the Caps treat Kuznetsov differently? After all Kuzy is a much more valuable employee than Leipsic is. Any company X would treat an executive differently than a mail room guy. I know it doesn't seem fair that Auston with an O gets to show his ass to PTSD afflicted war veterans and keep his job, but he also sells tickets and scores goals A LOT. I'm somewhat surprised NHLPA lawyers aren't jumping on a situation like this to say no you cannot terminate Leipsic for protected (debatably private) speech. But I also don't know what the CBA's morality clause is at all. The Gang Solves Colin Kaepernick Educate me if I'm wrong (don't follow handegg that closely) but didn't Kaepernick end up not getting a job? Sure the media is heavily left leaning and many in that industry supported him, but I think the league/teams were smart enough to realize their fanbase is much more evenly split and they didn't want the backlash over a crumby QB. Couple that with the fact that the NFL has a ton of advertising deals with the US Army... doesn't look good for a guy who won't honor the flag. So he's sorta in the same boat as Leipsic, Leipsic just didn't have an entire army of media dumbies willing to go to war for him. But also Brendan got exposed for being a Jerk, and Colin came right out with his as a political statement by his own will. I think a better comparison to Colin is Tim Thomas not wanting to visit Obama (which I think is equally as dumb as what Colin did). At the end of the day I much prefer both Leipsic and Kaepernick receive gainful employment in their leagues regardless of their behavior. I really do not care that Bob Probert did cocaine. Or that the Russian 5 were soviets. Or that Datsyuk is homophobic. Or that Bertuzzi made Steve Moore a veg. Or that Babcock didn't wipe Marner's tushy for him. Or that Tim Thomas is a republican. Or that JT Brown is a democrat. Or that Phil Kessel eats only doritos and mt dew. Or that Leipsic says naughty things to his friends. I want players who can play to play. These things should all be interesting headlines and nothing else. But lord knows we gotta SHUT DOWN anything slightly outside the norm these days...

I tend to agree. That's why I have a problem with Leipsic. If he was publicly posting his douchey comments he should suffer the consequences. But he wasn't. Nobody wants their private lives exposed like that.

Athletes have a lot of down time and a lot of folks talking about them. I'm fairly certain at some point a player like Brome has thought "hmmm I just signed with Detroit, I wonder what the fans are saying about me" and found his way to this place. And I hope he clicks on the Brome thread and sees people fat-shaming Jimmy and discussing Donald Sterlings racism and thinks "OMG what I have I gotten myself into. These people are nuts" Welcome to the family Bromey

Would love to discuss either with you. Nyquist to me is too passive. He came in relatively unknown and hot on good teams and then digressed as the team digressed. He has that passenger quality where he's only as good as the line you put him on. This is unlike a Zetterberg - whom you can stick on a line with Sheahan and Abdelkader - and he'll still generate. Though when I think of "The Red Wings mold" for a player Nyquist seems to fit it perfectly to me. Smart, responsible, poised, patient, He just wasn't godly skilled enough to be a Z or Datsyuk. Z seemed to be so technically proficient and have so much determination that he could just will the puck into the back of the net. Datsyuk was so skilled that he was just ******* with people and having fun half the time. I mean going behind the net and trying to lacrosse a puck up and over the net in the playoffs for giggles is ballsy even for the best players (forget what series that was, he didn't score on the play). Nyquist seemed to be too passive for any of that. Too Zadina. I see this same passive passenger like quality in Zadina. Maybe less so than Nyquist, but there nonetheless. Zadina is really good at utilizing his stick in all situations. I praise him for that constantly. His potential to be a very complete Hossa type winger is definitely there if he wants to be that. My worry with him is he's not the line driver Zberg or Datsyuk was. Tatar looked to be the line driver for MTL this year, but he still only managed 61 pts in 66 games. That's a problem for MTL IMO. Your main line driver shouldn't be a 29 year old winger putting up decent points. Zberg at the same age was putting up 92 points in 75 games. So I definitely think Zadina will be a valuable player, like both Tatar and Nyquist were and are. I just don't think we should bank on him being a driver for this team. I think of him more as a Franzen or Holmstrom (not in style of play) the type of player who can help you loads but you still need true superstars around him. If we don't get those superstars soon I think Zadina will be doomed to have career fizzle like Nyquists did.

I think you have to trade Murray no? He's gonna command more money, but also had a really down season compared to Jarry, I dunno if I'd trade for Murray. Sub .900 sv% is really bad. And he was on a good team too. I feel more inclined to just throw some old fart in with Bernier because I think we will suck again regardless if Murray comes here or not.

This one? (from an article) I really didn't follow this. Hockey takes up enough of my time. What a bizarre statement though. You can sleep with other men and do whatever you want, but don't be seen with black people. It's weirdly almost progressive and racist at the same time lol. Was this recorded in his own home? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you have reasonable expectation of privacy in your own home and therefore it's illegal to record someone without their knowledge? I could be totally wrong on that. The FBI is listening to me through my Alexa right now. The point that I think Kip will make, and I will make too, is that we're looking at free-market punishments. The NHL and NBA are businesses - not governments - and therefore they can choose to disassociate with whomever they like. Sterling or Leipsic. And I agree with that. The point I have issue with is the privacy and the thought policing. I do have a huge problem with folks being attacked in their private lives. I do wanna cultivate an environment where folks can go home and pursure whatever douchey, racist, extremely religious, nutty, rebellious, sexual, progressive, life they want. Obviously that's become a lot harder with everyone having a camera and recorder in their pocket at all time, and everything on the web being "exposed" so to speak. It definitely feels like were at the beginning of manufacturing our own Orwellian nightmare. Maybe privacy law and online data stuff is due for an update? IDK, I dunno enough about the exact laws in place really. The message certainly seems to be get in line or suffer consequences though. Which I'll never advocate for. Go be your own f***ed up self and be free. I love the Brome threads btw

Forgive me, I don't follow basketball anymore. Sterling is the one who said "nappy headed hos" on the radio?

I know what you're saying. I'm not suggesting the Caps made the wrong move. I think I said something to the effect of "I think they made the appropriate move given the circumstances". I would make the same move in Teds shoes in all likelihood. Instead I'm drawing issue with the circumstances, not the teams decision given the circumstances. I think it sucks that the environment is such that his privacy can be invaded and he suffers for that. The chain reaction being Leipsic has a private convo ---> the public is made aware and becomes upset --> under this pressure the capitals feel the need to remove him. The root of this being I really don't care what Leipsic says in his private life. And I think it speaks to how detached and naive the regular fan is given the fact that folks are shocked and appalled that a 25 year old rich pro athlete is a ******. Warning: a lot of your hero athletes behave in douchey ways in their private life. Shocking I know. If you feel the desire to say "nothing is private online", cool then I have a major issue with online privacy standards, not Brendan's naughty words. I will take 20 Datsyuk's - who don't care for homosexuals - on my team, over 20 Glendenings who do and say all the correct things polite society dictates they should. Likewise I will take 20 Ovechkins who worship Stalin over 20 conservative Leipics. I dont care, I need you to win hockey games. And I think I've made my stance on coke clear too: the more the better lol. BTW the Caps didn't remove Kuznetsov for blatant cocaine use. Gee I wonder why? It's almost like the standard is so shallow that it doesn't apply if your valuable enough. I don't even disagree that their might exist a double standard there. But you're comparing a bad movie to an athlete who said something naughty in private. I don't begin to understand how that comparison makes any sense beyond right wing dumb, left wing good. At the end of the day I usually side with whatever side lets me say whatever the f*** I want. I used to side with liberals because church going Christians would give me s*** for even daring to speak up. Now it's libs doing the same under different protocol. I'm simply never going to side with thought police.

The Caps don't care about Leipsic's banter between him and his friends in the slightest. The Caps care about what WE think of his banter between him and his friends. I say it's not that bad. But most seem to think Leipsic is the devil. So I lose I guess.

I'm looking through this guys work briefly. He also said Travis Dermott was the steal of the 2015 draft. So I mean he probably doesn't know s***.

The difference being I don't think Jimmy Howard should lose his job for being fat. Just like I don't think Leipsic should lose his for being a doosh canoe.

Cocaine - cool and fun Dickheads - alpha and funny Fatties - gross and ewwy

If I have to hear one more person exclaim "UR NOT ALLOWED TO VIDEO ME" while being videod in public, I might die. No I totally agree with you. I think the Caps took appropriate action given the circumstances. I'm more or less angered by the culture that leads to these circumstances. Hockey players say naughty things and do cocaine! WhoaWhoaWeeWhoa. Shocking stuff! Then everyone loves to circle around and point at Leipsic and pretend that they also dont do dumb stuff on the internet from time to time. I think he should've gotten a slap on the peepee for this, issued an apology, and we all move on. But we HAVE to cancel everything these days...

I'd still say the spirit of the thing feels like an invasion of privacy. A man lost his job because of something he said between friends. I'd hate to live in a world like that. But it looks like I already do...

My understanding was that someone got into his friends insta, and thus became privy to their group chat. To me its more like the dude that drilled the hole in the hotel wall to video tape Erin Andrews in the nude. She had the reasonable expectation of privacy, and thus was fully "naked". I think one could make the same argument here with Leipsic. He had an expectation of privacy, but the world is seeing his nakedness anyway.

1. Agreed 2. This is the thing I have the most problem with, and why I feel bad for the guy. Group chats with my friends from college or highschool can get insanely wild. It's just a buncha bros trying to rile each other up. None of these people would talk like that in public, or to anyone who's not a close friend whom they trust and knows they're joking. Leispic had no intention of making his comments public, but hackerman did that for him. Feels unfair. But that's life I guess. 3. *clears browser history* 4. Agreed, but I go back to these messages were intended to be private and in a court of law this bad evidence would get thrown out. "this isn't a court of law CRL" - I know, I get it. 5. Yeah but cocaine is fun and cool