ChristopherReevesLegs

Yeah but we didn't trade Larkin, who's hopefully gonna rebound AA now will never get that opportunity here. It's classic Red Wings honestly. Larkin gets babied and pampered, AA gets treated like dirt. Been that way all season.

Since trading AA our goal differential is -11 in 4 games, or -2.75 per game. Our goal differential this season with AA in the lineup is -99 in 46 games, or -2.15 per game. Trading AA made this team worse

Didn't matter where we drafted really. #1 or 6, 7, etc. Seider was the best player in that draft and we got him at 6.

Like how everyone else is? Suddenly hating on AA because of one down season where we are the worst team in the league? Don't forget 30 in '19

It is my right as a message board poster to radically shift my opinion on a player the moment he is traded

"I think he didn’t really want to be moved. He was comfortable here. He fit in with us." - Larkin is also on the internet, and that at least has a credible and confirmed source.

The independent variable always goes on the X axis. This is 5th grader stuff u blockhead.

Ovie's not a playmaker, never has been.

Ovechkin and Howe actually have a lot of similarities when you think about. Both ridiculously strong for hockey players. Both extremely physical in play. Both goal scoring machines. Both defy age and injury. Both big personalities....

Here's what their careers look like visually for goal totals (horiz axis is age): Here's what it looks like adjusted for gpg pace: Sorry about the confusing sizing So regardless of whether you use goal totals or gpg pace the data looks pretty much the same, since both these players played most of their games. Gretsky and Ovie become even at about age 27, and then Ovie breaks away and takes the lead at around age 32. Furthermore, if you drew a trend line through both players data Gretsky's goal scoring would be on a steady decline through most of his career. Ovie's would be pretty much flat, indicating he's a very consistent goal scorer, defying age (so far). When you put everything in context of the 80s and post-lockout era, it's hard not to look at Gretky's data plot and think his numbers are very much pumped up by the early 1980s era. In fact, Gretky's numbers come down to earth as early as 1985/86 when he's 25. He will enjoy 6 more seasons of non-dead puck hockey, yet he won't score much more (and even less sometimes) than Ovechkin over that time.

Were 80s Canadians biafra cases too? He's better than Gretsky

Do I have to also assume Mantha would be a cocaine addicted shop wrecker if transported back to the 1980s Canada? And not the soft sensitive boy we know today?

And yet Russia fielded an incredible hockey team in the 1980s. Who's to say Ovechkin isn't picked up by the Red Army early in life? I assume this also means you don't wanna apply this same narrative to Mantha now?

Why?

Don't worry I'm not certain many people vacation to jerkwater either

I'm just wondering how he's handling Yzerman trading AA because he's brown

Wait, so you're saying an identical Ovie wouldn't grow to be that size in the 80s? Or an Ovie that size wouldn't make it in the NHL in the 80s?

I'm not saying any of that or anything close to it I'm saying taller people are playing the sport now. Why? I haven't the foggiest. Maybe more prime time sports like basketball and football became overly saturated and there's been a trickle-down effect into hockey. That's my best guess. Really, all sports have become bigger and badder with time. Still, I don't know what your point is. A 6'3 235lb Ovie probably would absolutely rock the 1980s.

Maybe you didn't read all the way

I forget Just seems odd that average male height is relatively unchanged, yet all of the sudden hockey is chalked full of HUGE players. I can presume one of two things; either you're incorrect and hockey players aren't that much bigger, or tall people suddenly started playing the game. I tend to think it's the later, regardless of how annoying you find it.

So what happened then? Tall/big people suddenly realized hockey exists in the 2000s and started playing? Or did tall/big people not exist in the 1970s? I guess I'm confused as to what you're trying to prove. If hockey players in the 80s and 70s are as tiny as you would have me believe, Ovie probably would be extremely dominant based on his size and weight.

Yup, gotta help Leafs get that first cup in 50+ years

Fore reference the current cap is 81.5

Did he molest a shuttle bus driver, or did he try to bring respect back to the franchise? I could believe either. Statement from Little: Eugene can't handle a few swears

U of M has John Beecher and Cam York, I think they're just young right now MSU has been a mess for years since Ron Mason left the program.