Mckinley25

I hope the practice of displaying power play graphics over the entire screen after the power play has started carries over into the regular season.

I like your repurposing of Lucas’ lazy prequel defense.

But see, I also was certainly no fighter in the NHL, so that just resets the balance to insanely jacked guy vs gets winded after one lap around ice guy. I’d proceed with measured caution.

This was the best possible scenario, the oldest couples team wins, what a game.

I think the modern skate was invented by the Dutch too, around the time of the paintings.

I think the point is that this is where hockey’s infancy originated. It clearly evolved since then.

That’s why I named my son, Jephthah.

Wouldn’t years played and years played in specific levels/league be more determinate of development than age? Further, is draft class not based the the former? I haven’t seen any other analysis that favors the age metric until later in player’s careers when years in the league are too unevenly spread across players.

How about, “Tortorella’s guarantee as worthless as a BJ with a lot of teeth.”

My preference would be that the Jackets do not allow Boston to win another game. Though, not having seen every second of the series, I don’t know the balance of dirty plays. Eh...**** Boston.

How else does a “no name” team become a team with a name, but having playoff success?

We can now shower, drink moonshine or blueberry shakes, whatever our preferred method of cleansing is and collectively forget we supported Boston. Blue Jackets, you have my allegiance.

There is one reason above all others to root against the Leafs, and that is, they have more Cups than Detroit. Sports is about who finishes with the most, so until we have more championships than Toronto, they remain our enemy.

I abandoned my thoughts too abruptly. Should Holland stay with the organization, they are then just adding additional experience and gray matter to the group. I think that is reason for measured confidence and optimism.

I wish the alternate universe where Holland remains the GM was accessible so we could compare his selections to Yzerman’s, but I’m left now to speculate madly about the disparity in quality.