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Strife2 posted...

The Wild doing that rare winning streak thing.

Enjoy your GM making no moves at the deadline and your 12th overall draft pick.

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99% of athletes would willingly cheat if they thought it would help and they could get away with it

the other 1% is tim tebow

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The Kings are bad because they can't score, not because of their defense really. And Campbell's numbers, on average, are decent, but my perception from the Kings recently is that he's one of those "allows 0-1 or 5-6" type of guys. He has really good games, or really bad ones. Not a lot of 2-3 goal outings when he's in net.

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On the one hand, I'm not sure Campbell is much of an upgrade over Hutchinson at all... he's been <i>really</i> inconsistent the last couple years.

On the other hand, "Moore and two thirds" is basically "free" so what the hell?

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Honestly really only one of the goals tonight was his fault... (but that one was REALLY his fault)

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Guys, I've devised a foolproof NHL betting strategy:

1. Figure out who the Leafs are playing
2. Bet on that team

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MartinFF7 posted...

So he needs ~200 more goals, right? Maybe could...

At 35/yr, he'd get it in 6 more years.

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Another hat trick for Ovechkin.

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KCF0107 posted...

Astros will reportedly name Dusty Baker as their new manager

xfd this is basically like giving up on the entire franchise

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just gonna leave this here

https://twitter.com/theaceofspaeder/status/1219992522887499776

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except everyone was asleep and nobody saw that one

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The Blackhawks are much better off right now than the Wild tbqh.

If I were to make a list of "teams least likely to win the cup at any point in the next ten years" the Wild are probably at the very bottom. Maybe the Sharks. Not good enough to be a contender now (or any time soon), not bad enough to have even started the rebuild yet.

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Yeah, that does suck for him. And for Carolina which looks to be falling off a bit after a great start.

The wild card picture in the east is actually looking pretty interesting. Canes/Flyers/Panthers/Leafs/Bluejackets(!!) are all within a couple points of each other.

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lol this is gonna be so good

https://twitter.com/RealHTownTrump/status/1217999464067207168

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MLB literally promised immunity to any player who talked to them about this. They cant go after the players, assuming the players did anything other than completely and totally refuse to answer any and all questions.

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Gallant should get to recruit his own team of all-star snubs that gets to challenge the winner of the 3-on-3 tournament at the end.

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Well, not that I defend firing Gallant, but in terms of teams who are underachieving their talent level, Vegas is nearly at the top of that list...

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One of the first games she ever watched with me was that playoff game where he licked a dude!

I guess that's something you don't see every day?

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The other night, my fiance asks me, "What happens if, in a shootout, they just miss the puck?"

Her favorite player is Brad Marchand.

Tonight, this happens.

https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/1216917329814212609

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AJ should have been fired for pulling Grienke in Game 7, and Luhnow is a spineless cuck who doesn't support his players/employees.

Good riddance to both! This team is gonna be angry AF and destroy next year!

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Just when I start thinking "Hey, the Leafs may have a chance after all" they go and do this!

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Holtby has been like this for several years tho. Middling stats but got it together when it really mattered in the playoffs (well, once he did that, at least).

My guess is the Caps are poised to become the next Blackhawks. Going to reward their cup winners for past performance and probably lock themselves into some really unfavorable contracts. It's a shame, but what can you do?

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honestly that game was a mess, both teams were sloppy as hell

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See you think you'd like to face the Sabres (or the Habs!), but then just imagine how you'll feel losing to them in 7!

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I was kinda hoping Boston would hold on to the division, so that the Leafs could get their wish to avoid the Bruins only to get to run into Tampa instead...

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Well... that sure is a.... uh.... move.

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Actually, while Nashville has underachieved, they're not even that bad really. Only two games out of a playoff spot if you account for games in hand. And even that's only because both the Oilers and Canucks have gone on winning streaks lately.

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Laviolette fired, apparently.

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It's actually a huge disservice to the minor bowls and the teams in them to be scheduled after New Years, when attention has largely shifted away from college and to the NFL.

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its dumb but hasnt it always been this way?

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Points ain't everything! He's barely positive in +/- and pretty weak on shots and hits. My current starting lineup is Seguin, Landeskog, Perron, Killorn, Teravinen, and Svechnikov.

By the Average Stats ranking on Yahoo's default scoring, the only person on that list he's higher than is Landeskog (who underachieved a lot early on but has been better since coming back from injury).

You can probably find someone on the waiver wire ranked pretty close to where he is!

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Kuznetsov has also been "meh" this year in fantasy. I have him on my team but he's not even in my starting lineup even when healthy...

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Man, Draisaitl just delivered one of the most blatant and intentional elbows to the head I've ever seen. But of course, since Krug just got back up and kept playing, it was only a minor. I know it's not honorable, but if I were a coach in this league, I'd tell all my guys "If you get hit in the head, go down and stay down" because the refs have proven time and time again that is the only difference between a major and minor penalty.

If the league has any guts at all, they'll give him at least 3 games for this.

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Seriously. I can't get over this. I'm an Oregon State fan. And a Washington Capitals fan. And a Minnesota Vikings fan. I've seen a lot of pathetic chokejobs in my day. But that might seriously be the worst.

Up by 13 with the ball with 7 minutes to go and haven't allowed a touchdown all day. Lose.

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That was perhaps the worst coaching job I've ever seen. In my life. Tom Allen should take full responsibility for this loss and apologize to each and every player for stealing a bowl victory from them.

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MartinFF7 posted...

Columbus is due to be in an outdoor game, and they have the shared expansion history with the Wild, and the advantage of never having been in an outdoor game before. But not really the rivalry factor (or the broader fanbase). Or Columbus will hang on to host their own game at Ohio Stadium I guess...

If you stick to teams in the midwest or northeast and knock out Canadian teams and anyone else who's been in an outdoor game in the past few years, you do start to run out of options. Chicago could really happen I guess, lol...

I actually think it'll be the Oilers. The NHL needs its next generation of stars. This will be for McDavid, like the Buffalo one was for Crosby...

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Lockes Ragnarok posted...

This years winter classic was amazing. How was it being there smuffin?

I mean, it was a cool experience, and I don't regret going. But the venue left a lot to be desired. It turns out that "historic" is also a synonym for "shitty." It was just way too crowded. Concessions and restrooms were unusable because the lines were insane. Usually so long that the end of them wasn't even in sight of the thing they were for, so you had to force your way through an unmoving mass of people constantly asking them what they were in line for to even find the back of the line. I went out with 5 minutes left in the first for food, and by the time the 2nd period was starting, I was only halfway through, so I said fuck it and went back to my seat (and so, didn't eat all day). Even just walking through the concourse was basically impossible. Even though we got there a little early, I couldn't do any of the pre-game stuff because there were just way too many people everywhere. It literally took us 30 minutes from when we entered the stadium just to get to our seats, because it was just a wall of people, mostly not moving.

Game was fun though. Our seats were great, pretty high up (just a few rows below the press box) but perfectly centered. Could still see well though. Basically any of the wide views of like the "whole field surface" you saw on NBC was basically the view we had. The section we were in was mostly Preds fans, but they were clearly knowledgeable and into it and were still southerners, so everyone was nice enough. We left with about 5 minutes left in the 3rd fearing the crowds. It was better on the way out than on the way in and we managed to avoid most of the traffic getting out (were super paranoid given that we had a 3.5 hour drive back to Houston and work the next day).

Fun story though, once we got out of Dallas we stopped at a Whataburger right along 45. I'm still wearing my jersey, at the counter is some cowboy looking guy, he says "So you guys got out of that whole mess quick enough, huh?" Start chatting with him and it turns out he was part of the hired "entertainment." I guess he's a professional rodeo guy and apparently they paid him $600 to ride the mechanical bull a few times. But he says "I also got this" and whips out a puck... it turns out when he wasn't riding the mechanical bull, he was just kind of hanging out near the edge of the glass, and when a puck flew over and out of play he just grabbed it and nobody bugged him about it.

I'd definitely recommend going if it's at a modern venue but the Cotton Bowl just wasn't able to handle this. I have no idea how they do OU/Texas there every year... it really did put a bit of a damper on the experience.

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Jews should really *hope* it's true that they have much higher intelligence, on average, than other groups.

Because if science eventually proves that *isn't* the case, the available remaining explanations for how they control so much wealth and power start looking a lot more sinister...

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Do you think it would matter?

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isn't a great look

oh no muh optics

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Something looks a little bit off about these right-wing white-supremacist trump-supporters who keep killing Jews in New York, but I just can't quite put my finger on it...

https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/1211289837405458432/photo/1

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Ohio State is so clearly and obviously the better team, just being undone by miserably pathetic officiating, injuries, and general bad luck.

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Which is why the multiple refs looking at it live didn't call it, right?

He dropped his head, but he didn't hit him with his head. Complete joke and BS call. Most of them are.

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I like that we can pinpoint the exact moment the order went into the refs to change the outcome of the game.

They seriously need to remove the auto-eject from targeting until such point as the refs can be trusted not to just make it up whenever they feel like it.

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I still say the ideal system is one where the committee has complete and total power to decide, not just the teams in, but the format itself, which can be changed on a year to year basis.

This year, there were clearly exactly 3 deserving teams. So a 3-team round robin could have decided the issue. Other years, it's 2. Maybe on rare occasions it could be 4. But it's pretty much never any higher than that.

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Remember: If you support expanding the playoff, it means you are wishing that the first round could consist of an even bigger blowout and mismatch than this.

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Everyone is going to gush about Joe Burrow, but the difference in this game is in the trenches. Hurts has zero time and is pressured on every play. Burrow has all day and can do whatever he wants. Absolute domination on both O and D-Line of LSU.

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Someone tell the refs they don't need to bother rigging this one for the SEC. LSU was going to win huge anyway.

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Don Imus could have literally cured cancer, and the media still would have led his obituary with the fact that he made an insufficiently-PC comment a decade ago.

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