FINALLY! - The 2013 NHL Season - Page 67

On May 10 2013 01:06 Flaccid wrote:
And:



lolnucks

On May 10 2013 11:44 StarStruck wrote:


Ouch, you moved to Ottawa for work purposes?

On May 11 2013 00:00 Flaccid wrote:
'East coast bias' has been a conspiracy theory for some time. Now that we have a season where no teams from the west competed in the east, we're getting a pretty good example of what games the voting parties actually watch and it's kind of depressing. Time to dust off my tinfoil hat as it looks like I'm gonna need it.

On May 11 2013 00:07 Kyhron wrote:

Its really depressing. I could think of half a dozen west coast players that deserve to be nominated more than Crosby or Tavares. In all seriousness how the hell does Crosby miss what a third? if not more of the season the Pens continue to dominate the East without him and still get nominated. Clearly hes not that VALUABLE to the Pens if their record didnt suffer much if at all without him. It kinda sickens me not even a "token" West player was nominated but nope gotta nominate 2 people that didnt show up or play for large chunks of the season and Tavares who really isnt that vital to the Isles from what some of my friends have told me

On May 10 2013 15:20 Manifesto7 wrote:

Nothing says #lolnucks like kesler tripping a guy after a series clinching goal. I have been a canucks fan my whole life thanks to geography, but they play an unwatchably boring style of hockey.

On May 11 2013 00:06 Stratos_speAr wrote:


This, and I don't think the bias is just east coast-related. It's pretty obvious that certain names and certain positions get more favor in this voting. Absolutely terrible picks for the finalists.

So the Wild got completely stomped last night, which isn't too much of a surprise, but I'm cautiously optimistic about the future; we have a ton of talent (especially young talent), and we have the pieces to build around. Parise/Sutter/Koivu is a great trio to build around and we have so much young talent (Scandella/Brodin/Granlund/Kuemper/on and on and on) that this club should just keep getting better.

I'm cautious though because there are no excuses for the month of April and the first two games of this series. So little fight, so little hustle, just so little effort that isn't indicative of how we do things up here. Not only that, scoring only 7 goals in 5 playoff games and going 0/17 on the power play is disturbing. That kind of under-production, especially from the star power (1 point for Parise in the series, I think 0 for Koivu) is a little scary.

I think that the Wild have the talent to go the way of the Hawks (invest in 07, compete in 2010), but I think the coaching is a hindrance. Yeo is a great guy, but he doesn't seem willing to really see the brutal truth of the problems with the team, and he doesn't seem like he's capable of being creative or flexible, especially mid-game. When you're 0/15 on the power play, you don't just keep doing the same exact thing and hope it works this time. There's talk about him being replaced, and I really do think it's warranted; we need a guy that is 1) creative and 2) can really light a fire under the players and inspire them to actually fight every game so we don't limp into the playoffs on life support.

On May 11 2013 00:16 Flaccid wrote:


Yeah, they treat 'MVP' as best player, basically. And then throw in the odd random to mask that fact. Honestly, if they chose a real 'MVP' every year, it'd probably end up being some goalie who played out of his mind on a shitty team allowing them to actually win some games and still miss the playoffs. I'm sure some examples come to mind.

On May 11 2013 00:33 QuanticHawk wrote:
YOU KIDS OUT THERE, DON'T BE LIKE FLACCID HERE!!! YOU GOTTA KEEP YOUR HEAD UP WHILE SHIT POSTIN!!!