Samson's Flow

This is a much tougher question. Never going to happen since they wouldn't be foolish enough to schedule them at the same time. ... what round is the game 7? :nana:

Thanks for that MODO! That was really great to be able to read the perspective from his home country. It sounds like the people in Sweeden seem to have high expectations for our Linus. Also he seems to be a really great person off the ice - one I can definitely cheer for.

Two Points: 1. It's scary over there at TSW. The crazy to informed poster ratio is on the wrong side of the ledger. Much prefer my Bills news here. 2. There's only 16 games in the season, and we are playing our biggest rival, on MNF primetime no less. That certainly carries more weight than one of 82 games against a western conference team when we have games on Wed and Fri to catch as well.

I'd much rather watch more 5-4 games than 2-1 games. I can't be the only one. Unfortunately even teams with a ton of forward talent like Dallas are winning more of the 2-1 variety than the 5-4. :angry:

If they can improve the color commentary or find a better combination of personalities, I'm all for trying it out this year. I will say that even though they have been juggling things around, I have yet to hear a broadcast that was painful/unprofessional.

Are you not supposed to do that :unsure: Logistically that probably means he had multiple external hard drives dedicated exclusively to child porn. 5.6 tb is a lot.

That's why the NHL should pair this change with moving the net back to its original 10ft from the boards instead of the current 11. Gives the players a bit more room in front of the net where they can actually score and less room behind the net where they, uh, cant.

I felt comfortable making that comment only because I knew you had landed the big fish. :thumbsup:

With talk like that i'm sure the ladies just line up for you... :P

Dallas is playing so well right now a lot of their chances are on breakaways and two-on-ones due to their team speed. You are going to have elevated shooting % when you have such quality scoring chances.

I feel like we need to call up Aaron Rodgers to double check his comments on the team: "Five letters here just for everybody out there in Sabre-land: F-I-N-E... E?," Rodgers said Tuesday on his ESPN Milwaukee radio show. "Fine. Tyler Ennis is going to be Fine."

... and Toronto. :unsure:

We also have some of the lowest shooting percentage in the league, which is generally a luck based stat that will normalize over time. The way Bylsma juggles lines I couldn't even tell you what those lines are. ;)

and it's not like their neighbor Chicago has a bunch of untalented losers shooting either.

The only benefit to replay in football is it gives the league an extra commercial break to sell crap and you and extra chance to grab a brew. :beer:

Praise the Raptor Jesus!

Nice first few posts - keep em coming! the general consensus at the beginning of the year was that this team would struggle for the first few months because the entire team is new and needs to develop chemistry. The team playing better than expected and being around .500 (not the DeLuca .500 mind you) has probably accelerated expectations a bit. The fans haven't seen winning hockey in a long time and have gotten greedy. We still have multiple 19-22 yr olds playing significant minutes on a nightly basis.

Makes it seem like there is more ice that there really is, and makes it harder to neutral zone trap (the death of hockey) since there is more ice to cover. Also brings the point shots closer to the net making them more likely to score. Make this move in conjunction with moving the nets back to 10', and see what happens.

What happens when you pickle a pickle?

Taro - good ideas here. I would be all for attempting these minor tweaks before attempting major game changing alterations. I specifically like the 'move the nets back' concept, since it would give more ice in front of the net where goals are actually scored. The lines were initially changed for safety but as you mentioned this is no longer needed. I like ideas which would limit the amount of unnecessary whistles/stoppages of play. the best hockey IMO is when you go 10 minutes+ without a whistle and it is end to end continuous action. The bad games are ones where there are 5 offsides/icing whistles in a 2 minute stretch, there's not way for either team to develop flow. Maybe that is fixed by encouraging linesmen to waive off more icings unless it egregious. I'm thinking of the way that the NFL incorrectly enforces intentional grounding type leniency.

As long as the PK icing is amended so that the defensive team can make a line change. Otherwise we will see exhausted players and an increase in injuries due to fatigue. More draws in the offensive zone = good; watching defensemen that can barely move = bad.

They don't like potato chips? :unsure:

As I was thinking more this is probably the better solution. Although with the speed of play this might be hard to accurately enforce. I would be interested as to how the tactics would change though.

There's no point in trading OEL to get Risto. They are both young top pair defensemen. It's like trading a ham sandwich for a ham sub.

What would this even look like? A 'ten second' call if you are behind the last defender for more than a certain amount of time? Would this be a penalty or just an icing/offsides like whistle and faceoff in your own zone. An aside - Ovechkin would never leave the offensive zone :lol: