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Again you have to keep changing your paremeters. Now it is NCAA to ALL Stars. I have no doubt that a team of 2023 NHL All Stars beats the 2023 NCAA team. But again, you have to change the topic and toss out strawman after strawman. I'd guess that your formative hockey years were in the 80's or early 90s meaning that you can't divest yourself from the nostalgia of those years. That's fine but bad faith arguments don't make your point.
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Let's break this down.... so he did pickup games with members. How many? How old were there? Which members? Why are we comparing Women's hockey to Men's hockey when one gets considerably more funding and players? How does that relate to 1983 hockey? How do 15yr old kids relate to 21 year old NCAA players? Sorry but you have one of the weakest arguments I have seen for this. The 10 yr jump isn't logical, comparing men's hockey to women's hockey in the same time period is a different argument all together, you fail to understand the difference between a 15yr old and a 21yr old, and you fundamentally do not understand the differences in goalie play from 1983 to 2023.... Dude, you are not only reaching, you aren't even making sense anymore.
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No you don't understand and don't have a desire to. You think that because you can say that every 10 years the entire league isn't new players that it proves a guy from 1983 would be magically good if teleported to 2023. They wouldn't. Also what a ludicrous example. You literally cannot fathom the gulf between the 1983 players and 2023 players.
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What's hard to follow? St Louis was the 190hp jeep when he came into the league. Because he has access to all the upgrades each year, he built himself into the 285hp jeep. The 1980 team doesn't get that. You are missing the GIANT fundamental flaw in your argument. St Louis wasn't the player at 37 he was at 25 because he had alll those years of experience playing against the incrementally improving players flowing into the league. Versus the 1980 team having to make a 40 year jump in skill immediately.
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PPL keep saying this and I have never witnessed that to be true. In fact in the NYR game he was engaged, HARD, in his own zone with the puck and fought long and hard enough to clear the zone while under extreme duress. I think this is a myth to be honest and is something I see more from the boards darling, JJP. idk, in 4 months, 5lbs is probably the more likely and safe way to add good muscle. He can't just add bulk, it has to be that endurance type of muscle.
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This is important. "If he is good enough" not "Levi is the goalie and everyone else can suck it". Adams holds two thoughts simultaneously, 1) Levi should be the goalie of the future, 2) the gt this year wasn't good enough. What he does this summer should be scrutinized. The defense needs improving and the goaltending needs improving and he needs to accomplish both.
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Im glad you proved my point. St Louis had alllllll the incremental improvements from 190hp to 285hp because he was constantly being challenged by better players. the 1983 all stars don't have 15 years of playing against incrementally better players. They just step out as the 1983 all stars. It is amazing that everyone being like "OOOOO OOOOO the 1983 guys are better!" then have to add a bunch of caveats about training and getting better in the modern the NHL. Yea, that's the point, if I got in a time machine and put the 1983 all star team on the ice with a bunch of 2023 college kids, the college kids would smoke them. They are bigger, faster, stronger, smarter players because the game as evolved. This right here pretty much ends the argument.
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By this logic though you can say that a 1980 Jeep is the same as a 2023 jeep because if you go back 10 years the 2013 isn't that much different than the 2023 and then the 2003 isn't that much different and so on and so forth. It just ignores the incremental changes and the players themselves evolving with them over time.
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He does something that is vitally important, he uses his body to prepare the space around him. Reminds me a little of how Lidstrom played defense, where if you go back and watch, there are a lot of subtle ways he engaged that gave him advantages he could exploit. Jack Quinn gaining about 20lbs would do wonders for what he is trying to do out there. I am very curious to see what October Quinn looks like.
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Just a partial game report from his draft year.
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This covers it but Neuchev loves to drive the center and shoot. He actually could use a bit more awareness of teammates IMO (I have seen 2 partial KHL games of his so take that for what it is worth) but in general he is an offense first attacking forward. Kinda reminds me a bit of Tuch in some ways. He has 12 points in 57KHL games at 19. That's all while getting 8-10minutes a night from the look of stuff. From EP's draft guide (seriously I know I say this a lot but EP has great content). His statistical profile gives him a 20% chance of being a 2nd line player in the NHL.
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Granato talked about how the players who can self coach and self correct tend to have fewer mental ups and downs in a season. Specifically mentioned Power and Quinn. For Quinn he talked about how good he is at understanding what happened on a play and correcting and his only real issue is that he isn't strong enough yet for the NHL. Quinn had a nice goal last night and I really think we have a 70pt player growing up on this team right now.
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Desperation cuts two ways. Food for thought... see Pittsburgh at this past deadline.
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Calling Granato a "first- timer" is something you could do. You're wrong, he's been a head coach at every level of hockey but you could do it. At best you're deliberately trying to slight him.
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I was scared
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He fascinates me.
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I think the Sabres are a spent force.
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Didn't Comrie win his first 4 games or something?
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GDT: Rangers at Sabres, Saturday, March 11, 2023, 5:07 p.m., MSG
LGR4GM replied to Stoner's topic in The Aud Club
Maybe it was meant for me and by accident they tagged you. Again, I apologize for that comment. It wasn't mine but it still came from my account so I'm responsible. -
GDT: Rangers at Sabres, Saturday, March 11, 2023, 5:07 p.m., MSG
LGR4GM replied to Stoner's topic in The Aud Club
Idk. I hope not.