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Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Sep 23 @ 2:20 PM ET
Came back from a nice dog walk, looked in my backyard - my pellet smoker was going (with the cover on). Not sure how that happened - maybe a squirrel hit the button? Heavy rain?

Anyhoo, it must have just started, because the cover didn't melt at all, and not many pellets are gone.

Considering we were away all weekend, this could have been a much, much bigger problem.

Stay safe out there, kids.

- Atomic Wedgie

Woke up at 5am and didn't hear the usual air-conditioning sounds. Didn't want to wake my wife by looking into it. The minute she was up, I checked on the unit and the pipe was frozen Needs coolant or some poop.
Atomic Wedgie
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: The centre of the hockey universe
Joined: 07.31.2006

Sep 23 @ 2:25 PM ET
Woke up at 5am and didn't hear the usual air-conditioning sounds. Didn't want to wake my wife by looking into it. The minute she was up, I checked on the unit and the pipe was frozen Needs coolant or some poop.
- AdamFrench

James Tanner was right: renting is better than owning.
Cush29
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Who Owzzzzz da' Chiefs?, ON
Joined: 12.22.2014

Sep 23 @ 2:30 PM ET
Utahs first goal in franchise history was .....scored in their own net?

https://x.com/spittinchic...laRyRXo_bWdxc-o-ZKoA&s=19

- Fakepartofme


They haven't fully shaken off the Arizona yet clearly. Good thing it's pre-season!
joel878
Joined: 06.13.2009

Sep 23 @ 2:31 PM ET
Truth

How about this proposal - Leafs should trade Reaves AND Robertson (maybe even in a package deal) and see if they can get something that helps with their immediate needs.

Hell throw in whomever is battling for a roster spot & appears will be the odd man out (and is under contract) too if that's what it takes to sweeten the pot!

Yes I'm saying have a garage sale. You know the type of sale where you sell poop you no longer need, use & as such is considered your own junk. One teams junk....something treasure (but not a treasure trove).

- Cush29


Reaves is easier to disappear internally, can bury most of his money in the minors and he can assume the Clune role from Clifford.

Kampf is the guy they should be trying to shoot into the sun. Robertson, Liljegren, Kampf for an actual centre. 🙏
GalacticStone
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: We shoulda let Uncle Billy finish the job.
Joined: 01.29.2013

Sep 23 @ 2:32 PM ET
Potential hurricane brewing up in the southern Gulf with a forecast cone that includes Tampa.

I better buy some more bottled water and make sure the gas cans are full for the generator, just in case. Better safe than hot and thirsty.
Cush29
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Who Owzzzzz da' Chiefs?, ON
Joined: 12.22.2014

Sep 23 @ 2:33 PM ET
I wasn't a big Bernier guy (I preferred Optimus Reims) but this was pretty cool and the 2nd most memorable positive for me about Bernier (the 1st was winning the shootout in the outdoor game at the Big House).

11 years ago - man time flies!




Atomic Wedgie
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: The centre of the hockey universe
Joined: 07.31.2006

Sep 23 @ 2:34 PM ET
James Tanner was right: renting is better than owning.
- Atomic Wedgie

And he was right about this:

https://www.hockeybuzz.co...s-Norris-Trophy/200/67710

OEL Ties Franchise Record - Deserves Norris Trophy
April 6, 2015, 1:00 PM ET [178 Comments]
James Tanner
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This weekend the Coyotes played a back-to-back with the Sharks and all but eliminated them from the Playoffs. The Coyotes lost the first game 3-1 but took the second game 5-3 on the back of Mike Smith, who stopped 42 shots.

Now, as far as back-to-back games with division rivals, this was about as bad as you can get: one team has 54 losses on the season and the other has less than a 1% chance of making the Playoffs.

Only one thing saved the series from being completely boring: Oliver Ekman-Larsson, who's 23rd goal of the season tied Phil Housley's franchise record, which he did twice. OEL will not be approaching Housley's points record though (a miraculous 97 points in 1992-93)

In fact, you could say watching the Coyotes is always a treat because of him. He's one of the few players in the NHL who you can tune into his team's game - regardless of who's playing or the importance of it - and enjoy yourself.

And it's not always the goals and pretty plays: few players in the NHL are as adept at playing the angles and providing good defense in such an effortless fashion. Instead of crushing opposition players with body-checks (and he is more psychical than you might think, based on just his reputation) OEL - like a certain other Swedish defenseman who shall not be named - is deceptive in his approach to playing without the puck. He's always in the right position and he usually breaks up the play, but he's not running around crushing guys and throwing himself in front of slapshots.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that there is a certain picture we have of good "defensive" defensemen who hit and block shots and play with "heart." OEL doesn't look like that when he plays, but - and this is really just a guess because I couldn't back it up with any data - he seems to just float effortlessly out there, suddenly appearing at the right time to break up a play or to send the puck back the other way.

Anyways, 23 goals. Leads the league. Just over 40 points, but this would be higher if Yandle wasn't the QB for 62 games, and if someone on the team had more than 40 points.

He has a 51% CF rating on one of the NHL's worst teams; his PDO is only 98, suggesting that despite the good year, he was unlucky; he leads the NHL in dCorsi impact (a measurement meant to find out who has the biggest impact on their teams fortunes vs. expectations).

He is the best player on the league's worst team. (I still say that 5-0 record vs. the Oilers means the Sabres are technically better).

He deserves the Norris Trophy, if it's a measure of the league's best defenseman. If it's most points, or best reputation , or biggest star, he doesn't deserve to win.

But I watch nearly every Coyotes game and a lot of Kings games. He's a better player, in my judgement, than Drew Doughty. Certainly he has no Muzzin to play with.

He averages 25 minutes per night, he plays the PP, he plays PK. He plays vs. the top players in the NHL every night and has very little help, especially since the team traded away his partner - the underrated Michalek and replaced him with the still developing (but pretty good) Stone.

I think if you look at any numbers, OEL is among the best in the NHL. Certainly he leads in goals and he drives possession - keeping the puck out his end. If you make attempts to level the playing field, so that you can compare players more fairly, even though they are all in different circumstances, what becomes clear is that Ekaman-Larsson plays the best on the worst team with the worst players.

I don't think he'll even get a Norris Trophy nomination, but he deserves to win it. Shea Weber might once have been the best defenseman in the NHL, but he isn't anymore. There seems to be some kind of movement to give him the Trophy because he's never won it. That makes it more of a joke than it already is.

What about Doughty? What about Keith? Karlsson? There's not much to pick between any of them, but Ekman-Larsson happens to have done the most with the least, so I think he should win it.

Biased? Maybe, but who isn't.

The fact is, he's the best defensemen in the NHL. He's one of the best players.

Yes, he's -19, yes his team is second last in the NHL. Yes he's 20 something points off the D scoring lead.

It doesn't matter.

Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Sep 23 @ 2:39 PM ET
James Tanner was right: renting is better than owning.
- Atomic Wedgie

I have been googling how to do it myself, but I think I need to get a HVAC guy.
Zezel
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: God Leafs Satan The Oneness, ON
Joined: 02.28.2011

Sep 23 @ 2:40 PM ET
And he was right about this:

https://www.hockeybuzz.co...s-Norris-Trophy/200/67710

OEL Ties Franchise Record - Deserves Norris Trophy
April 6, 2015, 1:00 PM ET

- Atomic Wedgie[178 Comments]
James Tanner
Blogger • RSS • Archive • CONTACT

This weekend the Coyotes played a back-to-back with the Sharks and all but eliminated them from the Playoffs. The Coyotes lost the first game 3-1 but took the second game 5-3 on the back of Mike Smith, who stopped 42 shots.

Now, as far as back-to-back games with division rivals, this was about as bad as you can get: one team has 54 losses on the season and the other has less than a 1% chance of making the Playoffs.

Only one thing saved the series from being completely boring: Oliver Ekman-Larsson, who's 23rd goal of the season tied Phil Housley's franchise record, which he did twice. OEL will not be approaching Housley's points record though (a miraculous 97 points in 1992-93)

In fact, you could say watching the Coyotes is always a treat because of him. He's one of the few players in the NHL who you can tune into his team's game - regardless of who's playing or the importance of it - and enjoy yourself.

And it's not always the goals and pretty plays: few players in the NHL are as adept at playing the angles and providing good defense in such an effortless fashion. Instead of crushing opposition players with body-checks (and he is more psychical than you might think, based on just his reputation) OEL - like a certain other Swedish defenseman who shall not be named - is deceptive in his approach to playing without the puck. He's always in the right position and he usually breaks up the play, but he's not running around crushing guys and throwing himself in front of slapshots.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that there is a certain picture we have of good "defensive" defensemen who hit and block shots and play with "heart." OEL doesn't look like that when he plays, but - and this is really just a guess because I couldn't back it up with any data - he seems to just float effortlessly out there, suddenly appearing at the right time to break up a play or to send the puck back the other way.

Anyways, 23 goals. Leads the league. Just over 40 points, but this would be higher if Yandle wasn't the QB for 62 games, and if someone on the team had more than 40 points.

He has a 51% CF rating on one of the NHL's worst teams; his PDO is only 98, suggesting that despite the good year, he was unlucky; he leads the NHL in dCorsi impact (a measurement meant to find out who has the biggest impact on their teams fortunes vs. expectations).

He is the best player on the league's worst team. (I still say that 5-0 record vs. the Oilers means the Sabres are technically better).

He deserves the Norris Trophy, if it's a measure of the league's best defenseman. If it's most points, or best reputation , or biggest star, he doesn't deserve to win.

But I watch nearly every Coyotes game and a lot of Kings games. He's a better player, in my judgement, than Drew Doughty. Certainly he has no Muzzin to play with.

He averages 25 minutes per night, he plays the PP, he plays PK. He plays vs. the top players in the NHL every night and has very little help, especially since the team traded away his partner - the underrated Michalek and replaced him with the still developing (but pretty good) Stone.

I think if you look at any numbers, OEL is among the best in the NHL. Certainly he leads in goals and he drives possession - keeping the puck out his end. If you make attempts to level the playing field, so that you can compare players more fairly, even though they are all in different circumstances, what becomes clear is that Ekaman-Larsson plays the best on the worst team with the worst players.

I don't think he'll even get a Norris Trophy nomination, but he deserves to win it. Shea Weber might once have been the best defenseman in the NHL, but he isn't anymore. There seems to be some kind of movement to give him the Trophy because he's never won it. That makes it more of a joke than it already is.

What about Doughty? What about Keith? Karlsson? There's not much to pick between any of them, but Ekman-Larsson happens to have done the most with the least, so I think he should win it.

Biased? Maybe, but who isn't.

The fact is, he's the best defensemen in the NHL. He's one of the best players.

Yes, he's -19, yes his team is second last in the NHL. Yes he's 20 something points off the D scoring lead.

It doesn't matter.


Ha ha, after your renting post I was thinking about Tanner's OEL. There's a lot of golden chocolate in the quote you dug up.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Sep 23 @ 2:41 PM ET
James never watched a single Coyotes game.

He also might have never watched a Leafs game to be honest.
GalacticStone
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: We shoulda let Uncle Billy finish the job.
Joined: 01.29.2013

Sep 23 @ 2:50 PM ET
James never watched a single Coyotes game.

He also might have never watched a Leafs game to be honest.

- AdamFrench


100 hours of furry porn equals 100 seconds of NHL game footage.
Atomic Wedgie
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: The centre of the hockey universe
Joined: 07.31.2006

Sep 23 @ 2:53 PM ET
James never watched a single Coyotes game.

He also might have never watched a Leafs game to be honest.

- AdamFrench

Never one live - I got him to admit that.
Atomic Wedgie
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: The centre of the hockey universe
Joined: 07.31.2006

Sep 23 @ 2:55 PM ET
100 hours of furry porn equals 100 seconds of NHL game footage.
- GalacticStone

GalacticStone
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: We shoulda let Uncle Billy finish the job.
Joined: 01.29.2013

Sep 23 @ 2:58 PM ET

- Atomic Wedgie

This world doesn't deserve Gritty, and the Flyers certainly don't deserve him.

mr.sir
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Vancouver Island, BC
Joined: 01.18.2015

Sep 23 @ 3:04 PM ET
Reaves is easier to disappear internally, can bury most of his money in the minors and he can assume the Clune role from Clifford.

Kampf is the guy they should be trying to shoot into the sun. Robertson, Liljegren, Kampf for an actual centre. 🙏

- joel878

Jenner
Lowry (not gonna happen)
Lundestrom
Sissons
dmnted
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Rented to Bruce Banner ;)
Joined: 08.30.2006

Sep 23 @ 3:06 PM ET
No NTC, and no bonus structure either.

It's a straight $1.35M X 3 - and good lord, we are only starting season 2.

https://puckpedia.com/player/ryan-reaves

- Atomic Wedgie

what the amount that can be buried in the AHL?
must be close to what his current cap hit is.
Atomic Wedgie
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: The centre of the hockey universe
Joined: 07.31.2006

Sep 23 @ 3:08 PM ET
what the amount that can be buried in the AHL?
must be close to what his current cap hit is.

- dmnted

$1.15M
dmnted
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Rented to Bruce Banner ;)
Joined: 08.30.2006

Sep 23 @ 3:14 PM ET
Save that for next week, when I put up the predictor thread.
- Atomic Wedgie

well, at least for now, this isn't going away
RIP HBSL
dmnted
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Rented to Bruce Banner ;)
Joined: 08.30.2006

Sep 23 @ 3:30 PM ET
I have been googling how to do it myself, but I think I need to get a HVAC guy.
- AdamFrench

get on the enercare program for cooling.
Azuredoom
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 01.14.2019

Sep 23 @ 4:07 PM ET
James Tanner was right: renting is better than owning.
- Atomic Wedgie


Tanner can never be right
GalacticStone
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: We shoulda let Uncle Billy finish the job.
Joined: 01.29.2013

Sep 23 @ 4:36 PM ET
Tanner can never be right
- Azuredoom

Tanner was just an early AI beta test trained on furries and Ek's rumors.
Monkeypunk
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: Whenever, wherever, ON
Joined: 06.27.2013

Sep 23 @ 4:41 PM ET
$1.15M
- Atomic Wedgie


I mean that's the easiest way to calculate the amount you can sign Pacioretty for - if you want him - and there's no problem.

But I don't think they'll do it. I think they are going to hang onto Reaves until the bitter end - and jettison talent (marginal talent, but still talent) in order to do so.
underhill14
Location: I think I'll just sit back stage until somebody that matters calls me out.-King of HB Systemtool
Joined: 06.02.2010

Sep 23 @ 6:08 PM ET
MiB hit a Diddy party last night???

No new blog smell yet today?!?!
shack67
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: NS
Joined: 07.05.2015

Sep 23 @ 6:15 PM ET
Tanner was just an early AI beta test trained on furries and Ek's rumors.
- GalacticStone

Tanner’s was the only blog that I read. Any other blogger I go right to the comments.
shack67
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: NS
Joined: 07.05.2015

Sep 23 @ 6:16 PM ET
MiB hit a Diddy party last night???

No new blog smell yet today?!?!

- underhill14

He hurt himself when he slipped on some baby oil.
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