Morning Links (8/24)

Someone who doesn’t htink the Isles are going to be in 14th – 16th place!

well fuck you too

unfortunately for Iggy, he can’t will the Flames to be less shitty.

Hate to break it to everyone, but Calgary may not be toast by the trade deadline this year. That team soared once they rid themselves of Darryl “Pulford Jr.” Sutter’s existence within the locker room late last year.

Their defence is solid and deep, and they still have enough offence to win games. Kiprussoff won’t play as much with Larsson in the mix which should make “the Kipper” that much more rested down the stretch and into the playoffs should they get there.

Iginla won’t be anywhere near the trade table if they continue along the same trend.

If we’re going to talk about a player that is drawing to a close on a career that has never won anything or come close then Shane Doan is that guy.

Entering his final year that pays him $4.55m there is no doubt that A) the Coyotes will finally listen to me and are start to show the signs of their talent level parading them down the standings; and B) he’d love (for the first time in his career) get past the first round and take a shot at the Stanley Cup.

Although he has a NTC, I don’t see him not waiving it to come play for the ‘Hawks to be beside his good friend (who Doan mentored at the time) from the World Championships Jonathan Toews. Doan wouldn’t have to be a vocal leader all the time here as the ’Hawks have enough of those, but could offer his wisdom when needed like Campbell did last season.

And with Phoenix having to spend to the cap floor for the next season (and having a long standing love affair with Chicago rejects) the opportunity to unload an Olecz contract on them shouldn’t be that hard to negotiate. Now they may want Salak or a Kruger as well in return (Doan won’t come cheap), but it might be worth the price.

Doan on the ’Hawks would be something.

Other than trending towards being a shoot first player, he still has a lot of jam in his game and would help any team. You can also see how his game changes at the international level when surrounded by “better” players. A situation, to a degree, which would arise if he was with the Hawks. I’m not sure who he plays off of if in Chicago but I would think separating Toews and Kane would be a must. One of them would have to provide for Iggy (even though Kane would be providing from a wing position). Iggy-Sharp-Hossa wouldn’t work IMO, as you would have 3 shooters on one line.

If he shot it into his own net, than yes.
Examine the play. He made a ill advised low clear because Seabrook was out of position (covering the dreaded boards) and the forward, I think Toews. If Seabrook is in the middle of the ice where he is supposed to be, Campoli at least has the option to make a D to D pass and regroup. He still may not have made that pass, but Seabrook didn’t give him the option. Two things happen if Seabrook is in position. 1. He gives Campoli a passing option. 2. He takes away the middle of the ice and Burrows can’t get there after the turnover. I think I have brought this up before. Also what watching the replay, the forward in the middle of the ice, leaves too soon.

This is why I love hockey. Because we see one guy make a mistake, but it’s the rest of the team that

Just read Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer instead. Great story about self-castration in that one.

He looked up ice, and decided to give the worst “Larry Murphy dump” impression ever anyway.

Count me in this camp as well.
However, from what I read about Campoli w/Sens and Islanders, this is not a one time stupid play. He is prone to this type of play at the most inopportune moments.
That’s why I won’t scream for his head or weep at his demise. I do believe that we got better with Lepisto.

then he really did panic and screw up. No doubt there were plenty of other bone head plays that game – he just made the last one.

“Oh somewhere in this favored land, the sun is shining bright.
The sun is shining somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And some where men are laughing and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in Mudville, Mighty Casey has struck out.”

Like I suspect the Mighty Casey did after that ill-fated afternoon, Campoli will be lacing them back up for someone this season. I wish him the best of luck.

That it will never happen again, since the perpetrator has been annexed

I read every sentence of every one of those reviews, and IMO the tone of his review was completely different.

But I wasn’t knocking him, just stating what was again implied by yet another writer: He’s gifted with natural ability that most players would love to have, he just hasn’t shown the brains enough to use them.

Personally, I wish Beach would just get away from the enforcer role. Whether it’s his past reputation catching up with him, or him actually pursuing it, or the coaching staff, I don’t know. I only watched him live twice last season, but I believe his game would develop tremendously if he concentrated on it instead worrying about being a bad ass (and not being too good at it).

heh heh

I’m about ot go blow my brains out

Cliffkorrol has made try to figure out what prepositions are and Julia brought back frightening memories of trying to BS my way through philosophy classes at Loyola.

“Look we serve hard drinks in this place to people who want to get drunk fast. And we don’t need characters like you hanging around to give the joint atmosphere.’

you bow down to Odin right the fuck now!

My appreciation of the FSM aside, I’m not telling people they’re idiots and that God doesn’t exist. This is about hockey I swear.

as King David pointed out, "the fool says in his heart “there is no God’”

I’m not calling you a fool – no need to throw stones in a glass house, it’s just that verse has always stuck with me.

I’ll get off my soapbox now and promise to say no more!

Why are you so delicious?

No more spaghetti monster, God, etc. before we spiral out of control. Back to hockey everyone.

Are you reverse Wayloning me?

My reply was to Julia, and my link doesn’t embrace any particular worldview, it just points out that WE ALL have our blind spots.

Cliff was very kind to share with the class today.

.. about whether you sense things in a physical way or are more abstract. And how you view stats is almost directly related to how your personality is hard wired to gather information.

Here is the link I was using for the personality test. I like it cause it matches you to Simpson characters. And I can pretty easily see whether you will like or will hate stats based on which character you are most associated with.

I agree.

I have a hunch that these are the same people that call Sirott’s post-game show to rip a player that finished the game +3 with two secondary assists.

These people “know” what they see and don’t let a silly thing like factual evidence get in the way.

some people like receiving accolades from the principal and some people like rolling stink bombs under the stall when he’s making a doo. I’ve been a proud member of the second club for 30 years.

Why did you change your signature from “consider the tetrapod”?
Are you trying to distance yourself from evolution?

In game logs +/- corsi numbers are from totals for the game. That Corsi number can go up or down depending on TOI.

In places like BehindTheNet, Corsi tends to be shown per 60 minutes of ice time.