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Posts posted by GoldAppleCorps
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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:
Are cap numbers based on likelihood of payout?
From what I understand, the Benn contract has a $1mil cap hit for 2025 no matter what. The bonuses, if/when earned, get forwarded to the 2026 cap.
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Benn's bonuses are basically earning an extra $500k for every 20 games he manages to stay alive.
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58 minutes ago, Redneck Mutha said:
I remember driving over from Omaha the morning of the game listening to the NU pregame show. Their freshman QB Taylor Martinez (T-Magic!) the best thing since sliced bread. T-Magic this, T-Magic that, T-Magic for Heisman??!!?!! Bah God, he may win it as a Freshman!!1!1
Got pulled in the 2nd half with less than 100 yards of offense. Muschamp shut his shit down.
Only thing that made the game close was the corn punt return for a TD, on that dumbass call out of FG formation.
As I recall, the Texas defense basically spread out in a long line. They declined to pursue upfield, simply waited at the LOS, and settled for tackling Martinez for no gain. It soon became apparent that he simply didn't have any other dimension to his game.
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Sounds like we can expect a deal for Benn shortly. Probably not much more than what he was making, on a shorter term. I'd also be very surprised if Granlund weren't retained.
Which starts the tough questions. Did Cody Ceci do enough? He was a necessary addition to the D (as a righty) with Heiskenen out, but what's his upper limit? Does Dallas keep both him and Nils Lundquist? Brendan Smith acquitted himself decently, but what's his market?
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23 hours ago, LurkingHorn said:
Bayern just shredding Auckland. These two teams don’t belong anywhere near the same field.
To be clear, that's not "Auckland FC". That's "Auckland City FC".
Auckland FC is a professional organization that plays in the top tier A-League in Australia (they're based in New Zealand).
Auckland City FC is an amateur organization akin to your city league teams (give or take).
The ownership of the professional Auckland FC is also the ownership of several other competing clubs. There's a lot of handwaving, but essentially international rules prevent owners of multiple clubs from having those clubs in tournaments.
Thus, Auckland City FC ended up playing the Bundesliga champions with predictable results.
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Remember Fox Sports Southwest and all those type things when you had cable? They used to show less-than-interesting college games and other stuff? A lot of replays and last week's games. They were the home of the Stars and Rangers (and probably the Mavericks, but I don't care for pro bball).
I'll spare you the saga of the monopoly-divesting-I-wanna-buy-ESPN stuff, but those networks got sold to Sinclair Media (political rant not included) who stuck them into Ballys. Ballys was a network that old people got on their cable networks when they couldn't figure out streaming. Since you can't make a profit off Feen-A-Mint commercials any more, that whole thing collapsed largely under the weight of the regional Diamond Media contracts that supported the Rangers and Stars. Once the courts were sufficiently assured that no one was coming to bail out Diamond, the NHL and MLB were glad to get those properties back to the franchises to do as they will.
What they did was contract with a stand-alone app called "Victory+". It isn't a channel on your cable box. It's an app. They have native apps (you download and run them directly on your device) for Android, iOS, AppleTV, Roku, Amazon's FireOS (Firesticks and such), Samsung, and LG's WebOS (finally).
Last season, the app worked great to stream Dallas Stars hockey, who chose to make it available for free (no guarantee they'll do it again next season, but hey). Obviously there's still advertisement breaks as usual. The Texas Rangers charged $99 for a season's worth. I don't usually watch much MLB, but the son-in-law is a fan, so I'm sure it'll come up.
Download the app to your smart TV or device. Registration was painless, and I'm not getting spammed.
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Sometimes a good coach is just out of ideas for that particular group. The teams playing against him are familiar with his schemes. He's still a fantastic coach, but familiarity makes the act tough to improve on.
Hard to deny the Stars have talent. Jim Nill doesn't seem like a guy who makes rash, petulant moves in the heat of the moment. It's likely a fresh set of eyes is just needed.
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Scary times because, yeah, DeBoer is one of the best in the business. It's also true that, in the salary cap era (read: when the Red Wings can't simply acquire every top player in the game), hockey coaches just seem to have a shelf life. DeBoer will be very successful with his next club, but has probably exerted as much influence as he could with the Stars.
It'll be interesting to see how the players feel (of course, having the players too comfortable might be a criticism of DeBoer). Rantanen just tied himself to Dallas for quite a while. Stability might have been a factor. I was thinking Benn and Seguin might be in line to play on diminishing 1 year deals until they decided to transition to the front office. That might change now.
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Last night, Mattias Jannmark scored after a 96ft up pass that came from the corner of EDM's D-zone to the opposite corner blue line. A single entry pass from that point sprung him in for a clean look. If you're going to win the Conference Finals series, you can't allow those things.
What I'm going to remember about this series is all the times the Oilers snapped precision passes through the O-zone that led to perfect one-timer shots. Contrast that to Dallas, who seemed to have to stop and dig every puck out of their skates, dust it off, then look up to see what was next. Edmonton just made the game move too fast and too precise to play like that.
Roope's injury was mostly an unfortunate occurrence. It was properly whistled for the slash, but usually slashes like that are just annoying. Nurse just happened to catch him on a nerve or bone or something. The injury was real, but really random. In the same way, I'm still not sure how Hyman even made contact with Mush to end up with season ending surgery. Something just got hung up in the way when two players passed each other.
That said, someone might likely take an extra whack at Mr. Nurse at some point next season.
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2 hours ago, mbtex said:
When they let EDM player slash Hintz foot and then let them slash it again when He returned. There was no retaliation I knew they were toast just no fight they were bullied and just took it.
While I appreciate the pound of flesh, you have to be really careful about that in the playoffs.
Deliberately trying to crack back at an Edmonton player (let's say Darnell Nurse for sake of argument) is unlikely to leave much of an impression. If it's something insane with an intent to send a message (Derian Hatcher is my favorite Star), then you're likely to draw a 5 minute major penalty and get that player suspended for a couple games. Anything else is probably just going to be a 2 minute minor penalty and go unnoticed by the target.
In the regular season, you might be able to do that. In the playoffs, the score is just too important to casually feed Edmonton a PP.
Now, one area where I'd like the Stars to improve is body mass on the front lines. We've got speed and skill. I think the playoff struggles would be helped by being able to forecheck with sufficient ferocity that we earn more turnovers and are able to punish opponents while still pretending to stay within the rules. Benn used to be able to do that, but he arrives long after he'd be useful these days.
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I'm excited to see what will become of Lian Bischel as he gains the confidence to realize he belongs in the NHL. When he reduces or eliminates the timid part of his game, opponents will need to scheme around him. He adds a more forceful but still skilled piece to our defensive game. Having Miro miss so many games really allowed some D to develop!
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Yeah, don't feed the trolls.
Was just telling the wife that Florida won't respect McDavid. They make their money by assaulting every team they play, and Edmonton will be no different.
Of the 5 best teams in the NHL, 4 of them are in the West. One of them is Florida. If you want the Cup, you have to beat them.
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Burn some sage in the building or something. Ever since the Vancouver comeback, we've been hockey lobotomized.
Be back in September.
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We fight and fight, then some miraculous bullshit happens and the puck is in our net.
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Now they got a little bass in their voice!
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1 minute ago, C-Man said:
Mush, what would you say you do here?
He fans in the one timer that Draisaitl blasts through the back of the net
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2 minutes ago, C-Man said:
Nice that Seguin drew penalty but how does he not get a shot off there?
Well we can't seem to release a puck that we haven't possessed for at least 4 seconds
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Why are we pulling up on every check? Hit those guys!
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The high sticks were soft, but yeah, they were legit. Stripes didn't feel like calling anything else soft.
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Nothing to do with Otter. Sacrificed to get the team some life. Apparently, there's none to be had.
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Looks real familiar thus far. Heading for a familiar result if nothing changes
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This is like playing the old "Mike Tyson Punchout" when you got to Tyson. It's doable, but you gotta play perfect. I think Cody Ceci (he wasn't the only one guilty) put like 3 lazy passes across his own defensive zone. EDM jumped on each one, and began a barrage on Otter. Those small hiccups just can't happen at this level.
When did Corey Perry become a serviceable hockey player?
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Deserved a better fate, but this is the way to win this game
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Now this looks like intentional hockey!
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I'll just admit that I'm not overly familiar with hockey coaches. I just don't have a list of "up and coming" assistants or anyone that I'm wanting. Any name I recognize is going to be a retread - that is, largely someone else's problem from last year.
If Jim thinks Gulutzan is ready, that sounds reasonable to me. When I look at the Stars likely roster, it's hard for me to ask for a better one (I guess that's good, since there's no cap space). I'd like a Pat Maroon type player to move around the opponent's D on power plays, but other than that, there's a ton of exciting pieces. For whatever reason, DeBoer's act obviously wasn't resonating with the group any more.