@TheBannermenPod Because until McDavid and Matthews extend with their teams, LA will always be perceived as a team who would chase that, even if it doesn't make sense, and having HIM would make it 30% more appealing to THEM and he knows that.
@horrormuseum I'd like to think that somewhere, George Peppard and Burt Reynolds are stuck in a room together with no hands, so all they can do is wisecrack at each other with vague menace and act superior. Which one would figure out first how not clever they are without creating discomfort?
@Leafslatest Now, I didn't watch the game so I may be missing context and... I hate the Oilers a lot more than I hate the Leafs, but... and I say this with all due respect...
Is the bullying in the room with us? Cause this clip is a super size Nothingburger with cheese, no onion, Dr. Pepper.
@SamLenSports He's right. Depends on the player of course. If battling for 40 secs is to your advantage physically, then do it. Otherwise, yes, you're a much bigger problem if they get distracted waiting for you. You can create as much chaos constantly moving in and out, keeping D off balance.
@BR_OpenIce It's enough to debate whether a guy should be jumped for a clean hit. There's grey area, game context, history etc.... it's not always about the letter of the law.
You jump up in the air, you've stopped in the middle of traffic. At center ice, it's a dumb move. Got pushed.
@LAKOutsider@JWPatarino Yeah, I am not amused by that. If he can't carry Dumo or Eddie then put him back with Mikey until a suitable #4 D can be found on Amazon or Temu.
@hockeyrick75 If it's a textbook rule violation and you get caught, and it costs your team the game, yes, it is a mistake and somebody should explain that to him. No crazy here.
"only a mistake because you got caught" is for people who don't have the same consequences NHL players do.
@KopitarGOAT420 If you accept him as a Kempe level player (statistically & maybe even positionally), he's still a great keep.
If you still want him to be a 1C, I don't see it. So if you can find a team that still thinks he is that, you prob should.
@MikeSolarte Others have explained it, the thing that doesn't work for me (and do I get why it's this way) is having the colors overlap. It gets everything into one "readable" chart, but it just doesn't comprehensificate as well as if each stat had its own line.
@Zeeeegs This is a non-story to me. If Keith Tkachuk, Jeremy Roenick and Chris Chelios had been in the same context 30 years ago, they would've tried to cry their way to different teams too. It's generational dumb, not US vs Canada.
@MarkLazerus@mikemorrealeNHL He said "significant assets."
His winning package was "not-so-significant assets."
2 mid roster players
1 goalie (for a better one)
1 first round prospect (significant. singular.)
2 other picks
The way I see it, people just thought that was a throw away adjective. It wasn't.
@SensCentral I was super outraged by that at first, too.
It's actually not bad at all, they fade into the board ads and you don't notice them. Then in a split second you go "oh, who's about to assist on this goal that I can see coming? Stutzle. Cool." and you don't even realize you looked.