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Longhorn_Fan68

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  1. also looks like he'd be a whip at doing your taxes
  2. i guess it's a part of the nhl I haven't been plugged into this season as closely as other parts. other than Marchment's shenanigans, the Stars kept their noses clean this season and beyond the hit from Stone on Miro (which I have to believe was unintentional, as ugly and suspect as it was), have been immune from cheap shots the other way too.
  3. doesn't seem to matter who is in that position, they are pretty uniformly reviled. I thought Shanahan was a fair arbiter and he got tons of shit.
  4. Finished grocery trip for the week today. Things that were $5 last week are $5.20 now. The bill that normally runs $200-$250/wk for me and the wife is up to $300 this week. Eggs - $4.53. Thanks, Obama.
  5. she's probably weighing the pros of and cons of smashing his face into the podium. I know I would be.
  6. oh man, a lot of people woke up to eaten faces this morning. oh well, it's what they voted for!
  7. You haven't watched the entire Forensics File catalog and it shows
  8. I'll take that bet for a billion dollars - or whatever you got
  9. only one of those was PR (Post Rantanen) and the Stars were in a deep slide/energy saving mode/whatever the hell that was. Stars have the playoff experience and will only get deeper as players come back from injury. Losing Schiefele and Morrissey is a direct correlation to the Stars losing Miro and Robo. I'm betting Miro slots in immediately, Robo may be a few games out still. Remains to be seen if the corresponding Jets core players return or not. Either way, I don't think the season series means shit at this point. First time ever meeting in the playoffs too, so there isn't built in animosity like there would have been against the Blues. I'm feeling better about the Jets as an opponent than I was with he Avs, that's for sure. Game 1 will tell us a lot.
  10. Carstarphen sounds like a name Fletch would make up
  11. Round 2 Predictions. Who you got? Florida in 6 Washington in 5 Vegas in 6 Dallas in 6
  12. lol. I'm not. I'm not paying nearly twice for something just to avoid our psychopathic prez's whims
  13. Oh man, that's not a good start. @jetsfan76 right now, I'm sure
  14. well, he did rant about his nutsack getting hit with a puck recently so I don't see how that could be worse
  15. no, I didn't. he was one of the rentals I talked about earlier. he only played three season with the Stars. most of his career was elsewhere. Modano is and probably always will be our greatest player. this entire conversation has not been about greatness - I'm talking about pure skill. I am suggesting Rantanen is the most talented and most skilled player we have ever had. Of course his "greatness" with the Stars remains to be seen - he just fucking got here 🙄
  16. yeah, why would nearly 50% of the economy matter? fucking imbecile
  17. maybe? 2/3 of the teams involved in that trade are still playing. Through one series, here's how the three main trade pieces have fared so far: Martin Necas: 7gms, 1g, 4a, 5pts, +2 Mikko Rantanen: 7gms, 5g, 7a, 12pts, -1 Logan Stankoven: 5gms, 2g, 1a, 3pts, 0 Guess it's the long game for Colorado at this point
  18. not what I am saying at all. but whatever.
  19. I absolutely am not. The 20 or so games he played in the regular season are throw away games. if you use those for any other analysis than trying to find the right line combo for him on a new team, then you really don't follow the game closely. I will contend that what we saw last night and the latter half of the series will be what we expect, not what we hope for - which has been our mode in the past. and again, who is better? name someone? who are you comparing against? I'm using the entire pantheon of stars players past and present as a basis of comparison. who you got?
  20. are you not? which part do you take exception with? Tell me which Stars player, past or present, is better than Rantanen. show your work. I'm not saying he's jesus, but he sure as shit won that series for us. we'll see if it was an aberration or the norm, but 1.5+ppg lifetime in the playoffs is no bullshit. the Stars have never had a player that averaged that much in the regular season, much less the playoffs.
  21. I'm talking from a strictly unfiltered stats perspective, of course. Obviously every player has a different skill set and they bring a different layer of complexity to the team dynamic. I have already been a seeing a lot of talk about his D-zone play, but I think people need to remember he's a winger. He's not expected to be a 2-way player the way a center might be. And while still a relatively small sample size in a Stars uniform, my observation is he is extremely strong in the offensive zone at retaining the puck and distributing to teammates - which is in and of itself a form of defense. maintaining puck possession and setting up teammates or scoring yourself are the primary responsibilities of a winger, and in my armchair observation of watching Stars games for 32 years, Rantanen is the best to do it in a Stars sweater. Small sample size be damned. We don't need an 82 game sample size - he did it for 10 years in COL with better linemates. What last night proved is he can do it without them too.
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