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vtaenz

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  1. For the first time in his NHL career, Cogliano will miss a game due to injury.
  2. Does it seem like Nuke plays too high and doesn't bend his legs? I noticed it in the 3rd when he just seemed to get thrown down with one arm. You'd think we have a skating coach that could correct this. Maybe I'm completely wrong.
  3. I'll keep saying it but Hanzal was a damn Hitch request all the way. Hitchcock love giant slow lumbering players. At the beginning of last season Dallas was the tallest and heaviest team in the league on average. Methot keeps getting injured although I don't recall him being constantly injured in Ottawa. I think Dallas has done a terrible job of developing draft picks. I know Lacksdal is pretty unpopular with Texas Stars fans. A lot of players once they finish their ELC have constantly looked to move to other teams as quick as they can. I'm not sure if there is truth to any of this or not, but it sure seems like it. Because we seem to be unable to develop or draft players, we are constantly having to trade away assets for already developed players and we typically have to overpay. A good example is looking back at who Dallas drafted and where they are now several years ago. Benn, Neal, Eriksson, Smith; when you draft and develop guys they end up being your 1 and 2 liners. We've taken a nose dive in this department recently. An interesting book everyone may want to read is Stat Shot. It goes over all the stats that people use to look at teams and players and really provided some new insight for me when looking at stats and watching games.
  4. There's no helping Nuke. Any promise of improvement he showed at the end of November disappeared.
  5. I mean if we're going to basic about it sure. Fedun is our AHL tweener. No sense in mentioning him in this conversation. Oleksiak is Methot's replacement. Lovejoy was depth since we were sending away Carrick. Carrick started off alright but never got back to form for the Stars after his injury. Polak was a physical defenseman that the team needed since no one else back there is really built for that (the league is more and more moving away from that style as it is but you still need a few of those guys on your team). Not having Johns and Methot the majority of this season has really hurt the team. I have to imagine at least one of Polak and Carrick were to replace Johns.
  6. We're better off calling up L'Esperance than playing Nuke any more this season. He has absolutely nothing and without consistent playing time he has regressed since December. Just an all around bust that guy.
  7. Let's not forget two no calls in our own zone from high sticking.
  8. That sounds like a gauntlet throw down if I've ever heard one.
  9. Well... The Preds got better today. Not sure how the fuck they traded what they did to get the expected return they did. Looks like Stars sat pat which is fine, anything we wanted would have cost more than what we would have been willing to give up.
  10. So a guy gives up his body to block his shot, the puck finds the space between elbow pad and glove and he gets hurt... and the GM is at fault? I feel like you're just trolling at this point.
  11. Zucc early assessment is out for 4 weeks. So what looks like a solid acquisition for future considerations apparently angered the hockey gods. We must have fucked up during the ritual haruspicy.
  12. How in the fuck can you overturn that? At what point can you see the puck across clearly not touching the red?
  13. You are seriously fucking tiring on this thread. Non stop with how shit the front office is. Fuck if anything I thought you would be happy we were giving up picks given what we've done in recent drafts. I like Zuccs so far but we'll see if it's worth it. I don't mind the Lovejoy trade since Carrick had 2 okay months and then never seemed to get back to playing normally since his injury. Back to the game at hand, how the fuck does Chicago not get called for illegal substitution/too many men??? The guy that jumps on the ice for the goalie touches the puck first and the goalie isn't even on the bench yet. Fuck that noise. Dobby is standing on his damn head.
  14. How are they dealing with the backlash? Going no NPCs was a mistake lol Eh, I don't ask about it. For the people that actually played the game without an agenda it's not bad and it has the potential to be enjoyable. I mentioned it before but I think like how the Division was when it first came out compared to how it is now or Destiny (never played but heard people liked it a lot more after several updates but were disappointed at release.).
  15. Yeah I try not to bug my friend very much about any details. Just words of encouragement since it's been a bit of a fiasco with the release and mouth breather going out of their way to bash the game. Your friend have the initials CM?
  16. I have a friend fairly high up there.
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