That movie, and Princess Bride, have some of my favorite Crystal parlance

I don’t know how big the audience overlap is, but Kaputo looks exactly like Naomi Smalls doing her weird lipsynch sideways stage slide thing she did a few times in All Stars 4

I would agree if there was any indication that they were doing anything right or even heading in the right direction without doing anything right before they won... being the best 17 year old hockey player on earth certainly does seem like a monkey’s paw situation most years, though

I guess I just spend most of my time confused about which elements of the show are supposed to be satirical and which aren’t..

While we are here, am I the only one who finds Letterkenny almost totally unfunny?

They’re also penalized for skating across centre ice so they sort of have to commit to it from a distance. 

I take your point, but probably none of them should be. 

Hue hue hue

They’re lacking in dimension.

lol

I want to see a player’s draft stock soar after replying to all of these idiotic questions “I’m just here so I don’t get fined” 

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I met a guy from Amherst NS and was amused to hear him talk about New Brunswick and specifically Sackville, which he called “our Shelbyville” and proceeded to reel off a bunch of facts and figures about what a dump it is. 

Gotcha, fair enough - yeah that’s pretty different, interesting. 

Yeah, I guess it’s a function of players being so much closer to pro when they’re drafted - although there are still Nail Yakupovs (or, since the article is about the Sens, Alexandre Daigles) in hockey.

Yeah, I agree with that. Even as a fan of a Canucks team that probably should have been doing that for the last few years (and backed onto the precipice on a couple of occasions by accident), I think the league really needs to drastically flatten out the lottery odds to curb this.. even moreso than they did after 2015.

Well good for the Leafs but I think that is by and large true of the teams that get talked about this way - Chicago was awful for years, Pittsburgh were awful for years, Edmonton still is (but people thought they were strategically tanking when Connor McDavid was 13).

Yeah, and if Harper’s the last one, that’s nearly a decade ago now. In the NHL it feels like there’s one every three years (whether they actually turn into stars or not is another consideration entirely).

Do you think it’s fair to say that this is because a handful of individual hockey players probably has a larger impact on their team’s results than a comparable handful of baseball players (the amount, roughly, that you’d pick up in two or three consecutive drafts)?

from now until the heat death of the earth.