I put it in quotes because while they are technically fired, they still remain under contract and the team is required to pay that salary. Any other team may request permission to speak with the fired coach. Generally teams are going to allow that because if the fired coach signs with a new team, the old contract is…
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Despite being “fired”, Julien was under contract for next season to Boston. The only way for him to be hired elsewhere was for the Bruins to give permission to any teams interested. IF signed elsewhere, they’re off the hook for the contact.
You can tell by his body language after that he didn’t intend to spear Spurgeon in the face. Nonetheless, he speared the guy in the damn face. Intentional or not, there’s not much gray area in this one. I’m guessing he gets 5 games. Could be less since Spurgeon wasn’t seriously injured, and “results” seem to factor…
Well to be fair, if you try to write a hockey blog now, you’re told to “stick to sports”
Last I heard there were two dissenting Republican voters. That puts it at a 50-50 tie, meaning Pence would rule as tiebreaker. Betcha can’t guess which way he’d vote!
Oh man, just wait until DeVos takes over!
Hockey is an old-boys network, and Tortorella has won a Cup. His coaching style was more effective a decade ago, but he seems to have adapted enough this season to make his team effective. There’s been a lot of luck involved, but they’ve been playing statistically good hockey over the last couple months. He’s…
Someone needs to ‘shop in a Stone Cold Stunner. Vince would be proud.
Yeah, injuries suck. Lemieux, Bure, LaFontaine, Orr, Bossy, ugh, so many stars cut down in their primes.
The thing is, Gretzky struggled (that’s definitely not the right word to use, because he was still excellent) in the 90s as the league as a whole got better, especially defense and goaltending. Quanthockey.com has some great graphs.
His ability to do things at top speed is just unfair. To move as fast as he does and still keep the puck on a string is ridiculous. I watch his replays and it feels like the old movie tricks where you speed up the frame rate to make things look faster, but no, he’s just that fast in real time.
Ehhhh, if you look at the points-per-game, Mario was barely behind Wayne. If Mario had played the same number of games, he’s only 57 points shy. That’s also taking into account the fact that his PPG numbers are probabyl deflated a bit due to all the injuries he suffered. His PPG naturally dropped for his second…
Problem is, I bought a dessert I was planning to serve and have been drooling over all day thinking about. I’m fine serving their dessert, but can I choose to eat mine...
Basically all the songs are like this: six or seven minutes long, super duper corny, and good as hell.
I think Ellefson was a huge part of that too. Not just the riffs, but they had some amazing bass under all of it. Cliff was fantastic of course, Newsted and Trullio are good in their own rights, but Dave Ellefson is amazing.
As a Wings fan, I think I can safely say we’d be bad in either conference.
Stars for you both!
The concept of the team is still terrible. A fake team in a supposed international tournament.
Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to infer that Tkachuk wasn’t skilled, because he was absolutely a beast for a good while. Those “gritty” guys I mentioned were all very talented to elite-level players, which is where the 2016 team went so wrong. They saw the “grit” in those guys and overlooked the fact that they were also…