Canaan's thread of NPR chaos.

[Idoit40fans]

Yeah to me that looks like he gave kucherov little choice there. Ill save that gif for the next time asks what it means to "put yourself in a bad position". Definitely an infraction but all the blame cant be placed on kucherov there.

[SolidSnake]

Are you in on this Meow? I'm pulling for Linda Cohn

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[count2infinity]

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lol

[columbia]

Reported

[count2infinity]

So the maple leafs are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs... that's fun.

[meow]

Are you in on this Meow? I'm pulling for Linda Cohn

http://panthers.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=758250" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think I'm going to stay retired. Go Linda Cohn, however

[Gaucho]

It's reassuring to know that the GMs are in Florida discussing how to increase offense.

[mikey287]

meow, any thoughts on Valiquette's (well, Lyle Mast's) Head Trajectory techniques as it pertains to netminding...?

[meow]

It's nothing new. It just got a fancy name now. Your best focal vision is is the center 20% of you total peripheral vision. So instead of moving your eyes to find pucks, you keep your eyes basically pointed straight ahead and you move your head. Most goalie coaches - good ones at least - teach to move head, hands, feet in that order. It is getting more attention now because of how offense is conducted. Let's get 600lbs of human between the net and the puck, clap one in there, let it blink around and hopefully it finds the twine. Goaltending has adapted by playing the percentages and finding rebounds quickly to play the percentages again. Valiquette is a blowhard and a salesman while Mast is a mad scientist. They make a good pair.

[mikey287]

Ok, I'm glad you feel that way. As I felt I was missing something about it being something spiffy and new. It seems modern, but not revolutionary...that's why I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a major part of it...thanks for this

[meow]

If Dubnyk wasn't setting the world on fire, no one would be talking about it.

[count2infinity]

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oh Chara...

[Rylan]

So I was thinking, why doesn't the league go back to wooden sticks and thus goalies wouldn't need as much equipment. Much like baseball forces its pros to use wood

[mikey287]

So I was thinking, why doesn't the league go back to wooden sticks and thus goalies wouldn't need as much equipment. Much like baseball forces its pros to use wood

As I've discussed with meow, who poses this option, I'm all for it. I'm the lead proponent of scaling back equipment for all to slow the pace of the game down, to allow the game to thrive more...

[count2infinity]

what about corked sticks?

[Rylan]

So I was thinking, why doesn't the league go back to wooden sticks and thus goalies wouldn't need as much equipment. Much like baseball forces its pros to use wood

As I've discussed with meow, who poses this option, I'm all for it. I'm the lead proponent of scaling back equipment for all to slow the pace of the game down, to allow the game to thrive more...

I keep hearing all these ridiculous solutions. 4v4, bigger nets and ice, call everything including the ticky tacky, add more lines to the ice, disallow blocking shots blah blah. Its the most simple solution I can think of that doesn't really change the game fundamentally from its history. Which personally I feel needs preserved in some semblance. And get rid of the **** trapezoid.

[mikey287]

Agree. 1000%

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

I think it's a good idea.. I'm sure the players and equipment manufacturers wouldn't like it. Wood is at least a renewable resource So maybe the environmentalists would support it.

[mikey287]

FPR, Simon Despres is a healthy scratch tonight against New York.

[meow]

FPR, Simon Despres is a healthy scratch tonight against New York.

Ha. Haha. Hahahahahahahahahaha.

[columbia]

Kings recalled Mike Richards.

[SolidSnake]

FPR, Simon Despres is a healthy scratch tonight against New York.

Ha. Haha. Hahahahahahahahahaha.

But it's over we traded Despres

[cma3585]

So I was thinking, why doesn't the league go back to wooden sticks and thus goalies wouldn't need as much equipment. Much like baseball forces its pros to use wood

As I've discussed with meow, who poses this option, I'm all for it. I'm the lead proponent of scaling back equipment for all to slow the pace of the game down, to allow the game to thrive more...

I keep hearing all these ridiculous solutions. 4v4, bigger nets and ice, call everything including the ticky tacky, add more lines to the ice, disallow blocking shots blah blah. Its the most simple solution I can think of that doesn't really change the game fundamentally from its history. Which personally I feel needs preserved in some semblance. And get rid of the **** trapezoid.

Not to mention slashing the stick calls would go severely down b/c the wood ones can take a lot of abuse. I wouldn't mind that happening.

[Rylan]

Agreed. I just feel like that one aspect changed the game far more than noted. When did composites first enter the league, and when did they become the norm? Do you know Mikey?

[mikey287]

I think they started to come in in the late 80's and early 90's in some form. Late 90's and early 2000's they became much more normal I believe.