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[Johnnydollaz89]

Todd Richards gets out his lineup dartboard again.

UPDATE (11:15 AM): Here are the Jackets' forward lines and defense pairs for tonight's game vs. the Capitals...

Foligno - Anisimov - Umberger
Jenner - Johansen - Horton
Calvert - Dubinsky - Atkinson
MacKenzie - Letestu - Tropp

Tyutin - Johnson
Murray - Wisniewski
Nikitin - Goloubef

Bobrovsky


Foligno and Johansen can find each other with passes through walls, and he splits them up.

If you want to get Anisimov away from Horton, fine. He should have just swapped Horton and Umberger. Not Johansen and Anisimov. With Anisimov and Umberger on the same line they will be at center ice trying to catch up while Nicky is trying to go around four defenders.

At least they put Tropp back in.

I will be at the game tonight, so I will be sure to throw popcorn at Richards.

Oh come on, Artie isn't that bad!

 

[forty_three]

Oh come on, Artie isn't that bad!

I know. But he's also not good enough to make Umberger look good.

 

[dash]

2011 entry draft - Pick 29 - Nicklas Jensen taken by Vancouver
2011 entry draft - Pick 43 - Brandon Saad taken by Chicago

ooof.

 

[mattola]

Patrick White over David Perron in 2007 stings.

/Flames could have taken Perron as well, but chose Mikael Backlund instead - Nice to see Backs having a pretty good year, he'll never put up the offensive numbers that Perron does though.

fucking Nonis

http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=99498

still a project eh Dave... have another Cheeseburger

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

2011 entry draft - Pick 29 - Nicklas Jensen taken by Vancouver
2011 entry draft - Pick 43 - Brandon Saad taken by Chicago

ooof.

Stuff like this happens every draft, why even bother looking at it? lol

Trust me, PLENTY of players the Rangers passed on to take shittier players.

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

I know. But he's also not good enough to make Umberger look good.

Not sure many even are

 

[dash]

Stuff like this happens every draft, why even bother looking at it? lol

Trust me, PLENTY of players the Rangers passed on to take shittier players.

Oh, I know, it's just that the teams that remain contenders are able to find those good players late in the first or early in the 2nd/3rd rounds (and don't shoot blanks in the 1st round).

/It may be too early to pull the plug on Jensen, but then again maybe not.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Stuff like this happens every draft, why even bother looking at it? lol

yah the Jensen/Saad one is kinda meh to me .. they misjudged that one as did the 29 others ... because Chicago took the one and only Phillip Danault in the first round instead of Saad


but the Pat White pick for the canucks is the jaw dropper ... needs to be re-visited ... maybe a drug test sample from that year on Dave Nonis is frozen somewhere

What the fuck was Dave Nonis thinking there???


David Peron comes into Vancouver with Lewiston at the Mem Cup in his draft year ... lights it up ... and they draft Pat White ??? they would have been better off drafting the old West Virginia QB Pat White

Is there some kinda shield or forcefield that prevents Canucks scouts from entering the Pacific Coliseum?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Jensen got fucked up with the concussion issues ... Ive said it before but how much different could things have turned out if he made the canucks out of his first year in training camp (because he did impress and was a final cut)

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

Oh, I know, it's just that the teams that remain contenders are able to find those good players late in the first or early in the 2nd/3rd rounds (and don't shoot blanks in the 1st round).

/It may be too early to pull the plug on Jensen, but then again maybe not.

Well Chicago is just a well built organization, doesn't surprise me they found a player like Saad at that pick. And Saad was highly scouted coming in, shocked he didn't go higher.

yah the Jensen/Saad one is kinda meh to me .. they misjudged that one as did the 29 others ... because Chicago took the one and only Phillip Danault in the first round instead of Saad


but the Pat White pick for the canucks is the jaw dropper ... needs to be re-visited ... maybe a drug test sample from that year on Dave Nonis is frozen somewhere

The one that bother me the most for us would be, Bobby Sanguinetti, literally one pick before Giroux. Because the Flyers want Sanguinetti with that pick. That annoys the shit out of me.

Plus, Hugh Jessiman.

 

[forty_three]

Not sure many even are

It can be done!

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

It can be done!

Well he should be on the top line.

 

[Comeds]

Hey, I heard rumors there are some games being played indoors tonight?!?

 

[mattola]

Hey, I heard rumors there are some games being played indoors tonight?!?

ah great. nice to see some nostalgic style games. this should be unique...

 

[dash]

Hey, I heard rumors there are some games being played indoors tonight?!?

NHL never tires of these gimmicks, this will never catch on.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

you think the Nhl ever goes with the cosom-hockey gimmick ... plastic orange puck ... play on NBA hardwood court .. plastic sticks ... could work

 

[dash]

you think the Nhl ever goes with the cosom-hockey gimmick ... plastic orange puck ... play on NBA hardwood court .. plastic sticks ... could work

lol - Will probably result in fewer concussions.

 

[Comeds]

Does Nerf® make a puck?

 

[dare2be]

you think the Nhl ever goes with the cosom-hockey gimmick ... plastic orange puck ... play on NBA hardwood court .. plastic sticks ... could work

Add Fox-Trax to the puck, and you'd have a winner!

 

[forty_three]

Well he should be on the top line.

He was until Richards got out the dartboard.