Recent content by jeffbear

Not the first time that kid has embarrassed himself. He's a petulant brat who isn't half as good as his thinks he is ... like a lot of former college hotshots. Coming out of BC he was supposed to be good enough to step right in to top line minutes and then he was promptly invisible in their 2025...

Detroit didn't taper that contract at all. Only a million and a half discount for his age 35 season compared to his age 30 season. I know Debrincat kind of had them over a barrel, but sheesh.

On the game ... - it took Carolina a LONG time to get up to game speed after playing a bunch of tomato cans, but they eventually got there. And when they did, Washington fell apart and completely lost their composure. The Caps are a good team, but their leadership is weak and their coach is a...

Yeah, that's not great. With Jarvis and Staal out, they were already stretching it thin up front. KK responded last night with his best effort of the season and managed to move the needle all the way to 1.something on his GameScore ... which is not moving the needle at all, really. Whatever...

Nope. Just honoring a long held tradition of comparing our injuries to those of pro athletes. And also, tearing a calf muscle freaking sucks

Also, I see Staal's absence as a plus even if his injury itself ends up being a negative. It's a great chance for these guys to start proving to their coach that they can survive, or even thrive, without their Captain. I think they can. They have several options for filling the role and the ice...

OK ... anybody else torn a calf muscle? Because I did last September and it's still a little screwed up

Yeah, pretty sure you're on a grandfathered rate plan. I was paying more like $110 for the basic stuff plus the sports package a couple of years ago when I pulled the plug on DirecTV/Uverse/Whatever.

So ... Washington spent their off season focusing on adding quality forward depth and on paper, it looked really good. Through the early part of the season though, they aren't really getting return on investment. Boone Jenner has the highest point total of their newcomers, and given the...

Oh ... it's not that I disagree with most of you about goalies. I'm 100% fine with being the only person with any particular opinion. It's just that I don't enjoy goalie conversations for a variety of reasons that I'd rather not get into. I forget that sometimes.

You don't need a TV provider for the Prime subscription, but I have no idea why you got the message you got when you tried to access the game that way. Where are you, anyway? That might help with the in-market/out of market thing. Oh, and ESPN Unlimited is just their all everything...

Stuck by as in didn't replace, even in the interim.

Yeah ... one day I'll learn not to talk goalies on the board. Today wasn't that day.

Demko was a Vezina finalist, so it's hard to say he wouldn't be an upgrade if and when he's healthy. But heck, half of the Canes fans I've talked to aren't sure that Hellebuyck is an upgrade.

Back to hockey ... I'm finding the goalie play pretty encouraging so far. Both Kochetkov and Bussi are bubbling around break even in combined saves above expected goals against. Bussi has the only stinker (Washington, Game 2) bot otherwise both of them have been pretty good. Considering what...