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It is/was awesome, and it needs to come back. Screw 6 divisions and the current playoff/league format and point set-up. I'll still watch, but expansion has not been good for the game, imo, but the powers that be can fix the screw-ups of the late 90's/early 00's by going back to the old 4 division set up. It will make everything OK in my book...forgive and forget. But the way it's set-up now? Minny and Detroit/Chicago not in the same division? DUMB |
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The biggest (and perhaps only) drawback to this system is that you're very likely to have teams that should be in the playoffs excluded and weaker teams included. I'd still be in favor of it. |
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The Devils still have Colin White. I think I read some posts here before where you said he was basically your new Scott Stevens? Or am I mistaken there? |
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That would be a factor, but I don't think it would be a severe one - maybe the occasional #5 team better than the #3 in a another division. If you have an unbalanced schedule and focus on divisional games, such comparisons between divisions would be flawed anyway. And actually, the smaller the divisions, the greater the chance for such statistical anomalies (see the NFL). In the current NHL system it's pretty easy to have a division winner that's only the 6th or 7th best team in the conference. It's funny, sometimes we (or really, the leagues) want a huge amount of small divisions, and sometimes we sound like we only want one big division. Some people complained about the Patriots, for example, not making the NFL playoffs over teams with worse records. The solution to that (if it's a problem) would be to have 1 division w/32 teams, and the top 12 making the playoffs. |
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Hmm...tried to do this, but I can't seem to get access to the spreadsheets. The team one seems pretty straightforward, so I will put it here. I would like to do the player one, but without the spreadsheet access, I can't see what the groupings looks like. Team (16 to 1) 16 Wings 15 Sharks 14 Devils 13 Pens 12 Caps 11 Bruins 10 Hawks 9 Flyers 8 Ducks 7 Nucks 6 Flames 5 Blues 4 Bluejackets 3 Canes 2 Rangers 1 Les Habitents |
Sportsnet is reporting that MacT has stepped down as coach of the Oilers. Tambellini has a press conference scheduled to start pretty soon so it should be confirmed (if true) in pretty short order.
If so, the question begging to be asked is whether or not the next coach is another member of the club (Buchberger/Huddy/etc) or if Tambellini is free to bring in somebody from the outside. Please please please let it be the latter. |
Confirmed by Tambellini, Craig MacTavish is now officially an ex Oilers head coach.
Hallelujah. Now please don't name Buchberger the replacement. |
New coach of the Oilers is Petr Klima!
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That would be awesome. DeTox's girlfriend's little brother plays on a team coached by Klima. Maybe Tambellini should talk to DeTox's girlfriend's little brother to see how he is. Besides, who wouldn't want this guy as their headcoach?  |
Count me in for that. Seriously, I'd take him over Buchberger.
Sigh. |
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He does yell in Czech a lot when he is mad at ref's. I liken him to the Hawks coach in the Mighty Ducks. I am almost positive I've seen him pop his collar on his jacket a few times as well. |
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If you had hair like that, wouldn't you? |
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If I had hair like that I wouldn't be on FOFC so much, I'd be on random women so much. |
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That's true. That's a good point. You'd be missed. |
It's hockey time.
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Good game so far, I hate seeing Demitra in a Vancouver jersey though. :(
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Ahem .. Playoff thread, Todd. We don't want those non playoff fans having any of this fun. |
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:mad: Once we get done with Vancouver, we will be coming for yo ass! |
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