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Location: Edmonton
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Login To Make Your Prediction2021-22 Regular Season| Tuesday, November 23, 2021 | Edmonton 1 @ Dallas 4 | Loss | | Tuesday, March 22, 2022 | Edmonton 3 @ Dallas 5 | Loss | | Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | Dallas 2 @ Edmonton 5 | Win |
Home Record: 1-0-0 Road Record: 0-2-0 Overall Record: 1-2-0
Home / Road Goals For: 5/4 Total: 9
Home / Road Goals Against: 2/9 Total: 112020-21 Regular SeasonHome Record: 0-0-0 Road Record: 0-0-0 Overall Record: 0-0-0
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feepa
Messages: 408
Registered: November 2002
Location: Edmonton
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Must beat Dallas. Can't let them sweep us this season.
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Suomalainen
Messages: 900
Registered: May 2002
Location: Boulder, CO
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Still hate the Stars going on 20+ years.
97.
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CrusaderPi
Messages: 7803
Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
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| Suomalainen wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 08:46 |
Still hate the Stars going on 20+ years.
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100%. I don't really hold a grudge against Carolina anymore but stupid smug Dallas and their stupid star uniform still bug me.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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sinfulchimp306
Messages: 778
Registered: June 2008
Location: Wilkie saskatchewan
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As Oscar would say there's a heavy must here.
Formerly gagnerisgod.
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inverno76
Messages: 2340
Registered: September 2005
Location: Prince Albert, Saskatchew...
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Dallas and Minnesota are basically the same entity and I hate everything about both franchises.
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CrusaderPi
Messages: 7803
Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
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Why do you hate the North Stars? They were fine, lovable losers even.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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Oscargasm
Messages: 5911
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
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| sinfulchimp306 wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 11:21 |
As Oscar would say there's a heavy must here.
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There’s so much Must in the air that Smith doesn’t need an elastic for his man bun
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Mike
Messages: 1397
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moncton, New Brunswick
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 14:37 |
Why do you hate the North Stars? They were fine, lovable losers even.
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1991?
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CrusaderPi
Messages: 7803
Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
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| Mike wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 12:49 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 14:37 |
Why do you hate the North Stars? They were fine, lovable losers even.
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1991?
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That didn't hurt. The team wasn't very good in '91. It was running on fumes and reputation alone. Without looking, I think that team was .500 in the regular season and .500 in the post season despite getting to the third round. I am sad we were denied the Gretzky - Lemieux finals, but that isn't Minnesota's fault.
The North Starts are also the spiritual successor for bother the Seals and Barons. Full points for that.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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Babaganoosh2.0
Messages: 396
Registered: December 2018
Location: Southern AB
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 12:53 |
| Mike wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 12:49 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 14:37 |
Why do you hate the North Stars? They were fine, lovable losers even.
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1991?
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That didn't hurt. The team wasn't very good in '91. It was running on fumes and reputation alone. Without looking, I think that team was .500 in the regular season and .500 in the post season despite getting to the third round. I am sad we were denied the Gretzky - Lemieux finals, but that isn't Minnesota's fault.
The North Starts are also the spiritual successor for bother the Seals and Barons. Full points for that.
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I wouldn't say they were the spiritual successor. They merged with the North Stars. But if you actually follow the story it seems like San Jose could make that argument.
Meanwhile, the consortium that owned the Minnesota North Stars was having its own financial difficulties similar to those faced by the Barons. Fearing that two franchises were on the verge of folding, the league granted approval on June 14, 1978, for the two teams to merge. The amalgamated team retained the North Stars' name, colors, and history, while the wealthier Gunds became the principal owners of the North Stars.
With the North Stars continuing to struggle financially, the Gunds began looking to bring NHL hockey back to the Bay Area. By the late 1980s, they sought to relocate the North Stars but were blocked by the league. In 1991, the Gunds were granted an expansion franchise in San Jose, which became the San Jose Sharks, in return for selling their stake in the North Stars to a group led by Hartford Whalers' founder Howard Baldwin. As a compromise, the league arranged a special dispersal and expansion draft in which the Sharks claimed 16 North Stars players in a dispersal draft, with both teams then allowed to choose players in an expansion draft.
Although the Sharks are officially a separate franchise from the Seals/Golden Seals/Barons, the arrangement effectively reversed the original Barons-North Stars merger, with the Sharks occupying the same market as the Golden Seals prior to their move to Cleveland. The new North Stars owners ultimately moved their team to Dallas as the Dallas Stars in 1993. The Gunds also later moved an existing American Hockey League team from Lexington, Kentucky, to Cleveland, operating the Cleveland Barons from 2001 to 2006 as the Sharks' minor league affiliate.
[Updated on: Wed, 20 April 2022 13:27]
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Skookum Jim
Messages: 4418
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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| Oscargasm wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 11:20 |
| sinfulchimp306 wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 11:21 |
As Oscar would say there's a heavy must here.
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There’s so much Must in the air that Smith doesn’t need an elastic for his man bun
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Must for Life!
McDAVID! Oh YEAH Baby!!
Tic-Tac-Tao!
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
P. Chiarelli math.. T. Hall = A. Larsson, Yak= bag o'pucks (OK he got one right...) K. Russell = $4.1 M+NMC, G. Reinhart= M. Barzal + A. Beauvillier, J. Eberle = R. Spooner,
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Adam
Messages: 7174
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 12:53 |
| Mike wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 12:49 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 14:37 |
Why do you hate the North Stars? They were fine, lovable losers even.
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1991?
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That didn't hurt. The team wasn't very good in '91. It was running on fumes and reputation alone. Without looking, I think that team was .500 in the regular season and .500 in the post season despite getting to the third round. I am sad we were denied the Gretzky - Lemieux finals, but that isn't Minnesota's fault.
The North Starts are also the spiritual successor for bother the Seals and Barons. Full points for that.
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We still were all the way to the conference finals. it was the last hurrah here for the Glory Days crew - the last Oilers hockey we'd see from Messier, Anderson and Fuhr. I think the fact we were back there again the next year with the leftover crew and Nicholls & Damphousse suggests we were in fact pretty good still with a strong enough supporting cast (Tikkanen, Simpson, Ranford, Smith, etc.) to compete.
Stupid underdog North Stars are probably the worst finalists of all-time. The team was 27–39–14 and I believe the only team with a losing record in the regular season to ever make the Stanley Cup Finals. The Oilers would have been in tough against a very good Penguins team, but you'd like to think we'd have done a little better. I mean, how many of those guys were on the Kings squad in 1993 and the Rangers in 1994 - Huddy on the Kings (with Kurri & Gretzky - and hilariously Jimmy Carson, swapped to LA for Paul Coffey who had more points than Carson at the time of the deal). Lowe, Tikkanen, Messier, Anderson, Beukeboum, Graves, MacTavish on the Rangers...I think they still had a shot.
If I recall though, Messier was hurt by the third round and hampered badly, and maybe Karma was catching up to us from all the dumb things Pocklington had been doing. Trading Kurri for additional help instead of letting him go to Italy might have been a better decision in retrospect too. Too many burned bridges.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireBobbyNicks
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benv
Messages: 601
Registered: May 2006
Location: Edmonton
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Just noticed that Hubredeau got 3 points last night and is now a point up on McDavid, with both teams having six games left.
Let's see if McDavid goes into beast mode to make sure he gets the scoring title.
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oilfan94
Messages: 408
Registered: June 2006
Location: USA
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| Babaganoosh2.0 wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 15:25 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 12:53 |
| Mike wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 12:49 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 14:37 |
Why do you hate the North Stars? They were fine, lovable losers even.
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1991?
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That didn't hurt. The team wasn't very good in '91. It was running on fumes and reputation alone. Without looking, I think that team was .500 in the regular season and .500 in the post season despite getting to the third round. I am sad we were denied the Gretzky - Lemieux finals, but that isn't Minnesota's fault.
The North Starts are also the spiritual successor for bother the Seals and Barons. Full points for that.
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I wouldn't say they were the spiritual successor. They merged with the North Stars. But if you actually follow the story it seems like San Jose could make that argument.
Meanwhile, the consortium that owned the Minnesota North Stars was having its own financial difficulties similar to those faced by the Barons. Fearing that two franchises were on the verge of folding, the league granted approval on June 14, 1978, for the two teams to merge. The amalgamated team retained the North Stars' name, colors, and history, while the wealthier Gunds became the principal owners of the North Stars.
With the North Stars continuing to struggle financially, the Gunds began looking to bring NHL hockey back to the Bay Area. By the late 1980s, they sought to relocate the North Stars but were blocked by the league. In 1991, the Gunds were granted an expansion franchise in San Jose, which became the San Jose Sharks, in return for selling their stake in the North Stars to a group led by Hartford Whalers' founder Howard Baldwin. As a compromise, the league arranged a special dispersal and expansion draft in which the Sharks claimed 16 North Stars players in a dispersal draft, with both teams then allowed to choose players in an expansion draft.
Although the Sharks are officially a separate franchise from the Seals/Golden Seals/Barons, the arrangement effectively reversed the original Barons-North Stars merger, with the Sharks occupying the same market as the Golden Seals prior to their move to Cleveland. The new North Stars owners ultimately moved their team to Dallas as the Dallas Stars in 1993. The Gunds also later moved an existing American Hockey League team from Lexington, Kentucky, to Cleveland, operating the Cleveland Barons from 2001 to 2006 as the Sharks' minor league affiliate.
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And fun fact, this is why the last team that owned Guy Lafleur's NHL rights was the Minnesota North Stars.
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Adam
Messages: 7174
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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A win tonight coupled with a Vegas loss, even in shootout or OT, would mean that Vegas can't catch us. We wouldn't yet be clinched, as Vancouver could still catch us by running the table if we fell apart completely but it's pretty damn close and could be settled by tomorrow after the Wild/Canucks game.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireBobbyNicks
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inverno76
Messages: 2340
Registered: September 2005
Location: Prince Albert, Saskatchew...
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 11:37 |
Why do you hate the North Stars? They were fine, lovable losers even.
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Had buddy who was a North Stars fan, then they drafted Derian Hatcher and between the two of them I was going nuts. When the Wild came back into the league my buddy went back to cheering for Minny (which I kinda respect), but now I hate both franchises.
Truth be told…..I despise any team outside of Edmonton.
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inverno76
Messages: 2340
Registered: September 2005
Location: Prince Albert, Saskatchew...
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| benv wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 14:30 |
Just noticed that Hubredeau got 3 points last night and is now a point up on McDavid, with both teams having six games left.
Let's see if McDavid goes into beast mode to make sure he gets the scoring title.
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Noticed that too. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him go supernova.
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sinfulchimp306
Messages: 778
Registered: June 2008
Location: Wilkie saskatchewan
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As much as I don't think it really matters to him, I also think he uses such things as motivation
Formerly gagnerisgod.
PLAY LABAMBA BABY
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CrusaderPi
Messages: 7803
Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
6 Cups
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| inverno76 wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 17:36 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 11:37 |
Why do you hate the North Stars? They were fine, lovable losers even.
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Had buddy who was a North Stars fan, then they drafted Derian Hatcher and between the two of them I was going nuts. When the Wild came back into the league my buddy went back to cheering for Minny (which I kinda respect), but now I hate both franchises.
Truth be told…..I despise any team outside of Edmonton.
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Fair. I despise things my buddies like and non-Edmonton teams... to varying degrees.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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Oscargasm
Messages: 5911
Registered: May 2009
Location: YEG
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| Adam wrote on Wed, 20 April 2022 17:35 |
A win tonight coupled with a Vegas loss, even in shootout or OT, would mean that Vegas can't catch us. We wouldn't yet be clinched, as Vancouver could still catch us by running the table if we fell apart completely but it's pretty damn close and could be settled by tomorrow after the Wild/Canucks game.
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So you’re saying we could be clinched by the weekend…
OPEN THE MUST GATES!
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OG's #MUSTWIN Scale
Category 1 - Lightly Musty
Category 2 - Moderately Musty
Category 3 - Considerably Musty
Category 4 - Severely Musty
Category 5 - Incredibly Musty
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