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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| Babaganoosh2.0 wrote on Thu, 12 January 2023 17:47 |
| Adam wrote on Thu, 12 January 2023 11:50 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Thu, 12 January 2023 11:18 |
| Babaganoosh2.0 wrote on Thu, 12 January 2023 11:11 |
So it's all schedule quirk. We got all the good teams first. We got this! Stay the course ;).±± I think I might have ingested too much of my own kool-aid. Good stuff though. Look out for All New Baba Brew at a store near you.
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As long as I stop hearing about the magic of Smith n Keith for two weeks, I'll be happy. Yes, it'll be replaced by the magic of Kane, but at least he's still a real impactful NHL player.
They need to win at least 8 of those 13 though. 8-3-2 or something.
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You know, I'd be okay with these narratives, knowing that media loves an old-warrior-as-mentor story (remember hearing how Oates' dreadful final season was really just planting seeds for the 2006 Cup run?) but that our management is likely to ignore all evidence to the contrary and pay through the nose for some other broken down old guy to come and "show the team how to win" rather than finding someone impactful who can actually help.
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Personally I think Oates did help. Stoll and Horcoff both turned into face-off studs in rather short order.
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Their coach was Craig MacTavish, who was there for a lot longer than half a season and who was one of the top faceoff guys in his day too. Also Stoll and Horcoff got stronger, more experienced and wiser. I'm not saying Oates had nothing to do with it, just that it was completely overblown. His influence was minor at best, because he was here a very short time, and they were likely improving anyway. It's just a great story to write about if you're a scribe, and if you tell people that again and again and again over the next five years, then people really believe it rather than believing the less exciting narrative that two young players worked at their craft, that the coach prioritized face-offs as part of his skill development (he also prioritized shot blocking which also improved significantly during that time) and that playing with and practicing against each other for years probably made both better.
"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
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