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GDT#32 Sabres @ Capitals 7:00p.m. Sat Dec 15, 2018 NBCSWA, MSG-B
4 Caps:
Who cares what kind of hockey they are playing, they have won 12 out of their last 14 games. I hope doing whatever their doing continues if it results in wins. They proved last year that they can make adjustments in the playoffs when neccessary and no reason to think they can’t or won’t this year.
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: 4 Caps on Monday December 17, 2018, 09:34:55 PM Eastern ---Who cares what kind of hockey they are playing, they have won 12 out of their last 14 games. I hope doing whatever their doing continues if it results in wins. They proved last year that they can make adjustments in the playoffs when neccessary and no reason to think they can’t or won’t this year.
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Actually I care what kind of hockey we are playing. I know we have won 12 of 14 but a lot of those 12 wins havent been pretty. We got lucky to win some of those games. We are winning with skill but no structure. If we continue to play like this our luck will run out eventually. If we play this style in the playoffs they will be golfing early.
So far this season we have only played a handful of complete games where we were solid in all zones for an entire game. Quite a few games we got outplayed but still won. We rely in skill more than hard work.
Mickstix:
:rofl: Pond hockey.. Youz guyz.. :wackysmile:
PUCKNRUSH:
I’m in the long suffering process, as a hockey old schooler, of weighing out the pros and cons of continuing to stay a fan of hockey.
Obviously, for now, I’ve decided it’s still worth watching. I’ve been wrestling with the dilemma of comparing the “good old hockey”, to the newer, softer style, less pure and less fundamentally sound, hockey! [size=78%]I both want to see, and miss, the physical, grittier, hockey![/size]
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[/size][size=78%]For the last 3 or 4 years, many in the newer, generally younger crowd, have advised me that I should just accept the changes, because the NHL will never go back to the way it was.[/size]
I’ve basically dumped the NFL already, as I’ve gradually come to the decision, FOR MYSELF, over the past 5 years, that the frustration of watching it, outweighs the enjoyment I used to get out of its competition!
I’m not afraid to do this with the NHL either, personally, although if I did, it would be the letting go of my last major sport!
I say all this because I’ve realized that EVERY SINGLE NHL TEAM, is guilty, OFTEN, of not playing the type of game, that I like to see!! Outcomes of the general NHL game schedule are as fickle as ever, on a DAILY BASIS.
NO TEAM, that I watch now, plays that smash-mouth, in your face, “Broad Street Bullies”, type of hockey that I love to watch!! Hell, we don’t even get little snippets of it anymore!
I admit to having to let go of some of my “purist passion”, already, in order to accept the game as it is presented today! Do I like having to do it !! FUCKIN HELL NO!!! But I can’t keep on setting myself up for having a cloud of “bitterness”, randomly floating in my brain, throughout the NHL season! UNTIL, the time comes when I have my NFL realization moment, with the NHL!!
Not there yet!
Rush
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: Mickstix on Monday December 17, 2018, 11:13:06 PM Eastern --- :rofl: Pond hockey.. Youz guyz.. :wackysmile:
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Its actually not a bad comparison. Our city holds a winter festival every February. One of the events, maybe the biggest is the hockey tournament that is played on the lake. Dozens of teams enter this tournament. Most teams consist of friends throwing a team together at the last minute. Myself and 2 of my cousins used to throw a team in every year. It was fun and we did a lot of drinking but we were pretty much freelancing out there. There was no structure. There always was a handful of teams that took it very serious and those are the teams that would advance the furthest in this tournament. And that was because they played with structure and had coaching. I can't remember how many teams would be entered but the majority of it was just pond hockey. It really wasn't meant to be taken serious.
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