Tuesday Morning Fly By: Visiting Boosh and Noodles Tonight Makes Me Smile
by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 6:00 AM EST
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PrintToday's open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers-related news and notes...
- Assessing the Flyers at the halfway point: [CSNPhilly]
- Andrej Meszaros has been scoring lately: [The Checking Line]
- The Phantoms owners speak candidly about the future of hockey in Glens Falls and their plans on Allentown: [PostStar.com]
- Power Rankings for this week show a stagnant league. But man are there a lot of injuries: [SB Nation Philly]
- The Kings are playing better. Look out: [Backhand Shelf]
- Scott Arniel was finally fired by the Blue Jackets, who hired former Wild head coach Todd Richards as interim boss: [The Cannon] [SBNation.com]
- Brad Marchand was suspended for 5 games for his hip-on-knee check of Sami Salo: [SBNation.com]
- Dustin Penner did what I did! He hurt his back while eating pancakes: [SBNation.com]
- Interesting look at the cost of injured players, shown as a cap hit: [Springing Malik] [The Copper & Blue]
- Another post in the quest for shooting percentage, shot quality, and shot generation, only this time, there might be some evidence suggesting shot quality exists: [Driving Play]
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firstrowsports.tv will probably have it.
by We are Legion on Jan 10, 2012 8:29 AM EST up reply actions
Boosh and Noodles sounds like a children’s cartoon. Boosh Noodle however, sounds like something the French porn industry would call a “fluffer”.
by j reed on Jan 10, 2012 8:45 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
Nodl
How has he been playing down there? And isn’t Boucher injured?
-bob
by Rrainone on Jan 10, 2012 9:21 AM EST via mobile reply actions
More specifically
He had 1 point here, 1 assist, in 12 games.
He has 4 points there, 2 goals and 2 assists, in 17 games.
But I haven’t watched a Canes game since he joined the team. Not sure how he is being used there, especially since BtN is a mix of both teams data.
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Yeah, don’t know how he’s being used, but his non-traditional numbers with the score close aren’t good:
GF/GA = 4/2
Shot% = 41.3%
Fen% = 39.4%
Corsi% = 44.1%
Even on Carolina (21/27, 48.4%, 47.9%, 48.7%) that’s not good.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 10:01 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah they are pretty horrendous, hence why i tried to get out of it with the “not sure how he is being used” excuse; while accurate, I don’t think it is enough to make up for his results.
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No, but he’s been there for 5 weeks. And his numbers in Philly were fantastic.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 10:10 AM EST up reply actions
He played 12 games in Philly. I happen to have his numbers logged after 9 — he had a 0.518 Corsi Rel QoC and 53% OZ starts, with a Corsi on of -8.9 and a Corsi Rel of -11.4.
Now his totals for the year (including all 12 games in Philly and 17 in Carolina) are a 0.525 Corsi Rel QoC, 53% OZ starts, a Corsi on of -9.2, and a Corsi Rel of -11.6.
Seems like he’s been about the same since he left as he was here this year.
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So it must be his teammates!
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by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 12:07 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Thanks guys. I would of responded earlier, but work was busy. I hope he does well down there.
-bob
by Rrainone on Jan 10, 2012 5:52 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Any time.
It’s not like Don or I need a reason to talk about Nodl :)
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by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 9:45 PM EST up reply actions
Gosh I miss both of them. And Richie. I miss this time last season, before the drop off
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by Cillo stache on Jan 10, 2012 9:36 AM EST up reply actions
To respond to the other half of the question, you’re right that Boosh is injured. I didn’t know that until you brought it up.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Jan 10, 2012 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
I thought I read it on hockey buzz a while back but wasn’t a hundred percent sure.
-bob
by Rrainone on Jan 10, 2012 5:55 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
The Tebow has invaded hockey now. Save us all.
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Hardly the first instance of it.
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Also, since the Broncos beat the Steelers and I can give some coworkers shit this week, I’m all for Tebow-ing invading everywhere now.
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by DLJr on Jan 10, 2012 10:09 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
But only for this week.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 10:11 AM EST up reply actions
False. I’m adding this to my vault of insults to throw at Steelers fans for the rest of my life!
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by Mitchell Green on Jan 10, 2012 11:46 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Grilled cheese or noodles for dinner tonight before the game… big decisions! :)
I can try and watch Nodl and see how he’s used tonight. I hope Bob starts again to give Bryz a break.
G joining Twitter yesterday provided great entertainment while I was bored at work!
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I like how G’s tweets are slightly sarcastic with good-natured Hartnell teasing. This is going to be fun.
by adlib19 on Jan 10, 2012 11:13 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I like how he follows a bunch of hockey and Philly personalities and some hot girl from Minnesota.
Keeping alive the old Vaudeville joke, "I'd rather be dead than play Philadelphia."
flavor of the month?
Beets,Bears,Battlestar Galactica.
MICHAEL!
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C’mon we’re all just talking about concussions, right? Right….
by adlib19 on Jan 10, 2012 1:50 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Anyone interested in a craigslist type thread where people would be looking to get rid of or obtain Flyers stuff?
I was looking at my Bernie 1 banner last night and realized I wish I could have all 4 of them hanging on a wall somewhere. Wondering if anyone had extras or were looking for something else I might have extras of?
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 10:41 AM EST reply actions
Also, has there ever been a Lindros bobblehead made?
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
I don’t know if that would be in good taste.
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by PraiseMartyMoose on Jan 10, 2012 10:44 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I get that but I’m asking if there ever was one like when he wasn’t concussed.
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 10:48 AM EST up reply actions
I feel like the bobblehead craze didn’t start until after the Lindros fallout.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Jan 10, 2012 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
Now I can’t stop laughing at the thought of a DiPietro bobblehead. It’d say “ow!” anytime you touched it.
Lightning strikes once, Hextall strikes twice!
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Are you talking about the banners they gave out last season? If so I have an extra Bill Barber one.
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by lkmiller on Jan 10, 2012 10:47 AM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Yeah, the retired numbers banners. I got Parent’s when I went to the job fair there…where I got my job actually so that was a pretty good night.
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 10:48 AM EST up reply actions
You should probably make a Fanpost now, unless we want it to take over this Fly By
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by DragonGirl0583 on Jan 10, 2012 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
Might as well. Was trying to gauge interest be we all know how well that goes around these parts.
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 10:51 AM EST up reply actions
Done and done.
DaiglesList : Flyers Fan Memorabilia Marketplace
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 10:58 AM EST up reply actions
HAHAHAHAHAHA, brilliant name!
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Thanks dude.
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 11:00 AM EST up reply actions
Most of my extra stuff is sitting on my table as I still haven’t shipped it to Eric. Whoops.
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You missed the chance for me to give stuff to my kidster for the holidays. His birthday is in early February…
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Ok good. yeah I wanted to get it to you for the holidays (along with the gags bobble head to Kat), but that came and went. I’m putting it on Jenn’s list of things to do, which means she’ll make sure I do it.
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My extra stuff would be some signed pucks from supporting role players in the 90s; but if somebody here actually had an interest in one of those guys, they’d be welcome to them.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Jan 10, 2012 11:01 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah. I have trading cards signed by Vinny Prospal and Chris Gratton.
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 11:03 AM EST up reply actions
Anyone on the Dan Line?
"Call me dumb, call me stupid, whatever. I block shots."
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I have to sit my fiance down and determine which ones he would part with, because honestly they’re his but I know there are some he doesn’t care about, but when he does I’ll put a list in the fanpost. There’s a big box of them, some of which are important and some of which aren’t.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Jan 10, 2012 11:10 AM EST up reply actions
I’m willing to consider any and all Trent Klatt memorabilia.
Keeping alive the old Vaudeville joke, "I'd rather be dead than play Philadelphia."
I have a signed Trent Klatt card…
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by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 12:10 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
If I still have it, you can have my Ashbee.
Quick Travis, what number was he again? ;)
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by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 12:09 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
All you did was make me miss BSH Radio. :(
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I waited too long to grab Meszaros in my fantasy league, someone got him this morning. I could definitely use some goals an more goals right now. :-/
I’ll have to come back to that shot quality article, my brain just can’t process it this morning.
Lightning strikes once, Hextall strikes twice!
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I picked him up in my work league and he’s gone up a bunch in rating since I did. Too bad I have like 3 more D than I need right now. Gotta find a sucker to trade with.
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
question
before pronger..was our defense this inconsistant and incompetant? it seems ,like so many games become a shooting gallery. or is it lavys run and gun system. if its lavys system i wonder what the team would be like if they totally bought into a dave tippet system with the d men we have
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Flyers Suck!...it's true
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This whole “We have more talent than team X” needs to go.. The Flyers have shown exactly how much talent they have, which is about the same as the Ottawa Senators.
Every year it’s the same crap…. “The flyers are loaded in D, and they can role 4 lines, blah blah blah”. Just face the facts that we could just as well cheer for Ottawa the rest of the season and we’d have the same chance of cheering for a team that will win the Cup. But, do any of us really think Ottawa is going to win the Cup??
Rather than buying this deadline, maybe jettison some of our aging players if possible so we have room to sign guys like Voracek, Schenn, Courts, Bourdon, and Carle. The future is not now.
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3rd highest points % in the conference. 5th highest in the league, ahead of Detroit and Chicago. You need some Xanax, my friend.
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wasnt me…it was a comment i saw
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Use the quote feature then. highlight the text you pasted and hit the quotation mark symbol.
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by Chemistry66 on Jan 10, 2012 11:17 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
woops
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MICHAEL!
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It’s a safe assumption that Bob starts tonight, no?
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by Mitchell Green on Jan 10, 2012 11:43 AM EST reply actions
That’s what I’m thinking…. he started the last game in Raleigh too.
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And just as I ask, I get my answer.
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by Mitchell Green on Jan 10, 2012 11:56 AM EST up reply actions
Need some help
Does anybody know how I can find the Flyers trade deadline acquisitions for the past couple years without searching for them individually? I’m having a bit of trouble with it.
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by PraiseMartyMoose on Jan 10, 2012 11:56 AM EST reply actions
There’s a list of every trade ever on flyershistory.com, you could look at that and just check which ones happened in february and march?
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by DragonGirl0583 on Jan 10, 2012 12:04 PM EST up reply actions
Looks like my best bet. Wikipedia only has trades that happened on the actual deadline day.
Thanks!
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by PraiseMartyMoose on Jan 10, 2012 12:12 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, and a very happy birthday to one of our newest future supertars, Sean Couturier, who turned the ripe old age of 19(!) today!
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by Mitchell Green on Jan 10, 2012 11:58 AM EST reply actions
No, Panotch just made a boo-boo (shocker)
Scooter’s birthday is December 7th. He turned 19 a month ago.
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Matt Read for Calder!
Jeff Skinner, at 6 years old, is the youngest player in the NHL.
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by Chemistry66 on Jan 10, 2012 12:00 PM EST up reply actions
Freaking Pantoch. And for that, I am unfollowing his dumb ass right now. Gosh, he is such an idiot.
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by Mitchell Green on Jan 10, 2012 12:05 PM EST up reply actions
He accidentally said Scooter was 20, and then corrected himself by saying 19…you just read it wrong haha.
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Jeff Skinner, at 6 years old, is the youngest player in the NHL.
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by Chemistry66 on Jan 10, 2012 12:06 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, well then I guess I am the idiot. Can I unfollow myself?
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by Mitchell Green on Jan 10, 2012 12:09 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, Panotch is still an idiot. He did make the “Scooter is 20” error.
Madly in love with Jaromir Jagr's brilliant smile and epic goal salute.
Matt Read for Calder!
Jeff Skinner, at 6 years old, is the youngest player in the NHL.
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by Chemistry66 on Jan 10, 2012 12:10 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, and I am leaving Panaccio unfollowed purely because he is a Steelers fan. #teabaggedbytebow
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by Mitchell Green on Jan 10, 2012 12:11 PM EST up reply actions
Probably woke up to birthday punches from Briere’s kids.
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by PraiseMartyMoose on Jan 10, 2012 12:00 PM EST up reply actions
Yep…a month ago. :P
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Jeff Skinner, at 6 years old, is the youngest player in the NHL.
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by Chemistry66 on Jan 10, 2012 12:03 PM EST up reply actions
Flyers Player Tree
Several months ago a Flyers player tree was released featuring current players. I was working on one myself and figured I would try and complete the entire tree. I have since completed the tree and forgotten about. Today I have rediscovered it and wish to share it with all interested, but I am just not sure as to the best way to do this. It is currently in an Excel file.
Also, I imagine it contains some mistakes that can hopefully be corrected
Ralph Wiggum lost his shin guard...hack the bone, hack the bone.
I was going to update it in the offseason once more trades/signings/draft picks emerged, but if you’re at it now, go for it. IIRC, what I did was highlight the entire table in Excel, paste it into Paint, save it, and upload it. Hope that works for you.
by everybodyhitswoohoo on Jan 10, 2012 4:06 PM EST up reply actions
I will give that a try. I knew someone did it. Did you just do the current iteration of the team or the entire history starting in the 1960’s? My tree starts with the initial expansion draft.
Ralph Wiggum lost his shin guard...hack the bone, hack the bone.
Oh christ, no, I didn’t do the full history. That’s insanity. Excited to see how that looks, though.
by everybodyhitswoohoo on Jan 10, 2012 4:54 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah I figured paint would not work but I copied it there anyway just to see how big it would be. Its massive so I have it on Google Docs. The only problem is that the arrows did not transfer so I will post the link once I get the arrows figured out.
Ralph Wiggum lost his shin guard...hack the bone, hack the bone.
I know Geoff’s power ranking formula is broken because the Caps don’t look awful in it.
Please, call me F&B.
They’re sixth in Fenwick tied, which is the heaviest-weighted component in Geoff’s ranking because it’s the best predictor of future results.
Strangely, they are 29th in Fen-when-up-2, 20th in Fen-when-up-1, 24th in Fen-when-down-1, and 26th in Fen-when-down-2. Hmmm.
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But the Russians!
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by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
Except they’re really good when the game is tied. But then they score and suck. Or sometimes the other team gets lucky and scores, and then they suck. But when it’s tied, man, look out.
Strangeness.
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I feel comfortable saying the Caps just suck. And I’ve watched at least half the games this year.
Please, call me F&B.
How much of that is the .903 goaltending though? And do you expect them to be a .903 goaltending team over the second half?
Before you answer that, I should remind you that .903 is Steve Mason’s career save percentage.
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Yeah, the .903 sure hurts. But they also suck. And the goaltending was actually worse under BB than under Hunter. Their Fenwick has dropped under Hunter, so that’s not a good sign. Goaltending had a hand in getting BB fired but it’s not the main issue with Hunter.
The team is a shambles.
Please, call me F&B.
When I went to a game in early December, I couldn’t figure out the line combinations. This was back when Knuble was on the fourth line, Johansson was with Ward, and a few others. Just seemed like they had third line guys on the first line, second line guys on the third line, top-9 guys on the fourth line, and so much more.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 5:36 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, that’s still going on. With a healthy lineup Knuble is a 4th liner (he has been top 6 lately with Semin and Backstrom injured). Jeff Halpern is the 2C. Yes. Read that again. Jeff Halpern is the 2C. When the lineup is healthy Laich/Chimera/Ward play the 3C shutdown role, but they get more minutes than the 2nd line, so maybe Laich is the 2C and Halpern is the 3C. Who knows. What I know is that they have at most one line that can score, and that without Backstrom that line can’t score. AO gets murdered PvP, Hunter wants to ride the top lines/pairs as much as possible, but they aren’t good enough to handle that (maybe the lack of depth is why he has to ride the top players). Hunter doesn’t want them to be a “score off the rush” team, so it appears he’s made them a “score never” team. The goaltending has been there for the most part but the D zone coverage is still spotty. It’s a mess.
Please, call me F&B.
Yeah, I’m honestly surprised by the lack of second line players on the Caps. I thought it would be Johansson, but he really has no wingers. Unless you think Troy Brouwer and Brooks Laich are second-line wingers.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 9:57 PM EST up reply actions
Laich is definitely a first line mechanic.
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 11:24 PM EST up reply actions
That’s incredibly strange.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Jan 10, 2012 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
#builtforshootout ?
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 4:27 PM EST up reply actions
#builtforgolfing #failfornail #dontneednostinkingavalanchedraftpickwearegoingtohitthelotteryonourown
Please, call me F&B.
#hashtagoverload
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by KreiderDesigns on Jan 10, 2012 4:29 PM EST up reply actions
OK, so the Capitals are the league’s strange only-good-when-tied team.
Care to guess who the photo-negative only-good-when-not-tied team is?
That’s right, the Flyers are 8th in Fen-when-down-2, 6th in Fen-when-down-1, 6th in Fen-when-up-1, 10th in Fen-when-up-2, but 20th in Fenwick tied.
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