You're a fucking stud.

Will never be a rookie season as good as his. One of the greatest of all time

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I've always loved him.
I own 2 jerseys of his (1 Jets, 1 Ducks)

He was a fucking badass in NHL 92-93-94

He was a member of one of my favorite lines in the NHL in my generation in Winnipeg. They were deadly.

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Tkachuk, Zhamnov, Selanne?

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Snipers like him are such a treat. I would say Stamkos is his heir apparent. But he lacks the whimsy of Teemu.

Boom.

They don't make lines like that anymore. They split the stars up now - maybe the last of the great "regular" lines? Probably not, but pairing Toews/Kane or Crosby/Malkin in desperate times/playoffs is not the same as having a regular line pairing studs together all year long.

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Must have been fun to watch. Shame the NHL never went to bat for Canadian cities during the 65-cent dollar era. Following the southern/western housing bubble was not a good business move. I'm glad there's a new Winnipeg Jets team, but it's missing that duct-tape-and-prayers spirit that the old small-town NHL teams had.

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I look forward to the random years that the new Winnipeg is in the playoffs. They need some young stud from some oil town in western Canada to blow up for them.
I love their jerseys too.

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I just googled him. Wtf. That will never be broken, right?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

His rookie season? No, no one will ever do that again.



I'd like to look forward to them, but I can't see them leapfrogging any of the six teams in front of them. This might be worse than the first Jets team that always made the playoffs but always had to play Gretzky's Oilers, and if they missed the Oilers for some reason, played the Al MacInnis/Theo Fleury/Lanny McDonald Flames. It's a tough life.

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Never. His record is the most unbreakable in sports. The guy is such an ambassador.

What's that? His rookie season?

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Winnipeg has talent but their goaltending is just the worst. Their defense corps is underwhelming as Bogosian and Trouba haven't become the studs they should be given their draft position. Even their apparent reach in Schiefele turned out great and he got injured for the season. Not to mention their weird hatred of "flashy" players in Kane.

Trouba only disappointed because he had a freak injury and missed a quarter of the year. He has been a stud.

They need a franchise player. In one of the game threads, I think I referred to them as a solar system without a sun. Ladd, Little, Kane, Trouba, Scheifele, Frolik, all fine players, but they need a guy who can just grab a game by the balls and win it. And yeah, their goaltending is a total shitshow. They'll get Hiller or Reimer this summer, I'm sure.

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That's a great way of classifying their team. They have great depth but a lack of superstar talent. An even poorer man's Blues.

Or Niemi.

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Good catch. Sharks seem ready to commit to Stalock. Thomas Greiss is probably moving on from Phoenix and people have talked him up for years, but he sort of crapped the bed late in the year. At any rate, they'll improve.

EDIT: oh god, they re-signed Pavelec for 2013 which makes him ineligible for a compliance buyout. They're idiots.

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Part of the new WPG's problem is they are still the old Thrashers. Hartley would have drafted WWE Kane over Patrick Kane. (Wait I take that back, WWE Kane is taller than 5'11". Hartley would have passed. Hopefully the new management will have a lot more luck. I watched most of them come up through the A. Nice guys. Fun to drink with. With the except of Little and Pavs (and maybe Slater as a role player) none of them were gonna make a mark in the NHL

Case in point. 2008 when the Wolves won the Calder (when I drank Labatt from the Calder, IKYHFM) and you would think they would be stocked, as far as future NHL they had Little, Crabb, Pavlec and a bunch of guys who had a cup of coffee. The IceHogs had Brouwer, Versteeg, Fraser, Bickell, Hammer, Bolland, Buff and Crawford.

Like I said. If there's nothing in the pipeline, you aren't gonna win dick.

good dolphin saw Selanne play live in a small stadium at the 1992 winter Olympics in Albertville

I was all like, WTF, I came here for curling. What is this new sport called hockey they invented?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

It's interesting that for all the future contributors that Rockford churns out, they never seem to so much as make the playoffs, let alone go deep. Grand Rapids is just as much about deliberate development as our team is, and they won it all last year. The AHL is strange.

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