J0e Th0rnton

@Mad Dognice win for you this week mate!

Wtf. this kid has shown flashes and is just barely making over league minimum.

Sharks better claim him if they get a chance

@Mad Dogwhich of us will have worse goaltending this week? Lol

Both our goalies let one in on the first 5 shots.

As I typed this, yours let in another

4 minutes ago, Mad Dog said:

 

And you would have won. By a stroke of pure luck, I drew 'Deke in the finals. I knew at that moment that I was going to beat him easily. You did me a big favor by losing to him.

I'm pretty sure I compared my score to yours from the consolation bracket and you still would have won it had we faced off.

Just points I had like 74 points and you had 76, etc.

I may have taken screenshots of the final scores on my PC somewhere

10 hours ago, Mad Dog said:

 You are not being objective.

*Surprised Pikachu!

8 minutes ago, yave1964 said:

You know, i have won four in a row in this league, plus the only two years that i was in Smythe, love banger leagues, clearly. So i have literally won six straight and yet all you have to do is mention 2018 and it raises my blood pressure at least ten points, lol

Its not often you go undefeated the entire year for like 24 weeks straight and lose in the 1st round to a guy who squeaked into a playoff spot last minute after being out of the playoff spot ALL YEAR lol

Its repayment for the ESPN year we played Fantasy hockey where we made a "blockbuster" trade right before the deadline and met in the finals and you beat me because of the goalie i traded you because of like 2 saves in the closest match ever LOL

Well, closest until metadeke knocked me out last year in NAHANA because of 1 save and denied us the highest scoring finals ever which would have been me vs @Mad Dog

You have me 4 to 1 in playoff battles in this league. So I have to make myself feel better by fondly recalling 2018 in all stars and 2021 in NAHANA as we both went for our first NAHANA cup

2 hours ago, FD19372 said:

You are entitled to your opinion. Do I care what yours is? No. Do I care if others agree with you? No. I didn't just give you McDavid. II offered you McDavid +. I wanted value for McDavid.... was what I got, enough? Maybe, maybe not. He was on the trading block. You could have made me a decent offer. You didn't.

All good bud. I just felt your initial ask was so sky high I couldn't negotiate.

4 superstars for 1 superstar and 4 waiver wire guys isn't my cup of tea

If you asked for any 2 of of those guys for McDavid, I might have said yes. But 4 was too much and not even a starting point.

If you started at "Crosby and makar for McDavid " I might have countered with Makar and pavelski or pettersson lol

But when I mentioned it was too much you sent another offer and it was worse for me so I figured we likely could not find common ground lol

Just now, ruxpin said:

@yave1964

You've won like 12 straight championships in this format and on your way to a baker's dozen, so who am I to question, but yours seems odd to me.  Not like the other one here by any stretch, but without considering all the implications, I wondered about it when I saw it.

Not 12 straight. Hail 2018!

2 minutes ago, yave1964 said:

Trade between myself and the team known as my team

 

He gets

Ullmark

Chabot

Kunin

 

I get

Francoux

Ekblad

Hischier

 

I have Georgiev so adding Francoux is something i have been trying to do for the last month. Ekblad is a bit of a risk because of health but if healthy he is a beast. Hischier is now firmly established as a star, top two or three faceoff man in the game today and scoring over a point a game. 

 

He gets Ullmark who is 13-1 with a microscopic goals against, Chabot who has struggled this year but has upside, and Kunin who is a nice multi cat role player.

I'll be honest. I think myteam wins this trade because of ullmark 

Relying on MAF as  2nd behind the Colorado handcuff carries some risk

26 minutes ago, ruxpin said:

In a banger league I get trading McDavid IF you're getting multiple people who have some scoring and a lot of peripherals.  But in this case, nominal benefit in peripherals and a blood bath against in production categories.  It's just... No understanding of it on any level.  The offer J0e listed was vastly stronger. For this package, I stick with McDavid and it's not a close call 

Oh god that wasn't an offer. That's what I was asked to give up and rejected lol.

Hard no obviously. Maybe I would have considered trading 2 of those 4 players, but not all 4.

I assumed the asking price was sky high and didn't bother to counter because when the feeling i got. Had the offer been a reasonable 2 of those 4 players I might have done business.

9 hours ago, Hockey Junkie said:

Maybe after this fiasco the Kings would make a trade with one of these goalies. Id welcome either in Buffalo as we have NO GOALIE AT ALL

They waived cal Petersen after the game so you could have him for free lol

@FD19372That's the worst value i have ever seen anyone get in a McDavid trade lol

You asked me for like the equivalent of 4 Stamkos(Crosby/Pettersson/Makar/Pavelski) and then you settled for basically 1 Stamkos straight up

He's so good that this is a steal

6 hours ago, ruxpin said:

 

I watched this like 15 times and laughed just as hard every time.   And cringed a little.

 

Funny as hell quote, too!

The stick going flying is gold. How do you have spacial awareness so bad you forget how close the boards are?

But this does explain how he often forgets he has an open man 3 feet away

On 11/25/2022 at 5:38 PM, flyercanuck said:

 

Virtually impossible to limbo under.

yeah the bar is pretty low.

I saw a quote the other day that had me howling. After Carolina signed Kochetkov for 2 million a year for the next 4 years.

"Carolina's GM is playing chess while the other GM's are playing checkers. And in some cases, guys like Holland and Fletcher are eating the pieces"

Im also going to add one of the funniest videos of Ristolainen just for the lol's

https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/canes-sign-kochetkov-to-four-year-extension/c-337943254

Is Andersen injury worse than we thought?

8 hours ago, radoran said:

So, there's this guy with experience in these sorts of situations.

 

He was the Deck Chair Rearrangement Officer...

In this case, poor Carter Hart is the guy holding on to the rail, but eventually can't hold anymore and goes over and hits the propeller on the way down lol

https://vfxblogsite.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/propguy.gif?w=349

@Ladyneat we play in NAHANA and all stars same week!

5 hours ago, Math said:

Maybe one strategy given the goalie injury pandemic is to load your roster with goalies on IR, and when they all become healthy, organize a giant auction.

 

Now I've got 4 goalies too, but I have starters that play like third AHLer and back-up goalies trying to steal the number one spot. So I'm still fcuked lol.

And yet you are still in a playoff spot 2 points above me lol

Just now, ruxpin said:

You suck with "Wolf of Wall Street"   lol

On a fantasy forum, some guy told me he HATES people like me (taking 4 goalies in a 16 team league)

In fact I'm going to find the exact quote lol

""This is "bush league" IMO... you're playing to win a hockey pool on stock-market supply/demand ****... rather than your hockey drafting knowledge.""

I kinda laughed him off and he has disliked me ever since.

Hence "the wolf of wall street" tag for a few days lol

1 hour ago, ruxpin said:

After that he took my wallet and car keys.

Playing the old goalie stock market.

Trade between Hell Bears and the Sharks

HB send D Darnell Nurse for halifax  G Pyotr Kochetkov

5 minutes ago, ruxpin said:

 

Hahahahaha

I'm sitting here laughing like an idiot.   Ah, man, that was a good time.  @J0e Th0rnton, he's not exaggerating.  He may actually be underselling.  It was really something to watch the melt down.

No need to explain. I used to be a regular goon at Somethingawful and I enjoy watching creative trolling a lot lol.

43 minutes ago, Mad Dog said:

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That's what I see, too... 

Like this?

5 minutes ago, ruxpin said:

This was actually a reference from the old board in which we had HJ on the hook over two days.   Oh my God, it got hysterical.

 

I don't know that he'll fall for it now, because we've occasionally tried since.  To the point where if he really did have a problem, he'd never believe us.  LOL

But take a shot!

I'm good at photoshop. Go post that pic in the thread he made lol