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He's a very strange individual imo. His behavior as a player is well-known - to hockey fans - but he's offended they are portraying him as a bad boy? The whole fashion thing weirds me out too. Not so much that he's into looking nice (I don't care about that), but he acts all high-brow about it.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here who has.

I don't watch it either, but saw it on one of the morning shows the other day. He's such a bitch.

Sean Avery always finds something to cry about. http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/24500056/sean-avery-blames-producer-for-early-dancing-with-the-stars-exit

Piss on Rinaldo's speed and Downie's "skill". Neither one of those things makes any impact on the team whatsoever. Downie isn't even going to be here next year, and rightly so, so who cares about him and his 3 goals and moronic play? Rinaldo could be the fastest player in the league and it still doesn't mean anything if you don't have any skill. Speed without skill (and I mean any kind, not just scoring touch) is meaningless. You don't know how he makes this roster, but go to bat for these two? Please. Who's comparing him to Raffl? I compared him to two morons and a goon (Rosehill).

I know. My point was that he really hasn't done anything so bad that he needs to be redeemed from.He's never going to get a fair chance with this team imo. For some reason, they judge him more harshly than others. This is a team that plays Rinaldo, Rosehill, and Downie regularly regardless of their mistakes or lack of contributions.

I don't think they have one to be honest. The Richards and Carter led teams were Jekyll and Hyde teams. This is a team that is growing/evolving before our eyes. Like Bre said, they've over .600 since the really bad start.

Who cares? Rinaldo and Hall are a -13 and -14 respectively and they aren't going anywhere.

From what? Being d!cked around with and 3rd on his team (Phantoms) in scoring? Any perceived problem they have with him is an overreaction on their part. That's not to say the kid doesn't have any flaws in his game, but they way they have handled him this year wasn't because he was so clearly and obviously playing that bad. Downie has made more on ice mistakes than McGinn. McGinn doesn't even play.

He is playing really well, and I definitely want to resign him, but I can't say stuff like that until I get over the fear of him falling off the map. I need to see more than 1 season from him before I think he's another Leino, Dopita, or Thoresen. Love his play and definitely don't want him going anywhere, I just can't make any kind of final statements like that about guys like him. I agree I want him playing with Read and Couturier on a regular basis.

A couple posts back you said, "The me from back then has been proven wrong." No he wasn't, Claude simply started playing better. Why you don't comprehend that escapes me, but on well.

She calls you papa? Jesus Christ that's adorable. It's something out of the early 1900s, but it's f-cking adorable.

You? Biased? Nooooo, you don't say?

There's no mistake to correct here. He was playing poorly at the beginning of the season and it was the second year in a row. That is a fact and there is nothing wrong at all in pointing that out.

I know. That's exactly what I was responding to.

Completely agreed. I don't remember conditioning under Lavy being a topic of discussion until just this year. I'm not saying it wasn't, I just don't remember it coming up at all. Though, I'm inclined to hold someone accountable for their own level of physical fitness.

There is no tangible proof in a hot spell though. No matter how good a player is during that streak, it's still a very small span of time. It's like a fighter who beats a high quality opponent (and sometimes even wins a belt) and is never that good ever again. What Giroux is is still very up in the air imo. He's clearly a good player, but how good? Looks great now, looked great a few years back, but had a long stint in between where while not bad, definitely not "other level".

I don't know, but the issue needs to be looked into. That wink is not nearly as playful and friendly looking as it needs to be. It looks like it's up to something.

I'm not sure if that is what anyone is saying? I know that's not how I meant it. You don't have to be 100%, but if you aren't healthy enough to make an impact, you shouldn't be playing. If your play is negatively affected by the injury, by all means heal up.

Personally, movies stick with me a lot longer than a single season by a particular sports team. I think they have a much wider reach too. More people remember a (nearly) 40-year old movie than they do a team's run from roughly the same amount of years ago.

The timing makes sense given the HOF thing. I'm very sick of that era though and I wasn't even around to see it though. I understanding the timing and can forgive that, I just don't want to hear about those teams multiple times a year though. I also agree this should have happened years ago.

Yeah, that makes sense then.

No disrespect to the man, but does this mean anything to anyone? Is there a reason they are doing this and now (as opposed to 20+ years ago)? This would have made sense if he recently died or even a few years ago, but why now? Did they just need another reason to talk about Snyder's beloved Bullies again? Does anyone know the rationale behind it? I don't know about anyone else, but I could go the rest of my life without hearing that era of "Flyers hockey" mentioned ever again.

That's why I find so many people's opinion on fighting interesting. If they changed their mind about fighting fair enough, because the game was a bit if a sideshow back then imo. If they never liked that era, also fair. But considering that team's popularity, I was a little confused about the anti fighting for fighting's sake stance by many.

Lazy ass Is that even the right emoticon? It's not nearly as friendly looking as it should be.