Some person's car horn is excessively blasting, which is neither a good thing to wake up to or to write to - and here I am trying to do both.
Doesn't matter though. Today is just some random thoughts and since I don't think I'll have to write more than a couple related sentences at a time, I think I can power through that rage-inducing horn. What is the purpose even, of a blasting car horn as an alarm? On TV the thief just disables the blasting in like two seconds and still gets away with the car. In real life no one even tries to steal your car, it just goes off when someone leans awkwardly on the fob they stuck in their pocket.
But no one is stealing my Lebaron anyways: I use the Club.
- Last night's game was great, but for at least the third time this Playoffs, I've gotten up for a second during O.T only to miss the live scoring of the winning goal.
- So Phil Kessel's Renaissance is good, but the absurd number of hot-dog jokes is annoying.
- People are just generally way too snarky and confuse being a jerk for making a joke.
- The Jungle Book looks like a stupid movie for jerks.
- Reputations in the NHL are impossible to overcome. Get labeled and it doesn't matter how you play, people won't change their mind. A good example is Justin Schultz - he sucks according to just about everyone, and yet, he's a 54% possession player (leads the Penguins D) in these Playoffs and has played well in the games I've watched.
On the opposite end, you have Shea Weber who despite some pretty drastic drop-off in performance in the last few years still it's routinely listed as a top-ten defensemen and even named to the Team Canada roster like six months in advance.
Strange but true: PIT is +19 in 5v5 shots w/ Justin Schultz on ice through the first two games. When he's off the ice, they are -9
- Just because the Leafs traded Kessel and sucked most of the time he was there, doesn't mean he wasn't pretty awesome on the Leafs. The revisionist history is non-sense.
- I honestly can't recommend Shaun T's Hip Hop Abs enough. Easily the best late night credit card purchase I have ever made. Look for me in the next infomercial.
- If the League adds only one team (Las Vegas is rumored to be a go) then that is idiotic, but what can you expect from a league that awards loser points, seeds the Playoffs the way they do and ignores player safety?
I don't see a history of intelligent decisions. Also, one of the easiest ways to increases scoring is with expansion and crappy teams, and I think the NHL's rules for the expansion draft will make the new team (s?) too competitive and force teams to make stupid trades because they can't risk losing one of their good defenseman for nothing.
- The league needs Quebec to be a team.
- This is one of my favorite Tweets of all-time:
So in the act of attempting to prove analytics inferior - you'd probably have to undertake an analytical exercise... you can't win!
- Mark June 18th on your calendar because that is when the Coyotes will announce the name and logo of their new Arizona based AHL team.
- Also, the Coyotes will not sign Connor Bleakly, a player they got in the Boedker trade.
Instead they will get a second round pick. That means that the haul for Boedker was Tanguay, Kyle Wood and a second round pick.
The Coyotes made off pretty good here because Boedker is an overrated player who can't defend and doesn't score enough to make up for how bad he is without the puck. Tanguay - who they should definitely re-sign - is a superior player despite being old enough to be Jaromir Jagr's father.
Hell, Kyle Wood is probably also their best defense prospect. That's more of an insult to their system than a compliment to Wood, but to get three assets for a guy you were going to let walk anyways is pretty good.
- The Coyotes really, really need some defenseman. I still think you could build a half-way decent group out of T.J Brennan, Mark Pysyk and Dylan Demillo - all of whom would come fairly cheap (one assumes) as they are all the type to be undervalued.
I'd also hope they sign Keith Yandle and perhaps (because of the expansion draft) target a Ducks' defenseman like Josh Manson (not Cam Fowler).
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