I only insult people who I feel are being idiots. And if I insult anyone, it's usually because they've crossed a line with me that I consider makes them open for insults. I've never just randomly insulted a person for disagreeing with me, I only insult someone if that person was a complete ass first.

Also, insulting people isn't even what I'm talking about.

If I write something and a person says F you Tanner you dud, that doesn't bug me. What does drive me nuts is when a person pretends that the only reason someone would disagree with them is because they're a'hater' or biased in some way.

It's cult-talk is what it is. It's people not formulating arguments and instead pretending that they don't have to.
- James_Tanner

How often do people walk away from you uncomfortably when you begin speaking at parties? You probably don't notice because you're to wrapped up in your sermon. And by the way you really don't own anyone we have fun reading your blogs because you're such a T W A T. You are not some guy making a difference you're just a guy with an internet connection and over inflated ego writing on a third rate hockey page, lead by a guy who makes up rumours.

That's the best you can do? Refer to the time that a bunch of people whose opinions I don't respect who are obviously biased against me pretended that Bill somehow insulted me with his well meaning but incorrect take on the Flyers GM situation? Good one dude. You're as bad as MLJ only possibly even more intellectually incapacitated.
- James_Tanner

Sure. Bill had the incorrect take. You never do.

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I don't take it as a settle debate, and I'm also completely open to the fact that both teams could make the playoffs.

But let's put a few things in perspective.

No one wins ten in a row without mad lucky breaks. Even the best team of all time should lose a minimum of 3 out of ten.

- they don't have a very good roster

- career back up goalie posting insane stats

- there is no history of any any goalie doing .940 - Hasek's two best years were 932 and .937 in two of the lowest scoring years on recent record.

- They aren't the NHL's second best team.

So lots of weird stuff is happening, and history tells us it won't last forever. The Islanders are more than likely closer to their Corsi rating than their save percentage, but time will tell.
- James_Tanner

Funny, the NHL standings must be lying to me then. The “it it won’t last forever” stick is as old and tiring as the Corsi nerds talking about whether a team is good or bad based solely on charts and graphs

Wow, actual analysis. You actually watch the game! That's so old school!


Tanner doesn't actually know the game of hockey. His dream was that he was going to use the "new" analytics to become a cutting edge hockey analyst who was going to teach everyone what the game is really about! Corsi! His dream was crushed. There is an entire community of so called hockey analysts who don't watch games but look at spreadsheets and use mediocre at best stats to think that they actually know the game and can analyze games, players and coaches. I wish Tanner and others could sit down with NHL coaches, Tanner with Trotz and have him show Tanner how much he doesn't know.
- MJL

That's the thing with the so called new experts. You would think listening to them that you would never had to have any real hockey experience. Don't have to watch, just read the corsi etc numbers. Tanner and a number of other expert bloggers haven't realized that you can't measure desire, hard work and togetherness team concept.

Almost every team or player that he is down on constantly show how little he knows. His superboy Dubas has really shown how its done. Every move he made was brilliant. Lou L doesn't know anything. Excuse after excuse. Their hurt, back to back games, etc. Stop it. Physical hockey doesn't work its a thing of the past. Please during your in depth analysis tell me which teams have won the last 2 cups and which teams are again at the top of the NHL. It's not hard working, well coached, physical teams is it ? No its Nic Petan and the SKILLED leafs put together by superboy. I guess the term skilled only applies to players who wouldn't even take a hit playing blackjack in Vegas.