James Tanner: The Coyotes (sort of) Make the Playoffs for the First Time Since 2011

Unless you are in Minneapolis.

Sad.

Dallas Drake. 1991 National Champion and NMU Wildcats great.

Jesus, you need to watch more movies if those are in your Top-50 of "all time".

Groundhog Day qualifies, but the rest....no so much. Heat is a great movie, but I'm not sure it would crack my Top 50.

Jesus, you need to watch more movies if those are in your Top-50 of "all time".

Groundhog Day qualifies, but the rest....no so much. Heat is a great movie, but I'm not sure it would crack my Top 50.
- GalacticStone

list your top 50

Dallas Drake had a way of finding a big hit early in games, if not on his first shift, to give his team momentum. He was a nice complement to Zhamnov and Tkachuk after Selanne was traded, and then with Roenick and Tkachuk.

Jesus, you need to watch more movies if those are in your Top-50 of "all time".

Groundhog Day qualifies, but the rest....no so much. Heat is a great movie, but I'm not sure it would crack my Top 50.
- GalacticStone

It is almost like this is just a subjective exercise, man.

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My top 50 movies list, not from the angle of a "best of all-time" (although this list would probably be closer to an "objective absolute truth" than Tanner's), but rather from the ones which've influenced me the most over the course of my life.

1. LOTR Trilogy (Peter Jackson)
2. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Der Himmel Über Berlin (Wim Wenders)
4. Oslo August 31st (Joachim Trier)
5. Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
6. Songs From the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
7. Le Conte de la Princesse Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
9. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
10. Waltz im Bashir (Ari Folman)
11. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
12. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-waï)
13. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard)
14. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
15. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
16. La piel que habito (Pedro Almodovar)
17. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
18. Se7en (David Fincher)
19. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
20. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
21. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
22. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
23. The Godfather Trilogy (Francis Ford Coppola)
24. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
25. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
26. Reprise (Joachim Trier)
27. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
28. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen)
29. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
30. The Social Network (David Fincher)
31. Two Lovers (James Gray)
32. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
33. Ordet (C. T. Dreyer)
34. La Vie d’Adèle (Abdellatif Kechiche)
35. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
36. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
37. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
38. Before Trilogy (Richard Linklater)
39. Kaïro (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
40. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
41. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
42. Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
43. Ludwig (Luchino Visconti)
44. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
45. The Wind (Victor Sjöström)
46. Gertrud (C. T. Dreyer)
47. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
48. Habla con ella (Pedro Almodovar)
49. Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini)
50. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)

And 50 more, miscellaneous style :

P’tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont), Mad Max : Fury Road (George Miller), Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood), Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick), Twelve Angry Men (Sydney Lumet), Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino), The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks), Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg), Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg), Upstream Color (Shane Carruth), Novecento (Bernardo Bertolucci), War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg), Les Amours imaginaires (Xavier Dolan), Land and Freedom (Ken Loach), You, The Living (Roy Andersson), Festen (Tomas Vinterberg), Trainspotting (Danny Boyle), Le Dîner de Cons (Francis Veber), Melancholia (Lars Von Trier), Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Gosford Park (Robert Altman), Elephant (Gus Van Sant), The Host (Bong Joon-ho), Restless (Gus Van Sant), Badlands (Terrence Malick), Moneyball (Bennett Miller), Un Conte de Noël (Arnaud Desplechin), Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud Des Pallières), I’m Not There (Todd Haynes), Another Year (Mike Leigh), The Bourne Trilogy (Paul Greengrass), Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher), The Shining (Stanley Kubrick), The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean), V for Vendetta (James McTeigue), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach), Andreï Rublev (Andreï Tarkovski), Le Goût de la Cerise (Abbas Kiarostami), Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami), Pickpocket (Robert Bresson), Chungking Express (Wong Kar-waï), There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson), Holy Motors (Leos Carax), Citizen Kane (Orson Welles), L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni), Roma città aperta (Roberto Rossellini), Casino Royale (Martin Campbell), Offret (Andreï Tarkovski), Senso (Luchino Visconti), Stalker (Andreï Tarkovski), Il Gattopardo (Luchino Visconti), Equilibrium (Kurt Wimmer)
De Battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (Jacques Audiard), 99 francs (Jan Kounen), L’Auberge espagnole (Cédric Klapisch), Bellflower (Evan Glodell), Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven), Flammen Og Citronen (Ole Christian Madsen), Animal Kingdom (David Michôd)

Eyes Wide Shut???? I like nudity as much as the next person but that movie was skip to the nudity only..... at best!

My top 50 movies list, not from the angle of a "best of all-time" (although this list would probably be closer to an "objective absolute truth" than Tanner's), but rather from the ones which've influenced me the most over the course of my life.

1. LOTR Trilogy (Peter Jackson)
2. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Der Himmel Über Berlin (Wim Wenders)
4. Oslo August 31st (Joachim Trier)
5. Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
6. Songs From the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
7. Le Conte de la Princesse Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
9. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
10. Waltz im Bashir (Ari Folman)
11. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
12. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-waï)
13. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard)
14. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
15. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
16. La piel que habito (Pedro Almodovar)
17. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
18. Se7en (David Fincher)
19. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
20. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
21. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
22. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
23. The Godfather Trilogy (Francis Ford Coppola)
24. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
25. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
26. Reprise (Joachim Trier)
27. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
28. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen)
29. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
30. The Social Network (David Fincher)
31. Two Lovers (James Gray)
32. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
33. Ordet (C. T. Dreyer)
34. La Vie d’Adèle (Abdellatif Kechiche)
35. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
36. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
37. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
38. Before Trilogy (Richard Linklater)
39. Kaïro (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
40. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
41. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
42. Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
43. Ludwig (Luchino Visconti)
44. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
45. The Wind (Victor Sjöström)
46. Gertrud (C. T. Dreyer)
47. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
48. Habla con ella (Pedro Almodovar)
49. Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini)
50. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
- redseerpf

Entire list is valid because of #17

Keller - ELITE forward putting up 85-90 points on a great contract.

Schmaltz - ELITE forward putting up 85-90 points on a great contract.

Kessel - ELITE sniper that was just unlucky this year. Nothing to do with him being too slow to get into dangerous areas. Also had the wrong linemates.

Stepan - ELITE 2-way forward. An exception to the theory that all depth players make $1M or less.

Hayton - ELITE superstar who should have been playing with Hall and Kessel. Look out McDavid.

OEL - ELITE. Should have multiple Norris trophies.

Hjalmarsson - ELITE shot-blocker. An exception to the theory that all depth players make $1M or less.

Raanta - ELITE goalie with best stats in a generation.

Kuemper - even more ELITE.

So don't buy into this nonsense that Hall is the only ELITE player. The roster is full of them. Probably like 8 hall-of-famers. Mic drop.

Jesus, you need to watch more movies if those are in your Top-50 of "all time".

Groundhog Day qualifies, but the rest....no so much. Heat is a great movie, but I'm not sure it would crack my Top 50.
- GalacticStone

Well here is the thing - the top movies of all time conversation is pretty much over. Godfather, Vertigo, Citizen Kane etc. I mean, what more can I add to such a list? I've seen a lot of crap contemporary movies as they come out, but the vast, vast majority of anything old I've seen is a classic.

Having never been to film school, or done more than a basic course in film criticism, and having only watched old movies already venerated, there is not much value in ranking them.


BUT I can write about my favorite films, and rank them on re-watchability and how much I personally loved them.

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- Xizord

When Arnold, as a clone, is about to die, he says "I might be back" and if that isn't worthy of inclusion.......

They have decidedly not made the playoffs (yet). The NHL has been abundantly clear that the play in round is not playoffs. You’re supposed to be a professional hockey writer, right? Do better.

My top 50 movies list, not from the angle of a "best of all-time" (although this list would probably be closer to an "objective absolute truth" than Tanner's), but rather from the ones which've influenced me the most over the course of my life.

1. LOTR Trilogy (Peter Jackson)


Cool movies


2. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Der Himmel Über Berlin (Wim Wenders)
4. Oslo August 31st (Joachim Trier)
5. Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
6. Songs From the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
7. Le Conte de la Princesse Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)


A bit pretentious, but OK
9. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)


The best Quentin film is Jackie Brown, no contest.


10. Waltz im Bashir (Ari Folman)

I'll take your word for it.

11. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)


This is the film equivalent of being a Foo Fighters fan. One of the worst movies ever.



12. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-waï)
13. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard)
14. Brief Encounter (David Lean)

Like over half your movies so far, I have never heard of these.



15. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)


Have seen this twice, and if it was possible, I hated it even more the second time around. Even Sir Wesley himself couldn't save this bloated piece of pretentious emotional crap that thinks it's profound and might be, if you don't read a lot of actual books.

16. La piel que habito (Pedro Almodovar)

Can't say


17. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)


Are you talking Franco? If so, hated it.


18. Se7en (David Fincher)

Fincher is my favorite director. I rank this in high regards to most movies but lowly on the Fincher Scale.

19. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)


Great movie. Could have had it on my list, but I went with Oh Brother.

20. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
21. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
22. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)


Nes Pas

23. The Godfather Trilogy (Francis Ford Coppola)

Kind of like saying the Beatles are your favorite band. They good, boring selection though.


24. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)

You could give a camera and a six million dollar budget to the most boring person you know and you'd get a film that is more fun than this, which is like listing the time you punched yourself in the nuts in your top 50 best times ever.

25. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
26. Reprise (Joachim Trier)
27. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)


Never heard of em


28. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen)


Love the Coens, this movie stands up. Plus great use of a Bob Dylan song.



29. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
30. The Social Network (David Fincher)


The Presitige is one of the best movies ever, I agree. The SN is good too. Wouldn't crack my list, and probably because its like making a young Trump the hero of a movie. Good movie but Zuckerberg is such piece of human garbage, I can barely stomach it.


31. Two Lovers (James Gray)

Never heard of it.

32. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)

Respect. This was a late cut from my list.

33. Ordet (C. T. Dreyer)
34. La Vie d’Adèle (Abdellatif Kechiche)
35. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
36. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
37. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
38. Before Trilogy (Richard Linklater)
39. Kaïro (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
40. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
41. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
42. Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
43. Ludwig (Luchino Visconti)
44. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
45. The Wind (Victor Sjöström)
46. Gertrud (C. T. Dreyer)
47. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
48. Habla con ella (Pedro Almodovar)
49. Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini)
50. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)

Haven't seen any of these

And 50 more, miscellaneous style :

P’tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont), Mad Max : Fury Road (George Miller), Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood), Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick), Twelve Angry Men (Sydney Lumet), Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino), The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks), Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg), Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg), Upstream Color (Shane Carruth), Novecento (Bernardo Bertolucci), War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg), Les Amours imaginaires (Xavier Dolan), Land and Freedom (Ken Loach), You, The Living (Roy Andersson), Festen (Tomas Vinterberg), Trainspotting (Danny Boyle), Le Dîner de Cons (Francis Veber), Melancholia (Lars Von Trier), Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Gosford Park (Robert Altman), Elephant (Gus Van Sant), The Host (Bong Joon-ho), Restless (Gus Van Sant), Badlands (Terrence Malick), Moneyball (Bennett Miller), Un Conte de Noël (Arnaud Desplechin), Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud Des Pallières), I’m Not There (Todd Haynes), Another Year (Mike Leigh), The Bourne Trilogy (Paul Greengrass), Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher), The Shining (Stanley Kubrick), The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean), V for Vendetta (James McTeigue), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach), Andreï Rublev (Andreï Tarkovski), Le Goût de la Cerise (Abbas Kiarostami), Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami), Pickpocket (Robert Bresson), Chungking Express (Wong Kar-waï), There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson), Holy Motors (Leos Carax), Citizen Kane (Orson Welles), L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni), Roma città aperta (Roberto Rossellini), Casino Royale (Martin Campbell), Offret (Andreï Tarkovski), Senso (Luchino Visconti), Stalker (Andreï Tarkovski), Il Gattopardo (Luchino Visconti), Equilibrium (Kurt Wimmer)
De Battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (Jacques Audiard), 99 francs (Jan Kounen), L’Auberge espagnole (Cédric Klapisch), Bellflower (Evan Glodell), Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven), Flammen Og Citronen (Ole Christian Madsen), Animal Kingdom (David Michôd)
- redseerpf

Thanks for playing, you've got solid taste my friend. Appreciate the post.

They have decidedly not made the playoffs (yet). The NHL has been abundantly clear that the play in round is not playoffs. You’re supposed to be a professional hockey writer, right? Do better.
- yelraf10

Are you kidding me right now internet? You do better as a human ! Where is the slimy rock all these people live under? (Robot Voice) "Your blog had a factual inaccuracy that I don't get because I am not programmed to understand humour beep boop I am a dud bot."


I'll be here all day!

Thanks for playing, you've got solid taste my friend. Appreciate the post.
- James_Tanner

Cheers Tanner, many of your comments made me laugh.

Objectively speeking the best Tarantino is probably Jackie Brown, agreed. I've watched it only 1 time though, whether I rerun IB at least once per year, sometimes twice. Hence the nomination.

Comparing Dazed and Confused to the Foo Fighters reinforces my idea that we need to build more jails for people like you.

Won't even comment on thinking Spirited Away is pretentious as Miyazaki's cinema is probably the most humble shyte you'll ever find on Earth. One toenail from Miyazaki is probably more profound than any 500 pages thesis you could write.

Fincher's objective best is Zodiac, an absolute masterpiece. I've watched Se7en around 100 times though for a school work (comparative analysis with No Country from the Coens), so big impact on me since this movie has no secret for me. Social Network is just that easy-listening-good-rythm movie I put every time I don't wanna put any energy in anything. Must've watched it 15 times.

Godfather is a boring selection indeed, but still've watched them around 10 times. Big impact on me whether boring or not.


Big weakness in your movie taste is in the "not-from-the-US" cinema. You should try to look at a few things from elsewhere, there are as many gems out there, even more perhaps, than there are in the english-speaking world.

Keller - ELITE forward putting up 85-90 points on a great contract.

Schmaltz - ELITE forward putting up 85-90 points on a great contract.

Kessel - ELITE sniper that was just unlucky this year. Nothing to do with him being too slow to get into dangerous areas. Also had the wrong linemates.

Stepan - ELITE 2-way forward. An exception to the theory that all depth players make $1M or less.

Hayton - ELITE superstar who should have been playing with Hall and Kessel. Look out McDavid.

OEL - ELITE. Should have multiple Norris trophies.

Hjalmarsson - ELITE shot-blocker. An exception to the theory that all depth players make $1M or less.

Raanta - ELITE goalie with best stats in a generation.

Kuemper - even more ELITE.

So don't buy into this nonsense that Hall is the only ELITE player. The roster is full of them. Probably like 8 hall-of-famers. Mic drop.

- Kooleus

I don't care to talk about hockey with you or any of your alts, but I think we can all agree that even a person wearing fanny pack, donning a mullet, smoking an e-cigarette and wearing a smart watch would still be too embarrassed to physically write out the words 'mic drop' in an online form.

A 60 year old white lady trying out slang she heard on an Old Navy commercial maybe comes close.

Cheers Tanner, many of your comments made me laugh.
- redseerpf

I appreciate you throwing down the list. Great to see that. You've got superior taste to me that is for sure.

I appreciate you throwing down the list. Great to see that. You've got superior taste to me that is for sure.
- James_Tanner

Anybody who puts the time ends up having "superior taste". Matter of priorities in life.

It's hard to take any list of movies seriously if it doesn't have Breakin' 2, Electric Boogaloo on it.

I don't care to talk about hockey with you or any of your alts, but I think we can all agree that even a person wearing fanny pack, donning a mullet, smoking an e-cigarette and wearing a smart watch would still be too embarrassed to physically write out the words 'mic drop' in an online form.

A 60 year old white lady trying out slang she heard on an Old Navy commercial maybe comes close.
- James_Tanner

Thank you for the laugh. I needed it today.

I tried to think of 50 films, couldn't do it. Maybe there's 5-10 that I REALLY like, but that would be pushing it. Now if you talk music, then I can put a list together.

I don't care to talk about hockey with you or any of your alts, but I think we can all agree that even a person wearing fanny pack, donning a mullet, smoking an e-cigarette and wearing a smart watch would still be too embarrassed to physically write out the words 'mic drop' in an online form.

A 60 year old white lady trying out slang she heard on an Old Navy commercial maybe comes close.
- James_Tanner

You don't talk hockey with me because I called out every single one of these takes as awful the day you made them...and look who ended up correct? Keller and Schmaltz have never come close to 85-90 point players. Kessel flopped, as predicted. Domi was better than Galchenyuk. Nylander didn't win the scoring title, or even come close.