Michael Pachla: Rookie Scroring Race Weekly Recap--Panarin pulls away, possible Calder

The young talent coming up all over the league is going to be fun to watch for years..if the refs start calling all the subtle hooks, holds, interference and pick plays like they did coming out of the lockout. NHL zebras are calling the game more and more like they did before 2005. Want more scoring? Call that garbage more often and open the game up again.

The young talent coming up all over the league is going to be fun to watch for years..if the refs start calling all the subtle hooks, holds, interference and pick plays like they did coming out of the lockout. NHL zebras are calling the game more and more like they did before 2005. Want more scoring? Call that garbage more often and open the game up again.
- EnzoD

point taken, Enzo...love the talent that's been coming in and looks like there'll be much more via the 2016 draft as well

i can't wait to watch the Canadian teams in the playoffs.

The young talent coming up all over the league is going to be fun to watch for years..if the refs start calling all the subtle hooks, holds, interference and pick plays like they did coming out of the lockout. NHL zebras are calling the game more and more like they did before 2005. Want more scoring? Call that garbage more often and open the game up again.
- EnzoD

Well said and I totally agree.

Any time you tell an official of any kind of let little things go, the grey area begins to grow from there.

Call it all, end of story.

i can't wait to watch the Canadian teams in the playoffs.
- Khmylev

*ouch*

burn

I agree.. and i agree with what you're saying about the end of the show, I honestly thought they were going to show the person slumping and you hear negan and the others leave and then you'd slowly see everyone's faces so you had to piece together who it was. But people should prolly get used to the bigger characters dying here soon.. we hare heading to season 7 im guessing it goes 8 maybe 9... and unless they do the same of showing the outbreak and just magically everyone gets cured... a lot of people still gotta die, i don't expect much of a happy resolution here
- Havic3814

You hit on my main problem with the show with that last sentence.

The show is based entirely around a world where there is no hope, and yet they constantly have the characters act like there is false hope, with a mental struggle about what is the right thing to do.

If the world is that grim and grotesque, why not let the bad@$$ characters act that way and give the fans more of what they'd love instant of always seeming to give the viewers less of what they love?

Pears are pretty good, too.

Well said and I totally agree.

Any time you tell an official of any kind of let little things go, the grey area begins to grow from there.

Call it all, end of story.
- kingcong39

if they can find a balance between calling everything while allowing the game to flow it would be awesome...

that said, I'm not really interested in seeing a game of special teams play

Pears are pretty good, too.
- Der Kaiser

olives?

*ouch*

burn
- Michael Pachla

My kid's team beat an Ontario team yesterday in the finals of a tournament. It's way more satisfying to beat a Canadian team (and their incessantly whining parents).

Cong you are missing tbe whole point of the show, it's about a group of people in a hopeless world who are trying their hardest to cling to whatever humanity they have left. You see it change and shape them as the seasons go on. If it was just bad behind dudes shooting each other all the time there would be no depth to it.

olives?
- Michael Pachla

Delicious, but incompatible with egg salad.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Delicious, but incompatible with egg salad.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.
- Der Kaiser

The olive's place is atop a muffaletta sandwich. So, so good!

The olive's place is atop a muffaletta sandwich. So, so good!
- Khmylev

Pretty good on a pizza too.

Delicious, but incompatible with egg salad.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.
- Der Kaiser

hold the olives, plz

I'd give the vote to Panarin at this point. He's 24 and almost at his peak and has Kane to help him out but it's still hard to score in this league and he's done it.

What I won't do, however, is talk about him in the same light as some were this week comparing his rookie season to that of Crosby and Ovechkin based on the numbers. Apples to oranges when you consider where those 2 teams were in the standings, the talent around the players, and how different the game has become in 10 years.

olives?
- Michael Pachla

Cong you are missing tbe whole point of the show, it's about a group of people in a hopeless world who are trying their hardest to cling to whatever humanity they have left. You see it change and shape them as the seasons go on. If it was just bad behind dudes shooting each other all the time there would be no depth to it.
- BatFan88

I get the point of the show, but when you take a character who will do anything necessary to protect their humanity, whether that be their own mindset or loves ones they care about, stop in effect neutering them when it comes to have hardcore they are about protecting what is important to them.

For example, I want to see Morgan go full Jedi with that staff. I am beyond sick of him being passive in every crucial situation.

- DDM-Coga

how's Zadorov doing?

hold the olives, plz
- Michael Pachla

I feel like we got sidetracked somehow. We were supposed to be discussing pears.

Well good job, Carl. Enid's gonna be stuck in the closet until October. #TWDFinale

how's Zadorov doing?
- Michael Pachla

broken coconut, wilson trucked him 2 games ago and its Thoughts and Prayers up for Zads recovery

how's Zadorov doing?
- Michael Pachla

Pretty sure he's dead. Had a nice conversation with some guy on Twitter named @Pelly who had some very colorful remarks when I said that I thought it was a clean hit. Apparently Wilson is the worst person on the planet and deserves to be burned at the stake with me as the kindling.

broken coconut, wilson trucked him 2 games ago and its Thoughts and Prayers up for Zads recovery
- DDM-Coga

trucked him might be an understatement