@TheCupitals Always put up extremely good offensive analytics but was genuinely so bad at defense for every team he played for. Idk his character but I feel like a lot of his offense came from giving zero effort on D
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Hubert Amherst
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LMAO anyone who remembers the Sprong era should remember how douchey he was. Heavily hinted as the guy who hit Hagelin’s eye at practice. Traded right after. Only player with shirt off for Ovi milestone goal photo with a perched backwards hat and chain. Total toolbag #ALLCAPS
Chicago Blackhawks News Hub@HawksNewsHub
Kuznetsov has been suspended one game for making an obscene gesture towards Daniel Sprong
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@kingconnor24 @Districtburner Parascak was a huge risk to take with his skating ability and I honestly doubt it works out with him. When I saw the training camp clips of his skating a year ago I was actually stunned how bad it was, normally our skating projects work tho we’ll see
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@Districtburner If (and unfortunately i believe its a huge if) Parascak is gonna make it, he'll need at least 2-3 seasons in hershey. I see something similar with cristall as well
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what does this mean
Hubert Amherst@HubertAmherst
@rmnb Jared Leto son or 2016 playoffs round 2 daughter
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@PaulCubbage23 Definitely wouldn’t describe him as a hard contact guy lol
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What you should know about Curtis Mead:
-25 years old
-Former top 100 prospect, as high as 32nd on Fangraphs rankings in 2024
-76 wRC+ and 3 home runs in 90 games for TB and CHW last season
-Makes hard contact, but needs a more refined plate approach
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@TheCupitals I think he comes back, hopefully with the understanding that he’s a third line PP2 locker room leader. Hes admitted he’s slowed down, it confuses me what side is to blame for him being on the PP, is he forcing it or is carbs afraid of the backlash of taking him off?
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@JFreshHockey No one wants to watch this mid team in the yoffs
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If Detroit wins, they're back to a coin flip to make the playoffs. If they lose, they're down to an almost 1 in 4 chance.
hockeystats.com/games/20250211…
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Why is Adam silvers tanking solution to add more teams to the lottery
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@Smackitals @HagelinLiker @Shae_Nuge93 Oshie is a decent comparison but Leno is a better skater and has a way better shot, while oshies stick skill is way ahead of lenos. Oshie was also really good at defense and Leno is horrible but that can grow. I see a higher ceiling than Oshie for Leno but a lower floor too
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@HagelinLiker @Shae_Nuge93 He needs 10-15 pounds on him and yes Oshie is a perfect comparison
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Leonard having games like this way too often for my liking 🙁
HockeyStatCards@hockeystatcards
NHL Game Score Impact Card for Washington Capitals on 2026-03-26:
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@Smackitals @Shae_Nuge93 The skill is pretty elite but the mental side of the game isn’t, still a really high ceiling but he is very on and off
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@Shae_Nuge93 My concern is he looks downright bad some nights
I fear he’s not elite, but he will be a 25-35 goal 60ish point per year player who plays well on both sides which I’m okay with
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The Flyers are on pace for their second-best season since 2018 and they still have an 83% chance of missing the playoffs per HockeyStats
hockeystats.com/teams/philadel…
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@Protas_Prophecy Yup caps definitely have top end sped just not explosiveness. Only Leno Cole chyc Miro and maybe like sourdif and cmm but probably not
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On face value, Washington looks like a team with wheels. My bigger concern isn’t pure top-end speed — it’s change of direction, first-step acceleration, and overall foot speed.
They also play a pretty boring brand of hockey, which I’m fine with, but it doesn’t always translate to looking fast.
Jason Gregor@JasonGregor
Here are the fastest teams ranked in terms of 20-22 mph bursts. I also included 22+ mph bursts in the 2nd column. Boston is slowest in East while Calgary is the slowest in the NHL by significant margin.
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@themfyzerplan @CrazyCapsFanboi @CJC_95 Eh I’m still taking Ovis peak over Sid but it’s arguable, I’d have Sid over Ovi all time as a whole tho
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@HubertAmherst @CrazyCapsFanboi @CJC_95 I am sorry but crosby was literally playng at the same time as ovi peak and was as dominant if not more.
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IMO, I don't think it's the top three most entertaining in hockey, it's the top one, and it's the top 10 in all sports.
He was a showman, knew it, and could back it up. At a time when the NHL desperately needed it too.
JFresh@JFreshHockey
2007-2010 Ovechkin is one of the highest peaks in the history of the sport and maybe top 3 most entertaining as well
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@averagecapsfan @CJC_95 He was still great but sort of a weird drop off after the habs series. I know we adopted a dumb defensive system but didn’t we also have him gain weight to increase longevity bc of how physical he was
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@CJC_95 He was like Forsberg, Bure, and Brett Hull combined into one player. Wish we’d had more seasons of it. He was still exciting afterwards, but man those first three, or really first five seasons, were some of the most entertaining sports one athlete has ever delivered
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@CrazyCapsFanboi @CJC_95 It’s hard when comparing to older eras, but if we’re being unbiased there is no way Os peak is as good as mcdavid. But yeah if we’re talking pure peak it’s the second highest of the 21st century behind Mcdavid
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@CJC_95 I seriously don’t think that anyone in nhl history had a more dominant peak.
Obviously Gretzky is the goat, but era adjusting, prime Ovi was a literal unstoppable force of nature
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@MattDeLuca @averagecapsfan I will say if you simmed the 2010-2020 seasons 100 times the caps only winning one cup is like a 5th percentile outcome. Had the best team in the league like 3 or 4 times and the year we won the cup was not one of them
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@averagecapsfan Yea 2010 is the greatest what if season in NHL history. Caps should have been a Red Wings-esque dynasty. The fact we only got ONE Cup is shocking in retrospect.
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8 goals saved over three games - yeah that sounds about right. Three games that literally destroyed that Caps team for years afterwards. The older I get the more I’m convinced this was the single worst Caps loss of all time by a wide margin.
JFresh@JFreshHockey
Classic one. Easy to forget that Halak lost the net to Price for game four before beating the Caps with 8 goals saved in the last three games of the series. Then he's shelled in game 1 vs. PIT before saving 6 goals in the last six games of that one. hockeystats.com/dashboards/goa…
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@TheCupitals Literally our whole forward group outside of Leno are NHL equivalent of 3 and D role players
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Dud of a game but absolutely refreshing to see Carbery throw young guns Leonard and Hutson out there in the 6-on-5 situation. Hutson only 19 years old getting that trust and responsibility in must-score situations is so refreshing.
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@LukeCerpinTaxt I definitely wouldn’t say a good second pair guy but the potential is there and TVR is 100% gone so idk why we’re not playing him. A good second pair RHD gets u a first and more in a trade not a fourth
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Ugh you have to play Lily. TvR ain't coming back next season. Lily is 26 and a good 2nd pair player. He needs to be playing.
John Walton@JohnWaltonPxP
Expected lines from the Loo: Ovechkin-Strome-Beauvillier Protas-Dubois-Wilson McMichael-Sourdif-Leonard Duhaime-Lapierre-Miro Chychrun-TVR Fehervary-Sandin Hutson-Roy Thompson
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@JFreshHockey The most valuable argument pretty much makes it so any player on a good team can’t win the award
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Since there's more Hart Trophy discourse, bumping this article.
The Hart Trophy is for the best player in the league that season.
All the hand-wringing over "most valuable to his team" is 1. dumb and 2. makes the award debate dumb
🔗: jfresh.substack.com/p/the-hart-tro…
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