2015 Blackhawks Salary Dump NHL Offseason Thread

Darryl Sydor, Wild assistant coach, charged with drunk driving - NHL on CBC Sports - Hockey news, opinion, scores, stats, standings

His blood-alcohol level later tested at 0.30 per cent, more than four times the legal limit, the complaint said.

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That's not just from having had one too many. We've all gotten in a car where we might have been pushing our luck a bit. But 0.3 is absolutely shitfaced (most places 0.08 is the legal limit, and many jurisdictions are moving to 0.05). And he had his 12 year old son in the car with him? Jesus christ that looks bad. Screwing around with a BAC calculator, I put in 215lbs and drinking for 4 hours. It would have taken 20 beers to get to that BAC.

Sounds like the cop was actually a good dude in the case, took the kid to his game and everything.

He tested at .3 which means it was likely higher when he was pulled. If he's functioning at .3 that's not his first rodeo.

He's Canadian though. What's the Canadian to US drunk conversion ratio?

(I'm just kidding, I know Canada has stricter drunk driving laws than the US does.)

Steven Stamkos offers high praise for Connor McDavid of Edmonton Oilers

Just to be clear, I've had an erection pretty much since April 18. It only goes away when my thoughts briefly stray to the whole 9 years out of the playoffs thing. But then I think of Hall and McDavid coming in on a 2-1, pretend I'm the goalie, and nut in my pants.

High praise indeed. Stamkos always came off as humble to me, but sheesh that's quite a claim. I'm pretty excited to see this kid play.

I think that on the ice PK Subban is a showboating, diving little douche. But he's got some giant testicles off it:P.K. Subban donates $10M to Montreal Children's Hospital - Montreal - CBC News

I found this far too entertaining. Also as a Bucs fan I can not wait for hockey season so I have something to be happy about.

Merrith_sl said:

I just hope the Oilers don't waste him. They've had a slew of high end picks recently and haven't had much progress to show for it. McDavid is obviously the next level, and pretty much a lock to have success from Day 1, would be nice to see the team show some progress.

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The other picks haven't been "wasted" in that the players didn't pan out as expected. Hall, other than last season (and of course his rookie year), has been one of the highest scoring wingers in the game. Nugent-Hopkins came in to his own last year, and while he hasn't been putting up crooked numbers he looks to be a bonafide 1/2 line center, albeit with less offense than hoped. Yakupov came out of a very weak draft year where just about none of the top picks are panning out great, but he looks like he could still be a 30 goal scoring, agitating winger.

But yeah, the picks have been wasted from the perspective that the organization's management has been fucking retarded for the better part of the past 10 years, and did little to improve an absolutely awful collection of veterans. You can't expect 19/20 year old kids to carry teams by themselves with no mid-career type players to help things along. And outside of the top picks, the scouting, drafting and development of later picks has been atrocious. And again, management completely misjudged numerous players that were traded away for peanuts that went on to become good players elsewhere (Cogliano, Petry and Dubnyk are three great examples). And management also made some absolutely horrid signings of aging veterans that blew up in their faces (Nikitin, Ference, Belanger, Khabibulin, Eager, Barker, god the list goes on and on).

Thank god though, that the organization finally made some pretty big changes over the summer. I don't personally agree with Howson and MacT being kept on, given how badly they fucked the team up in the first place (and Howson bombed in Columbus as GM as well). The majority of the amateur and pro scouting department was cleaned out over the summer.

There's still some shitty contracts on the books this year (Nikitin, Ference, and Purcell) but two of those fall off next year, right in time to extend/bridge some of the younger guys and potentially Talbot if he can carry the load. So I don't expect the team to be in the playoffs this year, but I'd certainly hope they're at least in the hunt for a spot until the last few weeks of the season. Next year I fully expect them to be in the playoffs and potentially ready to do some damage. But we'll see. So much hinges on how some of the young guys like Nurse, Draisatl, and Reinhart pan out, along with McDavid of course.

But I don't think you have to worry about McDavid himself. Kid's going to be a fucking stud. It's just a matter of whether the organization can succeed in building a team around him. Pittsburgh and Washington have arguably failed at that, wasting the prime years of the last two "generational" players with only a single Cup between them. Just goes to show you how it's such a team sport.

Yeah, it's almost silly to say that Pitts has failed given they've won a Cup and made another final, along with a huge amount of other successes. But given the cards they were dealt with Crosby and Malkin, that should have been good for another Cup or two. Chicago has found a way to win three now, and I think you could easily argue that the Crosby/Malkin duo is better than Toews/Kane in isolation.

Slaythe_sl said:

They seem to be less rapey though.

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Got to put the puck in somewhere during the off season.

Watched the Blackhawks skate for practice at Notre Dame today. Same ice my kids had hockey practice on later and a few Blackhawks came out and did some coaching. Pretty cool.

Awesome.

http://www.barstoolsports.com/philad...-provaznikova/

That's hilarious. Jagr is the goddamn man.

So is Darnell Nurse:http://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/129729

"Hmmm, tying up doesn't seem to be working against this 6'7" monster. Instead I'll just try punching him as hard and fast in the face as I can while he does the same to me and see how it works out. Oh perfect, he's bleeding everywhere. Lesson learned!"

He might not start in the NHL this season, but he won't be long in the AHL. In a year or two he's going to be one of the most feared guys in the league. And I don't just mean for fighting. He's an unbelievable skater for a guy his size, and he's fucking mean as hell. Guys are NOT going to want to go to the front of the net if Nurse is standing there smiling at them.

Eomer_sl said:

I think that on the ice PK Subban is a showboating, diving little douche. But he's got some giant testicles off it:P.K. Subban donates $10M to Montreal Children's Hospital - Montreal - CBC News

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He's no Bobby Orrhttps://youtu.be/CPd4FIiGt1s