Kinda nervous posting this (hockey related)

[Lara Emily]

Originally Posted by Fallen Angel 6&7) I agree with ya, so no point in farthering this 5) Yeah, in recent years the top few have all been blue-chip guys. But think if your team bottomed out, won 10 games all season and didn't get to pick first, as the team who got 5th won the lottery, wouldn't that kinda you know suck balls. 4) I see your point, however i see coach firings as stupid no matter what. 3) ELCs I really like as it allows teams to field players for 3 years on the cheap. Your right that rushed development rarely works. As for the teams you mentioned, they have mostly completed their build, LA is late in the process, Oilers beginning. Islanders aren't rebuilding? Tavares, De Haan, Nino, Petrov, Kabanov (if he comes around) Joensuu, Okposo, Bailey, Moulson, Koskinen all look a lot like building blocks to me. 2) Touche. 1) The shoot-out is NOT hockey, look up hockeys definition. A game played on a rink of ice, three forwards, two defense, a goalie. Ties made sense, end of story.

5) No offense but now you are using a stupid hypothetical that has happened twice, both times to expansion teams and the last time 18 years ago when parity was much lower. Anything that encourages tanking is a bad idea, and right now there is never just one team that is so much worse then the other 4

4) Then you don't really understand hockey. Like maybe at all. Sorry but you asked what people thought of your articles and this tells me a lot about your understanding of the game. The right coach is super important and can make a bad team into a good team, a good team into a great team and a great team into a legendary team

3) ELCs still need to count against the cap or it fucks up the whole system a million different ways.

Matt Moulson was drafted by Pittsburgh, then signed with LA when the Pens didn't want him and then went to NYI not a draft pick, and of course they're rebuilding they're still a joke of a franchise right now though. Seriously they have a former backup golie for a GM, an owner who has publicy stated he regrets buying the team and it was only a few years ago that they hired Neil Smith in the offseason and then fired him a month later. Not to mention Rick Dipietro's contract is a joke. So even with all these supposed prospects, I have a lot of doubt the Islanders will be going anywhere anytime soon

1) Just to be a bitch: your definition then means Powerplay/Penalty Kill/OT isn't hockey either. Look I don't like the shootout much either but like I said it's silly to boycott hockey over it oh and it's also going nowhere, a ton of fans love it, just look at moments like Linus Omark's winning SO goal for why