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8 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Let me guess, no call?

2 game suspension for Giordano. Calgary's coached fined 10K, Calgary's lomberg given 2 game suspension.

George Parros as the head of player safety thing has turned out to be a good thing.

Credit to Giordano for being very clever at the type of dirty hits he does, its alot easier to get away with what he does than head hits & he's now finally being suspended for it cause the League remembers his previous questionable Knee hits & now catching on its probably intentional.

I'm betting Boudreau remembers the knee hit that Giordano did to Bobby Ryan while he was still a Ducks coach, so he knew it was intentional the moment he saw a repeat of it. Thats 2 Ducks Kneeiordano took out.

Remember Giordano's knee to knee hit on Fowler ? He just did that same knee on knee hit to Mikko Koivu tonight.

This time it looked more intentional.

http://www.nhl.com/stats/player?reportType=season&seasonFrom=20182019&seasonTo=20182019&gameType=2&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=timeOnIcePerGame

Lindholm is 6th in NHL time on ice per game with 25:37 per game. Only 3 of the top 6 have higher points per game than him.

Fowler is 15th. Manson is 26th. Montour is 39th.

Lindholm is having a career high in both points per game & time on ice per game.

His +/- is taking a beating though

1 hour ago, Dochalo said:

it's not a virus.  

Good. They can use antibiotics then.

4 hours ago, Tank said:

Plus they're looking to move Greinke.

& they lost Mathis, championship caliber catcher.

Andrew Bailey the relief pitcher who's arm kept falling off & getting duck taped back together, as bullpen coach he'll fit right in with the Angels bullpen.

3 hours ago, Kevinb said:

Interesting Goldschmidt to StL. I would love that guy playing for the Angels

So the Dbacks going into rebuild mode ? They lost Corbin & Goldschmidt

7 hours ago, gotbeer said:

F*ck.  The Ducks are so screwed.   Seattle Expansion will be in 21-22, not 20-21.  That means any rookies that play this year, is exposed in 21-22.  Luckily looks like Comtois is safe and  back in the juniors.  But it also means anyone on the Ducks or Gulls roster this year with over 10 games is open for the expansion team.  That means guys like Mahura, Steel, Jones, Ludestrom, Larsson won't be exempt.  

The only good news to that is that Perry is a FA after 20-21 season & Kesler can be bought out after that season with only 1 year remaining so it won't hurt much.

Also they definitely gotta bring back Getzlaf after the expansion draft takes place.

Projecting they will protect:

Gibson/Steel/Kase/Rakell/Terry/Rico/Ritchie(or Aberg if he's producing better)/Lundestrom/Lindholm/Fowler/Montour

A few things can happen before then, Murray does a shakeup trade & moves Fowler for Nylander if Mahura has risen to be a Top4 LD.

Then it comes down trading Larsson for them not to pick Manson or Montour.

Ryan Kesler: 6 points in 26 games.

Kesler has a worse contract than Perry, Perry is on LTIR & insurance covers 80% of that i recently read. Then add in that Kesler has an extra year remaining on his contract.

So all Perry needs to do once he's back is get hurt again & when its clear he's finished, a salary floor team will be open to acquiring him since insurance will cover 80% of it but their will still be a cap hit so it helps them reach the salary floor.

Woah Pontius Aberg is the Anaheim Ducks leading goal scorer with 9, in his 2 goal game in what could be the game winner.

Lindholm bullied Tom Wilson lmao.

Bob Billy Beane Murray found some gold in the bargin bin for once.

As i typed that, Lindholm just got his 2nd PP point of the game.

This is what happens when Carlyle trusts him on the offense more.

Lindholm appears to be very good on producing in the PP & in Overtime situations. Even if his zone entries aren't Fowler tier, points just happen.

He's had to step up his passing since Fowler got hurt. Putting pressure on him seems to have helped him.

Shoemaker's 2019 numbers with the Oakland Athletics: 2.54 ERA, 200 IP, 180Ks, 16-5 W/L

The A's will sign him for with league min contract etc.

It'd be funny if Pontius Aberg pilate ever gets to play for the NJ Devils, what are the odds he has a Hat Trick on the last game before Christmas ?

^ Getzlaf is the same age as me, had my hair sorta like that back in the day.

43 minutes ago, Hubs said:

I miss Rex. Gubi is bland, boring, predictable, and adds little to the conversation.

He's a one trick pony: "that pitch got too much of the middle of the plate" "middle of the plate" "this one time i was pitching for the royals" & repeats it like every game.

They should hire Irvine native 'Will Ferrell' & he can do his Ron Burgundy act.

15 hours ago, BackUpTheTruck said:

"Fixing the glitch" would imply that Blash is still working for the Angels unpaid.

So that guy in Storage-B taking care of the Rat problems at Angel stadium isn't Blash ?

So many pitchers go to Petco to hope it fixes them......Jered Weaver tried it & he still sucked.

Not to sound like the guy in Office Space but So Blash has been let go ? They fixed the glitch ? .103 AVG he's useless.

Addition by subtraction.

On 10/4/2018 at 9:46 AM, mulwin444 said:

About 7 hrs in on "AC: Odyssey" and loving it so far.  If enjoyed "Origins" you would enjoy this one as well.

So far, missions are fun and diverse, good dialogue and character models, more RPG elements...it's a solid entry.

AC Odyssey is the best game i've played in years, its like if Skyrim was mixed with Witcher3 & Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Instead of shouting people off cliffs like in Skyrim, i do the Sparta kick to knock them off cliffs.

The random contracts & bountys are far more unique than the ones in Witcher 3, its world is bigger than those games as well.

Its upcoming DLC looks to be better than any AC/Witcher/Elderscrolls DLC, i could see Odyssey having a 'year 2 pass' a year from now with even more greek mythology being explored & new locations to explore such as illyrian coast(ancient croatia), Thracia(ancient bulgaria), Anatolia(ancient turkey) & perhaps something further away like the greek colonys in Cimmeria where they could have epic horse archer battles & add some kind of ability/skill line for horse riding + horse archery.

They could also add in a upgrade so our ships can have a ballista, scorpion or onager artillery.

The problem i had with Origins is that once you've seen one desert you've seen every desert, with Ancient Greece there is alot of variety in landscapes & scenery.

Wow. How are they in 1st place ? On paper they should be tanking.

40 minutes ago, floplag said:

It isnt preventing it as much as the team is choosing to let it prevent them. 
They could simply choose to spend if they wanted to, there is plenty of room under the cap, no debt on the franchise, and 10 times more valuable then when purchased so they already made bank.
This really is starting to feel like an excuse to me more than actual fact. 
just my 2 cents.

How much would they save if Pujols suddenly tested positive for a bunch of PEDs & was suspended 162 games ? Would they save the whole 1 year of his salary i wonder, it also would speed up on Arte wanting to buy him out.

On 11/28/2018 at 10:19 AM, Chuckster70 said:

I know that I've been equally MIA due to a crazy work schedule, traveling and vacation, but with December fast approaching I haven't seen the Halos been mentioned as interested in anyone so far and have yet to have made a productive move. 

So the question is...

Is Eppler busy playing Sony Playstation games?

Waiting on Machado/Harper to sign so that he could work on Trout's deal?

Chuck is just being impatient, so nothing more to see here. 

The trade and FA market hasn't gotten fired up yet, perhaps not until the winter meetings?

Eppler is hanging out with Anaheim Ducks GM Bob Murray fishing at the San Clemente Pier hoping to catch a Elite starting pitcher & 1st line center.

What will his ERA be in the AL East ? 9.00 is my bet

Ed Rooney scored a goal, Rowney that is. That mustache is like he's embracing his name Ed Rooney.