Ripped from the Headlines (Kings, Olympics, playoffs, idiots, what have you)
by Quisp on Feb 16, 2010 7:45 AM PST
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- According to Team USA coach Ron Wilson, Ryan Miller will start every game. In other words, Jonathan Quick's expected ice-time is zero. Not that this should surprise anyone. (via Olympic Hockey Day One: Miller to Lead USA Today and Everyday - Die By The Blade)
- Jonathan Quick and Ryan Miller have been told to remove slogans and propaganda from their masks. (U.S. goalies ordered to remove slogans | NBC Olympics)
- Must read (although pretty much every post of Joe Pelletier is a must-read): Greatest Hockey Legends.com: Olympic Hockey International Round Table.
- From Bruce Ciskie at NHL Fanhouse: Wily Uwe Krupp, coach of the German team, ponders the three-man advantage.
- The Fifth Feather notices that the Chicago Blackhawks are irresponsible cretins: "So let me get this straight….the Hawks as an organization are perfectly content with having an outside organization decide whether their star player – who’s also signed through the next decade - is ready to play or not after suffering a concussion on Saturday night. Gee, I wonder if the Slovakia medical staff will clear Hossa to play." [I have an alternate theory: if losing to Pittsburgh in the finals doesn't send Hossa to the booby-hatch (thus getting his cap hit off the books), maybe they're looking to concuss him into an early retirement.] (via Joel Quenneville admits he knows nothing about the human brain " Fifth Feather)
- The Detroit News reports that Ken Holland completely agrees with me about how many points it will take to get into the playoffs. (via Red Wings face uphill playoff-qualifying battle | Snapshots - MLive.com)
- Guess who the Hockey News has at NUMBER TWO in its power rankings. That should fill any true Kings fan with unspeakable dread.
- Paul at Kukla's Korner reads my mind about an available rental nobody is mentioning much.
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I was quite surprised with the Kukla’s korner article you linked to. When you compare the career stats of both of those players, they both seem quite capable of making a contribution to playoff contendingt teams coming down the strech. But it really should be taken into consideration that Player B racked up the most of his stats and favorable +/- status while playing for the Red Wing powerhouse teams of 1994-2001, whereas Player A hd to toil on some pretty crappy teams in SJ and CLB when they had just been brought in with NHL expansion.
I thik I would still rather have A over B if the price is right…
2009-10 Kings Hockey: Delivering Milk Steaks from the Meat Train at an arena near you!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Feb 15, 2010 9:14 PM PST reply actions
Re: Power Rankings
When I read commenters over at Hammond’s blog (haven’t encountered any here so far) who lament that the Kings don’t get any respect from the national sporting press, it reminds me of myself 15-20 years ago. But back then, I was living away from LA and its local media and more importantly, online communities like this one didn’t really exist.
Nowadays, I care more about what perceptive people who actually follow the Kings closely have to say more than I do about what anyone on ESPN has to say. And when the Kings win the Stanley Cup, it will be all the validation I will ever need as a Kings fan, no matter what anyone else says.
When I read commenters over at Hammond’s blog (haven’t encountered any here so far)
Sometimes I will post over there using the handle “DBB.” But most of those comments are so nonsensecal, that I will confine my LA Kings rants to here at SB Nation
2009-10 Kings Hockey: Delivering Milk Steaks from the Meat Train at an arena near you!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Feb 16, 2010 7:13 AM PST up reply actions
I wouldn't say "most"
but there is a theory over there that several citizens of the troll population are really just one troll with many names.
Wait till this year.
Yeah – “most” was probably too inclusive. It’s certainly plausible that there is just 1 or 2 trolls using a plethera of different aliases. I do enjoy the interaction among the comments here at SB Nation more than that of Hammond’s blog.
2009-10 Kings Hockey: Delivering Milk Steaks from the Meat Train at an arena near you!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Feb 16, 2010 8:13 AM PST up reply actions
One huge difference
is that Rich isn’t usually a participant in the comments, although he will make the rare appearance; on SBN, Rudy, Sleek, etc., are active and frequent (not only participants but) leaders of the discussion. So there really is a dialogue that extends from the original post. At Rich’s site, the comments section is more like the teacher has left the room and everyone goes nuts, especially the delinquents.
Wait till this year.
And I agree with DBB...
… in that the signal to noise ratio in the comments here is higher than on LA Kings Insider. Not that there aren’t smart commenters there. But if there is sock puppetry going on there, Rich really needs to draw a line there and not tolerate it. I don’t think that’s the kind of community he wanted to create.
Oops
Re-reading it, I can see that my post was poorly phrased in that I didn’t meant that there isn’t much overlap between commenters here and those on LA Kings Insider. I comment there, and I know that Quisp does.
What I meant is that I don’t see anyone here complaining about how the Kings don’t get enough respect from ESPN, or other press organs that claim to have national or NHL-wide scope. Whereas I’ve seen some of Hammond’s commenters do just that.
And that’s something that I don’t feel any need to do anymore, in part because I’m back living within the LA media cocoon, but mostly because of online communities like this one. I’m not desperate for validation from the national sporting press when I can come here for intelligent and informed conversation about the Kings. And when the Kings win the Stanley Cup, it will be much more important to me to come here and find out what other people are saying than to watch ESPN to hear what their talking heads have to say.
Well, it's also true that his population of commenters is exponentially bigger than ours
so there’s bound to be a few loose nuts. I don’t know how you control sock-puppetry. I guess by filtering out same IP, different “handle”? Yeah, that would be easy to do, now that I think about it.
Wait till this year.
Yup, you check the IP
I’ve been part of a couple of Internet forums where sock puppetry has been an issue, and that is how it’s dealt with.
At Rich’s site, the comments section is more like the teacher has left the room and everyone goes nuts, especially the delinquents.
That is such a great analogy. So True.
2009-10 Kings Hockey: Delivering Milk Steaks from the Meat Train at an arena near you!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Feb 16, 2010 9:13 AM PST reply actions
I'm suprised to see the Kings at #2 in the THN power rankings...
I’m shocked to notice that they were number two last week as well… What the hell are they thinking jinxing us like that??
Not surprised at all
Think about what the Kings have done to the elite teams in the East in the last two months – Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Boston, New Jersey, Washington – to say nothing of Detroit. They have had an extraordinary season. I think that was enough to get some national attention. And some deserved praise from Don Cherry as well.
"Not in your wildest alcoholic nightmare would you ever imagine such events unfolding!" Bill King
by Buck Turgidson on Feb 16, 2010 1:16 PM PST up reply actions
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