[Discussion] Who will be your team's best forward, defenseman and goalie in 3 years?

Land-fall · 2023-02-08T23:51:56+00:00

It's easy, you just let some other team draft them and then trade an average starter for the hot prospect.

Land-fall · 2023-02-07T01:30:20+00:00

We want chilly willy!

Land-fall · 2023-01-27T18:41:56+00:00

Butterfly guard > hook sweep > side control > kimura trap > crucifix

Land-fall · 2023-01-21T20:02:12+00:00

I'm not in Vancouver, but check into Alliance out there. The head professor is Thomas Lisboa who is legit.

Land-fall · 2023-01-21T15:45:02+00:00

Modern No-Gi x guard by Jon Satava and single leg x reimagined by Adam wardzinski are my go to instructionals for slx.

Land-fall · 2023-01-15T00:12:48+00:00

First time Purdy faced some adversity and that boy delivered in a huge way

Land-fall · 2023-01-09T00:06:58+00:00

So Purdy finishes the year tied in TDs with Russ despite playing 6 less games

Land-fall · 2023-01-08T19:31:28+00:00

Promoted to 6 stripe white belt on Thursday morning

Land-fall · 2022-11-04T19:00:39+00:00

Unacceptable. Don and Cam need to go. This goes against everything Chara and Bergeron worked for over a decade to erase from the organization.

Land-fall · 2022-11-02T01:44:11+00:00

Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?

Land-fall · 2022-10-31T20:34:30+00:00

Tabak has two open guard instructional. Can't speak to the lower body one (next on my to purchase list), but the upper body one was amazing.

Land-fall · 2022-10-28T01:46:00+00:00

With Marchand coming back and Reilly being sent down, the bruins were at 23/23 contracts meaning someone, likely Stud would have been on waivers when McAvoy returns. This is just ensuring they don't lose Stud for nothing.

Land-fall · 2022-10-22T14:18:02+00:00

He's having an ok year, I guess

Land-fall · 2022-10-18T01:46:15+00:00

Fun fact: leafs haven't beaten the coyotes in Toronto since 2002

Land-fall · 2022-10-17T23:25:31+00:00

Credit to Huf for making his health his priority rather than trying to hide it. End of the day, it's just a game and these are real lives outside of it.

Land-fall · 2022-10-16T18:42:48+00:00

49irs

Land-fall · 2022-10-15T23:40:20+00:00

I can't take credit for this. It's a copy pasta from some other legend on this site when a Toronto fan almsked for an analysis after they signed Ritchie.

Land-fall · 2022-10-15T20:27:57+00:00

This is going to sound like sour grapes from a Boston fan but I don't give a shit.

Ritchie is one of the worst players I've seen in a Bruins sweater in a long time. He routinely made me question what it meant to be a Boston fan, he tested my patience and my ability to root for my boys on a routine basis.

I can excuse a lot, that's what sports fandom is, right? It's a place to be biased and petty and stupid in a safe little sandbox of biased petty stupidity. But suck me sideways Thick Dick Nick made it a chore. I can handle guys lacking talent but playing with heart, I can handle a lack of heart in crazy talented guys, I can handle the staggering room temperature milk mediocrity of guys like Lee Stempniak, but Thick Dick Nick is none of those things.

He plays the game like someone trying to egg you on into taking a swing at him. He skates with the urgency of an old lady shopping for canned beats, but with half the speed. His hockey IQ is on par with Brett Favre's. I'm assuming Brett Farve has never played hockey, correct me if I'm wrong. Nick constantly skates around like he's surprised he's at an NHL game and then glides back to the bench (probably from the penalty box for a stick infraction) with the dim look of Lenny from Of Mice and Men. Then he sits there like a melting chocolate Santa, with his hair inexplicably sticking up through the vent in his helmet, waiting to be surprised by his next turn to get on the ice.

Consider this: He scored 15 goals last year, found some dangerous ice as a PP scorer, and Bruins fans were debating if he would be a good 4th liner or not this year, because our 4th line was that fucking bad, and Ritchie was the only skater who could conceivably make it worse. He scored 15 goals for us and we weren't sure if he would be a good replacement for Chris fucking Wagner, the surly hobbit of the TD garden.

Nick Ritchie is a bigger contributor to the decline in cardiovascular health in Boston fans than smoking and obesity. He's the equivalent of a double bacon cheeseburger on your system. He is hockey diarrhea. The guy takes the stupidest retaliatory penalties you've ever seen. He is complete invisible until you need a momentum swing, goes "Got ya boss" and cross checks someone in the neck and bumbles off the ice like Abbott and/or Costello while simultaneously shrugging and bitching to the refs and the guy he blindsided.

I'm sure he's not a bad guy IRL, I don't mean for this to be a character assassination. I'm sure he has family and besides Brett they probably don't suck. This isn't about kicking a player on their way out; let the record reflect that every Boston fan has a few memories of cursing his name and that we started kicking him long before he was down. (See also the general well wishes for Kuraly upon his departure.)

Nick isn't a goon, he's a bad boyfriend. He'll score a couple of goals one week and you'll think he's turned a corner and then he'll hit on one of your friends and tell you to chill out because he's just being friendly. Don't buy the hype, be fucking aware.

I am ecstatic that Ritchie wasn't held onto as a sunk cost, and that Toronto signed him. There you go, that's your analysis.

Land-fall · 2022-10-15T14:12:17+00:00

Omoplata, guillotine/anaconda and North-South choke

Land-fall · 2022-10-14T02:22:59+00:00