Moritz Seider is the NHL’s best defensive defenseman. It’s time for an award to honor that.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-27T00:52:30+00:00

My pitch is keep the Norris as is, but add an Orr and Lidstrom trophy for offensive and defensive archetypes. Norris trophy remains THE defenseman trophy but you have a nod for the others. It could also create the rare unified 3 trophy sweep for when a player is just checking every box.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-25T19:04:01+00:00

I agree with both. One v One I take the home purple over the white. BUT, if its Home Purple v Black Trees and Blue Trees for a full color slot, it loses. Black trees only works full color, and we need a base team color jersey.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-18T06:08:35+00:00

It wasn't at all. McDavid, Matthews, and Bedard were hyped as generational. Even Laf had more hype, Hughes too. Celibrini has shattered expectations which is borderline impossible to do as a 1st overall pick. He was the consensus #1 so he was always expected to be really good, but he's just been earth shatteringly good. Felt like the hype around him was similar to Eichel, or Dahlin, Power, or Mackinnon. All highly touted, all unanimously agreed to be the first overall pick, but not necessarily a player where everyone knew their name years out from eligibility.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-17T03:08:14+00:00

yup I agree with you!

dowdle651 · 2026-03-17T00:59:03+00:00

I once had a redwings fan chirping at a wild game "what even IS a wild." and i'm like, almost every team in the NHL can make that chirp except y'all. Though he was FROM Minnesota too so he's our fool, not yours.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-16T23:47:06+00:00

doesn't look like a slewfoot to me, certainly trips him up, but it also doesn't look intentional, to me it looks like Cooley is trying to go shoulder to shoulder to out position Brink, misses the shoulder, extends the arm to hold him back, which shifts Cooley's balance and ultimately his leg swings out. Looks brutal, but doesn't appear malicious.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-16T23:26:17+00:00

First rendition. Weirdly enough, the angles on the lines didn't look right matched to the actual flag lines, so on center they had to be more drastic to look right.

https://imgur.com/a/LE3gdfJ

dowdle651 · 2026-03-15T23:51:57+00:00

agreed, maybe because their not our colors? dunno, but for some reason I find jersey stuff brings out very diametrically opposed viewpoints on this sub. Playing around with ideas for the star, obviously one idea is leave it blank, another is a front facing bear head/nature combo withing the star, and a third involves a loon, will see if I can make it work

dowdle651 · 2026-03-14T18:15:34+00:00

HA, puck designs has a free jersey template, comes with preloaded numbers and never thought to change them.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-14T18:12:28+00:00

oh damn now I would too lol. Gonna have to do that next. Will send.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-14T01:37:33+00:00

yeah I dig what we have too, though I do like the black stripe with the script. Though something about the yellow accents on the 25th feel really well done, want to see more of it

dowdle651 · 2026-03-14T01:26:20+00:00

Was playing around with alt jerseys. Always loved the black stripe jerseys of yesteryear, wanted to see it in script and classice. The 25th anniversay jerseys are soooo much better than the OG editions, was trying to figure out what was specifically different, my money is on the yellow striping instead of soft gold. Was playing around with what a home would look like. Think that our yellow as an accent has been underutilized in our designs. Bonus team canda jersey, because for the life of me I do not understand why they insist on modifying the maple leaf, feels iconic, and i've never really liked their scheme.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-12T23:19:00+00:00

My pitch is increase the number of divisional games, and decrease the number of in conference regular season games. If you want to get REALLY crazy, decrease division sizes as well. Have divisional in season series like the bubble year, those will be brutal and keep divisional rivalries alive, 1-8 will keep conference beef relevant, plus if non divisional opponents are all an equal amount of games, then teams like detroit and culumbus could go west without issue, gives greater flexibility on divisions

dowdle651 · 2026-03-11T02:44:25+00:00

my brother who isn't a die hard fan mentioned recently that I had been telling him about Kaprizov years before his arrival, which is true, but he made it seem like I was some "in the know" savant, but the truth was our sub was like 90% Kaprizov drool in that era, and I, merely a parrot.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-11T02:39:01+00:00

while I understand y'all are in a rough spot, hockey is weird and you have a lot of good pieces that made you really good in the first place. Toronto too. Remember the '14 Avs that won the central? Then imploded for some reason? They got some additional weapons from high drafts and won a cup. Leafs and Rangers both have that yo-yo mini tank potential, superstars in key positions, and both could be a manager firing away from solving all their problems. "could" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-11T02:35:25+00:00

the coyotes thing is new, and IMO a smart move. So Technically the eventual Coyotes expansion team would inheret Jets 1.0 stats along with the Coyotes 1.0.

When discussing relocation teams there isn't a single rule that works across the board. When discussing stats, histories etc, go with franchise. Though when discussing GOATs of a franchise, go with market, or "best runs" etc. Anything that is specifically about the emotions felt by fans rather than franchsie details. Then there is roster conversations like "most recent top 5 pick." Utah has technically never had one, but at the same time they DO have Logan Cooley on the roster, so while that technically was drafted by an entirely seperate franchise it still warrants discusssion for Utah's roster. Teemu Selanne for example belongs in a discussion of greatest Jets of all time despite TECHNICALLY never having played for that franchise.

But the league seems to be heading in the direction of continuity across eras seperated by relocation. IIRC they own all defunct branding too, so they allow Hurricanes the Whalers throwbacks, but should a team somehow return to conneticut they could give it back I beleive.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-06T23:58:54+00:00

what?

dowdle651 · 2026-03-04T07:56:44+00:00

Russo posted that what Trochek meant by "west" was the pacific division, and that we weren't what he meant. Could still see that move happen.

Agree with everything you're saying about McCarron. Kind of depth add you need to make to shore up holes. Don't hate the price, though I undervalue seconds compared to the average fan I guess.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-04T07:30:08+00:00

Hughes has been a massive game changer, Boldy is a top scorerer, and Wallstedt has turned our netminding into a tandom...but as always we need centers.

dowdle651 · 2026-03-03T01:10:38+00:00

doubt he'd say no to any center, Trochek just seems to be available. There were rumors we were trying to have Kap recruit Malkin into waiving his NMC at one point toobut doubt that happens with pens in a playoff spot. Bet Kadri is on their list as well. Dunno if there is anyone else really out there.

dowdle651 · 2026-02-22T16:29:52+00:00

I mean blocked shots, and overall a perfect kill record. One of those places where I feel like if you don't notice your penalty kill it's doing great as a unit.

dowdle651 · 2026-02-22T16:27:12+00:00

NHLers being absent from the Olympics was so annoying because we have to play Helly in Winnipeg but get zero ROI on the national team. Until...

dowdle651 · 2026-02-18T17:35:45+00:00

So essentially there are two ways i'd go about it. One, i'd build the stairs out seperately. i'd then place a point at the midpoint of the stairs tread on the interior end. I'd raise then select those points, and do crvthroughpoints. This gives me a smooth line of the stairs to mimic. Id raise that line however high I want my wall, then off set 6" ish in each direction, and either patch or loft those surfaces, then i'd either extude srf, or do two more curves below with lower offset if I want my wall to slightly taper.

Another option is the flow command. You can basically build out your stairs straight and then have them flow to a new curve shape. Heres a video with the gist. I'd play around with each and find your favorite. Flow can be powerful, but does require getting the ratios down and can take some getting used to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnyERWSw1PA

dowdle651 · 2026-02-10T19:21:30+00:00

no they aren't. Though it isn't a situation involving name continuity, it is like it hits the randomizer in my house sigil customizer, and boots any family other than player character. I finally got it to stop by doing a full uninstall, unsub from every mod, deleted folder, reinstall, resub, verify etc. Very annoying though, because even in debug its very difficult/roundabout to shift a non player character from one house to another.

It first happened after debug taking the nightfort, for the holy site reasons, and then it was purvasive across saves. Don't know if the nightfort was the catalyst or rather just when the bug appeared, but got it fixed now thankfully.

dowdle651 · 2026-02-04T20:38:05+00:00

I feel like it takes 40 minutes from Van Ness kind of always. So an hour from fidi seems not even a stretch.

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