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Game #35 – Avalanche vs Hawks: Hedley Lamarr’s Muggers, Buggerers, and Bushwhackers

By Sam Fels December 18, 2019 0

J.T. Compher – Sometimes you’re not a prick, you just keep scoring against the Hawks even if you’re no damn good. Compher might be good, he might not be, but against the Hawks he’s some sort of HYDRA creation. Five games last year, four goals and five points. He scored a goal against them last time […]

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Game #25 and #26 – Avalanche vs. Hawks: Hedley Lamarr’s Mugs, Pugs, And Thugs

By Sam Fels November 29, 2019 0

J.T. Compher – Sometimes you’re not a prick, you just keep scoring against the Hawks even if you’re no damn good. Compher might be good, he might not be, but against the Hawks he’s some sort of HYDRA creation. Five games last year, four goals and five points. He hasn’t scored more against anyone else in […]

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Game #41 – Hawks vs. Avalanche Douchebag Du Jour: Ian Cole, Bay-bay!

By Sam Fels December 29, 2018 0

Ian Cole makes $4.2M. Just ruminate on that for a second. Ian Cole has never managed more than 25 points in a season. He averages somewhere around 11 points for his career. He’s been pretty ho-hum metrically for his entire career, basically being just below whatever his team’s averages are for possession and chances. Ian […]

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Game #1 vs. Penguins – Spotlight: Who’s Your Favorite Traveling Wilbury? Is It Dumoulin?

By Sam Fels October 5, 2017

Perhaps the oddest component of the Penguins’ back-to-back championships is that only two defensemen played every playoff game both years. One is Ian Cole, who obviously doesn’t matter. And the other is Brian Dumoulin. It’s been a strange cast rotating through. Two years ago Ben Lovejoy played every game, and Kris Letang only missed one. […]

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Game #1 vs. Penguins – Spotlight: Who's Your Favorite Traveling Wilbury? Is It Dumoulin?

By sgadmin October 5, 2017

Perhaps the oddest component of the Penguins’ back-to-back championships is that only two defensemen played every playoff game both years. One is Ian Cole, who obviously doesn’t matter. And the other is Brian Dumoulin. It’s been a strange cast rotating through. Two years ago Ben Lovejoy played every game, and Kris Letang only missed one. […]

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Careful What You Wish For – Round 1 Preview – Blues Defensemen

By sgadmin April 14, 2014 0

Moving outward from the crease, it’s now time to take a look at arguably the Blues’ strongest group as a whole, their defensemen. From top to bottom it’s one of the deeper and more balanced groups in the league, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some soft, stupid, and ugly spots the Hawks can […]