2019-2020 NHL season thread

What a Maroon.

(Come on guys and gals, you’re all slipping)

 

This story you provide as proof of Maroon's prowess, is sadly lacking. Written by a Ducks staffer on the team's own website. He is being touted for the first line. The source for Maroon having "good hands" is ........ Maroon. Boudreau offers a backhanded compliment regarding consistency. Both quotes taken from a year previous.

Ducks followers want their players to be good. Nothing wrong with that. When you watch and they waste their opportunities, you get frustrated with them. Game after game, the puck slides through the crease and he's there with his stick on his knees. When they are touted for the first line (as this story did), and they are more suited for fourth line, what are you supposed to think?

Years ago, I never thought about him in comparison to Charlie Simmer ... never, honestly. I just thought of that yesterday when Liut posted about Maroon. Seemed to fit and I'll stick with it. After watching him and seeing how his career is winding down, I see a big guy who isn't too smart, he can get in front of the net and cause trouble, but his hands are average and his skating is weak. Thus, the comparison to Simmer -- big guy, went to the net, average hands, bad skater.

"Falling upward" should be a common phrase to anybody involved in the newspaper world, who has seen unqualified people rise through the corporate ranks. Maroon fits the description.

Go ahead and reply, I know you will, then I think we should be done batting this around.

 

Dave Semenko played with Gretzky on the first line, was he a first line hockey player? Your expectations of him being a first line player were wrong to begin with. He’s a big body who could provide something Boudreau thought Perry and Getzlaf could use. The league is littered with guys who fill a role in a line that does not necessarily translate to their skill level. Did you think because he played on the first line he was their 3rd most skilled forward?

You still haven’t explained why he’s a goon.

If falling upward is a thing, Ray Bourque must have fallen upward when he went to Colorado. 3/4 of people that hold rings must have fallen upward.

Simmer to Maroon is still ridiculous.

 

Two things:

1) Agree that it’s a bit odd to think that because Charlie Simmer put up big numbers with Dionne and Taylor 35-40 years ago, Pat Maroon should put up big numbers too.

2) Isn’t the phrase “failing upward?”

 

Pretty interesting read here:

NHL bubble confidential: Go inside the Toronto and Edmonton playoff hubs

 

Bob Boughner loses the interim title in San Jose.

 

Not exactly a puff piece...

 

I know the players can afford it, but no per firm and you are on the hook for room service? That’s tight. The fact that the Habs stand out for feeding their players is telling.

 

Of what is it telling?