myron.selby - (Myron Selby)

Member since March 23, 2011

Edmonton

Habs fan since: 1975
Favorite current player: Markov
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• Comment on Subban skates with Team Canada in Sweden
  Petrioetty? Galchenuk? At least you could bother to figure out how to spell the players names when you're trolling.
• Comment on Senators become Canada's only hope for Stanley Cup
  A couple of things about this stand out: - I suspect he's bigger than that. I looked at prospects information on him and they reported the same weight for him right after Montreal drafted him. Since most players get heavier at his age, I think the info may be out of date. If he's put on 15 lb (which is not unreasonable) he'd be playing at around 210 which is a good size. - I'd also be interested in seeing the ages of the previous winners. It's one thing if you're winning the best d-man (and how many non-Swedish d-men are there in the SEL?) when you're 28. But to win it at 22 would indicate to me that you are still on the upward curve and may have lots of room for improvement that may not have been the case with previous award winners.
• Comment on Senators become Canada's only hope for Stanley Cup
  Yesterday, when somebody announced this signing, Timo and the usual suspects all started whining about another smurf being added to the team (6'1", 192 lb - but I suspect he may be heavier now). I pointed out that MN won the best defenceman award for the Swedish Elite League as a 22 year old this year and perhaps we should at least let him pick a jersey number before deciding he was a complete waste of skin. So yeah, maybe I should have used that sarcarm font (Helvetica Sarcasmica perhaps).
• Comment on Senators become Canada's only hope for Stanley Cup
  Can anyone confirm the Magnus Nygren signing reported here yesterday? I can't find any mention of it anywhere else. I know he's only 3'4" and weighs 12 pounds but I still think he might be able to help our D.
• Comment on Size isn't a problem with Habs, Plekanec says
  @Chris - when you say that Koivu was a good hockey player I think you're losing sight of something (and I've mentioned this before). In any discussion of Koivu there has to be a giant asterisk inserted. There is the pre-knee injury Koivu and the post-injury Koivu - two totally different players. The game Koivu hurt his knee, he had moved into a tie for first in the scoring race with Selanne (I know because I had him in my draft). I think he was averaging about 1.4 points/game. Afterwards he never came close to these numbers. The problem was that he lost some of his speed and mobility. He was a brilliant player but a huge part of his game was built around his skating and once that deteriorated he was no longer capable of doing things at that level. Without that knee problem he's a top 10 scorer throughout his prime.
• Comment on Size isn't a problem with Habs, Plekanec says
  How about the fact that he tried to do single-handedly what MB now has 7 or 8 people doing? He was a control freak, and not to put too fine a point on it - it seems like nobody in the organization liked him. Pretty hard to get a team to perform for someone they hold in contempt.
• Comment on Size isn't a problem with Habs, Plekanec says
  Wow, somebody needs a hug. Could we get a little anger management over here?