Everything posted by NCMountaineer
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NHL Regular Season: 2024-2025
The Boston duo and Rob Blake are probably the two biggest examples of this right now. Hell I'd argue what Blake did to the Kings in the middle of their rebuild is somehow worse since Boston has at least been good from a competitive standpoint for a while until seemingly this year.
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NHL Regular Season: 2024-2025
Sounds like Monty might be out, rumor is Sacco will be taking over.
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NHL Regular Season: 2024-2025
Caps have been impressing me so far this season TBH. So far it seems like this is the deepest team they've iced since 19, though we'll see how long the good version of PLD decides to keep coming to the rink.
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NHL Regular Season: 2024-2025
I may want to start betting on some of this shit (not really). Told my dad before the game it was going to be 4-2 Canes with Ovechkin putting one in, sure enough.
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NHL Regular Season: 2024-2025
Doesn't help that they're playing Carolina tonight, who's just stupid fast and somehow got faster this off-season, but it feels like collectively that they've lost a couple steps.
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NHL Regular Season: 2024-2025
always seems to be up early in the season until teams lock in defensively, but the reduction in the goalie equipment size a couple years back has been making a noticeable difference in numbers even with that being the case. man, OT in that Canes-Oilers game last night is how OT in this format should be. Just end to end action with some great stops.
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2024 Weight Loss/Exercise Thread
I feel this. Even into my late 30s I was still eating and drinking like some idiot college kid, just not nearly as much on the food front. Once I started to take things seriously (gym 4+ days a week) and gradually cut back on the drinking (I'm doing at most 2-3 beers a week now) the weight started to come off fast. Hit below 180 for the first time since college just this past Saturday from a high in the 240s.
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NHL Regular Season: 2024-2025
yeah, as much as people are thinking my boys (Canes) are going to take a step back this year when people talk about missing the playoffs entirely I'm like "bro, have you even looked at the rest of this division? 3rd place is as bad as it's likely to get unless something ridiculous happens". Isles could goalie their way into a Wild Card spot again but I think that's their upside. Everyone else outside the top 3 is either rebuilding or needs to rebuild. Central is ridiculous - everyone but Chicago has a realistic chance this year at being a playoff team. I'm not sold on any of the rebuilding Atlantic teams taking that next step yet. Detroit's probably the closest but not sold on that goaltending. Pacific is almost as predictable as the Metro.
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2024 Random Games thread
nice pick by Trotter. The pain continues for the Pokes.
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2024 Random Games thread
A bit this and a bit that they might not have considered the Ponies a threat. Some of the encounters I've had with them make the worst I've gotten from Pitt or Hokie fans look classy by comparison.
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2024 Random Games thread
lol, would have thought that the case a while back. they look flat out one-dimensional with a bad line. that's basically asking for disaster.
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2024 Random Games thread
I was expecting this one to be ugly... just didn't think we would be the ones on the good side of it.
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Realignment talk not going away
that's the major question. From what I've been told by a Montana grad there is a fund already in place should they decide to make the move up but as always the question is the political will of the admin there. No idea on the other 3. edit: didn't see LTbear's reply but that definitely checks out.
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Realignment talk not going away
Interestingly I'd say the one plus about no longer being in the same conference is that when we play VT or Pitt it's no longer buried under an absolute deluge of other big matchups. You get the Backyard Brawl or Black Diamond in week 2 or 3 and it's THE game in that time slot as far as I'm concerned, most of the matchups in those weeks are basically worth fuck all outside the one or two UT-Michigan tier matchups. So when you see a rivalry game like that on the schedule that early in the year you know you're going to be getting a ton of eyes watching that normally wouldn't give a damn. But that's basically the only positive to being in a different conference from our traditional rivals. Even getting the game on the schedule most years can be a chore.
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Realignment talk not going away
The Sun Belt played things perfectly in the last round - building a regional conference around teams that were making their way up from FCS as strong brands already at that level and keeping things within an established footprint, not chasing markets but chasing value with teams of similar competitive level and background makes for an entertaining product rather than chasing markets where the market already has established teams they care about and couldn't give a damn about the team being added. Using that line of thinking I honestly think the new MWC would be better off approaching the two Montanas, NDSU, and SDSU about making the move to FBS from FCS to round out their numbers but I don't think they're willing to make that move even though it would be a more compelling product.
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Realignment talk not going away
Yeah we kinda don't give a shit if that's what we'd be stuck with, it's mostly just a numbers game. We'd have been stuck either way outside of UConn being the team that was brought in during the last round instead of UH. I think most of our base is assuming/anticipating the next round bringing in Louisville, Pitt, VT, and NCSU presuming the SEC doesn't take the last two there.
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2024 Random Games thread
The bolded is certainly a plus, some of the stuff that was going on back in the Big East days when I was there was beyond ugly. I'll have to see about the 5th though at the least I should be able to make it over the night before.
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2024 Random Games thread
should was doing a LOT of lifting on that one. If our DC isn't shitcanned after that one Brown's ass needs to go back on the hotseat himself.
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2024 Random Games thread
nevermind, what a catch, and it's a 1 score game AGAIN
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2024 Random Games thread
what a frigin catch by Robinson, that should put away the Backyard Brawl
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2024 Random Games thread
Would offer to buy you a beer if I were in town for this one. Frigin dead today and all I've had to do is hit the gym and catch games, but such is the life of an applications analyst on your on-call weekend. If you ever make it down to Winston for a Wake game, or even Raleigh or Chapel Hill hit me up. holy balls our secondary is weapons grade ASS this season.
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NHL Offseason 2024
Oh man did St Louis deliver today on two of my favorite things: Offer sheets and levels of pettiness that are off the scale. https://www.nhl.com/news/st-louis-signs-philip-broberg-dylan-holloway-to-offer-sheets The two year deals on this are just magnificent since that really puts a squeeze on Edmonton with Drai and McDavid up for contract renewals this coming offseason. Doug Armstrong sticking it to Stan Bowman
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NHL Offseason 2024
- 2024 Weight Loss/Exercise Thread
Yep, cutting my drinking in half from what it was caused me to go from stalling out at about 215 to getting under 200 in a hurry.- Copa America 2024 back in the USA!!
Shit, I missed all the fun on the way out of the stadium last night apparently, though that was nowhere near my section. Great atmosphere for the game at least. - 2024 Weight Loss/Exercise Thread
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