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Around the League 2019-2026 Edition

MindzEye said:
But 'murica, some of the most depressing architecture I've ever seen in my life, half of the actual city is hoods.

American cities, especially rust best cities are where the people without money to leave the city stay. All of the money tends to concentrate in the suburbs. You'll get a decent downtown (sometimes), and then a ring of crime, violence, drugs and dispair surrounding it, and then white people living their white picket fence lives in the suburbs. Buffalo is one of the worst examples of that I've seen.
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Yes, but you are 1 hour away from NYC, Boston, Philly, Pittsburgh etc.

Its not a huge upgrade but it is 100% an upgrade from the peg and they look to have a decent team, which the jets currently do not have.
 
trujaysfan said:
Yes, but you are 1 hour away from NYC, Boston, Philly, Pittsburgh etc.
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In the Hellebuyck context, does that really matter? These guys don't have a lot of off days during the season to take day trips like that...and then I'd like point out that a 1hr flight isn't really 1hr of your day. It's 3-4 hrs when you count packing, travel to airport 1 hr before your flight, flight time and then taxi out of airport. Doable-ish if you really wanted to sneak out to NYC for a Yankees game or some shit, but still not easy. Fwiw, the flight time from Winnipeg to Chicago is only 20-30 minutes longer than Buffalo to NYC or Boston.

This is more about 'murica vs not 'murica for him, he'll spend all of his time away from the rink out in the fairly charming suburbs.

trujaysfan said:
Its not a huge upgrade but it is 100% an upgrade from the peg and they look to have a decent team, which the jets currently do not have.
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Like I said, I've been to both cities and the city of Buffalo is the worst city I've been to in my life. But to rich hockey players who don't want to be in a city and whose main experience with the city is going to be driving through it on a highway between the arena and the suburb he lives in, that matters less.

City to city though, Winnipeg wins, somehow. Maybe the only H2H in the league it wins.
 
MindzEye said:
In the Hellebuyck context, does that really matter? These guys don't have a lot of off days during the season to take day trips like that...and then I'd like point out that a 1hr flight isn't really 1hr of your day. It's 3-4 hrs when you count packing, travel to airport 1 hr before your flight, flight time and then taxi out of airport. Doable-ish if you really wanted to sneak out to NYC for a Yankees game or some shit, but still not easy. Fwiw, the flight time from Winnipeg to Chicago is only 20-30 minutes longer than Buffalo to NYC or Boston.

This is more about 'murica vs not 'murica for him, he'll spend all of his time away from the rink out in the fairly charming suburbs.



Like I said, I've been to both cities and the city of Buffalo is the worst city I've been to in my life. But to rich hockey players who don't want to be in a city and whose main experience with the city is going to be driving through it on a highway between the arena and the suburb he lives in, that matters less.

City to city though, Winnipeg wins, somehow. Maybe the only H2H in the league it wins.
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I dunno man.

Buffalo is awful but Winnipeg is fucking dire.
 
Pwner said:

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Habs got the next Raddysh!!!

9. Maksymilian Szuber, D, Tucson Roadrunners (AHL)​

Szuber is something of an underdog within Utah’s prospect pipeline. He’s competing internally against other young defenders who were much higher draft picks and have undeniably higher ceilings, but it would be an outright shame if he got left behind because there wasn’t room for him too. He is a rock-solid blueliner who has gotten better year over year without fail, across every aspect of his game. With his smarts, size, skating ability and puck management he can do a little bit of everything that a coach needs. At age 23 he’s already played in three World Championships for Germany, and you can bet he’s going to keep getting that call every spring if he’s not deep into the playoffs with his club team. This is the last year that Szuber is able to pass freely through waivers, and you can bet that some pro scouts on other NHL organizations are watching him closely and getting ready to pounce if the Mammoth bring him back in the fall and try sending him down to the AHL one last time.
 
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