JiggyToTheCup

My son found this on reddit.... It would be funny, if it were not so true This is going to sound like sour grapes from a Boston fan but I don't give a Dehydrated Donkey Dung. Ritchie is one of the worst players I've seen in a Bruins sweater in a long time. He routinely made me question what it meant to be a Boston fan, he tested my patience and my ability to root for my boys on a routine basis. I can excuse a lot, that's what sports fandom is, right? It's a place to be biased and petty and stupid in a safe little sandbox of biased petty stupidity. But suck me sideways Thick Dick Nick made it a chore. I can handle guys lacking talent but playing with heart, I can handle a lack of heart in crazy talented guys, I can handle the staggering room temperature milk mediocrity of guys like Lee Stempniak, but Thick Dick Nick is none of those things. He plays the game like someone trying to egg you on into taking a swing at him. He skates with the urgency of an old lady shopping for canned beats, but with half the speed. His hockey IQ is on par with Brett Favre's. I'm assuming Brett Farve has never played hockey, correct me if I'm wrong. Nick constantly skates around like he's surprised he's at an NHL game and then glides back to the bench (probably from the penalty box for a stick infraction) with the dim look of Lenny from Of Mice and Men. Then he sits there like a melting chocolate Santa, with his hair inexplicably sticking up through the vent in his helmet, waiting to be surprised by his next turn to get on the ice. Consider this: He scored 15 goals last year, found some dangerous ice as a PP scorer, and Bruins fans were debating if he would be a good 4th liner or not this year, because our 4th line was that fraking bad, and Ritchie was the only skater who could conceivably make it worse. He scored 15 goals for us and we weren't sure if he would be a good replacement for Chris fraking Wagner, the surly hobbit of the TD garden. Nick Ritchie is a bigger contributor to the decline in cardiovascular health in Boston fans than smoking and obesity. He's the equivalent of a double bacon cheeseburger on your system. He is hockey diarrhea. The guy takes the stupidest retaliatory penalties you've ever seen. He is complete invisible until you need a momentum swing, goes "Got ya boss" and cross checks someone in the neck and bumbles off the ice like Abbott and/or Costello while simultaneously shrugging and bitching to the refs and the guy he blindsided. I'm sure he's not a bad guy IRL, I don't mean for this to be a character assassination. I'm sure he has family and besides Brett they probably don't suck. This isn't about kicking a player on their way out; let the record reflect that every Boston fan has a few memories of cursing his name and that we started kicking him long before he was down. (See also the general well wishes for Kuraly upon his departure.) Nick isn't a goon, he's a bad boyfriend. He'll score a couple of goals one week and you'll think he's turned a corner and then he'll hit on one of your friends and tell you to chill out because he's just being friendly. Don't buy the hype, be fraking aware. I am ecstatic that Ritchie wasn't held onto as a sunk cost, and that Toronto signed him. There you go, that's your analysis.

Why, he was pretty awful when he went from 15 to 21 minutes a game.

I chalk it up to Ritchie having the IQ of a gnat.

Laine was incredibly bad last year. No thanks

They ripped Raty

Most of the move up trades are like 50 for 55 and 126. I think next pick is for ANA is 66.

This looks like a great pick.

You draft best player, not need. WHy are all these guys still on the board?

SO who are your top two picks for Saturday?

Not Ritchie 2.0 His #1 asset is his hockey IQ. Ritchie didn't even have one of those.

Meds kick in?

There may be a bit more risk with taking McTavish over Eklund or Beniers, but McTavish has the competitiveness, size, and skill to be a difference maker. The Swiss-born Canadian has been a quick riser in the rankings over the past year. Scouting reports praise his physicality, aggressiveness, and “wicked shot.” He managed to go 5-6-11 in 7 games for Canada in the U18s. Not only that, but he captained the team to their first gold medal since 2013. Watch the highlights and read the scouting reports - I don’t think this kid will be waiting too long for his name to be called. My prediction is this: A few seasons from now, teams are going to hate playing against McTavish.

McTavish has a wicked wrist shot

There not doing the mackarena?

PLEASE TAKE A F

Fluery on 3rd pair... https://www.capfriendly.com/depth-charts/kraken

Nice work. But no way they make it without Smith, Tuch and Theodore.

Go look at just the Vegas expansion picks only with none of the trades. And then report back. thanks. Vast majority of what made them good was from the trades, not the expansion picks.

Ducks GM Bob Murray says he spoke with captain Ryan Getzlaf about trading him, but Getzlaf only wanted to move if Anaheim could get something significant in return to help the franchise, "and it wasn't there. He is all about the organization, whatever is best for us."

more bold that he would move to an area he has no desire to move to.

On the deadline show, they are saying Getz has given permission to be traded to Vegas. I hope he does get a shot at a cup and then returns next year.

I agree with this, buy poisoned to me is Tony D Angelo in the locker room.

by everyone but him. He'll be fine.

The dude creates space. It's amazing at 19, that he does this so well already. Watch every game this year, and we RARELY have seen anyone create any space. And then they get frustrated and grip the sticks. Vicious cycle.

That's because of the talent around him. Like I said, he needs good players around him. Not buying that lack of talent equates to a toxic locker room. There's an extreme lack of offensive talent. Terry and Jones are just brutal on offense.