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I don't know if the Ducks ask their season ticket holders for end of the year suggestions like the Cubs do, but please relentlessly ask for the teal and eggplant to come back full-time. Anaheim's current set is atrocious and they have one of the best color combos in sports just waiting to be brought back.
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Fantilli just has the more complete game to me. Reminds me of the Penguins taking Staal over Toews. It isn't to suggest that Carlsson isn't a nice prospect or won't have a good career, but I can't imagine him developing into a better player than Fantilli. I was live betting on FD during the draft lottery. Fantilli was like -250 to go to Anaheim and Carlsson was +1100, IIRC. Chicago was +650 to land the 1st overall pick. Just interesting how it all ended up playing out.
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The Ducks will regret not taking Fantilli.
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I wasn't referring to boxers throwing fights.
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Edmonton's luck be damned. If you think sports is 100% innocent of rigging, manipulation, whatever you want to call it, you're fooling yourself.
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Moon landing? No. Kennedy killed by the CIA? Possibly. Government is hiding aliens? No. On the subject of aliens, I actually know of more people who believe aliens exist than would agree with me that sports can be rigged, which seems absolutely ridiculous to me. Look no further than boxing if you want proof that sports can be and are rigged over money.
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Flat? No. Young? What constitutes young? Hollow? No. I'll go further. Thermite used in a controlled demolition on 9/11? No. Elvis still alive? No.
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I already said... who knows why they'd manipulate results for Edmonton? Do you not find it at least a little bit curious that Edmonton has won the 1st overall pick on 4 different occasions in a short span of time, while Arizona has never won it and neither has any team in the Pacific time zone? Look at often the NFL rules were bent for Tom Brady. Phantom flags. Game-changing calls in favor of certain teams. There was an article posted some time ago about tennis using algorithms to keep unfavorable match-ups away from players like Serena Williams in the early rounds because they wanted her to be there late in tournaments. Why? Money! Anything that money is attached to is not going to be 100% honest. Sports fans just don't want to admit that.
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Exactly!
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All fair questions. Obviously, I'm not in the know. Just a believer that more of this stuff happens in sports than fans would like to admit. How and why does Edmonton go on the most insanely ridiculous streak of luck in the history of the draft? Who knows?
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I mentioned it earlier in the thread. The Oilers won the 1st overall pick three years in a row, another 3rd overall pick, and the 1st overall pick again. The odds for them going on that particular streak of luck comes out to 0.3%. So, decide for yourself.
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Absolutely not. The NHL does not want a generational talent like Bedard going to the least valuable franchise in the league, who play their games in a time zone where East coast fans are going to bed. See also, Anaheim. The NHL has always had an East coast bias. I've been a Blackhawks fan since 1994. Why would I be salty over the NHL manipulating the draft so that my team gets Bedard? For what it's worth, I won $6,400 on FD betting on the Hawks to win the 1st overall pick. It was pretty obvious.
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I already explained it. Revenue sharing. There are only, I believe, 8 teams who make enough money to contribute to revenue sharing in the NHL. Chicago is one of them. Chicago returning to the pre-Rocky days isn't just bad for the Blackhawks, but bad for the league as a whole.
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That's exactly when you would want to manipulate the draft. Bedard going to the least valuable franchise in the NHL isn't good for the sport. In years in which there isn't a generational talent, why would you care to manipulate the results? Who makes the NHL more money over their career, Connor Bedard or Owen Power? Bedard or Nico Hischier? Bedard or Aaron Ekblad? Surely you get the point.
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I don't watch the NBA. As for the NHL, I believe there are only 8 teams that make enough to contribute to NHL revenue sharing. Guess who one of those teams is. When Chicago brings in money it means more revenue sharing. That's good for everyone.
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Also, for what it's worth, no team in the Pacific time zone has ever won the 1st overall pick.
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Arizona has had the 2nd best odds at the 1st overall pick three different times, the 3rd best odds one time, and the 4th best odds one time. They've never won pick. Chicago has had the 3rd best odds twice (Bedard, Toews), and the 5th best odds once (Kane). They won the pick twice. Since you brought them up, Edmonton has been awarded the 1st overall selection more times (4) than any other team since the draft was installed, including three consecutive years. In 2014, they drafted 3rd overall and then 1st overall again in 2015 to get McDavid. Their odds of such a streak occurring... 0.3%. Maybe it was a run of insane luck and maybe it wasn't.
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Does any hockey fan believe the 2005 lottery wasn't rigged for Pittsburgh? Empty arena, the team just survived bankruptcy, was threatening a move to Kansas City, Mario Lemieux was quite vocal about how much the team needed Crosby, even being willing to come out of retirement to play with him as an owner/player, and... bam! Bettman, coming out from behind a closed curtain, announces the 1st overall pick would go to the Pittsburgh Penguins. I believed all season that as long as Chicago finished bottom 5, which was pretty well a lock, that they would win the lottery for Bedard. How the NHL pulled it off? Who knows? But is rigging a vacuum and some ping pong balls really all that difficult? Seems most college engineering students could probably pull that off. The argument that the NHL didn't want a generational talent going to Anaheim absolutely holds water. They didn't want their next superstar talent playing in a city where home games don't begin until a lot of the country is already in bed.
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The draft was 100% rigged. I'm going to love watching Bedard in Chicago, but we really should not have been awarded the right to draft him.
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Few are. Bedard is Crosby with Matthews ability to find the twine. Nobody would consider Kane a "weak-ish" 1st overall if he were drafted today. In 2007, the NHL was just beginning its transition to a game where speed and skill would dominate. There were a lot of fans, myself included, who valued JVR more at the time because of his size. Looking back today, that seems ridiculous because the skill gap was so wide between the two.
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Marcel Marcel. A young boy's strange erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.
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Bedard is coming into the league as a better player than Kane was at the same age.
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As a Bills fan, I'm surprised Josh Allen wasn't included on this list. He puts the ball on the ground a lot. Usually when scrambling and taking ill-advised hits.
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Lost my four leg parlay tonight by 3 yards. 🥲
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If you had told me that Kirk Cousins went in to Philly tonight and was 31/43 for 364 yards, 4 TD passes, and no turnovers, I’d safely assume that he won the game.
