tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post1621062793341420069..comments2024-01-06T07:18:43.593-08:00Comments on The Battle of California: Ducks Gameday—Phoenix, the hand that feeds youJames Mirtlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11221488913251638181noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-68097007384109353442007-03-22T22:44:00.000-07:002007-03-22T22:44:00.000-07:00Oh, and on the topic at hand:julian, I'm not sure ...Oh, and on the topic at hand:<BR/><BR/>julian, I'm not sure I want to see more east, even with the star power. As it stands, the 10 least important games in my mind are the 10 where we play the east, because I don't care whether we give them a point or not. Besides, we can't just give up the Phoenix games--that would also mean less games against SJ, DAL, and LA, and I like all of those matchups a lot.<BR/><BR/>rk, your first comment is probably the thing I have against the schedule, but I'm even a bit iffy on it. Certainly Detroit and Nashville will continue to have easy access to the playoffs so long as CBJ/CHI/STL insist on being so terrible (especially against DET/NSH). But (a) I don't think that can persist forever--there may come a day when DET hates its lot in life, and (b) it's certainly not DET or NSH's fault that they have easy opposition, they didn't cheat or anything. In that regard I could let it fly.<BR/><BR/>On your second comment, I wouldn't know about the LA power play, as they only got one early attempt in that DAL game I was at. What's the matter? Forgot to bribe the refs?<BR/><BR/>pb, good win tonight (I assume, I haven't watched it yet). I don't want this to sound the wrong way, but I admire what you're doing over there at OFP. It's a tough time for the 'Yotes, but I've been through some tough times over here (way before blogging), but staying the course is the way to go.<BR/><BR/>On a complete aside, pb, I almost feel like I would have been a better blogger back in the piss-poor Mighty Duck days. It's weird, but it's tough to write that well about a successful team, many a time I look at what I just wrote and call myself a braggart. When you're losing, then there's just more material. <BR/><BR/>Ummm, sorry for the long comment.Earl Sleekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15843720035500316419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-73694115036191196962007-03-22T22:31:00.000-07:002007-03-22T22:31:00.000-07:00Oof. Probably this is the hockey gods trying to t...Oof. Probably this is the hockey gods trying to tell me to be a little less haughty in the GDPs.<BR/><BR/>Or maybe they're just trying to reward me by making the April 4th game against SJ the most important game of the Ducks' regular season.<BR/><BR/>Why do you confuse me with such mixed messages, hockey gods?Earl Sleekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15843720035500316419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-8149582414262749952007-03-22T22:27:00.000-07:002007-03-22T22:27:00.000-07:00Sorry Earl, your free points will have to come nex...Sorry Earl, your free points will have to come next year!<BR/><BR/>:-)PBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07650806375496133659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-46482632629591913472007-03-22T21:49:00.000-07:002007-03-22T21:49:00.000-07:00Poor passing, inability to get it into the zone, o...Poor passing, inability to get it into the zone, overall incompetence... hey, you stole our power play!RudyKellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05935847996131016457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-26253019147916707612007-03-22T12:16:00.000-07:002007-03-22T12:16:00.000-07:00Nashville and Detroit are up there quite a bit. O...Nashville and Detroit are up there quite a bit. One could argue that their numbers are artificially inflated by playing 24 games against 3 bottom-feeders in the league.RudyKellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05935847996131016457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27850362.post-70596778156313396482007-03-22T11:02:00.000-07:002007-03-22T11:02:00.000-07:00I don't like the schedule because we don't get to ...I don't like the schedule because we don't get to see the great East conference players (and vice versa) nearly often enough.<BR/><BR/>I'd trade free points against Phoenix for getting to see Ovechkin, Crosby, Hossa, etc. any day.<BR/><BR/>Julian KJulianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10770329598123762347noreply@blogger.com