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So we agree neither guy adds much offense. Unfortunately for Petan, if he's not adding offense he's a liability. If nothing else, at least Thorburn is big and a decent skater so he can throw his weight around. I'll qualify this argument about the two of them by saying I think we should be able to do better than either one of them.

Petan has 12 points in 43 games and is both soft and terrible defensively. I agree with Maurice that Thorburn offers the team more than Petan does right now. Petan should be in the AHL playing top six minutes.

Good for Malkin for answering the challenge and good for Wheeler for kicking his ass. Sestito made the Pens look bad last night. I'd love to hear Lemieux's thoughts on how he was used.

The guys on the ice went after him, what else should have happened? It was late in a close game. Anything else would have been stupid. Wheeler should challenge him tonight if they want to do something about it.

Agreed, plus he's an excellent forechecker. They work well together imo.

Did somebody else choose that number for him? He has a reputation for being full of himself, and choosing a number that will put the spotlight on him (moreso) seems par for the course. I'm really surprised the team let him do it.

At least they gave Owens a bit of an out on the squash with Jericho distracting him. I loved the welterweight title match. I thought the little English guy (forget his name) would be legit hurt when he landed on his head from that suplex. The rest of it was pretty meh. Any idea why Rusev is losing all the time now? I liked his character...

That's how I see Petan. Imo he'll put up good number in lower leagues, but never amount to much in the NHL.

Matthias was outstanding tonight. Great work down low. I love his effort level.

Bisping went full villain yesterday and GSP can't trash talk to save his life. That was my takeaway from their presser. Also of note; GSP said his walk around weight is between 185-190 and he could easily make lightweight, as he's smaller than some current lightweights. Sets up a fight with McGregor, a huge pay day, and a belt in a 3rd weight class if he wins.

We didn't agree on my point if you're calling Durant a stud. Your qualifer above should definitely be added to Durant's "stud" status as well, as 547 yards in two years is nothing special.

Anybody else think that bit at the end of Smackdown with Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt was terrible? Super cheesy imo.

That's an indictment of the draft class more than an endorsement of Durant.

No date set yet, but GSP vs. Bisping at 185 for the title was confirmed by White this morning. Not sure how I feel about this one. GSP can probably beat Bisping, but I don't give him much chance against the giant middleweights like Romero or Rockhold. He'll be tiny at that weight class. I'd rather see him go to lightweight and fight guys like Khabib & McGregor.

For those who watch CIS football, what makes Vandervoot a better prospect than Richards was?

...and also Matthews is really good and deserving.

I'm very interested to see if Trestman will still look like an offensive genius with the talent he has to work with in Toronto.

This feels like an overstatement. I googled it b/c I was curious about his fo% in Anaheim. It was 52.65%, which is pretty good. Slater is 56.1% for his career.

Is there a cole's notes version of what's happening, or specific thread to read?

I can't imagine Johnson is making much. He was practically begging for a job through twitter.

I'm not that surprised. Adams wasn't very good at the end of 2015 or all of 2016.

Anderson was the biggest reason we got a point. Neither goalie was very good.

Both of these guys seem like legit prospects.

That's an interesting read. TUP has over 13k posts and wasn't even here at the beginning! That's a lot of arguing about wrestling and politics...

I'd vote for Iso. That grumpy old fella was always entertaining. Where'd he go? Mike chase him out of here?