WHY IS EATON PLAYING WHILE REESE SITS?
by Potvin's Cups on Feb 3, 2012 9:30 PM EST
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I am watching (via DVR) tonight's game. With about 1:00 to play in the 1st, Eaton turned the puck over at his blueline
leading to one of the best chances of the night to that pt. for one of Ottawa's best players (Michalek). About 10 seconds
later, he turns it over AGAIN! This guy STINKS! Reese can SKATE CIRCLES AROUND THIS GUY! WHY MUST WE BE
SUBJECTED TO THIS LOSER? And why is it that all the real Isles fans on this site who have other jobs,etc. can see this
but the pros who run the team can't or won't???
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YOUR POST'S TIMING IS AFULLY IRONIC
WHY SHOUT?
Seriously, FanPosts are not for random mid-game or mid-game-on-DVR-delay emissions. Add sentiments like this to the game thread, or the recap, when you’re through.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
by Dominik on Feb 3, 2012 10:34 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
I literally burst out laughing when I read this fanshot
Definitely a poster at Lighthouse Hockey until 2015, then maybe somewhere else.
LOUD NOISES!!!
"Oh no. He's got some speed. I might have to take his legs out." Rick DiPietro shortly before the first stitch came out.
by backstop87 on Feb 4, 2012 12:41 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
t be serious.
Stainer of mountaintops.
by Chairman Meow on Feb 3, 2012 10:45 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
No no, this is good
Over the summer, post something irrational about how the organization doesn’t know how to sign players like Ryan Suter. It just might work.
by sayvillelax94 on Feb 4, 2012 12:21 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Hey Dominik & Chairman & Sayville: After seeing Eaton score that goal--
I’d STILL nail him to his press box seat tomorrow night anyway, and play Reese instead! Let’s see— a player makes a couple dozen bad plays for every good one (which is being kind, I think, to Eaton), and I should change my mind about him being an awful player? Sorry, doesn’t work that way. Reese is still much better. When was Eaton’s previous goal? 50 games ago? More? Do you think Reese, with all the big minutes given to Eaton, wouldn’t have scored more goals than the latter— esp. in OT, 4 on 4, where defense goes out the window w/ all the open ice? Not to mention that Reese should play ahead of Staios too!
I'd almost call it ironic
But it’s actually in line with your original post, in that this comment is actually better then your original fanpost. There’s a multitude of reasons for that, but let’s go through them:
A: You didn’t double space your lines. Shift and Enter is your friend. Or you can copy and paste from Notepad.
B: You didn’t overuse the caps button, in either your comment title or during your comment
C: You have a multitude of stats out there to help you explain why Reese is preferable to Eaton, yet you use the always subjective argument that “Reese can skate circles around Eaton”
D: Although Eaton takes a beating on the site, it’s hardly an overwhelming majority. Now Mottau…
Also you have somehow managed 4 posts before this, and people explained this to you before. The Reply button is your friend, it makes it easier to follow the conversation because it puts all responses in one thread.
Let me give you the best piece of advice possible when it comes to being on the internet. LURK MOAR. Get to know the community, the standards, how different tools of the forum your dealing with work BEFORE you start making posts and contributing.
"Mark D: the internet's foremost chronicler of Milburian insanity" - Pretty Good Idiot
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
That's great, and of course one goal shouldn't change anyone's opinion on anything.
The point is there is a game thread for mid-game rants of opinion you just have to get off your chest. Or the recap. (Goodness, people lodge their immediate reactions and vents about who stinks more all the time.)
FanPosts aren’t for this. They’re for a little more thought, evidence — and proofreading. For example, Streit and Parenteau also made bad danger-zone turnovers tonight that led to or almost led to scoring chances. Of course no one would rate Eaton over them, just like no one would change their view of Eaton based on a goal tonight, but that’s the lone evidence put forth in your FanPost. Which means it’s better left as a comment somewhere.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
The point is there is a game thread for mid-game rants of opinion you just have to get off your chest.
And if you said exactly what you said, caps and all, as a comment in the game thread, nobody would have poked fun at you. Heck- there would people would have agreed with you! :)
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Feb 4, 2012 10:20 AM EST up reply actions
Dear MC:
Thanks for your decency. Unlike some others here, you seem to have some sense of courtesy and a refreshing lack of pomposity. If it had been you that had alerted me to the fact that I wasn’t following the protocol here, all this would have been avoided. Instead, I’ve been spoken to like I committed a mortal sin, and as though I had no intelligence, neither of which is remotely close to the truth. (To think, I sat in the Coliseum and watched the Richard Kromms, Brad Lauers of the world and got a Master’s Degree in English & more to be spoken to this way—amazing! I wonder how many of these people know who those players are? Or were even alive when I went to a bar to watch, heartbroken, the Isles on closed circuit TV [!] get eliminated by the Rangers in Game 6 of the 1979 playoffs!)
by Potvin's Cups on Feb 4, 2012 1:18 PM EST up reply actions
:)
LHH is a good place to talk hockey- I promise, you will not feel spoken down to around here in normal conversation. Its one of the things thats really nice around here- you can hold an opinion and not be bashed just for having it.
I can say that I see no lack of intelligence in questioning Eaton being in over Reese- not at all. Its something many people around here would (and do) question. If you check out a game thread, theres bound to be lots of comments just like yours. Like Dom said above, people lodge their reactions and vent about who stinks more all the time around here. So rest assured that is definitely not what you said, its just where/how you said it- thats all.
And seriously- all things considered, you have to admit that the timing on this wound up really funny! What were the odds, huh?
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Feb 4, 2012 1:51 PM EST up reply actions
MC
You are a gentlewoman and a scholar. As for the odds of Eaton scoring a goal, i guess I’d say it has to be about 1 in 121! (Hmmm… he doesn’t hit anyone, turns the puck over like crazy, has poor skating ability, and goes a season & a half w/o scoring— adds up to a terrible, inferior-to-Reese player— which is all I was trying to say, which makes it exasperating that pros can’t see this, while we, whose hours each day are taken up doing many other things CAN see it…) Peace
by Potvin's Cups on Feb 4, 2012 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
No harm meant
It was the timing and the protocol (available in community guidelines) that made it an easy source for some jabs. Try to think of FanPosts as place for articles rather than gotta-get-it-out-now missives.
(Plus, I have a confessed bias against all caps and multiple exclamation points. I think that stuff is reserved for Cup wins, declarations of war, and tabloids.)
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
No harm meant?
You could have fooled me. I found out about this site from IPB. I commented there many times; they have almost no rules for doing so. I wasn’t aware that this site was infinitely stricter; now I know. What’s done is done, so here’s to a new arena in Bklyn and the end of Islanders’ seasons being a countdown to the draft lottery.
by Potvin's Cups on Feb 5, 2012 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
Its not, really.
Fan Posts and Fan Shots have definitions throughout SB Nation, thats all. Otherwise there would be 4398576245098764509876 fanshots of random comments and nobody would be able to find anything.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Feb 5, 2012 3:23 PM EST up reply actions
I could have fooled you?
By pointing out where all-caps rants within the game are to be directed? Again, sorry if you were offended but it’s in keeping with the established context of things here. Much more leeway is given with comments; when such leeway is given with FanPosts content they become … just comments with a louder platform.
I don’t know about “infinitely stricter” — there are general guidelines, which are linked in the box when you sign up to this site — but yes, we do try to keep it from becoming like any random Internet outpost of shouting. It’s hard. It sometimes requires public reminders so that we all know and remember.
Stick around and we’ll have plenty of fun revelries and interesting squabbles, from Kromm to Lauer to obscure future Isles yet unknown.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
by Dominik on Feb 6, 2012 1:45 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Yeah, we are not run like that zoo called IPB. lol.
This is a better and different isles talk site.
PS-Let’s not be so pessimistic. Season ends today and we are 7th worst in the nhl/24th best and have a 0% CHANCE OF GETTING THE 1ST OVERALL PICK, and LESS THAN A 5% CHANCE OF WINNING THE LOTTERY AND MOVING TO 3RD OVERALL. Just a little fyi. lol
And welcome!
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
"John Tavares(a top 10 forward in the NHL)"-Neil Greenberg
Oh, excuse me--
I WAS wrong about one thing: it wasn’t 50 games w/o a goal for the great Eaton, it was 121!!!
Metz (&Mark D)
I wrote my original statement way before the end of the game, and I’ve bashed Eaton and Mottau many weeks ago. It’s just that people with poor evaluation and analysis skills were giving me a hard time over my criticism of an AWFUL defenseman because he managed to score a goal on open ice for the first time in 121 games! What makes you think I wasn’t happy that he scored in OT and they won? I’m on the East Coast writing this at 1:51 AM!! I’m as big an Islander fan as there is.
Mark D: If you agree that Reese is superior to Eaton, then why do you have a problem w/ me saying that the former can skate circles around the latter? I think any scout (or careful observer) would agree w/ my assessment of these players’ skating abilities.
by Potvin's Cups on Feb 4, 2012 1:58 AM EST up reply actions
You have a multitude of stats out there to help you explain why Reese is preferable to Eaton, yet you use the always subjective argument that "Reese can skate circles around Eaton"
Mark D: If you agree that Reese is superior to Eaton, then why do you have a problem w/ me saying that the former can skate circles around the latter? I think any scout (or careful observer) would agree w/ my assessment of these players’ skating abilities.
It’s 2 in the morning so I’m going to keep this short. I didn’t agree that Reese is superior to Eaton. My point (which went over your head) is that fanposts need more content. You could have went to behindthenet.ca and dug up Corsi, Quality of Competition, Quality of Teammates, etc to help you make your point. Simply saying that Reese can skate around Mottau is totally subjective, even if it appears to be true. Sometimes the stats will prove you right, sometimes they will prove you wrong. But the whole point I was making is look up and get some more stats and more meat if you are going to make a fanpost.
"Mark D: the internet's foremost chronicler of Milburian insanity" - Pretty Good Idiot
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
It’s just that people with poor evaluation and analysis skills were giving me a hard time over my criticism of an AWFUL defenseman because he managed to score a goal on open ice for the first time in 121 games!
by sayvillelax94 on Feb 4, 2012 1:20 PM EST up reply actions
Don't know why that posted before I finished writing
But don’t tell anyone they have “poor evaluation and analysis skills” because they disagree with you (or are telling you the proper place to post such an idea). There’s no need for that.
by sayvillelax94 on Feb 4, 2012 1:22 PM EST up reply actions
Is it possible that this fanpost is written in code?
by Mulligan on Feb 4, 2012 8:55 AM EST reply actions 3 recs
Summation
Random caps + questionable choice of medium + ironic timing = a certain amount irritation and confusion
No need to read much more into it, although posting about a game that is over but which the poster hasn’t yet seen in its entirety will always be a bit of a gamble.
Nevertheless, I agree that the fortuitous goal did not reflect on the player’s overall contribution, but it was nice nonetheless.
It is Diduck.
by Paumanok on Feb 4, 2012 5:02 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I don’t think any argument that has been posted in all caps on the Internet has changed anyone’s mind.
Official choice of Lighthouse Dog #1.
YOU'RE WRONG!!!
SEE WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT?
by afrosupreme on Feb 6, 2012 6:16 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
FOR THE RECORD
THE OFFICIAL LIGHTHOUSE DOG #1 TYPES IN ALL CAPS. BUT THEN HER DEW CLAW RESTS ON CAPS LOCK.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
by Dominik on Feb 6, 2012 10:12 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
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