Digital Sportspage

James is correct about cap space with the Oilers. Not too many teams carry dual superstars like McDavid and Draisaitl and their requisite pay stubs. Edmonton also is paying some dumb deals like $3.1 million per season for Yamamoto. I like Kailer, but he's a forechecker -- that's about it. Not worth ...

10spro wrote: ↑

Mon May 08, 2023 1:22 pm

And if anyone had noticed the likes of Marner, Tavares, Matthews, Nylander, wake me up…

Well, I'm saying the same thing about Nugent-Hopkins, but we Oilers' fans are happy residents of Planet Leon right now.

Sudz wrote: ↑

Mon May 08, 2023 8:34 am

Toronto? Looking bleak.

It's over. Add another year to the running total from 1967.

Downloaded NHL 23 on EA Play after trying it last fall on EA Play 10-hour trial. Sad to say post-release patches have done nothing to fix this title as a single-player game. It SUCKS, just like it has for at least the last 10 years. The AI plays nothing like real hockey. Guess I'm spoiled by The Show.

Double post. Sorry.

This game is Series X/S only, correct? I tried to download the trial the other night and was denied.

Oh, well: Back to the 2K golf series!

This game is Series X/S only, correct? I tried to download the trial the other night for my OG Xbox One and was denied.

Oh, well: Back to the 2K golf series!

I get the "stale" thing, Piggy and DB. But I'm still enamored as hell with The Show since, as an Xbox-only owner, my first exposure to this terrific franchise came just two years ago.

It's a remarkable team sports game. The best.

I played a quick game as the Tigers on my Xbox One S. Feels similar to last year's game but still fun. I wish I had the time/video game stamina of years past to dive in ;) Don't you mean it feels the same as the last 5 years? The game is boring - yet I continue to play it because I love baseball. T...

Double post. Sorry.

I absolutely detest Max and have little interest in following along to him romping to a third title. Same. As much as he tries to be likeable, something always emerges that shows Max for what he is -- an incredibly talented driver who has been told he is special and better than everyone else in any...

dbdynsty25 wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:56 pm

Southern California is really a whole different world than the rest of the United States.

Not to mention car fires. I saw more blazing cars on the freeway roadside in the six months I lived in SoCal in 1993-94 than I've seen combined for the rest of my 57+ years on this planet.

The big question/story about the looming tedium of the F1 season will be its impact on the global F1 boom. Americans are in love with F1 like never before in 2023. Americans also detest extended dominance in any sport. It's why our leagues have salary caps, revenue sharing, free agency, player draft...

I'm OK with the Barrie trade. He's having a super year and is the backline QB of the power play. But the Oilers' PP doesn't depend on him. Maybe this will spur Bouchard to develop into what some people think he can be. The Oilers' biggest problem is defense. That's the weakest area of Barrie's game ...

This is bad news. Madden 23 plays just fine on the field -- it's perhaps the best and most realistic game of console football I've played. "Make or break" is EA marketing BS for "Let's introduce a bunch of new features that no one wants and change the already solid physics and AI of the game complet...

JAAAAACK! Good to hear from you, man. Hope you're still spinning at 33 1/3, forward revolutions ... That Backbone unit looks cool. I'm still rolling along in console land, but that gizmo looks like a nice option for phone-only gaming. The touch controls of phone gaming always have bothered me compar...

With the bloody Rangers acquiring V. Tarasenko and the Blues retaining 50% of his salary, NY becomes an instant candidate for me at Lord’s Stanley. That kid line led by Lafreniere, all kinds of speed with the forwards and the addition now of Tarasenko, scoring will come in bunches for them. Wouldn’...

How Rutherford claimed Boudreau publicly that he didn’t have any structure in his D was disgusting, even though it wasn’t his original hiring you just don’t throw your coach under the bus to the media that crave stories like that. Even worse: Rutherford confirmed the Canucks were looking for replac...

The Canucks' organization is a dumpster fire. They treated Boudreau like crap, hired a coach in Tocchet with a losing track record and probably should have gotten more for Horvat.

As an Oilers' fan, I shed ZERO tears.

Assetto Corsa Competizione is free this weekend for GamePass Ultimate and Xbox Live Gold subscribers. The best pure driving experience I've ever enjoyed on a console. Worth checking out if curious.

Did 2K Sports lose the PGA Tour license or did the Tour issue the license to multiple developers, including EA? Quite weird if the latter, as exclusivity is almost a prerequisite for sports licensing deals these days.

COD MW 2 Warzone DMZ The Division 2 The Hunter: Call of the Wild Tannenberg, Isonzo, Verdun (BlackMill Games WW I trilogy) World of Outlaws Sprint Cars FIFA 22 Forza Motorsport 7 Microsoft Flight Simulator Insurgency Sandstorm TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 2 That's the heart of my lineup these da...

Anyone else watching/watched "Welcome to Wrexham" on FX? What a delightful show! It's a docuseries about the purchase of Wrexham AFC, a small, lower-level pro soccer team in northeast Wales, by Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Really shows what a football club means to a small UK t...

All I can think is "L.A. Noire" is a Rockstar title, and its games aren't sold at 5 cents on the dollar ever -- even in sales. GTA V still sells for $20. Or Rockstar had to pay "L.A. Confidential" author James Ellroy a healthy fee to build a game based on his book, and Rockstar is trying to earn bac...

Anyone remember L.A. Noire? It's not on sale but when it is i'll get that as I think that has been remastered too. I've never played L.A. Noire, but it amazes me how that game's retail price has stayed at $40 even though it was released in 2017. It's on sale this week for $20. A 5-year-old game is ...