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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

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Wayward DP said:
can't really blame them to be honest.

also, fuck China.
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My thoughts exactly. I don't often agree with the league but when it comes to their reluctance to shut down the NHL season for an Olympic break I am with them (even though I realize that the reasons why I don't want NHL players to go is altogether different from the league's reasons. They'll agree to just about anything if they're paid enough whereas I disagree with it on principle)
 
I was listening to an news-piece the other day about sexual harassment on Canadian University campuses. How many are "settled internally, usually with a cash payment and a non-disclosure agreement". So the end result is that the victim is hushed, and the harasser is often shuffled off campus, but will get hired at another university without any evidence of wrong-doing. Sound familiar?

There are a lot of victims hushed by an NDA that could ruin many powerful people in this world.
 
These fucking guys think that people want to watch a bunch of lunch bucket grinders get pucks deep, work the boards and "get pucks on net" all night, and think that pure violence that is illegal in any other setting is required to keep the game from becoming too fun to watch.

Fucking dinosaurs. Fuck the whole lot of them. Retire, die, or just otherwise fuck off please.
 
I'M NOT SURE IT'S GOOD FOR THE GAME. lol.

goals. that's what we're talking about here. not like, traumatic brain injuries... or sexual assault cover ups... or 5 minute offside reviews to see if a guy lifted his skate enough... or the fact that the rulebook is enforced differently from night to night and it's a whole new one during the playoffs. nah, a really cool goal is bad for the game.
 
Because, as a coach you want your opponent's game to be predictable, and containable. As long as the puck stays on the ice, or is only shot from certain places, you can control the game.
 
I’ve been debating it all night and I gotta say I like seeing hooking penalties more than hot dogging awesome goals like that.

That exciting shit is just really not good for the game. I’m pretty sure of that.
 
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It's such a weird reaction to this goal. Players have been banking the puck into the net off the goalie from behind the goal line for forever. Zegras just found a novel way to do it. If you don't like it, then don't give him time and space with the puck behind the net.
 
Torts' comments on TNT show how old school he is. Like stuff Don Cherry would say. He basically ripped Mcdavid for that unbelievable goal he scored a couple weeks back.
Great plays sell the game. We use to embrace it. Now so many look down on it. Keep Torts far away from the Leafs
 
I think there's a deeply ingrained sense of resentment, way down somewhere, that a lot of these guys in the game who didn't have the talent to make the NHL (or, were journeyman "hard honest game" types) have towards more talented players, and sometimes it peeks through.

you're never going to hear Steve Yzerman or Joe Sakic complain about a goal from a skilled play.

but you'd certainly hear it from ham and egger dman Pat "Tomfoolery" Quinn, for instance.
 
Volcanologist said:
I think there's a deeply ingrained sense of resentment, way down somewhere, that a lot of these guys in the game who didn't have the talent to make the NHL (or, were journeyman "hard honest game" types) have towards more talented players, and sometimes it peeks through.

you're never going to hear Steve Yzerman or Joe Sakic complain about a goal from a skilled play.

but you'd certainly hear it from ham and egger dman Pat "Tomfoolery" Quinn, for instance.
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It's funny, because before I got to this line at the end of your post, I was thinking this is why I loved Quinn so much when he was running the Leafs. Sometimes the old school mentality would leak through in comments like that one, sure, and he did have a frustrating love affair with big dummy bottom-pairing defensemen that were reminiscent of Quinn in his playing days.

But on the whole, he was a former no-skill, truculent defensive defenseman who as a coach and GM hated the neutral zone trap, prioritized adding skill & giving them a free rein, and who's teams played an open offensive style throughout the worst of the dead puck era.
 
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