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2019-20 Miscellaneous NHL/Hockey News Thread

CanadaCanes said:
That's a million dollar quote and you nailed it!!! I cannot think of any better way to put things these days then that! "It had a lot of words and said nothing". I kinda feel like that applies to just about everything right now and it's maddening as hell.
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To be fair, it’s like Jeffbear said elsewhere. Everything is tentative. Making concrete plans is foolish at best, reckless at worst.
 
Just my 2 cents, but at some point you have to have a concrete plan and try and stay with it, this stuff is just not sustainable to keep pushing out too far to a point of no return. I'm not trying to minimize health risks at all, but the spit balling of 100 plans against the wall at some point has to change to a real plan of attack that can actually get off the ground...it has started to gravitate to more of a political back and forth and that really gets nauseating for some, myself included.
 
The biggest issue that has thus far been largely unaddressed is that the Players Association will have to sign off on whatever the final plan ends up being ... which means at some point you're going to have to quit the messing around and actually propose something concrete. Until you can actually, realistically do that ... then yeah. This is a lot of words signifying nothing ... tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Sorry ... mangling Shakespeare is a thing my quarantine brain apparently thinks is funny.
 
jeffbear said:
The biggest issue that has thus far been largely unaddressed is that the Players Association will have to sign off on whatever the final plan ends up being ... which means at some point you're going to have to quit the messing around and actually propose something concrete. Until you can actually, realistically do that ... then yeah. This is a lot of words signifying nothing ... tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Sorry ... mangling Shakespeare is a thing my quarantine brain apparently thinks is funny.
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Yeah, I definitely see dozens of obstacles but that is a big one that most people just gloss over. Also the whole having municipal, provincial/state, or federal government blessing thing which they always seem to ignore as well.

I think it also makes public health officials' job of trying to convince people not to gather almost impossible, even if you don't have fans in the stands.
 
hockeylover said:
Yeah, I definitely see dozens of obstacles but that is a big one that most people just gloss over. Also the whole having municipal, provincial/state, or federal government blessing thing which they always seem to ignore as well.

I think it also makes public health officials' job of trying to convince people not to gather almost impossible, even if you don't have fans in the stands.
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At least the league isn’t doing this in a vacuum, the PA is included on the committee. And it’s also not just the issue of playing at all, they have the whole expiring contracts thing to get past. How do you force a player whose contract expired on June 30 to play games beyond that date?
 
andyt said:
At least the league isn’t doing this in a vacuum, the PA is included on the committee. And it’s also not just the issue of playing at all, they have the whole expiring contracts thing to get past. How do you force a player whose contract expired on June 30 to play games beyond that date?
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Huh. Yeah, never thought of that one either. Good question.
 
jeffbear said:
Unless McDonough was holding out on firing Stan Bowman for some weird reason, it doesn't make sense to me to can him and not can Bowman at the same time. The Hawks need a realistic leadership group to transition out of "win a championship" mode now that their core is too old (and expensive) do that job anymore. They've been living in deep denial for 2-3 years now, but I'm not sure the various Wirtz family members involved aren't just as delusional as their management staff.

Then again ... it's a Chicago team so they can pack sand for all I care. I'm not going to be upset if they go back to sucking for a decade or so.
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CHicago is a team that was not really built for a cap era. I can't recall if many of those contracts are Dale Tallon's or not, but Chicago signed too many folks to long contracts and that move to re-acquire Saad (post-Tallon) was stupid.
 
Tallon started it, but Bowman gleefully carried on in the same rut. Much like Holland did in Detroit, they just got stuck in the mindset that the league wouldn't change and that their core players wouldn't regress ... and both things happened, rendering their teams virtually useless.
 
They would need an agreement with the union that all contracts that were due to expire June 30th would be extended to Oct. 1 (or whatever date they pick. )
 
Bruins sign goalie Jaro Halak to a 1 year extension with a $2.25 million base and $1.25 million performance bonus for playing 10 games.
 
Elliotte Friedman says the NHL Chief Content Officer will new with Bettman and Deputy Commish Bill Daly on Tuesday to review bids for potential hubs if the league restarts. It’s believed that Raleigh submitted a bid. Luke tweeted that depending on the timing of the potential games, the 2nd rink at the new practice facility might be ready. As Paulie noted In another thread, the first sheet is almost complete. Having 2 sheets available would improve Raleigh’s chances

 
Is 2 practice rinks enough? I guess they could keep RCI open too. I would think most other bidders are going to have more and better practice sites.
 
Paulie Walnuts said:
Is 2 practice rinks enough? I guess they could keep RCI open too. I would think most other bidders are going to have more and better practice sites.
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They can't keep RCI open. It is my understanding that the refrigeration equipment from RCI is being repurposed for one of the new sheets in Morrisville.
 
Paulie Walnuts said:
brand new building with old ice equipment? Sounds like penny wise and pound foolish. Unless the RCI stuff is pretty new.
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New cooling tower was installed less than 4 years ago (summer 2016). There are many things wrong with that building, the cooling of the ice itself wasn't one of them in recent years compared with other area rinks, allowing for the occasional soupy 95-100 degree summer day exception.

I don't know which equipment is being moved to WCC, but I've heard the same thing about it happening.

I played the next-to-last game at RCI on 3/15 on the last day before adult leagues were suspended. Been skating beer league there weekly since 2004 except for a couple interruptions due to renovations.... will kinda miss the old dump. Looking forward to the new barn though.
 
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