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2019-20 Miscellaneous NHL/Hockey News Thread

If they can't figure it out in a locked-down empty arena without the normal 18000+ mouth breathers adding their own heat and humidity to the mix (not to mention the normal hour+ of exposure to outside air right before a game due to doors opening during ingress that they won't have now), they deserve all the criticism they'll get. Bigger problems than ice to worry about this year, as many have noted.
 
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andyt said:
McKenzie says the games will be at Noon, 4 pm and 8 pm local time. So there will be games every 2 hours, since Edmonton is 2 hours behind us. All off the games except the noon game are subject to change depending on the results of prior game. The round robin games between the top 4 seeds will use regular season OT/shootout rules, but the other games will be played under playoff OT rules, so there is no guarantee the game will be over in less than 3 hours.
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For all of us hockey nuts that work from home...I'm not against watching 6 playoff games a day everyday when it's hot as hell outside in August here!

It will just be weird watching those high level playoff games with no fans...it is going to take some getting used to.
 
CanadaCanes said:
For all of us hockey nuts that work from home...I'm not against watching 6 playoff games a day everyday when it's hot as hell outside in August here!

It will just be weird watching those high level playoff games with no fans...it is going to take some getting used to.
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The English Premier League will be done by then, so I’ll need something to fill my iPad screen during the day.
 
This seems bad.

Edmonton’s Misericordia Hospital is effectively shutting its doors to the public to battle a “full facility” COVID-19 outbreak that has now left three patients dead and another 20 patients and 15 staff infected, Alberta Health Services said Wednesday.
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edmontonjournal.com

Misericordia Hospital COVID-19 outbreak: Three dead, 20 patients and 15 staff now infected

Edmonton's Misericordia Hospital is effectively shutting its doors to the public to battle a "full facility" COVID-19 outbreak that has now left three patients dead and another 20 patients and 15 staff infected, Alberta Health Services said Wednesday.
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jeffbear said:
So long as they stay in Edmonton, yes. Those guys don't know the first thing about getting decent ice anywhere else, however, and should be kept as far away from Toronto as possible. The NHL uses their stupid one size fits all "great ice plan" in the playoffs and screws up the ice every danged year. They came into Raleigh last spring, took over from our local guys, immediately jacked up the ambient arena temps by 8 degrees and ruined our dehumidification system. Our ice sucked on toast for the duration of the playoffs.
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Sure, blame the ice.

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Habsy said:
I know what he meant, was just poking a little fun.
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Actually, our ice has been pretty bad since Donnie MacMillan died in 2011. He moved with the team from Hartford and lived in a RV parked near the loading dock.
 
CanadaCanes said:
It will just be weird watching those high level playoff games with no fans...it is going to take some getting used to.
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Meh ... a month or so into watching high level soccer with no fans and I've mostly gotten used to it. The generic crowd noise takes awhile to assimilate, but even that seems normal enough after a few games.
 
andyt said:
Actually, our ice has been pretty bad since Donnie MacMillan died in 2011. He moved with the team from Hartford and lived in a RV parked near the loading dock.
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I wouldn't say "bad" so much as much more erratic. Having Donny waddle in there to make adjustments all hours of the night surely helped. The man was an American hero.
 
Per Frank Seravalli, some dates in the Memorandum of Understanding to keep track of.

Free agency starts the the later of October 9 or 7 days after the Cup Final ends.

Training camp starts November 17

Regular season opens December 1
 
Chris Pronger is leaving his position as Senior VP of Hockey Operations with the Panthers to work full time for the travel company he and his wife founded.
 
Why on this good earth would any person have a travel company? I cannot think of a faster way to the poor house. Those types of people need to be shunned not only by their families, but by society as a whole.
 
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