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2025-26 NHL Miscellaneous Thread

Now that Jack Edwards is gone, Daneyko might just be the biggest homer in NHL broadcasting. And yes, Dillon shouldn't have been anywhere near that bench after that beating.
 
cmaleski2 said:
Kind of stunned that Dillon got back to the bench later on. Really?!?!

NJ analyst Ken Daneyko apparently always allowed his opponent to compose himself and get his gloves all the way off before Daneyko started throwing. I'm sure no one can find any video showing anything to the contrary.
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Dillon looked so dazed and confused after that fight that no competent doctor, trainer or even coach should have allowed that guy anywhere close to the ice, bench etc...that just seems criminal.
 
According to Peter De Boer, the fiasco known as the new Olympic ice hockey venue in Milan that may not be finished in time for the start of the Olympic games...the rink is now somehow smaller than a regulation NHL sheet, perhaps as much as 3 or 4 feet smaller...not sure how that happened but apparently it did. Also from De Boer, the Olympics will see half NHL refs and half IIHF refs but the wrinkle is that countries with full NHL rosters will mostly be assigned NHL officials for those games.
 
CanadaCanes said:
According to Peter De Boer, the fiasco known as the new Olympic ice hockey venue in Milan that may not be finished in time for the start of the Olympic games...the rink is now somehow smaller than a regulation NHL sheet, perhaps as much as 3 or 4 feet smaller...not sure how that happened but apparently it did. Also from De Boer, the Olympics will see half NHL refs and half IIHF refs but the wrinkle is that countries with full NHL rosters will mostly be assigned NHL officials for those games.
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As of 5 weeks ago, they hadn’t finished closing it in. The article has a picture from 10/24 and they we’re still working on the exterior.

nypost.com

Milan-Cortina have ‘no plan B’ if hockey arena is not ready in time for 2026 Winter Olympics

NHL players will be back at the Olympics in February for the first time since 2014, but the planned main arena for ice hockey might not be ready in time for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games in I…
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I honestly don't see any way that project gets done in time. MAYBE if they just concentrate on enclosing the thing and building out the infrastructure needed to make the rink itself usable and just skip stuff like the public areas, they could get there. Maybe.
 
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet but the ice surface is smaller than NHL regulations. They built it to metric specifications, 60 meters long, 26 meters wide. That’s more than 3 feet short of the 200 foot NHL ice and a hair wider than 53 feet. Prior Olympics that NHL players played in were on international sized rinks, 60 meters long, but 30 meters wide. Smaller ice is going to be an issue. Both the league and NHLPA are “looking into it”.
 
andyt said:
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet but the ice surface is smaller than NHL regulations. They built it to metric specifications, 60 meters long, 26 meters wide. That’s more than 3 feet short of the 200 foot NHL ice and a hair wider than 53 feet. Prior Olympics that NHL players played in were on international sized rinks, 60 meters long, but 30 meters wide. Smaller ice is going to be an issue. Both the league and NHLPA are “looking into it”.
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Yea, CanadaCanes posted about it a few posts up
 
andyt said:
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet but the ice surface is smaller than NHL regulations. They built it to metric specifications, 60 meters long, 26 meters wide. That’s more than 3 feet short of the 200 foot NHL ice and a hair wider than 53 feet. Prior Olympics that NHL players played in were on international sized rinks, 60 meters long, but 30 meters wide. Smaller ice is going to be an issue. Both the league and NHLPA are “looking into it”.
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I'm not one for national stereotypes, but Italian contractors have a reputation for a reason.

That said, they played NHL games on weirder and smaller rinks for decades and nobody gave a crap. Remember the Aud in Buffalo with those stupid corners? Holy crap.
 
jeffbear said:
I'm not one for national stereotypes, but Italian contractors have a reputation for a reason.

That said, they played NHL games on weirder and smaller rinks for decades and nobody gave a crap. Remember the Aud in Buffalo with those stupid corners? Holy crap.
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Don't forget the short ice with the small neutral zones in the Boston Garden.

Also, if you want to see weird corners, watch an upcoming Cornell home game at the legendary Lynah Rink.
 
jeffbear said:
I'm not one for national stereotypes, but Italian contractors have a reputation for a reason.

That said, they played NHL games on weirder and smaller rinks for decades and nobody gave a crap. Remember the Aud in Buffalo with those stupid corners? Holy crap.
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The Aud closed after the 1995-96 season. The players’ size and speed of the game has changed a little in 30 years.
 
I get that. The point is that it's not unprecedented to have NHLers playing on smaller (and weirder) than standard rinks.
 
The Sens, Sharks and Devils recently went bucketless for warmups. They got a reminder from the league that helmets are required in warmups for any player that enter the league in the 2019-20 season. Players can be fined $5,000 for breaking the rule. For the Canes, Carrier is always bucketless, I’ve noticed Chatfield a few times too. Carrier isn’t required to wear one, he broke into the league in the 2016-17 season. But Chatfield‘s first season was 2020-21, so he’s required to wear it.

ottawacitizen.com

NHL head office doesn't like helmetless trend the Ottawa Senators started

NHL wants players wearing helmets during warmup, which Ottawa players ditched before game in Vegas last week.
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andyt said:
The Sens, Sharks and Devils recently went bucketless for warmups. They got a reminder from the league that helmets are required in warmups for any player that enter the league in the 2019-20 season. Players can be fined $5,000 for breaking the rule. For the Canes, Carrier is always bucketless, I’ve noticed Chatfield a few times too. Carrier isn’t required to wear one, he broke into the league in the 2016-17 season. But Chatfield‘s first season was 2020-21, so he’s required to wear it.

ottawacitizen.com

NHL head office doesn't like helmetless trend the Ottawa Senators started

NHL wants players wearing helmets during warmup, which Ottawa players ditched before game in Vegas last week.
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I am fine with this.

It's stupid to be out there without a helmet. Almost as stupid as the guys who play beer league without a visor or cage.
 
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