2025-26 NHL Miscellaneous Thread

[NoMich]

Good for you, Victor. For your sake, I hope you can get into a better mental health space. It's a hard friggin battle that seems like the only light at the end of a tunnel is actually a train.

 

[SlapShots]

I look forward to the day when these kind of statements are treated as routine as getting over the flu and not some act of bravery. Wellness, whole person care and mental health are that important as treating hypertension and should be that normalized.

 

[CanadaCanes]

I've completely given up trying to understand the current NHL icing rules. I mean, I understand the rules as written (at least I THINK I do), but then almost every game you see a scenario play out where clearly the rule as not correctly applied, likely due to the linesmen just not seeing things correctly.

I've chalked it all up to it being very hard to actually make that judgement call in real time at ice level. It's a lot easier to question icing calls (who won the race?, did he make the line?, was that actually deflected?) when you are sitting up higher and can really see everything.

At what point in the NHL game overall did the linesmen all get together and decide that everyone comes to pay and watch those guys drop a puck? The lecture they seem to love to give guys, even to seasoned faceoff pros like Jordo is comical...it has gotten to the point where they just feel like they need their own TV time and make a spectacle out of way too many faceoffs every night. Get them set ok, but drop the puck and cut it out with the "Johnny Murray School of Faceoff Madeness"...