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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

The NHL is slow no doubt, but I think some people are forgetting,(or maybe just too young?) what it was like when you could basically waterski behind your guy, when guys like McDavid couldn't showcase their speed because it was legal to hold the game to death.

I hate the double standard on calls pre and post-April, but the league has made some changes that have helped.
....I know there are some chintsy penalties out of this as well, but we don't have Crosby having his wrist broken, in general stars are safer...baby steps.
 
Bleedsblue&white said:
The NHL is slow no doubt, but I think some people are forgetting,(or maybe just too young?) what it was like when you could basically waterski behind your guy, when guys like McDavid couldn't showcase their speed because it was legal to hold the game to death.

I hate the double standard on calls pre and post-April, but the league has made some changes that have helped.
....I know there are some chintsy penalties out of this as well, but we don't have Crosby having his wrist broken, in general stars are safer...baby steps.
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So true. A few years ago they were showing a bunch of old school games and it was hellarious what the players were doing to each other.
 
Bleedsblue&white said:
The NHL is slow no doubt, but I think some people are forgetting,(or maybe just too young?) what it was like when you could basically waterski behind your guy, when guys like McDavid couldn't showcase their speed because it was legal to hold the game to death.

I hate the double standard on calls pre and post-April, but the league has made some changes that have helped.
....I know there are some chintsy penalties out of this as well, but we don't have Crosby having his wrist broken, in general stars are safer...baby steps.
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I think baby steps is the problem. They don't need a scalpel, they need a cleaver right now. Scalpel later.
 
Yeah, it's bizarre. They made it sound like it's some kind of crazy experimental surgery, but apparently it's really not. Hasn't been performed on an NHL player before, but he had lots of doctors lined up to say it's an acceptable alternative to the surgery preferred by the Sabres, which can lead to problems later in life. This is gonna look really bad on Buffalo if he recovers quickly and is fine.

Only thing I can think of is apparently he quietly asked for a trade before all this, so maybe they were just being spiteful.
 
I thought that I heard a tennis player had it done and it didn't really work and never played again.
 
Hoss said:
I thought that I heard a tennis player had it done and it didn't really work and never played again.
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Figure skater, Plushenko. Got the surgery in early 2013, returned and won a major event and then the Russian championship, skated in the olympics briefly before a pin from the surgery snapped during a practice for the men's finals.

So it was a surgery that allowed a legendary figure skater who was already ancient in skating years (with a bucket of prior surgeries under his belt) to come back and get back to world class form before injuring it again...so there's fodder for both sides of the argument in his story.
 
What’s the deal with the nights cap situation? Don’t they need to make some serious moves in order to activate Jack?
 
Yeah they'll need to ditch at least one major salary. Replacing Pacioretty ($7m) with a league minimum guy would let them ice a full roster with one extra skater.
 
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