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Around The League - 2024-25 Regular Season

WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Because of that huge francophone community in Calgary?
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As Gord Miller says repeatedly: “it’s well known in hockey circles players, especially skilled types, have no desire to play in Cdn markets for a myriad of reasons including constant fan & media focus…”

Or better yet, as Stamkos stated openly to The Athletic earlier this year about TBay, when asked about what players look for in a team when they’ve got the opportunity to choose:

“You have enough notoriety if you need to (pull strings to) get a reservation or go anywhere, but it’s not over the top,'” said Stamkos. “That’s what is pretty special about it — you have the sold-out rinks, the passionate fans but you can go to the beach and not get recognized.

You can play golf during the season, you can get away from the game a little bit and be outdoors and from a family perspective, that’s amazing too.”
 
Sal_Butera said:
As Gord Miller says repeatedly: “it’s well known in hockey circles players, especially skilled types, have no desire to play in Cdn markets for a myriad of reasons including constant fan & media focus…”

Or better yet, as Stamkos stated openly to The Athletic earlier this year about TBay, when asked about what players look for in a team when they’ve got the opportunity to choose:

“You have enough notoriety if you need to (pull strings to) get a reservation or go anywhere, but it’s not over the top,'” said Stamkos. “That’s what is pretty special about it — you have the sold-out rinks, the passionate fans but you can go to the beach and not get recognized.

You can play golf during the season, you can get away from the game a little bit and be outdoors and from a family perspective, that’s amazing too.”
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It's a good thing that snowflakes like Stamkos never tried playing soccer in Europe.
 
The second hit is gross. It's clear interference and a retaliation hit.

Hischier gave up the puck, he's not in the play anymore and Murphy just levels him. Not only that, Murphy starts to move towards Hischier after the recipient of that Hischier pass has already tried to send it to someone else.

That's just trying to hurt players for no reason beyond neanderthal thinking.
 
GGpX said:

View: https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/1743432460971774274

Clean hit, unfortunate outcome, despite what the crybabies on Twitter are saying.

And course, because hockey culture is broken, Chicago has to give it right back, this time with an actual dirty hit.


View: https://twitter.com/CRoumeliotis/status/1743438572634431636
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Late hit. He likely was hurt because it was unexpected. Not that brutal of a hit though. Not like Chara on maxipad or many of Subbans bum-butts on frankennoze.
 
It's not a brutal hit, but it's cheap & pointless violence.

I'd have zero issue with the hit if Hischier still had the puck, that would be entirely legal. But hitting players that are outside of the play is illegal.
 
GGpX said:
The second hit is gross. It's clear interference and a retaliation hit.

Hischier gave up the puck, he's not in the play anymore and Murphy just levels him. Not only that, Murphy starts to move towards Hischier after the recipient of that Hischier pass has already tried to send it to someone else.

That's just trying to hurt players for no reason beyond neanderthal thinking.
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Hischier got caught looking his pass. There is about 2 seconds after a pass that you're still eligible to be hit, it was about during that time frame. Refs didn't even call anything. Was it a big hit? Yes. Was it in retaliation? Possibly. Was it dirty? Not really.
 
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