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  1. Getting back to the topic at hand here. Jason Statham.
  2. Invoking CDC history... Negatives... do we really need them?
  3. It feels a bit "Milton" from office space. "Just stop paying him (kill the links) and the problem will go away" That or it was just a ****up. One or the other.
  4. It's a good first step. The ads themselves aren't going anywhere, but the shills get dumped at least. Next step, treat them like cigarette ads. Nowhere to be seen.
  5. Jovo / Tanev would have been an absolutely deadly pairing. So (3)Miller / Linden(4) / Smyl (2) Jovo(3) / Tanev(3) Miller (2)
  6. Watching some of those hits at the end... wow. Predatory head hunting at its finest. Slewfooting. Kneeing. High elbows. Running guys headfirst into the boards. Running goalies intentionally. There were a couple of clean, good hits in there but mostly stuff that I'm glad gets penalized now. People say "oh guys had more respect back then"... clearly not, looking at that. Still, thanks for the blast from the past. In return, my favourite play of the last 21 years. And it'll be the last 22 years next year.
  7. Important to note: Quality dictates quality, not price. Lots of expensive *garbage* out there (not just in hockey land). "You get what you pay for" to a degree most of the time though - but consider that for 'gear', only your blades 'touch the ice' - like tires on a car - it's worth it to step up. Lighter and better quality materials make a world of difference - if you have 'great' skates and then go 'put on rentals' or other crap ones, you'll notice how heavy your feet are in the crap ones. You'll likely have a better quality fit, more ankle/foot support, and potentially better glide out of the steel post-sharpen. If you skate a lot, and have had the same ones for almost 15 years, I would say go for some higher end skates. Try to see if there's any last-ditch "summer" disposal sales of good gear from last year, you can do pretty well sometimes.
  8. Depends where you live. I know a guy (and played with other AHL guys who figured the below out early that they weren't going to make it and got out) who played in the Tampa farm system a few years, so close to that ticket to the show and his minors salary barely covered the costs associated with living in Norfolk. The AHL grind is rough too, lots of 'road time' - you still have to pay all the same bills, but you're on a bus a LOT, and the road per diem for the A is not what it is for the NHL. The issue is these are guys who USUALLY went straight from junior - no college or anything. So their only knowledge/education/experience when they age out of hockey - in their late 20s/early 30s - is high school education and 'how to play hockey pretty good'. While the rest of 'us' were getting experience working or perhaps college/uni degrees, they're "10 years behind" as it were. Sure they made $80-130k a year pre tax as a 20-something. But often in a high COL area, and considering hockey players are not usually the brightest knives in the bowl, there's not likely to be very much if any of that left - and they're left with recurring/nagging body pains from 20 years of hard hockey for the rest of their life. For some, that's worth it, I'm sure. But I've seen the results of 'not' making it and that life isn't what it's cracked up to be, at least in my own opinion / observations.
  9. The boarding, elbowing and charging calls are what went uncalled. And you are correct, the bigger team does stay healthier - when they can do that sort of thing. The panthers were stick pric*s so they weren't angels by any stretch. And I certainly didn't want them to win based on their antics. This is the first SCF where I actively wanted both teams to lose. But the differential in the calls - Vegas could do the boarding / charging (watch their hits) with impunity. Florida didn't have the size to do that, and when they did try, they got gooned AND lost the penalty swing too. No win situation, just like 2011. I'm more salty about Vegas winning because it's clearly about the money. Gary can say "Hey, look, successful team off the bat. Pony up" the next time an expansion or sale rolls around. Double down with how the Campbell thing was with the Canucks 10 years ago - documented and proven favouritism, the NHL is bush.
  10. When you're allowed to beat the s**t out of the other team and not take penalties for it, it makes it easy to drop the other teams to attrition. They had 6 guys on the ice for Vegas jerseys and 2 guys with orange armbands all year. Easy to look good like that.
  11. When a team like Vegas gets zero penalty minutes until late in the third (when it was a puck over the glass) in any game (The previous game), it means there's f**king shenanigans. And this game... 2 minutes all game. So 2 penalties for Vegas in the flow of play over two entire games. Ignoring the 'end of game tack on' penalty minutes that mean absolutely nothing, penalties from the flow of game play... a team that plays like Vegas does... they've gone remarkably clean all of a sudden. So yeah, you can build a lineup like theirs knowing they won't get called for whatever they do. See: Boston. Put Myers on that team he still wins because he can run guys and dome them and he won't get called like he does here. It's that simple. Add in the BS with Chicago getting that pick, this is monetized entertainment like wrestling. I have zero confidence that any of this is at any time above board. It's about the money. Thinking there's sport here is just disappointing. And for the record **** the Panthers too. I wanted both of them to lose, but watching it be gifted with so many non-calls, it's just dogsh*t.
  12. People like to make fun of Murzyn's skating but if anybody went near the net or hacked at the goalie, he made sure they didn't do it again. And you are right, the team could really use some of that. If you are going to take a penalty, make it *worth* taking the penalty.
  13. I have a Facebook account basically for the marketplace and occasional post (I think I average one every 7-8 months) as a 'wellness check'. And happy birthdays. I deleted every other account - no twitter, no linkedin, nothing. "Social Media" is a curse and should be avoided. I've even reeled way back on forums like here and Reddit. And gone outside more... because that's the world that matters.
  14. Alright, since you're clearly talking out your ass and I've busted you on it, just put the goalposts where they'll sit rather than continuously move them. But I'll address the current argument too, because why not. By your current extremely vague "hockey market" metric, the Habs, Leafs, Rangers are a hockey market and... that's about it. Chicago clearly isn't, they're down 5k fans from their building capacity 'because they're losing'. Not a hockey market by that "percentage of sell out" metric, so pull the team. Detroit was down 7k last year and is down ~5k this year off how many their building CAN hold, better pull that team too. Put it in Saskatoon, they'd sell out every night. Ignoring that they're still pulling more fans than 60% of the league anyway. The more 'bodies' you have in an area the more chance you have of the diehards who stick around - IF they have a reason to give a shit, which is where good ownership and management come in. When you have a building 'that holds more' and as a result you're still drawing more people than "hockey markets" even with 5k empty seats because there are simply more people to draw FROM, then your definition goes out the window. In 16/17, Dallas was pretty shit (the last time they were even sub.500) and still drew 18,100 Fans - more fans than the Rangers, Bruins, Ottawa (lol), Winnipeg, Colorado (by 4000 fans, fairweather, should have pulled that team then too because they were losing) and a bunch of others. And that *entirely* ignores the commercial enterprises in those areas. The Houston metro region alone has more people than ALL of BC. And Calgary. Combined. So put them goalposts in the ground somewhere.
  15. Define "hockey market". If you mean "Canada and states touching Canada" then no. But Carolina and Tampa are second to Montreal in league attendance this year. On that note, Dallas is ahead of BOTH Calgary AND Edmonton. Albertan hockey markets. https://www.hockeydb.com/nhl-attendance/att_graph_season.php?lid=NHL1927&sid=2023 If you go back a few years, Dallas is at or near the top of attendance of most years. Even when they're terrible.
  16. I doubt they'll take too much from the Stars. It's a Dallas/Houston thing. Like Edmonton / Calgary on steroids. More likely the symbiotic hate will kick both teams up a notch.
  17. Houston won't - IF they have good ownership and management. It's an absolutely enormous metro area (6.6 million) with big $$$ and an instant rivalry target in Dallas.
  18. They don't care. The owners get the expansion $$$. They got a taste with Vegas and Seattle and now they want more.
  19. Don't you put that evil on me.
  20. Our best physical players have had 70-140 pims a season. And we historically love them unless they do something catastrophically stupid. I’ve always said that if ‘gifted’ forwards are taking that extra second to look around and see if somebody massive is about to knock them into orbit, that’s one less second on the puck they have to make plays - and that’s a long time in the NHL. If we eat a few elbowing, roughing, boarding and such physical penalties to make that happen… I’m okay with that. When defencemen are taking hooking, holding, tripping lazy calls, those are the ones that get me cheesed off. so Myers playing like he did tonight, clearly interested in just killing leaf players, that’s a good thing and he should do that every night. Stop pretending to be Neidermayer, and actually be Scott Stevens.
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