less criticism def. When a player starts to stink it up, they are moved down a line or just not selected.
I will tell you a story but don't tell anyone.Can't quite believe it took me 3 decades to find out I love this game
Your time will come again budI will tell you a story but don't tell anyone.
I became a huge Gretzky fan once he came to LA. Before that i did not watch sports. I was a skateboarder. But he made me fall in love with the game. We made it to the Stanley Cup finals but lost to the Canadians
Got busy in my adulthood so i stopped watching hockey for a few years also because Gretzky left and retired. During these years the LA kings won 2 Stanley Cups.
Then once i established my career i got back to watching hockey.
I'm still waiting to personally see my LA Kings win the Stanley Cup.
All of that to protect 5 pricks who did not deserve any of that protection.
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A number of then-members of Canada's 2018 IIHF World Junior champions gang-raped a woman in the aftermath of a fundraising event in London, Ontario. The real feck-up here is that Hockey Canada (the CHL is also part of Hockey Canada) basically paid hush money to the victim and thus protected the culprits for too long. Investigations have been going on for nearly 2 years now. It was only yesterday that the local police summoned 5 (unnamed) players to surrender and to be formally indicted.
Take them to a notorious Canadian prison & bury them under it.
This whole thing has been absolutely scandalous. I'm hoping Hockey Canada has put these practices firmly behind them now, after the public riot about it and the change of management - but let's see!
If only there were one!
Mean reversion came even quicker than I thought.
I attended the Ottawa @ Montreal game yesterday. The 8,600+ people at Place Bell in Laval had the same energy as in some of the very best Laval Rocket (AHL) games out there. As for the gameplay, it is very intense and easily a lot more intense than anything we may have been used to from watching international women's hockey. Ann-Renée Desbiens put up quite a performance with over 40 saves to lead her team to an overtime victory over fellow Team Canada teammate Emerance Maschmeyer in a goaltending battle.
That sounds great!
I've been reading about the games and they seem to be real happenings, so I'm really looking forward to that. Maybe they'll also use the Canadian Tire Centre (Sens arena) for one of the Toronto or Montreal games here in Ottawa. If they manage to keep the price down and advertise it properly, it might also get a really good crowd.Just out of curiosity btw, how does the AHL compare to the Q (LHJMQ) in terms of quality?
Definitely above. The AHL have grown men (mostly 20 years and older) and are only one notch below the NHL while junior teams have players in different levels of development (ages 16-20).
Every single game feels like a happening regardless of where it is played. I don't think ticket prices will change in the event a team plays in a bigger arena this season. And I know because I also attended a few matches from the now-defunct CWHL at the Bell Centre for fairly cheap prices a few years ago.That sounds great!
Have you read anything about the financial viability of the league? So far, with lots of big crowds, it seems to do really well locally everywhere and I would love for the league to grow bigger; but I have no idea how realistic that is.
Cheers. That sounds good. We'll see then!
Everyone in the met immediately fell off as soon as I posted that so I am going to reserve judgement about my Wings whilst we are doing well
Good chance now, maybe 40-50%. Hasn't even been an easy schedule. Although I will never be convinced that Alex Lyon is even an average nhl keeper. But the good form of Wings seems to more than that.Everyone in the met immediately fell off as soon as I posted that so I am going to reserve judgement about my Wings whilst we are doing well
I'm old enough to remember when Dale Hunter crosschecked Pierre Turgeon after a goal (see both videos below).By the "modern" NHL standards, most likely. Brendan Gallagher got 5 games for a deliberate elbow to an opponent's head, but again I feel we are at the mercy of the fact that Rielly plays for the Leafs and is an important player for them.
The crosscheck was outright gratuitous. I had no problem with the slapshot, but the usual reaction from the other side would be to mug the shooter at the most.
I feel like the slapshot would be the equivalent of a player being through on an empty net in football and then stopping on the goal line and then backheeling it in or getting on his knees to head it in. It's unsporting.
Thanks. Yeah, that's what Reilly's reaction suggested. It's funny though: it's not really much extra effort, it's all in one move whole continuing to skate - unlike those things in football which are much more elaborate (and hence embarrassing).
Yeah the reaction was ridiculous, but I think it just comes across as a ‘feck you’, which is like, okay so what. I love shithousery in sports, and I love the hostility that comes with it, as long as it doesn’t go too far. I think Creig knew what he was doing was going to provoke a reaction.
Ugh, the combination of Leeds and Leafs does sound like the worst.
The league has scheduled a hearing on the incident. Means they can give him a longer suspension if they choose.
Christ. 'Emotions', 'has a right to react'. I suppose that's the same attitude that thinks fighting still has a place in hockey.
This quote below is coming from the loudmouthed clown who couldn't do squat against Arber Xhekaj and who didn't go for a rematch against Xhekaj with more than 2 periods left.Yep.
Reaves - "The game has changed a lot and it’s unfortunate that a young kid like that can get away with something like that and then one of our best players is going to get suspended for it."WHAT?!
'Make Hockey Violent Again': Maple Leafs' Ryan Reaves Reacts to Morgan Rielly's In-Person Hearing With NHL Department of Player Safety (The Hockey News)
After everything I have read from Keefe, Toronto-based media and so on, I swear this is gettting embarrassing to any sane human mind. No one in Montreal defended Brendan Gallagher when he threw a gratuitous elbow to an opponent's head a few weeks ago and he took 5 games for that.
Yep.
