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The world Juniors that start Boxing Day 2024 will be held in Ottawa I live in Toronto but I’m considering going to Ottawa to catch a few games
The NHL is too busy calling anything that looks like a trip a penalty or a tap on the stick or hands slashing to actually worry about player safety and call the boarding, charging and hits from behind, that happens in nearly every game.
Attendance will be through the roof all the time in Minnesota tons of Nordic ancestors, tons of general hockey fans I know I’ll be getting tickets to games
I was at the game. Zuckers hit was nothing. Cousins knew he was coming and played into it. Fake all the way. Zucker could have done much worse if he really was wanting to do damage. The slow motion replay they keep replaying looks way worse than it really was.
What player caused and what game/date was Chytil's concussion injury?
Response to Hartman. Audio should never be used in fines or punishment. The amount of trash talk and threats thrown around in a game is constant and you can't punish that, it's part of he game. If you use the audio than players will just never mic up again. Why the hell would anyone mic up if that was the case. Punish the action thats fine, not the words.
Wait so is this years all star break going ro bebthe same as befkre? I thought the 12 players were selected by the players
Should have made a Dennis Beyak video retired 20 years great announcer
Maybe you should do Mt Rushmore for each team.
My Mt Rushmore is simple and obvious.
Gretzky, Mario, Howe and Orr
I don't pay attention to the all-star game, I do pay attention to the all-star selections, but I really can't stand the selection process.
Kraken fan here. Megna wasn’t a good fit. But I don’t think he’s good in general if I’m being honest. He played on the same pairing as Karlsson in San Jose which inflated his stats to look good. The games he played in Seattle weren’t stellar. I hope he finds his stride in Chicago.
I disagree shannon, "Intent to injure" should remain. I don't disagree that it's more rare than people think but Alex Pietrangelo slashing Leon Draisaitl fits the description.
Crosby is 8th overall in points per game (1.256) between two Peters (Stastny, Forsberg)
McDavid is currently 3rd (1.50) slightly ahead of Mike Bossy. That’s rarified air, and if he avoids injuries and concussions unlike Crosby’s endured, he’ll very likely finish Top 5 all-time in that category.
Running totals look nice on paper (scoring 1,000 pts etc.) but when you consider Dale Hunter reached that total in 1,400 games…
Regarding head contact, I agree that you simply cannot take it out of the game. Rugby have tried, by making every single head hit an automatic red card (game misconduct) and likely suspension, and it is ruining the game. Both sports are incredibly physical and fast paced, with the way players move and a slight miscalculation by just cms, you're going to get hits to the head. Almost every game has head contact and if you start kicking players out for every single one, like rugby, you handicap the team and make the result an almost foregone conclusion, it happened in the World Cup last year and it's absolutely terrible for the game.
As a coyotes fan I can't agree more, the Raffi Torres hit was rough, but the call was stupid, as. it stood. It changed almost nothing
Why isn’t cousins getting a hearing?
Filip Chytil has had four documented concussions. Each concussion has taken longer for him to recover. Last game Chytil played was November 2nd 2023 which the Rangers beat Carolina 2-1 but lost the following players in the blood bath: goalie Shesty for approximately a week. Adam Fox for approximately a month. Filip Chytil out until further notice. This is bad. REAL bad. I honestly don’t think he comes back this season. Because the 3rd line has been decimated, it makes things interesting against deeper, top teams. Honestly I think Drury has to be thinking, “Is it now or never with Kreider, Panarin, & Mika?” Yes this team has young talent but I just don’t see Lafreniere, Kakko, Cuylle, or anyone in the farm as a top six forward that you can build around. Therefore I’m wondering if Drury is going to trade some of that young talent and go all-in this Post season. 🤷♂️ Hoping for the best. Let’s go Rangers! 🗽
Gretzky, Lemieux, Orr, Howe. I think that would have to be the Rushmore.
Gretzky, Orr, Howe, Richard
I’m really sick of the “everyone gets to participate” thing with the All-Star game. I understand trying to draw in fans of all the teams for revenue, but they really need to just let the best players in the league be chosen and that’s it.
Not like it matters but…
Makar<Mackinnion
Zib>Arty
MacTavish>Zegras
Just to name a few
"The last time an NHL player scored on his brother, the Black Hawks were still stylized with two words, and the league had only 21 teams. It was on that night, Nov. 5, 1980, that Phil Esposito scored on his younger brother, Tony.
Of course, that wasn't the first time that Phil got the better of Tony. Following that game, Phil told reporters that he figured he had played against his younger brother 40 to 50 times, and scored somewhere between 38 to 45 goals on him. You can't always trust an older brother's brags, but over the 12 seasons they were both full-time NHLers, Phil scored 559 goals, so his story probably checks out. In any case, that proved to be Phil's last goal against Tony, he retired at the end of the 1980-81 season with 717 career goals, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame three years later."
"Something very special happened in NHL history on March 20th in 1971.
That night marked the first time two brother goaltenders played against each other as Dave Dryden played against his brother Ken Dryden. Ken at the time was a late season rookie call up who would later that year go on to lead the Montreal Canadiens to the Stanley Cup."
I really hope hellebyuck doesn't go. He needs the rest
Martin Jones has to be on the Mount Rushmore of hockey
Define "injury"… ??? Any time a player goes into a body check against the boards, or other areas of the ice, there are two possible reasons: to impede the opponents movement; or to "injure" them (and often both reasons at the same time). No one throws a body-check without the thought of hopefully "wearing" the other player down. How is that accomplished? By "injuring" them. It may be a slight injury, but a bruise is "an injury"; a smashed muscle is "an injury"; a slash across the hands is "an injury"; a pulled muscle is "an injury"; ALL "intentional" in the delivery of the hits. EVERYONE is trying to wear players down, from performing optimally, by HURTING THEM (to whatever slight or great degree!). And it's even better if your hit is going to take a player out of the game, for however long. "Run a guy (legally) through the boards", "sending them (legally) into Friday", and the team is better for it, supporting it, loving it; and it's ALL intentional. Therefore, it's all "intent to injure". Whether the rules "allow it", is not the point. The rules allow it. Yes. The rules ALLOW players to intentionally injure each other. That's been the barbarity of hockey from the beginning. Any other suggestion is pure B.S. trying to cover up this fact. Players that come out after a game with, "I was never trying to injure him" (when I ran him into the boards and over into the players box, after slashing at his calves when he was crossing the blueline) make me sick to listen to. Because it's all complete B.S. – OF COURSE they were. Were they trying to end the player's career? No, probably not, of course. But they were OBVIOUSLY "intending to injure" their opponent. It's the degree of injury (the definition of an injury) that gets 'played with', and thereby used as a crux for the barbarity of the sport. Accept what you're cheering for, "fans of the game"; accept the responsibility that you're cheering on a "blood sport" (even if it's been considerably toned down over the years).
Rushmore: Gretzky, Mario, Howe, and a goalie (please). Of course now I've left off Richard. This is way too hard.