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29 Comments
The end of Landy's career is at hand ? very sad news that. Very sad.
That being said.. it seems like it's time.
I can't wait to see Landeskog in the playoffs next year…. Nikita Landeskog
Get rid of the guy. Great guy, great Cup………………but nows the time for him to resign. is contract that locked?
Chicago needs more seasons being bad.
NFL is almost even as DERANGED as the Blackhawks- not so close though.
I mean even the BRUINS at least..
Besides his contract lasting to 2026, michkov is signed with SKA Saint Petersburg, and it's probably the worst team for young talent. Their coach and gm is Roman Rosenberg – son of Putin's friend (and oligarch), and he is really moronic, to put it politely
Oh wow, 2017…. Not like other teams been out longer
Chicagoan here.. the city hasn't been this excited since the Cubs won the world series.
That Landeskog news stinks for AVS fans. I guess though with LTIR and cap increase following year they will be fine. Also one measly # away for Vancouver – wow! And you are correct I was not happy to see Chicago get the #1 but definitely would have not been upset if it were Vancouver or Anaheim or CBJ. I dislike the Blackhawks – they just rub me the wrong way due to history and recent issues which I think we’re not properly addressed via sanction. Maybe I need to let that dislike go as I do want Connor Bedard to succeed – he strikes me as a really hard worker and eager to learn player so him being a superstar only helps the league and keeping the pipeline of talent flowing. More superstars = more interest in the game = more future superstars – it’s essentially a self fulfilling virtuous cycle. So wishing him the best.
Interesting that you left out how so many people were pissed because the organization gets the number 1 pick yet never truly paid the price for their cover up of a sexual assault which directly led through their action and inaction to the assault of a high school kid.
Sucks big time for Landeskog. That may be it for him, at least he got to win the cup right before it went south for him physically.
Have you considered doing chapters for the different topics you cover? Would be much appreciated!
Shannon, you make a good point that it's been a few years since Chicago has been good, but in the past thirteen years they have won THREE STANLEY CUPS; that's why people are frustrated. There are teams that have NEVER won a Cup, never had a superstar like Bedard. Chicago is just coming down off their dynasty, and now they get to ramp it right back up with another phenomenal young star. And that isn't even touching the Kyle Beach scandal where they were essentially not punished at all. Tanking or not, they feel like the LEAST deserving team for Bedard.
The fix as you phrase it Shannon is not always about what team wins the cup. Its actually about what creates the most revenue for the league. From thatt perspective, Chicago is a much better destination for Bedard than either Columbus or Anaheim. When you previously paraphrased Bettman stating that tanking does not occur because players and coaches play to win. You both conveniently ignore the obvious organizational decisions to strip the team of on ice talent over a number of years. Hello Chicago. You lose credibility Shannon by acknowledging the real method that teams tank. That too makes you part of the problem.
I think that CHI tanked in a sloppy way: not getting enough in their trades, dumping good young players they could have built with.
Time will tell, but Bedard may get lonely and overused in Chicago.
I would love a TFG channel. Why not have 3 channels… You have another brother somehwhere? Im kidding but I would love it personally.
It's still gonna be a long road for Chicago to rebuild even with Bedard. Just looked through their lineup and there are 4 guys on there I've never even heard of, even a guy in the top 6
random draw doesn't go in your team's favor
Sports fans: "RIGGED!"
Unfortunately landy is done.
Chicago should have had ALL of their picks in this draft and the next draft confiscated.
I hate being a Canucks fan
Smyl couldn't come through for us with his #12 hahaha
We successfully got them to draw 1/4 Linden, Half Burre, Naslund-10 and then Smyl failed us.
hahaha A little Retired Sweater Humour
Nfl??..come on shan sucka should be the cfl support the league chrissakes
The transplant isn’t honestly too common. Lonzo Ball recently also had this type of procedure and it may be the end of his career in the nba or close. Does not bode well. No nba players who have undergone this surgery have ever returned to the court. Not sure the exact translation to the NHL though.
Yeah, I think the conversation around fixing is ridiculous. I also don't watch baseball much anymore after the whole Astros thing because that was too much for me personally. I'll take a controversial call over that any day. That said, I do just despise the fact that the league clearly doesn't care about certain things, and that is why I go through ups and downs with my relationship to the sport.
drive what captain connor bedard drives.
Half-empty Chicago stadium sounds exactly deserving for a franchise covering up sexual assault. Cool now let's reward them with Bedard. Old boys club hard at work yet again.
Gabe became lonzo ball
Never really gotten the idea that games were fixed or that like the draft was fixed or anything direct like that. I do think the NHL makes some decisions that benefit the teams in the largest markets competitively, and that sometimes decisions are made to either penalize a big market team slightly less than others in the same scenario or they’re more okay making decisions that will have a bigger effect to the positive for those teams than others.
Even if they don’t, the problem with the NHL here is a perception one in that officiating isn’t very consistent and suspensions certainly aren’t consistent and rules changes tend to benefit certain styles of play and so they so often find themselves in a position where a bad call or a bad review or any number of things look to have helped out a team that has a perception of being a team the NHL seems to want to showcase and so even if they did nothing of the sort the perception is that if a decision by the league is going to be made on something and the teams involved are like Chicago or Columbus the result is gonna tend to Chicago’s way.