2022-23 NHL Thread
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herman said:
The best part is how his agent obviously wrote every word.
Guilt Trip
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What? Mikheyev speaks perfect english!CarltonTheBear said:
herman said:
Speaking as a gay leafs fan, living near Philly with a bunch of gay friends who organized to attend pride night together in Philly: the positive way to view the Provorov situation is that 19 of 20 players (95%) supported gay pride on flyers pride night. It?s a shame that one guy became the dominant media focus rather than the 19 supportive guys. Huge props from me to the Flyers organization for overwhelming support of their gay friends and fans.
Guilt Trip
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Shame people like to focus on the negative.princedpw said:
Kin
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I think this sort of goes to what I was saying about the Provorov thing where to me the issue was never really Provorov's views on the subject, I don't think anyone is naive enough to really think that all the teams who had no issues with having a pride night are composed exclusively of guys whose views on respecting non-traditional sexual identities are 100% where we diehard Communist Wokeratis might like them to be, but rather how it put his team and the league in a difficult spot. Putting yourself before the team, we're told, is the ultimate sin in hockey but now the league is in a spot where their efforts towards inclusion(which I'm cynical about but I respect anyone who isn't) are effectively derailed because so long as a single player share's Provorov's stance there's no way for their team to have a positive headline come out of a similar effort.
https://twitter.com/markjburns88/status/1620596541739372544
Is this good?
Is this good?
dappleganger
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I have lost interest in watching regular season games because, at the all-star break, I already know who the Leafs will face in the first round of the playoffs.
Obviously there are 1st round matchups that are preferable. Going into the final week of the season under the old format, those matchups could be jostled. There was incentive to win (or lose) to secure a matchup.
What a difference it was last year with the Raptors not knowing if they'd play the Bucks, Celtics, or Philadelphia or slide into the play-in round. The games actually mattered. What a novel concept!
Obviously there are 1st round matchups that are preferable. Going into the final week of the season under the old format, those matchups could be jostled. There was incentive to win (or lose) to secure a matchup.
What a difference it was last year with the Raptors not knowing if they'd play the Bucks, Celtics, or Philadelphia or slide into the play-in round. The games actually mattered. What a novel concept!
Kin
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I've said it before but to me the biggest issue remains that there's just no reason to ever watch an out of market game. All the teams are basically as good as each other except for the teams that are legitimately bad and the teams that are good, at least record wise, tend to do it with unsustainable goaltending or things like team defense. Even as good as someone like McDavid is A) once you've seen him a few times you get the picture and B) he's still only playing a third of the game.
What made the NHL great was two things. Great teams and rivalries. The cap has killed both of them, the first with parity and the second with roster turnover.
What made the NHL great was two things. Great teams and rivalries. The cap has killed both of them, the first with parity and the second with roster turnover.
