2024-2025 Around The League Part 2

[LOFIN]

The ice arena is owned by North Carolina State University, which uses it primarily for its CBB programme. It opened in 1999 and is pretty much a college-level sporting facility (NCSU's CFB stadium is across the parking lot), which explains why its opposing dressing room sucks. Things have gotten weird though because NCSU were the ones to build it, but Dundon has been given a lot of ownership/rights the past couple of years of the arena from the school to do renovations. I think he might be majority owner of the arena now.

A quote from a player in that article is gold:

"It used to be Carolina, but then they upgraded,” one player said. “And somehow it's still Carolina."

 

[Balthazar]

Detroit under Todd McLellan:

15-4-1

That's the guy we needed and I say this regardless of his stats in Detroit.

Coach you would least like to play for: Tortorella 38%

Well well well...

 

[hockeyfish]

appealing a suspension should be like a coaches challenge, if you lose, it gets doubled.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

appealing a suspension should be like a coaches challenge, if you lose, it gets doubled.

I love this.

At some point, players should be really questing their union for defending this shit. I mean seriously, they do not give the union an insignificant amount of money. Exactly whose interest are being protected here? It certainly doesn't appear to be either the life or safety of the union's members.

 

[McMetal]

The Rantanen goalie interference call was as clear as it gets. Rants crosses into the crease and snags Comrie's goal stick, pulling his right hand and blocker to the left as the puck goes to his blocker side. Comrie couldn't get his blocker over because Rantanen was pushing the knob of his stick in the opposite direction. He was physically blocked from making the save because of contact from an opposing player in the crease, I don't know how it gets more obvious than that.