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.

 

[Pokecheque]

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

I understand the PA kinda has to do these things but I find it annoying they work harder on behalf of the dirtiest players in the league than the ones they injure.

 

[The Moops]

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.

I understand the PA kinda has to do these things but I find it annoying they work harder on behalf of the dirtiest players in the league than the ones they injure.

Yeah this is where I'm at too.. you'd think at some point they'd be like dude stop deliberately injuring your fellow union brothers?

 

[S E P H]

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

This is such an awful PR move here lol.

I wonder if Stutzle could appeal this appeal...

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[expatriatedtexan]

This is such an awful PR move here lol.

I wonder if Stutzle could appeal this appeal...

Wonder if Stutzle would like to press charges. This is not remarkably different than any run of the mill assualt case.

 

[LOFIN]

Unsurprisingly, EP40 hasn't magically turned it around after the JT Miller trade and heat is back up (if it never even was turned down)

 

[Balthazar]

Unsurprisingly, EP40 hasn't magically turned it around after the JT Miller trade

Oh. Time to tag our friend @Pokecheque

 

[Pokecheque]

Oh. Time to tag our friend @Pokecheque

I've maintained before repeatedly that Miller is not the only issue in Vancouver. In fact, he wasn't even the biggest issue.

 

[CobraAcesS]

I've maintained before repeatedly that Miller is not the only issue in Vancouver. In fact, he wasn't even the biggest issue.

The coach right?

 

[Pokecheque]

The coach right?

Yes. Though he sure did look like a mastermind the other night against Bednar, I still don't think he's a good head coach at all.

I'll also add that I'm not letting EP40 off the hook here. He shares a great deal of the blame for his own struggles, and while I think Miller is a giant man-child, I don't think he's entirely at fault for the huge dustup between him and Petey either. I do think Petey is a bit of a moody pissant in his own right, but , unless there really is a lingering injury issue, I believe he can return to form in the right situation.

 

[CobraAcesS]

Yes. Though he sure did look like a mastermind the other night against Bednar, I still don't think he's a good head coach at all.

I'll also add that I'm not letting EP40 off the hook here. He shares a great deal of the blame for his own struggles, and while I think Miller is a giant man-child, I don't think he's entirely at fault for the huge dustup between him and Petey either. I do think Petey is a bit of a moody pissant in his own right, but , unless there really is a lingering injury issue, I believe he can return to form in the right situation.

Like having one of the greatest Swedish NHL Captains of all time on his team?

 

[Pokecheque]

Like having one of the greatest Swedish NHL Captains of all time on his team?

Well...that wouldn't hurt would it?

 

[CobraAcesS]

Well...that wouldn't hurt would it?

You know me, I'm all into the intangible stuff lol.

Requirement prior to trade, Landeskog call. Check