OT: Around Hockey and the NHL

Was watching some highlights and noticed that Nashville has Stammer back playing center.

Interesting to see if that helps him.
 




Now, to get back to my BS.

2.5% of $7b is $175m (I have no idea how to account for mixed currency.) Cut that between 8 teams, and it's almost 22 million to each of them to expand hockey. Tariffs would raise the prices on construction materials, but they do what they can.
 
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Friday and Saturday will be the 2025 Sloan sports analytics conference. It'll go up on YouTube.

Most of the hockey stuff will be on Saturday, as Friday is the trade deadline.

A lot of the panels are basically a waste of time, but there are a few interesting things that can be learned. The segments on NCAA GMs could be interesting as it's actually something new.


One of the studies is going to be bad news for Coop.

If they start measuring coaches, he might actually have to start pulling his weight.
 
Incredible things happened in Finnish hockey today. Too good not to share.

IFK (team in white) can clinch a straight playoff spot with a regulation win. So they decide to pull the goalie in a tied game. However if Kärpät manages to score on the empty net, they get the last play-in spot. Overtime win would have also been enough for them. However this then happened.



Just in case that wasn't enough, the goal scorer finished tied for first in the league in goals because of this.
 
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NHL GM meetings start today. Elliotte Friedman has said that some of the big focuses will be 3-on-3 OT, NCAA & CHL, and injury risk from international breaks.




If there's Mass migration from New England into the QMJHL, it would fundamentally reshape the character of the Q in particular. Keeping Americans and Canadians in their own nations (with limited exceptions) until they're 18 should even that out.

Although I'm not sure 16-year-old Liam from Plymouth, MA would be as eager to join Rouyn-Noranda or Val-d'Or as they would to join Charlottetown or Cape Breton. Which is a whole other issue.
 
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