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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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It's only a three-day event. I know that the NCAA stuff is being continually worked on, but I'd have hoped that, especially since there don't seem to be any immediately pressing issues, that we'd be hearing more about that.
 

– The US and Russia are going to host hockey matches with NHL and KHL players. That would do a lot to end Russia's sporting isolation after invading Ukraine.
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I'm sure this is news to Gary Bettman. I just don't know when this supposed tournament would ever happen. They want to play games in both Russia and the US, and the travel adjustments would just be too much to handle, IMO. Would ESPN even be interested in going to Russia to cover those games? USA Hockey I'm sure will get into big trouble with the IIHF, and that will make the IOC quite cross, indeed.

There's the Olympics in 2026, so that would push the next available date to 2027, and it'll probably be forgotten about by that point.

They could work something into the new CBA where they can't go to countries that fit criteria that happens to describe Russia. Like they can't schedule international play to happen outside US and Canada, or against non-NHL or IIHF competition. Marty Walsh was in the Biden administration. If Bettman and Walsh don't want to go, they'll make it not happen.

The by-laws aren't public, so maybe there is a rule already.
 
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The KHL has zero shot of winning against (theoretically) the NHL's best US players, so it's clearly about Putin achieving political objectives. What's infuriating is that it was some spur of the moment comment that's now going to be treated as a legitimate idea by like 40% of the country.

NHLPA executive director Marty Walsh was literally in Biden's cabinet until 2023. I don't think we have a more qualified person who can gum up the works, and prevent the NHL and it's players from being used as a political football. Having nothing ever change is what DC specializes in.

NHL players have to be insured. That could put a halt to it. Insurance, a lack of interest from ESPN, player travel concerns, delicate, pre-negotiated points of the CBA, etc. Just a bunch of things. No, no, no. It's got nothing to do with being used as a political pawn.
 
The NHL is reconsidering what the 2026 All-Star Game will look like. Since it's supposed to be the send-off to the Olympics, there's even less of a chance that any 3-on-3 games will have any pace.

So my first thought is to emphasize the skills competition (which is maybe the more fun event, anyway). I'm thinking that they could change the skills competition to echo other Olympic sports.

Biathalon: skating and shooting (pucks)
Figure skating: could just be for fun, but if the players were able to come up with their own stickhandling paths, they could show off what they're good at.
Curling: basically shuffleboard with pucks
Speed skating: relay race
puck slalom: what it sounds like
mascot break dancing (exhibition sport)

This would be on either ESPN or TNT in the states, so maybe the Olympics being on NBC would squash this.
 
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