harpoon
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Haha. Wolf got lit up. And Vladar has played almost 10 minutes and let in the only shot he’s faced. I’d add a lmao smilie here, but this site …
The West is weird this season, Vancouver currently in WC2 is on pace for just 89 points to make the playoffs.
Morgan Frost: 2G 3A 5pts in 16 games
Joel Farabee: 3A 1A 4pts in 16 games
sick trade Craig Conroy
Morgan Frost: 2G 3A 5pts in 16 games
Joel Farabee: 3A 1A 4pts in 16 games
sick trade Craig Conroy
Lol, they also didn't want to be a seller this season also because dumb ass Conroy thinks his team's good enough for the playoffs. If anything, they're only where they are in the standings because of rookie Dustin Wolf's goaltending.
Even a lot of flame fans I know wanted their team to sell this season and for Conroy to sell players like Andersson to gain assets and retool, but Conroy's gonna Conroy. Mediocre flames remain mediocre.
As dry as day.
The Flames making the playoffs is a great scenario because they'll think they've arrived already and will blow all their assets trying to bring it home now.
League is full of shit.
A team that has McDrai being ranked this low is pathetic of the officials and even more so of the league dinosaurs every year trying to defend their garbage officials.![]()
NHL Powerplay Opportunities By Team | StatMuse
The Montreal Canadiens have gotten 192 power-play opportunities this season.www.statmuse.com
League is full of shit.
A team that has McDrai being ranked this low is pathetic of the officials and even more so of the league dinosaurs every year trying to defend their garbage officials.![]()
NHL Powerplay Opportunities By Team | StatMuse
The Montreal Canadiens have gotten 192 power-play opportunities this season.www.statmuse.com
Yeah it’s very silly I agree.Steven Walken defending the league, saying they're not missing more calls. What a joke.
League is full of shit.
A team that has McDrai being ranked this low is pathetic of the officials and even more so of the league dinosaurs every year trying to defend their garbage officials.![]()
NHL Powerplay Opportunities By Team | StatMuse
The Montreal Canadiens have gotten 192 power-play opportunities this season.www.statmuse.com
Landeskog is back practicing with the Avs and will travel with them but will not play until the playoffs. If Kane is healthy enough to start practicing and the Oilers are in any way challenged by the League it would be 100% proof that rules are not applied equally.
It is also interesting to see the guys who lead the league in penalties drawn: B. Tkachuk, Marchand, Wilson, Hathaway. These guys are not leading the league because of their offensive prowess but rather because they draw a lot of retaliation calls from their physical play or their own tendency to push the envelop on the rules. The league cares more about that sort of thing than they do about players trying to suppress the advantage that the most skilled players have.Just for once, I would like to hear someone employed by the league say that something they do, anything, isn’t perfect and isn’t all sunshine and roses. They will take every single negative thing about the game and come up with some bullshit answer. And shocking that the Refalanche have more than 30 more PP’s than we do. Pretty much everybody in the west has way more. Need to put Mario’s garbage league clip on repeat.
League is full of shit.
A team that has McDrai being ranked this low is pathetic of the officials and even more so of the league dinosaurs every year trying to defend their garbage officials.![]()
NHL Powerplay Opportunities By Team | StatMuse
The Montreal Canadiens have gotten 192 power-play opportunities this season.www.statmuse.com
It's not "teams" that are afraid to give lethal powerplays a chance, it's referees that don't want to impact games. Clutch and grab is becoming far more pronounced in the last few years as they back off on the calls, and things like crosschecks and slashes once again become the norm despite some half hearted attempts to crackdown on them a few years ago. They even fall back on the tired old excuse of "letting them play" even in the article, an antiquated mentality the NHL refuses to shake that just makes hockey worse to watch, not better.Walkom declined to share the rate at which the NHL believes its referees are missing calls, but he believes as a whole, the sharp decline in power play opportunities this year is a factor of both players adjusting to rule standards and teams being afraid to give lethal power plays a chance.
The irony is and always has been that by "not wanting to impact the game" they actually impact the game in a very profound way. Forget about the actual impact of denying the most skilled players the ability to do their thing has on their teams for a moment. What this also does is significantly impacts the quality of the product on the ice. Pretty much every other league has figured out that by showcasing the stars you increase fan interest. The NHL is the only league I know the intentionally stifles their stars so as to give weaker teams a chance.Money quote for why things are so bad right now
It's not "teams" that are afraid to give lethal powerplays a chance, it's referees that don't want to impact games. Clutch and grab is becoming far more pronounced in the last few years as they back off on the calls, and things like crosschecks and slashes once again become the norm despite some half hearted attempts to crackdown on them a few years ago. They even fall back on the tired old excuse of "letting them play" even in the article, an antiquated mentality the NHL refuses to shake that just makes hockey worse to watch, not better.
The problem is that their desire to "not impact the game" is in fact, impacting the game by neutering talented players while enabling unregulated hockey under the assumption that penalties and powerplays somehow disruptive and undesirable to the flow of the game. In an ideal world where ref interference is actually minimized, undisciplined teams and slow players would be punished for infractions, having a dominant hockey player on your roster is an advantage due to how many more powerplays you get, and powerplays be weapons that decide games even when the stakes are at their highest.
The "missed calls" stuff is just a red herring. The problem has always been NHL's managed games mandate in combination with their complete unwillingness to enforce the rules on or off the ice with any consistency.
Gregor?The irony is and always has been that by "not wanting to impact the game" they actually impact the game in a very profound way. Forget about the actual impact of denying the most skilled players the ability to do their thing has on their teams for a moment. What this also does is significantly impacts the quality of the product on the ice. Pretty much every other league has figured out that by showcasing the stars you increase fan interest. The NHL is the only league I know the intentionally stifles their stars so as to give weaker teams a chance.