Around the League Thread Part IV

[Statto]

No gender bias complaining on this board -- just look at how everyone feels about Faust/Fox. You suck, we complain.

I agree on the gender bias but California is a little ahead of some other markets. The UK is also but there is still an element of idiots here, there, everywhere.

As far Fox/Faust I’m pretty neutral on it, I’m just grateful to see NHL hockey as it’s so hard to watch out here, so I live with it. I do miss Bob though and I’d agree they need to improve, I think the issue is a lack of chemistry. They just don’t gel but at the same time it doesn’t annoy me like it does some others.

 

[Statto]

creative accounting required...

Toronto's risky cap management is already having adverse effects

https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2021/10/east-notes-blue-jackets-bishop-holl-niku.html

• The Maple Leafs have signed goaltender Alex Bishop to a one-day amateur tryout deal, David Alter of The Hockey News is among those reporting. The move is necessary with Petr Mrazek out with a groin injury but Toronto can’t make the money work to recall another goalie from the minors. The 24-year-old plays at the USports Level with the University of Toronto. Once they play tonight’s game, they’ll be given approval for an emergency (cap-exempt) recall. Toronto can’t send defenseman Timothy Liljegren down to make room for netminder Michael Hutchinson as he’s needed with blueliner Justin Holl unavailable due to a non-COVID-related illness; Toronto’s electing to play down a backup goalie over only dressing five defensemen.

Teams should be forced to play a skater short in that scenario. Nonsense. These sorts of things should have been planned for when the cap was introduced as it’s not a particularly contrived scenario.

 

[Stimpythecat]

Go easy on the leafs, and more teams would do it. Weakens the hard cap limit. Stick to the collectively bargained rules.

 

[mbar]

Kane seems pretty toxic.

 

[Lt Dan]

Kane seems pretty toxic.

 

[Stimpythecat]

Wait for what comes out of his bankruptcy case. Seeing him on the stand under oath will be an adventure.

 

[Telos]

It's almost laughable that he can't do anything right and how much trouble he has found himself in... It's just mind-bogglingly stupid how easy it was for him to ruin his life so simply.

I am sure his debtors are thrilled that he just threw away over 1/3rd of his yearly salary of $7 million because he simply couldn't get vaccinated for a deadly disease...

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

There's nothing more perplexing than the fact that Doug Wilson is still employed by the SJ Sharks.

 

[King'sPawn]

The hilarious tragedy is that San Jose still apparently doesn't have enough evidence or drive to terminate Kane's contract.

 

[kingsholygrail]

I'm glad to see Jeff Carter getting rewarded for his hard work. Never believed the rep that he was lazy.

 

[apocalypse]

It's almost laughable that he can't do anything right and how much trouble he has found himself in... It's just mind-bogglingly stupid how easy it was for him to ruin his life so simply.

I am sure his debtors are thrilled that he just threw away over 1/3rd of his yearly salary of $7 million because he simply couldn't get vaccinated for a deadly disease...

deadly. lol

 

[Telos]

deadly. lol

Careful. I am glad no one in your bubble has died from it, but a few have from mine... Either way, it is a very simple vaccination. There are like six others required for normal social life in the world, any controversy over the seventh is moot.

 

[kingsfan]

It's almost laughable that he can't do anything right and how much trouble he has found himself in... It's just mind-bogglingly stupid how easy it was for him to ruin his life so simply.

I am sure his debtors are thrilled that he just threw away over 1/3rd of his yearly salary of $7 million because he simply couldn't get vaccinated for a deadly disease...

Do we know he's not vaccinated? I know he got a fake card and that implies he isn't, but the NHL stated only four players weren't vaccinated yet and I thought the names for them came out/leaked out already? Bertuzzi and MacKenzie were two.

I wonder if he got a fake card because he wasn't vaccinated in time but is now.

 

[kingsfan]

Careful. I am glad no one in your bubble has died from it, but a few have from mine...

Agreed. Those saying it's not deadly can't understand basic math. Even if "only" 2% of people die from it, that'd still be approximately 8 million people in just the US if everyone contracted it.

 

[tny760]

wow never heard this discussion before, better have it again for the 1000th time outside of the thread dedicated to it

 

[Reclamation Project]

Next month - “Evander Kane has been suspended the remainder of the season for hijacking a commercial airliner. The National Hockey League strongly condemns hijacking commercial airliners.”

 

[bouncesonly]

Campbell playing lights out against New York, with no help from his teammates. Shesterkin making all the Leafs contracts look bad.

 

[deeshamrock]

Shesterkin was great last night. Rangers stole 2 pts. Leafs threw the kitchen sink at Shesterkin and he stood tall

LIvely OT

 

[deeshamrock]

Brassard scored for the Flyers last night.

He now has scored at least 1 goal with 9 different teams

 

[kingsfan]

Shesterkin was great last night. Rangers stole 2 pts. Leafs threw the kitchen sink at Shesterkin and he stood tall

LIvely OT

Whoever that Leaf was going off for a line change after their first chance nearly cost the team a goal. Tired or not, you skate harder than that back to the bench.

 

[kingsfan]

Brassard scored for the Flyers last night.

He now has scored at least 1 goal with 9 different teams

Just 23 to go!

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Check out the comments. Flames fans are already displeased with Sutter and his lineups.

 

[Bandit]

Lucic and Lewis on the second line? lulz.

 

[deeshamrock]

Matthew Tkachuk takes the oddest penalty, one I've never seen called...should have gotten 2 more for being dumb

 

[Bandit]

Matthew Tkachuk takes the oddest penalty, one I've never seen called...should have gotten 2 more for being dumb

In his case, A is for asshole. Serious Sean Avery vibes from that guy.