Around the NHL 2023-2024

[Bye Bye Blueston]

That Bobrovsky pass reminds me of the one time one of the Red Wings players went to make a pass to a teammate and put it right in Hull's wheelhouse and Hull ripped a one-timer past Vernon, who had no clue it was coming.

Of course, that was in the playoffs IIRC and we went on to lose that game (and the series), but it was still one hell of a pass to set an opposing guy up.

I keep having flashbacks to housley repeatedly feeding Modano in slot 30 years ago. Bright side is it was do bad we moved him for Mac soon after.

 

[Xerloris]

Is coaching to blame for some of that? Maybe. Let's go ahead and say yes. I don't know that coaching explains why all 5 guys on the ice get caught staring at the puck and don't pay attention to someone sneaking down the wing for back-door tap-in. Or why guys just mindlessly fling the puck around the defensive zone under pressure. Or guys flub easy passes, or have time and aren't under pressure, look up ice with 2 safe options that would be a 45-foot pass and try to go for the 125-foot pass and put it on the tape of the opposing guy in the middle of the ice who doesn't have anyone within 15 feet of him. I'd like to think if you've been playing defense for 10-12 years or so, by the time you get to the NHL you have an idea that neither of those things are something you should be doing. If you're Faulk, Parayko, Leddy and Krug, you really shouldn't be doing that - and yet, we've seen it happen way too often.

Professional athletes having absolutely no idea who they should cover is entirely on the coaching.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Professional athletes having absolutely no idea who they should cover is entirely on the coaching.

Interesting. Make sure you tell that to everyone who complains about one of the younger players who comes up to the NHL and makes a mistake and they bitch endlessly about the guy having no clue what he's doing.

Maybe have that explanation on a hot key so you can instantly c/p it as needed.

 

[Xerloris]

Interesting. Make sure you tell that to everyone who complains about one of the younger players who comes up to the NHL and makes a mistake and they bitch endlessly about the guy having no clue what he's doing.

Maybe have that explanation on a hot key so you can instantly c/p it as needed.

Once again you purposefully exaggerate a statement and make yourself come off like an knowledgeable fan that probably would have booed Kyrou last night. There's a difference between a mistake in a game and a season long situation where the entire team is lost. I would expect you to be able to know the difference.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

I'm just going to respond to this, because one you go to bullshit like this I start ignoring everything else.

Once again you purposefully exaggerate a statement and make yourself come off like an knowledgeable fan that probably would have booed Kyrou last night.

You should try asking me what I think instead of pretending you think you know and then making claims accordingly, when we both know you have no idea what I think.

Spoiler: I've offered comments elsewhere on Kyrou and all that shit. How I'd (not) respond is going to be incredibly easy to figure out. When (if?) you read them, that feeling you get is going to be your soul trying to crawl back in telling you f***, man, you were wrong.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

How does it make any sense that Stars game is blacked out on ESPN+ because I am in their RSN broadcast are, but the RSN isn't actually broadcasting tonight's game!

 

[wiscrev]

How does it make any sense that Stars game is blacked out on ESPN+ because I am in their RSN broadcast are, but the RSN isn't actually broadcasting tonight's game!

I get the same thing when the Blues play the Wild unless it's on a major channel. ESPN and ESPN+ are two different stations. JMHO, if we have ESPN+, just like Center Ice, there should be no blackouts. The problem is I cannot get Bally and since I'm in the WILD's area, I don't bet Blues games when they play. It's all about Balley's as that is ESPN+'s program.

 

[joe galiba]

How does it make any sense that Stars game is blacked out on ESPN+ because I am in their RSN broadcast are, but the RSN isn't actually broadcasting tonight's game!

I blame marketing d-bags, they ruin everything

 

[Celtic Note]

I blame marketing d-bags, they ruin everything

I blame massive corporations with too high of a market share (basically monopolies). But that applies to basically everything these days, not just TV blackouts.

Marketing folks are following the way of the corporation they serve. Thank goodness corporations are people but don’t have to follow the same rules as the rest of us.

Steps down off soapbox.

 

[Hrkac Circus]

My favorite pass from an opposing player directly onto the stick of the other teams player was EK placing a BEAUTIFUL pass directly to Sunny for a one-timer.

And even managed a nice screen on his goalie after making the pass!
Edit: Whoops! Didn’t see that someone else made this exact comment first.

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

Bad look for Dunn tonight, surprised he only managed to get out of that with a single 2min penalty.

 

[joe galiba]

Bad look for Dunn tonight, surprised he only managed to get out of that with a single 2min penalty.

ref put himself in that spot by not calling the penalty to begin with

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

ref put himself in that spot by not calling the penalty to begin with

Absolutely, but it’s still a massive overreaction for Dunn

 

[Xerloris]

When I read the words meltdown I had Dino Odjick hopes but no, this is such a let down.

 

[jura]

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[Snubbed4Vezina]

That was the most public skating session injury I've ever seen in an NHL game.

 

[TheOrganist]

I’m stunned Mike Sullivan wasn’t fired after the Toronto game. Especially since he just got the dreaded vote of confidence from Dubas a week ago. Now that’s a team that needs a new voice.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

I’m stunned Mike Sullivan wasn’t fired after the Toronto game. Especially since he just got the dreaded vote of confidence from Dubas a week ago. Now that’s a team that needs a new voice.

Crosby still in his corner. And lots of $ left on Sully contract. They REALLY don’t want to have to fire him.

 

[TheOrganist]

Ya, I didn’t realize he had that much term left. That forward group is also pretty rank.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

Ya, I didn’t realize he had that much term left. That forward group is also pretty rank.

The Penguins are one of the teams I think of when people complain about how Armstrong managed the post-Cup window transition to rebuild.

 

[STL fan in MN]

The Penguins are one of the teams I think of when people complain about how Armstrong managed the post-Cup window transition to rebuild.

Fair. I mean, I get why they felt they needed to stick with the old core and try to squeeze one more Cup out of the Crosby/Genius/Letang era but it was doomed. And then adding Karlsson? They have virtually no youth. Lots of future HHOFers but they’re all way past their prime.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

There's a reason that for years now, I've called it the Department of "Player Safety." The decision to not do anything else on Pastrnak's multi-stride charge and boarding of Lindgren merely tacks on another supporting piece to the idea that everyone in that department needs to go.

 

[TheOrganist]

The Penguins are one of the teams I think of when people complain about how Armstrong managed the post-Cup window transition to rebuild.

About the only thing Armstrong should get credit for over the last 36 months is not compounding/delaying the re-tool and acting early to sell off marketable pieces in exchange for futures at last yrs deadline.

 

[Bluesfan54]

Sens fired their coach today. Who didn’t see that coming?

 

[Louie the Blue]

The Penguins are one of the teams I think of when people complain about how Armstrong managed the post-Cup window transition to rebuild.

Not at all remotely comparable situations given Crosby and Malkin are generational players.