Around the NHL 2024/25

[Mortimer Snerd]

I like the idea of fining teams for suspendable infractions by players. You bring up a known offender who commits an infraction it hits the teams wallet as well.

Several suggestions here to punish teams. There is merit in all of them. The point is that teams need to be punished for dressing thugs.

Rempe is not like a rat who is there to get under the skin of opponents and occasional wanders just a bit over the line and gets punished. This is a guy who couldn't get a job in the NHL if it wasn't for his thuggery.

 

[Krauser]

 

[Gm0ney]

Therefore it’s a loophole league needs to close, but, that probably doesn’t make him an idiot. If it’s the only way he’ll get in the nhl at all, I can’t blame him. I blame the league for making it even a possibility.

If the league didn't want guys like this doing stuff like this, they simply wouldn't allow it.

You don't see bench clearing brawls anymore because the league has zero tolerance for it.

The NHL clearly has some tolerance for Rempe and Wilson (and Trouba) type players attempting to injure other players.

 

[buggs]

If the league didn't want guys like this doing stuff like this, they simply wouldn't allow it.

You don't see bench clearing brawls anymore because the league has zero tolerance for it.

The NHL clearly has some tolerance for Rempe and Wilson (and Trouba) type players attempting to injure other players.

The Players Association also seems to have some tolerance for it as well. The league and PA could clean it up very easily.

I think the league/media see it as a positive as it generates views/hits/clicks. Why the PA continues to defend guys that aren't actually good enough, or in the case of a guy like Wilson, defends guys that could end someone's career or ruin someone's life is beyond me.

Ultimately I think it hurts the PA more when the eventual CTE lawsuit rolls around. Were I a lawyer for the league I would ask why the PA never asked for something to be implemented?

 

[raideralex99]

He can't be traded now during Christmas break but after the break where is he going?

 

[Adam da bomb]

If the league didn't want guys like this doing stuff like this, they simply wouldn't allow it.

You don't see bench clearing brawls anymore because the league has zero tolerance for it.

The NHL clearly has some tolerance for Rempe and Wilson (and Trouba) type players attempting to injure other players.

But, yep the last guy I blame is Rempe. I think most people if they a chance to play in the NHL, no matter what the role they'd probably go for it.

 

[DeepFrickinValue]

Several suggestions here to punish teams. There is merit in all of them. The point is that teams need to be punished for dressing thugs.

Rempe is not like a rat who is there to get under the skin of opponents and occasional wanders just a bit over the line and gets punished. This is a guy who couldn't get a job in the NHL if it wasn't for his thuggery.

NHL does have to keep up the pseudo persona of a rough tough sport with occasional cheap shots. Villians are good for business and does create a more dynamic product.

 

[Stumbledore]

He can't be traded now during Christmas break but after the break where is he going?

Wow, that photo! The face looks identical to a classic painting of Greek soldiers going to war over Leuctra. Only famous because that's when the Spartans finally got thrashed. Plus we've got the painting in the basement somewhere I think.

 

[Cnile]

Rempe has moved up my list to the biggest idiot in the league and that includes Tom Wilson. You can’t have a talenless goon make that play on one of the top defensemen in the league. Imagine if he did that to Morrissey our board would lose their shit. That’s not a f***ing hockey play, he came off his feet and hit him directly from behind in the numbers, into the boards.

8 Games is bullshit for a guy that is in and out of the line up anyways.

There is just not enough punishment. Losting Rempe and his salary do not hurt the Rangers in the slightest. There is no punishment.

NHLPA has to stop defending this stuff, I doubt they appeal this one but who knows.
Don’t talk crap about respecting other players and concussions when your rank and file keep doing stupid shit over and over.
I don’t feel the least bit sorry for the players.
Get this crap and these players out of the league for good.
Otherwise shut it.

 

[Mortimer Snerd]

NHL does have to keep up the pseudo persona of a rough tough sport with occasional cheap shots. Villians are good for business and does create a more dynamic product.

That is a perception.

But there is a gap between a Trouba and a Rempe.

 

[ps241]

NHLPA has to stop defending this stuff, I doubt they appeal this one but who knows.
Don’t talk crap about respecting other players and concussions when your rank and file keep doing stupid shit over and over.
I don’t feel the least bit sorry for the players.
Get this crap and these players out of the league for good.
Otherwise shut it.

At the end of the day it’s simple. The PA sees the NHL taking any money away from players as a greater sin that the bodily harm it inflicts on players. One dash of were so macho we don’t need protecting, with two cups of the League can f*** right off of they think they are suspending us.

The PA supports the infractor, and f*** the victims. At some point they own the health liability too based on their resistance.

 

[10Ducky10]

He can't be traded now during Christmas break but after the break where is he going?

He's a great playoff performer.

 

[Romang67]

Rempe has moved up my list to the biggest idiot in the league and that includes Tom Wilson. You can’t have a talenless goon make that play on one of the top defensemen in the league. Imagine if he did that to Morrissey our board would lose their shit. That’s not a f***ing hockey play, he came off his feet and hit him directly from behind in the numbers, into the boards.

8 Games is bullshit for a guy that is in and out of the line up anyways.

There is just not enough punishment. Losting Rempe and his salary do not hurt the Rangers in the slightest. There is no punishment.

For as much as I hate guys like Hartman, Cooke, etc., at least they are actual NHL players who just show a complete lack of care about whether they ruin a person's life.

Rempe? He's a f***ing sideshow. His career ice time is the length of a Hallmark Christmas movie, and just like those movies it's offensive to the senses, causing brain damage, and thankfully not to be viewed after Christmas.