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Around the NHL: Part XXXIII

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this has to be even more depressing for Isle fans
if they managed to somehow squeak out a game 7 win over the bolts they would of beaten the Habs for the Cup
 
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tailgunner said:
this has to be even more depressing for Isle fans
if they managed to somehow squeak out a game 7 win over the bolts they would of beaten the Habs for the Cup
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I really do think we are taking too much from 1 game. I think the Habs would have given the Piles fits although they would have been favored. Oh well.
 
PuckLuck3043 said:
I really do think we are taking too much from 1 game. I think the Habs would have given the Piles fits although they would have been favored. Oh well.
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Cannot underestimate how cohesive the Bolts move and flow as a unit of 5, consistently line by line and up down the lineup. The Habs are a mess in comparison, no cohesiveness and got players freelancing trying to make things happen. Honestly they looked very much like the Rangers when going up against well structured opposition. Habs would be in the same mess against a well structured team like the Isles.
 
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Cannot underestimate how cohesive the Bolts move and flow as a unit of 5, consistently line by line and up down the lineup. The Habs are a mess in comparison, no cohesiveness and got players freelancing trying to make things happen. Honestly they looked very much like the Rangers when going up against well structured opposition. Habs would be in the same mess against a well structured team like the Isles.
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Everybody thought Vegas was going to stomp them especially after the first game and we know what happened. I still think the Isles would have had trouble with them but we will never know.
 
PuckLuck3043 said:
They had very little interest in hockey for a long time. Hockey has just been a passing fancy for them. I know somebody who works there and he said they didn't give a shit about hockey.
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Sure. Guess that's why they just spent all that money to bring it in and be huge part of it. Legit crazy talk if that's what you believe.
 
TheBloodyNine said:
Sure. Guess that's why they just spent all that money to bring it in and be huge part of it. Legit crazy talk if that's what you believe.
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Yeah, because they saw the profit potential and success that NBC had with the broadcast rights. They have treated hockey like a second class citizen for the last decade. Very little time was spent on hockey. Every time I turned on espn they were talking football and basketball therefore my original comment about them not knowing that hockey existed.
 
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Yeah, because they saw the profit potential and success that NBC had with the broadcast rights. They have treated hockey like a second class citizen for the last decade. Very little time was spent on hockey. Every time I turned on espn they were talking football and basketball therefore my original comment about them not knowing that hockey existed.
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So they saw profit and potential - yet they don't care? Im sure back in the day when they didn't have a deal with the NHL they didn't give a shit but now since they do - your original comment is legit crazy people talk.
 
ESPN can do hockey, when they have skin in the game. Their work in the 90s was tops. Gary Thorne and Bill Clement calling the games. Buccigross and Melrose with their nightly show on ESPN 2.
 
JimmyG89 said:
We just had someone drop over 100 points in 56 games. The last thing we are heading towards is a dead puck era. The players will force the league to make the calls needed at some point, especially with them heading to ESPN. They want to grow the game and they are going to want their stars playing late in the year on a national stage.
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The players wouldn't say shit if they had a mouthful. Don't rock the boat, which has been grilled into their heads since they started playing minor hockey. The league doesn't care;. they want everything to be a grind, a "warrior" mentality. They want parity, which leads to mediocrity. The game didn't improve much the last time it was on ESPN, so I doubt it'll get much better this time.

This league has no comprehension about "entertainment", and they never will. Teams, coaches, GMs only think of their own interests, not the game/league itself. This will not change; at least not until all of the old guard/old time hockey mentality is eradicated from the league. This isn't the NBA.

I like good clean and physical hockey as much as anyone. But the clogging the zones, dump it it/dump it out, obstruction (especially in the playoffs) is not good for the league. You want scoring chances going back and forth; if the goalies stand on their heads, so be it. Penalties in the regular season don't seem to be in the playoffs, which is a problem. Letting the players decide games isn't a great idea either because they can't control themselves (or some of them can't).
 
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