GDT: Around the NHL - Playoff Edition

not being able to watch is stupid

BUT

I know this is a hot take but I like how the NHL is team oriented and lower key than the NBA. Could they market the faces of the game better? Sure. But selfishly I don’t think it needs to be about the stars.
 
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This is the same league that ok'd putting games on the Outdoor Life Network for a good period of time.

People want to complain about Bettman- that should be their complaint. He hasn't done enough to promote this sport or individual athletes. People on the street could point out Angel Reese or C Clark out of a lineup. I doubt they'd be able to do the same for MacKinnon, Kucherov, Bedard, etc.
Gary Bettman is a f***ing lame ass piece of shit and the fact that the owners love that rat bastard and then bitch about the sport not gaining more traction is comical. You hire a f***ing douche that lies about CTE, allows teams to get away with assault and other f***ed up shit, then protects the coyotes for years only to see that fail as well, f*** that midget turd.

The NHL showed it can grow with the 4 nations, so many were blown away by the game. But the NHL then goes and signs a huge deal with a shit company like Rogers? lol.
 
Gary Bettman is a f***ing lame ass piece of shit and the fact that the owners love that rat bastard and then bitch about the sport not gaining more traction is comical. You hire a f***ing douche that lies about CTE, allows teams to get away with assault and other f***ed up shit, then protects the coyotes for years only to see that fail as well, f*** that midget turd.

The NHL showed it can grow with the 4 nations, so many were blown away by the game. But the NHL then goes and signs a huge deal with a shit company like Rogers? lol.
He’s also a big reason why we still have a team here
 
So the options to watch the first round in freaking 2025 are to:
A.) Live in the area of the team and watch the local broadcast
B.) Have cable and watch ESPN
C.) Pirate it

Brilliant. Way to strong arm me into Option C, NHL!
 
MTL looks little. Hutson getting bullied
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Firing Bylsma because Ron Francis is absolute shit at being a Gm is wild to me. So many young players took a step forward while that D and Goaltending was an absolute joke and Ronnie Dipshit did nothing to fix it. He should have stepped back last year or sooner.

But yeah once again, a ton of coaching vacancies and Sullivan somehow f***ing remains. This is the best time to fire that monumental twat.
 
I am all for a Canadian team winning so we don’t see these morons happily pose at the White House (bless you Eagles).

But not the Habs if they play Mailloux. No thanks. This might be the one time I am 100% on board with Toronto winning because f*** Dubas for not firing Sullivan and just yeah f*** Dubas again for good measure for that reason.

And of course, now that I live here, Go Canada for the Cup. If the Flames made it that would have been my choice, not because of you, wanker.
 
Firing Bylsma because Ron Francis is absolute shit at being a Gm is wild to me. So many young players took a step forward while that D and Goaltending was an absolute joke and Ronnie Dipshit did nothing to fix it. He should have stepped back last year or sooner.

But yeah once again, a ton of coaching vacancies and Sullivan somehow f***ing remains. This is the best time to fire that monumental twat.
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Shane Wright was a huge bright spot and so was Kakko. But Wright was someone that was starting to get a bust label and Disco worked with him a ton in the AHL and then in the NHL he really got him to come to life. A lot of the players looked good under Disco but that defense was an absolute joke. The goaltending was even worse. If Daccord wasn’t playing it was basically a blowout loss or a very bad defensive game win. Grubby was a shit show. And then Joey Dac was basically gassed and started to look it too.

Francis was a shit GM in Carolina and Seattle. What he did during expansion was like a how to f*** up your new team master class. The fluke run to the playoffs is a misnomer.

It's funny because technically they fired Francis as a GM but gave him a head office role so it looks less bad for him.

This is a bloke that never had the canes make the playoffs under his guidance.
 
Firing Bylsma because Ron Francis is absolute shit at being a Gm is wild to me. So many young players took a step forward while that D and Goaltending was an absolute joke and Ronnie Dipshit did nothing to fix it. He should have stepped back last year or sooner.

But yeah once again, a ton of coaching vacancies and Sullivan somehow f***ing remains. This is the best time to fire that monumental twat.

But we won’t because we’re a joke franchise.

Given FSG/Kindergarten Kyle’s stupidity and our unwavering allegiance to Sullivan, I hope we end up the ‘Yotes 3.0 after Sid and Geno retire.

It’d serve FSG right as I’ve said. f***ing wankers
 
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I am all for a Canadian team winning so we don’t see these morons happily pose at the White House (bless you Eagles).

But not the Habs if they play Mailloux. No thanks. This might be the one time I am 100% on board with Toronto winning because f*** Dubas for not firing Sullivan and just yeah f*** Dubas again for good measure for that reason.

And of course, now that I live here, Go Canada for the Cup. If the Flames made it that would have been my choice, not because of you, wanker.
Takes one to know one
 
The word "wankers" will never not make me giggle.
My whatsapp group chat with my mates back in the UK is mostly calling each other the C word that is banned here, wanker and then a lot of trash talking about our F1 fantasy teams.

It's funny how much of just our normal slang is a clutch pearl moment for a lot of wankers in the US and Canada. When my wife met some of my family out in Birmingham and London, she first needed me to translate a lot of the slang and just everything in general because she has an awful ear for accents. By the end of the first trip, she kept calling everyone a wanker and thought it was hilarious.

She does it every time we visit and come back it re-enters her vocabulary.
 
But we won’t because we’re a joke franchise.

Given FSG/Kindergarten Kyle’s stupidity and our unwavering allegiance to Sullivan, I hope we end up the ‘Yotes 3.0 after Sid and Geno retire.

It’d serve FSG right as I’ve said. f***ing wankers
FSG already made it clear - they really only give a shit about Sullivan, Dubas, and Crosby.

They basically came out and said they don't care if the fans don't show up, they are not going to fire Sullivan and something else to that extent. That was the most insane thing I have ever heard from an ownership group or otherwise. They would rather prioritize a relationship they have with a coach that has nothing but failures since 2018 and is now costing them money, because.....BAWSTAHN.

Meanwhile other teams are like "oh yeah, no let's fire the coach so we can actually you know, practice accountability and strive to be better and not be complacent ( Except Seattle)"....then there's the Pens.

Even the remaining good Pens writers we did have, are like "Yeah no, Sullivan did play youth" and it's like really? So for 10 games it's ok that he used the other youth that were up in the prior 72 games like shit and only really used them in better usage when the games meant nothing when the season was basically over?

He's literally done that the last 3+ seasons. Then he reverts back to his usual dipshit ways the next season. The rope he gave Beauvillier and others, no other team even bothered to do that shit when they got those players. It's comical, the players Sullivan chose to play over youth on a team that needed that injection into the top 6, were mostly healthy scratch fodder for other teams or used in better ways than he could ever fathom.

It's why he fails as a coach for a team that is in a rebuild/retool mode, you need a coach that can think that way for more than 10 f***ing games a season. It's why other coaches succeed while wankbuckets like Sullivan and their "old school methods" fail. It's why the Capitals didn't keep Lavi, they wanted a blend and Lavi is a coach that is better for a veteran squad (like Sullivan) and why he did well in NY the year before and then tanked when the Rangers were trying to get younger as well.

It's like watching the Rangers fire Lavi for the same reasons the Pens should fire Sullivan, except the Penguins keep telling the world it's not Sullivan's fault.
 

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