Stanley Foobrick
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You think? You think me saying he was blaming the stick, might have just been a tad bit sarcastic......?
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You think? You think me saying he was blaming the stick, might have just been a tad bit sarcastic......?
Stanley Foobrick
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Really? love to see the stats on that. All three shootout goals going in is common?
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Connor BeJesus
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No, no it's not. But it's rare you get to see a goalie embarrassed on 3 straight shootout attempts......
Although technically he failed in breaking that too, 0-4 I guess......
Not really that rare, i've seen it happen plenty of time. Fleury is a beast in the shootouts but he's just been struggling this year, its pretty easy to figure out he was frustrated at himself in the end so he smashed his stick.
WarriorofTime
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Sure but if that's a high schooler you'd sit him next game no questions asked for that sort of thing.
The comment was in reference to your correlation drawn between 29 getting ripped three straight times in the SO and him smashing his stick. You do know that sarcasm is an art, right?
I have played goalie for the last 12 years and counting, starting in 2nd year mites. I broke numerous sticks over the post out of anger, and I constantly hit the post after basically any goal (the worse the goal, the harder I hit the post). I never once got benched for it.
Stanley Foobrick
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This is a nicer save than Fluery made in the shootout........ that much is true.
OhCaptainMyCaptain
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I really don't see anything wrong with a goalie breaking his stick out of frustration. Smash it and move on, no biggie.
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Stanley Foobrick
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Ok, but in a game like that, where the two teams were so evenly matched all throughout the game, wouldn't a tie be the expected result?
Roomtemperature
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The expected result is that if two teams are unable to earn a result other than a tie score after 65 minutes of hockey, the game should end in a tie. In this particular cross-conference game, the extra point the Hawks earned for the shootout doesn't really matter, but in the NHL as a whole, over the course of a season, those unnecessary shootout points cause artificial inflation and allow teams to sneak into the playoffs/get a higher seed over teams with more wins in regulation/overtime.
But, of course, you know this, since you and I have had this shootout conversation over and over again.
I was quite contented when a tie was a possibility, it was part of the game. Ties happened, and people dealt with it. I hate the shootout, worst thing that's ever happened to the game.
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I don't mind the shootout itself, but rather the result the shootout has. My favorite proposal to date was keeping everything the same, but making it so that the shootout was simply used as a tiebreaker.
Neither team scores in OT, both teams get a point, and no more points are awarded in that game. Then the shootout happens, and the shootout winner gets a SOW marked in the standings. If two teams are tied in points at the end of the year, the SOW number will be the next tie breaker.
This gives fans a resolution to the game, it makes it so that the shootouts are treated as ONLY the tiebreaker they're meant to be, and it arguably gives the shootout more significance, since they're the first thing thrown out when determining tiebreaking for playoff position at the moment.
LOVE your idea. The only thing I'd tweak is if you're tied in points, the ROW still is the first tie break, then SOW.
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You were defending MAF throwing fits and indicating that you do the same. Seems to me these types of things don't help a player in any sport. Nevermind being a bad role model for the kids at home, I just don't understand the benefit of slamming things around in anger. It's an emotional reaction that likely prevents a player from concentrating on the things they ought to be concentrating on.
You're reading too much into it. There hasn't been a single player in the history of NHL that hasn't smashed their stick in frustration. If anything, Fleury's probably one of the last people to do it. I was very surprised he did it, the dude is always so happy go lucky.
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