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John Tortorella is a crank, but when he said that nobody in the league hates each other anymore because they all follow each other on Instagram, he had a point. It's not as pronounced as it is in the NBA, not even close, but the hate in rivalries is pretty much confined to fanbases and not on the ice.
 
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Dumais said:
Sabres, Flyers, Rangers, Wings, Avs, Devils, Pens (etc.) of the 90s were a lot of fun to watch. Stopped following NFL because of it. As a CBJ fan, it's been bad for the better part of 25 years; but I maybe bias.
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The Devils of the 90's were very much not fun to watch...
Even if you were a fan, that was some boring ass games
 
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Hockey is still fun, it's the never ending amount of new ways to put ads on things and constant talking about gambling is that I don't find fun.
 
Bear of Bad News said:
I still remember sitting next to Rick Reilly at the Pepsi Center yelling RED WINGS SUCK until we couldn't speak.
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Even when the league started to get super overtly corporatized in the late nineties (miss the McNichols Arena the barn I loved to hate) at least the brands were more recognizable

Pepsi Center vs Crypto.com/Climate Pledge... sigh
 
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I dont see how the ads bother anyone. I just tune them out or play around on my phone during a break or find another game to watch. Ads have been a thing in sports since the early days of baseball..why are we acting like its something new?
 
thebeernerd said:
John Tortorella is a crank, but when he said that nobody in the league hates each other anymore because they all follow each other on Instagram, he had a point. It's not as pronounced as it is in the NBA, not even close, but the hate in rivalries is pretty much confined to fanbases and not on the ice.
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I think Tortorella blaming Instagram is totally missing the point. Nobody really hates each other anymore because it was scaring away too many potential customers and shortening too many careers, making it bad for business, both for the owners and the players. There's much more money to be made if everyone stays healthy and can put on another great show tomorrow and the next day and the next day.

The players following each other on instagram just pulls back the curtain and makes it painfully obvious that they are really coworkers in the business of hockey and not the mortal enemies we want them to be.
 
thebeernerd said:
John Tortorella is a crank, but when he said that nobody in the league hates each other anymore because they all follow each other on Instagram, he had a point. It's not as pronounced as it is in the NBA, not even close, but the hate in rivalries is pretty much confined to fanbases and not on the ice.
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Meanwhile Tom Wilson and Josh Anderson:

 
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BullLund said:
Meanwhile Tom Wilson and Josh Anderson:

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I really shouldn't be saying this about a division rival, but I like Tom Wilson. He's a total heel, and unlike Brad Marchand, he doesn't try to make himself out to be likable to obscure that reality.
 
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I find hockey fun. I love watching the game. The sounds of skates on a fresh sheet and the puck rattling off the boards is something that brings me joy just hearing it.

I do not enjoy the NHL product very much however. The inconsistent officiating - be it the variable nature of what is or is not puck possession for hits or off-sides, the variable nature of what is or is not goalie interference, the constant saw-off of powerplays or meaningless late calls that we know are going to happen in an effort to somehow artificially make games closer, the clear preference for certain teams based on reputation... it sullies the product.

Add in the fractured nature of viewing, that everything has to funnel through a different subscription service instead of being able to pay the league for the ability to watch games -- all of the games -- is tiresome as a consumer.
 
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I don’t know. I’m a huge Sabres fan and we suck….but I miss the old 70’s, 80’s, 90’s rivalries like the Habs v Nordiques, Habs v. Canadiens, Islanders v. Rangers, Flyers v. Everyone……those were the days my friend.
 
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izlez said:
So you're looking at 100 years of the history of hockey, selecting your personal 2 favorite things, and wondering why the snapshot of time of today can't compare?

Yep, that's nostalgia.
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So now 1990 was 100 years ago?

I plainly stated "in my 35 years of watching". No one can consider the time before they began watching because they obviously can't remember something being "fun" if they didn't experience it in the first place.
Was hockey fun in 1992? Hell yes. I remember it. Someone born in 1988 wouldn't know what it was like though. It isn't that difficult of a concept.

Still waiting for some rivalries today like we had back then. Bruins-Habs and Rangers-Islanders feel like a shell of themselves compared to what they used to be. Par for the course with a watered down 32 team schedule.
 
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Man, hockey today is infinitely better than the days in which it was bogged down by constant trash like that which has been displayed in this thread.

Looking forward to the day when we ban fighting outright and render it an automatic forty game suspension, or something to that effect, eliminating players like Xhekaj and Reeves.

The game is poised to continue to improve given its upwards trajectory, however slow the progress.
 
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