The play-offs start today. Congrats to all the teams that made it.
Now that the niceties are complete, unless your team name has the word ‘Senators’ in it, get stuffed.
The play-offs start today. Congrats to all the teams that made it.
Now that the niceties are complete, unless your team name has the word ‘Senators’ in it, get stuffed.
As far as I am concerned, all of the NHL can get stuffed. Now I am going to go read your CFL thread.
Can’t wait to get the season started.
I haven’t watched NHL hockey in years and am not about to start now even though the Oilers are in the playoffs, but in other sport news – the Cardinals are leading the Nationals!
NHL? Million Dollar Babies! With apologies to Alice Cooper…
You sound like a Rough Rider (athletic) supporter
Go Leafs!
How long into the playoffs does training camp for next season start in the NHL? I stopped watching or caring years ago, because playing ice hockey in June, July, August… is dumb.
How do they work it for training camp for guys who are still playing in the playoffs?
Someone said why would or should middle class tax payers pay to see millionaire athletes make billionaire owners even more money. Then bail them out buy them new arenas ect ect. Then have the players strike for better working conditions …..it is insane.
I was a fan of Hockey until the owners decided to take out all nuance and masculinity within the game. What passes for Hockey now is more like basketball on ice IMO… hockey for dummies. The transformation from traditional Canadian style hockey to the American college hockey style game has little appeal for me… emotionless and dull. I always thought American college hockey was a dumbed down version of Canadian Hockey, very boring. Although the Stanley Cup is still one of the greatest and most recognizable trophies out there… Canada has all the best trophies IMO, Grey Cup, Mann Cup, Memorial Cup.
Well, Lance, at least you ain’t no Leafs fan.
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Playing sports leads to horrid joint pain in late life,
Watching sports (sports fan) leads to a huge beer and pizza belly that will shorten late life misery.
Not to mention injuries and hurt feelings.
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Senators suck.
Go Bruins.
Let’s. Go. Blues!
Sports? Who cares?
Uhhh, that’d be me.
I’m a sports agnostic. I don’t follow them, I don’t know who’s playing, I couldn’t care less who wins or loses, and I have no loyalties to any team.
I’ve got more important things to worry about.
I’m a sports agnostic.
Yup, me too. I have much better things to do with my life besides living vicariously watching millionaires play silly games on the boob tube.
I was a fan until the Fliers started goon hockey. Now I see parents wasting a fortune for an NHL career which will not happen. Used car salesmen is their final care.
Not all are millionaires, the average professional life of a hockey player is/was less than 5 years. We only hear about the highest paid, there are many that earn much less than a million $ per year. There is no pity here, but just recognize the reality. Nice that the Oilers are in. Wish that the Canucks had done better a few years ago. Go Oilers, Go Flames. I would cheer for the Alaska Bullettes against the Canadiens. 4 straight for the Bullettes.
I don’t know if this is good news or bad news but I see that the CBC has very limited coverage of the NHL playoffs this year. Good news because I don’t have to watch games on CBC (they are not even covering the Oilers) and bad news because they will go broke that much faster and will be sucking up to PM Selfie for more of our money.
“I would cheer for the Alaska Bullettes against the Canadiens”
I’m with you there. I’ve hated em since the Stanley Cup finals in 1966 when they beat my Detroit Red Wings who had my 2 favorite guys, Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio.
I quit when Wayne quit.
Living in Toronto made it easy.
Nice OT win SHARKS ! Sorry OILERS … but Jerry Brown’s Cap and Trade CA Hockey Team just cannot lose to a Fossil Fueled team. It’s gonna be tough without Joe Thornton at the center. Hope he returns soon … and not too lame from his bad knee. And Couture’s face took some serious puck damage. So it may come down to Tomas Hertl holding down the center position for the hurting Sharks. Its an uphill battle … as we learned in GM-1
Who cares about NHL – SHL is much more exciting, especially when my team is playing well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNsgQ9wkeo
Note: Brynäs is the team of Börje Salming, Mats Näslund, Stefan Persson, Tomas Sandström, Nicklas Bäckström, …
Cheers,
/Johan
Yup, they’re overpaid. Yup, Bettman’s schemes have turned the NHL into a gari$h traveling road show. And yup, I liked the old game with the likes of Howe, Hull, Makita, Beliveau, and Orr a lot better….and you can add Keon, Lafleur, Messier and a few others to that list.
But in between all the tiresome, vomit-inducing commercials, it is still possible to catch some pretty neat plays, even though the days of free-wheeling end-to-end hockey are over.
Besides, if you’re going to cheer for something, there’s a lot less harm rooting for a sports team than some dink of a politician and his party full of fart-suckers. Pity more Canadians can’t make that distinction.
Go Hawks!
Ottawa just had their championship. The Sens are going nowhere. Go Habs! (Before you say it, who are likely headed for the same fate.)
Still a NHL fan after all these years. I cut my last sympathy for eastern Canada when the Canucks came in and I abandoned my Habs.
I managed all my son’s teams through minor hockey. I often asked him if ‘he felt it’? He did not understand what I meant until 1st year Bantam. Feeling it to me was always about your feet feeling so light on the ice that you could skate forever. My son did feel it and told me so without prompting. At 37 he still plays for the love of the game. When did I ‘feel it’? Skating on frozen ponds at 12 years old.
The cynicism of old age does not allow me to forgive the NHL for stealing the CUP from my Canucks in ’11. Even ’94 bordered on the same.
In my life time the game has changed. Finesse has trumped the physical counter. How do you defeat Guy LaFleur’s speed other than by a physical counter. Corporately ownership wants to protect their assets by not having them injured but in that process the physical challenge has been muted in the Canadian game.
The Senators official that tweeted this halfway through the game last night should be fired!
” Ottawa SenatorsVerified account @Senators 13h13 hours ago
The Bruins failed to record a shot on goal in the second period.
Can someone in the advanced stat community tell us if that is good?
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Not too smart fellas!
Good comment about ‘the game’.
It’s a feeling beyond a high or even euphoria.
Surprised by a profound happiness?
I also enjoyed reading about your “spiritual” description of skating the hockey rink … what I refer-to as being “in the zone” … where it almost seems as though time stands still and you are operating in another dimension. It comes from a LOVE of the game and the highest degree of competency and skill. Being a warm weather kid, I never had much occasion to skate, let alone play hockey … but I have always loved the game because of the balance between speed, power and skill. And the fighting … simply made it the most manly sport ever played. It’s a far cry from two baseball players having a fake slap-fight like two schoolgirls.
nold & Kenji;
“profound happiness” and “spiritual” are both apt descriptions. Better than my attempt.
When I talked about the physical counter to finesse in hockey I was thinking more of using body position, body checking and yes sometimes even fighting.
I recently attended the Cyclone Taylor Cup tourney in Creston. Good, fast hockey but I was very disappointed that after every whistle, it seemed the refs were lobbied for calls or influence. So European, so sad.
No interest in team sports, but can stomach watching certain individual played sports “sometimes”. Not boring sports like golf or fishing, but dynamic sports like boxing, martial arts, Moto GP, various skiing, or any shooting sport…etcetera…..
Guess that’s why there’s a menu in restaurants as well.
Would much rather get out and do something sporty instead of watching someone else on TV or even an arena/ stadium any day.
YES!
When I was a young teenager I liked Gretzky but when He was traded I was still a fan but my attention turned to my local WHL team the Swift Current Broncos. It was fun watching Joe Sakic, Sheldon Kennedy and all of the great players of that era Broncos. I used to get such a kick out of joining everyone else in the Civic Center calling Theoren Fleury a weasel when the organist played pop goes the weasel. haha.