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Schremp Howard
Jul 18, 2010

What attitude problem?

Levitate posted:

they're awful quick to blow the play dead if guys don't immediately try to exit the zone and they're also ridiculously strict about shooting the puck in at the blueline if a team mate is offsides instead of allowing a touch up (I assume this is because if the puck is over the line at all on your stick even if you're shooting it in then they consider if offsides if a teammate is in the zone)

That's right. It also gave us this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_c_7l1vjtM

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xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

a false posted:

they've been making excuses about why that's impossible for years but it doesn't seem very impossible to me

The tech is definitely out there, there's just no one out there taking it from idea phase to functioning product phase.

It'll probably be like that guy that developed the hemisphere microphones you see used in NFL games, someone makes it and shows it's a good idea and all the sudden it gets used everywhere.

Slappy Pappy
Oct 15, 2003

Mighty, mighty eagle soaring free
Defender of our homes and liberty
Bravery, humility, and honesty...
Mighty, mighty eagle, rescue me!
Dinosaur Gum

Zodijackylite posted:

Just get rid of offsides reviews on goals. Regardless of which way they go, they ruin an enjoyable hockey game whenever they happen.

I felt this way before they implemented them but I didn't realize the linesmen missed so many calls. Seems like more than half of the challenges are successful. Maybe we should just get rid of the linesmen and automate it all. Two less bozo's to clog up the ice.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

Slappy Pappy posted:

I felt this way before they implemented them but I didn't realize the linesmen missed so many calls. Seems like more than half of the challenges are successful. Maybe we should just get rid of the linesmen and automate it all. Two less bozo's to clog up the ice.

They'd still need linesmen just because they're basically the refs' muscle.

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME

grack posted:

If you're offsides and can't touch the puck you could still gain an advantage by forechecking or impeding the opposing player with the puck. You have to make a concerted effort to leave the zone once offsides is declared by the linesman.

Yes but they sometimes seem to blow the play dead before players even have a chance to respond to the offsides and leave the zone

Kalenn Istarion
Nov 2, 2012

Maybe Senpai will finally notice me now that I've dropped :fivebux: on this snazzy av

hifi posted:

nfl refs tasked with doing the automatic reviews have to affirm the score before play can continue but i'd be surprised if the average time added was more than 10 seconds per score, and if they radio down to the field and tell the refs they need a real review, then who cares because they needed a challenge to get it right anyways.

the actual process of a nhl review is bad currently but i think that's a separate issue.

The situation room basically reviews every single goal that happens. Goals don't need to be challenged unless for goaltender interference or offsides.

Kalenn Istarion
Nov 2, 2012

Maybe Senpai will finally notice me now that I've dropped :fivebux: on this snazzy av

glynnenstein posted:

Develop a goal-line technology like in the EPL and let the rest fall as it may. No reviews. Who gives the tiniest poo poo about if the linesman missed offside by less than the width of the puck? How about we don't stop the game for 5 minutes so somebody can make a subjective call about goaltender interference.

The thing I think is stupid is that crap like that is a subjective call and review just has a different person make a subjective call. It's loving stupid.

If you're going to put cameras and/or puck tracking for goals why have linesmen at all? Just call them the goon squad and their job is to choke slam any players that get lippy.

T-Bone posted:

Apparently they might change the rule so you don't have to have your skate down. The reviews are garbage though, agreed.

This is the rule in Canadian and IIHF hockey, it's stupid that it's not the rule in the NHL.

Kalenn Istarion
Nov 2, 2012

Maybe Senpai will finally notice me now that I've dropped :fivebux: on this snazzy av

xzzy posted:

The tech is definitely out there, there's just no one out there taking it from idea phase to functioning product phase.

It'll probably be like that guy that developed the hemisphere microphones you see used in NFL games, someone makes it and shows it's a good idea and all the sudden it gets used everywhere.

The league is already testing puck tracking tech, they've stated publicly that they want it but it's not game ready yet.

Sorry for triple post

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

The review doesn't even have someone else making it. It's the game refs who make the decision. Toronto doesn't have input.

Only on a ref initiated or automatic review (the kind we had before coach's challenge) is it Toronto making the decision.

Levitate
Sep 30, 2005

randy newman voice

YOU'VE GOT A LAFRENIÈRE IN ME
isn't "the war room" like one guy who has to make the call on all of these games

Look Around You
Jan 19, 2009

Reviews are dumb and bad and sometimes bad calls happen. I don't want the sport to turn into football where every play is reviewed down to the inch.

Look Around You
Jan 19, 2009

Though Gretzkys coaches challenge in the all star game was hilarious

Sharks Eat Bear
Dec 25, 2004


holy poo poo how have i never seen this. hasek is the fuckin BEST EVER

Kalenn Istarion posted:

I don't even know what happened, I just noticed someone wanting to shoot someone over a hockey game

wow thanks sometimes we all get a little wrapped up in this sport but youre so right, is it really worth fighting over?, thank u for reminding us

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

I dunno, clearly offside and player launched a puck on an unready goalie. If that isn't a penalty there should at least be a 4 or 5 minute scrum about it.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
Why do hockey players fight each other so much anyway, it's only a game

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

Pornographic Memory posted:

it's only a game
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bewbies
Sep 23, 2003

Fun Shoe
I legitimately prefer bitching about bad calls to sitting around for 10 minutes waiting for some doofus in Toronto to adjudicate offsides calls down to the millimeter

Kalenn Istarion
Nov 2, 2012

Maybe Senpai will finally notice me now that I've dropped :fivebux: on this snazzy av

bewbies posted:

I legitimately prefer bitching about bad calls to sitting around for 10 minutes waiting for some doofus in Toronto to adjudicate offsides calls down to the millimeter

Hear hear

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
:effort: GDT is up if anyone cares.

Krime
Jul 30, 2003

Somebody has to do the scoring around here.
At this rate we'll get Ron Hainsey, #1 D man by mid March.

Shawn Cotureier
Jan 21, 2009

Still better than Umberger
https://twitter.com/jedli/status/834910500068683777

Hopefully Gudas didn't deflect THIS one in too, eh

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
despite alexander ovechkin and phil kessel being two of the most beloved players in the nhl, somehow i get the feeling that if you combined them not many kids would want (or be allowed to receive) their autograph



Elite Prospects made a bunch more player mashups too, helpfully collected here.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Pornographic Memory posted:

despite alexander ovechkin and phil kessel being two of the most beloved players in the nhl, somehow i get the feeling that if you combined them not many kids would want (or be allowed to receive) their autograph



Elite Prospects made a bunch more player mashups too, helpfully collected here.

So he becomes the guy from my Comp Sci classes who never bathed and always wore shorts (even in winter with a foot+ snow on the ground)

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

So he becomes the guy from my Comp Sci classes who never bathed and always wore shorts (even in winter with a foot+ snow on the ground)

And always smelled like hot dogs.

Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land




Shawn Cotureier posted:

https://twitter.com/jedli/status/834910500068683777

Hopefully Gudas didn't deflect THIS one in too, eh

this is a fake tweet, right?

Neuvirth knocked up Gudas' sister?

Mr. Kite
Aug 28, 2004

SHUT UP AND PLAY HOCKEY
It happens. Jon Quick and Matt Moulson are brother-in-laws.

Slappy Pappy
Oct 15, 2003

Mighty, mighty eagle soaring free
Defender of our homes and liberty
Bravery, humility, and honesty...
Mighty, mighty eagle, rescue me!
Dinosaur Gum

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

this is a fake tweet, right?

Neuvirth knocked up Gudas' sister?

For Neuvirth's sake I hope she's a lot better looking than Radko. That guy looks like a thumb with a beard taped to it.

Hypnobeard
Sep 15, 2004

Obey the Beard



Apparently it's true.

She's some kind of pop star in the Czech Republic, and is a lovely lady going by the picture in the article. Neuvirth looks.. weedy.

stab
Feb 12, 2003

To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high

Mr. Kite posted:

It happens. Jon Quick and Matt Moulson are brother-in-laws.

Brendon morrow is married to Guy Carbonneau's daughter (Guy was coaching him at one point no?)

Also Darcy Tucker and Shayne Corson....


And for somehow what the gently caress reason aren't Max Pacioretty and Maxim fn Afinogenov of all people brother in laws?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Hypnobeard posted:

Apparently it's true.

She's some kind of pop star in the Czech Republic, and is a lovely lady going by the picture in the article. Neuvirth looks.. weedy.

Karolina clearly got the looks in the family. Possibly the talent as well.

Schlesische
Jul 4, 2012

stab posted:

Brendon morrow is married to Guy Carbonneau's daughter (Guy was coaching him at one point no?)

They were teammates in 1999-00.

stab posted:

And for somehow what the gently caress reason aren't Max Pacioretty and Maxim fn Afinogenov of all people brother in laws?

If it's a Habs video, is a trivia video and involves Max Pacioretty, this fact will probably come up.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

SPACE FACE! SPACE FACE!

Pornographic Memory posted:

despite alexander ovechkin and phil kessel being two of the most beloved players in the nhl, somehow i get the feeling that if you combined them not many kids would want (or be allowed to receive) their autograph



Elite Prospects made a bunch more player mashups too, helpfully collected here.

Oh god Henrik Kopitar

Pancakes by Mail
Oct 21, 2010

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Goaltender Carey Price was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
over/under how long before Julien says "uh thanks anyway guys" and goes to Vegas

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
He coached worse teams during his time in Boston, I don't think he'll give up that easily.

I mean, remember that the only set plays the team had under Therrien were stretch pass, dump in, clear off the glass.

Thufir
May 19, 2004

"The fucking Mayans were right."
Fil Forsberg has as many hat tricks in the last 2 games as Martin Erat had goals in his Capitals career.

LumpyGumby
Feb 22, 2012

"Here's the world famous hockey player sitting in the penalty box for slashing..."
-Snoopy Brown
42g - 65a - 107pts
106gp - 317PIMS
Remind me again how Nashville wins a trade between Colorado and Washington.

Mind_Taker
May 7, 2007



Ow my heart

mennoknight
Nov 24, 2003

I WILL JUST EAT ONE MORE SANDWICH
OH MY HEAD EXPLORDED I'M JAY FATSTER
It's my fault Habs fans I went to the bell centre tonight and bought a Carey Price shirsey I'm so sorry

Kale
May 14, 2010

Man the Habs really really loving suck at this point and I'm not even sure I feel like watching of the rest of the games regardless of whether they still make the playoffs and are inevitably the first team to get bounced. Way too many games where they're just completely shut out or only manage one garbage goal for an NHL club. There isn't even a doubt in my mind that the team needs a complete overhaul in the off season and I hate to say it but I'm not even sure Price is in-expendable anymore. I'd rather have moderately less competent goal-tending from when he's at his best than these constant shutouts from a completely offensively inept team in the second half of every season. It's way easier to win a game and build streaks like 4-2 or 3-2 wins or something than it is trying to win every game 1-0.

I still think Julien is and will prove to be a way better coach than Therrien in the long run for obvious reasons but it's crystal clear the problem isn't a coaching one after all. The teams just not nearly as good as it always appears to be to open seasons.

Kale fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Feb 24, 2017

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iospace
Jan 19, 2038



How many fucks did that guy give over the course of his career about anything?

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