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Division champs are an official thing? I thought it was just what loser teams (Detroit) would hang.
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McPhock posted:Probably not an ideal place for this question, but.... Hockey arenas love wrestling themes. You still hear Hardcore Holly and the Hardy Boys themes a lot.
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Apr 14, 2014 04:32
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HELLO LADIES posted:It's important to note that a lot of what fans consider "staged fights" aren't actually staged. Maybe not in this particular case, but there's an entire etiquette around when to fight the other guy, like it's considered Not Cool to fight a guy at the end of his shift if you're at the start, because that's not a fair matchup, and plenty of guys have expressed the opinion that when they absolutely know they're going to have to fight that game anyway, they prefer to get it over with as early as possible. There can also be multi-game chains of causation for fights that get started early, stemming from an incident(s) even as far back as the previous season. A lot more of the fights are "organic", or at least have a narrative of significance constructed around them by the fighters, than many anti-fighting fans seem to want to credit. There have been so many changes to the rules around fighting, mostly at the behest of the league/owners, that the "spontaneous street justice for dirty play" fights can be a lot more dangerous in hockey terms (penalties, etc) for the guy who starts them and that's entirely subject to ref discretion, so in a lot of ways the timeframe for those incidents has gotten stretched out, specifically so the refs can't get as involved. Everything you just said describes exactly why they're called staged.
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Apr 14, 2014 16:59
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Detroit's star player is a homophobe douche. Also they call themselves Hockeytown despite not even being in the top 3 of US markets (and well behind when we count Canada.) That is a significant misnomer! If you're a fan of douchiness though, by all means... Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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Apr 14, 2014 17:31
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They are apparently changing the rule next season to forcing the center to take the face off from further back rather than being kicked out.
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Apr 15, 2014 13:35
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junidog posted:I'd love to hear more about all the "fancy" stats. Shots are saves+goals already in the NHL. If it misses the net, it's not a shot. The simple description is that if it would have gone in had the goalie not been there, it's a shot*. So Corsi takes that existing stat and adds misses and blocks to it. Fenwick just adds misses. *: This sometimes leads to situations where something that is not a shot on goal becomes a shot on goal because physics put it in the net. For example a shot that goes over the net is not a shot on goal. But if it ricochets and ends up in the net off the goalie's back or something, it magically becomes one even though the goalie not being there actually would have prevented it from being a goal.
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Apr 16, 2014 13:30
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Frostwerks posted:Where the hell is the goalie at around 4:10? Montreal pulled him for an extra attacker. You're allowed to do that whenever you want. It's a common tactic in the last few minutes of a game when you're down 1 or 2. Teams also pull the goalie on a delayed penalty (play only stops when the other team touches the puck) because it's impossible for the opponent to score unless the team puts it in their own net. And yes, that has happened.
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Apr 16, 2014 22:00
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Frostwerks posted:Ahh ok. When I didn't see him at the goal I started looking down the ice to see if he was down there because I figured that he was the extra attacker but I guess it makes more sense to have a dedicated player that's actually purposed for the task rather than someone in all that clunky gear. I'm sure it's happened at least once but has a goalie ever scored a goal? Yes. There was even one this past season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB6TEDp94-k Slightly more often than goalies actually shooting it in the net you have goalies credited with a goal by being the last player on their team to touch the puck before the other team accidentally scores on themselves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_goaltenders_who_have_scored_a_goal_in_an_NHL_game Martin Brodeur has the most with 3 goals in his career. He actually shot 1 of them. Ron Hextall is the only goalie to have more than 1 off his own shot. Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Apr 16, 2014 |
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Apr 16, 2014 22:16
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They only had the 1 originally. It's contagious.
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Apr 18, 2014 20:55
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The Euro leagues actually draft North American prospects that will never actually go there. They usually go later in the drafts, but they do include them. The NHL is taking that risk when they draft Europeans too, but it's rare they don't come over. They don't draft blind, they know who wants to play in the NHL or not. Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Apr 18, 2014 |
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Apr 18, 2014 22:53
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HELLO LADIES posted:Didn't some KHL team do the equivalent of granting TayTay exceptional player status so they could draft him first overall in their import draft when he was like 16 or something like that? His Wiki page says Kazan drafted him 89th overall. They draft at 17 normally though.
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Apr 18, 2014 23:16
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HOW COULD YOU posted:I got a question. He was responding to someone complaining about the Flyers and said that just complaining on the forums does nothing, and quoted some tweets he had made to them about how Giroux should have his C taken away and stuff. People called him out on how dumb that is, and he said that he has been a "thorn in the side of management on twitter" and that he heard from an inside source that he has been labelled a "disgruntled fan".
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Apr 19, 2014 03:15
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Here's the series of posts. It's in archives. He's responding to some general complaining about the Philly media and Giroux. This was back when Giroux wasn't scoring. evilwaldo posted:If the media is going to call him out at least do it like I did to Giroux and Hartnell almost a week ago. MagicCube posted:Wow those meaningless things you said are really great. I'm sure all that was missing from the Flyers winning games was random people on twitter questioning their ability. Do you have any more interesting twitter things you said to the Flyers? mcvey posted:Is that really you because: evilwaldo posted:(To MagicCube) (A ton of people laughing at him) evilwaldo posted:I do know that Comcast has poked around the general identity stuff which would make sense because they are the owners of the Flyers.
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Apr 19, 2014 03:22
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They did it without taking away the A or C, still relevant!
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Apr 19, 2014 05:49
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Admiral Goodenough posted:Ok, so the IIHF world championships happen soon, right? Is it as fun to watch as the Olympics? How are players selected to the national teams? How come the Olympics make the NHL go on a break but the World Championships don't? They're invited. The Worlds are every year so it's not that big a deal really. The NHL really doesn't like to stop for the Olympics as it is, they would never agree to a yearly break so players can go get hurt in Europe somewhere.
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Apr 23, 2014 13:24
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Number Two Stunna posted:How do I become the organ player at a hockey arena? That sounds like such a cool job. I think there was a goon not too long ago who actually applied for one.
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Apr 24, 2014 00:26
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He's not a good goalie. Bad goalies can have a good season. He did, and Pittsburgh refuses to see it.
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Apr 24, 2014 05:19
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ElwoodCuse posted:No it's not a good question because first you should ask "how come Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin can't score in the playoffs anymore" Patrice Bergeron and Chris Kelly (or whoever got the other matchup) broke them, obviously.
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Apr 24, 2014 05:59
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It used to be pretty easy to score so they worked to limit it a bit. Now it's the opposite.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Why does PK Subban own so much? He'd own a lot more if he hadn't been forced into a bridge deal.
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