BK
"Goalie Apologist"
Cross your fingers...
This would be amazing. There is a good chance a team would be more willing to take Seabrook as the floor would shoot up as well.
Cross your fingers...
With all the inflated contracts kids have been getting and some big time UFA's coming up that could be a game changer if true.
Not only does this give us more cap space, but it also means that a few budget teams will be looking to make the cap floor without paying more in real dollars. That Hossa contract got a lot easier and cheaper to trade away.
I don't think they ever trade the Hossa contract. I think McDonough would be against it from a PR standpoint.
Maybe I'm missing it, but if Hossa is on LTIR, why would we need to trade his contract?
This would be amazing. There is a good chance a team would be more willing to take Seabrook as the floor would shoot up as well.
unless the pkg with Seabs is vastly one sided with additional perks to make the deal.Teams would look for overpaid NHL talent not guys like Seabrook to reach cap floor
Between Calgary, Detroit, Edmonton and Dallas, why is it always the teams playing like **** at the moment that tend to engage in nonsense?
I wonder how many fights Tampa and St. Louis have bothered to partake in thus far this year. Or are they too busy being good at hockey to resort to stupidity?
Passion can't be measured with numbers. I know some people would rather this game have no physicality at all. It would be a great way to empty the stands.
I take an odd amount of pleasure in watching the Oilers underperform.
I think it's still lingering irritation that they 'won' the McDavid lottery.
my opinion is that of a fan. with that said, i think the possibility of a fight is needed. to really neutralize the goonery. perfect example is gudas hit.... yeah that type of goonery will be dealt with by the league. but i still expected some sort of a retaliation. however i can see that maybe both teams did not have that kind of mentality and i can see how they, want to let the league deal with it.This is a baseless counter-factual.
1) Fighting has never been banned so we have no idea what will happen if it's gone.
2) Fighting doesn't exist in most leagues other than the NHL, and is heavily penalized with misconducts and suspensions when it does happen in those leagues. There is no endemic of cheap-shots in other leagues.
3) The idea that players need police themselves is an indictment of the referees. If refs called the rule-book, the cheap-shots would go away.
4) Gudas is getting suspended. If you think that's not enough of a deterrent, then suspend him longer.
Fighting is not this deeply important element of hockey. Even Ken Dryden, who #PlayedDaGame pointed out in his book that fighting in the 70s was very rare, and provides the numbers to back it up. It wasn't til th 80s, when teams started wasting roster spots on goons did it become common. The NHL made fighting a part of the game in very recent history by a) failing to call the rules effectively and consistently and b) by bringing in players that bring nothing but fighting to the table. Fighting became a way for low-skill plugs to keep their jobs, and they did everything in their power to fight as much as possible to make their jobs seem valuable.
Thankfully, the NHL is doing the right thing and doing it smartly. They're never going to outright ban fighting, there'd be too much blowback from meatballs in the media and fans.
So they're just eliminating fighting gradually with rule changes in the feeder leagues, making equipment like visors (and eventually full face shields, book it) mandatory, etc. In not too many years, the league will be full of kids who have never fought, aren't comfortable fighting, have no interest in fighting... and the game will be far better for it.
I understand why Gretzky believes fighting is important. Because he played in a time when it was common.
Just because something was does not mean it need continue be. We can evolve. We can improve. We can correct that which sullies the game.
excellent findI wasn't sure where to put this, but here's an article looking back at Hawkvision and old man Wirtz.
https://deadspin.com/in-unloving-memory-of-hawkvision-a-low-point-in-sports-1820556383