Around the League '23-24

[ElGuapo]

If it's reasonably cheap and convenient/easy enough, I have no problem paying.

Unfortunately the NHL is not great about either.

ESPN+ has been great, honestly, but I say that as an out-of-market fan. When I inevitably move back to Texas, I have no idea yet how I plan to watch.

I tried a VPN for awhile but sometimes it just wouldn't damn work. It would be set right like always but half the time the app would still know where I was. So there went the ease of use part. So last season I just gave up on most of the regular season.

 

[Elysian]

If it's reasonably cheap and convenient/easy enough, I have no problem paying.

Unfortunately the NHL is not great about either.

ESPN+ has been great, honestly, but I say that as an out-of-market fan. When I inevitably move back to Texas, I have no idea yet how I plan to watch.

Espn+ is great when the games are actually on it. It's frustrating trying to find streams when they aren't.

 

[piqued]

Riley Barber is tearing it up in Kazahkstan. 16 points in 10 games to lead the KHL. What a legend.

 

[starsfan86]

Riley Barber is tearing it up in Kazahkstan. 16 points in 10 games to lead the KHL. What a legend.

 

[Captain Awesome]

I tried a VPN for awhile but sometimes it just wouldn't damn work. It would be set right like always but half the time the app would still know where I was. So there went the ease of use part. So last season I just gave up on most of the regular season.

It's always tricky to use VPNs to get around streaming services. It's basically an arms race between any streaming service (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, ESPN+, etc.) and your VPN.

The VPN buys server bandwidth in all these countries, they all have an identifier, just like you would normally if you were browsing anything on the internet. I'm assuming the amount of traffic that comes through on these servers is abnormally high, so ESPN+ flags it as a VPN server and it no longer works.

This is going to always be a losing battle for VPNs, because banning things is free for the gigantic corporations, but VPNs are going to have to keep switching around servers so they can keep going around these companies. There are lots of great uses for VPNs, but it's always unreliable to use them for this sort of thing in the long-term. Eventually the service tends to catch up.

I f***ing miss hockeystreams.com, RIP.

 

[Klockis]

I f***ing miss hockeystreams.com, RIP.

Preach. Reliable streams with excellent customer service. Them going down has made me much more of a casual fan of the NHL than I was before.

Amazing how the pirates are so much better than the legal alternatives.

 

[Frozen Failure]

If we can't watch it, then we find something else to watch.

I bet curling doesn't have nearly as greedy of media groups.

 

[Zapp]

Bally sports is a ticking clock. Just wait it out.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Cuban and Gaglardi team up for their own streaming service

 

[eartotheground]

Bally sports is a ticking clock. Just wait it out.

Wouldn’t be surprised if Cuban and Gaglardi team up for their own streaming service

i'm so sick of having 8 different streaming services. bring back cable or put everything on directtv so i can jump between channels instead of exiting an app to go to another. hell, a lot of the streaming services don't even have remotes with numbers, so you have to deal with dogshit UIs to change the channel/content.

streaming was a nice thing at first to put pressure on cable companies to provide better/cheaper service, but now we're paying even more for less, and less quality.

 

[MrHeiskanen]

Hockeystreams was beast.. then dead

NHL_Games and the other app I forget the name was beast.. then dead

NHL66 was beast.. then restricted/semi-dead/constant problems

Nothing good lasts.

 

[redbeardtx]

i'm so sick of having 8 different streaming services. bring back cable or put everything on directtv so i can jump between channels instead of exiting an app to go to another. hell, a lot of the streaming services don't even have remotes with numbers, so you have to deal with dogshit UIs to change the channel/content.

streaming was a nice thing at first to put pressure on cable companies to provide better/cheaper service, but now we're paying even more for less, and less quality.

Using those little baby remotes with the 4 arrow keys to type out your full email address and password is such a pain in the ass

 

[piqued]

Hurts to say this because I like him as a guy, but Guerin is a fraud of a GM. Glad to have him in the division.

 

[Satan]

Hurts to say this because I like him as a guy, but Guerin is a fraud of a GM. Glad to have him in the division.

I thought the Z*cc*r*ll* signing was great

 

[LT]

I thought the Z*cc*r*ll* signing was great

Poor Minny fans get another two years of Webster

 

[MrHeiskanen]

Foligno at 4x4m is the funniest contract ever. That tool was a disaster in the playoffs.. we all thought the Faksa deal was bad. LOL

 

[Magic Mittens]

Minny is hilarious, they don't go for skill. Just meat heads and try and intimate other teams

 

[serp]

Faksa was like 26 when he started his new deal and will be younger than Foligon is now when it expires after next season. Wild gave a declining Foligno a retirement contract. 33 when its starts and he even has two years of full NMC . What the hell.

 

[redbeardtx]

Faksa was like 26 when he started his new deal and will be younger than Foligon is now when it expires after next season. Wild gave a declining Foligno a retirement contract. 33 when its starts and he even has two years of full NMC . What the hell.

Wow, didn't see that till now. Horrible contract the moment it was signed. Foligno is a f***in clown

 

[BrettHullsToe]

I still don't understand how any GM hasn't learned that you don't give term to depth players. There's absolutely no need for it because those players are easily replaced in free agency if they end up leaving in a year or two. All that type of contract does is tie up your cap unnecessarily and make it more likely that you'll lose an actually good player in the future.

 

[MrHeiskanen]

I still don't understand how any GM hasn't learned that you don't give term to depth players. There's absolutely no need for it because those players are easily replaced in free agency if they end up leaving in a year or two. All that type of contract does is tie up your cap unnecessarily and make it more likely that you'll lose an actually good player in the future.

Exactly, you can sign any player you want in free agency for 1.5-2M who will do exactly what Foligno does.

 

[Satan]

Exactly, you can sign any player you want in free agency for 1.5-2M who will do exactly what Foligno does.

ya but do all those players have 700+ games in the show with a father/brother who have also played over 1000 games each? didn`t think so

 

[piqued]

Cooley uses elements of the mohawk style like Stranges. Pretty interesting.

 

[RefalancheStillLose]

ya but do all those players have 700+ games in the show with a father/brother who have also played over 1000 games each? didn`t think so

2842 games as a family, not 1 Cup win or SCF appearance.
Family of Losers

 

[piqued]

Apparently Ben Gleason may actually make the Edmonton Oilers.

I'm constantly shocked by how thin other teams are, even contenders.

 

[Satan]

Guryanov waived by Preds. How much longer until hes sniping in Chelyabinsk