OT: Around the NHL - Good hocket is good

[FlightlessBird]

Found a division banner from 2008.

Teams do this stuff. ESPECIALLY if they haven't had major success in the past. Once you get Stanley Cups, these things are less important to the franchise and fandom.

Raising a division banner like that is pretty cheesy. I don’t mind the PT banner raising, especially since it’s their first one.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

thats true, but there is something weird with that lline PDO, they just can't score...Jake could have had 5 goals in two games... Mathews whatever he throw goes in....I mean at some point they need to start lifting those pucks around net,

The bolded is what I see, and it's kind of weird. Both Sid and Jake got robbed by Holtby for this very reason. The Pens seem to love going along the ice, whereas a lot of these guys off to fast starts, their goals are aimed top corner.

 

[Tom Hanks]

thats true, but there is something weird with that lline PDO, they just can't score...Jake could have had 5 goals in two games... Mathews whatever he throw goes in....I mean at some point they need to start lifting those pucks around net,

Jake is still shooting at 40% though. He’s only had 5 shots.

 

[ColePens]

Vegas just looks so off right now.

 

[Andy99]

Vegas just looks so off right now.

Some of that has got to be WSH...they are playing some very good gap control, pressure defense...players taking away Vegas time and space...if they continue to play this way, as they did in the POs, they have a great chance to repeat...

difference between WSH and Pens D right now is like some bad joke...

 

[ColePens]

The passing is impressive. That's for sure.

 

[ColePens]

Even Doc has mentioned it... Vegas is losing some of the basic fundamentals in this hockey game. And I cannot believe i'm saying this to an NHL game, but they cannot keep their sticks on the ice or stop/start to save their life. Plenty of chances could have happened if they just keep their sticks on the ice or follow the damn play.


Edit: Dat Caps powerplay. Wooooo baby is that something. 50% and not slowing down. Sooooo many weapons working together.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Holtby with some big saves, and then Carpenter with one of the worst shifts of his life.

 

[vodeni]

hm nothing changed, still hate Capitals, Oshie, still infuriated watching them playing the way I wish Pens would play, they are playing if this was a stanley cup game, Kuzy is os good its unreal, and how they atack blue line always in threes fast, also Vrana is a very good palyer for them

 

[Nadal On Clay]

Let's hope Vegas plays that bad tomorrow

 

[ColePens]

Holtby with some big saves, and then Carpenter with one of the worst shifts of his life.

One of his worst games. Boy he suuuuuuuuuucked.

Hypothetical Vegas/Pens idea... Sully + Maatta for Pacs + Gallant FOR ONE YEAR ONLY. It gets the Pens to listen to a new coach who has a really good defensive responsibility mindset. They get a LW. Trade is reversed June 25th 2019 no matter what. Sully revamps the team. They go back to back again.

 

[wheelz87]

Not upset I drafted Kuzy for my fantasy team this year. Guy is unreal.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Vegas just looks so off right now.

They are going to get an antidote called "Casey DeSmith" in a matter of a day.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

They are going to get an antidote called "Casey DeSmith" in a matter of a day.

Seriously. How much do you want to bet Vegas "figures it out" tomorrow night?

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Seriously. How much do you want to bet Vegas "figures it out" tomorrow night?

Of course they will. It's a forgone conclusion at this point.

 

[Tom Hanks]

Elliot not happy with the new equipment. Heard other goalies have complaints too.

https://www.tsn.ca/flyers-elliott-bruised-like-crazy-in-new-pads-1.1188478

 

[EightyOne]

He should be happy he's making saves again.


There has to be something better. But what they had isn't it, either.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Elliot not happy with the new equipment. Heard other goalies have complaints too.

https://www.tsn.ca/flyers-elliott-bruised-like-crazy-in-new-pads-1.1188478

Does he get hit with the puck enough to be able to tell the difference?

 

[Tom Hanks]

Does he get hit with the puck enough to be able to tell the difference?

Lol. Second most saves in the league. SV% terrible though.

Holy Hutton has .943SV% for Buffalo

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

Elliot not happy with the new equipment. Heard other goalies have complaints too.

https://www.tsn.ca/flyers-elliott-bruised-like-crazy-in-new-pads-1.1188478

I play net and guess what? You get bruised almost every game. There are padded undershirts that are available to help mitigate some damage but it's just the nature of physics/anatomy.

 

[vikingGoalie]

I play net and guess what? You get bruised almost every game. There are padded undershirts that are available to help mitigate some damage but it's just the nature of physics/anatomy.

while yea you do get bruised, and I'm like meh about it. There really is no reason you can't have a piece of equipment that meets both the more form fitting rules and protection goalies want. Some chest protectors just suck on the bicep protection they are not all equal. I'd recommend he shops around a bit or maybe just use all those 1000's he's getting paid every game to wipe his tears away. He's getting 60K a start roughly, 60k would ease my pain and suffering quite a bit.

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

while yea you do get bruised, and I'm like meh about it. There really is no reason you can't have a piece of equipment that meets both the more form fitting rules and protection goalies want. Some chest protectors just suck on the bicep protection they are not all equal. I'd recommend he shops around a bit or maybe just use all those 1000's he's getting paid every game to wipe his tears away. He's getting 60K a start roughly, 60k would ease my pain and suffering quite a bit.

I think this year there will be a ton of discussion between the NHL goalies and the manufacturers. Believe the producers of equipment will begin to make the padding "thicker" (not wider) to address his concerns.

 

[vikingGoalie]

I think this year there will be a ton of discussion between the NHL goalies and the manufacturers. Believe the producers of equipment will begin to make the padding "thicker" (not wider) to address his concerns.

the thing is it's easy to accommodate this. you can take a piece of abs plastic, warm it up and form fit it to your (fillin in body part here), then you either contact cement (or you can get away with carpet tape) for the padding that you put on the plastic.

I've done this more then a few times over the years and basically I can take a howitzer off the protected area and not feel a thing. I typically don't do this because I have enough natural armour (aka fat) to keep myself from getting to hurt typically. (bruises do not count as injuries). I usually have done that to protect something that was injured that I stupidly decided to keep on playing anyway. But for the bicep area it would not be hard to fashion this, I guess I'm just kinda in bewonderment that I can come up with a solution for this in my garage but an organization with that much in resources can not. Heck you can get that Newtonian foam that instantly gets hard when struck, put that in the bicep area. That is really easy to make exactly the size/form you want. These shirts: Max Cov Shirt - Zoombang use that foam and are made to help protect against a wooden sword (which hits harder then a puck). I wouldn't rely on one of those as the only protection, but I'm saying the foam in those when put on top of arm of a chest protector would nullify any impact.

maybe I should sell Elliot some custom protection

 

[BHD]

The Knights weren't that crisp against the Capitals last night. You can tell the Knights miss Schmidt back there. They spent more time breaking out of the DZ and weren't nearly as dangerous through the NZ. Plus, getting into the OZ was taxing for the forwards.

 

[Shady Machine]

the thing is it's easy to accommodate this. you can take a piece of abs plastic, warm it up and form fit it to your (fillin in body part here), then you either contact cement (or you can get away with carpet tape) for the padding that you put on the plastic.

I've done this more then a few times over the years and basically I can take a howitzer off the protected area and not feel a thing. I typically don't do this because I have enough natural armour (aka fat) to keep myself from getting to hurt typically. (bruises do not count as injuries). I usually have done that to protect something that was injured that I stupidly decided to keep on playing anyway. But for the bicep area it would not be hard to fashion this, I guess I'm just kinda in bewonderment that I can come up with a solution for this in my garage but an organization with that much in resources can not. Heck you can get that Newtonian foam that instantly gets hard when struck, put that in the bicep area. That is really easy to make exactly the size/form you want. These shirts: Max Cov Shirt - Zoombang use that foam and are made to help protect against a wooden sword (which hits harder then a puck). I wouldn't rely on one of those as the only protection, but I'm saying the foam in those when put on top of arm of a chest protector would nullify any impact.

maybe I should sell Elliot some custom protection

I don't fully follow what you are saying, but are NHL goalies legally allowed to do that? I figure they have relatively strict guidelines on what they are and aren't allowed to wear.