OT: Around the NHL - This is it!

[vikingGoalie]

So I'm excited to watch hockey again eventually. But the latest is that we probably don't see anything until august, which makes half of me go what's the point just can the season and start over. But the other half of me thinks this could be an insanely fun hockey tourney about to happen. Every team is going to be rested up, most injuries recovered from and so on. Only thing is to shake off a bit of the rust and get going. But then I go back to playing in front of empty stands. That's kinda like my beer league hockey where all ya get is someone's girl friend up in the stands (wives don't really care they are smart and are sleeping), it's fun but no screaming fans will take quite a bit away from the game.

So at the end of this dizzying post of mine. I don't know what to make of this. It could be exciting/fun hockey to watch or it could just be awful. I'm not sure if there is a middle ground.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Back when the Sabres had Briere and Drury I was a fan. Then they botched re-signing those two players and I lost interest. And then working in Erie I had a number of friends and co-workers who were Sabres fans. Was really hoping they'd get McDavid...

 

[Honour Over Glory]

So Sullivan can coach Reese’s long lost brother?

Hyman is like the perfect Dupuis replacement for Sid.

 

[BHD]

The Sabres were hella fun to watch coming out of the lockout. Too bad it ended with Briere and Drury leaving.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I get what Evander Kane is doing. But asking Tom Brady and Sidney Crosby to speak out about race and inequality is not the right thing to do. Tom is active in social media but Crosby isn't and to ask a private person to suddenly start giving statements /opinions isn't the stance Kane should be poking at.

Yeah we've been done wrong in so many ways but the rioting and acts of violence to get your point across isn't something I stand behind as black person, more importantly, a half black half white person. No one sees the white side when they see me, just the visible black. These guys need to speak out, get those people to stop the rioting and start being more productive in this. Asking athletes to speak up? I don't care for that.

Not unless they're pressuring change. A statement does nothing. Pushing for change does. Kane isn't doing this in the right way at all.

Couldn't/Can't quite put it into words about how I feel about all of this. The police violence, the racism, the racism in sports, rioting and justifying how people see us, all of it is so stupid.

With the pandemic, I have to worry about losing loved ones, been through the virus myself, worry about violence towards the Asian community of which my gf is a part of, being black and experiencing that bullshit. Shit needs to change.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I think they devalue everyone so that they can get them for a song.

It's like trading your car into a dealer. They offer you jack, then turn around and list it on the lot for 7k more lol

"I guess we'll give you a third for Murray or whatever..but you'll need to add a sweetener"

Next thing you know he's on every billboard in the GTA, lol

100% this.

I despise the Leafs organization and their fans.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

CBJ plays well enough as a unit to really upset the Leafs.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

So we scoured the Czech league for wing talent in their early 20s and decided to sign Zohorna over this hombre?

HockeyBuzz.com - Tyler Cameron - Who is Matej Chalupa?

JR needs to start thinking outside the bun.

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

100% this.

I despise the Leafs organization and their fans.

I lived in Leafs country for seven years.

They are cool as f***, save your random morons.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

So we scoured the Czech league for wing talent in their early 20s and decided to sign Zohorna over this hombre?

HockeyBuzz.com - Tyler Cameron - Who is Matej Chalupa?

JR needs to start thinking outside the bun.

I mean that name markets itself, every time he scores, Chalupa's for everyone!

 

[BHD]

CBJ plays well enough as a unit to really upset the Leafs.

Not to downplay the Jackets, but it depends on what kind of shape the Leafs are in. If Muzzin and Rielly have a rough series and the forwards forget to play defense, then the Jackets could knock them out.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Not to downplay the Jackets, but it depends on what kind of shape the Leafs are in. If Muzzin and Rielly have a rough series and the forwards forget to play defense, then the Jackets could knock them out.

Jackets are that hardworking team that plays like a unit. Leafs to me just have way too many warts even with the young talent they have.