NervousPerson
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Lashoff maybe, but Blash's presser this morning made it sound like Green won't play this trip.
Didn't see that presser. Thanks for the update.
Lashoff maybe, but Blash's presser this morning made it sound like Green won't play this trip.
Whelp, gives the boys an extra day to heal up.
It isn't really an extra day. They prepared to play today, this isn't like a day off. I really didn't like how the NHL Network guys were trying to spin it like that.
Now they are also going to have to work this back in on a true day off. Pretty crummy situation, but oh well it has happened they have to make the best of it now.
Oh please, please, please reschedule it for a Saturday or Sunday.
Well we didn't lose tonight. Tight game! Too tight!
Yeah at least we didn't lose 0-1 in OT. What a frigging drag. Crazy I've never even heard of a game cancellation like this. How many times has it happened before? Total bush-league and a complete embarrassment where North Carolina is at. Sad there's some good money around the region, they should be paying better attention.
Whelp, gives the boys an extra day to heal up.
Thanks guys and sorry I didn't give the final update - I noticed y'alls equipment guy taking the team's sticks off the bench (PNC's one of those arenas where the visitor's locker room isn't adjacent to their bench, but instead on the opposite side of the arena, so your equipment guy had to walk across the ice with a big bundle of sticks. Not exactly something one can do stealthily ) - at that point I knew it was a no-go. From what I understand the repair was made, the system recharged with coolant, and they were just making sure that the coolant levels stayed constant and that the ice temperature was dropping to where they could drop the puck I can only assume that the latter wasn't happening quickly enough.
Now wait just a minute!Well we didn't lose tonight. Tight game! Too tight!
Yeah at least we didn't lose 0-1 in OT. What a frigging drag. Crazy I've never even heard of a game cancellation like this. How many times has it happened before? Total bush-league and a complete embarrassment where North Carolina is at. Sad there's some good money around the region, they should be paying better attention.
It isn't really an extra day. They prepared to play today, this isn't like a day off. I really didn't like how the NHL Network guys were trying to spin it like that.
Now they are also going to have to work this back in on a true day off. Pretty crummy situation, but oh well it has happened they have to make the best of it now.
Even on a regular day off they still work out and practice. Will just be a tight schedule at some point. Not that much of a problem.
Maybe neither team has players to represent during the all-star game, so these two teams can play a day during all-star break for our viewing pleasure/hockey fix.
Doesn't every team have 1 player represent their team at the ASG? Thought that was a rule.
In all fairness, this could happen at any arena. Even we had an issue last year, with a peg ripping a hole in the ice at Joe Louis Arena, causing a long delay, against the Islanders.
Any arena? Could you imagine a HNIC game in Toronto, Winnipeg, or Edmonton cancelled due to a broken compressor? Impossible.
Breakdowns like this don't happen immediately, or if they do it wasn't the case in Raleigh. The team was reporting horrible ice at 1:30 that day. How long was it already questionable? Ice preparation begins the night before, building up adequate layers that can be shaved down during the game. Someone was asleep at the wheel I'm sure they've heard about it.
I'm not calling for Carolina's staff to be crucified but admit the cancellation was unprofessional and due to a lack of care/awareness. It is bush- just like Detroit's **** ice most games, or when it took Florida 30 minutes to change a piece of plexi and couldn't get the backing off, lol.
Scheduling relies on many things: Detroit being available, Carolina being available, mandated NHL days off (Christmas Eve, Christmas, Boxing Day, Centnnial and Winter Classics, new 5-day bye week) and PNC being available. Here's the conflict breakdown (not all conflicts listed when there are multiple conflicts):
December:
21-23: CAR 3-in-3, CAR game, CAR game.
24-26: NHL Holiday
27-29: DET game, DET 3-in-3, DET game.
30-31: CAR game, CAR game
January:
1-2: Outdoor games
3-10: Carolina hellscape.
10-26: Detroit hellscape.
27-29: PNC events (Comedy Get Down, Monster Jam x2)
30: Uh, I found a day, but can it be turned over from Monster Jam?
31: CAR game
February:
1: PNC event (College basketball)
2-4: CAR 3-in-3, CAR game, CAR game
5: DET 3-in-3
6: DET 4-in-5
7-12: DET mini-hellscape
12-16: CAR bye week
17-21: CAR game, CAR 3-in-3, CAR game, CAR 3-in-3, CAR game
22-27: DET extra-large bye week. Six days instead of agreed upon 5 days. I don't know which day is not part of the bye week, but for the benefit of the doubt, let's say it's 27. In that case, 27 is a CAR 3-in-3.
28: DET game
March:
1: CAR game
2-24: DET hellscape. Every free day for DET makes a 4-in-5 or a 3-in-3.
25: CAR game
26-30: DET game, DET 3-in-3, DET game, DET 3-in-3, DET game
31: CAR 3-in-3
April:
1-9: Carolina hellscape
10: Even if they extended the regular season by 1 day, it's 3-in-3 for CAR.
So, in short, there's only one day, 1/30, that causes absolutely no conflicts. And even that's questionable - I imagine Monster Jam must be a helluva cleanup afterwards.
Perhaps a second day could be counted if 2/22 were allowed as a non-bye week day, because the bye week is only supposed to be 5 days long. Or maybe Detroit gets an extra day off because their bye week crosses the weekend, unlike some (most?) teams.
And, actually, looking at the schedule, my original idea of pushing the 3/28 game to 3/29 to avoid a Detroit 3-in-3 doesn't really work, because it makes a Detroit 4-in-5. Honestly, I don't know which is better, but the "day off" for Detroit would just be them stuck in Carolina. And doing that simultaneously creates a 4-in-5 for Carolina.
I guess the NHL decided to give only one team pain instead of both teams pain. And if you're going to have to do 3-in-3, at least there's no travel on each day.
I dropped this in the NHL thread, but figured y'all might like it here, too:
There is almost no other day you could do it that doesn't create either a 3-in-3 or a 4-in-5. I don't know which is better...with a 3-in-3, you can limit a backup goalie to play just the middle game, while with a 4-in-5, you either have your starting goalie play back-to-back, or your backup play twice.
The one silver lining is that you don't have to travel to Carolina an extra time. If you've got to have a 3-in-3, this is the way you want it: no travel in the last two days.
The only other solution is to create a domino effect and reschedule two NHL games instead of just one. That's possible, and it was done two years ago due to Buffalo's snow. I'm also pretty sure they had to domino-reschedule games due to the Boston Marathon bombing. But my guess is with the compressed bye-week schedule, they just decided to take the 3-in-3 pain and roll with it. Fans don't like it when games get rescheduled, so minimizing the total number of schedule changes is obviously a priority.