Miscellaneous NHL Discussion: 2016/17 Playoffs

[TCTC]

Don Cherry will probably find a way to blame this period on Zaitsev again.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I highly prefer games like this over low scoring grind fests.

I don't know how any could disagree with this.

Hockey at its best is a free-flowing, high event sport. It's not just goals, it's pace.

 

[Magua]

I don't know how any could disagree with this.

Hockey at its best is a free-flowing, high event sport. It's not just goals, it's pace.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I don't know how any could disagree with this.

Hockey at its best is a free-flowing, high event sport. It's not just goals, it's pace.

Purists hate it. It won but the style of play the Kings had all those years was god awful from an entertainment standpoint. Just low scoring conservative games between them & their opponent who would ultimately get dragged into it.

 

[Legion of Gloom]

I would rather see the Leafs win but it is over for them in this series.

 

[Striiker]

It's always funny seeing the hockey snobs say that high scoring hockey isn't real hockey (like the Flyers vs Pens series a few years ago) because "there's no defense"...

but the boring hockey is "real hockey", despite there being no offense...

 

[hatcher]

Purists hate it. It won but the style of play the Kings had all those years was god awful from an entertainment standpoint. Just low scoring conservative games between them & their opponent who would ultimately get dragged into it.

did you watch any of the games in that 2014 run? They were fast hard hitting games where they just kept the other teams outside and did whatever they wanted. Shark ,ducks,Hawks games with la were not boring but lopsided in play in Kings favor most of the time.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

did you watch any of the games in that 2014 run? They were fast hard hitting games where they just kept the other teams outside and did whatever they wanted. Shark ,ducks,Hawks games with la were not boring but lopsided in play in Kings favor most of the time.

 

[tictactoe]

I doubt Eichel is the only one in the locker room that wants Byslma gone. He's just got the biggest sway of them all. It was a terrible hire from the start.

not disputing your comment but why?

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I'm glad the Caps are starting to play better

Why?

 

[TCTC]

The Kings are lucky they have Doughty. He's pretty much the only reason their style doesn't put everyone but their own fans to sleep.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Purists hate it. It won but the style of play the Kings had all those years was god awful from an entertainment standpoint. Just low scoring conservative games between them & their opponent who would ultimately get dragged into it.

Yep, but it falls on the league to not be so incompetent as to let their product degenerate into the slop it has multiple times in the last ~25 years. I don't know what this league does well. I really don't.

 

[Striiker]

Why?

Probably so they can stop the Pens.

 

[tictactoe]

Leafs with 6SOG.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

not disputing your comment but why?

Just seemed like a lot guys there were outspoken this year with their frustration. The roster still needs to improve but seeing what Byslma previously did with Pittsburgh it's not hard to be really skeptical in the guy even from a player standpoint.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Yep, but it falls on the league to not be so incompetent as to let their product degenerate into the slop it has multiple times in the last ~25 years. I don't know what this league does well. I really don't.

It's funny, I really love this league and I care about what happens even when it doesn't effect the Flyers at all, but you're right, it's nearly impossible to think of anything they are even competent at. It's like everything good about it is/happens in total spite of everything the league does/tries. There are some hapless clowns "upstairs," from the league office to owners' suites. I can't for the life of me understand how they can be headed to ANOTHER work stoppage ... but here we are.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Probably so they can stop the Pens.

I honestly think the Leafs might have as good a chance of doing that. The Caps need to grow a pair and I don't think they have time to do that lol. I would be happy (temporarily) to be proven wrong, though.

 

[Magua]

We are all Grandpa Jost

 

[tictactoe]

If SJ or Caps do not win SC this year Joe Thornton should sign with Caps. Maybe Joe and Ovie can figure it out together? Could be some good hockey to from both of them because Joe Still got it.

 

[Chinatown88]

I love Grampy Jost

 

[JojoTheWhale]

It's funny, I really love this league and I care about what happens even when it doesn't effect the Flyers at all, but you're right, it's nearly impossible to think of anything they are even competent at. It's like everything good about it is/happens in total spite of everything the league does/tries. There are some hapless clowns "upstairs," from the league office to owners' suites. I can't for the life of me understand how they can be headed to ANOTHER work stoppage ... but here we are.

The depths of incompetence are endless and varied.

Name another of the major sports leagues where the Coyotes situation would have been allowed to proceed that way. I will never forget watching the livestream of a City of Glendale Council meeting where HFBoards BoH users were quoted by screen name breaking down the fiduciary horsebleep Ice Azrizona and the NHL were peddling. When the NBA had to step in and buy New Orleans, they went through a clear and realitvely quick process that ended with a new, stable owner. The NHL propped up a puppet who didn't have the cash to put up, nor the ability to pay off his financial obligations to Fortress Investment Group while sending Greg Jamison out to do PR despite never having the money either.

I would tell you the dismantling of the Blackhawks was the best example of the hard cap being inferior to a soft cap with a meaningful luxury tax spread among lower-income teams, but I'm ranting now.

 

[Rebels57]

Why?

Sorry man but ill always hate the Leafs more than the Caps.

They are also all that stands between Pitt and another Cup. Leafs dont have what it takes to win a series against Pitt yet.

 

[TCTC]

What a dumb penalty by Eller.

And another one by Orpik...

 

[tictactoe]

wow.. Orpik is a tool

 

[Rebels57]

Is there a more ridiculous penalty than the "gloving the puck in the faceoff circle?!"

Orpik is terrible.