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Nah, those girls on the national teams chase down lose pucks like they care.
Fair enough... so he plays like 1/2 girl and 1/2 roller hockey cherry picker.
Nah, those girls on the national teams chase down lose pucks like they care.
Nah, those girls on the national teams chase down lose pucks like they care.
Jesus... I'm going to cut myself on the edges in this thread. Slow down with the progressiveness, boys.
US vs Canada girls olympic game was ten times the game any of the mens games were last year.
You just triggered me by violently gendering everyone in this thread. How about a warning next time you cis-privileged oppressor.
I'm sorry, let me hold the door open for you, ma'am.
You just triggered me by violently gendering everyone in this thread. How about a warning next time you cis-privileged oppressor.
Rossi seems like the kind of person that gets real obsessive and clingy with his friendships & relationships. Not my kinda guy.
It looks like tumblr leaked into here
Thanks for the heads up. I was just about to ask him about his home planet.bluedevil is kind of permanently in his own fantasy world. Pay him no mind, he'll slink back to our board to blither about how we need to trade everybody on the team and that NHL teams have no business drafting players under 6'0". Seriously, ignore him and he'll go away. It's like that film "Wargames." The only way to win is not to play.
Agreed. IMO, it all boils down to incompetence by the league. If they protected stars, called obstruction, and forced officials to call games rather than manage them then the game would be as exciting as ever.Based simply on how people have presented it here... I agree much more with Madden than Kolbe. The game is dull and overcoached these days, for the most part. If you love ice wrasslin' in the NZ 3/4 of the game and nothing but ultra-safe plays in the offensive end... then this league is for you, I guess.
It isn't tumblr. North American hockey is a total boy's club. Noora Raty should be an AHL goaltender. She isn't because she is a girl.
Or maybe it's just she's not good enough? Just a thought.
She has a .911 save% in 6 games in Finland's 2nd highest league (Mestis) and a .916 save% in 6 games in Finland's 3rd highest league (Suomi-sarja). There's nothing there that says she should be an AHL goalie.
Thanks for the heads up. I was just about to ask him about his home planet.
Agreed. IMO, it all boils down to incompetence by the league. If they protected stars, called obstruction, and forced officials to call games rather than manage them then the game would be as exciting as ever.
They'll be looking for expansion soon and the talent level will be dropping too.
If she was given the attention players like Rask, Niemi, Rinne, Lehtonen, Backstrom, etc were given she could easily have been a premiere AHL goaltender.
She almost retired after the Olympics last year because nobody would give her a job. Putting up a .911 and .916 is right in line with what our goaltender has done in the NHL over the last seven years. How is a female in a predominate male league putting up those kind of numbers not impressive? If anything she proved she is at least an average goaltender, but teams don't want to take a risk on her, because she is a female.
If you don't think there is a bias in the NHL, why is Craig Adams still in our line-up? The NHL and accordingly the AHL favor North American men who play the game "the right way". It is why hardly any Russians are in the league right now. Now imagine being a female, European player.
It isn't tumblr. North American hockey is a total boy's club. Noora Raty should be an AHL goaltender. She isn't because she is a girl.
If you don't think there is a bias in the NHL, why is Craig Adams still in our line-up? The NHL and accordingly the AHL favor North American men who play the game "the right way". It is why hardly any Russians are in the league right now. Now imagine being a female, European player.
And if my aunt had a penis, she'd be my uncle. Hypothetical situations that you have absolutely 0 support for are entirely irrelevant.
And that's in a Finnish minor league, she puts up average numbers in a Finnish minor league. If she would be putting up those numbers in the Liiga, maybe you'd have an argument. Teams aren't taking a chance on her because she's not that good. Putting up average numbers in a Finnish minor league shows why she isn't getting any interest. Not because she's a girl, that's absolutely stupid.
This post is absolutely hilarious. Adams being in the lineup shows that pro hockey hates women? What?
I'm not talking about Adams being in the lineup shows that pro hockey hates women. I'm pointing to the fact that fringe players are largely not European. European players are expected to play a certain way in the NHL and if they don't they often either get traded, demoted, or end up back home. The vast majority of NHL GMs are biased against European players, look at Shero and his draft history. Now, on top of that she is a girl. It's going to be very hard for her to get a fair shake, even from teams in Europe.
If she was given the chance to develop in the right circumstance, I think she'd clearly be able to compete in the AHL. Hopefully, she is young enough to deserve a random signing in a minor ECHL team.