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I was thinking about this, and it's still early in the season, and saying it out loud usually scuds things cos goalies are voodoo. But is our current duo shaping up to be potentially the best tandem we've had? Going back to basically the early 2000s, we've occasionaly had a very good starter -...

I wholeheartedly agree with this. Especially as my trade off for watching is usually a good night's sleep. Look, only one team out of 32 can win the Stanley Cup. Realistically it's less than a third of that number. For the last few years, the Leafs have probably been in that group al be it we...

Yeah that’s why I said actual nations are preferable but I do agree with you particularly in regards to Sweden and Finland. I guess it depends if this is meant to be like an all star game or an actual serous tournament. I feel it’s shading more towards the former which is why I was a bit blasé...

Yeah that’s a fair point. Obviously in general actual nations are preferable but I wonder if you could have gone something like Canada, USA, “Scandinavia” and Rest of the World or that kind of thing.

I like the idea better than the all star game. But I hate the all star game and think the whole thing should be ditched. So that’s a fairly low bar.

A couple of inches a couple of times from a totally different complexion to his season

If ever there’s been a more obvious contrast shown in “puck luck” than this game. Robertson gets great chances and rings the post from about 5 feet. Marner blindly throws a puck from behind the net out in front and the goalie somehow kicks it onto his own net with a random part of his leg.

Who plays at 7pm on a Sunday. Kids have school on Monday. And Europeans have work. Play it at 4pm, latest

100000000% this. I’m surprised the NHLPA doesn’t push it

They, understandably, have made them compulsory in the British league. And we still have some people who complain about it.

That’s another aspect of the likes of the hits where shoulder connects with head - the pads are pretty solid. But I suppose a shoulder is pretty solid too. Let’s just make hitting heads a thing of the past. Anyway this is why I enjoy this site. I’ve enjoyed this discussion and we’ve had a...

I played rugby many years ago as a kid. We were taught to tackle “low”. Basically to take players out below the waist. “Cheek to cheek” was how my school coach described it, so your face basically alongside the backside of the tackled player. Then you kind of slid down and held the legs so...

Yes, so I guess my argument is that all head contact SHOULD be illegal. Then it’s just a matter of the scale of the illegality. Which is kind of where rugby is. I don’t think making head contact illegal would stop hitting or big hits. And again in rugby it’s still as physical with big tackles...

Just realised I meant to equate my plan to the two obvious recent examples. So the Reaves hit would be a match penalty so minor, major and match. The Whitecloud hit is contact to the head, but has slight mitigation. But to me under my system it’s still a hit to the head, so it gets a major...

Bottom 6 is the issue to me too, but I e felt that all season and don’t see a way it can be fixed without moves. But the good thing is the D and goal and overall team D look stronger so I don’t think we need much in any other area. A 3rd line centre and maybe a top line or 2nd line winger who...

I doubt many of you follow rugby union, but they pretty much moved to a model where almost any hit to the head of an opponent is either a yellow (10 minute sin bin) or red card (rest of the game team is down a player). What that’s done is put the onus on the tackler not to hit the head...

They never used to but recently they’ve been doing making a massive thing of announcing the “starting six” on social media and on screens and all in uk hockey. Its stupidity is my small hill to die on. It literally means nothing. I mean they could be out there for 3 seconds or something if a...

I’d like to see him get an extended run

Almost like he’s been freed of a millstone from round his neck

I’ve watched 5 of the 9 episodes of this. I was worried it might “glorify” or have a bias toward certain aspects of the civil war here in NI but actually think it’s quite decent. Well done and worth a watch. Some very impressive performances.