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2020-2021 NHL Thread

Bender said:
Refs call a goal on the ice where Tkachuk shoves Koskinen. Coach challenges and EDM loses challenge and assessed a penalty. This is a Mickey Mouse league sometimes.
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For what it's worth I sort of agreed with that call. Tkachuk got pushed into the net by Nurse and while I think Tkachuk, like he always does, made the most of that opportunity I think if you're going to challenge what was called a goal on the ice you need something stronger than "The guy our defenseman cross-checked into the goalie interfered with him more than just being knocked down warranted". If you're going to wave off the goal there you'd at least have to give Nurse 2 minutes.
 
Nik said:
Bender said:
Refs call a goal on the ice where Tkachuk shoves Koskinen. Coach challenges and EDM loses challenge and assessed a penalty. This is a Mickey Mouse league sometimes.
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For what it's worth I sort of agreed with that call. Tkachuk got pushed into the net by Nurse and while I think Tkachuk, like he always does, made the most of that opportunity I think if you're going to challenge what was called a goal on the ice you need something stronger than "The guy our defenseman cross-checked into the goalie interfered with him more than just being knocked down warranted". If you're going to wave off the goal there you'd at least have to give Nurse 2 minutes.
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I was actually kind of looking at Mangiapane's stick like how the Habs goal got overturned in the end but on further review it does look like they made the right call.

On another note, Calgary is getting eviscerated by McDavid + scrubs.
 
https://twitter.com/TheHockeyNews/status/1363564155870060544

The NHL?s Department of Player Safety runs through senior vice-president George Parros, an ex-enforcer. While he prides himself on understanding how to play on the right side of the line ? he was never fined or suspended once as a player ? he balances out the department with director of player safety Ray Whitney. Known as a class act who epitomized clean play, compiling 1,064 points during a career that spanned 1,330 games across 22 seasons, he brings a unique skill-player perspective to the DOPS.
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Me: oh neat, Whitney sounds like a great person to have at this job...

WHITNEY: A lot of times, and more often than not, I put the onus on the guys getting contact and getting hit, strictly because, when I played the game, I played half my career in the trenches, in the hook and hold ?90s with the fighting and the meanness. If you went to the net with Chris Pronger, you were going to get hit. You went to the net with Dave Manson, holy, you were going to feel something. So I grew up in an era that was pretty tough. I received a lot. I wasn?t giving a lot. So I really take pride in putting the onus on skill players to be able to take contact and be prepared for contact, to expect to be hit.
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Me: nevermind
 
3-on-3 OT is generally pretty weird/unstructured/chaotic so I'm usually not too hard on players for making what look like bad plays... but yeah that was something else.
 
What a disinterested looking bunch there.

I don't think the Habs are broken. I think we're just seeing what kind of team they really are when they don't get to beat up on Vancouver.
 
I watched the end of that game. OTT had them hemmed into their zone and those 3 were beat. Tkachuk had just come off the bench too.
 
bustaheims said:
What a disinterested looking bunch there.

I don't think the Habs are broken. I think we're just seeing what kind of team they really are when they don't get to beat up on Vancouver.
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9-5-3 overall.
4-0-1 against Vancouver
1-2-1 against Toronto
2-1-0 against Edmonton
1-1-0 against Calgary
1-1-1 against Ottawa

So yeah 5-5-2 against everyone else and only above .500 against 2 teams.

They made some really nice additions and are a decent team but they just aren't the world-beaters that the first week of the season made them out to be.
 
L K said:
bustaheims said:
What a disinterested looking bunch there.

I don't think the Habs are broken. I think we're just seeing what kind of team they really are when they don't get to beat up on Vancouver.
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9-5-3 overall.
4-0-1 against Vancouver
1-2-1 against Toronto
2-1-0 against Edmonton
1-1-0 against Calgary
1-1-1 against Ottawa

So yeah 5-5-2 against everyone else and only above .500 against 2 teams.

They made some really nice additions and are a decent team but they just aren't the world-beaters that the first week of the season made them out to be.
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They lack a real threat up front. There's no one that can put the team on their back like Matthews, Marner, Tavares, Nylander and outscore a team. Anderson and Toffoli are nice additions, but they don't fill the whole they've been lacking for over a decade. They had Pacioretty, but he never struck fear into the hearts of opposing teams. Gallagher hit 30 goals once, but he's more of a pain in the a$$ than a game breaker.
 
bustaheims said:
Nik said:
https://twitter.com/NYP_Brooksie/status/1363869876562059276

Weird stuff.
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Typical Russian stuff:

https://twitter.com/NYP_Brooksie/status/1363871995478302720
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https://twitter.com/MollieeWalkerr/status/1363891239905611782
 
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