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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.

I have been a few times to generally watch their hockey and check up on their lovely, lovely beer

I wonder if it’s demands on the arenas as well. Certainly over here we seem to be seeing a lot more use of arenas for various concerts or random events like moto cross or whatever. Plus I suppose a number of the arenas in the NHL also host NBA so might be prioritising whichever of those is...

I definitely like BlueSky. But it’s still early and at the weekend I def noticed that I missed having updates from some of the sports teams I like to loosely keep an eye on. Hopefully more and more will move across or become active.

Yeah I watched it this morning, flicked through the build up and the breaks between rounds so basically watched the full fight in 16 minutes. Well, when I say “fight”… I actually thought Tyson was even more done than I was expecting. Absolutely nothing in his legs after round one. If your...

Yeah I always liked twitter when it was basically a slightly more interactive RSS feed so you followed stuff you liked and could occasionally post a comment or have a bit of discussion about it. And we all know how that developed. Bluesky so far seems to have that kind of atmosphere.