damn, that's unfortunate, but sadly probably the right call.
SportsCenter
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The NHL and NHLPA have come to an agreement to not have players participate in the 2022 Winter Olympic men's hockey tournament in Beijing, multiple sources told @wyshynski
. https://es.pn/3mrnBuv
In China.
If I was in the NHL as much as I'd like to represent my country I'm not sure the risk is worth it.
They should probably postpone the Olympics a year or who knows last year this time it seemed like 2022 was safe.
1. slow, but also lacks agility
2. decent to average shot, but takes forever to take it
3. rarely activates with the play offensively (spun as a positive = stay at home defenseman)
4. takes long shifts because it's easier to stay on the ice, away from the play like usual than to skate over to the bench for a change
5. when added up by a teammate my time in the penalty box from 2000 - 2011 (when they changed sites) was more than a 40 hour work week spent in the box
6. Decent shot blocker (mainly due to #1 above).
7. Very few goals, but also very few assists, but good plus minus (mostly due to #1 and #3 above, plus our goalie is good)
I think I'm a lock for the team.
I do hope they go with all college kids this time as opposed to the journeyman approach like last Olympics. Though I was overly critical last time, I met one of the players, he coaches my daughter, and he's an incredible person and I hope if they don't go all college he plays again this year, but he's in his 30's.
no they don't, just not NHL players.
I don't have his backhand that regularly beats Carey Price, but otherwise in my prime, he's my NHL comparison.
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Wow, so the olympics now have to go back to how they were originally designed as amateurs only.
no they don't, just not NHL players.
So AHL players and below are eligible?
No, he is not. Otherwise, he would have included "laughing all the way to the bank" as one of his hockey attributes.
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Wow, so the olympics now have to go back to how they were originally designed as amateurs only.
no they don't, just not NHL players.
So AHL players and below are eligible?
I believe so but also SHL, KHL, La Liga, etc.
The testing in China is going to be out of control for the Olympics.
Strange situation as China loosed this plague on the world and now there are problems with people, athletes, media and spectators alike, getting in to China for the games. Still with more than 5 and half million COVID deaths reported world wide and less than 5,000 C19 deaths reported in China, who can argue with the totalitarian measures the Chinese Communist Party uses to control the spread of the virus in their country?
I think these will be very strange Olympic games.
@GMillerTSN
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As of now, with a few cuts to come, NHL prospects by team at the #WorldJuniors:
ANA-4 ARI-1 BOS-1 BUF-4 CGY-1 CAR-10 CHI-4 COL-1 CBJ-4 DAL-4 DET-8 EDM-2 FLA-6 LAK-6 MIN-6 MTL-3 NSH-4 NJD-4 NYI-0 NYR-5 OTT-5 PHI-3 PIT-3 SJS-1 SEA-2 STL-3 TBL-0 TOR-3 VAN-1 VGK-4 WSH-1 WPG-4
I would however have worn these CCMs...(the USA ones obviously)
@CCMHockey
Here are the skates some of the top U20 Canadian and American players in the world will be rocking at the upcoming #WorldJuniors
Two habs prospects named captain (Guhle for Canada too)
Jakub Zboril
Jake DeBrusk
Zachary Senyshyn
And you can second guess any draft, but ahead of Barzal, Kyle Connor, Thomas Chabot, Colin White, Brock Boeser, etc. and two of the three have requested a trade (and Zboril tore his ACL)
@PuckReportNHL
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Zach Senyshyn has requested a trade from the #NHLBruins, per @MarkDivver
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Mark Masters
@markhmasters
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Mavrik Bourque on playing with linemate Kent Johnson: "I think he's the most skilled player I've ever seen"
Connor Bedard: "It's ridiculous. Sometimes I just watch & I'm amazed at the things he can do. He reminds me a lot of Zegras."
New York Rangers
@NYRangers
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UPDATE: #NYR have recalled Jarred Tinordi from his conditioning assignment with @WolfPackAHL
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I would however have worn these CCMs...(the USA ones obviously)
These skates are pretty dope. And agree about the 2000 & might still have my last pair from college in the attic.
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I was always a Bauer skate guy until they sold the company (to Nike?) and ruined the supreme skate line then tried CCM Super Tacks, and was forced to buy new tuuks and blades and go back to the Bauers, but no skate was as good as the Bauer Supreme (2000).
I would however have worn these CCMs...(the USA ones obviously)
These skates are pretty dope. And agree about the 2000 & might still have my last pair from college in the attic.
I still have mine too. unfortunately the tuuks are trashed and I already replaced them twice so the shop told me there is nowhere for them to drill new holes and install new ones so they are now usable only as a relic/memory. lol.
Canada, USA, Finland the favorites IMO.
I think everyone always underestimates the Swedes, the Swiss have been pesky lately and who knows what Russia will do. Such a fun tournament, I hope it goes off without COVID issues.
@wyshynski
Going to show this to my grandchildren as the difference between right and wrong
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Recorded it and just watched it. Wild finish (pun intended). Fins dominated the first 10 -12 minutes up 1-0. US controlled play from there on out up 3-1 with 3 minutes to go in the game then took a 5 minute match penalty for a check to the head. Fins scored 3 pp goals on it- 2 in regulation and then the game winner in OT. Red Savage who took the penalty will most likely be suspended for at least the 1st game of the tourney, it was a really bad hit.
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lost to Finland 4 - 3 in OT. Didn't see the game.
Recorded it and just watched it. Wild finish (pun intended). Fins dominated the first 10 -12 minutes up 1-0. US controlled play from there on out up 3-1 with 3 minutes to go in the game then took a 5 minute match penalty for a check to the head. Fins scored 3 pp goals on it- 2 in regulation and then the game winner in OT. Red Savage who took the penalty will most likely be suspended for at least the 1st game of the tourney, it was a really bad hit.
thanks, sounds like a good game.
Canada vs Russia sounded good too. SHowcasing the top 2 (as of right now) 2023 draft prospects in Connor Bedard and Matvei Michkov.
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Bryan Burns
@BBurnsNHL
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#Bolts announce Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Mikhail Sergachev, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Brian Elliott, and assistant coach Rob Zettler have entered COVID protocol.
@AnsarKhanMLive
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#RedWings announce that Raymond and Leddy enter COVID protocol as Fabbri and Rasmussen come out of protocol.
Kevin Paul Dupont
@GlobeKPD
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3:31 pm -- Bruins announce Coyle in protocol.
starting goalie, 3 of top 4 D and at least one line are out.
Greg Wyshynski
@wyshynski
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Canadiens announced that Jake Allen, Ben Chiarot, Joel Edmundson, Jeff Petry and Chris Wideman have joined Mike Hoffman, Artturi Lehkonen and Tyler Toffoli in the COVID protocol, but the team's headed to FLA to play the Lightning tomorrow.
@Bmarch63
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@NHLdotcom
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The NHL intends to play the 2022 Discover NHL Winter Classic as scheduled Saturday, but the League is monitoring the forecast of severe cold.
OntarioHockeyLeague
@OHLHockey
The #OHL has announced the reinstatement of London Knights defenceman Logan Mailloux effective January 1, 2022.
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and Jack Hughes is playing some great hockey right now. It's a shame he missed so much time earlier this year.
and Jack Hughes is playing some great hockey right now. It's a shame he missed so much time earlier this year.
Yeah really entertaining game in Jersey today. At one point barely 4 minutes in 3 #1 the overall picks had scored- Jack, Connor Mac and Nico. Devs overcome an absolutely horrific missed call that put Edmonton up 5-4 in the 3rd. On a delayed penalty the Devs clearly controlled the puck once (Hamilton)and then Jack may not have totally controlled it but got enough if the puck to blow the whistle before Edmonton scored.
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needs a goalie, and some defense.
and Jack Hughes is playing some great hockey right now. It's a shame he missed so much time earlier this year.
Yeah really entertaining game in Jersey today. At one point barely 4 minutes in 3 #1 the overall picks had scored- Jack, Connor Mac and Nico. Devs overcome an absolutely horrific missed call that put Edmonton up 5-4 in the 3rd. On a delayed penalty the Devs clearly controlled the puck once (Hamilton)and then Jack may not have totally controlled it but got enough if the puck to blow the whistle before Edmonton scored.
Hamilton definitely controlled it, and they blow the play dead on the Hughes touch 90% of the time.
That was ridiculous. Fun game.
Hughes is really good. Devils are a fun team to watch.
it is expected to be double digit negative degrees (Fahrenheit).
Not sure why they have a 6pm (CT) puck drop other than because it's a Saturday, but whoever thought a night outdoor game in Minnesota in January was a good idea is a moron.
it is expected to be double digit negative degrees (Fahrenheit).
Not sure why they have a 6pm (CT) puck drop other than because it's a Saturday, but whoever thought a night outdoor game in Minnesota in January was a good idea is a moron.
Yeah that's nuts. Isn't the winter classic usually like a 1pm puck drop? I know the huge diehards love the concept of outdoor hockey but the winter classic really strikes me as an event much better watched from my easy chair. I love going out to the stadium/arena for any sport, there's nothing like being there. However paying astronomical money to sit there in frigid conditions to watch ants skating around hundreds of feet away? Pass.
it's usually a day game, but I can't remember when it's been a Saturday. At least have it in Dallas or somewhere that isn't known for their cold if you have it as a night game.
My beer league team played on the ice at Fenway, and it was cool, sort of a novelty, and then I went to a game there. We went to Frozen Fenway - which was an NCAA tourney with Maine, UNH, BC and I forget the 4th school maybe Northeastern. the site lines were terrible. the only decent views were in the RF upper deck seats, which were unprotected from the elements and like you said, the players are like ants.
if you get it in a place like last year in Lake Tahoe or Nashville or somewhere that isn't frigid and you can tail gate and enjoy the atmosphere even with a poor view of the game I could see it being a draw, but I wouldn't go tomorrow with free tickets.
good point, I thought the players wore eye black to help with that. Either way I wonder if the glare wouldn't be preferable to below zero temps.
Between injuries and COVID MTL is basically playing with an AHL team plus Suzuki and Caufield.
Evans and Romanov join forwards Brandon Baddock, Paul Byron, Laurent Dauphin, Mike Hoffman, Artturi Lehkonen and Tyler Toffoli in the COVID-19 protocol, along with defensemen Louie Belpedio, Ben Chiarot, Joel Edmundson, Gianni Fairbrother, Jeff Petry and Chris Wideman, and goaltenders Jake Allen and Cayden Primeau.
Canadiens Montréal
@CanadiensMTL
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Jake Evans and Alexander Romanov were placed on the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list.
https://nhl.com/canadiens/news
Andrew Berkshire
@AndrewBerkshire
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The Canadiens have 22 players out. How is this game going to happen? twitter.com/magodin/status…
David Quinn has replaced him.
I hope if they go all college, this helps, since Quinn has college experience, but man that's a huge drop off.
Pierre LeBrun
@PierreVLeBrun
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Regarding Canadiens-Panthers game: what I hear is that league doctors are comfortable with the game going forward, Habs have an extended break coming up, and the Canadiens were consulted and I believe expressed preference to push forward.
Canadiens Montréal
@CanadiensMTL
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The Canadiens and the Laval Rocket will pause activities as a preventive measure until January 6 inclusively.
https://nhl.com/canadiens/news