NHL Off-Topic thread

[redsox4evur]

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Just goes to show you how obsessed America is with football.

The Pro Bowl is easily (and it's not even close) the most boring all-star game of any sport.
They were even threatening to cancel it last year.

And yet, the ratings are great. Like you, I don't understand it at all.

As far as the NHL's ASG, I'm actually excited to watch it. I'm interested to see how 3-on-3 looks as well as watching the Human Pylon captain his team. That in itself will be hilarious.

Yea I agree I may watch some it for John Freakin Scott and the 3 on 3 aspect.

[Majingir]

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Looks like the Sens are moving closer towards getting a new arena. Voting won't happen until next year, but that's good news for them. I've been to their arena before, and it really is in the middle of nowhere. Checked out a tourist map at the hotel in Ottawa, and the arena basically has it's own page cause it's so far from everything else(and was still called the Corel Centre on the map,despite being called Scotiabank Place when I went).

[kehlis]

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Lol nhl asg takes place at 5pm est, 2pst. That's how you get people to watch? Put it at a time of the day less people are likely to watch? I get the pro bowl is in the night, but nhl shouldn't just lay down and accept a lesser timeslot. Air from 7-10 on Sunday. Is nhl-nfl fanbase crossover really so high that they'll post bad ratings going up against an event nfl fans care less about than nhl fans care about the asg?

Or at very least, why not just asg on Saturday night? Skills on friday. So you got hnic timeslot in canada,and no nfl competition either in primetime. Or even midweek asg. Not every show is back yet from midseason break, so maybe nhl could work out something with nbc to air game during week. And any nbc show that is airing,just takes 1 week off,nothing unusual for a tv show to take a week or more off

NBC has been showing feature games on Sunday afternoon for years. They already won't get much ratings at all but would get next to nothing if it were on Sunday night and that has absolutely nothing to do with the Pro Bowl.

If anything playing it as late as 5 eastern will hurt them but I understand why they need to include the West Coast for an all inclusive game.

[redsox4evur]

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Anybody want a John Scott All Star tee, too bad your **** out of luck.

[Majingir]

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Toews and Ovechkin are apparently out of asg.

Suspended 1 game as well as per nhl rule of guys skipping asg. Rule should be more than just 1 game. Make it 2 games,cause if team plays bad team the first game back,they might nit worry about a star missing it. 2 games might be more significant.

Either way,asg a joke. No Crosby,ovechkin, toews....NHL and PA need to do something about this. How can you market a supposed big event if stars dont get in,or just skip it. Needs to be some big thing to force guys in. Bigger suspension or fines for skippers.

[Money99]

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Toews and Ovechkin are apparently out of asg.

Suspended 1 game as well as per nhl rule of guys skipping asg. Rule should be more than just 1 game. Make it 2 games,cause if team plays bad team the first game back,they might nit worry about a star missing it. 2 games might be more significant.

Either way,asg a joke. No Crosby,ovechkin, toews....NHL and PA need to do something about this. How can you market a supposed big event if stars dont get in,or just skip it. Needs to be some big thing to force guys in. Bigger suspension or fines for skippers.

But there's John Scott!

They should just have goon hockey. No rules, just go at it for 60 minutes.

[redsox4evur]

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http://www.theplayerstribune.com/a-guy-like-me/

John Scott opens about the ASG. NSFW for some language.

[DrJones]

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http://www.theplayerstribune.com/a-guy-like-me/

John Scott opens about the ASG. NSFW for some language.

My thoughts:

1. The NHL is an embarrassment. The league has its fair share of problems, both on and off the ice, and THIS is what Bettman/Daly/Campbell choose to focus on? THIS is important to them? Unbelievable.

2. John Scott will never play another game in the NHL after Sunday, and he knows it.

[ImTellinTim]

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John Scott should've played his last game in the NHL years ago (or never should have played one), so that's good news.

Funny how when he tells us the fact that he'd never been in a hockey fight by 23 that he skips the part where he gets drunk at the Ambassador and tries to run down his fellow students in his car. Then follows them after they get into their car and tries to run it off the road.

What happened to him surrounding his AS selection is a bunch of garbage, but spare me the "woe is me" stuff from college. I watched him play live several times. He might not have been getting in fights, but oh, there were liberties taken. Lots of them.

And now I realize how much I miss the old WCHA and it's making me even more angry, lol.

[DrJones]

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Funny how when he tells us the fact that he'd never been in a hockey fight by 23 that he skips the part where he gets drunk at the Ambassador and tries to run down his fellow students in his car. Then follows them after they get into their car and tries to run it off the road.

Heh. Guess Scott forgot to mention that story to The Players Tribune's ghostwriter-in-residence.

[daflyboys]

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This. Is. Nuts.

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[Majingir]

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Sportslogo reporting that the new leafs logo will be a combo between their 60s logos. Good and bad i guess. One on left is my fave logo they ever used, one on right is my least fave logo in the blue & white maple leaf era. Hope its more left than right. Rebrand like the jays, not the raptors.

Leafs announced they're unveiling the new logo on February 2nd.

[Psyblast]

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Dylan Larkin is kind of fast.

[Majingir]

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Someone who has seen the logo did a mockup of it. Some parts aren't 100% accurate(based on what they said), such as font might be slightly diff,and outline itself slightly diff too,but overall this looks like it could be the logo.

Left is the logo they used from 38-63(and a slightly modified/better version until 67), and right is the mockup. If it looks close to,if not exactly like the right logo,it'd definitely be a great new logo.

[Psyblast]

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What a sideshow farce this turned into.