The Official 2024-25 Season Talk Thread - Operation Sports Forums

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you all know OS now has an official Discord that you can join right now. We’ve kicked around Discords for individual games in the past, but it felt like the right time to make it more of an official thing.

Steve and I have wanted to get this going for a bit because we obviously still hear from y’all who are unhappy with some stuff on the forums, plus when there are forum outages we still want to have a place for everyone to hang. My overarching goal for the longer term is to have both Discord and the forums ultimately work together. There are some logistical issues with the vBulletin forums that don’t allow things to sync right with Discord so there will be a little maneuvering as we try to get mods and forum members any proper roles/tags they need on the Discord, but we can work through that stuff easily enough as people join.

Our general goal is to give people more options to interact with OS community members, whether that’s Discord, the forums, this newsletter, or improved apps. If people want to stick more to the forums, that’s cool. If people want to stick more to the Discord, that’s also cool. In my perfect world, we do a lot of BSing and day-to-day chatting on the Discord about games and sports, and then more of the “in-depth” discussions or hefty things like long slider breakdowns or analysis of gameplay end up on the forums so that can act as a sort of “best of” area for anything OS community related. That said, you all will ultimately shape how the ecosystem shakes out, I just want to give you spaces you like so you can have a good time with other folks in the community.

The same general rules will apply on the Discord as they do on the forums, and we’ve brought most of the forum categories to the Discord as well so there should not be too much confusion as you navigate around.

With the Operation Sports and Discord announcement now out there, it’s also worth mentioning our OS premium newsletter, which quietly launched a couple of weeks ago. Built off the Not Just Another Roster Update newsletter, it offers a mix of retrospectives, guides, interviews and deeper dives into the sports gaming world—covering both current and classic titles.

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02-21-2025, 01:17 AM

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My shattered nerves and I owe Jordan Binnington an apology.

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02-21-2025, 07:29 AM

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Binnington kept Canada alive in OT. When you don’t bury your chances when you’ve got the game on your stick a few times like we did, it always seems to end up in your own net shortly thereafter.

Incredible tournament. Congrats Canada!

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02-21-2025, 03:41 PM

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The US hocket team always comes up short at the ultimate moment. They're like the Buffalo Bills (with apologies to our upstate NY fans here) - they can look like world beaters right up until they have a must-win scenario, and then they always...don't win.
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02-21-2025, 04:06 PM

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Surprised to learn that the Olympics are using NHL-sized ice dimensions in Milan next year.

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02-21-2025, 07:46 PM

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That game was the most watched non NFL game in ESPN+ history, and watched by over 16m people in North America (even crazier, it was almost 7m Canadians, which is almost 20% of the entire country)
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02-21-2025, 08:17 PM

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Finally back to hockey that matters tomorrow.. Pens/Caps baby!

Almost have to wonder, if Ovie didn't get hurt this could have been a game where he possibly broke the goal scoring record.

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02-22-2025, 06:58 PM

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Back to reality for Sid.

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02-22-2025, 08:57 PM

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Matthews + Marner = 0pts

Score 4-0 after 1

Leafs are the one with 4. What a weird return to the season.
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02-22-2025, 09:26 PM

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Originally posted by Majingir

Matthews + Marner = 0pts

Score 4-0 after 1

Leafs are the one with 4. What a weird return to the season.

Caps 8 goals today and Ovie 0 points and just a plus 1. Can't make that up. LOL

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02-22-2025, 09:42 PM

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Originally posted by Fiddy

Caps 8 goals today and Ovie 0 points and just a plus 1. Can't make that up. LOL

Time off or 4 nations definitely impacted a lot.

McDavid 0pts and a -3 in a 6-3 loss just 48 hours after the biggest moment in his career.

Shesterkin allows 5 goals and pulled in the 1st

Canes down by 3 pull their goalie with almost 7 minutes left in the game and scored back to back! First 18 minutes of the 3rd the Leafs had 1 SHOT, the Canes had 3 GOALS, Leafs already in peak playoff form.

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02-23-2025, 09:37 PM

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Originally posted by Fiddy

Caps 8 goals today and Ovie 0 points and just a plus 1. Can't make that up. LOL

Ovechkin on OS confirmed

He gets a hat trick today.

13 away from Gretzky, 25 games left this season.

He's at 29 goals in 41 games which would be 17 goals projected in those final 25 should he play every game.

Would also mean he'd be on pace to tie Gretzky against the Blackhawks on April 4th.

Storybook moment would be doing it against Crosby and the Pens on the final day of the season
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02-23-2025, 10:10 PM

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Originally posted by Majingir

Would also mean he'd be on pace to tie Gretzky against the Blackhawks on April 4th.

Assuming he plays every game between now and then, that April 4th game will be the 1486th of Ovi's career.

Gretzky finished with 894 goals in 1487 games. (The 894th goal was scored in his 1479th game.)

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02-23-2025, 11:18 PM

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Originally posted by DrJones

Assuming he plays every game between now and then, that April 4th game will be the 1486th of Ovi's career.

Gretzky finished with 894 goals in 1487 games. (The 894th goal was scored in his 1479th game.)

That's what makes it so impressive too.

It's not like because seasons are more games that it gives him an edge, they've played almost the exact same number of games.

If anything I still think Ovechkin is the more impressive scorer simply because he's done it with so much of his career being during a non goal scoring crazed era unlike Gretzky who was doing it when every other game seemingly was 5-4 games.
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02-23-2025, 11:46 PM

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Originally posted by Majingir

That's what makes it so impressive too.

It's not like because seasons are more games that it gives him an edge, they've played almost the exact same number of games.

If anything I still think Ovechkin is the more impressive scorer simply because he's done it with so much of his career being during a non goal scoring crazed era unlike Gretzky who was doing it when every other game seemingly was 5-4 games.

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1. Alex Ovechkin (998), 2. Gordie Howe (925), 3. Jaromír Jágr (841), 4. Wayne Gretzky (758), 5. Teemu Selänne (741), 6. Brett Hull (738), 7. Jarome Iginla (706), 8. Sidney Crosby (688), 9. Brendan Shanahan (672), 10. Phil Esposito (671)

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02-24-2025, 08:26 PM

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Ducks acquire Husso from the Wings for future considerations.

Ducks comment on the move

https://twitter.com/AnaheimDucks/status/1894180509754036438?t=rjUst2VOASJQYsvpjH82lw&s=19
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