The Official 2024-25 Season Talk Thread

[Majingir]

Someone tell me why the NHL thought it's a good idea to schedule a Canucks and Flames games on a Friday afternoon...

They do realize Canadians aren't off today and that's 12pm in Vancouver and 1pm in Calgary.

[slickdtc]

The NHL sucks with games being on a million different networks or services. I think there’s like 4-5 different networks the Flyers are on this year and 2-3 of them aren’t on a package together or exclusively streaming. If you aren’t a hardcore fan and/or understand the different streaming cable packages, you’re out of luck. I wouldn’t bother. It’s too much work to figure it out. All of the sports leagues are like this. In their quest for the most money they’ve made it as difficult as possible for fans to catch their teams games.

I love they do Black Friday games, and other randomly weird holidays (and Canadian holidays), but yeah makes no sense today if it’s not a thing in Canada to feature Canadian teams.

[DrJones]

Quote: Originally Posted by slickdtc

The NHL sucks with games being on a million different networks or services. I think there’s like 4-5 different networks the Flyers are on this year and 2-3 of them aren’t on a package together or exclusively streaming. If you aren’t a hardcore fan and/or understand the different streaming cable packages, you’re out of luck. I wouldn’t bother. It’s too much work to figure it out. All of the sports leagues are like this. In their quest for the most money they’ve made it as difficult as possible for fans to catch their teams games. I love they do Black Friday games, and other randomly weird holidays (and Canadian holidays), but yeah makes no sense today if it’s not a thing in Canada to feature Canadian teams.

I just wish we'd adopt US Thanksgiving already! Keep our Canadian Thanksgiving in October (which is Columbus Day in the US), and we can call the 4th Thu/Fri in November... the Beaver Moon Festival or something. (No seriously, that's the name of the 1st full moon in November, what could be more Canadian than a Beaver Moon? )

[Kobalt]

Faber, Jiricek, and Buium is a pretty nice defensive trio to build around.

[DrJones]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kobalt

Faber, Jiricek, and Buium is a pretty nice defensive trio to build around.

There's a 2027 2nd rounder involved? Sounds like an NBA trade.

I welcome the prospect of the Wild becoming a serious contender, though.

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrJones

There's a 2027 2nd rounder involved? Sounds like an NBA trade. I welcome the prospect of the Wild becoming a serious contender, though.

As far away as that sounds, that's literally just 3 drafts from now! Yes, we're just about at the halfway point of this decade!

If this were an NBA trade, there'd be a 2030 pick involved.

[slickdtc]

Michkov magic again last night. Flyers addicted to overtime

[l3ulvl]

Lankinen 10-0-0 on the road after beating the hapless Wings who can't kill a penalty to save their lives