The Official 2019-20 Season Talk Thread

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

I cannot wait to celebrate the day when someone with an IQ of 40 is running the NHL and they alter the offside rule so the blueline is "3D". Last night Scheiffle scored a beauty. But wait! His foot was 1" off the ice when they entered the zone! No goal! "That's okay, the NHL has enough goals" - Fan Circa 2000. What I really wish is that offsides couldn't be reviewed at all. Most times it's offside by a hair. And what about the plays which are called dead on an incorrect offside call? Why can't those be reviewed? IMO, you can't have it one way and not the other. Review those as well so the faceoff can be set in the offensive zone. I think what annoys me most about this rule is that it was rushed into the league after one horribly missed offside call. The NHL couldn't make changes fast enough on something that occurs 3x in 100 years. But guys getting concussed every night or goalie gear that blocks out the sun can't be touched. "We can't rush to judgement". Okay.

Offside reviews are one of stupidest part of NHL. It was intended for those obvious offsides. But like all things in sports replays, it's been blown up to determine frame by frame, inch by inch, pixel by pixel, if something is or isn't what the original call was.

But offside calls are unfair. Let's say a team is on the PP, they score, it gets reviewed, goal overturned. So not only was the PP teams efforts pointless, but the power play itself now has less time remaining, meaning the X seconds that the play took place was basically free time for the PK team.

[daflyboys]

Only the NHL schedulers would have a team play in Europe, fly to the eastern U.S. for a game and then a few days later have that team fly to western Canada, all in about a week's time.

Idiots.

[ImTellinTim]

The Wild are a complete dumpster fire from top to bottom. Gonna have to ride this season out. Maybe it’ll finally be time to get a top draft pick.


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[daflyboys]

Flyers came 2 inches from stealing that game in Vancouver last night late in the 3rd. Really like this Konecny contributing each and every game.

Like shootout participants, I wonder if a coach ever considered swapping out one goalie for another because the guy who has been sitting is actually better in shootouts for whatever reason.

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by daflyboys

Only the NHL schedulers would have a team play in Europe, fly to the eastern U.S. for a game and then a few days later have that team fly to western Canada, all in about a week's time. Idiots.

Not surprising anymore what NHL does.

Its same league which can't even schedule back to backs properly. I honestly can't remember last time I saw Leafs play back to back at home. It's always 2 cities in 2 nights, usually against a team who didn't play the night before.

[daflyboys]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

Not surprising anymore what NHL does. Its same league which can't even schedule back to backs properly. I honestly can't remember last time I saw Leafs play back to back at home. It's always 2 cities in 2 nights, usually against a team who didn't play the night before.

....and the arena has nothing more than a science fair going on the next day.

[Majingir]

Another scheduling thing which makes no sense.

Today is Canadian Thanksgiving.

Do the Leafs play today? Canucks? Jets? Habs? Flames? No.

Oilers play, on the road, in the night.

We have 4 games at 1pm, 1 at 3pm. Only 1 features a Canadian team.

[slickdtc]

I think those games are being played because it’s Columbus Day in the US. Which like, i don’t even know what institutions have off for it anyway anymore. Some schools I guess.