Sven Baertschi opted out

I also opted out, same impact

I still don't think it'll happen, but the proposed schedule for the play-in round is INSANE and it'll basically be March Madness but for hockey. I have something like 4+ weeks of vacation in the bank (and obviously nowhere to go, nothing to do) so if they make it to Aug. 1 maybe I'll take a week of...

Hamonic is sitting out the playoffs because his daughter had a serious respiratory illness last year

The chuds are not pleased

NHL confirms that teams in the play-in round "made the playoffs"

I'm fine, this is fine

I still don't think it'll happen, but the proposed schedule for the play-in round is INSANE and it'll basically be March Madness but for hockey.

Yeah I've listened to the Beths album a couple of times and it's excellent. Vinyl shipment is delayed for some reason.

The new Julianna Barwick is good, although it's short and feels short.

The new Jesu mini-LP is booooring.

I figured you'd be psyched about the scout. I'm not sure what the "won't lose Demko for nothing" implies, if that's "We're going to trade him before the expansion draft" or "We're going to trade him before the expansion draft and we want a lot in return ." Benning's dumb as hell so I assume it's the...

As much as I don't think any of the sports' approaches will work, because COVID doesn't care that you want to have professional sports, my feeling is get the players to the bubble cities ASAP and quarantine them there for the necessary time. I understand that means they won't see their families for ...

His argument is that "None of those teams would actually give up that return" but he's also naming the return...

This is what a Buffalo radio guy thinks the return on Eichel would be:



Original link: https://wgr550.radio.com/articles/opini ... -with-that

I'm not a member of Costco but I can only imagine how stressful it would be to go at, say, 2pm on a Saturday.

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Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:18 am

I also mostly lived in "junior" towns until now so maybe I'm used to it?

But I'm also the guy that went to watch Joe Veleno as a 15 year old, so...

I really want Veleno to pan out as a 2nd/3rd line center. Seems like a good dude.

I've been listening to The Athletic's Red Wings podcast, Wings for Breakfast, and while it's good, I realized I'm completely exhausted by the "Use your cap space to acquire young assets [picks or prospects] by taking on bad contracts" b/w "Don't sign anyone" approach. I'm going to write them a lette...

It's hard to think of a team that lacks a single player that's worth watching. The Red Wings were historically bad, and yet if Larkin / Mantha / Zadina / even Lil Tuzz are in the lineup, it wasn't completely dire.

Tentative dates listed in #NHL and #NHLPA Memorandum of Understanding:

Later of Oct. 9 or 7 days after Cup Final ends is opening of #FreeAgentFrenzy

Nov. 17: Opening of training camps for 2020-21

Dec. 1: Opening of 2020-21 regular season

All subject to change.

This all seems wildly optimistic!

Draft is tentatively scheduled for October 6th

In a general sense I wonder, if your favorite team isn’t involved, whether it’s more enjoyable to pay a bunch of money to see a good team play from worse seats or pay less money to see a bad team play from good seats.

We walked around outside of the Bell Centre around game time during one of our visits to Montreal (too cheap to buy tickets). A lot of youth hockey kids asking us for money to support their team. I'd like to go to a game there sometime.

I was legitimately excited about going to some other Midwestern ballparks (specifically Cleveland, with a return trip to Pittsburgh at some point) this summer but instead my summer vacation is when Frau Artillery takes the kids to her parents' house in a couple of weekends and I stay here because we...

The Athletic's been ranking sports stadiums / arena and I enjoyed the MLB one a lot*, which was a fan survey, but today they posted the NHL one driven by reporters' experiences with the arenas and a huge part of the criteria and a bulk of the commentary pertained to the press boxes. A lot of the com...