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So why would it matter if they were working for the team or not?
They undoubtedly all have clauses that restrict them from talking. So, either way they are going to be in breach of a contract whether they are employed or not. If they are willing to leak information after being let go they're likely to leak it while they are employed. They'd have to be fools to do anything that could cause them serious harm. So, any information they are likely to give out will have to be so diluted so as to protect themselves. Even, unofficially speaking, they have to be careful one way or the other.
The concept that they are more likely to say something because they are fired seems weak. At least to me.. I've been under an NDA and a non-compete agreement. I was sufficiently interested in maintaining my financial well being and future employability to not say anything.
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Yep. Adding more junk ice does the opposite of what most people expect. That's exactly where you want the other team - skating around the perimeter.
This is really only true once a team is set up in a zone. However, wider ice should also lead to the forwards being able to create more space when entering the zone and that could lead to scoring chances on the rush. It also increases the chance of scoring when a player gets pulled out of position.
It's not the holy grail, but I don't think it's nothing either.
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Agreed--and let's not forget it's about more than the first overall pick. The amateur scouts' opinions would be valuable in later rounds. The pro scout's opinions might be valuable if there is a trade at hand or in ten days when free agency begins. All in all, this was a completely stupid move.
Unless those scouts were already completely useless and didn't matter anyway.
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Unfortunately it's stuff like this that turned me away from leagues where anyone actually keeps score. And the lower the league, the worse the attitudes. Just a bunch of man babies.
I'm on the fence about returning the Sunday D-league I play in at the BurgerPlex. Most of it is now competition with my son's hockey schedule but some of it is being sick of the losers we play against. There are a handful of really good teams and by really good I mean the kind of teams you love to play against. They aren't jerks, they are there to have fun. But so many are overwhelmed by players who are angry at life.
That's some good advice. I'll see what I can do. A girl on the other team works for the rink. This ###### happens all the time, people complain, not much happens. It kinda comes and goes in waves.
I hate being the whiny girl too. I try so hard to be strong and brush it off but damn, man, I'm getting hurt out there.
I'm 25 and pretty new to hockey (figure skater before, hockey for about 2-3 years now). I'm not good. I have 5 goals and maybe 20 assists to my name. I'm not particularly fast. I can't play up a league.
in the fall, thomas creek's zamboni league will have another session and I'll join Intermediate with people I know/like. No score, drills before the game- I think I belong there. I love playing co-ed. I love my guys. I love shooting the breeze and drinking with them. Some are my age, some are dad squad. I'd miss that with all ladies, I admit it.
Just think I'm done with this league. It's always been kinda dirty- I just got the brunt of it last night.
I think if enough reports end up being sent to media sources, etc. about the allowance of racist and sexist commentary in games things might change. But who knows.. As I said above, I am thinking about moving out of the Sunday league. I've been asked to play in Scottsville but I'm not sold on that either. Gotta find somewhere to play. I'm not certain I could play a zamboni league. Not sure if I'd be considered too skilled or not.
It's a Rochester problem. I've never played in a league here that wasn't this way. The only way to have fun playing hockey in this town is to play non-league. Zamboni leagues are good, or leagues where they play games but there aren't standings or actual teams. Village Sports runs some leagues like that. I've always just found people to play with who rent ice.
The only way you could drag me back into a real league here is if I had the opportunity to be on the ice with Josie in order to handle these problems. I want nothing to do with it otherwise.
Now we're talking... renting ice.. I'm in. :)
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This problem could be solved if Bettman was replaced with a good commissioner who wasn't booed by every NHL hockey fan in every NHL city at any and all NHL events at which the commissioner appears.
Simple.
Every commissioner, every league, every time. Not just the NHL and not just Bettman. People love to boo Commissioners. Perhaps because it reminds them of the business aspects of the game? I have no idea.
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I think the cover should be:
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The NHL schedule will be released on June 25th. Bill Daly snuck it into his statements about the Arizona situation. Said that the schedule is essentially finalized and will be released then.
BS. I demand a 4 hour long schedule reveal show!
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I'm kinda surprised (perhaps not really) that people care so much about it.
he goes out there.. presents the trophy and then the fun begins. it should be fairly unscripted.. I've no problem with any of it. I don't need any more pageantry injected into things.
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I fear my brief career playing super low level beer league hockey may be over or nearly so.
Game got chippy last night and their giant 6'6" dman slammed me as hard as he could into the boards a few into the 3rd. I'm half his size. He swore he didn't mean to, but me laying motionless on the ice for a few minutes was apparently the spark for the powder keg everyone had been looking for. Rest of the game (which I sat out since there was double of everything) was a mess, strung with brawls and racial epithets (guy who slammed me was colored). I got some good sexist comments thrown at me on my very first shift.
Handshake line- one of their guys refused to shake my hand. I was being held up partially by two of my teammates. He said the c word as he sailed by. Apparently he felt I'd cheap shotted him on the ice (a night like that and he was mad at me? I never go after people!) and faked being slammed heavily into the boards.
I'm there to have fun. I don't care that much about winning. we won in overtime, and i could care less. I wanted to play with the guys, keep up, hang out with my friends, play some puck and have a beer. But other teams seem to just target me because they know it'll cause my guys to go nuts.
It's painful, embarrassing, enraging, and I can't afford more head injuries. No matter how defensive I skate, it's going to happen- it's the sad reality I'm beginning to come to terms with.
I think I'm ready to find a women's league and to hell with all those lesser endowed testosterone enraged ######. Call me a ###### but it's not worth my health and energy.
There's nothing about this post that makes me happy. Okay.. one thing.. that you want to have fun playing.
That's just an awful story.
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You're right. My apologies. I've been a bit of an dick more so lately than I had been in a while. Likely because life has been kicking the ###### out of me.
Good job owning it man. I thought your reponse before this one was out of line. Just remember, if you carry the negativity everywhere then you'll only succeed in breeding more of it in new places. Don't let this place add to the crap in your life, let it work against that.
The next period is about to begin.. are you ready? :)
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Once the summer is upon me, if my Sabres are not in it, I have a hard time finding the interest. I would rather be outside or doing just about anything else.
Well, summer starts in 4 days and it's been raining nearly every day. So.... :P
Tampa snuck an extra win in there but in the end Chicago is just too solid to lose to TB this year. Next year TB could be the team to beat. Nothing to shame Stamkos for.. Kane wasn't doing much until Game 6 either and Richards could have taken the shot on Bishop but clearly deferred to Kane. Either was a good play, but the pass to Kane is a great play.
Good work Chicago. Well deserved. Now to see how they retain their team.
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The power went out here and a lot of the businesses along Jefferson ended up closing early. We tried to go to Dibella's and it was shut up tight.
Ahh forgot about that incident.
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Neither one was doing anything wrong, per se, but they clearly didn't communicate well with each other. It's like a centerfielder saying "I got it" so that they leftfielder doesn't continue making a play on the ball. I've seen that go awry with poor communications, too.
I understand where you are going. But look where Bishop is on the ice. It's not really no man's land. The goalie shouldn't be coming that far out unless he can beat the opponent to the puck. The fact that Hedman had Sharp the whole way (and that it's Hedman) means Bishop should have stayed put and let his D make the play.
If it was closer to the net I might be more on board. But Bishop is at the TOP of the faceoff circle. Miller got steamrolled by Lucic he was at the faceoff dot and there wasn't a defender anywhere near Lucic.
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They were closed? Was it Sunday? Strange.
Anyway, it's nothing fancy. It's a beer warehouse. But they keep the vast majority of beer at about 50 degrees.
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I don't think relocation and realignment is much of an issue IF the league is willing to move a team from the East into the West (probably one of Detroit or Columbus despite the league saying they don't want that).
They could just as easily move Carolina and/or the Florida teams around in the East, but I think they want to keep the two Florida teams playing against the ratings-boosting teams like Toronto, Montreal and Buffalo. Either way, I don't think this will be an issue once they figure out where everything goes.
If the three (two expansion and Florida) ends up being Las Vegas, Seattle and KC then they can keep both Detroit and Columbus in the East. At one point Bob McKenzie predicted that the NHL would end up with 33 teams and didn't believe that they cared about even numbers as much as everybody thinks... If that happens then Portland, KC and QC all have better shots at landing a team.
The question however isn't what things end up looking like. It's what has to happen to get there. Any move by the Coyotes for the 2015-16 season has to be in the Pacific Division or they need to bounce someone who would ultimately be in the Pacific division. However, assuming they want Las Vegas and Seattle, if you temporarily move one team (Colorado) then they have to bounce them back. No way the Avs go for that. So, IF the Coyotes move this upcoming season they move to Seattle or Las Vegas. Then the NHL can progress on its expansion plans.
I can't even imagine what they try to do if there is only 1 team in Florida (the Panthers seem ripe to move too).
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I think this question needs to be revisited. WTHell was he doing there?
I believe the answer is.. trying too hard. He had too much compete. A little less compete and he's not out in the middle of the ice where his players can run him over.
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Stopped by BoTW this afternoon and picked up my favorite German beer: Schneider Weisse Original Tap 7. Cheers everyone :beer:
If you fancy a better overall location that's nearby you should check out AJ's Beer Warehouse on Clay Rd in Henrietta. Walk-on temperature controlled beer rooms, 30 or so taps.. better prices and staff.
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Shoot, I pay for Time Warner which lets me watch live tv on my laptop though their online portal, but if I'm in Buffalo instead of Rochester where I pay for the service I can't watch a hockey game that I'm paying for because I've left my zip code. How stupid is that? So even though I'm paying money for a broadcast in a broadcast area where the game is available anyway, I can't watch it.
So I have to go to an illegal stream to watch something I already pay for access to.
That I almost understand because Time Warner Cable only has broadcast rights in certain areas. So they can't allow customers outside of the geographic region to stream it. The idea that TWC is in both Rochester and Buffalo should negate that but I can understand that they wouldn't allow it. I don't agree with it.
Bottom line.. the NHL and any other content creator needs as many as eyeballs as possible and all of these restrictions cause a huge problem. The cable companies have adapted already and will continue to drive up Internet revenues to compensate for lost subscribers in the TV realms.
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I'm still not following on the logic of multiple teams moving. Right now we have 14 in the west and 16 in the east. That's what they're going to stick with. So Phoenix leaves the west, one team from the east gets bumped out west. They may shuffle the divisions within each conference to account for this, but at the end it will still be 16 east, 14 west. I don't think they want a scenario where within a conference, the divisions have an unequal amount of teams.
The logic is simple. If you move 1 team out of the Western Conference you need to put 1 back to at least have 14. BUT, the team that is moving out is in the Pacific Division and the team you'd move would have to go into the Central. You can't move forward with 8 teams in the Central and 6 teams in the Pacific.
You could move 1 team into the Central and bounce Winnipeg or Colorado to the Pacific. However, if the NHL wanted to expand in Las Vegas and Seattle first then those two teams would need to be slated for the Pacific. So, there's no way Winnipeg or Colorado are going to move to the Pacific for a few years and the move back to the Central.
The only way it would work is if either of those two teams moved and when the league expanded they were slotted into newly realigned divisions that kept many of the same opponents.
Basically, there's no way Phoenix leaves the Pacific Division, let alone the Western Conference. They'd likely relocate to Seattle or Las Vegas.
As it stands it is hard to imagine any team being put into Quebec City without another major realignment of the divisions and conferences.
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So.. I was reading that Claude Lemieux is Hodgson's agent?
I wonder if Tim Murray just hates that family now.
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Tonight is the official start of Rochester Real Beer Week. http://rochesterrealbeer.com/
Lots of cool stuff going down.
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TV Contracts.
I don't buy it. Here's why..
Streaming is another delivery mechanism. It does NOTHING to change who own the rights to broadcast the game. NBC pays to have the right to broadcast the game and slap their logo all over it. The same logo I see in any stream on any device I would watch the game on.
Viewership is easily counted as the number of connected streams who are logged in and receiving the data. All along this has actually been a much more reliable statistic for driving the almighty viewership data. The set top boxes of old would never report back when they were tuned to a certain channel. The smarter boxes today at least report back when a box is on and what channel is being tuned. So if nothing else the broadcaster still has that information.
The only remaining problem are the content delivery providers (aka TWC, DirecTV). They have to be the ones to block the streaming rights of the content producers because delivery over a competing mechanism is bad for business. At the same time those companies are already retooled to take on the streaming market. They are merely holding onto as much revenue as they can because the NHL hasn't put its foot down.
It needs to do this and at that point the model is broken. Some people will continue to find value in a full blown TV subscription and will continue to have DirecTV or cable. Those who won't will have gone to a pure streaming model. They key is viewership and right now the amount of viewers will be going down as people drop their expensive TV subscriptions.
So I get what you are saying.. but if I am operating the NHL I am all in on streaming the games, all of them, to anyone, anywhere. If you want to be the one granted rights to put cameras in the arena you have to agree to this and if DirecTV wants to hold out on it.. so be it.
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Why would two need to move? They're going to keep that 16/14 imbalance until they expand.
The most likely would be Detroit or Columbus getting bounced back West. If they move 1 team back they would create an 8 team central and a 6 team pacific division. If they moved Columbus AND Detroit they could shift Colorado to the West. That hinders plans to expand into Las Vegas AND Seattle however.
It's actually the most likely scenario that the Coyotes can't be considered to move East. They would move to a new market that would retain a 7 team Pacific Division.. so, Las Vegas or Seattle would be the likely choices. This leaves an opportunity for Kansas City at some other point to fill in the Central and the loser of the Coyotes franchise (LV or Seattle) to get the other expansion team.
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qwksndmonster can appreciate typing with boxing gloves on as he is really StrongBad.
How many words does GMTM say before Jack Eichel
in The Aud Club
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0 words.
He'll say the name. That's all.