Summer 2025: NHL Offseason

[PromoTheRobot]

Kakko was signed today.

 

[That Aud Smell]

1 hour ago, shrader said:

I have absolutely no idea what I'm reading.

You have my sympathies.

[thewookie1]

5 hours ago, That Aud Smell said:

It's an accumulated sense of things. That wedding picture is consistent with it, I suppose. Moreover, getting married nowadays when you're 22 years old is part of it. Dude just comes off super trad.

As does Thompson.

And like I said: I'm not sure what to make of it.

Does it inhibit team bonding?

If I'm being cynical and sh1tty about it (haha - which means I'm about to be): It's almost giving Mormon vibes.

Then again, Brigham Young fields some competitive ass football teams.

Huh? I’m unsure how to even compute this.

Most hockey players are going to fall on the more conservative side of beliefs and are going to be more likely to have more traditional relationships since they’ll be the breadwinner 99.9% of the time and if they have children the mother will almost certainly stay at home. 
 

Why would that have any impact on the team? If they tend to have a more traditional relationship how is that a bad thing?

As I said their playing career effectively pidgin-holes them into a more traditional role set up. Otherwise they can’t have children. And sorry if this might be controversial but if a baby is born; at very least one parent should be a primary caretaker for the child. Last I checked players don’t retire upon becoming fathers so there you go. 
 

Frankly there’s a reason traditional roles have been used for centuries; it works well. And it’s not as if the wife has a gun to her head to have babies and stay home 24/7. 

6 hours ago, That Aud Smell said:

I'm not sure what to make of how trad** two of the team's core players are/seem to be -- Thompson and Power. 

** From the Know Your Meme website:

That “regressive” statement really gets my blood boiling. They like to make it sound like traditional roles requires a nigh 1930’s or earlier style of behavior and that it’s automatically a negative. 

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6 hours ago, That Aud Smell said:

It's an accumulated sense of things. That wedding picture is consistent with it, I suppose. Moreover, getting married nowadays when you're 22 years old is part of it. Dude just comes off super trad.

As does Thompson.

And like I said: I'm not sure what to make of it.

Does it inhibit team bonding?

If I'm being cynical and sh1tty about it (haha - which means I'm about to be): It's almost giving Mormon vibes.

Then again, Brigham Young fields some competitive ass football teams.

Didn’t you watch American Primeval? You have the Mormons all wrong.