Ranger defenseman Jim Neilson was knocked unconcious when hit on the right temple by a shot off the stick of Boom Boom Geoffrion during a practice. The injury is not considered serious.
Seriously, I was spending time in this medical library and happened across a book that's premise was that in this day and age, everything is considered an illness.
Where once upon a time people were able to feel depressed from time to time, the modern medical world has seen fit to diagnose everything with a label.
Then the drug companies come running in with "solutions", even when kids are in the frame.
Everyone who calls this pure progressive thinking press 6.
FPB, don't let anyone from Saint John see your spelling if you value your life..haha . St. is for the city on the rock. I live near/work with people near SJ and still use the St. and still catch alot of grief for it. :-)
So Zach Philips 6ft 180lbs, 95pts in 67 games and the ISS doesn't have him in the top 30. What's the catch?? Is he legit or just riding Huberdeau's coat-tails? Would he be worth a punt at 31?
Matheson wrote in the Urinal today that EDM would package LA's pick and their second (31st) to get into the top 10. He said you could "take it to the bank".
I tried, but ATB didn't know what I was talking about.
They really should start giving 3 points for a regulation win, 2 points for OT win and 1 point for OT loss. As things stand you check the standings and the W L OT records don't mean jack.
Not when you have no idea how many games were won in OT, only games lost.
The only argument against I've seen is some crap to the effect that it somehow skews past points records...riiight - as if anyone knows or cares how many points past teams have.
They really should start giving 3 points for a regulation win, 2 points for OT win and 1 point for OT loss.
Of course: this would encourage teams to open up offensively, and play highlight reel hockey. It would increase the value of players like Omark who drive pinball outcomes, and drive down the value of players with FIFA boxcars.
It would lead to more games being won by larger goal margins and fans tuning out the game (and the 3rd period advertising) after having obtained as much or more entertainment in 2/3rds of the time spent watching.
It would interfere with the selling of hope in television coverage zones Bettman hopes will still be there in the morning. The current OTL system makes it possible to assemble shutdown teams on the cheap, and to have nominal 0.500 seasons on dismal accomplishment.
It also bunches up the standings, since it makes talent matter less. More teams have hope later in the season, but a lot of it is just coin flips of mediocrity.
The list divides rather cleanly into things the fan would like, and things that make Bettman jolly. If the NHL were about excellence and the joy of sport, it would be a different kettle of fish.
Bettman wants every rink in the league to have hope every minute of the game, every game of the season, and he doesn't care how thin the entertainment needs to be spread in order to achieve this. For the five teams that fall on the outskirts of the Bell curve (we're all naturalized citizens around here by now) Bettman has invented the bubblegum draft lottery. Distant hope is better than no hope at all. Between the CBA and the draft system, it's designed to be difficult to destroy any team, no matter how poorly managed, for more than three to five years, except through ongoing persistence.
In a league that rewards talent, you end up with winners and losers. Real losers, the kind with no fans who can't pay their bills.
In the immortal words of William Munny: "Deserve's got nothing to do with it".
I used to have a now long dead relative who went to see the Habs in the 50's. He said he'd pay 5 dollars to get in to see Rocket Richard and the boys. Then one night he said he looked around and saw a lot of people wearing threadbare clothing in the dead of winter, realised they were probably living on welfare and starving to pay for hockey tickets.
He walked out the door during that game and never returned - he called them all gangsters, taking advantage of people's dreams.
The only argument against I've seen is some crap to the effect that it somehow skews past points records...riiight - as if anyone knows or cares how many points past teams have.
That ship sailed twelve years ago.
He walked out the door during that game and never returned - he called them all gangsters, taking advantage of people's dreams.
Some things never change, lol.
I've never understood why it's the hockey team's fault that people a) place a high value on a particular brand of entertainment with finite supply, and b) make poor financial decisions as a result. I'd like to sit somewhere other than low Earth orbit for under $75, but that's not going to happen, so I don't go. Simple. We're not talking about tobacco companies, for Christ's sake.
Is this the all-time shortest story in the entire Tracers series? Just a two sentence quote? No back story, no context, no where-are-they-now? Well at least we know it was his right temple, lol.
I've been offered Leafs tickets before for $100. I don't place $100 for a 2.5 hour mediocre game as good value especially when it's 1.5 hours from home, and I have to work the next day.
It's simple, I place more value on a mortgage, food, and sleep and I don't have the disposable income to go to games so I don't.
I'd also like to have 30 year old scotch, and honest to god Kentucky bourbon on hand for every weekend, but I can't afford it so I don't.
If people can't afford something for purely entertainment/recreational purposes but decide to spend their money on it anyway it's their own damn problem and no one else's. I think ticket prices are too high by the by, but that's neither here nor there.
That was a terrific rundown of the debate about the three point game. It really is all about false hope isn't it. And we see just how false it is with a team like New Jersey don't we. They were about 15 points back and went on an historic run for the season's second half and still never even got close.
Leaf fans got sucked in again this year too..."we're only 6 back...win three in a row and we're in the playoffs!"
Then you win three in a row and you're still 5 points back.
There is no argument against three point games (versus the Bettman system anyway) other than an elaborate "trick" on less knowledgeable fans.
They should do it like in Minor Hockey Week. There its 1 minute of 4 on 4, 1 minute of 3 on 3, 1 minute of 2 on 2, 1 minute of 1 on 1 and then a shootout.
The NHL could extend those times to 2 or 3 minutes each.
There is a lot of strategy involved as you can't just play your best player the whole time. He will be exhausted. With one on one teams often pull their goalie when the faceoff is in the offensive zone.
You can't just put a sniper out there either - they guy has to be able to defend too.
Its unbelievably exciting. And the NHL could not do better marketing than having Crosby v Ovechkin for 2 minutes one on one.
If you don't want ties, then play regular 20 minute periods of sudden death until it's over. Period. If the MLB can have 20-something inning games, hockey can play a couple extra periods every now and again.
If not, then just have ties.
The SO and other gimmicky junk are a lame sideshow.
Agreed that Sudden Death is always best in a perfect world, but that would be a lot harder on hockey players than on baseball players.
Considering how many games go into OT in the regular season, I think we'd probably see injuries skyrocket if the league made teams play them all out.
I actually think I'd miss shoot-outs a bit too if they were done away with though. I might go for getting rid of points altogether and just counting Ws and Ls, regardless of whether they're settled in regulation, OT or SO.
Don't know if you noticed LT, but Merrimack was ousted by Notre Dame this past weekend after their best season ever (thanks entirely to this proud uncle's freshman nephew).
Rumours are that Da Costa is going to turn pro very soon, but I haven't heard anything on Bigos yet.
Scored tickets to Thursday's Wheat Kings/Tigers showdown at the Phonebooth. Hoping that Bunz is able to show me why I rank him ahead of Roy on our organizational depth chart.
They lost 4-3 in OT to the F-cking Irish. Dominated in the extra frame and then a lucky deflection of a Dman ended it. Heartbreaker. They were probably favoured too.
Bigos scored a PP goal. I think they had stuck him in front of the net. Then my lad stole a puck and set up the third goal. The Irish came hard in the 3rd and sent the game to OT.
I wrote something a couple of months ago about how the 2.3-point-per-game structure breaks the incentive system completely. I really need to go back at the end of the season and see what the number of SO games looks like compared to the first half: surely to heavens it's gone up with all the bloody SOs we've had lately.
Ranger defenseman Jim Neilson was knocked unconcious when hit on the right temple by a shot off the stick of Boom Boom Geoffrion during a practice. The injury is not considered serious.
The good old days.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I was spending time in this medical library and happened across a book that's premise was that in this day and age, everything is considered an illness.
ReplyDeleteWhere once upon a time people were able to feel depressed from time to time, the modern medical world has seen fit to diagnose everything with a label.
Then the drug companies come running in with "solutions", even when kids are in the frame.
Everyone who calls this pure progressive thinking press 6.
Completing the 2nd game stats from yesterday:
ReplyDeleteJonathan Huberdeau G 3 A 1 PTS 4 +1
Zack Phillips G 0 A 3 PTS 3 +1
Sean Couturier G 0 A 2 PTS 2 +2
Ryan Strome G 1 A 0 PTS 1 +1
Dougie Hamilton G 0 A 1 PTS 1 +1
RNH G 1 A 0 PTS 1 Even
Ryan Murphy G 0 A 1 PTS 1 -1
Gabriel Landeskog G 0 A 0 PTS 0 -1
Game 1 leftout:
Duncan Siemens G 0 A 1 PTS 1 +2
The kids from the Q win the day, Huberdeau and Phillips, now both with 7 points in 2 games. RNH behind with 5.
Earpro: An ear doctor.
Yeah, I think the Q might have a balance issue. Some of the teams at the bottom of the table are just terrible hockey teams. Kind of skews things.
ReplyDeleteOr am I misreading?
LT: Well that, but St-John's also the best team in the country.
ReplyDeleteBut that's widely due to Phillips and Huberdeau
LT: After revision, I guess it's similar to the OHL.
ReplyDeleteIt's just the WHL who has more teams that makes the bar higher. Anyways.
FPB, don't let anyone from Saint John see your spelling if you value your life..haha . St. is for the city on the rock. I live near/work with people near SJ and still use the St. and still catch alot of grief for it. :-)
ReplyDeletePitton in net for two straight games for the Barons. Seems strange for a team fighting for a playoff spot. Or are they done doing that now?
ReplyDeleteBoom Boom shot me in the head. What's a concussion?
Robbie Schremp hockey update:
ReplyDeleteATL 11GP 2-0-2 -2
He has 2 goals on 8 shots and therefore is shooting 25%
He's amazing.
So Zach Philips 6ft 180lbs, 95pts in 67 games and the ISS doesn't have him in the top 30. What's the catch??
ReplyDeleteIs he legit or just riding Huberdeau's coat-tails?
Would he be worth a punt at 31?
any worries about lingering effects of the boumeester bodyslam of 91 last night? a bit surprised they put him back in.
ReplyDeleteMatheson wrote in the Urinal today that EDM would package LA's pick and their second (31st) to get into the top 10. He said you could "take it to the bank".
ReplyDeleteI tried, but ATB didn't know what I was talking about.
With all the talk of Tambellini trying to trade Hemsky to Boston last season for the second overall, I wonder if that deal will get done this season?
ReplyDeleteHemsky for the 8-10th overall sounds like it has a greater chance of happening.
Ducey: Nothing too specific. Just I remember a draft, they always show who's the ''best left'' by ISS rankings, and a guy like 29th never got drafted.
ReplyDeleteThey really should start giving 3 points for a regulation win, 2 points for OT win and 1 point for OT loss. As things stand you check the standings and the W L OT records don't mean jack.
ReplyDeleteNot when you have no idea how many games were won in OT, only games lost.
The only argument against I've seen is some crap to the effect that it somehow skews past points records...riiight - as if anyone knows or cares how many points past teams have.
They really should start giving 3 points for a regulation win, 2 points for OT win and 1 point for OT loss.
ReplyDeleteOf course: this would encourage teams to open up offensively, and play highlight reel hockey. It would increase the value of players like Omark who drive pinball outcomes, and drive down the value of players with FIFA boxcars.
It would lead to more games being won by larger goal margins and fans tuning out the game (and the 3rd period advertising) after having obtained as much or more entertainment in 2/3rds of the time spent watching.
It would interfere with the selling of hope in television coverage zones Bettman hopes will still be there in the morning. The current OTL system makes it possible to assemble shutdown teams on the cheap, and to have nominal 0.500 seasons on dismal accomplishment.
It also bunches up the standings, since it makes talent matter less. More teams have hope later in the season, but a lot of it is just coin flips of mediocrity.
The list divides rather cleanly into things the fan would like, and things that make Bettman jolly. If the NHL were about excellence and the joy of sport, it would be a different kettle of fish.
Bettman wants every rink in the league to have hope every minute of the game, every game of the season, and he doesn't care how thin the entertainment needs to be spread in order to achieve this. For the five teams that fall on the outskirts of the Bell curve (we're all naturalized citizens around here by now) Bettman has invented the bubblegum draft lottery. Distant hope is better than no hope at all. Between the CBA and the draft system, it's designed to be difficult to destroy any team, no matter how poorly managed, for more than three to five years, except through ongoing persistence.
In a league that rewards talent, you end up with winners and losers. Real losers, the kind with no fans who can't pay their bills.
In the immortal words of William Munny: "Deserve's got nothing to do with it".
I used to have a now long dead relative who went to see the Habs in the 50's. He said he'd pay 5 dollars to get in to see Rocket Richard and the boys. Then one night he said he looked around and saw a lot of people wearing threadbare clothing in the dead of winter, realised they were probably living on welfare and starving to pay for hockey tickets.
ReplyDeleteHe walked out the door during that game and never returned - he called them all gangsters, taking advantage of people's dreams.
Some things never change, lol.
The only argument against I've seen is some crap to the effect that it somehow skews past points records...riiight - as if anyone knows or cares how many points past teams have.
ReplyDeleteThat ship sailed twelve years ago.
He walked out the door during that game and never returned - he called them all gangsters, taking advantage of people's dreams.
Some things never change, lol.
I've never understood why it's the hockey team's fault that people a) place a high value on a particular brand of entertainment with finite supply, and b) make poor financial decisions as a result. I'd like to sit somewhere other than low Earth orbit for under $75, but that's not going to happen, so I don't go. Simple. We're not talking about tobacco companies, for Christ's sake.
"Hey let's not buy clothes and food and instead go to the hockey game."
ReplyDelete- a moron
Is this the all-time shortest story in the entire Tracers series? Just a two sentence quote? No back story, no context, no where-are-they-now? Well at least we know it was his right temple, lol.
ReplyDeleteI've been offered Leafs tickets before for $100. I don't place $100 for a 2.5 hour mediocre game as good value especially when it's 1.5 hours from home, and I have to work the next day.
ReplyDeleteIt's simple, I place more value on a mortgage, food, and sleep and I don't have the disposable income to go to games so I don't.
I'd also like to have 30 year old scotch, and honest to god Kentucky bourbon on hand for every weekend, but I can't afford it so I don't.
If people can't afford something for purely entertainment/recreational purposes but decide to spend their money on it anyway it's their own damn problem and no one else's. I think ticket prices are too high by the by, but that's neither here nor there.
Deadman:
ReplyDeleteThat was a terrific rundown of the debate about the three point game. It really is all about false hope isn't it. And we see just how false it is with a team like New Jersey don't we. They were about 15 points back and went on an historic run for the season's second half and still never even got close.
Leaf fans got sucked in again this year too..."we're only 6 back...win three in a row and we're in the playoffs!"
Then you win three in a row and you're still 5 points back.
There is no argument against three point games (versus the Bettman system anyway) other than an elaborate "trick" on less knowledgeable fans.
The average points earned per game among the top 10 in the west?
ReplyDelete1.24
Good luck catching that.
10 minute 4-on-4 OTs.
ReplyDeleteNo shoot-outs.
No points for a tie.
10 minute 4-on-4 OTs.
ReplyDeleteThey should do it like in Minor Hockey Week. There its 1 minute of 4 on 4, 1 minute of 3 on 3, 1 minute of 2 on 2, 1 minute of 1 on 1 and then a shootout.
The NHL could extend those times to 2 or 3 minutes each.
There is a lot of strategy involved as you can't just play your best player the whole time. He will be exhausted. With one on one teams often pull their goalie when the faceoff is in the offensive zone.
You can't just put a sniper out there either - they guy has to be able to defend too.
Its unbelievably exciting. And the NHL could not do better marketing than having Crosby v Ovechkin for 2 minutes one on one.
If you don't want ties, then play regular 20 minute periods of sudden death until it's over. Period. If the MLB can have 20-something inning games, hockey can play a couple extra periods every now and again.
ReplyDeleteIf not, then just have ties.
The SO and other gimmicky junk are a lame sideshow.
I like shootouts.
ReplyDeletePeople whine that it is a one on one effort, bah, so is every breakaway and a lot of other plays during a game.
Maybe they should make every shooter take a shot.
Meh. I don't dislike the point system that much. And I love the shootouts. Ties are one of the worst inventions ever.
ReplyDeleteYeah you can argue it's bullshit, but it's not discriminatory of any teams, a contrario to the conference compositions.
Everyone plays with the same rules.
If we learn some wack-o is trying to get into OT every game, or take advantage of it, then fine. But right now I don't think the need is so glaring.
LMHF#1
ReplyDeleteAgreed that Sudden Death is always best in a perfect world, but that would be a lot harder on hockey players than on baseball players.
Considering how many games go into OT in the regular season, I think we'd probably see injuries skyrocket if the league made teams play them all out.
I actually think I'd miss shoot-outs a bit too if they were done away with though. I might go for getting rid of points altogether and just counting Ws and Ls, regardless of whether they're settled in regulation, OT or SO.
Congratz to the Manchester Phoenix who won the Hockey EPL - apparently player-coach Tony Hand got himself a game misconduct in the title winning game.
ReplyDeleteDon't know if you noticed LT, but Merrimack was ousted by Notre Dame this past weekend after their best season ever (thanks entirely to this proud uncle's freshman nephew).
ReplyDeleteRumours are that Da Costa is going to turn pro very soon, but I haven't heard anything on Bigos yet.
Prelit... before pre-law.
Spoiler:
ReplyDeleteRhett Bly?
Sam Marotta?
Mike COllins?
Scored tickets to Thursday's Wheat Kings/Tigers showdown at the Phonebooth. Hoping that Bunz is able to show me why I rank him ahead of Roy on our organizational depth chart.
ReplyDeleteaferno: 70's. Enough said.
FPB...
ReplyDeleteNah, none of those guys are any good, lol...
He has exact same name as a former Islander and Bruin who, coinka-dinkely, is from Massuchusetts just like the college.
Went 5-6-11, +1, which isn't bad considering he's a freshman and a shrimp.
They lost 4-3 in OT to the F-cking Irish. Dominated in the extra frame and then a lucky deflection of a Dman ended it. Heartbreaker. They were probably favoured too.
ReplyDeleteBigos scored a PP goal. I think they had stuck him in front of the net. Then my lad stole a puck and set up the third goal. The Irish came hard in the 3rd and sent the game to OT.
@dorito
ReplyDeleteYou may be disappointed as Bunz is said to have a concussion.
that'd make him Shawn Bates then.
ReplyDeletesmarmy:
ReplyDeleteFuck. I'll have to cheer for the hometown team then.
Maybe I'll just cheer for more beer. That always works.
I wrote something a couple of months ago about how the 2.3-point-per-game structure breaks the incentive system completely. I really need to go back at the end of the season and see what the number of SO games looks like compared to the first half: surely to heavens it's gone up with all the bloody SOs we've had lately.
ReplyDeleteCheer for Beers! Damn I miss those old Golden Bears games.
ReplyDeleteBingi... more than one Bingo.