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Wilson gets 20 god damn games..
Mickstix:
Yep.. I mean, I guess no one ever asks "What the fuck could possibly take 15 goddamn days??" Is the dude on the cusp of curing cancer or something and can't be bothered to make a ruling? Just stupid.. As I said before, it's the $ everyone (involved) worries about.. It's only the fans that sweat the actual "games" missed..
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: BlackIce on Saturday November 10, 2018, 01:18:37 PM Eastern ---Rush, in answer to your queries on my earlier post ....
I am one of those probably rare people who is neutral about the way the game has changed in recent years. I can accept what the game is now, just as I can accept what the game was in previous "eras." It is what it is. As far as personal preference regarding the way the game is evolving now, I have one positive and one negative to say about it. The positive for me is that I don't see as much of the "team sitting on a lead" syndrome as I used to; the current style seems to keep teams playing actively aggressive for a larger proportion of the game than they used to. The negative for me is that the current hectic pace feels less organized. There are a lot more pucks being thrown to no one or nowhere in particular, and there seem to be periods in the game when for minutes at a time the puck seems to be pin balling around randomly with no one ever really gaining control of it. I think some teams even have an underlying strategy of trying to force chaos. Rather than trying to create offense through structured teamwork, the plan seems to be to deliberately create random bounces that hopefully will go their way and lead to a breakaway or something. Hockey has always seemed to me to be a fairly random sport, where breaks, bad bounces and such can in many cases determine the outcome. The current style seems to inject even more randomness into the proceedings.
It is clear to me that a huge underlying reason for channeling the sport in the direction it is going is MONEY. For whatever reasons, the sport in the past largely had a "hard-core purist" following that simply wasn't enough to create the revenue stream for today's multimillion dollar player wishes and multi-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollar ownership wishes. To satisfy that greed, the sport had to change to bring in the mass market: The less sophisticated fan, who wants speed and action and reasons to cheer. But less sophisticated fans don't get thrilled and go crazy over the subtle aspects of the game. Their reason to cheer is the obvious -- scores. So that is what the game is being tweaked to provide. Meanwhile, to draw a contrast, soccer, the "beautiful game," continues to trudge on in relative obscurity in this country at least. Games based on subtlety and low scores aren't going to draw the crowds here. They just aren't.
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While what you say is correct, there is another level.
I’ve never seen any objective data to support that fringe fans only want scoring, and won’t appreciate, or prefer the sophistication, physicality, or the “old school game”, over the “new NHL”.
Bettman has wanted to turn the NHL into the NBA since he was hired, Which is still what he wants to do, ironic how the NBA has been on the downside since the “Jordan Rules” isn’t it?
After thus infomercial Commissioner has had an unheard of four strikes , he his going after bubble-scheme after bubble scheme to keep the owners in the black.
What they haven’t accepted is that goals cost salary, the more goals the bigger the contract, so why follow some ideology that will cost more than it makes?
Fans may like goals, but they like winning more. No one needs a focus group of 12yos to tell them that.
You are correct though, it is about money. Which begins with the NHL loosing a season due to Bettman pushing more goals under a salary cap. . . how did they not see this coming? Or, if it was a break the NHLPA, all they gained was a season or revenue.
This cost them the ESPN contract, and then looking (remember OLN?). I’m comes NBC, and Bettman can sell his pussy ideology to someone else. This consists of “family friendly” entertainment, while pushing “Rivalry Wednesday”, to sell traditional hockey anc give morons figure skating basketball game
Like almost all of Bettmans and The NHLs bubble-scenes (Love Guru, NHL Guardians), the novelty will wear off, and keep wearing off until NBC doesn’t renew and there’s no OLN to take them.
the only season with a gain was a lockout year. This is really working isn’t it?
Mickstix:
Free at last! Reduced to 14 games.. (Just to spite muthafuckas who posted elsewhere when we already had a 7 page thread on the subject!!) :rofl:
https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2018/11/13/independent-arbitrator-reduces-tom-wilsons-suspension-to-14-games/
alta:
from the above linked article....
"ettman upheld the 20-game suspension doled out by the Department of Player Safety, hoping the ban would be a “wake-up call” for the Capitals forward who has been suspended four times over the last two seasons."
Ummm, this is/was his fourth suspension, no? RMNB is trying to make it sound worse than it is
PUCKNRUSH:
--- Quote from: Mickstix on Sunday November 11, 2018, 12:34:33 PM Eastern ---Yep.. I mean, I guess no one ever asks "What the fuck could possibly take 15 goddamn days??" Is the dude on the cusp of curing cancer or something and can't be bothered to make a ruling? Just stupid.. As I said before, it's the $ everyone (involved) worries about.. It's only the fans that sweat the actual "games" missed..
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“On the cusp of curing cancer”!! LMFAO😂😂🤣🤣
There are many who are in love with their own self-imposed, self-importance!!
I like what the late, great, George Carlin had to say to these morons!
“Here’s some chips, have some dip! Now, go fuck yourself”!
I really miss that guy!
Rush
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