[NHL] 2019-2020 NHL Season

[Timmus]

This season can go only one of two ways:

1) Less painful than last season.

2 The leafs winning the cup.

Already super painful. IF they even come back there's a chance the leafs win the cup. Worst. Year. Ever.

 

[blotsfan]

If this season is cancelled completely, it is significantly better than last year.

 

[HCGLNS]

Fuck Arizona,
Gave Auston the rona.

 

[jwhouk]

Hey, I ain't thrilled with it either.

 

[BErt]

This will be my last post in this thread until the Wings either get a #1 pick or make the playoffs again. So, goodbye forever I guess.

 

[blotsfan]

25 straight years of being a playoff team, coupled with 4 cups and you run after missing the playoffs 4 times?

 

[BErt]

We lost the #1 pick to a playoff team in this garbage lottery, let me be bitter for a month or 3 okay?

 

[blotsfan]

We lost the #1 pick to a playoff team in this garbage lottery, let me be bitter for a month or 3 okay?

Sorry. I'm a touch bitter re: the NHL myself as of late.

 

[DarkAudit]

Welp...

 

[jwhouk]

Why'd you guys lose the Cup after you won it?

"Half the team caught COVID."

 

[jwhouk]

The Greatest Sport on Ice begins its Stanley Cup chase on August 1.

 

[Timmus]

The Greatest Sport on Ice begins its Stanley Cup chase on August 1.

The two best things about that CBA renewal is that its done on time and the olympics are back. It will be fun to watch nhlers vs the chinese national team if they decide to ice a squad.

 

[jwhouk]

The Chinese National Team gets an automatic berth into the tournament, IIRC.

Remember what happened to the Thailand National Team over a dozen years back? Yeah, I'd bet it'd be that bad.

 

[jwhouk]

RELEASE
THE
KRAKEN!

 

[BErt]

I’m officially on board with the new team

 

[jwhouk]

The logo is just pure classic. I get the same feeling about that S that I do about the sabretooth tiger head with the Preds. It just looks right.

 

[drifter]

Secondary is clever, but boring IMO. The main looks great though.

 

[HCGLNS]

The NHL is the greatest league in all sports.

In order to maintain realism in the covid-19 era, they have compiled a chorus of actual fans booing to play when Bettman steps on the ice to award the cup.

 

[blotsfan]

The NFL did that during the draft for Goodell and it was the most awkward thing ever.

 

[jwhouk]

Yes, but with Bettman it's expected.

 

[jwhouk]

Crap.

 

[HCGLNS]

Well, NYR were my 3rd pick for the lottery. So i got that going for me.

 

[blotsfan]

I can live with the Rangers getting it. Leafs, Pens, Oilers, or Leafs would've broken me.

 

[HCGLNS]

I wanted Nashville 2nd.

Anyone but Edmonton.

 

[jwhouk]

The Rags.

It had to be the Rags.

Welp, GMDP better get his resume freshened up.

 

[BErt]

A timeless tweet

 

[DarkAudit]

The fail is deep with this one.

 

[HCGLNS]

The goal is not to win the Cup. The goal is to earn money. Always has been, always will be. And they earn more money than anyone else.

 

[blotsfan]

The goal is not to win the Cup. The goal is to earn money. Always has been, always will be. And they earn more money than anyone else.

I thought bootlicking was an American thing.

 

[HCGLNS]

Same as it always is, sell merchandise, sell tickets, sell concessions but most importantly sell advertisements. What sort of business model accepts the failure of 30 of 31 participants every year? That's what you get if you define winning the Cup as success. So you can't actually view any sports league in that manner. Why else are we having sports during a pandemic? It's not for the fans, it's for the owners bottom line and absolutely to make sure that the fans don't suddenly realize we don't need pro-sports leagues. So go ahead, taunt the fans of teams that lose, because the billionaires that are selling you that story sure didn't.

 

[blotsfan]

Just get depressed that your team sucks like normal people.

 

[jwhouk]

I'd shush you, but then I realize we both have the same number of Stanley Cup finals appearances.

 

[blotsfan]

I'd shush you, but then I realize we both have the same number of Stanley Cup finals appearances.

When did the predators make it a second time?

 

[DarkAudit]

There's only one of us here who wasn't either an infant or not born yet the last time the Laffs even *made* the finals.

 

[blotsfan]

There's only one of us here who wasn't either an infant or not born yet the last time the Laffs even *made* the finals.

You forgot Grytpipe-Thynne