Dunny

I sucked a lot of wang to get the corporate tix for this one. I'll be watching from my hotel room. lol.

He just really needs to make that extra save. With Igor, that save usually comes in the 1st 10 minutes of a game.

He made some ridiculous saves tonight. They're bleeding grade A chances, it's not good, but a better start to games for Igor would go a long way.

I'm all for giving Quick a few more reps, but that'll start showing diminishing returns pretty fast imo. Better to shelter him and get your horse on track.

It's just so frustrating that they seemingly have eight 10 million dollar players, and will add at the deadline, and we feel lucky to have a guy in desperate need of a haircut  and a nifty little Russian dude nobody takes seriously after Easter.

Wish we were better on the cap side. We don't have near the horses to beat the Leafs at their game.

Pretty much worse in our own end than at any point last year. Where's the adjustments?

Baseball is certainly not the #1 sport here, but I think people would be surprised at how ingrained it is here, certainly in Ontario and BC. Rogers having the Blue Jays is kore important to them than the NHL rights, that's for sure.

I think Overdrive went to baseball, and SN did drag out the two baseball guys in the PM. I dunno, I was at work, nobody was working, just refreshing Twitter.

The plane tracking stuff, sushi restaurant reservations getting checked, that was all fun, what pissed everyone off was the two accredited reporters basically confirming it all. 

I still think they're the front runners. They're going to have a deal structured that'll be close to 1 billion CDN that'll include some equity opportunities. If not, the fallout will be equally enjoyable.

Update: It was all bullshit. What a crazy day on Jays Twitter.

Del Zotto is gonna be able to go on one of these once a month.

I'm decking my 7 yo goalie out in all Brian's for Xmas. He's going to look like mini Shesterkin.

He's already worn through his Bauer starter pads, that stuff is garbage.

I'm dumb, but I had shit gear growing up. I probably have some issues around that.

Xmas is a great time to splurge on equipment a bit. You don't feel so bad.

It's not a joke. They've waited for almost 300(!) NHL games for him to show something, and now he's worth a 5th round draft pick, because Rangers.

Kappo Kakko

15 minutes ago, Sharpshooter said:

I felt like it was much sooner than that. Like, maybe even the first week or two of the season. You could tell the vibe was different. But yeah, this is definitely up there. I think they were trailing two or three different times in this shootout and came back every time. Fun.

Yeah, they had played well prior, but this was different. I finally felt confident swinging by big Rangers cock around after this. 

This was really the moment they put 8 years of utterly embarrassing futility to bed. 

I love Wedgewood. He's always fantastic when I watch him play.

He just looks like he threw the gear on 10 minutes prior to puck drop, too. No BS, no fruity headbands or silk gloves. Just goes out and stops the puck.

2 hours ago, Pete said:

There's a 50/50 chance he can't play with hitting. I was diagnosed with a heart defect (bicuspid aorta) when I was 40 and they told me I should never have been playing hockey and my kids should be checked for it. If he has it, he can't play certain sports. 

Gotta be a way they can check that out? When is hitting introduced in the US?

It's 95% of the towns social life for 6 months a year. Most of our parents crave it. It's all about the parents, after all.

I'm not much better. We put the GDP of Namibia in to my daughter's dance every year, and my youngest son is going to have to essentially prove to me he's not a junior B level goalie before I stop spending on him.

Long story short, we're very, very poor, and very busy.

1 minute ago, Pete said:

That's what I'm looking for. 

Yeah, me too. When I make this statement at board meetings everyone looks at me like I have two heads. Why would you sink thousands of dollars and tonnes of time in to a kid that just wants to go for a skate and score a goal once a year. I don't get it.

There's 37 teams in his division this year. 3 hour drive from tip to tip of the loop. Dumbest shit ever.

4 minutes ago, Pete said:

Will do.

 

I also am pretty sure I don't want him hitting either, so that'll be part of finding a rec situation as he gets older. 

I never considered this, but oldest was on the fringe for a rep spot and got absolutely destroyed in try outs.

I wish they'd bring hitting back to younger ages so they can get comfortable with it. It's pretty hard to pick up contact at age 15 and not get yourself in some awful situations.

My oldest is in "House League" and they have close to 5 hours/week of practice, skillz, and power skating.

Play a 32 game schedule plus a 12 to 20 game playoff and 3 tournaments.

There's no local league, anymore.

Almost invariably, these house league coaches never really played rep hockey growing up, so they think and treat it like rep. It's hyper competitive. I just laugh at it, typically.

When I was that age, house league kids played on Saturdays, for an hour, and never traveled more than 10 miles.

It's too bad they don't quite line up. Had things broke a little differently we could have had a potential Pete/Dunny proxy war on the ice.

We have 3 kids with AA/AAA spring hockey experience lined up with kids who are playing for the 1st time. It's a shitshow. We're very restricted to where we can play here, and the rules that govern this age are... bizarre, at best. 

What age is Mites? Are those '16's?

I was on a U8 bench an hour ago, and it's painful.

Surprised you don't need a loiscense for ice skates in the UK tbh

@Pete, how is it going?

I actually avoided this as I thought I knew what it was, and I don't like to consider stuff like this.

However, I saw it by accident, and first of all Petgrave should be charged with manslaughter. Absolutely reckless.

I very quickly went and purchased Kevlar Yashins for my two boys. Very disturbing stuff.

I really enjoy the macho side of hockey. I generally frown upon overbearing PPE, but I can't fathom why guys don't wear the Kevlar turtleneck. Goalies just completely forgo anything supplemental to the basic goalie mask. It's crazy.