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2018-2019 NHL Thread

https://twitter.com/NYIslanders/status/1047875432098480128

Has any team lost their captain to free agency two seasons in a row before?
 
CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/NYIslanders/status/1047875432098480128

Has any team lost their captain to free agency two seasons in a row before?
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He should resign now with NYI, will he ever get near 40 again without TavFARes?
 
CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/NBCSCapitals/status/1047673063805001728

Marchand threw about 3-4 punches here before Eller even dropped his gloves. All because he celebrated a goal.
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I do appreciate some self-policing in the game. 7-0 celebration was in bad form.
 
Sure everyone is "Nylander not signed", "when's Nylander going to sign?" but who cries for Nick Ritchie?
 
OldTimeHockey said:
I get that a union is supposed to support their members but how do they justify appealing Wilson's suspension?
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I'm pretty sure it's solely Wilson's decision whether or not to appeal the suspension. The NHLPA is just the mechanism through which he does it.
 
Nik the Trik said:
OldTimeHockey said:
I get that a union is supposed to support their members but how do they justify appealing Wilson's suspension?
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I'm pretty sure it's solely Wilson's decision whether or not to appeal the suspension. The NHLPA is just the mechanism through which he does it.
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Yup I'd assume you're correct. It's just mind boggling that NHL players are asking for support to keep their noggins safe then a player like Wilson has the balls to appeal a clear attempt to decapitate a player.
 
OldTimeHockey said:
Yup I'd assume you're correct. It's just mind boggling that NHL players are asking for support to keep their noggins safe then a player like Wilson has the balls to appeal a clear attempt to decapitate a player.
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Yeah, well, the problem with the system as it currently works is that the guys most likely to get suspended are the guys with bad enough senses of right and wrong to then object to their suspensions.
 
Ken Campbell's fawning profile ofWilson in the current print edition of The Hockey News is pretty embarrassing. On and on  he goes about how Wilson respects the game, the DOPS, never intends to injure, doesn't want to watch from the stands blah blah blah. He ought to issue a formal retraction.
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Ken Campbell's fawning profile ofWilson in the current print edition of The Hockey News is pretty embarrassing. On and on  he goes about how Wilson respects the game, the DOPS, never intends to injure, doesn't want to watch from the stands blah blah blah. He ought to issue a formal retraction.
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... Tom Wilson?
 
CarltonTheBear said:
https://twitter.com/penguins/status/1049684366262177792

Man, this is like his 3rd or 4th concussion.
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Get your money while you can, I guess.
 
Carolina, Toronto, and San Jose have all played 4 games so far... Edmonton, New Jersey, Tampa, and Florida have only played ONE. At least in the case of Edmonton and New Jersey it's because they played their opener over in Sweden, but I don't get Tampa and Florida here. They both opened the season on the 6th (against each other) and don't play their 2nd game until tomorrow. Since the NHL season technically kicked off on the 3rd that means they'll have played just 1 game in the first 8 days of the season. Weird.
 
https://twitter.com/CapFriendly/status/1050153963939598336

If literally every single team with a suspended player doesn't do this now then they're dumb.

The NHL! Where the rules matter! Sometimes! Sorta.
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/CapFriendly/status/1050161944949387264
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Interesting. Per that thread apparently Schmidt is also in the same boat during his suspension. Which still doesn't make sense... but at least they're consistent.

I definitely recall cases where teams didn't have room to call up players because of a small suspension though... so I don't get why the NHL will seemingly only allow this for the worst perpetrators. Suspensions SHOULD be hurting the team as much as the player.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
herman said:
https://twitter.com/CapFriendly/status/1050161944949387264
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Interesting. Per that thread apparently Schmidt is also in the same boat during his suspension. Which still doesn't make sense... but at least they're consistent.

I definitely recall cases where teams didn't have room to call up players because of a small suspension though... so I don't get why the NHL will seemingly only allow this for the worst perpetrators. Suspensions SHOULD be hurting the team as much as the player.
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I don't disagree. Maybe those other cases were teams following the letter of the law, rather than pushing the boundaries of the law. It's not as if the teams are inculpable to the suspension-worthy offenses (in Schmidt's case, maybe... as it's not the team systemically juicing its players).
 
herman said:
It's not as if the teams are inculpable to the suspension-worthy offenses (in Schmidt's case, maybe... as it's not the team systemically juicing its players).
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Even in Schmidt's case... his defence was that he never took anything that wasn't given to him by his team.
 
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