2024-25 NHL Thread

[herman]

Iginla, Olczyk appointed to Hockey Hall of Fame committee | NHL.com

Kraken GM Francis to become Chair of Selection Committee next June

www.nhl.com

Lanny McDonald, Chair of the Board of the Hockey Hall of Fame, announced today new appointments to the Hockey Hall of Fame Selection Committee as confirmed at the Directors’ meeting held yesterday in Toronto.

Jarome Iginla and Ed Olczyk will join the Selection Committee commencing with the 2025 nomination and election proceedings (replacing David Branch and Mike Gartner, each having served their full-term limit of 15 years). McDonald also announced that Ron Francis will become Chair of the Selection Committee, taking over from Gartner who will transition to Chair of the Board in June 2025.

So I can only assume one of Branch or Gartner was the hold up for Mogilny's induction lol

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Man I'm kind of shocked he made it in over Carey Price, especially after all these years of snubs to what I'd consider lesser selections. Good for him though. Long overdue.

 

[Guilt Trip]

Man I'm kind of shocked he made it in over Carey Price, especially after all these years of snubs to what I'd consider lesser selections. Good for him though. Long overdue.

Price is still under contract for next season and maybe that's the reason he didn't go in this year.

 

[Joe S.]

Price is still under contract for next season and maybe that's the reason he didn't go in this year.

Yeah don’t you have to be 5 years post retirement to be eligible? Or is that a baseball thing?

 

[Guru Tugginmypuddah]

Yeah don’t you have to be 5 years post retirement to be eligible? Or is that a baseball thing?

NHL I thought three years before eligibility.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Price is still under contract for next season and maybe that's the reason he didn't go in this year.

He was declared eligible, HHOF doesn't care about the contract stuff.

 

[bustaheims]

Yeah don’t you have to be 5 years post retirement to be eligible? Or is that a baseball thing?

HHOF only cares about when your career ended, not when your contract did

 

[dappleganger]

It is wild to me that so many teams are dumping contracts for nothing when there are no free agents to sign this year.

 

[bustaheims]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938750311977394280

This is going to complicate things. Leave it to the NHL to make things that fans enjoy less likely to happen.

 

[Deebo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1938750311977394280

This is going to complicate things. Leave it to the NHL to make things that fans enjoy less likely to happen.

I don't understand the point of these restrictions.

What a stupid league.

 

[Guru Tugginmypuddah]

The league is comprised of 32 equal partners. They vote for this crap.

 

[bustaheims]

The league is comprised of 32 equal partners. They vote for this crap.

The players have a hand in this, too. Who knows, they might have even been the ones to put this forward. Maybe going from getting paid in full by one team to being split between three wasn’t well liked.

Either way, it’s the fans that lose.