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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
Because there aren't already enough advertisements at sporting events, we need the jerseys of the athletes to look like the suit that NASCAR drivers wear.
I hate this. I get it, the NHL doesn't make nearly the money the other leagues do, but it's going to look bush league now.
Hope they keep it to just one or two decals max... I certainly won't be buying a jersey with fucking ads on it.
Oh man Jimmy Hayes died today, that's awful, only 31 years old with a wife and two kids. His brother Kevin is the bigger star but Jimmy was always on hockey podcasts and absolutely hilarious, well loved guy. That's way too young.
https://chinasportsinsider.com/2021/...key-expulsion/
Call me sick, but I sort of want to see it happen anyways just for shits.
In news that has not previously been reported, China Sports Insider can exclusively reveal that the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has threatened to kick the Chinese team out of its own Olympic ice hockey tournament on home soil in Beijing if China doesn’t get its act together quickly, according to multiple sources. Furthermore, the situation is so dire that the IIHF has offered to waive its own eligibility requirements to allow China to bolster its own team through foreign-born recruits.
Simply put, it was too much, too soon. China has some promising young players, and has made great strides in terms of participation at the youth levels, but the most competitive age groups were always going to be far too young to compete at the senior level by 2022.
When the men’s draw was made in April 2020, China, as the lowest-ranked 12th seed, was placed in a group with Canada (#1), USA (#6) and Germany (#7). Germany might sound beatable to outsiders, but they won the silver medal in Pyeongchang four years ago, when NHL players didn’t take part. Then, last summer, as part of the NHL’s negotiations to “Return To Play” following the COVID-enforced break, the NHL provisionally signed off on allowing its players to take part at Beijing 2022. Those details still need to be finalized between the IOC, the IIHF and the NHL, but things are moving in the right direction and it appears as if the absolute best players in the world from Canada and the US will be lining up against Team China. (I’ll deal with the women’s team later.)
I cannot stress enough quite how disastrous this could be for China if Connor McDavid and his merry band of NHL All-Stars face the current Chinese Olympic ice hockey squad, which is currently training up in Shenyang. One hockey executive spoke of an impending “slaughter”. A coach who has first-hand experience with the Chinese squad told me he thought the scores against Canada and the US could be in the region of 100-0.
DemonGeminiX (08-31-2021), Teh One Who Knocks (08-31-2021)
I wanna see 100-0 scores
Seriously!
It would be interesting. You just can't build an Olympic hockey team from scratch unless you start growing the sport 20+ years out. Maybe with some sports you could do it quicker, but hockey is so niche and difficult you basically need to be born with skates on to make it. It's almost unheard of for someone to make the NHL who started playing hockey older than 8 years old. Owen Nolan started at 9 and Ed Jovonoski at 11 which is considered remarkable.
Could you imagine player's line from the game?
Connor McDavid - 24G 18A 42 Pts +55
NHL players are going to be allowed to play in the upcoming Winter Olympics.
Godfather (09-06-2021)
Buffalo stripped Jack Eichel of his captaincy after failing his physical. That organization might be the worst pro sports organization in North America right now. I'm not saying it's 100% their fault but if you look at their record and the careers that have gone to Buffalo to die the last few year, I tend to side with Eichel whatever the issue is from his camp (mainly not getting the trade he's been asking for for a while now).
Teh One Who Knocks (09-24-2021)
Anyone watched this Netflix show Untold: Crime & Penalties?
Documentary about a mafia boss who bought his absolute douchebag 17 year old son a semi-pro hockey team and let him be the GM, so he stacked the roster with complete goons. Great documentary, unreal true story.
Teh One Who Knocks (10-04-2021)
He has his own line of pasta
Godfather (10-10-2021)