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    The Flyers got shellacked by the Islanders.


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    I might have to root for Barry this year, should Boston fail

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    No such luck for Boston last night, close game that ended in a scramble in front of Boston's net and somehow the puck went in. there were a couple last night that were sketchy like that.

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    Did the Bruins have a goalie in net last night?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Did the Bruins have a goalie in net last night?
    its rare to see all 4 wheels come off a vehicle at once

    hell of a way to get tossed into the fire for an nhl debut, poor kid those penalties added up, big time

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    Oh fuck off. "We're trying to do the right thing [by not doing our jobs] in protest of racial injustice."

    I'm tired of this horseshit. I'm done with all professional sports. Fuck them all.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    Oh fuck off. "We're trying to do the right thing [by not doing our jobs] in protest of racial injustice."

    I'm tired of this horseshit. I'm done with all professional sports. Fuck them all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    Oh fuck off. "We're trying to do the right thing [by not doing our jobs] in protest of racial injustice."

    I'm tired of this horseshit. I'm done with all professional sports. Fuck them all.
    are you seriously telling me the NHL paused their fucking playoffs for a larp A SECOND TIME

    unreal. fuck "professional" sports.
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    And the Bruins are done.

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    dont care no mo...I will always love hockey but fuck the nhl, it will be a long time before I ever watch another game, if ever

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    Late to the party but ya that NHL stoppage for 2 days was wack. I'm just not sure what it accomplished.

    There's now this demand to have more black executives in the NHL by a certain year which seems insane to me. How can you expect that when the league has maybe 4-5 black and non-white guys at any time?

    Hockey definitely has too many stories of racist comments from minorities which I hate. I saw it first hand growing up with an Indian friend. There can be no tolerance for that on the ice... but the fact is it's a very privileged sport to play. The initial cost of buying gear when I got back into it a few years back was over $1000 and I pay $700+ a year in league fees just for shitty beer league. If you're a kid and need new gear every year, league fees, camps, trainers... I'm sure it costs tens or even hundreds of thousands to get to the NHL if you add it all up (plus you probably need a stay at home parent). If they want more diverse executives, something would have to be done at the grassroots level to make it affordable first and foremost I believe. How does one do that when sticks and skates cost $200+ each? No clue.

    And even then, hockey players mostly come from small, white rural towns in Canada, Europe and US states that all start with M for some reason (Minnesota, Michigan...)

    Can you just mandate a sport to be black when the people interested in it are mostly white Canadian and European communities? I'm trying to be nice here but I dono what else to say about it. It's unreasonable at best...
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    Tampa wins the cup! They were dominant. Didn't play a single game 7 or lose back-to-back games once. Sucks Stamkos was hurt but great to see him lift the cup.

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    Meh...it sucks but all the virtue signaling done by all the sports leagues and athletes has completely put me off sports. For now at least. 3 weeks into the football season and I haven't even watched 1 second of any game this year.

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    I read that in shoresy's voice, lol

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    Sad Mike 'Doc' Emrick retires after calling 3,750 hockey games

    By Mark J. Burns - LA Biz




    Mike “Doc” Emrick’s road to professional hockey and becoming arguably the sport’s best play-by-play caller began with the Port Huron Flags of the now-defunct International Hockey League. Forty-seven years ago this month, Emrick now recalls Flags left winger Dale Dolmage scoring a game-winner on a slap shot from the left circle to give Port Huron a 6-5 victory at the Toledo Hornets.

    “Even though it was a 250-watt nighttime station in Port Huron, Mich., you just think that 50 million people are listening to this station and thinking about everything you’re saying. You wanted to do the best job possible,” said Emrick, 74, who made $160 a week in his first pro announcing gig during the 1973-74 season.

    After more than 3,750 pro and Olympic hockey games, 45 NHL Game 7s, 22 Stanley Cup Finals and many more accolades later, Emrick is now retiring as the main play-by-play voice behind the NHL on NBC.

    Famously known as “Doc” because of his Ph.D. in broadcast communications from Bowling Green State University in 1976, Emrick for years would sit in the corners of ice rinks, call games on a portable recorder and send them into prospective employers, but to no avail. Ironically, for a position calling BGSU games for campus radio station WBGU-FM, director Terry Gottschalk didn’t require a tape. Still, the games logged by Emrick from 1971-73 while on campus working on his doctorate opened the door to Port Huron.

    Emrick, who would have been a teacher had it not been for hockey, said he’ll miss sitting alongside players in the dressing room and across from coaches in their office and learning not only more about the sport but their lives, and then serving as a conduit between them and the fans.

    Fifty years after serving as a freelance reporter for the Beaver County Times covering the Pittsburgh Penguins, the time was right to retire, Emrick said. The coronavirus pandemic contributed to the decision, but according to Emrick, “it wasn’t everything.”

    He and his wife Joyce, who are both animal enthusiasts, will remain committed to local animal causes around their home in St. Clair, Mich. One hundred percent of Emrick’s split from his newly released book, “Off Mike,” with former USA Today hockey scribe Kevin Allen, will go toward supporting various initiatives, including paying for veterinary bills for those who cannot afford them otherwise.

    “We’re here in the autumn of our lives,” Emrick said last week, a day after he announced his retirement. “How about we just take time out now for ourselves and our creatures? That’s what is important to us.”

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