2019-2020 NHL Season

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:56 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 8:49 pm They interviewed Ayers during the 2nd intermission.of today's caps-pens game. He was just getting off the ice from taking shots from leafs players at a practice session.

Not what I expected to see when I saw you were the last post here.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Feb 24, 2020 8:11 am

One of the sports days that makes me maddest each year. Should be a blast with Kreider likely heading out.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:16 pm

Two Things

1) What's an ebug ( I assume the e is for emergency)

2) So every team just has a dude at the arena that's ready to play for presumably either team?

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:29 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:16 pm Two Things

1) What's an ebug ( I assume the e is for emergency)

2) So every team just has a dude at the arena that's ready to play for presumably either team?

1. Emergency Backup Goaltender

2. Yes

[+] spoiler

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:33 pm

A_B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:16 pm Two Things

1) What's an ebug ( I assume the e is for emergency)

2) So every team just has a dude at the arena that's ready to play for presumably either team?

Yeah, got to Youtube and put in emergency goalie and you can find a few more of these scenarios.

A lot of these guys are used by the club (as part of a rotation of dudes) that serve as practice fodder. Either when the regulars are injured, but also just to have additional warm bodies to shoot on.

Particularly late in the season, they try to save goalies from just getting pummeled. Even back-ups that don't play a lot in actual games start to wear down starting in March or so.

Post by **brian** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:58 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:33 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:16 pm Two Things

1) What's an ebug ( I assume the e is for emergency)

2) So every team just has a dude at the arena that's ready to play for presumably either team?
Yeah, got to Youtube and put in emergency goalie and you can find a few more of these scenarios.

A lot of these guys are used by the club (as part of a rotation of dudes) that serve as practice fodder. Either when the regulars are injured, but also just to have additional warm bodies to shoot on.

Particularly late in the season, they try to save goalies from just getting pummeled. Even back-ups that don't play a lot in actual games start to wear down starting in March or so.

Vegas' usual emergency goalie is Mike McKenna, who works for the VGK broadcast team now, but was an NHL goalie for a decade until last year, so not the worst insurance policy in the world. And yeah, he'll often suit up in practice especially when they're giving Fleury off days.

Post by **brian** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 4:30 pm

These fucking turds are trying their hardest to walk back supporting Trump but fuck them with a rusty dildo.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:10 pm

I'm legit going to just ignore all of that, because I was 10 years old when those Olympics occurred and it's easily one of the happiest and one of the seminal moments of a not always that great childhood.

I'm not saying nothing can really ruin that, but I think these guys being conservative morons just isn't going to fuck with my memories of that couple of weeks. They were all lovable goofy kids at the time, and that's how I'll just leave them in my mind.

Not saying you shouldn't take a crack at them. Have at it. I just can't go there.

ETA - I certainly would've booed them if they'd shown up at a Caps game wearing MAGA hats. And I'll also certainly never do any adulating them at this point. Just to be clear.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:28 pm

brian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:58 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:33 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:16 pm Two Things

1) What's an ebug ( I assume the e is for emergency)

2) So every team just has a dude at the arena that's ready to play for presumably either team?
Yeah, got to Youtube and put in emergency goalie and you can find a few more of these scenarios.

A lot of these guys are used by the club (as part of a rotation of dudes) that serve as practice fodder. Either when the regulars are injured, but also just to have additional warm bodies to shoot on.

Particularly late in the season, they try to save goalies from just getting pummeled. Even back-ups that don't play a lot in actual games start to wear down starting in March or so.
Vegas' usual emergency goalie is Mike McKenna, who works for the VGK broadcast team now, but was an NHL goalie for a decade until last year, so not the worst insurance policy in the world. And yeah, he'll often suit up in practice especially when they're giving Fleury off days.

Getting close to needing a breakout thread here. (j/k)

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/02/2 ... G3pq9x76TQ

Interview with one of the Caps 4 EBUGs.

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:57 am

Seven straight for the VGK and next three games are at home against Buffalo, LA and New Jersey.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 9:37 am

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:28 pm
brian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:58 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:33 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:16 pm Two Things

1) What's an ebug ( I assume the e is for emergency)

2) So every team just has a dude at the arena that's ready to play for presumably either team?
Yeah, got to Youtube and put in emergency goalie and you can find a few more of these scenarios.

A lot of these guys are used by the club (as part of a rotation of dudes) that serve as practice fodder. Either when the regulars are injured, but also just to have additional warm bodies to shoot on.

Particularly late in the season, they try to save goalies from just getting pummeled. Even back-ups that don't play a lot in actual games start to wear down starting in March or so.
Vegas' usual emergency goalie is Mike McKenna, who works for the VGK broadcast team now, but was an NHL goalie for a decade until last year, so not the worst insurance policy in the world. And yeah, he'll often suit up in practice especially when they're giving Fleury off days.
Getting close to needing a breakout thread here. (j/k)

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/02/2 ... G3pq9x76TQ

Interview with one of the Caps 4 EBUGs.

As per usual, The Swamp is on the early shit...

https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-emergency- ... -315543060

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/bruins ... exactly-it

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 9:47 am

From that second article:

Let’s be honest here.

There was no clarion call to change the emergency goalie rules a couple of seasons ago when Foster did the job for Chicago. This is all coming up because the Toronto Maple Leafs were embarrassed by their 42-year-old Zamboni driver beating them with the visiting Hurricanes last weekend, and now there’s a call to change things so something like that doesn’t happen again in the center of the NHL universe in Toronto.

Toronto, man.

Post by **brian** » Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:12 pm

Bobby Ryan gets a hat trick in his first home game after rehab.

Post by **brian** » Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:50 pm

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:54 pm

The Rangers have 9 road wins in a row which is EIGHT MORE than Vegas has won in a row on the road and THREE TIMES MORE than Vegas' longest road winning streak this season. #teamrecords

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:01 pm

chuckling over here

Post by **brian** » Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:08 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:54 pm The Rangers have 9 road wins in a row which is EIGHT MORE than Vegas has won in a row on the road and THREE TIMES MORE than Vegas' longest road winning streak this season. #teamrecords

Keep it going. Three or four more and they might be in a playoff spot!

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:58 am

rass wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 2:00 pm
rass wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 1:48 pm Panicking after falling to second place.
Pens have given up 7 straight goals (plus the last two Tuesday) since that post...

dammit

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:31 am

This one is more for chedda and me.

Sarich, Conroy and Gelinas rewatch Game 7 of the 2004 Final.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:55 am

degenerasian wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:31 am This one is more for chedda and me.

Sarich, Conroy and Gelinas rewatch Game 7 of the 2004 Final.

Definitely reading that. Thanks.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 11:48 am

Amazing tweet:

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Mon Mar 02, 2020 11:49 am

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 11:48 am Amazing tweet:

yeah i watched most of that game yesterday and can't figure out why that lineup with that coach is so bad. That was their 7th straight home defeat.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:49 pm

Nice fucking game, Mika.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:50 pm

Just an unbelievable trade.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 10:04 pm

Panarin pass on the GW goal was great too.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 10:53 pm

IF NO ONE IS GOING TO DO IT FOR ME ...

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:04 pm Prediction: For as much as I looooooove Brassard, the Zibanejad trade is going to go down as a massive, massive steal.

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Mar 06, 2020 7:18 am

Pretty brutal self-own admitting that you love Brassard, but whatever.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:10 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 9:37 am
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:28 pm
brian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 2:58 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:33 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:16 pm Two Things

1) What's an ebug ( I assume the e is for emergency)

2) So every team just has a dude at the arena that's ready to play for presumably either team?
Yeah, got to Youtube and put in emergency goalie and you can find a few more of these scenarios.

A lot of these guys are used by the club (as part of a rotation of dudes) that serve as practice fodder. Either when the regulars are injured, but also just to have additional warm bodies to shoot on.

Particularly late in the season, they try to save goalies from just getting pummeled. Even back-ups that don't play a lot in actual games start to wear down starting in March or so.
Vegas' usual emergency goalie is Mike McKenna, who works for the VGK broadcast team now, but was an NHL goalie for a decade until last year, so not the worst insurance policy in the world. And yeah, he'll often suit up in practice especially when they're giving Fleury off days.
Getting close to needing a breakout thread here. (j/k)

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/02/2 ... G3pq9x76TQ

Interview with one of the Caps 4 EBUGs.
As per usual, The Swamp is on the early shit...
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-emergency- ... -315543060
https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/bruins ... exactly-it

Post by **brian** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:44 am

This does not bode well.

Post by **brian** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 11:34 am

This thread was on page 3. The playoffs should be starting next week. Fuckin' sucks.

Anyway, the Golden Knights had one of their rookies - Cody Glass - turn 21 today. The VGK twitter account posts the lineups for each game two hours before using emojis based on the players names or nicknames so they've update the emoji for Cody as of today.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 11:21 am

I own hats of four different NHL teams I realized today when cleaning up my closet.

Post by **brian** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:16 pm

Dudes, this is on page three.

Anyway, I learned something crazy today. Pete DeBoer was the coach of the OHL Plymouth Whalers back in the late 90s when I used to occasionally go to games at the Compuware Arena (I lived about four or five miles away, but obviously didn't pay too much attention to who was coaching the team).

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed May 06, 2020 9:16 pm

So guessing Leipsic won't be a cap for too much longer
https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2 ... roup-chat/

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu May 07, 2020 8:40 pm

I received a surprising but welcome email from the Sharks' organization today. Despite the fact that the NHL has not yet officially cancelled the 2019-2020 season, the Sharks have apparently assumed it is fait accompli, and offered to refund or apply the ticket money for the five home games that remained when the season was suspended.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri May 08, 2020 10:14 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 9:16 pm So guessing Leipsic won't be a cap for too much longer
https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2 ... roup-chat/

Waived today. He's clearly a dickhead and the stuff about teammates probably made keeping him untenable, but if that chat was all friends, its a pretty rough break.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri May 08, 2020 10:25 am

mister d wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 10:14 am
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Wed May 06, 2020 9:16 pm So guessing Leipsic won't be a cap for too much longer
https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2 ... roup-chat/
Waived today. He's clearly a dickhead and the stuff about teammates probably made keeping him untenable, but if that chat was all friends, its a pretty rough break.

His brother (who is on that thread) got kicked off his college team (University of Manitoba Bisons) for this.

Post by **brian** » Fri May 08, 2020 12:57 pm

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Fri May 22, 2020 9:23 pm

Sounds like the NHL has approved a 24-team playoff format.

The top four teams in each conference will play a 3 game round robin tournament to determine seeding (and to get them in shape)
5 thru 12 will play best of 5s to get into the normal 16 team playoff.

Post by **brian** » Tue May 26, 2020 3:57 pm

2019-20 Pacific Division Champions!

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Tue May 26, 2020 3:58 pm

Format is official now.