2016-17 NHL Season: Happy 100th Birthday, National Hockey League

[Kramerica Industries]

Seeing what so many other of the expected contenders are doing so far this season, and seeing how teams like Toronto that are teeming with young talent are doing, and then seeing what the effect of Jon Cooper's utterly  -tastic coaching has done to the Lightning seriously bums me out.

[The_Admiral]

14 hours ago, Kramerica Industries said:

Lambert and Lozo are two writers who clearly think they are much funnier and entertaining than they actually are. Which just makes their stuff even more cringe-worthy than it already is otherwise.

 

As I've said before, Lambert somehow marries the worst of lukewarm social justice/bougie-feminism with data absolutism, which shouldn't even be possible given that true commitment to the former means prioritizing "lived experience" over empirical data, and vice versa. (Bougie-fems: the John Tortorellas of the humanities.) Oh, your charts say Andrew Shaw is the worst person who ever lived? I think he was very good for the Blackhawks, and that's my lived experience.

 

Also, he won't even type the word "Blackhawks" because he thinks it's hate speech. I bet he owns a "Male Tears" coffee mug.

[The_Admiral]

http://www.hockeyfights.com/leaders/teams/

How in the world has Anaheim had 23 fights in 32 games? Is it 2004 there?

[2001mark]

19 hours ago, the admiral said:

http://www.hockeyfights.com/leaders/teams/

How in the world has Anaheim had 23 fights in 32 games? Is it 2004 there?

[Sport]

[The Six]

A triumphant return for Randy to Toronno tonight! MLSE can't be happy.

[2001mark]

1 minute ago, The Six said:

A triumphant return for Randy to Toronno tonight! MLSE can't be happy.

Leafs since game 1 this season have more points from rookies than the past 3 seasons combined.  

 

Trust me, MLSE are quite happy.

[crashcarson15]

[HedleyLamarr]

This is why Tortorella keeps getting gigs.

[Sport]

9 minutes ago, crashcarson15 said:

 

 

in all this discussion about "luck", they probably got lucky in that one, but who cares? 10 straight wins!

[Sodboy13]

McIlhenny stood on his head amd the team got outshot start-to-finish, but you gotta have a couple lucky ones sprinkled in if you're gonna run 10 straight in the bonkers NHL paritypalooza.

 

The Beej will still probably land like a wet fart at a funeral come playoff time, but man, it's great to not have Columbus be America's Hockey Sadness Capital.

[Sport]

They keep saying "they'll regress to the mean" and I keep saying we've had luck for 15 goddamn years. We are progressing to the mean!

[BeerGuyJordan]

So there is an entire generation of hockey fans, in Columbus, who have no idea what it's like to see their team win a playoff series.

 

Meanwhile, in nearby Detroit, an entire generation who have never experienced missing the playoffs.

 

And there's a real chance that both groups will have their reality turned on its head. Interesting days.

[The_Admiral]

Dave Lozo is getting the vapors again. This time he doesn't think guys should fight after their teammates get wrecked on big hits. As it happens, this is actually the only time you should fight a guy, not in the middle of some boring game where nothing is happening and you think punching someone/getting punched in the head will motivate people. 

 

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I've tried to imagine being in the position of a player that is the victim of a headshot or a hit from behind that leaves me spitting teeth on the ice. Maybe this is one of the dozen reasons I am not a professional hockey player, but I'd get way more satisfaction out of watching my teammates score on the ensuing power play while a doctor is stitching my lip back to my face than trying to fight the guy who hit me.

 

Yes, all that matters to hockey players is power-play time. This is why the Carolina Hurricanes have won the Stanley Cup for ten years in a row.

[Sport]

Nobody hates the sport they cover more than Dave Lozo hates hockey. Sorry your job is watching and writing about hockey, you joyless goon. I do that everyday and don't get paid for it. 

[Brass]

Article is called "Sticking Up for Teammates in Hockey is Stupid."

 

If Dave Lozo was on my team, I'd give him the same type of pass that Niko Dimitrakos gave to R.J. Umberger.

[The_Admiral]

I feel like the antecedent of all contemporary hockey writing is contempt for the working class. You're all free to disprove me, go.

[Brass]

Wow, let's breakdown more of Dave Lozo's "articles."

 

"The Rangers Benching of Henrik Lundqvist is Weird, and Risky" - IS IT? Could have fooled me! Whoever would have thought it would be "risky" to sit a consistent Vezina Trophy candidate.

 

"The Toronto Maple Leafs Will Make the Playoffs... Maybe" - Fantastic insight.

 

"Covering Sports in the Age of Trump" - Politics for politics sake. Yuck.

 

"USA Hockey is on Life Support" - Because they built a team of grinders instead of good players for the World Cup? Yuck, again.

 

"NHL Rule Changes That Would Make Hockey Great Again" - Oh for Christ's sake, when did HFBoards comments become newsworthy articles?

 

Dave Lozo is a boob.

[The_Admiral]

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"USA Hockey is on Life Support"

1) it isn't

2) Because of the World Cup? Who cares about the World Cup? I don't know how certain American hockey fans got so wrapped up in the flag when it comes to national-team hockey, I don't know whether it's bleedover from soccer fandom, but few things in this world matter less than the USA versus Canada in hockey. Much like how Gretzky was the fastest player to 1,000 and then the second-fastest to 1,000 based on his next thousand points, Canada could field two teams and both would beat the United States. In fact, they half-did this in the World Cup. It's their game, not ours, that's just the way it is.

3) Really, if any national program is in danger of being put on life support, it's Canada's, where there seems to be little/no interest in making an increasingly cost-prohibitive sport more accessible to those who can't afford it in a country with high immigration and a stagnating economy. Moreover, those who can afford it are being overcoached into oblivion because winning for the sake of winning has been allowed to supersede development, precisely so that Team Canada can run up the score on everyone else in international play. 

4) it isn't

[The_Admiral]

Lou Lamoriello go to jail

 

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl-team-wrongfully-withheld-documents-in-brain-injury-case-1.636989

 

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Fourteen years after he played his final NHL game, one-time Devils enforcer Mike Peluso filed a workers’ compensation claim in San Francisco in 2012.

Three of the teams he played for during his career — the Devils, St. Louis Blues and Calgary Flames — and their insurance companies are listed as defendants in the proceedings.

Each defendant was given a month from the date of Peluso’s filing to give his lawyer all of his medical documents.

But in a Nov. 15 decision obtained by TSN, California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board commissioner Marguerite Sweeney ruled that the Devils “wrongfully withheld” two documents that Peluso’s legal team says are crucial to his case.

One document is a Dec. 18, 1993, medical report confirming Peluso suffered a concussion after hitting his head on the ice during a fight. The second document is Feb. 21, 1994, report from a neurologist warning the Devils that Peluso could have further seizures if he suffered more head trauma.

Those reports surfaced in May 2016 and have been referenced by medical experts who testify Peluso is permanently disabled. The Devils said those reports should not be allowed into evidence because they weren’t filed within the appropriate period.

“These documents were responsive to valid discovery requests… but were inexplicably not produced by defendant New Jersey Devils,” Sweeney wrote in her decision. “Due to defendant New Jersey Devils’ dereliction of its discovery obligations, these documents clearly ‘were not available’ to applicant prior to the close of discovery.”

A Devils spokesman declined to comment on the ruling. The franchise is under different ownership since Peluso first filed the claim.
On Dec. 18, 1993, Peluso, then 28, fought Quebec Nordiques player Tony Twist during a game at Le Colisee in Quebec City. Peluso hit his head on the ice and was knocked unconscious. A doctor’s report from that night concluded he had a concussion.

Days after his injury, Peluso returned to the Devils’ rink for the team’s Dec. 23, 1993, game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Devils’ head coach allegedly told Peluso the Leafs had six “linebackers” and Peluso was needed to protect skilled players.

 

“During that game, [Peluso] was hit in the head by opposing player Ken Baumgartner and sustained further head injury,” Peluso’s lawyer argued in a July 13, 2016, court filing.

Two months later, on Feb. 14, 1994, Peluso collapsed while working out on a treadmill at a Florida hotel.

Four days later, on Feb. 18, Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello told The New York Times that Peluso’s seizure “was primarily due to dehydration and lack of nutrition.” The Times also reported the Devils were concerned Peluso’s seizure could be related to his Dec. 18 concussion.

Peluso was sent to see neurologist Marvin Ruderman. In his Feb. 21 report sent to Lamoriello, the team’s trainer and doctor, Ruderman wrote: “[Peluso] likely experienced a major motor seizure on 2/14/94, which I believe is most likely related to a post-traumatic seizure as a consequence of the cerebral concussion in December 1993. I do not believe this was related to dehydration…I do not believe that the participation in playing hockey in itself poses an excessive risk for the development of further seizures unless he were to sustain head injuries.”

On May 12, 2016, a lawyer representing former NHL players who are suing the league over its approach to concussions, provided Peluso’s lawyers with the medical report from Dec. 18, 1993, and the neurologist report from Feb. 21, 1994.

The only explanation the Devils have offered is that the Dec. 18 medical report must have been stuck to one of the records and their lawyer must have missed it as a result, said Shawn Stuckey, Peluso’s lawyer. He said the Devils have provided no explanation for the undisclosed Feb. 21 neurological report.

In a court filing, Stuckey also wrote that the Devils team trainer gave Peluso the anti-seizure medication Tegretol after his Feb. 14 seizure. No documents regarding the handout of that medicine were produced by the Devils, Stuckey wrote.

Peluso was one of the toughest enforcers in NHL history. He had 240 fights in the NHL and 105 of those occurred after the Feb. 21, 1994, warning from the neurologist.

“The defendants knew that the probable consequences of requiring that [Peluso] go back out on the ice and perform his job as an enforcer would involve serious injury to its employee,” Stuckey wrote in a court filing. “The neurologist sent his report to the NJ Devils, its general manager Lou Lamoriello, team doctor Barry Fisher, team orthopaedic surgeon Leonard Jaffe, and warned them explicitly that the only way [Peluso] could avoid long term neurological damage, and a chronic seizure disorder was if he did NOT sustain any more hits to the head.”
Stuckey wrote that Peluso was not copied on the communication.

“Not only did the [Devils] not prevent applicant from sustaining additional head injuries, but [Peluso] went on to have 120 documented bare-knuckled fist fights over the next five years of his career. [Peluso] has since had nine additional grand mal seizures.”

Peluso has spent as much as $75,000 on medical bills for seeing a neurologist and for anti-seizure medication, according to court documents. He allegedly has permanent damage to the right side of his brain, “has dementia at the young age of 50, and struggles daily with depression, anxiety, memory loss, and the constant threat of seizures from a constant seizure disorder.”