2025-2026 NHL Offseason

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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,913
    Jason P wrote:
    Rygar wrote:
    Fuck 'em. I'm not watching half a season of hockey even if they do come back now.
    i will

    :oops:


    I will be watching too. Prob go to a bunch of games as well. 3 of my friends have season tickets to the Hawks so I always have opportunities to go.

    The thing is that the hardcore hockey fans will come back. It's the casual fans that won't be coming back. That's the thing that they don't seem to understand. Sure, the owners may get a system that is more beneficial to them. But the same teams that were struggling are going to be struggling even more if they even get this nonsense worked out.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Indifference71 wrote:
    Jason P wrote:
    Rygar wrote:
    Fuck 'em. I'm not watching half a season of hockey even if they do come back now.
    i will

    :oops:


    I will be watching too. Prob go to a bunch of games as well. 3 of my friends have season tickets to the Hawks so I always have opportunities to go.

    The thing is that the hardcore hockey fans will come back. It's the casual fans that won't be coming back. That's the thing that they don't seem to understand. Sure, the owners may get a system that is more beneficial to them. But the same teams that were struggling are going to be struggling even more if they even get this nonsense worked out.
    I am not a casual fan, fyi.
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,913
    Rygar wrote:
    I am not a casual fan, fyi.

    So you think you'll really be done? Not questioning you or anything, but I've said that I'm done to myself a lot but I know once it comes back it will be too hard not to watch.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Indifference71 wrote:
    Rygar wrote:
    I am not a casual fan, fyi.

    So you think you'll really be done? Not questioning you or anything, but I've said that I'm done to myself a lot but I know once it comes back it will be too hard not to watch.
    Not done with hockey, but I feel too pissed off about it to think I'll bother with them for half a season.
    Sigh...
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,913
    Rygar wrote:
    Indifference71 wrote:
    Rygar wrote:
    I am not a casual fan, fyi.

    So you think you'll really be done? Not questioning you or anything, but I've said that I'm done to myself a lot but I know once it comes back it will be too hard not to watch.
    Not done with hockey, but I feel too pissed off about it to think I'll bother with them for half a season.
    Sigh...

    I know man. This whole thing just sucks. It's so sad that it has come to this.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Indifference71 wrote:

    I know man. This whole thing just sucks. It's so sad that it has come to this.
    3 for Bettman, can't say it wasn't predictable I guess!
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,913
    Rygar wrote:
    Indifference71 wrote:

    I know man. This whole thing just sucks. It's so sad that it has come to this.
    3 for Bettman, can't say it wasn't predictable I guess!


    Is there any way Bettman stays commissioner after this? Not saying this is all his fault, but how can you keep a guy who has had 3 lockouts under his watch including a full season lost. :fp:
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Indifference71 wrote:


    Is there any way Bettman stays commissioner after this? Not saying this is all his fault, but how can you keep a guy who has had 3 lockouts under his watch including a full season lost. :fp:
    Hard to say I guess. The owners have got to love him.
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  • IgotshitID
    IgotshitID St.john's Newfoundland Posts: 895
    I have offically stopped careing, GO JAYS GO!!!!!!!
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    Rygar wrote:
    Not done with hockey, but I feel too pissed off about it to think I'll bother with them for half a season.
    Sigh...

    agreed. and i think the league would lose more fans if they come back midseason than if they were going to cancel the entire season (if that makes any sense).

    a lot of angry hockey fans right now. if they start up in the middle of january, a lot of people won't watch out of sheer anger. cancel the entire season, make good things happen over the spring/summer, FIX the sport, MARKET wisely and more people will tune in come october than they would if they start up in january.

    if that doesn't work, release bettman's address and phone number to the public and watch the fireworks!
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,856
    Looks like the Niagara Icedogs have 3 players selected to team Canada: Strome (NYI), Ritchie (DAL), and Hamilton (BOS)
  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
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  • drivingrl
    drivingrl Posts: 1,448
    Ever since the horrible shooting in Connecticut, I haven't really been paying attention to NHL news. But it seems from what's on Twitter that they've found something else to disagree on?

    Can we just call this season dead already?
    drivingrl: "Will I ever get to meet Gwen Stefani?"
    kevinbeetle: "Yes. When her career washes up and her and Gavin move to Galveston, you will meet her at Hot Topic shopping for a Japanese cheerleader outfit.

    Next!"
  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    Will the union go away?


    http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/87498 ... ources-say
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012 ... e-bowling/

    Babcock on lockout: “We could end up like bowling”
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,856
    basically, the players are having a 5 day vote, to give their executive board the go ahead to vote on claiming disinterest. Which in essense is a quicker and less binding way of dissolving the union.

    The NHL side files a pre-emptive suit that says the players are still a union and acting as a union. So any acts of dissolving the Union are nothing but a negotiating tactic between the Union and NHL, thus making the lockout legal. They used numerous documented statements by players throwing decertification out there as a threat long ago.

    Everything I read seems to say that the NHL will absolutely have the right-of way, but if it goes to the Courts, goodbye season.
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,913
    MayDay10 wrote:
    basically, the players are having a 5 day vote, to give their executive board the go ahead to vote on claiming disinterest. Which in essense is a quicker and less binding way of dissolving the union.

    The NHL side files a pre-emptive suit that says the players are still a union and acting as a union. So any acts of dissolving the Union are nothing but a negotiating tactic between the Union and NHL, thus making the lockout legal. They used numerous documented statements by players throwing decertification out there as a threat long ago.

    Everything I read seems to say that the NHL will absolutely have the right-of way, but if it goes to the Courts, goodbye season.


    All this nonsense. From what I have read, seems like Fehr just wants to wait for a drop dead date and then they will get a deal done. What a fucking joke.
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    everyone knows there's a deal out there ... it's a 9 year term with mutual opt out at 7 and 6 year max on contract length with 2 for own player ...

    it's the owners who aren't budging ... the ball has been in the owners court all along and it'll ultimately be them who decides if they want to cancel a season or not ... they thought they could break this union ... they can't ... say what you will about fehr but he will absolutely get them the best deal possible ... right now we have a handful of owners holding it all up ...
  • drivingrl
    drivingrl Posts: 1,448
    This makes me so happy:

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/if-you-love-hockey-watch-this-commercial
    drivingrl: "Will I ever get to meet Gwen Stefani?"
    kevinbeetle: "Yes. When her career washes up and her and Gavin move to Galveston, you will meet her at Hot Topic shopping for a Japanese cheerleader outfit.

    Next!"
  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    another bullshit post from NBC sports today on facebook.

    There will be a season, blah blah blah.

    how many times have we heard this since october?
    I wish i had a nickel for everytime.

    starting to look bleaker and bleaker for hockey this season,........
    maybe there will be next season.
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