Good morning, boneheads!
I would say yes, it’s time to play hockey. You know It when you see the Athletic posting articles like this. Fortnite? Realy?
Meantime, it looks like we are getting closer. A couple of articles from the Post describing what it may look like, click here and here. The decision may be made as early as today.
UPDATE: Click here to read Carp’s new article.
93 responses to “Time to play hockey?”
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Brady is over rated.
The Scottsdales will find the tallest nearby building if Icelanders win a cup this year.
Watched a documentary last night about Dr. Jonas Salk and his work with Polio. I had always thought that was Ralph Lauren.
They open up, the NHL will have to hire barf boys with shovels to clear the ice of vomit.
Yeah ok. All those teams in the East were within 3 pts with at least 12 games left. Stop crying.
No beach for you CCCP
No swimming, but OK to surfboard. Just bring a two-dollar styrofoam board.
Martinook wants no part of playing the Rangers. Carolina’s record against the Rangers is terrible and the Rangers would have been out. I do think that Montreal and Chicago being in are both huge reaches. That appears to be a revenue decision. I would have been fine with 20 teams or just 16 and the Rangers in the lottery. But the NHL and the players need as much hockey related revenue as possible given what they have lost, and will continue to lose with no fans in attendance.
Is there a more overrated NHLer than Carey Price?
Leprous New Yorkers. What’s next? They gonna start burning us at the stake?
Well, I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for Lundqvist or Shesterkin, then you ain’t bla, er, I mean, the Rangers fan.
Rob
P. K. Subban?
Lets go Lets go Lets go Let go!!!
GO RANGERS!!!
best post in months! lets play hockey
‘Summertime, and the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’
And Oxycontin is high…’
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/sharks/how-hypothetical-sharks-alexandar-georgiev-trade-would-fill-huge-need Here we go. If there are no compliance buyouts granted due to the lower cap, I would do this. However, with the Sharks having no first round pick, I doubt they would.
would ask for Lebanc from Sharks instead
i’d buy Henrik out (but still think they will have compliance buyouts) or he might even walk after this year.
First – which of the two seconds are they trading? Would only consider it for theirs. But at this point I think we have a ton of prospects and don’t really need another 2nd, even if its very high. Rather get rid of HL cap hit.
James is it possible to wash N95s and how? I found another on the seat of my tractor today. Unfortunately it got pretty filthy over the winter.
Why wash it, beezle? Probably has some good stuff in there to help you rebuild your gut flora.
Beez, ILB would have the better answer on that. Ours get sent out and sterilized but once it’s done they rarely seal/fit as well. They say leave it on your dashboard and let the sun “sterilize” it but I feel like these are the same people who used to be telling women to do headstands after sex to get pregnant.
Kreider foot status?
Don’t wash it, Beezle. Clean manually what you see. N95 masks aren’t approved for any type of decontamination and reuse. Some attempts were made ( ultraviolet irradiation etc. ), but the results were just OK and it was an attempt to overcome our shortages. Washing it with plain water and soap, for example, reduces its filtration efficiency from 95% to 45%, making it useless.
Here is from CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/decontamination-reuse-respirators.html
Thanks Ilb, had no idea. Hmm.. well I’ve got some of that lint remover sticky tape, might get most of the dust and dirt off.
Woman, 40 something, in supermarket no mask. ‘Did you see the sign on door? Everyone needs to wear one inside.’ “I can’t for personal reasons” ‘Then you should leave the store, for personal reasons of course!’
This is a family owned place. If, for some reason, you medically can’t wear a mask and asked them to fill an order for pickup they would do it. Not running to be Sheriff of the Mask Police but someone needs to call these people out and at least make them feel uncomfortable. Damn things fog my glasses and I put up with them while shopping.
Ilb – Isn’t the virus toast on pretty much all surfaces after 48-72 hours? The one N95 I’ve been using for shopping is in good shape and I generally do not go out in public places where it would be necessary every day (even in olden times) so I figured reuse no problem. Be nice if I can clean the other up to switch off too.
James if his foot isn’t better by now it never will be? Happened on 2/28 right?
The good news is we know that Smith has not been on the wedding circuit during this break. The bad news is, virtual Zoom weddings are a thing and that means he could have been stuffing his face with homemade frosted cake 😉
Carp is up with new article. Post updated.
I’m just glad there’s no ‘refeeding syndrome’ talk round here today. I cannot/will not muster the courage to even google it.
Rangers Hockey soon ? I’m starting to like the idea of the youngins gettin some playoff pressure experience. But the logistics of all this & next seasons considerations will be quite the challenge.
The Pats have not made their division opponents look like chumps. Those organizations have done that to themselves with perpetual instability and poor ownership, front office and coaching. The Pats couldn’t make the three teams be so poorly run, and they couldn’t prevent them from drafting and developing or acquiring an all-pro QB. They have merely been beneficiaries.
Black
Mr. D is black?
Gave him early three hours to say White
nearly
You’re the one with the reputation on here of being a contrarian, Norm. What arrogance to think I would express an opinion just to be different from you. This must be the world you live in, in which everything revolves around you.
Each of us is an egocentric sun around which a primitive world revolves.
Let’s go rangers.
They want to give us a shot. Let’s go for it. More than ever heart and soul will be the x-factor in whatever we wanna call this Stanley cup tournament.
Other than that. I’m not giving any bulletin board or motivational material for any other team.
It’s time to get in shape boys.
Overall, this tournament and the eventual cup winner will always have an asterisk. But that won’t matter one bit in the fans memory for the team who makes a run. Make a long run and the team and the guys on it have etched themselves in the memories of Ranger fans for a long long time. Once in a lifetime situation. Everyone’s cold, No ones in the flow. Find a way to come together and play playoff hockey and who knows how far that’ll take you this summer
Where’s the troll?
Mr. D(ick) is black. He’s voting for Biden.
🙂
As for asterisks……the Devils won a bogus half season Stanley Cup after the lockout and nobody ever mentions it. I would take a cup after this tournament and be very happy about it.
Spoke with a doc friend who’s in Boston about refeeding. Hasn’t heard about any cases yet there, fears he will.
The whole sports concept is arbitrary…
Each year’s champion is crowned by whatever standards are set for that season.
If the Rangers win the cup, that’s all that matters to me. If someone wants to put asterisk next to it, that’s cool by me.
Astor risk was when John Jacob Astor purchased his ticket for the Titanic.
Will there be a ticker tape parade?
de Blasio woudn’t know a hockey puck from a deteriorating black urinal disc.
Rao’s Announcement: ‘Fellas, please don’t eat the large round mints in our urinals. There have been reports of severe gastric distress.’
https://nypost.com/2020/05/23/nhl-agrees-on-24-team-playoff-for-coronavirus-return/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
Cuomo: “America was never that great”
Il Duce
One of the things, if not the most important thing, that makes America great is that we’re completely down with people freely saying–high fives all around–how much we suck.
How quaint – ‘bitc_ing’ as a world not allowed here.
Stop your bastarding.
How cum that works?
Anyone ever in the wartime military realizes that success thrives in loud and constant beetching.
Are betches open today?
You know that you are morbidly obese wen you stand on a corner and people shove mail and ballots down your throat. Applicable to any here?
Oy.
‘Oy,’ lol.
So if they restart the season or the playoffs in July, I just have one question.
Contracts?
In the unlikely event we get hockey, I will not be tuning in to watch the lawyers argue contracts.
https://twitter.com/NHLonNBCSports/status/1264230736653094914
Carolina really doesn’t want to face the Rangers. one of two teams to vote against the 24 team playoff format.
Amusing that Carolina voted against this. Wonder if they would have if it were only 20 teams and the Rangers were out.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/23/nhl-better-not-cheat-the-teams-bound-for-draft-lottery/
Good pt about Lemieux suspension
Why would Carolina want to play the one team that wiped the floor with them throughout the regular season and was about to beat them out of the wild card spot before the world ended?
Beezle I agree. Personal reasons? Or medical reasons? Like I’ve said if I can breathe well enough to withstand one then anyone can. I notice older people being very confrontational and grouchy in stores now. Not really a new occurrence but now they’re scared and wearing a mask they clearly don’t like.
And that’s the problem. The “I don’t like this stupid thing” crowd.
Adds some spice to the series. Nothing wrong with that. It might be SkjeiL’s Never Not Funny Revenge tour.
Quinn “Jesus, Smitty you’re 302lbs. What the hell happened?”
“Sorry coach. Started following the NYT cooking page on Instagram during quarantine”
So all they have done is agree on a format – which Tampa and Carolina voted against. Lots of hurdles to get over before they play games. It’s not clear where they will play yet. US has waived 14 day quarantine period for foreign players coming into the US. Canada will have to do they sames unless Canadian team players report directly to a US hub city. Maybe there will be games by July 4th.
MLB has a protocol for games which is several pages long. It includes provision for spacing players during games (that won’t work on a hockey bench), no showers, no food spreads after games, no lineup card exchange etc. I assume the NHL will have to develop something similar and the NHLPA will have to agree to it. MLB will play in home ballparks and it doesn’t look like they’re sequestering the home players. Lots of moving parts still to be developed.
If no shower allowed on premises, Dolan and MSG should effectuate a fan water discount for TV subscribers.
No showers? That’ll impede Pierre’s quest to have the nhl approve shower room interviews
“Go have fun in there”…
Play, don’t play, I don’t really care. Just do me a favor and don’t tell us you are playing the games for the fans. Don’t insult us. This is all about money, and there is nothing wrong with that. Just don’t disrespect us and tell us it’s not.
Topo, Carcillo, and Asham never took a shower anyway.
The shower thing is kinda odd.. especially with all the focus on washing hands.
Where is Big Buff going to throw Evander Kane’s tracksuit? The toilet?
The only thing the owners/leagues/pols care about regarding the Fans is using sports as a means to distract us from what’s going on or to keep people content in areas they want to use this situation as an opportunity to social-condition you to a new norm.
I keep readin the world will never be the same and cocos-19 will never be here forever.
Folks that is social -conditioning.
It’s become obvious they are using the virus situation and people’s own willing to have stayed home before we knew how serious or not serious this thing as the vehicle to try social-conditioning The country into a new norm.
It’s not gonna work. They won’t even get the percentages they’ve predicted to actual a new norm to accept it. You guys are dumbzzzes thinking the world is full of idiots. That was, is, and will always be your eventual undoing.
James G. & Beez…nobody’s going off any buildings here if isles win Corona Cup. Nothing more than a contrived glorified high school round robin tournament.
MLB seems to assume they can play games and maintain social distancing. They even talk about having multiple clubhouses for each team so that they can spread out. I’m not sure that is realistic, but, it is very unlikely for contact sports like hockey. They need to plan for player to player transmision and plan to isolate them. Maybe they just go on IR for 2 weeks. Everyone may need have to a medical evaluation. Do diabetics participate? DQ has hemophilia. Is he in? Obesity is not a issue among the players but may be among staff. If Ken Hitchcock was still coaching he might be better off staying away from the rinks at his girth and age. Player who have had cancer treatment (Brian Boyle, Phil Kessel) need to be evaluated. Are AHL player available if the rosters get depleted even if their contracts have expired after July 1. Lots of stuff to settle before they hit the ice. This gets more real to me when they publish locations and schedules.
Only appropriate that Pols and Sports Moguls finally wear masks to announce their felonious intentions. Don’t taze me, bro.
That is great, Alex.
Social conditioning is a good thing. It’s society’s way of selectively weeding out characteristics that do not contribute to a healthy, productive and safe society by making those characteristics less likely to be passed on through generations.
If CoVID-19 is going to socially condition people to something, it’s that so many people from vulnerable communities are so close to devastation, both medical and financial, that society may not be able to continue functioning effectively if we don’t try alleviate the disparity.
Mr. D(ick)
Your 9:27 PM post is plagiarism from Hitler.
Hysterical that a team that swept through the second round last year is reticent to play the Rangers.
Mister D,
Respectfully.
You believe that crap you spewed?
In an organic natural way yeah social conditioning is healthy and beneficial. But when you got a bunch of people looking out for themselves deciding how the rest of the world should be social-conditioned, it’s called brainwashing dude.
You can go beat around the bush all you want in response. But that’s the skinny skinny of it
At least now we know what the D stands for
Ba dum dum cherre
And lastly no,
What they are attempting to condition us to is to accept and allow an appointed so called set of experts or leaders to determine when our constitutional rights can be Stripped from us whenever they deem a situation as such that what they are doing is in our best interests.
And it will be them and their media who will be feeding us the information that they are basing their actions on.
Nuff said.
Thanks to all our vetarans who put their lives on the line to fight for what they believed was our freedom. Have a good day boneheads
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