#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

In the news

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

https://twitter.com/NHL/status/734037373701459968

NHL fueling werehorse Nyquist theories.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Alex Prewitt is doing a profile of the two bb goaltenders in the ECF, including interviews with their teammates, which yields us this gem about the WBS kids:
https://twitter.com/alex_prewitt/status/735133592611917824

As someone on my TL said, these players continue to be designed exactly to fannish preferences.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.nhl.com/news/joe-thornton-patrick-marleau-could-join-select-groups/c-280811364

NHL.com has this article up with a bunch of random factoids, including that if a certain team wins the cup, their draft year will become only the fourth draft year ever where both the first and second overall picks went on to win cups. I find that amazing considering how much importance we place on teams needing those picks to win.

The other years are 1969 (Rejean Houle, Marc Tardif), 1984 (Mario Lemieux, Kirk Muller), and 2003 (Marc-Andre Fleury with the Pens in '09 & Eric Staal with the Canes in '06).

Possible draft years that could still do it:
1998, if David Legwand wins a cup
2002, if Rick Nash & Kari Lehtonen win cups
2004, if Alexander Ovechkin wins a cup
every year after that

1999, 2000 & 2001 are already out of the running.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/ekblads-passion-propelling-him-to-ever-greater-heights

Aaron Ekblad talked to hometown students.

Highlights: He's planning on working towards a business degree from Harvard online. Was going to take a course this year but couldn't because the exam period was over a back to back game.

On the WCH One of the Americans he’s looking forward to teaming up with is Detroit Red Wings’ forward Dylan Larkin.

“Larkin and I have been friends since we played together at the All-Star Game in Nashville (in January),” Ekblad said.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://hockeyshipsource.tumblr.com/post/145159506095/ondrejpalat-dylan-calls-aaron-a-role

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Players who have joined the concussion lawsuit say they're getting frozen out by the alumni association:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/capitals/players-who-joined-lawsuit-say-they-basically-got-frozen-out-by-alumni-association/2016/05/25/406e55aa-2206-11e6-aa84-42391ba52c91_story.html

I feel like I have read another article on this topic, but I can't remember if we talked it. Just, that's awful and yet completely unsurprising. Ugh. :(

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2015/12/12/detroit-red-wings-dylan-larkin/77238366/

Not really new "news", but I remember an anon saying in this post or the last that they wished they knew more about Dylan Larkin, and I think this gives a pretty comprehensive view of his development track. Highlights include a picture of small child!Larkin and an anecdote about toddler!Larkin crying until his father got some real skates on his feet because he wanted to join his brother for some road hockey.

Did I find this article because something in a fic clashed with what I thought I knew about Dylan? ... Possibly.

I was right.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

This SI feature on Olli Maatta is just so much http://www.si.com/nhl/2016/05/31/stanley-cup-playoffs-pittsburgh-penguins-sharks-olli-maatta-cancer-update

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Am I just being oversensitive, or is calling Phil Kessel's production "plus-sized" a really tired fat joke randomly thrown in this otherwise complimentary and informative article?

http://www.si.com/nhl/2016/05/30/stanley-cup-final-phil-kessel-pittsburgh-penguins-flourishing-his-biggest-stage

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/nhl-nearing-final-decision-possible-expansion/

Several tidbits meme might find interesting.

1) Teams that have too many NMC to fulfill expansion draft requirements for exposing players would face a heavy penalty in the form of losing picks and/or players.

2) It's believed that $10 million is needed to cover the travel and insurance costs for the players at the Olympics. Gary Bettman said he doesn't see the owners being willing "to pay for the privilege to disrupt our season.” An agreement needs to be reached by January, according to Bill Daly.

3) The Russian federation has now been officially informed that Slava Voynov is not eligible to play in the World Cup.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/nhl-open-mic-officiating-aint-easy-part-3/?row=0&row_id=1617477&xp=2852767&up=6

Mic'd up refs. Basically 3 and half mins of refs yelling at players to stay out of the blue paint and away from the goalies. It was actually a little bit insightful, and interesting enough to watch.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

So this article : https://www.nhl.com/news/5-things-patrick-laine-draft-prospect/c-280871180?tid=277764372

"Laine wouldn't mind being compared with Matthews when each reaches the NHL.
"It's nice to have those one or two players that are pushing you forward, players you're kind of competing with," he said. "I want to play my own game, and if [Matthews] succeeds, good for him. It's nice to know that players my age are able to do so well. Comparing is good."


That's a nice change from Eichel and McDavid going "Eichel who?" / "McDawhat? Never heard of him." in interviews while they're siting next to each other.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

The Player's Tribune SCF Preview (Late Edition): http://www.theplayerstribune.com/2016-6-3-ryan-whitney-mike-rupp-stanley-cup-final-preview/

AKA Rupp & Whitney wax poetic on the subject of Sidney Crosby.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Interview with John Scott about the ASG and also his off-season workout regime:
http://www.mensfitness.com/sports/hockey/nhl-tough-guy-john-scott-how-he-trains-hard-eats-right-and-stays-strong-ice

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Player's Trib article by retired ref Kerry Fraser:
http://www.theplayerstribune.com/2016-6-7-kerry-fraser-nhl-referee-stories/

This one was really, really good. Probably my favorite in a long time. Like, I teared up a couple of times? I was not expecting to cry about reffing, wtf!

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Just saw on r/hockey that the Hockey's Future website is being shut down. I use that site so much for research on how players who aren't first rounders were thought of when they were first drafted for fic purposes or for evaluating trades among prospects who are still in the AHL. Or even just comparing prospect depth among teams. This sucks.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

There's a nice article on Olli Maatta on Sportsnet:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/resilient-maatta-embodies-penguins/

I have a question, though.

I think that pales in comparison to having cancer, to blowing out both your shoulders, to almost having a lacerated kidney when he went head-first into the boards there (in November),” said Cole.

I thought Maatta injured the same shoulder twice? I thought it was generally thought that the Pens brought him back too soon in fall 2015 and he re-injured it. Have I just been confused all this time? (Speaking of, does anyone have any idea when in 2014 he was supposed to have injured that first shoulder?)

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

An article by Ben Scrivens, the first of a two-parter on goaltending. I enjoyed it a lot.
http://www.theplayerstribune.com/2016-6-9-ben-scrivens-nhl-goaltending/

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Pension Plan Puppets has a long discussion of the recent history of Hockey Night in Canada:
http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2016/6/9/11847814/hockey-night-in-canada-rogers-got-it-all-wrong

I think HNIC is better than NBC, but only because NBC is so actively infuriating, not because I find HNIC is actually enjoyable to watch. So it was really interesting to read about the process by which HNIC arrived in its current form. Apparently there's hope of change soon!

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/video/the-quiz-top-prospect-edition~885152

Is anyone else getting the "Sorry, an error has occurred. Please try again later." message on this? I've had it for like two days straight, and I've tried all the usual reloading/rebooting/etc. Other clips work, just this one and I think one other, a McDavid interview IIRC, don't.

Anyway, just wondering if the problem is with me or them. :/

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2016/06/11/alex-ovechkin-checks-into-a-monastery-with-a-namesake-who-defied-death/

that awkward moment where you hate all of (organized) orthodox christianity but you still find this post kind of flippant, disrespectful and borderline offensive... idek, i am feeling genuinely confused with myself right now.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/16080927/how-draymond-green-kevin-love-wage-war-their-weight

This is about the NBA, but it has a lot of info regarding athlete nutrition/eating habits, which comes up here often enough that someone might find it interesting

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

lol Damien Cox

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

https://twitter.com/TramyersCSN/status/743107548790693890

Teravainen and Bickell from the Blackhawks to the Hurricanes for x1 2nd round pick 2016 and x1 3rd round pick 2017