NHL/PWHL

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #51
Date: 04/28/26 @ 3:46 PM

Mammoth owner creeps me the fuck out.

Aw, man, you made me look him up.

How are you in your late forties and still have school shooter eyes.

From: Nutmeggm - mostly, probably not an alias. #52
Date: 04/28/26 @ 3:53 PM

Plus they've been tanking the last couple of years. I'm not paying to watch someone actively try to lose.

From: idsaluteyoubub #53
Date: 04/28/26 @ 3:54 PM

Nutmeggm said:

Plus they've been tanking the last couple of years. I'm not paying to watch someone actively try to lose.

Can't watch basketball ever, then.

From: Rob #54
Date: 04/28/26 @ 3:54 PM

i just hope for bad things to happen to carter hart

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #55
Date: 04/28/26 @ 4:01 PM

I think something like the PWHL's "gold plan" is good but maybe incomplete fix.
The Vancouver Goldeneyes were eliminated a couple weeks ago but they stormed out and beat the Victoire because it would help their draft position.

The NBA has a real problem because the truth is that if you're a starter, you're always at least a little hurt, so nobody can say anything if you sit someone.
But I'm not getting on a train to watch Draymond in a hoodie.

From: idsaluteyoubub #56
Date: 04/28/26 @ 4:10 PM

I think the Gold Plan is good for a smaller amount of teams and talent pool. Bottom of the league of a 32 team league, I mean those bottom 5 are there for a reason.

From: Rob #57
Date: 04/28/26 @ 4:16 PM

kinda just feels like excel dorks cranking themselves off than a solution to any sort of problem

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #58
Date: 04/28/26 @ 4:44 PM

Well, the problem in every sport is that the PAs are weak and the commissioner is a handservant for the owners.

Bottom of the league of a 32 team league, I mean those bottom 5 are there for a reason.

Well, yeah, but if you can identify mismanagement, abuse, absenteeism, etc, with supporting data, there should be measures for that.

Sorry for jumping sports again, but in MLB, which has probably the best players' union in North America, Jeffrey Loria fucked the Expos so bad that they collapsed and reappeared as the Washington Nationals, and not only was Loria not banned, they gave him the brand new Marlins, which, after they raced to a championship, he completely gutted and was like lol you knew what I was when you let me in.

Anyway, I think a league that lets half its teams into the postseason should be able to figure out how to disincentivize the bottom quartile or whatever from reeking on ice.

From: Rob #59
Date: 04/28/26 @ 4:45 PM

The NHL is also very gate driven, if the team licks balls, they won't sell as many tickets.

From: phapster - Too weak to flatten the curve. #60
Date: 04/28/26 @ 5:13 PM

please educate me about the plentiful lakes that gave the Los Angeles NBA team its namesake.

From: Rob #61
Date: 04/28/26 @ 5:14 PM

they moved from minnesota

From: phapster - Too weak to flatten the curve. #62
Date: 04/28/26 @ 5:25 PM

Rob said:

they moved from minnesota

F-f-f-f-f- got new Paige'D, was lamely replying to this:

fear7trembling said:

I was in SLC for a conference and went to a Jazz game. That place rules. The concourse was so open and clean.
Just too bad that the Jazz is probably the worst "We're moving but not changing the name" in all of sports.

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #63
Date: 04/28/26 @ 5:44 PM

No, we got you.

I actually have a spreadsheet of disbanded and relocated sports teams.
I expected that it would be San Diego, (LA Clippers, Houston Rockets, LA Chargers, Mariners, Sails, Gulls, Barracudas) but it's actually Boston by a decent margin.
Anyway, Lakers and Jazz are probably the most egregious name retentions, or the two years that the Titans kept the Oilers name after moving from Houston to Tennessee.
Can't think of any examples from the CFL or other Canada sports.

From: katfude - straight up "jorkin it" #64
Date: 04/30/26 @ 1:28 AM

Both the hoops and hockey team missed the opportunity to be the Stormin' Mormons

Or the Soakers. Also a good option.

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #65
Date: 04/30/26 @ 1:35 AM

I mean, yes, but the Mammoth whips.
They do need to change the Jazz though, both because it's stupid and also they need to get away from Malone/Stockton.

From: katfude - straight up "jorkin it" #66
Date: 04/30/26 @ 1:54 AM

Mammoth? You mean the Colorado pro lacrosse team?

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #67
Date: 04/30/26 @ 1:55 AM

That is both funny and pretty rude.

From: haze - is having a bad day #68
Date: 04/30/26 @ 2:03 AM

This game is stressing me aht.

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #69
Date: 04/30/26 @ 2:05 AM

I love the Flyers but if you step outside of it there is potential for something very funny to happen.

From: haze - is having a bad day #70
Date: 04/30/26 @ 3:02 AM

Oh well!

From: idsaluteyoubub #71
Date: 04/30/26 @ 4:23 AM

I thought Yeti was a cool name, but that doofy Yeti cooler company wouldn't allow it.

And yeah nothing funnier than the whitest, nerdiest, weirdest nerd city in America being called the Jazz, lol.

From: Nutmeggm - mostly, probably not an alias. #72
Date: 04/30/26 @ 3:47 PM

They can't close out games for shit either. This series is a goal fest.

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #73
Date: 05/01/26 @ 2:28 AM

Watched the end of Minnesota-Dallas game.
I tried but I could not summon any feelings about it.
If Edmonton beats the Ducks, I guess that's okay.
Otherwise I have none feelings about the West.
So... go Sabres and Flyers? maybe they should just play for the Cup, I'm not sure the West deserves to be there.

From: katfude - straight up "jorkin it" #74
Date: 05/01/26 @ 3:09 AM

Huge lol at Dallass with their shitter goal song performed by a white supremacist but the Mild are a tougher matchup for the Avs

From: idsaluteyoubub #75
Date: 05/01/26 @ 6:46 AM

I wish I could like the Ducks cause they have a cool af young core, but their coach, blech. Always have liked the Wild, that's hockey country, and Minnesota was the only state to vote blue in the whole country in the...first or second Reagan election, so that's cool. So they're my vote for the West.

But yeah the West was ass this year. Kings got in with a below .500 win/loss rate, right?

From: katfude - straight up "jorkin it" #76
Date: 05/01/26 @ 7:18 AM

Yep the kings abused the OTL point bigtime

From: idsaluteyoubub #77
Date: 05/01/26 @ 8:26 AM

Nice to have Kopitar get one, albeit brief, playoff run. Love that guy.

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #78
Date: 05/02/26 @ 5:15 PM

I want to root for the Sabres even though the Flyers are my guys.
But like at our neighborhood jawn there are two really old faded pennants up, the Sabres and the Bills, because the owner was from there, and there's something romantic about that.

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Also yesterday we were watching the Boston Fleet and the Ottawa Charge and I remarked to Ely that my hypothesis was that everyone who wore a bubble mask as opposed to the cage was straight. It was just an offhand joke but she spent the entire third period going through every PWHL roster and found that there were only three non-goalie gay players who wear the bubble shield.

From: idsaluteyoubub #79
Date: 05/02/26 @ 5:34 PM

What neighborhood you live in now? I remember the 2010 Cup Run I watched in Kilowatt. Love that bar.

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #80
Date: 05/02/26 @ 5:59 PM

Western Addition/Fillmore.
Ely serves at a church around 24th and Dolores so we're down that way a lot.
I haven't been to Kilowatt in a minute.

From: idsaluteyoubub #81
Date: 05/02/26 @ 6:34 PM

Kilowatt might be good for hockey now! Wish I could go.

From: idsaluteyoubub #82
Date: 05/02/26 @ 6:35 PM

fear7trembling said:

Western Addition/Fillmore.

I don't remember that area. Is that Full House house area?

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #83
Date: 05/02/26 @ 6:45 PM

Yeah, Alamo Square.

Kilowatt might be good for hockey now!

I bet, we should make it down there.
If we get out of the neighborhood, we usually go somewhere by the church or Dolores Park.
But also Rikki's just opened at like 17th and Castro and they prioritize women's sports and it rules.
When Ely's parents were visiting I was like hey let's get on the F car, it's a piece of history!
And then we stopped off and went to Rikki's and Ely was like how did you get my parents to go to a lesbian bar to watch sports and I was like same way you get to Carnegie Hall: practice.

From: idsaluteyoubub #84
Date: 05/02/26 @ 6:57 PM

Go to Trader Sam's. Pour out a scorpion bowl for me.

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #85
Date: 05/02/26 @ 7:01 PM

That is so much booze to pour out.
Also they're pretty shitty about putting the game on; probably just go to the Abbey or the Bitter End.

From: GoonGoonington - Put some SPH 90 on that thing #86
Date: 05/02/26 @ 7:22 PM

idsaluteyoubub said:

fear7trembling said:

Western Addition/Fillmore.

I don't remember that area. Is that Full House house area?

isn't that the Too Close For Comfort one?

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #87
Date: 05/02/26 @ 8:50 PM

I don't know what that is and I hope no one tells me.

From: haze - is having a bad day #88
Date: 05/02/26 @ 10:59 PM

I watched it. Jim J. Bullock, baby.

From: fear7trembling - I hope you're watching when it #89
Date: 05/04/26 @ 5:50 PM

So, go Birds today and hopefully the first runaway zamboni in Vegas.

From: Nutmeggm - mostly, probably not an alias. #90
Date: 05/04/26 @ 6:30 PM

Interesting watching the football game yesterday with the Avs/Wild. Nobody wanted to defend.

From: phapster - Too weak to flatten the curve. #91
Date: 05/05/26 @ 12:53 AM

Goalies are built differently.

From: haze - is having a bad day #92
Date: 05/05/26 @ 1:04 AM

The drummers of hockey.

From: idsaluteyoubub #93
Date: 05/05/26 @ 4:11 AM

Much to little or no surprise from me, the Flyers are struggling against the Canes. Flyers fans are dumb. We are so far away from being contenders, but once they get a taste of some success, they think we are contenders.

I see why Comcast keeps us in the middle.

From: haze - is having a bad day #94
Date: 05/05/26 @ 4:21 AM

Like Malcolm.

From: haze - is having a bad day #95
Date: 05/05/26 @ 4:27 AM

Oof, Taylor "Jacques Cousteau" Hall won it?

From: idsaluteyoubub #96
Date: 05/05/26 @ 5:26 AM

He's been incredible for the Canes, especially so far in the playoffs. Twas a great trade for them.

From: phapster - Too weak to flatten the curve. #97
Date: 05/05/26 @ 4:45 PM

Not to brag, but I have Taylor Hall's autoerotic on a Windsor Spitfires Tshirt.

From: Sepharo #98
Date: 05/07/26 @ 1:14 AM

Detroit is getting a PWHL team for the 26/27 season.

From: idsaluteyoubub #99
Date: 05/08/26 @ 7:40 AM

Dick stain Tocchet says he has players playing PP who wouldn't be in other teams, while not playing a player, Michkov, on PP, even though he'd be first unit on any other team.

Tocchet is a fucking idiot and it's so hard to watch Flyers hockey.

From: phapster - Too weak to flatten the curve. #100
Date: 05/09/26 @ 11:52 PM

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