I wonder if it's mathematically possible for every team to play every other team twice. Once at your barn and once at theirs.
That would be a 64 game reg season.
That would be a 64 game reg season.
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NHL Season 2022-23
- Thread starter MJ5150
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The Thunderbirds made it to their first ever Memorial Cup Final. Seattle will face the QMJHL's Quebec Remparts in Sunday's championship game at 4:00 p.m. PT. Quebec beat Seattle once already in this tournament, so we'll see how the rematch goes.
Of note, Patrick Roy coaches the Quebec team. This will be his last game as coach. He announced when the season started this would be his last season coaching the Remparts.
-Mike
Of note, Patrick Roy coaches the Quebec team. This will be his last game as coach. He announced when the season started this would be his last season coaching the Remparts.
-Mike
For those of us who live in FL(or Vegas for that matter), being 'non-"winter" makes no difference.
Meh, not much of a save. If that puck would have been a few inches higher, it would be in the net and we'd be talking about how far out of position he was, that he had to dive back in desperation. And that's basically all he did was dive back. He just got lucky that the puck stayed on the ice and got deflected directly into his stick.
I'm not saying this because I'm rooting for FLA. Just saying that too many people over react when goalies get lucky. Particularly when the puck gets shot directly into their glove and then they react as if they had to snag it out of the air.
I'm not saying this because I'm rooting for FLA. Just saying that too many people over react when goalies get lucky. Particularly when the puck gets shot directly into their glove and then they react as if they had to snag it out of the air.
4:00 PM PST came and went. By the looks of the final score in the Memorial Cup Final today, 5-0, Seattle failed to show up.
Well done Quebec.
-Mike
Well done Quebec.
-Mike
As a former hockey goalie myself, it's my opinion that he was out of position and his dive back was just an attempt to extend his stick out as far as possible along the ice and hope for the best.
But that's what being a goalie is all about. Good goalies take chances. Sometimes that allows you to make brilliant saves. Other times it puts you out of position and you have to resort to desperation recoveries and hope you get lucky.
In this case it worked. The reason he was out of poition was because he was being aggressive in making sure to take away the shot from his left side, forcing that forward to pass to the center instead of shoot.
Fortunately the subsequent shot from the center was muffed and stayed on the ice. The entire net above a few inches from the ice surface was wide open and if it had been lifted cleanly it would have made the goalie look bad. Instead, he stopped it with his stick and the save makes the highlight reels.
Whenever I've gotten lucky with saves (which happened constantly) and bystanders think it's a brilliant save, I'd just smile and nod.
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"Thanks. Just the way I planned it"As a former hockey goalie myself, it's my opinion that he was out of position and his dive back was just an attempt to extend his stick out as far as possible along the ice and hope for the best.
But that's what being a goalie is all about. Good goalies take chances. Sometimes that allows you to make brilliant saves. Other times it puts you out of position and you have to resort to desperation recoveries and hope you get lucky.
In this case it worked. The reason he was out of poition was because he was being aggressive in making sure to take away the shot from his left side, forcing that forward to pass to the center instead of shoot.
Fortunately the subsequent shot from the center was muffed and stayed on the ice. The entire net above a few inches from the ice surface was wide open and if it had been lifted cleanly it would have made the goalie look bad. Instead, he stopped it with his stick and the save makes the highlight reels.
Whenever I've gotten lucky with saves (which happened constantly) and bystanders think it's a brilliant save, I'd just smile and nod.
"Thanks. Just the way I planned it"
I remember one time, very late in a playoff game, we were up by a single goal and the other team was all over us in our zone on a power play.
With the clock ticking down, their forward had a clear lane and took a hard wrister from close inside the circle and it was a rocket along the ice on my glove side. I was bit out of position and trying to get back, but I had just enough time to slide the tip of my stick in front of it.
I tried to deflect it into the corner, but I bobbled it. Instead of deflecting the puck away to the side, it bounced upwards in an arc that would have sent it over my shoulder into the net.
Purely by reflex, I swung my glove up fast and just barely managed to snatch the puck out of the air. I held on for the whistle, and with only a couple of seconds on the clock, they didn't have time for another decent chance to score after the faceoff and we won.
My teammates were smothering me with praise for what they saw as an amazng save, and for brilliantly "deciding" to flip the puck up into my glove for a whistle instead of deflecting it aside, leaving the play alive to potentially score.
They had no idea it was a total accident. In fact, it was sloppy play on my part that got me out of position the first place, plus a terrible mishandling of the shot that almost had me deflecting the puck into my own net.
I was too embarrassed to admit the truth to any of them. I just smiled sheepishly and celebrated the win.
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Most of my best successes in life have been lucky recoveries from mistakes.
Your mistake, your recovery
Your skill and practice and reflex made the recovery possible even if it was wild play and some puck luck.
Let them buy you a beer or two.
LOL!
This was a hockey league in Wisconsin. There's a case of beer in each players' bench during every game so you can drink beer between shifts.
You need to do that so you can be primed and ready to drink the cases of beer in the locker room while getting dressed after the game.
I'm being 100% serious.
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I'm disappointed. I was hoping FLA would play better. I have to give Vegas credit, they are locked in like a machine and having their way with FLA.
I've fallen asleep half way through both games now. They're not even good games.
I've fallen asleep half way through both games now. They're not even good games.
