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Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
It's interesting you bring this up, at the risk of going slightly off the rails here...

For as much screaming that goes on about this, people rarely talk about the downsides of this and the situations where it either doesn't work or works against you. There's often not a lot of benefit to inserting a player in your lineup that hasn't played a meaningful game in 2-3+ months, which also means shuffling your lineup from what you've been using to close the season, etc.

And that doesn't even factor in if the player is ready to return. I know for VGK, in Round 1 of last postseason against Dallas when Dallas won in 7 games; Mark Stone returned from another back injury and his presence was a detriment if I had to say. He wasn't ready to play, he looked like a 70-yr old man skating around the ice, and it caused a major line shuffle for an opening round playoff series against a very good Dallas team.

I don't see the LTIR things changing anytime soon; both the players and owners have their chance to change it during their negotiations and they haven't yet.
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yeah i don't blame vegas, i blame the rule being in place. if they're going on LTIR, done for the year just like football does it. Landeskog coming back this year was similar in Colorado.

That's why I said the whole skating for multiple weeks. If you know they're going to be coming back and can manipulate your roster, that's where its sketchy to me.
 

Oilers with alot of lineup changes.

I'm curious what they do in net if Skinner is bad, yet they win a 6-5 type game.
 

3-0 Cats after 1. Last goal should not have counted as they missed a blatant high stick on Verhage
 
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Hockey is a crazy game: Florida has gotten about every call. Edmonton has battled back. Won’t matter if they don’t win, but if they do they will have a massive amount of momentum
 



Reinhart scored with 20 seconds left to send yet another game to overtime
 

Really poor play by pickard. Fans on it and bang it’s in the back of the net. Tough break for Edmonton but they’ve been the better team since the first. This OT may be a backbreaker if Edmonton drops this now
 




TRF Guy said:
And we have a series. What a game
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3 ot games in the first 4. When’s the last time that happened? Been such a fun series. Shame it’s on tnt and not getting out as heavily to the masses (obvious Canada is watching entirely on tsn, etc so skews numbers some, but still)
 

Drai does it again with his OT magic. Second GW of the Finals, fourth GW of the playoffs. Pickard is the guy thru the rest of the playoffs for the Oil, in my mind. He has to be.
 







Wally said:
Interesting article. I would rather see the players skills than how well they can thug it up in the playoffs.

www.habseyesontheprize.com

NHL’s “let them play” playoffs are spoiling the product

The idea that not calling penalties is letting the players decide who wins has done great harm to hockey’s post-season.
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I have long taken issue with the idea that playoff hockey, or 3rd period/OT hockey should be officiated any differently. The argument is always "don't have the refs deciding the game", well having refs swallow their whistles still does exactly that.
 

Wally said:
Interesting article. I would rather see the players skills than how well they can thug it up in the playoffs.

www.habseyesontheprize.com

NHL’s “let them play” playoffs are spoiling the product

The idea that not calling penalties is letting the players decide who wins has done great harm to hockey’s post-season.
www.habseyesontheprize.com www.habseyesontheprize.com
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its called this way because of who the director of officiating is and his desire to pocket the whistle postseason. add to it the hits come at an infinitely higher pace. I'd rather playoff hockey and the 3rd be called the same as regular season. if its a penalty then, it is in quadruple OT of game 7. Playing physical can still happen within the bounds of the rules. I also HATE the adage of "evening" the penalty calls. Was said on the broadcast last night that Edmonton would get the next PP and lo and behold they got the next 3.

The game will be tighter regardless because of how much they hit now (with everyone finishing every check). think that's the bigger issue is that they call many of those things penalties in the regular season (the hit on Bouchard from behind last night ABSOLUTELY would've been a penalty in any game in the regular season; same as catching guys in open ice) and then change on the players in the postseason.

Be consistent start to finish in each game as best as you can and with the standard you set to start the season. This shouldn't be made this hard but every single sport under the sun does it. The NBA let's way more physicality go (because fouls would happen constantly). Soccer has it take more to get a yellow in a cup tie than a regular season game.
 

What a goal by the Rat last night. He could be MVP if the Panthers win this thing. That would be yet another dagger to Bruins fans

 




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