The Official 2022-23 Season Talk Thread

[Majingir]

The NHL is discussing an 84 game season, because 82 isn't enough..

92/93 and 93/94 are the only seasons to ever have more than 82 games.

The reason is for more balanced schedules.

You'd play the other conference 2 games each (32 games)

Teams in your division 4 times each (28 games)

Teams in the other division 3 times (24 games)

I feel like they'd be able to have more balanced schedules/intense rivalries if they simply divided up the divisions with 8 divisions of 4.

You play all 7 other divisions 2 games each (56 games) and then the 3 teams in your division 8 times each. That's 78 games.

Or 6 vs your own division, but then 1 division you play 4 times each, so it alternates every year, and that gives you 82 games.

And with divisions of 4s, we could see 4 game roadtrips where you're just facing an entire division during the roadtrip, which would also help travel.

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by l3ulvl

I have to ask hockey historians, was the WHA legit? Just thinking because Gordie had 174 WHA goals in his late 40s, which is ridiculous even against standard competition, but were there other top tier players or was it just old man Gordie schooling younger guys

I always viewed the WHA in a similar way as the ABA.

Do we consider Dr.J a 4 time MVP and top 10 scorer of all time, on the same level as a LeBron,Wilt?

Are the Pacers 3 ABA titles on par with an NBA title (which they haven't won)?

[Majingir]

So...this happened
https://twitter.com/timandfriends/st...f_Ua1hoIA&s=19


Leafs up 2-0 vs TB after 2. Shots are 29 to 8!

Leafs are the best team to bet on come April, as in, bet against them because they'll be the faves so you get easy money.

[bcruise]

801 and 802 tonight. Only the Great One now stands above Ovi.

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[Majingir]

Gotta love the NHL.

Leafs got fined for complaining about this missed call
https://twitter.com/TicTacTOmar/stat...vWrjdJAQA&s=19

They were also fined 100k for breaking NHLs holiday rules prohibiting team activities during the Christmas break.

Leafs only did so because they had to catch a flight to St.Louis, so they opted for the 10:30pm flight out of town (1.5hrs later at 12am is when the NHL freeze would be lifted) rather than getting a real early morning flight out of town.

The flight time is 2 hours, and the next flight out of town was 2 hours later, meaning breaking the rule and leaving at 10:30pm ET would get them to St.Louis at 11:30pm local time vs leaving at 12:30am ET and getting there 1:30am local time.

Here's a tip NHL, maybe don't schedule games on the 27th when teams can't fly on the 26th. Especially when the rule has a loophole where the players could've boarded the same plane at the same time they boarded it, but just get the plane to take off at exactly midnight vs 10:30pm. So it's ok for players to board the plane before midnight, but not ok for it to take off?

[Kobalt]

I still like Kakko but Rangers' inability to develop Andersson, Kravtsov, Kakko and Lafreniere to their full potential is pretty damn impressive.

[Majingir]

If tank season wasn't already here in the NHL, it sure is now.

https://twitter.com/TSN_Sports/statu...G_rPdZQWA&s=19

[Majingir]

NHL schedule always confuses me.

Leafs played at home Saturday and now play at Philly Sunday, just to have 2 days off, return home for 1 game vs Preds, then go back on the road in Detroit/Boston.

Couldn't they have just made the Sunday game a home one vs Nashville, Philly on the road Wednesday (since the Flyers are doing a home and home vs the Caps over the span of 4 days with neither team playing in between, so their Caps game could've been pushed up 1 day).

Also works out for the Preds who would instead do a back to back in Toronto/Ottawa instead of Toronto/Montreal.