The Official 2022-23 Season Talk Thread

[slickdtc]

Nice to start with a win. This will be a grind of a year for Philly. Tortorella is going to whip these boys in to shape. I don’t think that means we’ll be good, but breaking some of the habits and trends of the last... decade plus... is a welcome change. I can see this being a bad year record wise as expected but fun to see guys develop and compete.

The NHL or whoever has to be losing money on these regional random game exclusives, right? Most people don’t see that it’s streaming only on ESPN+ or Hulu when majority of games are on a local sports channel, and then they don’t have the streaming service anyway. Those viewer numbers have got to be paltry.

[Majingir]

How do the Blues not play a single game until tomorrow, and a total of 2 games as of next FRIDAY!?

[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

How do the Blues not play a single game until tomorrow, and a total of 2 games as of next FRIDAY!?

I think I recall similar nonsense at the beginning of last year....then there was the whole thing with playing an entire playoff series worth of games in a row vs. Arizona.

More than ready to get this started.

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Edit: Borrowed from the Blues' official twitter:

[l3ulvl]

Ville Husso was the 1st Red Wing to post a shutout in his team debut since 1953, that's crazy lol, how has that not happened in almost 70 years? at some point you'd think someone would stumble across one

[Majingir]

Leafs trailing the Coyotes 1-0 after 1 when both teams combined for 9 shots and former Leaf castaway Nick Ritchie scoring the goal is just another night in Leaf land.

[Majingir]

40 seconds left and Leafs score...except refs review it for 5 mins and say no goal due to a missed call on a glove pass earlier in the play.

Gotta love the refs.

The puck hit Riellys glove and just dropped. The closest player to the puck was Keller.

Leafs ended up gaining possession.

The rulebook definition of a glove pass is that its not considered a stoppage in play if it hits a players glove and he doesn't bat it towards his teammate.

[DrJones]

To nobody's surprise, doubling down on "going for it" with a bottom-5 defence corps for the 8th or 9th season in a row has proven to be unwise.

Gonna be singing "Bruce, there he goes" pretty soon, I'm afraid.

[Majingir]

https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/stat...-DF4AUZqsvgMNQ

Um, ok but....you flat out just said that's not the rule?!

Rielly batted the puck? Yes.
Marner was the first to gain possession? Yes.
Rielly batter the puck TO Marner? No.

Also, the ON ICE OFFICIALS mentioned in the rulebook (whose opinion matters based on the rulebook definition) didn't call it dead or even decide in the review that it's no goal, the situation room did.

So by definition, it's not a stoppage in play?