Probably not an appropriate comment here, but if X dot com is any indication, the Edmonton Oilers fanbase is pretty much total trash. Maybe the worst that I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot.
Not on X dot com but everywhere else I've seen supports this statement. According to the avg Oilers fan the slash was "just hockey" and Hintz should be penalized for "acting".
Superstar player gets injured on a deliberate attack away from the puck, issues no real penalty to the goon offender and now we're waiting the Stars to go after a superstar Oilers player - and unless they DO injure one and put him out of the playoffs it will be considered a weakness on the Stars part.
In short, the way the NHL regulates their games they not do nothing to protect their greatest assets (superstar players) they actively ENCOURAGE teams to attempt to put their greatest players in the hospital.
Utter stupidity. Just another example of why the NHL is a 2nd-rate, two-bit, amateurish league.
This goes to the heart of the “win at all costs” mentality that is historically defined by Bobby Clark’s breaking the USSR’s Karlamov’s ankle, so the NHL had a better chance to win in 72’.
It also includes (locally or “league”?) supporting the only Canadian NHL team (superstar?) still playing.
Lastly, it also includes the real impact of the infection of “The Euro soccer -shot by a sniper- level flopping is OK”, practiced locally most embarrassingly by Marchment.
Old time hockey… colliding with an 8,345 page rule book, and admin with their head either counting $, or in the sand… both?
Probably not an appropriate comment here, but if X dot com is any indication, the Edmonton Oilers fanbase is pretty much total trash. Maybe the worst that I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot.
Not on X dot com but everywhere else I've seen supports this statement. According to the avg Oilers fan the slash was "just hockey" and Hintz should be penalized for "acting".
Pure garbage.
Exactly. And also some variation of "Nurse didn’t deserve a major because Hintz is not McDavid." God, the stupid hurts.
This is how f'in stupid the NHL is.
Superstar player gets injured on a deliberate attack away from the puck, issues no real penalty to the goon offender and now we're waiting the Stars to go after a superstar Oilers player - and unless they DO injure one and put him out of the playoffs it will be considered a weakness on the Stars part.
In short, the way the NHL regulates their games they not do nothing to protect their greatest assets (superstar players) they actively ENCOURAGE teams to attempt to put their greatest players in the hospital.
Utter stupidity. Just another example of why the NHL is a 2nd-rate, two-bit, amateurish league.
It's very funny to me that the NHL, a *sports* league, has decided in this one micro-aspect of the business that results are secondary.
This goes to the heart of the “win at all costs” mentality that is historically defined by Bobby Clark’s breaking the USSR’s Karlamov’s ankle, so the NHL had a better chance to win in 72’.
It also includes (locally or “league”?) supporting the only Canadian NHL team (superstar?) still playing.
Lastly, it also includes the real impact of the infection of “The Euro soccer -shot by a sniper- level flopping is OK”, practiced locally most embarrassingly by Marchment.
Old time hockey… colliding with an 8,345 page rule book, and admin with their head either counting $, or in the sand… both?
Gordy played to win, but he never took a dive.
Fuck Darnell Nurse. dude is a scrub and has the worst d man contract in the NHL