Running 2022-23 NHL thread

Paging @maumann:

 

So cool. I got texted from a couple of people who were at the game yesterday and saw a number of Tweets from former IceCaps fans with fond memories of the silliness that was the ECHL in Dorton Arena.

I realized I was 32 when I got the job with the IceCaps, which means that was half a lifetime ago for me.

 

Tough to be a goalie that can't save

 

Ivan Provorov allegedly blew off the warm-ups at tonight's Flyers game rather than wear a Pride Night warmup jersey.

 

Torts is cool with that.

 

Tolerating sin is not a sin.

 

I mean, Provorov outs himself as a bigot here, but that feels like the lesser sin here. I don't know how often he attends church or if he's using "my religious beliefs" as a convenient cover, but considering Torts has been on the record as saying he'd bench anyone who kneeled on the bench during the national anthem it seems as if one's sincere convictions only qualify when they don't hurt your feelings, not to mention the fact that you're willing to have a different set of rules once the religion card is played.

 

When I worked in the OHL we had a Swedish kid on our team who had played with Lehner a lot when they were younger (Lehner was also in the league at the time with the Soo Greyhounds). He said that while Lehner might have been a goalie as far as he was concerned he was the most fearsome guy in the league. he said even the toughest guys in the league would have got their asses beat in a fight with him, said Lehner was big, tough and a little crazy.

 

If The Athletic did a piece on the 50 biggest assholes in the history of the NHL I wonder how high up John Tortorella would rank.