2021 NHL regular season thread

The goalie should have stopped that.

 

NBC has kind of split these national games three ways between the previously mentioned John Forslund, Kenny Albert and Tirico. I think part of it is that they haven't really decided who Doc Emrick's official succesor is, part of it is Albert has commitments to the Rangers, and I think they want to connect Tirico to big-ticket events as kind of their voice of the network (and to get some mileage out of whatever they're paying him).

 

... or a Mexican lefty named Valenzuela who grew up playing on a dusty rink in a small village in Saskatchewan.

Looks like Murray is a goner after this season. Everything he was counting on to have a good season has gone exactly opposite. Looks like Gibson is also losing interest. Five goals-against last night against the mediocre Wild.

 

Irrelevant. Mackinnon skating in with speed scares the shit out of even a damn good NHL defensemen. He backed in to the dots, very few players can scare dmen like that.

 

Didn't say otherwise. Same with McDavid when he gets going. Goalie should have stopped that.

 

I’m getting the feeling a day hockey game outside in California isn’t going to happen again anytime soon.

*I know this is technically in Nevada. The point still stands

 

I honestly wonder this ... if Lake Tahoe, why not Saskatoon or the Maritimes or somewhere else that would wrap the game with open arms? With no fans, the infrastructure boils down to a clear tarmac on which to land jets and hotels for the organizations.

Nothing against Lake Tahoe - always 15 minutes away, etc. - but the markets above live, breathe and drink hockey. Can the same be said for a resort on the Nevada-California border?

 

Lake Louise has been floated repeatedly as a site for one of these, but it's in a national park and the Canadian government won't permit advertising.

I believe the Tahoe rink was on the 18th fairway of the golf course where they do the annual celebrity golf bit, so there was probably significant infrastructure for TV production and to lodge the teams comfortably.

 

And here I thought that Rutledge Wood would drive the Zamboni. Or maybe a '70s C-10 with a ice scraper mounted on the front bumper in the rink ... I mean he and two others drove vehicles in an ice rink during an American version of "Top Gear."