Fiala out for nhl season

[Sunny's Teeth]

Haha listen to the public and the players. Then to call this meaningless. For all European and other time zones giving fans a chance to wacht stars instead of middle of the night.

It’s about growing the sport and that is what’s being done if you watch the games, see the stands and hear the fans singing. Players learn more about playing high stakes here than playing for #8 playoff seed from October to February… Stop feeling sorry for billionaire owners.

And yeah Russians included would have made the tournament even more interesting, but they could decide to stop arming every drone with a bomb and terrorize people 150 km from the front line that need to buy a bread for their family…

Why do you need to grow the game? I'm so tired of hearing that stuff. It absolutely does not need to grow and get more watered down.

Quite the cosmopolitan view you have…

I’m not talking 42 NHL teams or whatever Im saying if more kids from Europe Asia or whatever decide they find it a cool sport then the end product would be better… kids picking hockey in Germany over football etc etc you get it I hope.

The irony of course being that what you’re suggesting is the direct opposite of watering down the game.

[ShakeyWalton]

Haha listen to the public and the players. Then to call this meaningless. For all European and other time zones giving fans a chance to wacht stars instead of middle of the night.

It’s about growing the sport and that is what’s being done if you watch the games, see the stands and hear the fans singing. Players learn more about playing high stakes here than playing for #8 playoff seed from October to February… Stop feeling sorry for billionaire owners.

And yeah Russians included would have made the tournament even more interesting, but they could decide to stop arming every drone with a bomb and terrorize people 150 km from the front line that need to buy a bread for their family…

Why do you need to grow the game? I'm so tired of hearing that stuff. It absolutely does not need to grow and get more watered down.

Quite the cosmopolitan view you have…

I’m not talking 42 NHL teams or whatever Im saying if more kids from Europe Asia or whatever decide they find it a cool sport then the end product would be better… kids picking hockey in Germany over football etc etc you get it I hope.

The irony of course being that what you’re suggesting is the direct opposite of watering down the game.

Is the game better now or in 1993? If you say now, we’re just polar opposites. All of this “growing the sport” has certainly made it a much more boring product to me. Yeah, we see a lot more skill these days. Has it improved the sport with so many similarities in style? I don’t think so.

[Sunny's Teeth]

Haha listen to the public and the players. Then to call this meaningless. For all European and other time zones giving fans a chance to wacht stars instead of middle of the night.

It’s about growing the sport and that is what’s being done if you watch the games, see the stands and hear the fans singing. Players learn more about playing high stakes here than playing for #8 playoff seed from October to February… Stop feeling sorry for billionaire owners.

And yeah Russians included would have made the tournament even more interesting, but they could decide to stop arming every drone with a bomb and terrorize people 150 km from the front line that need to buy a bread for their family…

Why do you need to grow the game? I'm so tired of hearing that stuff. It absolutely does not need to grow and get more watered down.

Quite the cosmopolitan view you have…

I’m not talking 42 NHL teams or whatever Im saying if more kids from Europe Asia or whatever decide they find it a cool sport then the end product would be better… kids picking hockey in Germany over football etc etc you get it I hope.

The irony of course being that what you’re suggesting is the direct opposite of watering down the game.

Is the game better now or in 1993? If you say now, we’re just polar opposites. All of this “growing the sport” has certainly made it a much more boring product to me. Yeah, we see a lot more skill these days. Has it improved the sport with so many similarities in style? I don’t think so.

I certainly liked it better then, but I’d argue that’s a function of rule changes versus “growing the game”. A product with today’s speed and talent level and yesteryear’s rules and norms would be something to behold IMO.

[Stlcardsblues]

I would be all for the owners putting language in the next CBA that if guys want to do this meaningless [shirt], if they get hurt, they have to pay back the team a portion of the salary that they were supposed to earn if they were playing. And the team medical insurance doesn’t have to cover it.

I wouldnt call it "meaningless" and I dont feel the least bit sorry for billionaire owners. But I do agree that players should bear the risk, not fans.

I'd call it extremely meaningless with the Russians not allowed to play.

Russia can fix the ban anytime it wants.

[Jeff Goldblum]

I would be all for the owners putting language in the next CBA that if guys want to do this meaningless [shirt], if they get hurt, they have to pay back the team a portion of the salary that they were supposed to earn if they were playing. And the team medical insurance doesn’t have to cover it.

I wouldnt call it "meaningless" and I dont feel the least bit sorry for billionaire owners. But I do agree that players should bear the risk, not fans.

I'd call it extremely meaningless with the Russians not allowed to play.

Russia can fix the ban anytime it wants.

That doesn't change the fact that Russia currently isn't playing.

[BalotelliMassive]

And yeah Russians included would have made the tournament even more interesting, but they could decide to stop arming every drone with a bomb and terrorize people 150 km from the front line that need to buy a bread for their family…

Yup...I saw a video of Panarin and Ovechkin personally arming the drones and then letting Kucherov fly them into enemy territory -

[BalotelliMassive]

Russia can fix the ban anytime it wants.

It's not even about the war - it's about cutting Russia off from the rest of the world. They were banned before the war over steroid/doping....something that never ever happens in the USA.

[DutchBlue]

And yeah Russians included would have made the tournament even more interesting, but they could decide to stop arming every drone with a bomb and terrorize people 150 km from the front line that need to buy a bread for their family…

Yup...I saw a video of Panarin and Ovechkin personally arming the drones and then letting Kucherov fly them into enemy territory -

Wow you might just be as smart as Balotelli is!

BTW Ovie and Putin were best buddies, so who knows!

In the meantime if you are going to be smart about performance enhancing drugs, look up DDR and Soviet stats during Olympics and then compare that to US stats... Heidi Kruger is a nice story! Or just take world championship swimming stats. Ah well why trust independent agencies etc when you can also inform yourself via X right?

[BalotelliMassive]

Wow you might just be as smart as

I'm not the clown pretending that hockey players are responsible for war.

[LGB73]

Wow you might just be as smart as

I'm not the clown pretending that hockey players are responsible for war.

Countries are responsible for wars. Said country got removed from international play because they started a war where they bomb civilians virtually every day so not a problem with them not being at the Olympics.

[BalotelliMassive]

Wow you might just be as smart as

I'm not the clown pretending that hockey players are responsible for war.

Countries are responsible for wars. Said country got removed from international play because they started a war where they bomb civilians virtually every day so not a problem with them not being at the Olympics.

And Israel wasn't bombing civilians? Answer me with a straight face.

[LGB73]

Wow you might just be as smart as

I'm not the clown pretending that hockey players are responsible for war.

Countries are responsible for wars. Said country got removed from international play because they started a war where they bomb civilians virtually every day so not a problem with them not being at the Olympics.

And Israel wasn't bombing civilians? Answer me with a straight face.

I'd ban Israel too. Not quite sure the US should be included either.

[BalotelliMassive]

Wow you might just be as smart as

I'm not the clown pretending that hockey players are responsible for war.

Countries are responsible for wars. Said country got removed from international play because they started a war where they bomb civilians virtually every day so not a problem with them not being at the Olympics.

And Israel wasn't bombing civilians? Answer me with a straight face.

I'd ban Israel too. Not quite sure the US should be included either.

That's fair.

[2forDiving]

Russia hasn’t participated in the Olympics as a nation in 10 years after the huge doping and then coverup scandal reaching the highest levels of the Russian govt, have they even been reinstated by the IOC to participate on those grounds?

IMO based on that alone they should still be on suspension as that scandal was brutal and an embarrassment for the IOC. Missing 5 Olympics should have been the minimum any way .

[DutchBlue]

Jeez Mario now coming up with completely different narrative, but sure. Indeed skipped the whole doping coverup, but sure he is not the brightest.

Last time i checked Ukraine wasn't responsible for anything in Russia before February 2022 and clearly not for a 12x deadlier terror attack than 9/11 which occurred in Israel. Should Israel be there, probably not with their current government still in place.

And it is not even virtually every day, it is simply just every day. So completely fine that their players cannot participate, does not make the tournament meaningless.

[Harry York 37]

Wow you might just be as smart as

I'm not the clown pretending that hockey players are responsible for war.

Countries are responsible for wars. Said country got removed from international play because they started a war where they bomb civilians virtually every day so not a problem with them not being at the Olympics.

And Israel wasn't bombing civilians? Answer me with a straight face.

Israel should have been banned. Some satisfaction may de derived from their, miserable and medal-less, performance thus far.