NHL 2021: I Pledge Allegiance to Gritty

[MichVandal]

And far worse news for Toronto- prospect Rodion Amirov died today, about a year after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. That sucks really bad. Sorry, Leaf fans- horrible news.

[SonofSouthie]

MI too maybe?

TBH, those are really the only three meaningful grassroots areas for hockey in the US. They're the only places hockey is in the culture. Everywhere else it's a marketing skingraft.

Crazy to me that you wouldn't have a womens league anchored in Boston, St. Paul, wherever white people live instead of Detroit, New York, and Chicago.

Check out the Boston Pride.

[Slap Shot]

And far worse news for Toronto- prospect Rodion Amirov died today, about a year after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. That sucks really bad. Sorry, Leaf fans- horrible news.

I know a d-bag that has probably already blamed his death on getting vaccinated.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Brock Faber scored in OT to send Tria to da beauty league title game Wednesday night vs team Walser

[Bronco]

Auston Matthews signs an extension with the Leafs for 4 years at 13.25M.

https://www.nhl.com/mapleleafs/news/...on/c-345652302

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Braemar hopping tonight for final.

Toddler got a pic with Brock Faber and Nate Schmidt

shout out to Cindy, the balloon animal artist. Stood in 100 temp with 75 dew point making balloon animals for kids and somehow not going postal

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Per twitter, womens pro franchise announcement coming tomorrow. Minnesota NY and Boston get the 3 US teams with Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto rounding out

[Kepler]

Per twitter, womens pro franchise announcement coming tomorrow. Minnesota NY and Boston get the 3 US teams with Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto rounding out

This is the ideal hockey league.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I don’t see how you could not do Minnesota, despite the usual expected whining from east coasters on social media who think we should have been tossed out for geography. I don’t think any of the US east coast has near the women’s and girls development yet that MN has. Which means including them in the league is a good thing.

i was so proud last week at Edina. I went to watch the NHL players but was mesmerized for a bit by the action on a secondary rink. There were so many girls playing - was at least four teams out there about squirts age. All girls and gosh, are they good.

edina sent us a mailer about what our tax money is upgrading Braemar facilities and how they need to add more indoor ice rinks so our ungodly number of boy and girl youth teams can stop struggling to find home ice time. Given that Edina already has more indoor rinks than all of Seattle it came across as hilarious to my visiting Seattle family, but the sheer number of youth players here creates a huge demand.

and that’s why you put a women’s team here- the organic growth and infrastructure is already here and needs to be supported while also trying to grow the game in new markets

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Natalie Darwitz named GM for MN womens Leo hockey team

**** yea

[Jimjamesak]

It’s been picked up pretty quick that Carter Hart and a few of the other players from Canada’s 2018 WJC team (the team under investigation) have gone dark on social media, setting accounts to private and deleting posts.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

It’s been picked up pretty quick that Carter Hart and a few of the other players from Canada’s 2018 WJC team (the team under investigation) have gone dark on social media, setting accounts to private and deleting posts.

Thinking of them in this difficult time

[Jimjamesak]

Thinking of them in this difficult time

I think it’s more that some news might be dropping this evening.

No better time to bury a story like this than opening weekend of the NFL season.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

I think it’s more that some news might be dropping this evening.

No better time to bury a story like this than opening weekend of the NFL season.

Yeah sorry I was being sarcastic

[Jimjamesak]

Yeah sorry I was being sarcastic

No need to be sorry. Sarcasm is a perfectly valid response.