2025-26 NHL Season

[cberkas]

 

[cberkas]

Switzerland beat Sweden at the Worlds and plays Norway to get to the Championship 

[siouxfaninseattle]

10 hours ago, cberkas said:

 

Hate to hear of anyone passing away at that age, but he was certainly not many fans favorite player.

[cberkas]

17 hours ago, siouxfaninseattle said:

Hate to hear of anyone passing away at that age, but he was certainly not many fans favorite player.

Most are thinking caused by CTE.

Not sure if the NHL does it or not, but once a month reach out to players and former players if you need help call this number. NHL teams or the NHL Alumni Association should reach out to former players each month.

Whats shocking and sad is he was carrying the torch for game 3 in Montreal. 

[The Sicatoka]

I have no idea what is and is not goaltender interference. 

[cberkas]

3 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

I have no idea what is and is not goaltender interference. 

Welcome to the club lol

[cberkas]

3-0

There's a 7 Canadians player parley on shots, the under looks to be a good pick

[cberkas]

Blake 

4-0

[cberkas]

Everyone has a goal on that line

[cberkas]

 

[cberkas]

5-0

[sioux rube]

A former Sioux will have his name on the Cup between Blake and Smith and I’m going with Blake and the Canes in 7 

[siouxfaninseattle]

59 minutes ago, sioux rube said:

A former Sioux will have his name on the Cup between Blake and Smith and I’m going with Blake and the Canes in 7 

Good to see that a Sioux player will get his name on the cup. It seems like it has been a while since that happened. Is Smith injured? The last I saw he was skating off the ice holding his arm.

[sioux rube]

16 minutes ago, siouxfaninseattle said:

Good to see that a Sioux player will get his name on the cup. It seems like it has been a while since that happened. Is Smith injured? The last I saw he was skating off the ice holding his arm.

He was at practice today 

[cberkas]

The Norse Vikings just landed and pillaged that bronze medal from the Canadians at Worlds. First ever medal in hockey at the Olympics, World championships, and WJC.

I better get the torches and pitch forks emporium up to Canada as they storm Hockey Canada after a bad year in international play (the U.S. was a turd sandwich at the Worlds).

 

[tnt]

On 5/29/2026 at 5:18 PM, cberkas said:

Most are thinking caused by CTE.

Not sure if the NHL does it or not, but once a month reach out to players and former players if you need help call this number. NHL teams or the NHL Alumni Association should reach out to former players each month.

Whats shocking and sad is he was carrying the torch for game 3 in Montreal. 

I don’t know if Schlossman is hoping to remove checking from men’s hockey like it is for women’s hockey with his focus on Bettman and CTE.  I get that he thinks fighting should be removed, but that isn’t going to remove CTE, as NFL players don’t fight and suffer as well.  
To me, players know that taking blows increases your chances of CTE, so they need to stop engaging in the kind of fighting that we saw at the beginning of the Four Nations game with Canada.  Nobody forced that on anyone, and we saw that hockey can be just as exciting without it, as the Olympics were edge of seat good hockey. Bottom line for me is the players need to look out for their own health first.

[cberkas]

2 minutes ago, tnt said:

I don’t know if Schlossman is hoping to remove checking from men’s hockey like it is for women’s hockey with his focus on Bettman and CTE.  I get that he thinks fighting should be removed, but that isn’t going to remove CTE, as NFL players don’t fight and suffer as well.  
To me, players know that taking blows increases your chances of CTE, so they need to stop engaging in the kind of fighting that we saw at the beginning of the Four Nations game with Canada.  Nobody forced that on anyone, and we saw that hockey can be just as exciting without it, as the Olympics were edge of seat good hockey. Bottom line for me is the players need to look out for their own health first.

The big issue with CTE is that the NHL and NFL deny it is caused by concussions or deny it completely. 

I have no problem with checking in women's hockey, and it has made it more exciting just no open ice hits are allowed currently. All levels of hockey need to call anything to the head a major, the cross checks to the head are getting bad and happen more than checking from behind in games. Fighting in hockey has its time and place, but it is always after a clean hit or a dumb reason like 4 Nations.