I don’t think they are that big of a deal UNLESS you know of another expansion team draft is coming up…There’s lots of rumors that the NHL wants another team(s) in a few years (Salt Lake City/Atlanta)
It’s astonishing to me how often it’s mentioned in expansion talk, but ATLANTA? WTF, Gary. The only city to have and lose two NHL franchises and Gary wants to go back for a third bite of the apple in Jawjaw?
Just the fact that Atlanta slides into the conversation every time the next expansion is mentioned makes one wonder what, exactly, is Gary’s problem with Quebec City such that Atlanta gets so much airplay even as a #2 option? Did somebody in Quebec pee on Gary’s poutine at one point? Did a Qubecquios bully steal Gary’s lunch money when he was a kid? Does he think that any two people having a conversation in French just MUST be talking about him?
This Atlanta expansion thing is almost as much of a mystery to me as…
Back to the Wild, nobody in Minnesota should be hitting the panic button. Let’s save that for in case they lose the next game. THEN we can hit the panic button.
Cross-checking. The only rule that’s kind of not a rule depends on a multitude of situational factors. I have no idea why this is so hard for the NHL. Every game you see the refs pass on multiple cross-checks that they were staring right at. If it was the injury to Sidney that got the NHL to finally make slashing a real penalty that was much more consistently called, so what’s it going to take with cross-checking? The bullsh!t cross-checks in the back in front of the net (finally!) started to get called with moderate regularity, but that only serves to highlight the fact that it’s still not a thing on most of the rest of the rink. Dumb, dumber, and Gary’s NHL, I guess.
I didn’t really expect much from the Wild this season and to quote a sage Minnesota philosopher, the late/great Denny Green, “They were who we thought they were.” If nothing else, it’s going to be fun to watch MAF pass Roy for #2 in all time wins.
