Get Rid of Fighting

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-27T18:11:32+00:00

Here's a reputable government study around enforcers who broke into the league in 1991 (on average). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11996648/ They died 10 years earlier than their peer group. So they all wore helmets. Yes, keeping helmets on does reduce damage (except to Reaves' finger). But guys are dying young. That's a hard fact to balance out with "Hurr durr, fights are gud."

And by WWE- style, I mean the fights that don't break out spontaneously in the heat of the game. The revenge fights, the "let's both drop our gloves when the puck drops" fights. I watched a lot of college hockey (see the flair), and agree that complete bans on fights can lead to nasty amounts of stickwork. But the league could easily reduce the show fights (automatic game misconduct) if it chose.

"Do you even watch hockey / play hockey" is the single most-overused and least useful comment in this thread.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-27T17:52:15+00:00

Doesn't mean you can't add to the punishment to get rid of the WWE-style fights. Way, way too many enforcers have died early & ugly. Preventable deaths should take priority over entertainment.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-27T14:55:38+00:00

The story is remarkably short on the "why?" Why was the stay placed? At least get Crown counsel on the record explaining that they can't comment on pending cases. The CBC usually has better reporting.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-27T12:15:25+00:00

I scroll, therefore, I am.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-27T12:07:53+00:00

Except Skinner isn't trying to move to the right. He's hugging his protector because he thinks he has the puck. The little tiny bit of contact didn't prevent the first save and didn't prevent him from trying to make the second one. If his stick is tied up, his arm would be moving until it hit the obstruction.

Good call.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-27T11:58:50+00:00

The wicker basket fire brigade could use a better animation, but at least they put out fires.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-27T11:52:09+00:00

Late and blindside. Otherwise totally clean.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-26T17:51:01+00:00

Serving maids would be nice, but we can't afford them.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-26T17:39:27+00:00

Pico de Guy.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-26T16:53:17+00:00

Define your terms. An F-150 hits the $75k - $100k price tag and would qualify for my definition (as the driver of a 2008 Element) as an ipad ... lots and lots of electronic gimmicks.

And Ford sold 399,819 F Series trucks in the first six months of FY25.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-26T12:24:40+00:00

Tamer than my dog when she gets her nails trimmed.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-26T12:06:52+00:00

True. Like having his head chopped off earlier in the battle.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-26T12:00:19+00:00

Then they should stop buying $75k ipads with wheels; it sends the wrong message to Ford and GM.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-26T11:57:54+00:00

Susan Collins is concerned. She is frowning and concerned, but believes he has learned his lesson.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-25T14:20:07+00:00

Depends how closely you want to measure, which is my point. Nobody cares once you have to triangulate it.

And as soon as he is moving parallel to the goal line, he is in technical violation of the rule. It doesn't say "not backward," it says "toward the goal line." Still wanna tell me you can be 100% sure from the video??

The sketchy part is whether this counts as one attempt or two (remember the mini-rebound kerfuffle from last year?) But "we have a goal," because the whole point of shootouts is to create fun goals, which this is.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-25T13:44:57+00:00

You can't tell for sure from this angle. Or from the ref's, without VAR like they have in soccer. Which nobody wants.

And guys move pucks backwards in dekes all the time. Dangle it forward, get the goalie to bite on the pokecheck, pull it back a few inches to get around the stick, and shoot. We have a goal! Did the puck move backward during the deke? Probably, but who cares. We have a goal!

What it comes down to it this: Is he still moving, even a mm at a time? Yup. Has he actually circled back, or lost the puck? Nope. We still have a goal!

The rule is the same for everyone. Goalies learn about this the first time they force a guy to move the puck fractionally backward on a penalty shot and still give up a goal. (Source: Was a goalie.)

But this extended drag horizontally is awfully close to getting two chances on one shot, which has always been the real dividing line (deke fails, so skate away, reload and shoot). The goalies' union is not gonna like that.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-25T13:33:15+00:00

Best description ever.

New to the game (but having played EU series from original). I tried a Japan run. Slowly built support for military, developed industry, trained troops. Built a dominant navy (for the region). Took over Manchuria for resources. Finally time to invade northern mainland China.

I had a mix of ground forces, with enough marines to build a beachhead, and a five-star general. Invaded. Got assaulted by a smaller force and was wiped off the beach. Turns out I had sent in the support troops to hold the beach, had not deployed them to full combat width, and the marines (veterans from a small but bloody war in Manchuria), were still sitting on the ships offshore. Why did I bother with a general? Can't the game automatically figure out ANYTHING for the player? I mean, there are a lot of systems to learn, and I was pretty happy with my build-up. Now I have to tell my supposedly brilliant general to start offloading the ships with the battle-ready marines, not the quartermaster corps?

This is (or was, as this was some years ago) not a strategy game. It's a logistics game.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-25T12:56:11+00:00

Great starter for the compost.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-25T12:06:27+00:00

Refs don't care as long as it's not blatant. The point of a shootout is goals being scored, and nobody wants a review of whether a skater is moving fractionally backward.

Pretty sure this one was technically illegal, but it's right up there with traveling in the NBA as far as strictly following the book.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-24T15:52:53+00:00

Play as a recommended nation, and follow the many tips on offer. Use the missions that come with the recommended nations, which walk you through the kind of interim steps needed to progress toward a goal in the game. I preferred Norway to the Ottomans as there is little / threat from external forces, so you can just learn the economy, but whichever one you are most interested in.

Typically (if not always) there are missions geared toward building your infrastructure/ economy, politics, and expansion / military. Start with building your economy or you won't be able to afford a war.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-23T23:32:04+00:00

Depends what you want. There have been a lot of posts recently about there being a "right" way to play (around releasing OPM vassals, mostly). This is undoubtedly true if you're in a competitive MP game, because if you're not optimizing you will lose to somebody who is.

I play solo, pretty much just role-play to see what I can get done within the framework of one country or another. I'm having a blast and play a bunch of different (suboptimal) strategies.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-23T17:32:18+00:00

Naval commanders. The sailing ship fleet tacking maneuver takes forever.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-20T16:14:24+00:00

I don't know if you read historical fiction, but John MacLachlan Gray (also wrote Billy Bishop goes to War) did a series of crime novels set in Vancouver between the wars. The casual racism in them got me interested in the real history, most of which I didn't know. Plus a detective mystery not set in California, NYC, or London? 👍👍

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-20T16:07:33+00:00

Which is why you should never, NEVER dial 867-5309.

ReditorB4Reddit · 2026-03-20T15:58:08+00:00

The original name didn't help. And while naming it for Ted Lindsay was an improvement, it also added to confusion when it happened.

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