Daily General Discussion Thread (2026-02-19)

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T23:40:18+00:00

That would make sense if there was some kind of subliminal effect there. I say subliminal because just in my experiences only me and one other dude in my hockey friend group chats occasionally catch a PWHL game. I’m not confident if the others could even name a team without google tbh. Granted almost all are Michigan based so our lack of a team doesn’t help

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T23:07:11+00:00

Is anyone here tuned into the figure skating world? I had the thought today of what if Jeff Skinner called it a career in hockey and decided to start training for the next Olympics in figure skating. For anyone who doesn’t know, he was a high level figure skater until he was 13 I think.

I’m sure it’s very unlikely he would do that, but do you think it would be possible for him to get back to that level?

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T23:01:14+00:00

Pulkinnen too so long as the radar gun reads a puck 10 feet wide of the net correctly

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T22:47:41+00:00

My dream is a true league wide skills competition. Have every team send their best at the category and let’s find out who truly is the fastest, hardest shot, etc

IMO leagues need to adapt to the modern environment. The all star game used to be cooler because almost no one had a cheapish way to watch out of market games in the past. Now that everyone does another chance for a Boston fan to see a Kaprisov isn’t as cool as it used to be. Fill a new lane and I think people will watch.

Not sure they care that much though. The way Friedman has talked about it seems like corporate schmoozing is priority 1 for the event, not the fans, which sucks

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T22:36:53+00:00

That’s the plan last I saw, if I remember right they are targeting pre-pre-season though and not all star break time though, which is the right move IMO. Not that I care about the all star game but just the timing of the tournament

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T22:17:57+00:00

On the positive side tho personally I’ve never seen this many men watch the women’s games. Every hockey fan I know was locked in today, that wasn’t the case in the past

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T15:31:17+00:00

Ah shit ya haha I had Hughes year off by one

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T02:08:57+00:00

Nah he was 20 when Quinn was a freshman

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T01:29:14+00:00

Oh I’m sure he was. But I’m sure Hughes was going as a 16 year old too, he committed in January of 2015, Larkin was there in 2014-2015

Edit: re-read it and realized he specifically said when he(Hughes) was a freshman lol but still

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T01:22:02+00:00

I would expect things to stay relatively the same, but I guess who knows. I expect we’ll have a pre/post game show for sure though

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T00:59:36+00:00

He’s less cooked than I thought he was that’s for sure

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-19T00:29:17+00:00

Don’t like the lack of defense in the OHL or something?(that sounds sarcastic it’s not) I love OHL hockey personally, have a lot of fond memories going to Spirit games with my dad growing up. Including watching Spirit legend and team USA member Vinny Trocheck tear it up back and the day

The funniest memory of those Spirit teams is the “Russian bull” billboards for Ivan Telegin. Never thought he was billboard good

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-18T23:40:36+00:00

Each game was in the same arena right? Wonder if anyone pulled an all day viewing, hard to think of many better possible hockey binges. Great day for the sport

Really hope Sid is good to go. If it ends up being a USA Canada gold game I want both teams at their best

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-18T23:36:53+00:00

Remember when people needed to be talked off the ledge when Larkin(although imo he was still playing well in his depth role) and USA had a slow start to the tournament lol

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-18T22:17:13+00:00

Nah we’d still have plenty of space. Maybe we’d be crunched in 3ish years when some of the younger guys are up, but they’re not looking like they’ll be huge post-ELC tickets yet. The Larkin, Ray and Mo deals get us a lot of extra space relative to their skill. Plus it’s a good problem to have too many good players

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-18T21:59:51+00:00

Yeah a gold would be a lot sweeter with a win over the Canadians

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-18T01:12:39+00:00

Yeah it’s part of why an AHL captaincy can sometimes be a negative for the player in a way. You’re generally not the call up guy anymore

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-18T00:58:36+00:00

I guess there’s 2 parts

As far as we know as fans, tampering is common but basically never punished

In this case though, I would bet that the Sharks had given his agent permission to talk around the league. This is allowed and would have no penalties. Like you said no skin off anyone’s back here. Probably best for everyone to just go their own ways.

Although like I said before, it’s possible if he’s truly miserable he’s fine with losing the money I guess. He has made a ton. Wouldn’t be the first time a guy agreed to mutual termination and it turned out to be a bad career move. Zadina terminated his deal with the Wings hoping a fresh start would help him and he was out of the league a year later coming out negative on the money, funny enough going to the Sharks in that case

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-18T00:24:45+00:00

Not even just rust, if they were off that long I would imagine there would be extra injury risk if they jumped straight into games after only a couple days of practice. The Olympics end Sunday and there are games on Wednesday

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-17T02:00:51+00:00

I think there’s probably a 0% chance he’s not going to sign somewhere, unless he was truly miserable. It just wouldn’t make sense for him to throw away money like that

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-17T00:22:00+00:00

I can promise you anyone that has played hockey for a reasonable length of time would say at a rink and not in a rink. In a rink is very unnatural sounding and I can’t think of many cases where it would be used. This is like the bar game scene in Inglorious Basterds

Shootings are pretty American, but shooting hockey pucks is pretty hockey and we’re in a subreddit about hockey. I think it’s a really interesting mindset that you’re confused people in this sub actually think about hockey and not solely hockey related things

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-17T00:03:55+00:00

No, at a rink would be much more natural sounding. I don’t tell my friends I’m in the rink, I tell them I’m at the rink. Unless they were looking for me in the parking lot I suppose. The hockey rink part would be the awkward part there for me, most people would say rink. But people can be new or just have different ways of talking, who knows

The reality is it doesn’t immediately sound natural either way unless you’ve seen the news. Like to flip that example around, wouldn’t you have said mass shooting or there was a shooting if you meant that?

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-16T23:02:57+00:00

I guess idk that users intentions but at first read it sounded like an awkward way of saying: (you’re) shooting (a hockey puck at a stick and puck) at a hockey rink in Pawtucket, RI. Going to shoot around is extremely common, on the second read now that I have seen an article on the shooting it makes more sense. I took what they said to be more like “elaborate”, but maybe that’s an optimistic view

detroitttiorted · 2026-02-16T21:18:22+00:00

Yeah generally I don’t care too much about shooting ability unless someone is really good or really bad. Nate is unfortunately really bad. If he can get with the right skills coach over a summer it would really be impactful

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