NHL season should spark new rivalries, reignite old ones

NHL website ^ | January 10, 2021 | Dan Rosen

[airborne]

Division realignment and the intradivision schedules have the 2020-21 NHL season primed to be a sprint to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, complete with the intensity, emotion and animosity typically reserved for the spring months.

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Players, coaches and executives from across the NHL agree that the 56-game season will create team and player rivalries that didn't previously exist, or that were bubbling under the surface, and intensify the more known rivalries, both historic and recently developed.

[airborne]

"There's a reason the NHL plays their playoffs within the division, it's to create those rivalries and that hatred, and we don't get a lot of that during the regular season bumping around from city to city with absolutely no back-to-backs against the same team in the same city," Vegas Golden Knights coach Peter DeBoer said.

"I think you combine the shortened season, playing teams multiple times, including back-to-backs and some four times in a row, you're going to get a lot of hatred on the ice and a lot of familiarity with each other and a lot of battles that spill over from Game 1 to Game 2 to Game 3.

And that's why, for me, playoff hockey in the NHL is the greatest sports event there is to watch, and we're going to get, I think, a good dose of that during the regular season."

[CatOwner]

Didn’t the NHL end up kneeling at some point in its prior season?

[WalterSkinner]

..drop the puck!!!

[airborne]

NHL 2021 SEASON BEGINS TOMORROW!

Hockey Ping!

(let me know if you want on or off the ping list)

[Alberta's Child]

Yep.

This incident marked the last time I ever watched an NHL game:

The comical side of it is that the morons who arranged it made it look an awful lot like a Klan rally -- with three black dudes in the middle surrounded by a bunch of white guys with sticks ready to beat them into submission.

[joethedrummer]

“Didn’t the NHL end up kneeling at some point in its prior season?“

Yes they did.

Screw the NHL, just like the NFL, NBA and MLB.

They only want Marxists backing, we should let them have what they asked for.

[EEGator]

All 3 blacks...

[Alberta's Child]

Thanks for the ping, Airborne ... but please don’t bother pinging me to any NHL-related threads.

[airborne]

[airborne]

OK.

[airborne]

And the Dumbass (Doumba) wasn’t playing and his team never made it to the playoff round.

Karma served cold.

[EEGator]

I watch zero sports now. I’m actually somewhat glad they went “woke”.
I’ve read a ton of books, taking up walking/hiking, yoga and meditation.

[kdmhcdcfld]

NHL?

Doesn’t ring a bell.

[colorado tanker]

And Comcast and Kroenke still refuse to settle their feud, which keeps Av's games off most cable networks.

But, there are ways. Just sayin'.

[airborne]

Yeah, my son showed me how to access the TSN broadcast of the IIBF tournament.

It was nice seeing the USA boys end Canada’s 6 game streak of not trailing for a single second!

[TomGuy]

Previously, the games have been on FoxSports regional, but they are not currently listed as being televised.

[EQAndyBuzz]

At the end of 2021, when we discuss what was the best thhing to happen, it will be the NHL Season starting.

LGR

[dfwgator]

Don’t care. I’d rather watch the KHL.

[captain_dave]

Boycott all professional (sellout) sports.

[colorado tanker]

We got that tournament on our cable system. It was fun to watch as a warmup to the upcoming NHL season. And it was great to see the Red, White and Blue win the tourney!

Plus, Canada's MVP is joining the Av's as a starter this season!