NHL Season officially suspended until further notice - March 12, 2020

[greenrebellion 415]

Per title...

[F.Michael 4,590]

Yup...By 9am est tomorrow.

[kliq 3,763]

Im not sure this is a given. The NBA had to suspend the season since an entire team is in quarantine with Rudy Gobert having it. As long as there are no NHL players with it, I would imagine the next step would be to play in empty arena's.

55 minutes ago, F.Michael said:

Yup...By 9am est tomorrow.

Did you read something saying that the announcement is to suspend the season vs no fans in the arena?

[Neomaxizoomdweebie 3,083]

Just cancel the rest of the season. Red Wings have already clinched best draft odds. No reason to play out the rest of the games.

[GMRwings1983 8,802]

What do you expect from a league full of snowflakes?  

[F.Michael 4,590]

41 minutes ago, kliq said:

Im not sure this is a given. The NBA had to suspend the season since an entire team is in quarantine with Rudy Gobert having it. As long as there are no NHL players with it, I would imagine the next step would be to play in empty arena's.

Did you read something saying that the announcement is to suspend the season vs no fans in the arena?

No - just what I expect by the commish, the BoG, and NHLPA.

They'll face pressure to do so, or otherwise face the consequences.

[mackel 740]

1 hour ago, kliq said:

Im not sure this is a given. The NBA had to suspend the season since an entire team is in quarantine with Rudy Gobert having it. As long as there are no NHL players with it, I would imagine the next step would be to play in empty arena's.

Did you read something saying that the announcement is to suspend the season vs no fans in the arena?

The Red Wings won't notice much difference at home.

[Scott R Lucidi 675]

I cancelled my season in November!  Hypeless.

[Spongewingredpants 75]

No please don’t cancel. I want to see how the -122 goal differential ends up 

[greenrebellion 415]

Poor ovechkin. Two lockouts and then this.

[toby91_ca 620]

2 hours ago, Spongewingredpants said:

No please don’t cancel. I want to see how the -122 goal differential ends up 

Yeah, it's getting pretty bad.  I was looking at that stat earlier in the year, but hadn't paid much attention recently.  They are firmly in last place by quite a margin, but that stat is even worse.  They are -122, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th worst teams are a combined -130.

[Spongewingredpants 75]

1 hour ago, toby91_ca said:

Yeah, it's getting pretty bad.  I was looking at that stat earlier in the year, but hadn't paid much attention recently.  They are firmly in last place by quite a margin, but that stat is even worse.  They are -122, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th worst teams are a combined -130.

I have to admit I don’t pay attention to it that much but that number sticks out. I don’t remember a team with that number in a while 

[derblaueClaus 1,668]

DEL already ended their season and canceled their playoffs with no winner. If the NHL closes down I hope they do the same. Handing out the Cup without the playoffs would be strange.

[Spongewingredpants 75]

2 minutes ago, derblaueClaus said:

DEL already ended their season and canceled their playoffs with no winner. If the NHL closes down I hope they do the same. Handing out the Cup without the playoffs would be strange.

The Swiss league is probably on the same path. I have tickets :-(

[Learn2LuvIt 245]

IMO- I can totally see a scenario where the NHL suspends the regular season and ends up having the playoffs in April (or later) with either the top 16 seeds as of the day of the suspension announcement, or condensed playoffs with less total teams/seeds to to shorten the playoffs.  Fans able to attend?...who knows.

[amato 3,210]

sure sounds like we're heading to at least a partial suspension of the season
 

 

 

[marcaractac 3,963]

5 minutes ago, amato said:

sure sounds like we're heading to at least a partial suspension of the season
 

 

 

According to Lebrun on twitter, travelling refs have been informed to book flights home. 

[Learn2LuvIt 245]

1 minute ago, marcaractac said:

According to Lebrun on twitter, travelling refs have been informed to book flights home. 

So they're all headed back to the Maple Leaf's Head Quarters?

[amato 3,210]

if the NHL suspends the rest of the regular season, but returns for the normal start of playoffs, these would be the matchups. 

At least we'd get a couple good rivalry matchups.... 

EASTERN CONFERENCE
Bruins vs. Blue Jackets
Capitals vs. Hurricanes
Lightning vs. Maple Leafs
Flyers vs. Penguins

WESTERN CONFERENCE
Blues vs. Predators
Golden Knights vs. Jets
Avalanche vs. Stars
Oilers vs. Flames

[marcaractac 3,963]

They should cancel the draft lottery and leave it based on the standings 

[derblaueClaus 1,668]

7 minutes ago, amato said:

if the NHL suspends the rest of the regular season, but returns for the normal start of playoffs, these would be the matchups. 

At least we'd get a couple good rivalry matchups.... 

EASTERN CONFERENCE
Bruins vs. Blue Jackets
Capitals vs. Hurricanes
Lightning vs. Maple Leafs
Flyers vs. Penguins

WESTERN CONFERENCE
Blues vs. Predators
Golden Knights vs. Jets
Avalanche vs. Stars
Oilers vs. Flames

That Oilers vs.Flames matchup .

[krsmith17 7,191]

9 minutes ago, marcaractac said:

They should cancel the draft lottery and leave it based on the standings 

Bill Daly has coronavirus. Lottery canceled.

[toby91_ca 620]

1 hour ago, Spongewingredpants said:

I have to admit I don’t pay attention to it that much but that number sticks out. I don’t remember a team with that number in a while 

I looked it up, the last time a team had a +/- this bad was 20 years ago (99-00 Thrashers)

[toby91_ca 620]

25 minutes ago, amato said:

if the NHL suspends the rest of the regular season, but returns for the normal start of playoffs, these would be the matchups. 

At least we'd get a couple good rivalry matchups.... 

EASTERN CONFERENCE
Bruins vs. Blue Jackets
Capitals vs. Hurricanes
Lightning vs. Maple Leafs
Flyers vs. Penguins

WESTERN CONFERENCE
Blues vs. Predators
Golden Knights vs. Jets
Avalanche vs. Stars
Oilers vs. Flames

Significant challenge would be that they couldn't just take the standings as they stand today because some teams have played 68 games, some 71 (if I'm accurate).  

[Learn2LuvIt 245]

6 minutes ago, toby91_ca said:

Significant challenge would be that they couldn't just take the standings as they stand today because some teams have played 68 games, some 71 (if I'm accurate).  

Yeah agree.  However, in this situation and if they suspend and go off of current standings....A LOT of teams that don't make it in the playoffs or have what they feel are undeserved low seeds will have something to complain about.  Be it: we didn't get to play as many games as the other teams, we were just coming into the easier part of our schedule, headed into a long home stand, we were set to have top player(s) just returning from injury, etc.  Some teams will feel screwed by this for sure, no way around it.  What's the alternative though?  If you cancel the season entirely then you'll still have teams feeling as if "this was our year to win the Cup!" and they're getting screwed.  If you continue to play the season out then you're perceived as barbarians who'll be on cable news every night.  I don't see any real "wins wins" with this.