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Dallas fired their coach for "unprofessional conduct." since marner spoke out many have been shit talking Babcock and now the league is implementing sensitivity training. Took them long enough. Mos Def hockey's metoo.
 
Sharks fire their headcoaching staff. Yup, deboer, one of his assistants and goalie coach Johan, the moose, hedberg. I'm starting to hear Another One Bites the Dust in my head whenever I read hockey news these days.
 
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Ex-Bruins Goalie Tim Thomas Discusses Living with Brain Injuries, Concussions

Five years after his retirement from the NHL , former goalie Tim Thomas described what he has gone through since leaving the game due to concussions...
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Tim Thomas Drops Puck Ahead Of Bruins-Capitals

Tim Thomas was on hand for Wednesday night's Bruins-Capitals clash, dropping the puck before the game.
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Great to hear about Tim Thomas again.

Conn Smythe and Cup Winner in 2011, later that year refusing to visit Obama at the White house, then announcing that he wouldn't play the 2012-2013 season, Bruins suspending him, and finally the not so succesfull tenure with the Panthers in 2013-2014, followed by a trade to Dallas at the trade deadline - then absolutely no news for five years.
 
Well, it sounds like he was pretty badly concussed, which is terrible, and I'm sorry to hear of his brain injury.

He's still a pretty noted homophobe and his rejection of Obama is...well, a tiny bit racist.
 
Honestly, after the bruins I just figured he retired. A lot of this is news to me, like his stint with the panthers and Dallas. Politics aside, sucks about his injuries, brain injuries suck, you never recover from that. I've had mine since 7 months old and I still struggle with it. All these reports about cte and concussions coming out is hard, many mixed feelings about it. I LOVE hockey, but the athletes I admire are getting hurt and dying at higher rates. It's tough.
 
Just found his last game, a 4-3 loss against the Czech republic, in the quarterfinal of the IIHF WC in Minsk 2014:


It's just so weird with star players vanishing quickly after success.

Another example of this is Jiri Hudler, 76 points in 78 games with the Flames in 2014/2015 and lead the team to the second round in the playoffs, but his production dropped after that, and he ended up with 11 points in 32 games with Dallas in 2016/2017.

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Airline: NHL's Jiri Hudler demanded cocaine and tried to pee on food cart on flight

It appears the plane may not have been the only thing high in the sky
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And then this was the way he ended his career...
 
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Thomas was already 40 though. He had a decent 8 year career. He struggled to make and stay in the NHL. Goalies that were flash in the pan? Jim Carrey and Patrick Lalime.
 
The lockout in 04/05 seemed to take away everything from some players, like with Lalime.

Another example is Marc Denis, the Blue Jackets goaltender. He never found his game again.

I have a Senators shirt that is signed by Lalime btw - Magnus Arvedson who played for the Senators at the time, and is from my hometown Karlstad, brought it to the Senators locker room one day in 2002 for it to be signed by most of the players.
https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/705/magnus-arvedson

Nice memory.
 
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Hall traded to the coyotes! The returns are... Questionable, I guess NJ is hoping for good picks the next two years
 
And in not so surprising slightly older news, Kovalchuk got placed on unconditional waivers in order to terminate his contract. Called it from the moment he came back, too much money on too big a risk.
 
I wish the coaching staff had given Ilya a proper chance. He was the best player on the team before Desjardins was hired as the coach during the last season and this year he seemed to be one of the better (or one of the least bad in this case) players in the team again. Sure, he was overpaid but when you have a defensively weak goal scorer/PP expert you simply do not put him in the fourth line. You give him the big minutes. I'm sure he'll be able to find a new team in the NHL soon.
 
He should have never left, never mind the way he did, and once he did he shouldn't have come back. Just bad all around.
 
He's like a million years old. This isn't the NHL of 2004 when a bunch of 40 year old players suddenly had career renaissances. Today's NHL is fast, and if you don't have the feet for it, you better be damn good. Kovy has a good shot, but the legs have to be there. Look at Crosby and Ovechkin and how hard they train to keep the legs. Look at guys like Marleau and Thornton - too old for the roles they're in. They have the hands - Thornton especially, Jumbo's hands are incredible, top flight, and the only reason he stayed effective so long.

Also, Kovy came to win a Cup. He sure won't with the Kings, so he might take a league minimum contract on a defender that can afford a power play specialist. Then again, he might not.
 
Predators fire their coach. Another one bites the dust. For those of you keeping score at home here's a recap of this season's coaching musical chairs:

It is the sixth coaching change in the NHL this season. Peter DeBoer was fired by the San Jose Sharks on Dec. 11 (replaced by Bob Boughner), Jim Montgomery by the Dallas Stars on Dec. 10 (Rick Bowness), John Hynes by the New Jersey Devils on Dec. 3 (Alain Nasreddine), and Mike Babcock by the Toronto Maple Leafs on Nov. 20 (Sheldon Keefe). Bill Peters resigned as Calgary Flames coach Nov. 29 (Geoff Ward).

Edit: Kovy to MTL on a two way contract. 700,000 at NHL level, 70,000 in the AHL. At least he's finally getting what he's worth, let's see what happens.
 
John Hynes as Preds new coach, he got a job quick after getting canned by NJ lol. I wonder if people are staying away from Babcock due to controversey, price tag or both.
 
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