It's an American site and there are plenty of Americans in the chat so I'm sure it's OK. It also has a play money betting app which is fun to use. I ended up with a very small profit last year which is not easy betting on hockey.
It's not real money betting. They also have a predictions contest with a system of ranking members. I ended the season in about 300th place out of over 30,000. Not too shabby for my first full season of watching hockey.
Another stupid blackout. I tried your site but it keeps asking me to download and install stuff which is the hallmark of malware-laden sites. I think I'll stick with the VPN method. I was just testing the site (I won't watch this game anyway, I'm doing something else now).
Yeah just ignore any requests and close the page to get back to the hockey. I've been using it for a couple of years with no issues. Good start to the season for the Leafs with a 2-1 win over the Habs. Not the most exiting game to watch and the Leafs struggled without Matthews but Engval quickly equalised the opening goal from the Habs and Nylander got the winner with a classy dummy to distract the keeper. Soupy Campbell had a great game in goal for the Leafs and Allen did the same for Montreal. The form of both goalies led to the low score.
Thanks for this, I tried my VPN in all possible ways and kept getting a blackout, but then decided to give your site a try not clicking on anything suspicious, and it worked, and I'm watching the game.
Oops, right, I forgot to count their 5th goal, which was an empty net one in the waning seconds of the game. Well, yes, we lost to the Panthers - they are now 10-0-1 but we won all other 9 previous games so if this continues we'll make the playoffs in a high seed. We are 9-1-0 and we have a game in hand. I'm now watching a rather interesting college football game. Clemson 17 - 24 Louisville. 13 minutes left. I'm rooting for Louisville.
Yep. I watched two soccer games, four football games, and one ice hockey game today. I use split screen and my laptop to watch games simultaneously. My TV is capable of splitting the screen two or four ways so I can watch up to 4 games simultaneously, plus one on the laptop. and one on the cell phone. I know it sounds crazy but I've watched 6 games simultaneously in the past. Usually not that many because not all interest me, but sometimes it's a particularly compelling Saturday (or NFL / soccer Sunday) and I watch several simultaneously.
I have been silent because I am a Habs (Canadiens) loyal fan and they have been as bad as I can remember in my 65 years. Tpo they they stink is an understatement. I was not too upset the Canes signed Kkukkamemmee for 6 million. I think he is too soft and inconsistent to be a major centre. With the Canes he can be a flaky left winger. Our problems start with a lameduck GM who wanted a lot more money than he was offered and is basically sulking in lame duck final year pose. All the players he signed have quit. They are still on ice but they have just turtled. The coach is useless. Montreal needs to move on and find a new GM and then Coach. Our defense is as bad as it gets. Our offence without any d-men leading the puck are not coming in with the puck but dumping it in and trying to get it back checking which is stupid and unimaginative and ruins the otherwise skating they could get from Hoffman, Toffoli, Druin, Dvorak in full speed but the dmen can't pass the puck let alone skate. They are slow and useless at directing plays. Chicago and Toronto also came out weak and Chicago was the first to fire the coach, Montreal will have to fire their coach soon. The losing record is just too much. Lat night they blew a 2 goal lead to Vegas and lost 5 to 2. The NHL this year has had two huge legal issues. One dealing with Eischel. I sided with Eischel feeling Eischel's doctor should have the last say on his neck operation his former team Buffalo did not agree and felt their choice of a safer neck procedure was to be forced on him. Eischel refused and now is a Vegas Night. In theory now that he get the neck surgery of his choosing, he should be back in May if they are in the playoffs. I read with great interest that issue because the NHL player's union blew that one big time. They have a second opinion clause in their agreement but if you get one that disagree's with the team doctor;s diagnosis you can't over turn the original diagnosis or go to a neutral doctor at that point for a 3rd opinion. In this particular case I am no doctor but I believe the neck surgery he wanted had good results and hockey players, UFA and football athletes have had it and the recovery time was less and more importantly sems to cut down on the need for future surgeries. I am no doctor though so I fefer on that toneurologists and orthopedic specialists. I just do not like how hockey players have no final say in their medical best interests. Next was a serious sex scandal in Chicago.That one from a legal perspective which I can talk about is inexcusable. Chicago sat on a reported sexual assault of one of their hockey players and the Commissioner and head of the Hockey player's union did nothing either. Serious shortfalls arising from this cover up still have to be resolved and Bettman is refusing to deal with them and the player's union head Donald Fehr has to be removed and I myself think Bettman should resign. What happened was that Chicago got a 2 million dollar fine. Joel Quennville the choch and Stan Bowman the GM at the time of the cover up as well as the teams CEO ands Vice President from the time of the coverup are gone from hockey but questions remain how this was covered up over 10 years. If you are a Canes or Florida Panthers fans you would be happy right now. If I went by today, Canes and Flordia look like the 2 to beat but do not write off the Islanders and the Flyers and San Jose with no pressure on either of them to win big might do just that if their goalies don't fail. Colorado is underachieving. Edomonton looks real good but they need a goalie and I would not be surprised if Chicago sends him there for a 2nd round draft choice and goalie back. If Fkleury or another good goalie goes to Edmo watch them too. Very good team and McDavid is by far no.1. The aging Ovechkin in Washington is playing great and Washington is doing good too but I think Florida or the Canes, then put Islanders and Wash on the next level and San Jose and Philly as sleepers. The rest of the league I expect nothing. The Leafs just do not have good enough defence to be relied on to be consistent this year. If Eischel is back on the ice this year, I am not sure he will make a difference but next year yes.
Rugby is one of those sports which is more fun to watch in person than on t.v. I could never play I was too small. I tried but was seriously hurt. I was too damn light. I played football but as a defensive punt returner and half back and had to stop as I was just too light. I loved soccer for that reason and was a goalie and played baseball and lacrosse. Hockey and baseball I loved to play, lacrosse too. You can be smaller and still play. Soccer too of course but I was a soccer goalie and while I loved it trying to stop the shots was really just a comical exercise. Rugby is a sport for a short squat guy with a low centre of gravity and a bug ass and chunky legs. Interestingly the vets rugby I have seen played was with women at University of Toronto. Awesome. They play hard. Still you want a real sport try Australian rules football. Wow.Makes the UFA look like figure skating. Aussies are crazy.
I have to disagree with your assessment of rugby players being short squat guys. Rugby is a game for men of all sizes and shapes because of all the different positions. True that hookers and prop forwards are often short squat players but height is a big advantage in the lineout so locks, flankers and number 8s are usually tall. Flankers and number 8s need a bit of speed too so cannot be too heavy. The backs also need a lot of speed and stamina combined with strength so are rarely short and squat. Scrum halves are often short wiry players. If you were short and light then you would have been ideal as a hooker or scrum half. In my playing days I was tall, thin, fast and fit so I played as a flanker (wing forward) but could also have played in the backs. I did play on the wing a few times to take advantage of my speed but found it frustrating to get so little time with the ball.
I of course defer to you. I was over generalizing sharing personal anecdotes and being very subjective. Should have been clearer for the reasons you said. I am just under 5 , 10 and was 130 when I played so everyone seemed squat and chunky who killed me. I never saw really like you said the others. I was lol a hooker and continually demolished. You are of course absolutely correct. Forgive the tainted generalization. I just assume those muscular low centre of gravity guys never got caught. Those tall guys I never saw. I was down with my face in the mud gurgling lol. You know what without generalizing inaccurately...the part I love about rugby was lateral passing. It made the game what it is. In pro football we only see it in college football. In the Canadian Football League you see more of it because everyone is smaller and we have only 3 downs and so qb's still can scramble but today everything is a slot pass. Those lateral plays were always exciting. Keeps you guessing. I used to love the early NFL days when QB's still scrambled and ran and passed sideways or runners did in specific plays. Not anymore. Again I generalize for discussion purposes. Thanks.
I've often wondered about that myself. I guess it's the fear of losing possession that makes it such a rare move.
I'm fairly new to it. This is only my third season of following hockey. I had to pick a Canadian team to support (up the Commonwealth) and settled for the Leafs due to an online friend being a big fan. By the time I learned that the Leafs haven't won the cup since 1967 it was too late...
That's a great reason to be a fan, though. It's easy to be a fan of a winning team, but a test to your loyalty with a team like the Leafs. If you read up on the Harold Ballard years, you'll understand a whole lot more. I think their time is coming....hang in there.
Leafs fans obviously everyone must like Tavares regardless of teams we support. You know why. He is the heart and soul. Mathews is the no. 2 centre next to you know who on Edmonton but for now he is not because I think his wrist is not 100% and he looks listless some games. Ovechkin, Draisaitl, Kopityar, Tavares, Stamkos, right now in the league are better than him game by game but he is too good to stay lifeless all season. Why he is invisible some games I do not know. What ails Mariner I did not know. You need some blue liners and a back up goalie who is not injured all the time. Hey Leafs fans I would give you Kulak, Niku, Gallagher, Paquette and Poehling for Mariner. Think about it.Call me back. I am on the line with Vancouver. I will give Price and Romanov, a prospect for Hughes, JT Miller and a goalie back. Or I trade Price and Dvorak to Edmo for Draisaitl. Then I get Theodore from Vegas for Petry and Anderson. I am then firing the coach and GM and hiring Louis Robitailles as Head coach but leaving Luc Robitailles, as assistant coach and I hire Mathieu Darche as GM, VP Hockey Operations, bump Scott Mallenby to President Hockey Operations and CEO.
You can have Marner for a six-pack of Bud Lite and a jar of maple syrup for all I care. If you can't score in the playoffs you're not worth the salary cap. I'll even throw in Matthews' moustache to sweeten the deal.
