🏒 No!!  Despite the idiocy often seen on social media, the NHL does not engage in behind-the-scenes manipulation to ensure a playoff series evolves in favour of a particular team.
🏒 No!!  NHL referees aren’t as dumb as they often seem. They are supervised by former referees, who were supervised by former referees, who were supervised by former referees who were taught that “managing” the game via make-up calls and fluctuating standards—based on the score and time remaining—is the appropriate way to avoid having an impact on the final score. Which of course has an impact on the final result anyway. Just a different one.
🏒 No!!  NHL teams shouldn’t wear their dark jerseys at home all season long. To ensure fans see the best of the various uniform designs across the league, the home team should don their white jerseys for the first half of the regular-season and then switch to their dark jerseys at the halfway point. In the playoffs, the home team should have a choice.
🏒 No!!  Interviewing NHL coaches on the bench during a stoppage in play is not interesting. The questions asked are brainless and the responses are cliche-filled nothing burgers.
🏒 No!!  Trashing skilled NHL point-getters who don’t defend well, while praising defensive-minded NHLers who rarely score does not make sense. But its prevalent.
🏒 No!!  Firing NHL coaches because the team’s GM built a feckless roster does not solve anything…for very long.
🏒 No!!  Nick Kypreos does not write the Toronto Star column featuring his byline each week. On radio, he has the vocabulary of a grade-school child. Suddenly, he turns into a wordsmith extraordinaire at the keyboard?
🏒 No!!  Connor McDavid will not be an Edmonton Oiler in two years’ time. Yes, Auston Matthews will still be a Maple Leaf two years from now. The question is: Will they be teammates?
🏒 No!!  Diving should not be referred to as “embellishment” when announcing this infraction. Perhaps “two minutes for a horrible, unconvincing, laughable dive” would reduce its frequency?
🏒 No!!  Local beat-writers covering NHL teams are not knowledgeable hockey people. They went to school to learn how to punctuate properly. And suddenly, upon graduation they are instant hockey experts?
