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You see, that's the problem with the kids these days, they've lost all respect for themselves

Yea, I knew the jogging wouldn't end well, but it felt fine at the time and I did it anyway. It's like doing jello shots and banging a fat chick, it feels good at the time, but you regret it the next day. ...gonna do the biking now, like I should have from the start.

Switzerland is green-lighting indoor sports for adults starting Monday, so looks like we can play roller hockey this summer. But my knees are still too busted up from jogging, so not sure if I can manage it. How's that for irony?

Canada finally played with some authority in their win against Norway. Or Norway just played like sht. Anyway, important game as they are each fighting for the second-to-last spot in their group. No relegation this year? So the bottom 4 teams just go home after the preliminary round?

I haven't seen so many people in one place since... oh, nevermind

Glad to hear it. Those kind of weird injuries like you described, from lifting something heavy or in an awkward way, usually go away by themselves in a couple of days, or worst case weeks. Yea, stretching is good for those. I also try to avoid medication, unless absolutely necessary, since that doesn't treat the root cause, just masks the symptoms. I had some chronic knee pains a while back. I could play, but it would really bother me. I'd only take painkillers when I had a game. My wife's parents are doctors in Ukraine, so I got some good stuff, I think it was some kind of semi-legal snake venom or something. Whatever it was, I felt no pain. You could probably shoot me with a .45 and I'd still keep playing Check with your Doctor and Lawyer before taking any Ukrainian medications

In other news Belarus beat Sweden 1-0 yesterday ... anyone seen Tommy Salo lately? https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2021/wm/gamecenter/playbyplay/24356/13-swe-vs-blr

Canada dropped their first two games and is tied for last with Italy. Tell your cuz they need to put it in gear before they get relegated

Anyone watching? Congrats to Latvia for beating Canada 2-0 for the first time ever https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2021/wm/news/25629/latvia_stuns_canada True, Canada doesn't have their A-Team there, and it's early on in the tournament where teams are still "finding their legs", but anyway, well done Latvia.

No way anyone could fault Perry on that. The initial hit on Tavares was maybe a little unwarranted, but still Tavares would have been fine, if not for getting plowed by Perry, who had zero time to get out of the way. Yea, freak accident. Not good to see. Hope he fully recovers.

I'm not really big into running, I started a little during the lockdown because there was nothing else to do. My 14 year old could still have training 3x per week, so while he was on the ice, instead of sitting in the car and waiting (parents not allowed in the rink anymore), I would go jogging, I'd do about 10k in one hour. 3x per week. But I think my knees weren't ready for that ...and I thought goaltending was rough on the knees... maybe I'll try biking instead.. *edit* My son had some knee issues a few months ago, and the doctor gave him these knee braces. He doesn't need them anymore, so I tried them a few hours today, and WOW, I don't know what voodoo is in there, but my knees felt REALLY good REALLY fast. I'm gonna wear these MF's every day now.

Last season we only got to play from Aug-Oct then they banned contact sports in Switzerland for people over 16 (my 14 year old could train the whole season, but no games). It's been pretty tough with no hockey for me, I've played the last 25 years without missing a season, and I'm 50 so it's half my life. I've taken up jogging and working out at home to compensate, but it's not the same. Actually, I blew my knees out now after running 30k a week for a few months. So now I'm just stuck doing upper body stuff. I really hope they allow us a regular season in Sept. Or at least regular ice trainings. The restrictions/lockdowns are taking mental/physical tolls on people that they fail to show in the COVID curve charts.

The US should have gone metric in the 70s-80s. It makes sense, everything divided by 10. I mean 3/64", how the fk do you measure that? I'm looking at a ruler (inches) right now and it makes no sense. There's only 16 notches per inch. I have to imagine 4 more spaces in between those notches?

Nice. Pop-up lights are cool. Until they stop popping up/down. I had an 80-something Firebird and the lights just stayed up permanently. Or if I had a date or wanted to look cool, I'd hand crank them up/down. I guess you could always buy a new relay, but that depends on how much money you have and what your priorities are

That's for the A team. This is the B team ride:

Didn't make the A team? Good. Now he'll get more playing time and make new friends.

Everyone's got some kind of on-line life, kind of hard to avoid. I think Greiss' posting condolences to Rush Limbaugh's family are pretty tame compared to alot of other athletes these days (eg. Lebron calling for cops to be killed).

I didn't read anything about the team complaining, or him making any trouble in locker-rooms. Seems more of a "top-down" thing to me (ie: coach doesn't like him) Maybe you disagree, but I would say the fans deserve a good explanation.

The official word from the Sport Director Christian Künast is something to the effect that "we are not totally sure that Greiss' values match those of the team". Sounds kind of weak. If your are going to cut your top goalie, you better give some damn good, solid reasons. No wonder fans are ticked. https://www.eishockeynews.de/aktuell/artikel/2021/05/03/greiss-wird-nach-instagram-post-vorerst-nicht-mehr-fuer-nationalteam-nominiert-wm-chancen-fuer-viele-deutsche-nhl-spieler-sinken/dde44a42-68ff-4f4e-9481-c84551825ba2.html Greiss was just the NHL player of the week...but OK...LOL

Guys, let's just stick to Greiss. It's too easy to derail this thread and have it locked.I think the DEB really needs to come forward and give a better explanation for cutting him, other than just for voicing his conservative political beliefs. I've read several articles (in German news) and aside from the Hillary and Trump stuff, the most recent reason they point to was his giving condolences on social media to Rush Limbaugh's family after his death. I don't know if that's really "cancel worthy" stuff (?)

The mask was from 7 years ago, he's played with the German team every year since then, and he seems to check his mask fonts more carefully now, since there's been no more cases since. It seemed to be water under the bridge. But moving on from that, the article mentioned reasons for the cut was mainly his comments on US politics and social media posts, didn't mention anything about any Nazi sympathies, aside from comparing Hillary to Hitler, which I assume was meant as an insult....and then logically speaking, if he was a Nazi sympathizer, why would he compare someone he despises to Hitler (?) Unless there's something more to it then the article states, if their reasons for cutting him are just from him expressing his political beliefs, then it's a very sad day for the DEB.

You're making alot of assumptions there. You'd really have to talk to Greiss and the painter. Beer league goalies do, but I'm not so sure about the big league guys. They move teams often and are focused on their play. I don't know if they obsess over every little mask detail like we do. Alot of times they just have a rough idea and leave the details to the painter.

What I'm saying is that it's not clear. And if it's not clear, it doesn't really make any kind of statement. I'd guess 99.99% of the people who saw his mask in 2014 saw nothing but flames and Bigfoot.

Your right. We need to cancel KISS too, their fonts don't match either

Can't say for sure. It was a flame-themed mask, and the scrawled letters could be seen like that, if that's what you're looking for. It's not like there was Hitler and swastikas on the mask. There's Bigfoot, flames and cactuses (cacti?).