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What is worrying about that?

Are those basically the equivalent of ordering goalie skate boots with a tendon guard?

We have a couple Hulu shows we watch. Brooklyn 99, Fresh of the Boat, and Lucifer. I don't care much about prime except for The Grand Tour (and I guess I'll start using them for movies?) Definitely need to look into Sling.

Our league is so ridiculous that every team has a losing record except the top team.

Yeah, we have a Cox account for a bunch of it. The DVR is still in the box. So I guess not technically cord-cutters. However, we're on the lowest plan possible though just for smaller things that don't have their own individual subscriptions, like HGTV (Fixer Upper!), CBS (Star Trek!), and FX (Archer!). So definitely a ways to go, but still a whole hell of a lot easier than torrenting them all (especially on private trackers where you have to worry about your ratio and such). It's just a matter of time. I was never a channel surfer so luckily that hasn't been an issue for me. I watch a couple specific shows, and that's it. If I don't feel like using my brain while watching TV, its either HGTV or random YouTube stuff. SlingTV looks like it could be a solution but I'll have to take a look to see if it has what I need. Funny that Sling has gone into streaming. I still have the ORIGINAL slingbox that connected to my mom's cable back in Canada so I could watch hockey down here back in 2006 or so. Obviously it's not useful anymore but its interesting to see where Sling has taken things over time. Somebody mentioned that the price of all these streaming services adds up to more than the cost of cable. Maybe true. Depends what you buy. If you buy a cable package and add on HBO, Showtime, Starz and other stuff its expensive. Am I paying more right now for my Cox account + NHL.tv + all the various streaming services than I would have if I just had a full cable subscription? Maybe I am. But I'm also willing to do so in the hopes that these services advance (and the fact that the convenience factor of an AppleTV is huge for me). It's already come a LONG way.

The 'TV' app pulls from everything else eg. Hulu, Netflix, iTunes, etc etc. However, still waiting for Amazon app. They said its coming but it's not out yet.

You know the AppleTV does this, right?

Sorry when I read “getting it free elsewhere” I assumed you meant grey area methods.

That's not at all what I said.

S-Series set sold on sidelineswap for $300 Philly 9K shell sold.

I disagree with your second sentence. I have always said piracy is best combated by two things: affordability and accessibility. Give me an option to stream what I want, when I want, for a decent price and it's not worth the effort to pirate. Eg. Yes sure I can go ahead and hit /r/NHLstreams to watch every game, but the NHL.tv package is more convenient and not that expensive so I don't bother. Of course this has worked even better in the music and movie world. Spotify and Apple Music have made it so I can listen to ALMOST anything I could possibly want, any time I want, for a very low price. I haven't pirated music in years at this point. Heck, I'm at a point where it's so rare that I can't get what I need that I will actually shell out money for an album if that does happen. Movies have it figured out for the most part with things like Netflix and Amazon. And even renting a movie on iTunes is affordable. I haven't pirated a movie in a long time. TV has started to get it figured out but there's so many sources it makes it difficult. Hulu and HBO for example are great but I hate paying for both (but still do). They're getting there. I still pirate some TV shows here and there, usually because I don't want commercials (why do I get commercials for a service I'm paying for) because it kills the mood of the show when there's loud, annoying commercials right in the middle of a tense scene. I've been a cord-cutter for years now (I haven't had cable since... 2010?) and at first I had to search for and download a LOT of stuff. Now, almost nothing. Heck, you know things have become more affordable and accessible when I get emails from my private trackers warning me that I haven't logged in in 90+ days. The second part of what you said is true to a point for sure but I like to think (hope?) that content creators are seeing the writing on the wall and instead of trying their best to screw their consumers, they should be finding new ways for people to obtain that content in accessible and affordable ways. To tie this back to sports, I can only hope that at SOME point the "TV deals" that are such big business stop being so lucrative. The concept of a blackout in 2017 is a bit ridiculous. If they need to up the price of NHL.tv to make up for the loss of revenue from NOT watching on TV because they don't have cable, then so be it. I just hope it eventually sorts itself out.

9-1 loss because we can’t get anyone to show up. 16 on the roster and we get 6-7 a game.

LOL

I do, and I am. Again if you have an issue, email them.

It will eventually be fixed as less and less revenue is seen from TV viewership. In the meantime there are other ways around the blackouts ;)

My mind was BLOWN when the VGK first game was blacked out on NHL.tv. Like I said, I get blackouts... but wouldn't it be in the league's best interest to let fans of the other 30 teams check out the new guys?

Wait, they don't show every goal in the highlight videos? The condensed games are all under 10 mins it seems, I wonder if that'd be a better option. To go along with that, I understand the purpose of blackouts but it's 2017... being televised nationally means squat to a person without cable.

Weird. I actually checked my alignment for the first time in months last weekend and it was still perfect. Maybe email them?

For any non-Canadians who don't understand what Downie meant to our country, all you have to do is watch our Prime Minister's reaction to the news...

Gord Downie It feels like a little bit of Canada has died

No worries, all good

If your pickup has a different set of rules from the average pickup, then why ask us if you were in the wrong? We can't answer that ;)

I'm going to sound like a dick when I say this but I can't think of a better way to put it that wouldn't require us going in circles. That move screams "try-hard", and in my experience try-hard moves don't go over well in pickup. Now if that happens to me in our pickups, what generally happens is the guy says "sorry goalie, saw the puck loose" which will almost always get a "no worries, all good" response.

Still think you're wrong, sorry. And apparently they do too, which is the only thing that matters.

As a goalie who plays both pickup and league every week, yes you were wrong. There's a big difference between going for a rebound or loose puck, and trying to jam in a puck the goalie is about to cover.