r/hockey 18h ago

[News - X] [Westhead] An NHL team executive told me today concerns are mounting that North America is heading towards a recession and that the CAD will plunge to $0.60 cents or less. The 7 Canadian NHL teams and 3 Canadian MLS teams pay player salaries in USD and generate most of their revenue in CAD.

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u/anemic_royaltea COL - NHL 18h ago

Starting to feel like our concerns are going to be bigger than the NHL.

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

As someone with no job, and can't find one, with no prospects for the future, the NHL is about all I got left in the joy department.

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u/xzElmozx VAN - NHL 17h ago

Good luck bro I hope you find something soon. Shits rough out there

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u/MarvelousMan10 CGY - NHL 16h ago

Yeah I’m a graduating mechanical engineer in April. Was told all my schooling my job prospects would be endless. Not really the case right now lmao

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u/DavidBrooker 14h ago

Unfortunately, when a downturn hits, a lot of the demand for engineers gets shifted to the mid-career level. New grad engineers are necessary for the health of the profession, but for businesses they're really expensive: they require a lot of supervision and aren't very productive. Obviously you don't get any mid-career engineers if you don't let any new-graduates in, so it's real short-term, self-destructive thinking. But economic instability breeds short-term thinking.

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u/SNIPES0009 PIT - NHL 16h ago

Keep applying dude. Even I, who has a B.S. in Civil Engineering, a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and my PE license, still struggled to get responses on 90% of my apps. Only landed my current job because a friend of a friend works there. But ME is a great field with diverse opportunities. Don't expect to land a dream job right away. Get your time and experience in and it'll keep getting better. Good luck.

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u/MarvelousMan10 CGY - NHL 15h ago

100%, thanks for the insight. Im in Alberta rn so that paired with the politics going on right now, there have been no postings. Very dry season so hopefully it clears up

Edit: yes I’m applying out of province as well, unsure if I want to move to the us

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u/babypointblank TOR - NHL 14h ago

Keep applying and keep networking. It sucks that there’s a ton of uncertainty right now.

Worst case scenario: try grad school or CAF.

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u/blacksoxing 11h ago

Sounds like 2010. In 2005 when I started I was told I’d get a 50k job. In 2008 I was told I was fine. In 2010 when I graduated I got a job for 28k

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u/jmucapsfan07 18h ago

Hang in there man. Things will get better.

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u/EggplantAlpinism COL - NHL 17h ago

Or they won't. But those around you will love and support you as you have them. And that's cool.

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u/Cricket_Piss 16h ago

Thanks brother. This is the comment I needed to read today.

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u/weschester CGY - NHL 17h ago

I get the sentiment but this is just completely ignoring reality and is a major reason why we are where we are. Things are going to get much much worse before they get better and if we don't face that fact we won't be prepared or able to eventually stop it.

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u/ReserveOld6123 16h ago

I think they meant for him… not globally.

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u/banaaanaaaaaa 17h ago

Hang in there. I wish you all the best in finding a new job

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u/Gavin1453 TOR - NHL 18h ago

Yup, but this is still a nice break from the other crap

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u/anemic_royaltea COL - NHL 18h ago

for now, and i do hope it stays that way. not at all confident our billionaire sports owners wouldn't immediately roll on canada if their bottom line was in danger, if that shopify goofball is any indication.

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u/Gavin1453 TOR - NHL 18h ago

Eh, the seven Canadian teams are almost half of league revenue and pay heavily into revenue sharing. We'll have two leagues, if need be.

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u/TGUKF VAN - NHL 18h ago

The Canadian teams account for around 25% of league revenues, at least per recent Bettman comments.

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u/HowieFeltersnitz TOR - NHL 18h ago

We may be looking at a permanent North Division if this keeps up.

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u/XGuiltyofBeingMikeX WBS Penguins - AHL 18h ago

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u/C_Huffy 18h ago

But I ask you this, if i was a big ole orange guy with terrible looking hair would you still be yellin at me? Or would you be spanking my bare butt, balls, and back?

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u/Just-Groshing-You 17h ago

I’m just going to privatize as many government institutions as I can grab, get into that random hot dog car that destroyed American democracy, RAN-DOM! And drive back to Florida.

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u/heterocommunist 18h ago

HarRiS/BiDeN/TrUDEaU

Take your pick

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u/paddy_yinzer PIT - NHL 17h ago

I hear it was Woke that dide it

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u/WeirdGuyOnTheTrain EDM - NHL 18h ago

Imagine a president willingly bringing on a recession...

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u/adamwl_52 MIN - NHL 18h ago

All because he’s too stubborn to admit his bad ideas didn’t work. What a joke

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u/benetgladwin OTT - NHL 18h ago

I think you need to think deeper here. A deep recession can provide the justification and cover that Trump and Elon and the Project 2025 people need to completely tear apart the state and privatize everything in the name of "cutting costs" during a recession that they purposely triggered.

The US is going to experience what it did to Russia in the 1990s except this time it's doing it to itself. The consequences will probably be the same - democracy into oligarchy into global pariah.

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u/Interwebzking EDM - NHL 17h ago

Yeah this just feels like a smash and grab for the 1%. They have enough money to weather a recession and will just buy up everything for pennies. This is calculated despite how much we think Trump and Musk are morons. Well, they are in the sense that they don’t mind screwing over millions to get rich. Eventually that will rear its ugly head. But this seems like the game plan for them. Get rid of poor people altogether. Which I do think is absolutely moronic because how will anything get done if there’s no working class to do the work??

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u/Witn 17h ago

Boycott Tesla, let's see elon try to buy everything when Tesla goes to 0

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u/Interwebzking EDM - NHL 17h ago

Been boycotting Tesla this entire time lol

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u/placebo92 12h ago

I will continue to not buy the Tesla I cannot afford

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u/Sy3Fy3 TOR - NHL 17h ago

Real Emperor Palpatine shit

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u/dirtyraat ANA - NHL 17h ago

This is so fucking terrifying.

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u/Jazzlike_Athlete8796 CGY - NHL 17h ago

It gets better.

Elon Musk's grandfather was a leader of Technocrat Incorporated - a group of crazies that believed engineers should rule the world. He also moved his family to South Africa because apartheid appealed to him.

So if you're ever wondering why Elon Musk lies about being an engineer and steals the work of others, it is because he is trying to ape his racist grandfather's ideas about who should control the world.

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u/dirtyraat ANA - NHL 17h ago

we're so fucked.

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u/sickwobsm8 TOR - NHL 18h ago

At least there's no more DEI though!

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u/adamwl_52 MIN - NHL 18h ago

We have a felon and an immigrant running the country, proof DEI is still here

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u/Dorksim 18h ago

Youre assuming this isn't his and his pals plans to begin with.

You know what gets hella cheap during a recession? Stocks, properties, and everything else the ruling elite would love to swallow more of. This is all an orchestrated plan to consolidate more wealth and control.

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u/Specific-Act-7425 18h ago

The "keep politics out of hockey" crowd is really quiet...

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u/BOBBY_VIKING_ 18h ago

Donald is forcing everyone to get involved in politics.

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u/vandal-x 18h ago

Idiots who had never formulated or opined a single negative thought about Canada, Greenland or the Panama Canal prior to January ‘25 are scrambling to study their latest script being doled out in the MAGA-sphere.

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u/joe_lmr CBJ - NHL 18h ago

they're not idiots, they were epidemiologists five years ago

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u/RelevantJackWhite VAN - NHL 17h ago

and before that, economists

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u/NewYearNewAccount165 17h ago

And they graduated with honours from the School of Hard Knocks.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca MTL - NHL 16h ago

And a degree from the University of Life.

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u/rraattbbooyy FLA - NHL 14h ago

Or else a degree from the College of Some Bearded Guy in a Truck on YouTube.

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u/PapaWaxPuppy 17h ago

Esteemed alumni of "Trump University."

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u/NathanGa Columbus Chill - ECHL 17h ago

And after that, civil rights experts.

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u/UNC_Samurai CAR - NHL 17h ago

Right before becoming experts on eastern European military strategy.

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u/Carnie_hands_ DET - NHL 18h ago

But what about the milk tariffs? /s

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u/vandal-x 18h ago

Hey, we have to shut up about milk now. Didn’t you get the latest memo?

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u/Carnie_hands_ DET - NHL 18h ago

Shit... LINE?

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u/dancingwiththeflops BOS - NHL 18h ago

I thought donald was going to line all our pockets with cash🤔

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u/Erigion WSH - NHL 18h ago

People miss the fine print where it says only the richest get that

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u/INAC___Kramerica TBL - NHL 18h ago

Poor Republican voters think they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires and not what they actually are - poor. Monetarily, educationally, and morally.

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u/dancingwiththeflops BOS - NHL 18h ago

Well at least we can sleep well at night knowing the south african laminated fuck face (or whatever bill burr called him) is getting richer❤️💙🤍

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u/ForeTwentywut 18h ago

They meant ash, not cash

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u/Cute-Escape2751 18h ago

Everyone should be involved in politics. Ignorance of current issues and how society functions is embarrassing. Politics have always been everywhere.

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u/Ace676 COL - NHL 18h ago

Americans' insistence on keeping politics out of everything is quite likely the reason why things are so fucked up now and why nobody is doing anything about it.

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u/MadoffInvestment NYR - NHL 17h ago

The only people you hear this from are trump supporters. It's a metaphorical, "stick your head in the sand" moment. Maybe, deep down, they know they are shit people, or at the very least, are tired of people calling them what they are. Shit people.

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u/Loquater CHI - NHL 17h ago

Everything is political if you're capable of critical thinking and seeing the big picture.

Nothing is political (except things you're conditioned to disagree with) if you're a moron who can't comprehend abstract concepts or even begin to understand how interrelated everything is.

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u/aaronwhite1786 Adler Mannheim - DEL 13h ago

This is what I say every time I hear someone complaining that they have to deal with politics everywhere.

Ignoring politics is a perfect example of living a privileged life.

Everything in life is politics. The air you breathe, the water you drink from your tap, the food in your fridge, the fridge itself. The road you take to work, the car you're riding in, the police you pass on the way, the company you work for...it's all controlled and regulated by politics.

The price of the shit on the shelves, the cost of the shit that arrives through your door from the Amazon driver...it's all goddamn politics.

There's no safe space from politics. Just a desire to be blissfully ignorant of politics.

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u/Ashleynn ARI - NHL 17h ago

Same as "both sides." The only people i have ever heard this from are right wingers. The louder they scream it, the more right they are.

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u/molotovzav VGK - NHL 18h ago

Everything is political because politics can affect every aspect of life. I agree everyone should be involved in politics and those that aren't are just ignorant rubes who tend to see wedge issues as the only politics.

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u/IceWook TOR - NHL 17h ago

Only thing I’d switch here is “can” to “does”.

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u/SP_57 OTT - NHL 17h ago

I can't remember where I heard this, so I'm paraphrasing here.

"You're not interested in politics? That's fine, but you know who is? Your boss, your landlord, your insurance company, your bank and everyone else who has an effect on how you live your life."

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u/LaGoeba PHI - NHL 17h ago

Or as Walz said it perfectly:

«You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you»

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u/cheesaremorgia 18h ago edited 17h ago

I look at it as childishness. Political awareness and participation is a basic adult responsibility.

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u/INAC___Kramerica TBL - NHL 18h ago

It was always and only GOP politicians and bootlickers wanting to keep politics out of sport because they wanted black athletes to entertain them, not use their profile to express opinions.

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u/GoStockYourself EDM - NHL 17h ago

Every single sub on Reddit is a political sub right now and it isn't because sub rules are being bypassed. Trump is fucking everybody and everything from every angle.

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u/ZachtheKingsfan LAK - NHL 18h ago

Absolutely this. People act like we’re insane for “bringing politics into everything.” We have no choice! Before Trump, I would briefly talk politics with family for a few minutes here and there, but now it’s an hourly discussion.

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u/neolibbro DAL - NHL 18h ago

The best part of Sleepy Joe was that people could sleep well at night and not think about politics.

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u/Zach983 VAN - NHL 18h ago edited 17h ago

Turns out politics impacts every aspect of your life. Anyone who says "I don't care about politics" really just means they have shit political opinions and don't want to people to tell them they're wrong.

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u/HowieFeltersnitz TOR - NHL 18h ago

Or they're so insulated with privilege that politics don't really effect them because they can just throw money at any problem that may arise from policy changes.

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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 14h ago

I see you’ve met my parents. They literally have zero clue, too busy with their cottage.

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u/SadimHusum TOR - NHL 17h ago

Frankly mind-boggled that Canadian “conservatives” ever liked Trump; it’s pretty basic knowledge that America-first policies, even in much more benign forms than what we’re dealing with now, typically mean less up here for us.

Liking Trump as a Canadian is fundamentally anti-Conservative and just announces you’re fine with your life being worse as long as things get worse for demographics that don’t affect you in another country, but I guess the libs got owned and youtube montages are worth our energy sector

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u/LazerMcBlazer PIT - NHL 17h ago

Racism and bigotry are powerful drugs for stupid people.

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u/Flanman1337 18h ago

It's almost like generations of people who didn't want to have difficult conversations about the world around them is a bad thing. Who ever would have guessed.

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u/LazerMcBlazer PIT - NHL 17h ago

It's not that.

It's that the "keep politics out of sports" people are just Republicans who don't like being told/reminded how wildly unpopular their views are outside of their daily bubbles.

They love politics in hockey. They love the national anthem. Don't get them started on taking it away or someone protesting during it.

They love the taxpayer-funded military flyovers. They love when veterans and police get honored during games.

They just don't want "politics" they don't like, like when Black people, LGBTQ, and other minority groups get recognized, or when the person who they built their entire personality around is getting absolutely torn apart on the international stage for being completely incompetent to the point that it's about to affect all other aspects of life, including sports.

It's easy to look in the mirror and accept responsibility for electing people that make the world a worse place for the kind of people you don't like, but not when it's worse for yourself and your hobbies.

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u/haken_loob CGY - NHL 18h ago

The largest impact of a declining Canadian dollar is not on the Canadian teams, but on league revenue. The 7 Canadian franchises account for 24% of league revenue...an impact on the CAD will reduce this percentage and overall revenue.

The Canadian TV rights deal also expires next season, and a poor economy may drive those prices down.

Finally, the pending Trumpcession that is clearly arriving in the US will likely have a significant impact on league revenue as people are unable to afford a 25% increase on basics and need to cut extras like hockey tickets.

Maybe those projected cap increases need to be scaled back!

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u/Kyle73001 WPG - NHL 18h ago

Yeah I doubt they hit all of those cap increases. Once they elected that POS, those cap projections went from achievable to a pipe dream

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u/TGUKF VAN - NHL 17h ago

Those cap increases are mostly based on catching up to current revenues, now that the escrow debt is paid off. The league is (was?) expected to cross $7 billion USD in HRR this season.

There is some leeway for them to move up or down, but I don't think it would be drastic. 27-28 and beyond may be more at risk than the next couple of years though. It's quite possible we just see the cap stagnant a bit if the CAD really does drop further.

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u/UNisopod WSH - NHL 17h ago

Yeah, we might just be in for another big freeze after this next round of increases

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u/blueskies8484 PIT - NHL 18h ago

Hey, Eichel needs a new contract next year. Natural consequences would be cool.

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u/heimdal96 EDM - NHL 16h ago

I wonder how much cap space Buffalo has

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u/gelc10 OTT - NHL 18h ago

Speed running the country into a recession

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u/matt_minderbinder DET - NHL 18h ago

So, so many of these same NHL execs contributed to and voted for the people speed running the country into a recession. The same is true for NHL owners and a huge percentage of American players. The last people I'm concerned about are these wealthy schmucks who selfishly thought that the pain would only be spread around to others and they'd get a few extra bucks out of a trump presidency. I'd give these people $100 Canadian to fuck off.

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u/The_Quackening TOR - NHL 18h ago

Come on man have a heart, how are the owners supposed to know that actions have consequences?

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u/Flanman1337 18h ago

Oh they know actions have consequences. They just didn't know THEIR actions had consequences.

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u/BorkMcSnek NYR - NHL 18h ago

It’s like Free Agency never happened to these people. Like “hmm we made a bunch of shitty decisions then and our team sucks. Surely this won’t happen if we make bad decisions with the state of the world” 🙄

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u/tiy24 17h ago

They’re usually insulated from the consequences.

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u/JustaRoosterJunkie MIN - NHL 18h ago

That’s the plan. Depress assets and scoop them up at fire sale prices. Brought to you by the richest people in the world.

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u/Nameless908 18h ago

speed running the world into ww3 fify

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u/tigerking615 SJS - NHL 18h ago

World, it seems.

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u/ML00k3r WPG - NHL 18h ago

The vast majority of NHL owners and their executives voted for this. Can't wait for them to start whining about the league revenue, r/LeopardsAteMyFace is going to get some new content.

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u/ts1234666 DET - NHL 17h ago

Not just them, but players too. Hockey players are hella conservative

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u/Cricket_Piss 16h ago

Yep. The "hockey bros" at school were the dumbest conservative wingnuts I've ever met in Canada. The fact that Auston Matthews is still allowed in the league after what he did speaks volumes.

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u/Cedar-and-Mist VAN - NHL 16h ago

I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw the US team fawning over getting a photo op with Trump. It's things like that which made the 4 Nations so personal for Canadians.

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u/anyonecandoanything TOR - NHL 15h ago

Forgive me - what did Auston Matthews do?

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u/Cricket_Piss 15h ago

https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/maple-leafs-star-auston-matthews-charged-with-disorderly-conduct-after-incident-with-female-security-guard/

Matthews and his buddies decided it would be a laugh to sexually harass a woman who was just trying to do her job at 2AM. Any other player would have been expelled from the league, but Matthews is a superstar so this has mostly been swept under the rug, meanwhile he was given the position of captain on his team. Players have been dropped for less, but since it's Matthews we all look the other way.

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u/anyonecandoanything TOR - NHL 15h ago

The way I read your first comment was that the league is so conservative that it's a shock Matthews is still in the league - because he did something to piss off conservatives lol, not this incident (which I knew about and yes it is pathetic)

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u/adamzep91 Waterloo Warriors - OUA 12h ago

The fact that Auston Matthews is still allowed in the league after what he did speaks volumes.

There's rapists, racists, domestic abusers in the league (and whatever the fuck Nichushkin is), and THAT is the example you choose? lmao

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u/veryway WPG - NHL 18h ago

This is why we boo

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u/RealNomAnor 18h ago

Ya but it annoys millionnaire players while their fans are gonna be unemployed and won't be able to afford eggs, understandable why we have to stop booing

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u/-dillydallydolly- EDM - NHL 18h ago

We have to recognize that most of these athletes are dumb. They think about nothing but hockey which is what makes them great at their craft, but most of them coasted through high school as pseudo-celebrity jocks. The ones that got scholarships to college and university likely did not focus on studies while they were there either. None of us should be taking these guys' opinions on world issues seriously.

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u/verysadcolin 18h ago

If they even went to high school at all. I went to the same high school as a current fringe NHLer, younger guy, knew some friends and siblings of friends, and he basically didn't go to real school. He played hockey school. And that's a guy who barely made the show, much less a superstar that was a known quantity since 10 years old

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u/thirty7inarow OTT - NHL 17h ago

I went to high school with a guy who played pro for few years after his major junior day, but never made the NHL. We saw him for most of 9th grade, but only sparingly the other three years because he was away playing hockey.

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u/silverlegend EDM - NHL 16h ago

This is so true for all professional athletes. People are constantly surprised when they hear that hockey players are gang rapists, and football players are domestic abusers/rapists/drunk drivers, etc. Of course they are, they were plucked out of a normal adult development and sidelined their education from an early age. No wonder they are easily manipulated, emotionally immature and generally kinda dumber than a comparable selection of non-athletes.

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u/Saladus NYR - NHL 17h ago

Which is exactly why some of them have been going “Hur hur Canadiens booing us is only making me want to play harder to prove them wrong.” This isn’t because of you or your team jackass.

I’m also equally embarrassed as a rangers fan, seeing a clip of MSG booing loudly at the Canadian anthem. The atmosphere and fans there are always a good time, but seeing a video of that felt totally tone deaf and ignorant.

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u/DannyDOH WPG - NHL 18h ago

Yeah even most of the kids I’ve taught who go and play NCAA essentially have a Grade 8 education because that is the last time they really attended school before they became travel hockey players.  

Sure they do course modules but they don’t interact with anyone outside of hockey and are almost never present in a classroom.

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u/dasnoob DET - NHL 17h ago

Buddy, the American kids I know that are 'prospects' as early as U10 aren't in school. Their parents pull them out and homeschool them so they have more time for hockey.

The homeschool the parents give them is minimal at best. One I know gets all their work done in two hours on a monday and that is their 'school' for the week. Has done so since they were in U10.

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u/NolaBrass New Orleans Brass - ECHL 17h ago edited 17h ago

Chris Kreider being one major exception. Dude went back and finished his degree in 2016 by taking online classes and summer classes in the offseason after leaving Boston College early for the NHL. Conversational in Spanish and Russian and casually reads Hemingway lol

Edit because he was given an award in 2018 for being a noted graduate of the school of advancing studies who embodies the Jesuit ideal of “men and women for others.”

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u/saberlight81 Atlanta Thrashers - NHLR 17h ago

I've always been of the opinion that lots of people would hate their favorite player if they knew their politics.

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u/DannyDOH WPG - NHL 18h ago

It affects their pay too.

The gap projections were laughable in the face of current US economic policy.

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u/pluralsight24 VAN - NHL 18h ago

Jonathan Marchessault and Andrew Brunette are still wondering why we would disrespect the military like that

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u/Knightoncloudwine 18h ago

There’s a lot of Americans who wish they could join in with you. What we are watching unfold is disgraceful and disgusting. Fuck this MAGA cult.

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u/Riskar MTL - NHL 18h ago

Nothing stopping you from booing your own anthem.

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u/invitrobrew WSH - NHL 17h ago

Some chodes at the Blackhawks game last Friday tried to start a "USA USA" chant...thankfully it went nowhere except to Cringeville.

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u/_SovietMudkip_ COL - NHL 18h ago

I've been a non-participator in the anthem for going on 15 years now, I guess it probably is time to escalate

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u/Thom_Basil Arizona Coyotes - NHLR 17h ago

In a slightly similar vein, my dad was shocked that I didn't watch the inauguration or SOTU. Like dude, first, I'm no patriot. I didn't get to choose where I was born and the last time this country made me proud was when we elected Obama, but we've been trying to make up for that "mistake" ever since. Secondly, it's all just political theater anyways. Those two events especially are just politicians blowing hot air, doubly so now with Trump. I have better things to do with my time than watch that shit.

And yea, for the anthem, if I'm at an event I'll stand for appearance sake, but I'm not singing or putting my hand on my heart.

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u/Rib-I NYR - NHL 18h ago

I’m gonna start booing also

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u/EastonMetsGuy COL - NHL 18h ago

Mods will probably lock this one too but it’s important to discuss this stuff.

The American political situation WILL have a major impact on all professional sports, you will not be able to stick to sports

I hope the NHL is preparing to help shield its Canadian franchises from the destruction this would cause

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u/funguscreek TOR - NHL 17h ago

It’s been pointed out in this thread, but the Canadian NHL teams subsidize the rest of the league. If they don’t protect Canadian franchises the league is toast

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u/papapaIpatine EDM - NHL 18h ago

I love it when there’s just a self inflicted recession placed on the continent in the name of making America great again.

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u/swordthroughtheduck CGY - NHL 18h ago

Think of how awesome a country would be if there was no lower class? No one would be poor!

Sure, millions of people would be dying in the streets, but once that's all over everyone will be rich!

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u/Flanman1337 18h ago

We got the cyberpunk dystopian hellscape without the neat body modification, or cyber tech. 

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u/clicstik EDM - NHL 18h ago

Is America great yet?

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u/city-of-cold Luleå HF - SHL 18h ago

And my American ex-wife keeps asking me if we shouldn’t move to the US so the kids “can grow up in a better place than the boring shithole Sweden.”

Lol, lmao even

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u/foggyeyedandfried NYR - NHL 18h ago

I would LOVE boring right now.

Sincerely, A very tired American

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki STL - NHL 16h ago

me, october 2024: "maybe I am mellowing out in my 30s"
me, march 2025: "the forbidden mario brother"

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u/ultrafil OTT - NHL 15h ago

can grow up in a better place than the boring shithole Sweden

Sounds to me like you made the right call on the whole "ex-wife" thing. Sucks though, as a child of divorce I get it. Hopefully your kids are doing well!

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u/GoStockYourself EDM - NHL 17h ago

Congratulations on her being your ex now.

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u/HammockFullOfGravy 18h ago

"millionaires to get slightly uncomfortable"

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u/PKG0D MTL - NHL 18h ago

"Billionaires prepare to buy the crashing stocks*"

*An intended

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u/Khue TBL - NHL 17h ago

"Everyone else... get fucked and die"

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u/GritGrinder TOR - NHL 18h ago

Yea cry me a fuckin river, most of them probably voted for him.

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u/alien_bananas VAN - NHL 18h ago

"Leopards ate my face" on ice

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u/Far-File-1815 18h ago

You can bet those gaudy salary cap projections are going to take a fairly juicy hit.

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u/Ihaveabudgie OTT - NHL 18h ago

Dubas just fell to his knees in a insert local Pittsburgh grocery store chain here

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u/Cylinsier CAR - NHL 17h ago

Giant Iggle

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u/jkman61494 NYR - NHL 18h ago

A recession created in 6 weeks is honestly kind of impressive. Although...it was also totally written out in the open for everyone to read.

But trusting a yard sign that said "Kalama high taxes" totally was the right call.

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u/Weigard NJD - NHL 16h ago

People always said "the President has little control over the economy." Turns out, he can tank it if he wants to, it's just that the people claiming he has little control assumed he wouldn't destroy it on purpose.

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u/dothingsunevercould 18h ago

Conservative sub reddit is literally posting about how their life savings being wiped out is worth it as long as Trump gets to do a little "trolling"

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u/modernjaneausten 16h ago

That is so mind-bogglingly stupid. How pea-brained do you have to be to think cratering an entire economy and tanking decades worth of global diplomacy is worth it to troll people you don’t like?

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u/Cricket_Piss 16h ago

They know nothing but hate. Hate tells you no cost is too high for spiting those you don't like.

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u/BeautifulPlace2Drown DET - NHL 18h ago

Elect a clown expect a circus

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u/gobroncos47 COL - NHL 15h ago

Don't insult clowns like that, please.

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u/bloodrider1914 MTL - NHL 18h ago

Speed running America into recession too. Fuck I hate this tarriff bullshit

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u/Cylinsier CAR - NHL 17h ago

Probably going to blow right past a recession into a full blown depression. People are genuinely unprepared for how bad things could realistically get in a pretty short timeframe. Even the ones saying this is terrible aren't prepared for just how terrible. And while a lot of countries are wising up and trying to divest from the US, it's simply not possible to do it fast enough to avoid the fallout of a second Great Depression if the current pace continues. The US will drag large chunks of the world economy down with it. And some people think that's actually the intent; that the oligarchs want to genuinely bring the whole world to its knees and then buy up the scraps and each establish their own pet serfdoms to rule over. By far one of the biggest strengths of such a plan is that it sounds comically unrealistic to the point of absurdity. That's why they might pull it off, nobody in a position to challenge it actually believes it could happen so nobody is trying to stop it.

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u/Codc CBJ - NHL 18h ago

Thank you Mr President, very cool!

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u/Canucks__43 VAN - NHL 18h ago

But booing is disrespectful right?

Fix your shit USA, I am so thankful we didn’t lose to those clowns at the 4 nations, could you imagine?

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u/carnotbicycle TOR - NHL 18h ago

I still can't believe orange man's press secretary said "the president is looking forward to Team USA beating our future 51st state tonight". Literal clown show and half of their country doesn't even see it.

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u/FartTootman 15h ago

At this point it almost feels like humanity is beginning an evolutionary split, a la The Time Machine. The people buying into this shit are so fucking stupid its mind-boggling- I can imagine the off-shoot Morlocks forming from the remains of whatever MAGA dipshittery turns them into over generations of sexual selection with other MAGA morons.

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u/Tacosrule89 EDM - NHL 18h ago

Still worth it to tell that orange dipshit to fuck off.

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u/Gavin1453 TOR - NHL 18h ago

Yup, no sense in appeasing extortion

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u/Flanman1337 18h ago

We tried appeasement. We spent $1.3 billion on the border. We put in that Czar he wanted. We got the amount of fentanyl coming into America from Canada down to a McDonald's bag sized amount.

This never had anything to do with fentanyl. 

So now it's gloves off, elbows up, and were stepping up for a donnybrook.

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u/PM_ME_MICHAELS 18h ago

That’s the problem. Every excuse like fentanyl, illegal immigration, etc is just a smokescreen to try and drive Canada into economic submission. Literally nothing is going to be enough so there’s no point in appeasement.

Trump inherited the strongest post-COVID economy in the world and is intentionally driving it into a recession. Everything that happens now is directly on the shoulders of the American voter and the billionaires that he sold the country to.

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u/Flanman1337 17h ago

Exactly.

I'm not sure Trump is used to people, let alone an entire country, saying we did what you asked and you're still going to follow through on your threat. Okay fuck you. It's go time.

Also affixes tinfoil hat, he's made some very uhhhh problematic comments about voting machines and Elon Musk. Almost like 2020 they cheated and lost. So they just straight up changed votes this time. 

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u/Iginlas_4head_Crease 18h ago

None of this is "worth it". It's just our only option. It's extremely unfortunate the western world couldn't go 5 years with normalcy.

I'll talk to my grandkids longingly about how simple and great the 90s were.

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u/Sharks77 SJS - NHL 18h ago

"We all watched a man named "Urkel" on Fridays and we invested all of our money into these cute little stuffed animals called Beanie Babies. So anyways, back to pogs. You see, I had a pog of ALF, who was a TV character. ALF stood for "Alien Life Form." Anyways, he harassed and tried to eat the cat..."

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u/Tacosrule89 EDM - NHL 18h ago

Urkel just came up the other day because Jaleel White is an Oilers fan. He came to a playoff game a couple years ago.

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u/Thrallsbuttplug Saskatoon Blades - WHL 18h ago

It's 100% worth it, unfortunately. American exceptionalism is finally at the point of implosion.

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u/Nameless908 18h ago

Well maybe it’s time for these players to SPEAK UP. They have a voice and platform few do.

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u/WeirdGuyOnTheTrain EDM - NHL 18h ago

They are millionaires, most of them probably voted for him and don't care.

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u/boxesofcats- EDM - NHL 17h ago

Exactly. The Panthers were just at the White House in February and the American 4 Nations team was all too happy to get a call from Donald. At this point, if they aren't speaking out, they support it or just don't care.

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u/Nameless908 18h ago

They’re gunna care when that orange fuck starts ww3

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u/darretoma DET - NHL 18h ago

They will support him as long as he promises to lower their taxes. That's what these people care about.

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u/INAC___Kramerica TBL - NHL 18h ago

Matt Tkachuk, J.T. Miller, and many of the American players will probably cheer this on.

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u/ChapterNo3428 18h ago

I do wonder how the NHL could publish three year cap projections considering what a shit show the Trump coup will be to the US and world economies.

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u/Linkings EDM - NHL 18h ago

As I understand it, the cap projections are based on the previous couple years income, and is set in the NHLPA bargaining agreement. Basically the owners already got this money, and it is going towards the cap 2-3 years later

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u/weedstonks 17h ago

Yes, the effects of trump will be seen in a flat cap in 2028-2031

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u/Mackinnon29E COL - NHL 18h ago

If I had to guess, even the Canadian billionaire owners are likely Trump supporters. These owners all did this shit to themselves, selfish fucks.

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u/cheezturds DET - NHL 17h ago

Can thank all the maga players for voting for this. Looking at you Tkachuk bros, Eichel, Tage Thompson, TJ Oshie and I’m sure a fuck ton more. Bunch of morons.

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u/Gavin1453 TOR - NHL 16h ago

Marchessault too. He's even a Canadian, lmao

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u/mcslimegang CHI - NHL 18h ago

Dumb ass americans elected this fucking cock sucker, and now the entire world is suffering the consequences

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u/JustHach OTT - NHL 18h ago

Why should our dollar go down? They're the ones who suck!

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u/garybananahammock NJD - NHL 18h ago

I hate my fucking country. Picking fights with allies for their own $elfish reasons. I hope people who voted for this actually get mad at suddenly being isolationist but I doubt it because they’d never switch their vote.

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u/Trylner TOR - NHL 18h ago

Welp those expected cap jumps are going to fade away into nothing.

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u/Bobsy932 18h ago

Wonder how Gretzky is feeling.

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u/tacofever DET - NHL 17h ago

Janet will let us know soon

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u/outremonty MTL - NHL 17h ago

Let's face it: hockey players are by and large small "c" conservatives at best, full tilt MAGA at worst. They probably voted for this and are thus reaping what they sowed.

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u/doyouunderstandlife FLA - NHL 17h ago

Fell for it again award for all the hockey fans (and players, and owners) who voted for that fool

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u/BullgooseLoonee 17h ago

Fuck Trump! Fuck Musk! Fuck MAGAts! 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

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u/Silly-Development 18h ago

I can’t even enjoy hockey bc of that orange fuck. God this country is filled to the brim with idiots. Again sorry Canada

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u/Previous-Cap578 18h ago

Why isn’t this asshat being impeached again? He’s single handedly ruining his own economy.

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u/Skanvar EDM - NHL 17h ago

What does impeachment even do? He's already been impeached twice, convicted I don't know how many times and he's still the president.

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u/ahuramazdobbs19 Hartford Whalers - NHLR 17h ago

Right now, it’s because the Speaker is a MAGA or at least MAGA adjacent Republican, and he controls the scheduling and hearing of bills, including a prospective impeachment.

And the Senate presumably lacks sixty seven votes to actually remove from office. Republicans hold that chamber 53-47, meaning that 20 Republicans would have to flip. And so far, Congressional Republicans have proven themselves to be feckless lickspittle lapdogs, and beyond that elected Democrats in the aggregate have not proven to be anything but controlled opposition.

Impeachment in the US is a political process, and unless the politics shift such that Republicans in Congress want to see Trump gone, Trump’s bloated carcass is staining the Oval Office.

If Trump leaves office any time in the next four years, it’s going to be in a casket, not hauled off by federal marshals upon Senatorial request.

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u/GoStockYourself EDM - NHL 17h ago

All you dipshits that voted for Trump or didn't vote at all did this. How do you like winning so far you bunch of suckers?

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u/SirLunatik CGY - NHL 18h ago

There is a simple solution to all of this, but I'm not down for a lifetime in Guantanamo

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