Stadium announcer will pump in and get the crowd going with "DE-FENSE" chants, and the fans behind a basket will waive their arms and make noise. I would say it's mostly just a case of feeding off the momentum/excitement for the home team. Crowds are very close to the court in basketball and there's a lot of scoring so lots of reason to be making noise.
Also without being a short burst sport with fast change, it is a bit of deep endurance sport that we can see more an effect of encouragement and shame...
NBA players should be formulaic enough with regards to free throws/able to block out the noise that it wouldn't effect them nearly as much. Home/Road will be an even bigger distinction in college basketball where players are less experienced, more prone to emotional swings, but that doesn't go totally away in NBA.
That could seem at first a bit of contradiction, it must be really bad to have this kind of vezina track record and be overrated at the same time.
Heh, once again we're not looking at the same game haha (which I'm not saying to start a war, or even a conversation necessarily...it's just funny that I was talking to someone a little while ago about a prospect in this draft who plays just like Petro, and I said, "Petro didn't get enough discredit for how easy he is to play against sometimes just like [prospect].")
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I don’t really see a case for there being a “McDavid or Draisaitl” with all due respect. McDavid was clearly the better player in at least 75% of their games. i guess the way i see it, the battle of alberta was the much tougher and higher stakes of the two series they won and drai was...forums.hfboards.com
They definitely took away some talent. Not much (mostly washed up players) and not for long (KHL now is considered a complete joke).
I agree with this. I don't necessarily do it. Although if we did a bunch of NHL vs KHL today I bet even the worst NHL teams would likely beat the best KHL ones or at least be competitive with them. On the other hand WHA was able to compete with the NHL head to head. Yes they barely played the best teams like Bruins, Sabres, Canadiens, Flyers and later Islanders but against all other they were competitive and in fact won most of their games.
Hey I don't agree with the way US sports are run - if it were my way I'd get rid of both the draft and the salary cap and would introduce relegation. Let the best team win! Nevertheless I personally have some doubts about how negatively these changes affected the skill level of players. I just can't wrap my head around the idea that it severely degraded the skill level to such a point the senior league (NHL) became significantly worse. If anything other things worked in the very opposite direction - the ever growing money and status from becoming a professional athlete which most certainly made a lot more people more serious about pursuing such an option.
Well in 98/99 61% of players were Canadian. When sorted by PPG 40% of the top50 highest PPG players were Canadian. It makes sense, no coach would risk a European bottom tier talent who might not be able to adjust to the NHL. The Europeans in general took more jobs out of the upper half than the bottom half of the league.
How does one go around to prove that? There was a poster a few pages ago who claimed exactly that and that whenever he watched a game from then t was atrocious. Well you think it's better than in the early 80s after watching the same games. It's just an opinion against an opinion in the end.
Dont you think that has anything to do with there only being 6 teams at the time. Not a lot of options out there for players.
"Not for long" accurately describes the WHA situation too haha
KHL today? Yeah, I wouldn't broach the topic about today. I'm not convinced the KHL is a top 3 league in the world at this point, much less one that could cobble something interesting together in this context.
If I gave some people money out of my wallet would they stop with the whole "6 of the top 20" thing. This is a very weird quirk where the best player in the world happened to be a teenager and teenagers could only work in the WHA (or whatever). We've recently been down this road a few times...we're talking about the competitiveness of the league as a whole. The top 20 scorers of the WHA were majority failures either right away or within a couple years. Right around the time where the NHL looked notably better.6 players in the top20 came from the WHA. You would not get this result today even if we could merge all of the world's talent into the NHL. I am not sure whether there would be a single player in the top100 coming over from non-NHL. In fact I think the NHL today likely captures l~99% of the world's talent pool.Your Wildly Outrageous (History of) Hockey Opinions...
I can’t remember ever thinking Lundqvist was a particularly impressive goaltender. Like he was ok, but always very overrated.
I don't want to go too far off topic here with this. I will say, though, isn't the quality of Russian (for instance) over here now of higher quality than in 1999? I feel like there were bottom six and bottom pair Europeans in the NHL in the DPE...and now, most Russians are impact players and the other one is Yakov Trenin haha
"Prove" is probably not the bar for something like this.
Players were free to sign C-cards (or A or B-cards) with any NHL team they wanted, and many, many players turned down offers and agreed to others. Isn’t that a lot of “choice” — at least when looked at side-by-side to draft systems?
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I think a big distinguishing point between hockey of today (I mean, NHL level) and hockey of the 1970s / 1980s is the "standard deviation" in quality of play across the League.
Players not being in the top-10 (hardly an insult) does not mean the Dynasty is overrated.Entire 1950s Habs dynasty is overrated. Beliveau, Harvey, Richard, and Plante do not belong in the Top 10.
