# 2022 NHL off-season **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** hockey-nhl\ **Created:** [July 9, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647 "2022-07-09T00:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647/21 "2022-09-25T15:44:32Z")
Just noticed the preseason has started. The years of screwy Covid scheduling is over! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647/22 "2022-10-06T14:05:26Z")
Just before the season gets under way, Hockey Canada is {{{_seriously_}}} screwing up. In the face of criticism about a climate fostering alleged sexual assault, HC decided to handwave it away, and so the consequences are happening. Sponsors like Tim Horton’s, Scotiabank, and then yesterday Telus now have nothing to do with the men’s hockey programs for the 2022-23 season, including the upcoming World Juniors tournament. Related articles: > **[MPs grill Hockey Canada chair over secretive multimillion-dollar payout to...](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hockey-canada-committee-testimony-1.6605374)** > > Hockey Canada's board chair was on the defensive Tuesday as MPs castigated the governing body over its handling of sexual assault claims and the use of a shadowy fund to pay off victims of abuse. > **[Feds say the move to reform Hockey Canada is on after Hockey Québec cuts ties...](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/hockey-quebec-confidence-vote-1.6606582)** > > Federal officials are throwing their support behind Quebec's provincial hockey federation for its decision to cut ties with Hockey Canada in the wake of new allegations against the sporting body. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647/23 "2022-10-07T00:21:51Z")
Huh. To update a couple hours later, ole Justin has weighed in: > **[Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slams Hockey Canada, suggests dissolving...](https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-slams-hockey-canada-suggests-dissolving-organization-205005518.html)** > > Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has once again called for sweeping changes at the top of Hockey Canada, even suggesting the organization be replaced. > [@](#): > > Trudeau suggested that Hockey Canada could be abolished and replaced by another organization that would do a better job of protecting its citizens from the widespread abuse that has allegedly occurred at a systemic level. And a couple _more_ sponsors bailed recently. Awesome seeing the pushback. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647/24 "2022-10-07T23:42:08Z")
Ah, good ole Torts… > **[Flyers coach John Tortorella says today's players have 'attention span of an...](https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/flyers-coach-john-tortorella-says-players-have-the-attention-span-of-an-amoeba-161840694.html)** > > John Tortorella is already bringing his usual heat in Philadelphia. Poor, poor Flyers. 🙁 Great look on Hayes’s face. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647/25 "2022-10-09T16:30:13Z")
Maybe Torts should ring up Peter Laviolette and find out how much his players drink! > **[Peter Laviolette's Dry Island and the Flyers World We Don't Know](https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/peter-laviolettes-dry-island-and-flyers-world-we-dont-know)** > > Almost everything we know for sure about the Philadelphia Flyers takes place within the boards, on the ice. That much we can see with our own eyes, and even with that, we don't know the half of it. Off the ice, we know little more than what we're... ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647/26 "2022-10-10T02:55:02Z")
I don’t know, if I had to deal with Torts every day, I don’t think I could stay dry. Could you? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647/27 "2022-10-10T15:23:13Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > don’t know, if I had to deal with Torts every day, I don’t think I could stay dry. Could you? I’d actually love to meet Torts, have a non alcoholic beverage of choice with him. I’ve followed the Blue Jackets over the years, was at the first Blue Jackets game. He had a podcast when he was with the Jackets and seems quite active in animal rescue. But, yeah, if I worked for him, I don’t think I’d stay sober ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647/28 "2022-10-10T22:22:52Z")
I’d like to pound boilermakers with him and then start needling him. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2022-nhl-off-season/967647.md?page=1)