nORRis8

It held some clout a while back, but now with podcasts and social media alerts from insiders to me it's rather not important. Plus I have no idea who they (the insiders) are. Some post year round. I can't do that man. In fact after the Bruins bubble burst last year I have not posted since on HF. I don't think I'm missing out too much.

Started to post (as nORRis8) some 25 years ago on the CBC sports discussion. No real moderation. Plenty of flaming and baiting but for the most part fun. People then started to leave to Sportnets boards then over to Metroboards which at the time I got there was excellent. Very busy and was very much a welcome distraction to my day. The moderation as time went on got stranger and stranger, even to the point where I complained to one mod about a certain new member who was relentlessly baiting me, the mod investigated and publicly revealed his real name and location Thx but no thx. People already were leaving to other sites, primarily HFboards. Metroboards rebooted as Suddendeath I do believe but there was no action there at all. I did register and did post but when there is no one to talk to, what's the point. Then oddly enough in a thread where someone asked what can be done to attract more fans...the mod that revealed a members name and location said the reason Metroboards failed was because nORRis8, moeman, Baldhead, Sam Pollock drove leaf fans away. Ya right. But what drove members from the other 30 teams threads. Suddendeath the eventually experienced just that. HFboards is ok. If you donate you're flaming and baiting is ignored. Although the NHL is heavily invested in the lgbtq+ you are basically not allowed to talk about it. Or politics. They want you to respect women and want there to be no sexual talk , which is good, yet one of there paid sponsors run ads of dating sites which feature women and women in lingerie in other ads. I've been posting less and less and I am quite surprised HFboards remains somewhat popular as on some rating sites it scores quite low. The heyday was definitely Metroboards until the mods destroyed it and people were tired of the two-faced moderation

I walked away from all hockey boards {a good 3 years or so} until last year when the boys made a run for the Cup. Mostly at HF just like the rest of the lemmings. Its ok. I'm not nearly the rebel/asshole I use to be Wheres Spidey, Uwey, tri etc?

I think it was about 6 years ago I signed up. I haven't posted here like maybe 3 years ago. Still alive. Still kickin'. How about you? I saw that SDH shut its doors. Sad to see. Plenty of good people on there

Who's is safe in my books. Marchy, Pasta, Bergy, Nordstrom, Halak, Gryz, McAvoy, Coyle, Wags, Carlo maybe Krug( depends on our cap space but Tuukka may have helped out there) and Lidstrom. Show the door to Chara (obviously) and guys like Kuhlman who skate well with the puck but cannot hit the broad side of a cow's ass. Tuukka has had some very slow starts to seasons last and in each incidents Halak and Khudobhin saved the day till he got his head right. By his play it was evident he did not want to be there, then he said it was basically boring, then he quit. All in all it resembled his "not into it" thing he goes through. Save 7 mil. Cut him loose. Keep Halak. There's a decent crop of tenders out there who do want to play.