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It is certainly not "more about fighting". There are less fights now than in the past.

Haven't followed hockey in years, but did enjoy going to a bunch of Avalanche games in 1997-2008 when I was living in Colorado...the games against the Red Wings were always fun--was at one in 2002 that broke out into a brawl at the Pepsi Center. I worked with a group of hard-drinking Canadians for a few years that made going to games as a group a lot of fun...

Some Winnipeg and Canada love I see! (I wanted to find a fist bump gif to use to fist bump with you, but I came across this one and I saw that this one is funny...and its also hockey!!!) And Montreal just scored a goal to lead the Jets 1-0!!! I guess Im happy...

Well the Cybertruck is designed to do 750,000 miles with no maintenance except tires, so you don't really need a dealership. Tesla has some issues and needs to get more models out and keep the existing ones updated. However they aren't really at risk of losing customers, their owners are super loyal and they are gaining market share, not losing.

Sounds like there is an opportunity for a new sport--a hybrid of MMA and hockey where players get points for fight style, and the fighting is an integral part of the game...

NEVER was. European hockey has a lot of cheap shots. After the whistle shenanigans. A lot of chirping. A lot of bullshyte trash talking. Kinda what you see today in the NHL. You NEVER saw that in the NHL as your words had to back it up with your physical play back in the day. But if you like that, all that nonsense between the whistles...yeah...good on you.

Well...European hockey, there are a lot of CHEAP shots too. Id say MORE than in the NHL. And in European hockey, there is also a lot of faking and embellishing going on to get the ref to call a phantom penalty... Kinda like in soccer. And...oh yeah...there is fighting in European hockey... Its in the nature of the game. I talked about what the North American players DO to intimidate one another and they of course injure themselves doing it. But...its a CONTACT sport. Its a FAST sport. Fights will happen. And its necessary. To let the steam and heat dissipate. In order continue to play the game. In baseball and in football, much much slower sports and fighting happens there too. PS: Fighting in the NHL is also PROHIBITTED. Since the beginning. But the league TOLERATES it in order for the aforementioned heat to dissipate. If you saw though, yesterday's game with 1 minute left and the Jets player took a liberty to hit the Habs player, on a questionable high hit to the head...when it wasnt necessary to hit that player. The Jets player did not go for the puck, but CHARGED the Habs player to prevent him from scoring in the open net, but it was too late for him to prevent that goal... Well...the refs did not ALLOW ANY fights to break out. They ejected the Jets player IMMEDIATELY. If the league is smart and WANTS player safety. They will suspend that Jets player from the rest of that series. If not, the league is kinda making it so that there WILL be a fight or two the next game... But Montreal really does not have any enforcers on their team... THIS is the disconnect. No fights and dirty hits? GREAT! SUSPEND the culprits. Get that SHYTE out of the game for good! If not! Then allow the teams to police themselves. You dont want that? Get the dirty, unnecessary shyte out of the game. Hard, clean hits is not the problem. Fighting is not the problem. Its part of the game. The dirty, unnecessary shyte is the problem.

It was hardy ever about technique, skill and speed. It was always about intimidation (elbowing and slashing) and slowing the game down with either brutal (but clean-ish hits) or hooking. Old time hockey which was referenced in the 1970s movie Slap Shot where the Hanson Brothers talked about it and right after also mentioned Boston Bruins great defenseman Eddie Shore in reality was one tough, mean S.O.B. And therein lies the joke. Paul Newman's character turned the Charlestown Chiefs into a contender by chirping shyte to get the opponents mad, and got his players riled up to back up those intimidation tactics. The owner got the 3 Hanson Brothers to start and finish shyte on the ice. So when pretty boy got disgusted by all that and refused to fight and all that, that is when the Hanson Bros started saying yeah, lets go back to old time hockey. Like Eddie Shore. Well, old time hockey was NEVER clean hockey. Eddie Shore nearly killed a man. Eddie Shore's ear was nearly amputed in the beginning of his career. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Shore I got an anecdote of my own. Before the NHL was started and there was the Montreal Maroons (the English Montreal hockey club) and the Canadiens (The French Montreal hockey club) (and there were others before them but I digress) these two teams HATED each other. One day, after a snowstorm, there was a game between these two, but unlike today, there was no logistics and hundreds of pucks and hockey sticks available so on game time, the guy in charge of the hockey pucks was late, due to the clogged up roads because of the snowstorm. Well one Montreal Maroon hockey player was heard talking to the ref: "Hey Ref!, when are we going to start the game?" "We got no pucks, we have to wait for the pucks to arrive." "To hell with the pucks, we dont need pucks, lets start the hockey game!!!" My dad told me this story. True or not...that was the way things were back then. In the 1970s, fighting and brawling came to a peak. hence the movie Slap Shot. Hence the Flyers being called the Broad Street Bullies and the Bruins being called the Big Bad Bruins. Bobby Orr's knees were finished because opponents kept on slashing his knees. In the 1980s, all that continued but iot started to settle down. Bettman came in in the late '80s or early '90s and started doing away with all those shenanigans. However, in the 1990s, hooking and grabbing was all the fashion because speed and skill was what made the goals happen, but that was how teams defended. And the occasional blistering hit. Blind side or otherwise. Which was legal then, but not so much by today's standard's because the head was ALWAYS the target. And then the 2000s (2004 I think) after that lockout happened when skill and speed was the name of the game by changing up the way the game was to be played offensively by eliminating the center line etc... and the late hits and hits to the head was forbitten and stuff The game today is soooooo different from the 1980s and 1990s. Its faster. Its cleaner. Way waaaaaaaaaay less fights. No line brawls. In the 1980s and 1990s their was a line brawl or two EVERY week. Literally every week. Im all for policing fighters and brawlers on each team so when a player decides to hit dirty, then an enforcer does his job to police the ice. Especially when the refs wont do their jobs properly. But THAT is not what today's hockey is all about. The dirty, unnecessary hard hits need to be gone from the game. But the refs and NHL player safety need to do their job to deter THAT kind of INTIMIDATATION tactics. But they flub that all the time! Hence my signature of what the New York Rangers declared after what Tom Wilson did and the league did nothing. And hence why in these 2021 playoffs, the unnecessary late hits and questionable high hits that have injured players have happened. Yet once more last night!

I used to love hockey, but NHL turned me off it. It used to be about technique, skill and speed. Now it is more about fighting. If I want to see fighting I will watch MMA.

Yes. Yes. That is EXACTLY me also!!! You said and feel as I want to say and how I feel!

I’ve noticed the dirtier hits....I think maybe some old time hockey might attract some new viewers or something. As much as I liked the fights and stuff, it is much more of a skill game now....though I like when the emotion comes out! I like good solid hits, but not dirty ones....

Very different than us Germans!

You Italian, Me Greek. We both have a similarity here. Being concise and efficient with our words and a lack thereof. Both Italians and Greeks speak with their hands. Coincidence? I thinks its because Italians and Greeks have soooooo much to say, like ALL the time, with passion of course, that sometimes concise words escape us and with the help of our hands, we get our points across.

Is it me, or are NHL players taking more liberties with each other in these 2021 playoffs? I find it appalling and disgusting with how players are hitting each other. At the end of the Jets/Canadiens game with 1 minute left or so...another shytty, blatant, useless act... And I blame NHL's player safety when they only fined Tom Wilson 5000 bucks instead of suspending him 20 phoquing games (and more) earlier in the season before the playoffs started...

WOW, thanks for posting this, amazing that so many people watch these annoying guys. I had to skip through the video as it came across as a look at me I am peacocking and have a better life than you. Agree, no need for me to watch any of the other videos.

It was also 'designed to have bullet-proof glass', and we saw how that worked out. cybertruck brings no paint options, the world's largest blind spots and the world's most inaccessible bed to the table. Not sure very many people are actually 'going to see' by paying any money for one. Incorrect- they are gaining VOLUME, they are losing MARKET SHARE.

Not in Texas apparently lol. I have bought ten cars form dealerships and have never been in one more than two hours tops. Please stop with the exaggeration. And again, Elon has stock. He does not billions of his own money to compete with dealer Association. Having said that, this is dumb to a whole other level. Texas is about 100 years behind the times here but then again, Texas.

WUT?

BS. 1.1 million subscribers do not cover a $1 million Mercedes. These are just a bunch of clueless spoiled kids. Their parents were already millionaires. That money was already there. BTW, they have far more than 1.14 million subscribers but that doesn't change my statement about them being spoiled rich kids. Haven't you been reading? They already do. It's called the NHL lol. Beyond annoying but to each their own.

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There’s no way to legislate a ban that’s going to be massively counter to the market’s actual demographic. A 2035 IC ban in passenger vehicles will not stand.

Oh that's fair enough then. Lame, but fair.

If you reread my post you will see that I stated that I used to love hockey but NHL turned me off it. Never said that I was into NHL. I grew up in Europe watching European hockey and it was so much cleaner and better than NHL.

RIGHT! The Semi will change, but that is very long term, to quote @balthazar changing the trucking industry to pure electric will probably take till 2275 while new sales might end by 2050 based on countries that want auto's phased out by 2035/40 and commercial trucks by 2050 if it stands.

In European hockey and Olympic hockey fighting is prohibited period.

Funny how hockey fans think alike? ? Of course, this coming from a guy who enjoyed every minute of the old Avs/Red Wing series! While I do sometimes miss the epic fights and battles- I don’t miss the Thug like hits or real dirty tactics (Marty McSorely comes to mind) I like the faster pace, and the battles have really come on their own the last few years....so we get a healthy mix of both. Before I got a bit busy, I was watching some hockey...will be watching some this weekend.... ?

Two out of the three are niche sales at best and the other will get waxed by REAL pick ups. Not sure how that helps them long term at all.

jawohl herr David!

It seems they also need to get Texas to let them sell the auto without having to ship it out of state and back in via a very convoluted sales process that just adds to the money losing process. With China online, California online, Nevada online and Germany supposedly close to coming online as well as Texas, one would think they could get all those going now, but it would seem money might be an issue for financing those auto options. Let us also not forget that Tesla let go all of their PR department and it seems cut back to just about zero any marketing. Then you have service problems globally. Tesla might have stretched themselves way too thin. Eventually customers are gonna say screw Tesla, just go and buy from the Ford Dealer a Mach-e. I can get full service, warranty, etc. at my local dealership. Makes ya go Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ?

^ Have fun paying full MSRP.

For lack of a better word, I used mimic. Ironically, I wanted to shorten my response by trying to use one word instead of a whole paragraph. Me...of all people...wanting to shorten a response with less words used.

^ Why- they only have 1 volume seller.

I think Tesla is working on a car smaller and cheaper than the Model 3 that will likely appeal to Europe and China as well. But they have to get Cybertruck and the Semi and Roadster all out. I don't think their R&D staff or manufacturing capacity can take on another volume car right now.

I hear ya. It looks like it will be Tampa Bay and Colorado in the finals. I do want it to be Montreal versus Boston tho. For several reasons. 1. Boston is my team. 2. If Montreal wins, Ill scream in AGONY! I HATE the HABS! But... its MY city! 3. Just imagine what the games would be like. PURE hatred for one another. Pro sports most longest, heated rivalry and its for THE Stanley Cup. LAST time this happened was in the '50s when Boston played Montreal in the finals FOR the Cup.

Well, here are some of their other videos' views. Yes, I also looked this up awhile back because I was curious how people are making money off YouTube, serious money. There's A LOT to consider when thinking about how much they make because this is now a job for them and they're expensing these things as well. Also, your numbers are assuming none of them do videos with other people and there's nothing given to them, and there are zero other sponsorships going on. Yes, it's rare and difficult to become a YouTube millionaire but it's also rare to get a million subscribers and videos with millions of views. I watched about 10 seconds of what you posted and those guys seem terribly annoying and I plan to never give them a single "view" of mine.

They have 1.14m subscribers, this is their own money.

Interesting battle of a customer Diesel 6x6 Jeep Gladiator versus the 4x4 MB G550. Jeep Gladiator 6x6 vs. Mercedes-Benz G550 4x4 Squared Tug of War Ends in Failure - autoevolution Kids with way too much of Daddies money!