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GO WINGS!!!!!!

Year-end Minutiae: Tonight's game will be the twelfth New Year's Eve game to be played which also happens to be the halfway point of the season, the first being in 1946. As well, it's the fourth time within an eighty-two game schedule and the first time since 2001.

Happy new year everyone. I'll be at a wedding tonight so no game watching, but I'm sure we'll ring in the new year with a W. Larkin gets a hatty to get to 20 goals before the new year!

The Russia - Switzerland game sure was a wild game. Russia made quite a comeback to win that one. And just watching the beginning of the Kazakhstan - Slovakia game, 32 seconds in, and Slovakia is up 2-0 already. This has been a very entertaining tournament, so far.

Jack Hughes will probably go top 5.

Larkin's point streak lives and that is all I care about right now tbh. I am happy.

You think Hughes will stay at 161lbs? He'll likely get above 170, and maybe even above 180 in the next year or so, which is fine. Alex DeBrincat, Johnny Gaudreau, Brayden Point, Artemi Panarin, Nikolaj Ehlers, Nico Hischier, Mitch Marner, Sebastian Aho, Patrick Kane, Nikita Kucherov etc. seem to be doing okay at that size or smaller... Also, size has nothing to do with "concussion problems" in the NHL... Some of the most prominent names that have had their careers cut short due to concussion issues include Eric Lindros, Scott Steven, Keith Primeau, Johan Franzen, etc... all big men. Of course some smaller guys, namely Paul Kariya and Pat Lafontaine had their careers cut short due to concussions as well. Point is, there's no correlation between size and risk of concussions. Dylan Cozens and Kirby Dach, who are both NHL size now, have just as much a risk of concussion as Jack Hughes. Maybe even more so because of how smart and elusive Hughes is on the ice.

I feel like there isn't much of a connection between size and concussions. I suspect it's more about the type of game you play and the situations you tend to put yourself in. Aaron Ekblad and Auston Matthews are big men and each of them has already suffered multiple concussions. Hughes is the same size as Brayden Point, FWIW.