Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of National Hockey League controversies (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 04:33, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

List of National Hockey League controversies
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Originally AfDed in 2013, and 's rationale there serves well enough for my rationale now: "This article is a hopeless and indiscriminate mishmash of unrelated events grouped by someone's POV idea of what constitutes a "controversy", therefore falling into the realm of original research by synthesis."   Ravenswing   11:59, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
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 * Comment. Our use of the term "controversy" is, for better or worse, widespread. Category:Sports controversies, for example... I'm sure we could dig up some prior XfDs addressing the feasibility of using the term as a classification, and either revisit the conclusions or at least avoid repeating the same arguments. postdlf (talk) 14:08, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. There are numerous controversies in hockey every year, pretty much any time a coach is fired or perhaps not fired and when a referee blows a call (or there is a close call) in a crucial game.  A few controversies I can think of off the top of my head that are not here are the Rocket Richard suspension (if we are including suspensions, and most suspensions involve some element of controversy, including whether there should have been a suspension and whether it was too harsh or harsh enough), the Dale Hunter suspension (ditto), the Phil Espositp for Jean Ratelle and Brad Park trade (if we are including trade, and there are obviously many, many controversial trades), the Bruins entering the stands at Madison Square Garden to fight with fans, the Rangers hiring Bryan Trottier as a coach (and there have been many controversial coaching hires, although perhaps not engendering as many as firings). I don't see a way this subject can be focused enough to be useful - a full list of notable controversies for which a few references could be found would contain hundreds and hundreds of elements, and trying to cut that down would just be based on particular editors point of view. Rlendog (talk) 13:52, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh aye. I wager that if the article was more widely known, we'd get all manner of "It's a Major! Controversy! that that bastard ref blew the call that cost my team the playoff series!!!" bits, whether or not anyone but the hometown press thought so.   Ravenswing   14:45, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I found 3 newspaper articles calling an offsides call in game 36 of the 1996/97 season between two last place teams "controversial." It must be added to the list! Rlendog (talk) 23:44, 5 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete - No definable criteria for inclusion. Carrite (talk) 11:41, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - While I disagree that there are no definable criteria for inclusion, as we could define the list as controversies that would otherwise merit their own article, the list would then contain only one entry in it's current form. Unless there are more articles floating around that are not in this list, I see no reason to keep at this time.  Ham  tech  person  22:06, 9 October 2017 (UTC)


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