What Would Cause HF Boards to Meltdown?

[Nico Cauzuki]

Hawks winning the lottery tonight

 

[Connor McConnor]

Why would Toronto winning the Cup break the boards? All non leaf fans would just not be on this site for a few weeks and it would be their personal message board. Luckily that won’t happen in my lifetime

 

[kevsh]

I'd slightly change it from "McDavid requests a trade" to "McDavid gets traded" - in a case where no one sees it coming.

Yeah, this site would be down for 48 hours.

 

[DaveG]

any of 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6

possibly #3 as well, but only if the Penguins/Oilers are blatantly tanking when it happens.

 

[Coffey]

McDavid requests a trade.
The schadenfreude would be off the scales. 100x worse than the "Oilers suck" thread that existed earlier this year.

 

[HanSolo]

All of the above except for refs being caught fixing games. Peel being caught on hot mic with blatant game management had a lot of discussion but it didn't shut the site down.

 

[snag]

Oilers to be comfortably in a playoff spot in February, McDavid, Draisaitl and Nurse to all get some sort of soft tissue issue and go on LTIR giving the Oilers $30mill to play with at the deadline, coast into the playoffs on fumes and activate all three for Game 1.

 

[bobholly39]

Poll question and OP question aren't exactly the same.

What would cost HF to crash the fastest/for longest? It's definitely one of the top 2 choices. Every hockey fan would be watching because it's the finals, and the reaction/drama with those matchups (or leafs winning) would definitely cause HF to crash.

But if you're asking about biggest meltdown, as in people going "omg! I can't believe this!" and people being genuinely upset, that's a different answer. But it wouldn't necessarily cause the servers to crash since not everyone would be getting/reacting to the news at the same time. So for meltdowns, I would probably rank in order:

1. Cup Winning team cheating. Depends on what the cheating is though - i'm not sure how you can cheat at hockey, it would have to be something super significant, so not a goalie pad being too big for example - more like bribing a referee or such. But if so - 100% this one, fans would be livid

2. Edmonton/Pittsburgh winning 1st overall of a generational prospect draft (so a Crosby/McDavid caliber prospect or better).

3. McDavid requesting a trade

4. Leafs win cup

5. The all Canadian finals

6. Refs fix a game (I assume this is a rogue ref acting on his own - if this was mandated by the league, it would be higher).