I don't understand why there is a need to lock them at all. rather than making a new thread for every single thought that comes to your head it would be better if we could just post them in that day's game thread.
You brought up two separate points in that one post.
A) Why lock GD threads at all? Because why the hell would one see the need to post in a Gameday thread from a game that happened a week ago?
B) I don't think anyone here is getting pissed because a few posts in a thread go off-topic. I think Chief's issue is when after a game, people start a multiple-page conversation about the Caps or something, when that could easily take place in the Caps thread.