500 Million will get you 83 (+1/3) Jordan Staals: THE NHL 2016-2017 THREAD (INCLUDING VEGAS BABY, PITTSBURGH HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

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I posted this from my phone do you see Ann Margret's hinder?

https://mattsko.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/elvis-viva-las-vegas-gif.gif

lucic to the wings speculation u_u

http://i.imgur.com/Ttubwnl.jpg

so many newtons that wayne needs a W

man that expansion is not going to help me get back into this sport

tbf it isn't las vegas' fault the rangers suck

gee Mookie, that hurts.

<3

vegas will pick up our favourite teams' top players

and we will holiday in vegas on memorial weekend to watch them destroy our favourite teams

enjoy the casinos and buffet lads

Johnathan Ericsson to LV is already a Wingfan reality

Yandle to FLA 7/44.5

i remember a time when canuck fans hated lucic

shld be interesting if he gets signed

I remember when lucic hated canucks fans....I think he declared that Vancouver was dead to him.

canucks fans did suckerpunch him and vandalize the church his family went to, so he had a point

too true

seems strange that willes wld want him

money talks i guess

@Russostrib
Per sources, Thomas Vanek has been informed the #mnwild will be buying him out

lol

pavel datsyuk('s contract) to arizona for former penguins fifth-liner joe vitale and two picks

@mirtle
Auston Matthews on coming to Toronto: "Everybody has told me when they’re winning it’s the best place in the league."

lololol

xp in Holland we trust?

Usually I'd say teams like Arizona are a drag on the league but hey, if they want it...

Lindros, Pat Quinn Makarov & Rogie Vachon (!!!!!) in the HHOF

recchi jobbed

the guy's 12th in scoring all-time, c'mon

lindros wtf honestly

Recchi has a Glenn Anderson thing going from my pov but idk I'm a big hall guy and Andreychuck isn't in yet so

also for whatever reason i forgot Recchi got 3 cups so what do I know

yeah i dunno about lindros

i guess it's good that no one's calling him a pussy for having a very good career derailed by concussions, but i suspect that a wily russian player with the same career would still be waiting by the phone

Exactly, good player, never really made it to hof level imo

taylor hall to new jersey for adam larsson

lol edmonton u are the worst

@DownGoesBrown
I've been fanatically following NHL trades for over 30 years and I'm pretty sure this is the worst 1-for-1 deal I've ever seen.

PK TO NASHVILLE

for shea weber, wtf are you doing habs

and stamkos back to tampa, whatevs

pk for weber is just insane

cancel the nhl forever please

i cannot be consoled atm

trading the team's most popular player in a generation for an older, demonstrably worse guy WHO PLAYS THE SAME POSITION AND IS UNDER CONTRACT FOR EIGHT MORE YEARS is the dumbest fucking thing i've ever heard

i mean at least in edmonton you can argue you needed a defenseman i guess

received ten text messages in about 5 minutes, I thought a Paris-like attack happened again. thankfully it's just a trade and now I can laugh in the face of Habs fans for the next 8 years.

it's just good ol' racism rite?

i assume it isn't that simple but probably due to therrien, who the habs inexplicably kept after that car wreck of a season. bad team doesn't get markedly better, doesn't build for future, doesn't maintain most popular player, all to keep that dope around

Bergevin has completely altered his team's chemistry just to appease a coach who will be fired in December. Subban will flourish in Nashville, and Montreal will regret this over the next decade, perhaps for good. I haven't been this upset with the club since Chelios was traded, coincidentally on this day 26 years ago.

Direct result of Montreal fans insistance on having a french speaking coach, imo.

Haha this is madness

adrien otm

there are plenty of french-speaking coaches who aren't therrien; ottawa just hired one. (i dunno how much french kirk muller speaks, but i don't think it would matter.) that's no reason to trade your best skater, let alone trade him for a lesser player with a terrible contract.

and if they say a single word about 'character' . . . yesterday they gave a six-year deal to a guy who two months ago was suspended for calling a ref a 'fucking faggot', today they dealt a guy who's donating $10m to the local children's hospital

Brooks Bratten @brooksbratten
Subban: "Right now I'm going to a team that wants me." #Preds
5:41 PM - 29 Jun 2016

btw the last time therrien was fired, his former team won the Cup four months later (hi dan!)

I've been following hockey less and less the last couple of years, but this trade seems insane. PK was the most interesting player on this team and was incredibly popular. This team just got a lot more boring.

Maybe I should become a predators fan.

there are plenty of french-speaking coaches who aren't therrien; ottawa just hired one. (i dunno how much french kirk muller speaks, but i don't think it would matter.) that's no reason to trade your best skater, let alone trade him for a lesser player with a terrible contract.

Guy Boucher wouldn't do with Bergevin, nor would Kirk's limited french work with the press and a subset of fans, what I'm aiming at is that this trade has not been done for hockey reasons and part of it is because of a toxic old-school culture the Habs as a franchise can't getting away from. For fuck's sakes, lots of analysts on TVA Sport and RDS are praising the trade.

As a canucks fan its refreshing to see that there at least two worse GMs working for Canadian teams.

hey now let's not go overboard

@reporterchris
Phil Kessel has officially chosen to host his day with the Stanley Cup in Toronto next month. The city remains his second home.

I hope he fills it with hot dogs

let us begin

I see griping about Frans Nielsen to the Wings, but I don't really see the problem -- they need help at center and on the power play.

eric staal to minnesota, 3 x $3.5 lol

good to see that the habs got rid of that pesky subban with his character problems oh wait they just signed radulov

fuck this team

<3 the Vanek signing

nba is having a hossa-to-the-wings moment

I like the hockey thread titles, never clicked on the hockey thread tho

― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Friday, July 22, 2016 11:45 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

vindicated on this day

i'm a fan of ailsa's scottish football thread titles

maybe i enver said but i have always loved the hockey thread titles. they are the best

chris chelios sang 'take me out to the ballgame' at wrigley today, dedicated it to the chicago police

I suppose that's one way for him to avoid being booed in this town

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cpbzh_7WIAAu3kZ.jpg:small

(shanahan)

patrick roy has resigned from the avs

http://sinbin.vegas/report-name-selected-one-three/

There are three names the team appears to be moving forward with: the Desert Hawks, the Red Hawks, and the Nighthawks. These names were all registered as several different domain names by Black Knight IP Holding Company, LLC, the company owned by Las Vegas hockey owner Bill Foley within the last few weeks. -Chris Creamer

please not red hawks

actually, please not a team in vegas at all smh

Those are some real garbage team names right there. I guess the last one might appeal to Tom Waits fans

nighthawk sounds like an x-man

hoping they wear wings on their backs and use glitter on their sweaters

shithawks would be better.

can imagine just how horrendous their "home" crowd will be: drunk Albertan oil bros wanting to add some hockey to their gambling and johning weekend in vegas

"If it comes to 100% skill, they win. 100% grit, we win." —T.J. Oshie, on all you need to know about USA vs. Canada

lololol

see also justin abdelkader on the second line and everything john tortorella has accomplished in the last decade

Yeah fuck this team, NA 4 life

When is this fucking season starting

Kessel shoots... Scores!

https://twitter.com/pkessel81/status/778426548651163648

GOAT

Kessel might be the NHL manny ramirez

My buddy and I were saying that this might be the best Team Canada we've seen in our lifetimes. They are just so unbelievably dominant out there. For some reason I still wanna cheer for team NA but gosh. Canada.

Price looked incredible, both of those goals were weird. In my mind he played shutout-worthy hockey.

the people who run USA hockey are obsessed with canada and apparently think that finishing every check is the way to beat them

there's probably no way to beat canada, because that team is amazing, but this method is not working. and nor is it helping team USA beat anyone else. 5-0 loss to finland in the 2014 bronze medal game, 3-0 loss to 'team europe' here. kessel otm

This basically summed it up for me: http://www.wingingitinmotown.com/2016/9/12/12873616/team-america-fun-police-why-i-can-t-root-for-team-usa-s-world-cup-team

esp: "You wonder where’s Tyler Johnson, Paul Stastny or Bobby Ryan. Players who actually can move the puck through the neutral zone and get shots."

I would also add that a bunch of the young guns being put on Team NA instead of the full US team is a travesty, such as Larkin, Saad, and Gaudreau. But then again, lolTorts, Lolmbardi.

what a continent

i though the whole idea was that the young guns only went on team NA? i mean if they were allowed to take those guys, i can't imagine canada would have passed over mcdavid.

still usa's roster is hilarious, even without all of those awesome and fun younger dudes you'd think they'd put together a squad worth watching

is it true that they only put ryan kesler o the tema to fuck with crosby?

i thought they only put dubinsky on the team to fuck with crosby, but then they sat him last night

https://youtu.be/gJ2np7R-Uwg

not a great showing for the tuomases, outscored 9-1

Canada has yet to lose in best-on-best action since the preliminary round of the 2010 Olympics, a stretch of more than six years.

lil sketchy there for a while!

Feels great to finally come out on top in the historic Canada-Europe rivalry

feel kinda sad for the guys from a lot of those countries given that's the closest they'll probably get in their careers to winning an international tournament... but man could they have made them look more like the hyper-generic villains in a kids' hockey movie? like they were straight up iceland in mighty ducks 2.

also JONATHAN TOEWS IS MY FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY BOY STILL!

that's the closest they'll probably get in their careers to winning an international tournament

pretty close! i mean it's been 10 years since the sweden-finland olympic final, americans took canada to overtime in the 2010 final, but that's about it.

thought the europeans played great -- nothing flashy, but more that nick lidstrom 'always in the right position' way -- but they just didn't have the offensive talent (or the four lines of all-stars) to actually beat canada

by "they" i mean players from slovakia, slovenia, germany, switzerland, norway etc. since there's a good chance that this team NA/team Europe thing will be a one-off. sweden & finland i feel will always have a good chance.

i know it's preseason but i could see NJD being better than NYR this year

at some point mcdavid will drag the oilers to respectability all by himself despite them, but until then looool

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cuk5CkTUsAE_4hF.jpg:small

https://twitter.com/barstooltweetss/status/786353404230504453

four goals in his NHL debut O_O

too bad nhl.tv didn't let me see it

The talent in the league is so amazing relative to 10 years ago.

I'm feeling like modern hockey is moving toward lacrosse whereas baseball is moving toward trap-era hockey

@DownGoesBrown
Random time-waster: Which NHL team could build the best six-man starting lineup of players who combined to play fewer than 200 games for it?

for the penguins i've got:

F Luc Robitaille (46 games)
F Marian Hossa (12)
F Jarome Iginla (13)
D Sergei Zubov (64)
D Tim Horton (44)
G Tomas Vokoun (20)
total 199

Flames:

F Marty St Louis (69)
F Fredrik Modin (4)
F Brett Hull (57)
D Brad Marchment (37)
D Mike Commodore (18)
G Curtis Joseph (9)

blues make a solid squad

F Wayne Gretzky (18)
F Dale Hawerchuk (66)
F Martin Havlat (2)
D Scott Stevens (78)
D Phil Housley (26)
G Martin Brodeur (7)

scratch hawerchuk and havlat for Dickie Moore (27) and Peter Stastny (23) and you get . . . six hall-of-famers

winnipeg clearly wins this with laine

vancouver is the last undefeated team in the league, just like everyone predicted

I was kind of hoping they would keep up the run of games won without holding a lead.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvTPiyuWIAEi4_H.jpg

Shea's really let himself go

pk would never do that

the Canes won one!

i'll take this streak, even if it's the longest we'll have this season

@ArponBasu
Looks like Kurri-Gretzky-Semenko is a line for Oilers alumni. As it should be.

best start for the oilers since 1985

looking forward to all the paeans to milan lucic's leadership

http://www.hockeyfights.com/quickhits/entry/red-wings-continue-to-lead-nhl-in-fights

wings have won five straight AND have the most fighting majors in the league, even dylan larkin dropped his gloves

where's bill magill?? ;)

rip al montoya

also lol that bobrovsky had a shutout, at home, and was not one of the three stars

al montoya was a PR pick

hey, at least the pens beat the oilers

Leafs lose 7-0 THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT HAPPENED ALL DAY

(sorry)

bryan bickell (now with carolina) has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis

jeez

what in god's name
http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/18114686/nhl-how-vegas-golden-knights-got-their-nickname

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLub8oFBbUA

whatever

winnipeg days, vegas knights

a fitting first franchise of the trump era

he'll change the name to white knights

things are going to get unpleasant in pittsburgh

marc-andre fleury is the fucking best dude/teammate ever, and he's the franchise leader in everything for goalies, and he's just not as good as matt murray and he has a (fully deserved) no-trade clause and there's gonna be an expansion draft. so either he accepts a trade he probably doesn't want to accept or he'll become a villain

ugh

@shoffren
Patrik Laine described his GWG accordingly: "Top shelf where grandma hides the jars of jam"

take that, jimmy mod

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/its-time-for-the-nhl-to-make-the-goal-nets-bigger

the metro division is running amok

the columbus blue jackets are the fourth team in NHL history to win 15 straight games (two were in a shootout, as was their last loss)

rip red wings playoff streak

etats-unis!

fuc shootouts in gold-medal games tho, cmon

Yeah smh when I saw that

not the nhl but I loled

https://twitter.com/BarSouthNCelly/status/820350303455375360

"Imaginary Practice" took place after the University of Denver men's Hockey team travelled to Kalamazoo, but their sticks got left behind

https://twitter.com/mikeFAIL/status/824812856868687872

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-30/brooklyn-s-barclays-center-said-to-be-dumping-the-islanders

smdh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpZvIPDKpY0

cmon pronger u can do better than that!

flyers are being outshot 26-6 with 11 minutes left in the third

http://i.imgur.com/dv0c9VW.gif

lol

claude julien to the canadiens!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4vu247Ye9I

has this season kinda sucked or is it just me

i've been enjoying it

still haven't been to barclays for the isles yet tho

nor i.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/kris-draper-red-wings-avalanche-march-97

my man

great old time hockey right there

this ones going around as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3zOawon6qI

hey buddy

http://deadspin.com/hockey-players-fight-discuss-their-summer-workout-plan-1793301858

lol

tuff luv

it's so weird looking back at those games now.

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wierd that we're two weeks out and only COLO has been eliminated

idk -- the west is set and so is six or seven of the east

dallas really shit the bed this year huh

lolkings

youre alright crosby

if he didn't score on that, I would be seriously pissed if I were his wingman

no one, even phil kessel, is going to complain about playing on crosby's wing

this is getting really pathetic

USA Hockey contacts D3, rec-league players

God Mook your goalie is trash

nice guy tho

We might have one lying around to spare

Maybe in juniors

patrik elias has officially retired, presumably so he can concentrate on his sports bureau

2 canadian teams confirmed in the playoffs already :D

always enjoy watching the habs play

can never cheer for edmonton but they seem to be the favourites

if the sens can clinch it thatd be sweet

destroy toronto

edmonton's my team because my wife is from there

(not that she gives a shit about the oilers, but hockey is one of the few sports she'll watch)

o u two must have a blast cheering for edm in van

it's p good, there's no great animus against the oilers, like there's not a huge established rivalry between the teams, even just flames would be more controversial in van i feel.

have had jibes about how shitty the oilers are when i wear my oilers hat but they've been reasonably good-natured. now I'm walking around with it on doing a stride of pride

what u really need is an oilers nail yakupov sweater

Flames probably number one rivalry historically

Second wld be edm due to proximity

Others have come and gone (hawks, bruins, etc)

Still, you won't get more than light ribbing tbh

@Sportsnet
BREAKING NEWS: #NHL will not participate in 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

that's so dumb

fly out van/la to china but not pyeongchang

real good strategy for 'expanding' nhl viewership dipshits

tbf the 12-hour time difference would not do much to expand north american viewership

guarantee ovi is pissed right now tho

totally

but they also want to expand into the chinese market

none of it makes sense to me tho

Michael Russo‏ Verified account @Russostrib

2 ?'s on Olympics: How do teams handle if, say, USA Hockey comes calling for the Luke Kunins & Alex Tuchs?

What happens if NHLers go AWOL?

hasn't ovechkin said that he would go to the olympics regardless of whether the nhl participates or not?

this is about money right? like the nhl can't monetize their players playing in another tournament, therefore they're not interested

yeah, as much as I like watching olympic hockey, I doubt it makes a whole lot of financial sense for the NHL to go.

ted leonsis has inferred that he'd let ovechkin play if he wants to

it's not like he really has a way to stop him. What's he gonna do, suspend him?

I wouldn't really mind if all the best players went to the olympics while the rest of the NHL continued playing. How many games are they gonna miss? at most maybe 6?

About two weeks worth of regular season bc its in feb

I doubt theyd be back playing immediately but i suppose theyd give them that option

There's no way GMs will let their best players go and miss 2 weeks of the season.

I always thought it was mostly about avoiding injuries than straight up making money off of it.

what is stopping star players from playing in the olympics anyway? ovechkin already said he's playing

is there anything in their contract that says they can't miss time?* lebron took 2 weeks off for shits and giggles a couple of years ago. his GM/owner weren't gonna say shit to him

*playing in exhibition games might actually be a clause...

guys

http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii/5492051

lol

https://www.change.org/p/national-hockey-league-boycott-all-nhl-games-during-the-2018-winter-olympics-on-tv-and-in-person

well that certainly puts things in perspective

I already boycott all regular season games every year

the only question i have this year is why the leafs/leafs nation so obsessed with wendel clark?

'this year'

Toronto saw Lanny MacDonald and his late in life cup and said me too?

• the leafs have been bad for 50 years
• doug gilmour wasn't really there long enough (had they won in '93, songs would still be sung about him today)
• mats sundin was too european
• wendel fits a don cherry-approved vision of Real Canada -- just a farmboy from kelvington, skates hard, goes to the net, loves the game

http://i.imgur.com/PXs1aXH.jpg

lol

letang out 4-6 months with herniated disc, rip penguins

ouch

was at the oilers-kings game last night

friends visiting from vancouver were excited to see the kings win but i have to hand it to the oilers

can't believe nugent hopkins almost scored a hat trick

was also nice seeing kass

what kind of canucks fan would rather LA win than Edmonton. That seems insane to me. Every Canucks fan I know hates LA with an almost Boston hatred.

one doesn't really watch hockey

the other i was lightly ribbing but i don't know tbh

they're just tourists and i guess they're trying to go for the "la" experience?

as a canucks fan, i got so much hate when i first moved to la

i'm over it, but i have no sympathy for the kings. every time i go to a kings game they win though

was hoping this would break the streak

true canucks fans hate everybody

haha

ya i might be more forgiving

there are a couple hardcore canucks fans in my circle and our kings hate peaked a few years ago

it's been replaced by indifference now

i don't mind the bruins anymore. i may be wrong but i feel like they won based on so many good qualities that the kings and hawks were also able to develop, so i see the bruins as starting that trend, so it's more respect

and a lot of the people i know actually really like boston, including me, so maybe that helps

really like the city of boston i should clarify

Yeah, it's probably irrational (sports fandom, irrational, what?!) but I still harbour a distinct dislike of that team, notably Marchand (also in the news lately!)

Never been to Boston, but their sports fans tend to drive me crazy YMMV

Although I think Chicago is a VERY different team than boston was, but I'll agree on the LA comparison.

yeah, also, most Canucks fans are pretty indifferent to pretty much any rivalry at this point...like what's the point...ugh it's hard not to be fatalist.

ha ya i agree some of it is just irrational

i haven't lived in vancouver in five years (just go back to visit) so things might have changed

irrational sports hatred is the best

I also hate Marchand, the spearing son of a bitch

also I am moving to the twin cities (in chicago now) and am looking forward to being able to follow the local team w/o hating myself as much

cbc trying their hand at comedy

http://www.cbc.ca/comedy/nhl-to-keep-professionals-home-from-olympics-send-vancouver-canucks-instead-1.4056942

the league will send the Vancouver Canucks, a plucky group of hockey amateurs who are expected to be happy just to be there.

...

We can, however, part with the Vancouver Canucks, who will not be contenders, and whose players' talent level, on a scale of 1 to 10, is an 'Aw, they look like they're really having fun out there.

already anticipating a failing travis green coaching the nucks as being too green

forget the orca let's put kermit on our sweaters

http://i.imgur.com/DOHAR9N.gif

excited to see what torts has to smirk about this one

Wow what a cheap shot

one-game suspension lol

One for the money
Two for the show

LEAFS

Bandwagon, Clemenza; Clemenza, bandwagon.

lots of hockey left but man between the oilers and the leafs...who knows

breaking that 23 year dry spell would be pretty cool, especially if it's an all canadian finals (allow me this fantasy for a bit)

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/will-canada-end-its-stanley-cup-drought-well-its-not-impossible/

I would like that

Also lol Hawks

watching the hawks crash and burn is all I have this playoffs. (And hoping San jose win it all to give Vancouver their 1st pick as per the Hansen trade)

Nah fuck San Jose

I WANT THAT 1ST

(also Brent Burns makes me smile)

Best beard

so far:

chuckling at the hawks

enjoying the double whammy that is watching the lames lose and a non-la cali team win (living in la, kings fans hate when i bring this up)

and yes san jose! need that 1st pick goodness for vancouver

happy to see kassian do so well (was cool watching mcdavid work his magic in person too)

I always like Kassian. Was kind of sad it all worked out that way. Good he's managed to get things back together.

this seems overly harsh -- as has been shown in the past week (and every year), if you can get into the playoffs you have a shot -- but yeah those are some bad contracts: http://deadspin.com/the-dynasty-that-ate-itself-1794385282

I read that earlier and sighed a lot

not sure there are too many long-time GMs who successfully adjusted to the salary cap. glen sather did not. bryan murray and brian burke are kinda meh. maybe lamoriello, though the devils were always so cheap it was like they had their own cap. but unlike holland, those guys are largely gone now

http://www.latimes.com/sports/ducks/la-sp-ducks-flames-elliott-20170418-story.html

juuuuiiice

caps are gonna blow the leafs out tonight imo

ovechkin might kill someone tho

Flames were booing bieksa consistently. Rude!

He's the only thing I like about the Ducks.

Also, fellow Canucks fans join me in mourning the loss of our 6'5 Russian back to Russia

Buffalo has fired GM Tim Murray and coach Dan Bylsma.

It's nice to see other teams besides mine flail about terribly

Damn, Nashville

damn, indeed - I think they'll go into the next round feeling incredibly confident

lol rinne had as many points as toews

goodbye tryammy u'll b missd

Well Chicago, ya ruined the western half of my bracket. Kane, go to Las Vegas! I'd like to be able to enjoy B'hawks hockey again!

Pens had a lot less trouble with Blue Jackets than I was expecting. Which is heartening.

COME ON LEAFS

fuck

Indeed

https://whatsupyasieve.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/bb.jpg

almost feel bad for the dude -- he's a good coach but the playoff failures are legion

I jokingly said that I would become a predators fan last summer when the habs traded Subban, but that might be when my habs fandom really ended. Looking at this team now, I'm not really caring whether they win or lose.

They're just not a very interesting team.

i want to write an article about that

also: sigh?

idgi

the rangers aren't actually good

might have helped if the habs had traded for skill instead of sandpaper at the deadline

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-DyCYHV0AANQYG.jpg:small

Honest question from a non-fan: can the Leafs, who obviously make more money than god, sign one great skater and one goalie better than the one they have now in the off-season and make a serious run at the Cup next year? I don't know anything about how free agency and salary cap work in the NHL.

According to capfriendly TOR has 250k in headroom so, no

Are my Washington Capitals cursed? They lost the 2nd round playoff home opener to the Pittsburgh Penguins last night. Can they ever beat the Penguins in a series?

^_^

Fuckin lucic

Bc boy right there

Will forgive him talkin shit about Vancouver in his Boston days

gawdam, lookit edm go. Gretzky looked SO ecstatic at the end of last night's game- made me smile. only saw the final period but Talbot's in a zone rn

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the joe thornton hat trick

^_^

will always hate Lucic. I'm still pulling for Edmonton but he makes it harder

He does but edm is our only chance, as much as i prefer the sens

I'm not a Canadian team guy so much. I'm pulling for the Sens and Edmonton, I guess but only because Anaheim is the worst, and the only team I like left really is Nashville (I love Pk).

crosby concussion confirmed

Radko Gudas drops Flyers teammate Claude Giroux with a punch #IIHFWorlds pic.twitter.com/2x8oXSUnXd

— Brady Trettenero (@BradyTrett) May 5, 2017

Almost a stiff-arm

love tap

predators: team of destiny

NBC: "Nyquist was a horse named after the Red Wings player Gustav Nyquist"

My Mom: "Always Dreaming was named after Capitals fans"

— dom foglio (@domfogs) May 6, 2017

^_^

I hope Ottawa traps your clown asses to death

this is a fun period

yeah that was intense

I got to go to game 6 in Nashville this last weekend, that was the craziest atmosphere I've ever seen. Awesome fans in the arena. Of course, at the hipstery bar we went to after, a lady from Michigan spotted my Preds towel and asked me why nobody at the bar reacted when Nashville scored ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

my poor sweet oilers

holy mother of god

go sens go! <3

http://i.imgur.com/Vaia8Ye.jpg

(head says pens tho :'''( especially with karlsson injured doublecry.jpeg)

never forget

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_rH_OWXUAAcOte.jpg

I hope Ottawa traps your clown asses to death

welp

Kessel to ilx pls

Really good game

Might even go to 7

lmao just saw kessel's gif

http://i.imgur.com/tKt13Do.png

sens were so bad the pens scored so many times

o w8

sens are the catenaccio of hockey

Kessel raving like a lunatic. Kunitz just laughing at him. Brill. #NHL #Penguins #BecauseItsTheCup pic.twitter.com/xvHnTOdpbF

— x - SpaceCam (@Spacecam) May 16, 2017

i guess i'm glad the series will extend, but man the ducks are a deeply unlikeable team

Seeing a actual dead duck being scooped off nashville ice made me loathe predators even though they didn't have anything to do with it

gross. let's hope they play the senators next rather than the penguins then

lol

dead senators is cause for a coup

@FriedgeHNIC
During last night's game, Ryan Johansen suffered a left thigh injury and needed surgery. He is out for the rest of the playoffs

dag

nabbit

maybe i do believe in karma

if you can skate backwards you may be eligible to play D for the penguins on sunday

^_^

great IIHF finals for Lundqvist

Wow, that Pittsburgh-Ottawa game was a slaughter.

Bad officiating and a kessel dive leading to a pens goal

Yet sens still ploughing through

Come on lads

D'zinged

good luck for that OT mookieproof. monitor your heart rate.

bless

man sens-pens OT is nuts so far

Intense

i don't think i've ever seen a puck roll on the bar like this

Gotta love bouchers bad ass scar

Karlsson 37mins15secs

Is he
Human

Also wtf pens fans throwing stuff in the rink

They need to show that replay of the puck rolling off outside the top bar some more

^_^

How can anyone not respect the sens rly

Good thing out of this sens loss is that i can stop watching hockey til next season

Just heard this will be the first time there is no canadian coach in the finals? Barf

Last year's stanley cup winner and...
Nashville in the final

I'm out.

I will heavily cheer for Nashville because Ryan Ellis and PK Subban are some of my favorite players, and the Pens won it last year, let's not turn into the NBA shall we.

If anything subban deserves it but...whatevs

let's not turn into the NBA shall we

tbf there haven't been repeat champions in 20 years; little fear of that

it's gonna be hard for me to root against PK but so it goes

Yeah, PK has me cheering for the Preds. Also I hear wonderful things about how much they've energized their fanbase.

holy shit what a goal by aberg

a beauty

"Go Pittsburgh. Go President Trump. Go Penguins." pic.twitter.com/dHqIhCL83M

— Deadspin (@Deadspin) June 3, 2017

Tainted by trump

And this is how we got shitsburgh

must we

Fact: Hillary Clinton received 80% of the vote in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh stands with the world & will follow Paris Agreement @HillaryClinton https://t.co/cibJyT7MAK

— bill peduto (@billpeduto) June 1, 2017

someone else wants to weigh in: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/chicago-blackhawks-jonathan-toews-speaks-out-climate-change-instagram-1.4144723

If global warming is real then how come we still have ice rinks HUH?

The second thing Toews did that I found likeable (first was scoring at the 2010 olympic finals).

he's much more likeable than his teammate

how about when he accidentally swore in a post-game interview after winning the 2007 world juniors and made an adorable "oops" face?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWFH6CnnaOU

god bless this nashville crowd.

so much yellow

it ain't the SCF without a too many men penalty.

charles barkley otm

never thought I'd see an actual lynching attempt in my life, I stand corrected

that is in poor taste

it was in considerably poorer taste for your team's star player to, by all appearances, demand a penalty after smashing subban's head repeatedly into the ice, frankly

my team's star player gave subban several cheap shots, for which he should have been (further) penalized, in a sports game. it was not an attempted lynching, or rape, or holocaust. grow the fuck up

yeah, it was a dick move by Crosby and bad reffing but lets be real, that kind of comparison is gross.

good game. nashville got jobbed by that quick whistle, but i'll take it

Goodbye season now taking submissions for new season title

^_^

why don't we have a board?

because there are only like five of us

It's not worth it

Congrats mookie!

thanks!

As another (the other?) Pens fan here, gotta say I didn't feel good about that quick whistle call. BUT dems the breaks. Preds had basically two full periods of opportunities to capitalize and just couldn't find a way.

Does seem ridiculous that Toronto can call em up and blow the horn for an miscalled onside goal from 2 minutes ago (game...3? 4?) and not blow the horn on a puck that clearly wasn't in Murray's control and ended up in the net on a frankly cool and wild diving highlight real quality goal. Oh well.

as i understand it, the argument is that when the whistle blows, people stop playing, and therefore you cannot reconstruct what would have happened had the whistle not blown. as opposed to a belated offside (or goal) review, where a correct call would have ended the play.

that argument didn't really apply to last night's nashville goal in practice and i'd totally be pissed if i were their fan, but . . . so it goes

considering the preds did not otherwise score in the final two games of the series, i don't feel like they were robbed of a title -- but then i suppose i wouldn't

the whistle logic is sound

At least it didn't happen in a seventh game

Drouin to Habs for Sergachev.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DC2eqk9XsAAnSBf.jpg

Was thinking 'Marian hossas skin condition will free you from the las vegas knights' bc that's the most stupid thing

i don't doubt that hossa has a skin condition at all, but . . . it's awfully convenient

he's already made $59m of the $63m on his contract; there's obvious incentive to put up with things when yr making $8m or $4m a year, less so for the four remaining years in which he makes $1m per

hawks can put him on long-term IR rather than suffering cap-recapture penalties if he straight-up retired

I can't say anything nice so I'm not saying anything at all

Vegas jerseys look very German nat'l team to me.

somehow medieval helmet doesn't scream hockey to me

Or Las Vegas

it's saad, he was a blue jacket

caps re-sign oshie for a lot of money over way too long

i suppose being good at shootouts is a skill that ages well

and is very useful for getting over that playoff hump

lol

Lose to Las Vegas and lose your division: THE NHL 2017-2018 THREAD (INCLUDING THE COYOTES SOMEHOW, PITTSBURGH HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)