8 ARMS TO HOLD THE STANLEY CUP THE NHL 2021-2022 SEASON THREAD (INCLUDING LIGHTNING HANGOVER AND KRACKEN SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

Odds on a 2021-2022 season starting on time?

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 pic.twitter.com/7zqT0A2gJj

— luke prokop (@lukeprokop_6) July 19, 2021

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl-predators-prokop-announcement-1.6108113

very cool moment

Very nice

Vegas got Fleury, does Seattle take Price? Seems risky/expensive, but they have basically a full cap to work with.

Hoping Josh Bailey remains an Islander for life, although he was exposed last time too.

https://theathletic.com/2711747/2021/07/19/luke-prokop/

unlocked interview

price is prone to injury. fleury's issues were different, if i recall correctly, where it was him mostly not performing for a long while when his team needed him. so, i don't know if it's a fair comparison.

i think it'd be a bad move for seattle to acquire price, but i assume he actually really wants that to happen. he is in the last stage of his career and would most likely retire there and be close to family, so it makes sense for him.

i feel like they'll take holtby, though.

I'd take holtby or quick before price

so sounds like kraken's not taking any expensive players?

I haven’t heard of half of these drafted players. Supposedly they were no side deals.

weird

Yeah, you would think that Seattle would try to copy what LV did.

This time around teams may have been better at not leaving exposed players they would actually hurt to lose.

They did copy LV in the fact that they drafted a Fleury.

pens fan here (as i've probably mentioned before itt). pretty bummed that they basically got two penguins out of this thing. one of which actually hurts a little: mccann via toronto after he spent like two days as a leaf on paper. tanev's a trip, but gonna miss jared.

anybody else watch this thing live? chris fowler was so bad. painful to watch at times.

The NFL-ization of side events is second only to extortive owners

xpost was he the one who called the Hurricanes the Carolina Panthers

i missed that part! but it sounds about right. overall just a terribly awkward performance. with the move to espn, makes me worry that we'll have to suffer through him forever now.

They did copy LV in the fact that they drafted a Fleury.

Two Fleurys! They'll be twice as good as Vegas

are the kraken now one of the biggest and heaviest teams?

all their d men are at least 200 lbs and 6 feet tall (except for gavin bayreuther)

and they have the two biggest players in the nhl in oleksiak (6'7", 255 lbs) and macdermid (6'5", 233 lbs)

the nucks are going to get pushed around unless we get some bigger boys

re: the penguins, i'm sure they would rather have lost pettersson or zucker, but with a flat salary cap, room must be made. everyone loves tanev but he's a fourth-liner with four years left on his contract who's about to turn 30 (and his injuries are only going to mount with the way he plays)

mccann is a more significant loss, but he too is in the pens' bottom six when everyone's healthy, and you can't have everything. (i have seen him tentatively penciled in as seattle's no. 1 center lol.) they *should* be able to get bottom-six help more cheaply, perhaps leaving room to upgrade the goaltending

every half-decent team is desperate to shed salary; at least the penguins didn't have to embarrass everyone involved by trading away draft picks just to get arizona to take on their shitty contracts, e.g. flyers/ghost bear and islanders/ladd

Yes thank you Arizona for taking the contracts no one wants. Islander fans feel it was a fair deal for the most part, lol.

You have to admire the way Paul Holmgren has it in for the Flyers.

Just popped in to post a picture of when the Stanley Cup showed up at a Rush show I saw, which is among the most hockey things ever:

https://i.imgur.com/36I4fSP.jpg

congratulations to the handful of teams that *didn’t* wildly overpay for bad expensive defensemen today

otoh at least the flyers, blackhawks and canucks didn’t draft a sex offender (yet)

The Flyers had Billy Tibbets years back (but so did the Pens, iirc), so they have already checked that on their organizational bingo card.

kraken dman jamie oleksiak's sister is penny, a canadian swimmer, who is doing very well in several events in the summer olympics

Did not expect Vegas to trade Fleury to the Blackhawks for a prospect, and then Fleury saying he might retire in response.

Caps resigning Ovi for five more years seems more normal, but am wondering what his age 40 year will be like.

all of western pennsylvania wants the return of MAF, for better or worse (though neither hextall nor burke are likely to be sentimental about it)

pretty comfortable with the penguins doing very little so far -- the only deal i'm honestly envious of is dougie hamilton's, and they had nowhere near the room. i guess hextall does have a rep (unlike jim rutherford) of not making deals for the sake of it

might have taken (pittsburgh's own) brandon saad at that price, but that's about it

I wonder if Hextall is really there for the inevitable tear down/rebuild more than anything.

perry to tampa is very heartbreaking

xp i'm still not clear on why rutherford suddenly abdicated in january; i think hextall was just the best available candidate (i cannot explain burke's involvement at all)

pens did win their division and had excellent advanced stats, so i'm not sure tearing it all down because the goaltending was an utter disaster vs. the isles makes sense . . . but of course they haven't addressed the goaltending either

tbh i don't think ownership will allow hextall to tear it down yet. they might not re-sign malkin or letang after next year -- much more likely to let letang go, i'd imagine -- but crosby (and probably malkin?) is there as long as he wants to be. which i'm fine with

Not suggesting they will tear it down yet, just that Crosby/Malkin can't be good for too much longer and then . . . .

i'm still not convinced pens fans' goaltender panic is warranted, but i too am fine with just minor tweaks to the roster cuz i like what so many of them bring and the chemistry has largely been solid. gonna remain butthurt about mccann for awhile though. on the other hand, as a "reba" fan, we have a brock now. HAAIIEEE!

;_;

After a Hall-of-Fame career and 46 years of broadcasting Pittsburgh Penguins hockey, Mike Lange will be retiring from his play-by-play duties.

Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building.

Thank you, Mikey: https://t.co/zMePmPrTmM pic.twitter.com/M4jForHpSq

— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) August 9, 2021

well scratch my back with a chainsaw, grandma, mikey is retiring!

it sounds like he'll be popping in from time to time on penguins radio to shoot the breeze with the ole two-niner, so that's good.

RIP Tony Esposito

indeed

An MTU Huskies legend

Lundqvist done

also r-r-r-r-r-r-r-ick jeanneret to retire after season

https://c.tenor.com/BOBSv9PBFdEAAAAC/lundqvist-net.gif

Carolina's poison pill offer sheet to the Habs' Kotkaniemi is hilarious.

the pettiness is funny — and i guess it helps distract from both teams drafting or signing assholes this summer — but idg why carolina would trade away a good young goalie, let dougie hamilton walk, then offer $6m for a forward who scored five goals last season

habs should take the picks and use them to get eichel or something

mookie, I am a very petty person.

Yeah, I would probably take the picks. I believe the qualifying offer is 10% of expiring salary, so Carolina will have to offer $6.7M next year to keep his rights. I guess Carolina can walk away if he isn't worth $6M after next year, but if that happens those picks will hurt even more.

really wonder how often restricted free agents are offered offer sheets and *don't* sign them

just reread my post above and qualifying offer is 110% of expiring.

well, i hope the hurricanes are happy now!

Big Z back to the Island after a 20 year break.

i admittedly cannot say lou has done a bad job on the island, but he really does like his old guys

It's true, Isles have to be the oldest team in the league now. No one thinks the final piece to getting this team to the finals is 44-year-old Chara and J.P. Parise's 37-year-old son, but with flat cap + everyone overpaying for D-men, I'm ok (although not thrilled) w/taking a chance on them for a year.

The Red Wings have a player named T-BONE CODD at tryouts.

https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/529226/davis-codd

His real name is Davis but who cares

I don’t think demoting your franchise player ever ends well

https://www.nhl.com/news/jack-eichel-stripped-of-buffalo-captaincy-placed-on-ir-with-neck-injury/c-326273214

no idea what they hoped to accomplish besides making everything worse and reducing their leverage

buffalo deserves so much better

i'm pretty excited for today's canucks-kraken game. i'm curious how much kraken is going to try to push the canucks around this season

there are two players on opening-night rosters who were born in 2003

Do they even remember 9/11

kraken have a bunch of their top forwards out for covid protocol already, does not bode well for tonight.

it is wild to see hockey featured in the top spot on espn dot com

love to see one’s team get three empty netters

Yeah I don’t fully get why the bolts pulled the goalie so early and so often.

Looking forward to seeing the two new arenas this year.

excellent game, pens

sounds like things might get a little chippy in DC tonight

Couldn't happen to nicer teams.

Gretz is not TV ready

The #leafs don't have the cap space to call up a goaltender to take Petr Mrazek's spot behind Jack Campbell tonight. They will likely sign U of T goalie Alex Bishop to an amateur tryout to back up Campbell.

— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) October 16, 2021

Should sign the zamboni guy who had to play against them as the emergency goalie

ITL manon rheaume does analysis for DET

evander kane is a real piece of work

Details are sketchy. What happened?

Defector and others saying it was a fake COVID vaccination card

thought they wouldn't notice. he bet wrong.

i really don't understand why anyone would bother to do this

the whole olympics thing has me worried, as well

if i recall correctly, i think half of the players on the canucks got covid

if something like that happens now, they would probably suspend all nhl games

sabres: unstoppable

Hahah I was thinking the same thing. Good for them.

lol leafs

i don't even know who these guys are

i absolutely love that garland gave that kraken fan the stink eye

nucks played a bit sloppy at times, but they got a w

blackhawks are 0-5-1, have been outscored 27-12, and seth jones is a -9

I think this might finally be the year the Panthers win a round in the playoffs after a 25 year drought.

still kinda bitter about the last series they did win tbh

of course you are

the avalanche of rats on the ice, with visiting goalies hiding in the net, is one of my favorite hockey images though

i know i am extremely fortunate among hockey fans -- my late father was long haunted by the 3-0 collapse to the islanders in 1975, but i was much too young, and the last 30 years have been extremely kind -- but those mid-90s penguins teams were just absurdly loaded with hall-of-famers and should have never been thwarted by david volek or scott mellanby the way they were

i highly respect the wings and the avs of that era; less so the devils, honestly

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/blackhawks-chose-chase-tarnished-cup-instead-whats-right/

The Kraken hung a banner for the 1917 Stanley Cup?? Could Seattle sports teams get any farther up their own ass?

I like that the fans are calling themselves the Squid Squad.

A little weird that their TV announcer is John “that’s hockey baby” Forslund, who still feels like the eternal voice of the Canes to me. I guess you can’t ask him to make up 5-6 new catch phrases to use in every game though.

Squid Squad

say that five times fast

kinda wonder if bettman knew that the NFL and MLB would also publicly shit their beds yesterday, but fffffs

really tired of every single shitty sports organization being so incredibly worried about 'distractions'

maybe if you've won a cup it's okay to straight-up lie to everyone?

also if forslund doesn't intone 'let's get kraken' upon every opening faceoff then gtfo

I mean there is a hair metal mighty ducks song

here's the #Blackhawks' new logo, kinda the same except it's looking the other way pic.twitter.com/BgcGcwUOQT

— Steve Ferra (@AbPow) October 27, 2021

Someone said this, and it's been ringing in my ears: the Blackhawks buried this and covered it up for a decade for a video coach. Not for a star; for a video coach. This is one tip of one iceberg, and not just in sports.

— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) October 27, 2021

Panthers better dump Q and do it Quick.

you say you hate distractions? you're the main fuckin one now, buddy.

Yeah, Q needs to go.

Q out

glad he didn't drag it out.

let's clear the air with this glorious goal by duclair!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdMKUPmO6Os

and some accidental hockey poetry to boot!

that is fantastic

Hope FLA sticks with their asst coach and doesn’t bring in someone like Tortorella

is it just me or was there a hint of the great Bobby Orr goal vs St Louis there?

Probably not just you. If there is a goal even the most casual hockey fan knows, it’s that one.

Hard to see this as a worthwhile gesture and not a cynical ploy to influence opinion/coverage in the face of impending lawsuits

https://www.yardbarker.com/nhl/articles/hockey_hall_of_fame_removing_brad_aldrichs_name_from_stanley_cup/

Argh line break broke the link

Not sure if the Sabres got enough for Eichel. Seems pretty good for Vegas. Sabres then had to take on the LTIR contract of the basically-retired Johnny Boychuk to get back to the capfloor. Certainly helps the Isles.

I think Tuch is really good (but I might just think that bcz he destroyed the canucks every time they played)

Kraken got a hat trick at home, and it seemed like the fans were a little reluctant to throw their brand new, somewhat-expensive hats/gear onto the ice.

Plastics

haydn best nhler pic.twitter.com/lPegVURFkp

— undrafted free agent (@hayshartshart) November 5, 2021

that's terrible and lucky? jeez

I definitely laughed at the slide and the fact that it somehow worked

It’s a 3 dimensional sport

awww. someone won a shutout

dark times are coming for the penguins but i shall nevertheless cherish back-to-back shutouts in montreal and toronto

Islanders fell apart at the end of their 13-game road trip, and just as they were ready to open their new home arena tonight, a mini covid outbreak happened, causing 5 of their starters to miss the game (which they lost). Welp.

lou totally infected them

Yes but the infection cleared up an additional $2 million in cap space somehow

real whirlwind six months for the canadiens

it certainly has.

fire bergevin, hire a young quebecois genius for their dream job.
fire ducharme, bring in joël bouchard,
give weber to seattle

― sean gramophone, Tuesday, May 25, 2021 10:15 PM (six months ago)

https://lede-admin.defector.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2021/12/Screenshot-103.png?resize=1024,576

- DOUCHEBAG

AV clubbed

Totally meaningless move - Philly perpetually delusional that they are Cup contenders one piece away and it must be the coach's fault.

i don't think they considered themselves cup contenders, but i'm sure they had designs on the playoffs -- the athletic had them at about 33% to make it at the start of the season -- and there aren't too many coaches who can survive getting absolutely crushed at home in an eighth straight loss

kinda wondering where the line is for lou at this point? isles have had a brutal schedule, terrible injury/covid luck and they're hardly likely to bring in a better coach than trotz, but lou has never been one to shy away from change for change's sake

I haven't been this down on the Flyers since 06-07 when they had the worst record in the league. I kind of hate them now because of ownership's insane 20+ years of lurching from one shiny toy to the next. The organization consists of ex-Flyers whose only qualifications are that they are ex-Flyers. At least Hextall had some plan, but tried to be competitive while rebuilding, which is not a great approach imo.

I would definitely grab Trotz if I thought a coach would make a difference - it won't.

Such a cruel twist of fate so far for the Isles. This is the first year in decades where they were picked by people as a potential Stanley cup finalists, and they finally got the new arena they deserve after so much turmoil. And yet so many things have gone wrong. I don’t know how you improve by replacing Trotz. Lou did magically make a lot of cap space reappear though, so there’s room for changes at the deadline.

Yeah, Trotz might wear you out, but it seems too soon.

i'm still trying to get used to our new coach and all these changes. he hasn't said the F word nearly as much as what i've heard in the past, but i'm assuming he's just getting warmed up

https://soundcloud.com/thenielsonshow/sets/filthy-bruce

TREVOR ZEGRAS WHAT? @tzegras11 pic.twitter.com/JXjGfAitSs

— NHL GIFs (@NHLGIFs) December 8, 2021

the best players are alive today

Jacob Trouba of the @NYRangers has had a Gordie Howe hat trick (goal, assist and fight) both last night and tonight.

He's the second player in NHL history to have a Gordie Howe hat trick on back-to-back days, joining the Canadiens' Doug Risebrough (February 15 & 16, 1975).

— Stats By STATS (@StatsBySTATS) December 9, 2021

congrats to marc-andre fleury on his 500th victory <3

A little sad they dont call covid protocol scratches “inner body injuries”

That’s good stuff right there

legend

ESPN rinkside reporter just said Ovechkin drinks Pepsi while playing (it's in his Gatorade water bottle, apparently), but prefers Dr. Pepper between periods. Respect.

— Saira Peesker (@Peesker) December 11, 2021

isles won a home game!

Has to be one of the longest winless streaks ever to open up a new arena. Glad Parise finally got a goal after so many near misses.

BREAKING: The IIHF has reportedly cancelled the remainder of the 2022 World Junior Hockey Championships.https://t.co/AbIsWA6Y75

— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) December 29, 2021

holy moly

The title to this thred may be my best work as there may only be four players holding the cup this year

old school penguins hockey today: up 6-1 after one, up 6-5 five minutes into the third, eke out 8-5 win

also that thing with the kraken fan + canucks coach was pretty cool

25 fantastic minutes of pens swarming and shooting their asses off was good enough against the sharks, fortunately. bit more concerned about the blues thursday. gonna be more of a grind.

holy shit Cale Makar pic.twitter.com/CDxU3qcq91

— Dimitri Filipovic (@DimFilipovic) January 5, 2022

obviously shit can happen -- we're not even halfway through the season -- but eight eastern conference teams are now above 90% to make the playoffs

and the rest are fucked (unless the isles go absolutely insane)

Isles (and possibly Sens too) continue to have some of the worst luck/scheduling issues I’ve ever seen in a season. It’s like as soon they finally got back into a groove they were given 13 days off.

On this day in 1993, Mario Lemieux announced he had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Lemieux would miss nearly the next two months for treatment, but would return in March and win the scoring title by season's end #Hockey365 #LetsGoPens pic.twitter.com/HZkhggBcUq

— Mike Commito (@mikecommito) January 12, 2022

Flyers and Isles are so horrendously bad at shootouts that they went 9 full rounds (17 misses) before the Isles finally got a single goal to win it

Also, didn't realize Habs now have the worst record in the league. Go Coyotes!

so the panthers scored 16 goals in like 25 hours this past weekend

i'm not sure i believe in them -- they've played like two-thirds of their games at home so far -- but that's pretty cool

anyway the eastern conference playoff situation is now basically locked up lol. and all eight teams are awesome as best i can tell

Panthers need to at least win a playoff series this year to put that long drought to rest.

i don't even know what to say about the oilers

no doubt the addition of evander kane will fix everything

The Flyers have lost 10 games in a row for the second time this season.

I'm just so sick of the old boys network that has run this team into the ground the last 15 years.

The Oilers are the California Angels of the NHL. They’ll find a way to screw things up even when they have 2 of the very best players in the league.

rip clark gillies

POV: You’re jumping into a pile of teddy bears with Alex Alexeyev #TeddyBearTossHershey #HersheyBearsCares pic.twitter.com/mQuYWvUsu1

— Hershey Bears (@TheHersheyBears) January 23, 2022

the jets got one off em yesterday, but there's this from a person on twitter:

@JakeDecker__
Here is a cool stat

The Penguins currently have the BEST penalty kill in the history of the NHL.

The best before this season was the 2011-2012 Devils at 89.6%

Halfway through the season, the Penguins are at 90%

of course the jets got it after super killer teddy blueger had to leave the ice after his visor destroyed his nose.

impressive how the flyers can have two double-digit losing streaks in 40 games and still be 11 points up on last year's cup runners-up

lol apparently ron duguay is dating sarah palin

NECES HANDLES ARE INSANE 🔥 pic.twitter.com/J4r1AqRmcy

— Pavel Barber (@HeyBarber) January 29, 2022

i read a piece that said duguay was her bodyguard, i believe, and thought that was strange

flyers win!

Just in time to start a new 10 game losing streak.

can someone check in on gritty

marchand's hat trick against the pens last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6Udfzr9C8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiqd4e8T4NU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYrE3pbnvkc

Not sure if that hat trick makes up for his subsequent six game suspension. Also Tuuka has now officially retired.

total joke that an nhl team is going to play here . . . but also going to be an awesome place to see a game

The bowl is taking shape at ASU’s multi-purpose arena. pic.twitter.com/rVYJpriE3p

— Craig Morgan (@CraigSMorgan) February 14, 2022

Coyotes will sell out every game for three years straight

happy 50th to the legendary jaromir jagr

he’s 8-11-19 in 35 games for kladno this season

https://assets.listia.com/photos/0ef7f9bca1307b9fccc9/original.png?s=320x320m&sig=a4f7d396ddfa6581&ts=1606861170 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xwobgBWwJKQ/hqdefault.jpg

Imagine being a goalie and seeing that hair coming at you

sid with his 500th tonight

also his 50th against the flyers lol

lool

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FL6qGL-XwAEjNE2?format=jpg&name=small

hahaha

Ok completely forgot that staples center is now called “crypto dot com arena”, yuck.

who cares

"We now have the ability to really almost do anything."

The NHL and Amazon have teamed up to predict every likely face-off winner in real time. Here's how it works and what you'll see: https://t.co/Bz6C8FO5o3 pic.twitter.com/T1WBxXjWSO

— luke fox (@lukefoxjukebox) March 1, 2022

florida is scary

the eastern playoffs are going to be incredible

barring some miracles for the bruins and jackets, it's pretty much mathematically over but for the seedings in the east, right? west-pacific gonna be a fun one to watch between now and then with like 5 teams vying for the wc or trying to hang in there.

https://defector.com/the-all-black-league-that-invented-hockey-as-we-know-it/

wow at the flyers re-signing ristolainen for 5 x $5.1

that’s some jack johnson shit, plus 50% more expensive

Yeah, this franchise is insane. They have no idea what they are doing. I used to live and die with that team. I’ve watched maybe five total periods this year.

By advanced statistics, Ristolainen is one of the worst dmen in the league period, not just for his salary.

They have Gritty tho

Gritty is the best thing they've done since 2004.

Sorokin is good.

Gonna be thinking about this save for a while 😳 pic.twitter.com/u1QtZiJ5mu

— NHL GIFs (@NHLGIFs) March 17, 2022

i was in d.c. for work earlier this week and was in the crowd when ovi scored 767 to overtake jagr for 3rd all time. pretty wild to witness!

Antonio Stranges’ edge work is like something out of a video game 😱 pic.twitter.com/jlOvB9eUBY

— Gino Hard (@Ginohard_) March 19, 2022

daaaamn

can anyone explain what is happening here? the kid's right skate on his first few strides if you look closely the toe of his skate is where the heel should be. how can anyone skate like that?

What the hell did I just watch ? This is disgusting

pic.twitter.com/5AHl1B03za

— Ryan Whitney (@ryanwhitney6) March 19, 2022

fuck. sorry for reposting the thing lol

it's like if you were running with one of your feet backwards. i've watched it like a dozen times and still can't figure out how he does that or why

if you're skilled enough i think you can corner better that way -- i've seen mcdavid occasionally do it -- but don't know how you'd generate power

kind of like how, with four-wheel steering, when turning at speed the wheels point in the same direction but when turning slowly they point in the opposite direction

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/4WSselect.svg/200px-4WSselect.svg.png

nice analogy. that's the amazing thing. he's doing it as he's winding up, not just a cornering move. plus, if you get hit while making that move goodbye knee IMO

Imo it's as much for agility as for power, allows for changing direction quickly and keeping the defense guessing which way you will go until you can slip by. It looks like a toe drag but with feet instead of stick and puck

Panthers going all in picking up Giroux and Chiarot

they are scary, but so is literally everyone in the east

also (sorry pbkr)

https://i.imgur.com/xtBKUaC.jpg

Ha! Seemed that way at the time, then they lost 4-1 to a middling Devils team in the next round.

I've watched maybe 5 periods of hockey this year. Organization is a travesty. I've disagreed with nearly every move they've made for years.

might have missed something but as best i can tell all the islanders did leading up to the deadline was . . . extend 37yo zach parise (8-16-24 this year) and 34yo cal clutterbuck (6-9-15)

jesus christ lou

between that and the *ottawa senators* sending a pick to vancouver to acquire travis fucking hamonic it feels like i personally should be applying for GM jobs

Old man Lou showing his age there. Islanders do need to get younger but I’m not guessing it happens soon enough.

Parise had bad puck luck early in the season but he’s been fine for $750K.

Think the only thing that ends the 8+ year run of the Czikas Clutterbuck Martin line is retirement. Still really like Czikas a lot though.

vegas is really shitting the bed

yes they've had a lot of injuries but so have a bunch of other more successful teams who aren't in such a pathetic division

you hate to see it

The defector article about them trying to pull a tampa w the salary cap and LTIR and having it backfire was illuminating

kinda wondering just how many shots pete de boer gets

i guess he did take san jose to the finals, which no one else has done, let alone with martin jones in goal

March 26, 1997: “Fight Night at The Joe.” Detroit’s Darren McCarty pummels Colorado’s Claude Lemieux as revenge for a Lemieux cheapshot check on Detroit’s Kris Draper in G6 of the 1996 WCF.

A massive fight between the two teams ensues. pic.twitter.com/oueBrq6Vd9

— This Day In Sports Clips (@TDISportsClips) March 26, 2022

That Roy-Shanahan collision is epic.

Happy holidays to those who celebrate

I remember watching that live

2x

old-time hockey

Leon Draisaitl is the first NHL player to have a hat trick and a plus-minus of -4 or worse in the same game since Toronto's John Anderson on January 12, 1983.

— Stats By STATS (@StatsBySTATS) March 27, 2022

thatcher demko doesn't even need a stick

ABSOLUTE CHAOS. pic.twitter.com/rXtaI78fc4

— Vancouver #Canucks (@Canucks) March 27, 2022

The Sport is Good

give that man the vezina already

vezina should be based on highlight reel not stats

since we're sharing, this captain kirk impression has to be up there as well

DEMK-OMG pic.twitter.com/oHjQNvckHW

— Vancouver #Canucks (@Canucks) February 25, 2022

that was going wide

red wings have allowed nine goals on 27 shots

I have faith in the team Yzerman is building but I doubt Blashill can take that team anywhere

last night, maybe the goofiest goal i've ever seen:

lol wow, tage thompson's stick breaks, shot bounces off the boards, off the goalie and in. 6-5 PPG #LetsGoBuffalo #Blackhawks pic.twitter.com/P2hBu2EAKK

— Buffalo Hockey moments (@SabresPlays) March 29, 2022

Pretty brutal way for Chicago to lose with 12 seconds to go. Pretty sure most goalies would have that same reaction.

I cackled loudly @ the hawks when I saw that result, ngl

same. it's fun watching them lose

I know college hockey gets little love here but I went to Minnesota for grad school and this is good

This.

Is a work of art. @Matthew_Knies 🤝 @bbrodzyy pic.twitter.com/XAMRI0WX5Y

— Minnesota Men’s Hockey (@GopherHockey) April 8, 2022

So smooth

auston matthews: pretty good

Basically nothing else has gone right in the game since then, lol

athletic article on eugene melnyk ($) is really something

RIP Mike Bossy - probably my all-time fave player, and maybe the best pure goal scorer ever. If injuries didn’t end his career after ten years, he could have ended up with more than Gretzky.

it was the 80s, and he played on fantastic teams, and he didn't get a chance to drag down his average by playing past his prime, but . . . *averaging* 57 goals a season is incredible

Holy shit, that's quite the stat.

His 1980-81 run of 50 goals in the first 50 games seems especially otherworldly. It was a different time.

extra love for the right-handed shooters

not you, ovi

RIP Guy Lafleur

man.

RIP, did not know he was battling cancer for three years.

I was still watching hockey in the mid-late '70s. Those Montreal teams that won the five consecutive Cups were awesome.

dang. i just started watching hockey around the time he came out of retirement and he was still pretty great then. RIP, The Flower.

Rediscovered: 1981 photo of Guy Lafleur hits 1,000 points, cheered by 15 y/o fan Mario Lemieux. Feature coming today pic.twitter.com/Bbr4DoQVz1

— Dave Stubbs 🇨🇦 (@Dave_Stubbs) March 18, 2015

i agree with the comment about the montreal teams. the CBC segment on lafleur was nice. i wish they would've gotten someone besides ron, though

It's hard comparing across sports, so I don't know how they'd compare to the Russell Celtics, Jordan Bulls, Ruth-Gehrig Yankees, Brady Patriots, etc. But I remember them as so much better than everyone, and a perfectly balanced team: goaltending and defense, scoring, very deep.

The '76-77 team:

https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/MTL/1977.html

- 60-8-12
- 12-2 in the playoffs (beating the Bruins and Islanders, dominant teams on either side of their Cups)
- a goalie with a 2.14 GAA
- a guy with 60 goals, another with 56, six others who scored 20+ (a benchmark at the time)
- 9 HOF'ers? Possible that one or two got in primarily because they were on this team
- Scott Bowman as coach (so 10 HOF'ers)

i have no idea why this was called a goal

Hey, we'll take it 😁

Ref explanation: "After review, the puck was already shot before the play was whistled down. Therefore, it was a continuous motion. We have a goal on the ice." pic.twitter.com/dr2rsTD44R

— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) April 23, 2022

lol vegas

big game in dallas for the lolden knights

Auston! (Finally.)

vegas still alive but basically needs a miracle

Had not heard of the Stars’ Jason Robertson before and it turns out he has 40 goals this season. Huh.

Going to throw my fandom behind the Oilers and Panthers in the playoffs.

penguins are cratering at just the right time

kinda hope the caps pass them simply because i'd rather see them brutalized in the first round by the panthers than the rangers (1996 notwithstanding)

that said, the first round is going to have so many amazing matchups -- TOR-TB! MIN-STL! CAR-BOS! -- and i desperately hope we get BATTLE OF ALBERTA in round two

I watched less hockey this year than since I started watching hockey.

these playoffs, then, are for you, a person with no particular rooting interests other than to see certain eastern conference teams crash and burn. it's gonna be good hockey

i mean, watching the playoffs when your team is in it is basically torture even when your best player doesn't have a fucked-up thumb

^ totally agree with all that

rip vegas

kinda rough losing three straight key games in the shootout, but also: lol

couldn't score one shootout goal, in seventeen tries

panthers just cursed themselves by winning the president’s trophy

they get to raise a banner though

Expect #NHL teams to inquire about hiring Joel Quenneville as their Head Coach. Hear he wants back behind the bench and there is expected to be significant interest in hiring the future Hall of Famer. Q will need to meet with Commissioner Gary Bettman to be reinstated.

— Andy Strickland (@andystrickland) May 1, 2022

do not want

$5 says vegas hires him

Flyers. They'll literally ditch a coach with cancer if they think it will help them win.

wild atmosphere/intensity at the games tonight

are the leafs finally gonna do it

rags-pens going to a third OT, and Pittsburgh’s down to their third-string goalie. 138 combined shots on goal so far.

that whole leafs curse was the biggest crock of shit i've heard in a long time. they have to be the most deluded fan base in the league. i have nothing against toronto or the leafs, but i hope they don't get past the first round just for laughs

i dunno about ‘curse’ but the leafs blowing a 4-1 lead in the third period of game seven vs the bruins in 2013 was some harrowing shit

Losing to the Habs after being up 3-1 last year was also rough, a sign that they might be in their heads a bit too much

oh no, my home ice

well we've got a bunch of series now <3

god cale makar is so good

Yeah, his goal from the other night was tremendous.

Seems like a lot of third-string goalies in use already.

<3 secondary scoring <3

I mean I hate the Pens on a genocidal level but I gotta admit as a vehicle for teaching Rangers fans about heartbreak and loss they're not half bad.

the puck always finds joe pavelsky

welp, abbotsford won't be getting the calder cup. hockey season is pretty much over for me. i might catch a game here and there once we're closer to the NHL finals, though. this sucks because i was planning on going to abby for a game. curse bakersfield!

pretty sure bakersfield has already been cursed by being in bakersfield

these playoffs are hardcore

marchand calling deangelo a racist was honestly great

can’t believe this is only the first round

marchand is the worst but i guess ~maybe~ props

worst hockey player you know makes a great point

Islanders fired Trotz? That seems dumb. I would take him on the Flyers any day though I don't think they are a Trotz away from anything.

Uh, that does not seem like a good idea. I thought Trotz (a likely hall of fame coach) did well to get a winning record out of a group that sustained a 12 game winless streak this season during a large Covid outbreak. Seemed like the players all really respected and liked him too.

lou is 79 and the minimal success he’s had in the salary-cap era has come from scrappy teams that overachieved. he did nothing at the trade deadline except extend old guys. maybe he should look in the mirror

good period imo

an embarrassment of riches

most important panthers goal in 25 years

seriously

need one more

there you go

huge

I was at the game. That goal was a huge bummer.

silky

Johnny Gaudreau scores on the penalty shot👀 pic.twitter.com/JYeCO0VfZl

— Shayna (@hayyyshayyy) May 10, 2022

Happy retirement to Patrick Marleau

btw looooool at pierre mcguire lasting less than a year in ottawa

can't believe that guy was seriously bandied about as a legit executive; only melnyk would hire him

habs win the top pick in the draft

nearly halfway through the game and the leafs have six shots on goal

hugest leafs period since . . . dougie gilmour, probably

great game

Happy retirement, Penguin great Patrick Marleau!

Then There Were Two. That leaves (by my count) Thornton and Chara as the last active NHL players who shared the ice with Gretzky.

Wasnt mike smith coached by gretz *touches nose*

think we've all learned an important lesson tonight: never go up 2-0 or 3-0 on the road

if the oilers lose this -- let alone in six -- that will really be something

Fingers crossed for LA, but leafs game is something else so far

I mean I wld love for any Canadian team to win the cup, but grew up in SoCal so can't not root for my team

Here we go, lol.

One thing I’m not going to miss about this series is opposing teams w identical color schemes.

Go Bolts. Should be a good game 7.

yikes minnesota

A PLAYOFF GOALIE GOAL BY JOEL HOFER pic.twitter.com/DwkJLCgOFH

— x - Springfield Thunderbirds (@ThunderbirdsAHL) May 13, 2022

my ass literally hurts from clenching watching the Leafs last night.

Diehard fan that I am, I'm giving the Leafs a one-goal deficit--if they fall behind two, I bail.

both the jays and leafs are playing Tampa tonight strangely enough

if they fall behind two, I bail

classic my dad move (and not unwarranted)

you still have to check in in the third to see if they clawed one back tho

I sincerely feel sorry for anyone who lives and dies with this team. My friend's dad turned 90 recently, and he's been swearing off them for 50 years.

CLEM WE'RE TIED UP

NOT ANYMORE

>>I sincerely feel sorry for anyone who lives and dies with this team

they must have the most ironic goal song in the league with "you make my dreams come true" (hall and oates)

fuck

gotta get more than 14 shots in 40 minutes

pucks to the net, good things happen, etc etc

i persuaded a wendel-sweater-wearing friend of mine to let his auston-sweater-wearing pre-teen stay up late for OT the other night

fucking sack up leafs

Not that I know what I'm talking about, but that was my sense too: that the Leafs spend a lot of time looking for the perfect shot, whereas Tampa Bay fires away. I guess it works for them most of the year.

that is not inaccurate

i'm told that the crowd spent much of the third period of game 5 shouting SHOOT THE PUCK

they're shooting now

the bums

well shit. i guess my friend's kid now truly understands the leafs experience

but also i somehow wanted clemenza to join the bandwagon and now that's failed as well

They had that one good power-play, but geez, not much near the end. I feel terrible right now, so I can imagine how faithful fans feel. The Blue Jays beating the other Tampa Bay team almost makes it worse--tonight you switch places?

5 straight seasons losing in the winner-take-all game, how is that even possible

It is possible if you are the leafs. Not as bad as last year’s meltdown to the habs though.

Battle of Florida series incoming

https://i.imgur.com/jSLNiQz.jpg

Basically if it’s the Leafs - and their season is on the line, I tune out. Yet again, I have made the correct choice this year.

I’m on the Battle of Alberta bandwagon. I’m going to say it’s doable for the Flames tonight

Yep, bring it on!

This has been nuts so far. The flames have been all over the stars so far …. And they finally scored!!!!

Lol. As I was typing

Oettinger was Bubble Demko-worthy

that was an insane performance. i thought for sure the Stars would win it with some flukey goal every time Oettenger kept them alive after an insane barrage.

as the resident pens fan, that was disappointing

on one hand, even before crosby got hurt, pittsburgh was down a top-pairing defenseman, a top-six winger, and forced to start a minor leaguer in goal. they really shouldn't have challenged the league's best goalie

on the other hand, the penguins dominated the rangers at 5-on-5, guentzel scored more goals than anyone else had in a series in 10 years, and they chased shesterkin twice

on the other other hand, they very thoroughly blew a 3-1 lead. and they blew two-goal leads in games 5-6 and a late one-goal lead in game 7. and they got utterly destroyed on special teams despite having earlier in the season had quite a good PK

anyway i am bummed because i think they're better than the rangers. probably not better than carolina or the florida teams, but a round would have been nice

at least we have been granted battles of alberta/florida! although i do think the oilers' all-navy-with-orange-lettering sweaters are fucking awful

After those 7-goal outbursts I thought the pens would close it out quickly. Alas.

I also dislike the modern oilers uniforms, too much orange. Much prefer the ones from the dynasty days of the ‘80//‘90s.

panthers did not look terribly impressive

btw rip aaron ekblad

Nikita Kucherov (@86Kucherov) sure has some moves. #StanleyCup 🕺

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— NHL (@NHL) May 18, 2022

btw fuck the rangers

Alberta: try defense more

yikes panthers

ok, i am tapped in and watching the hockey games, the blues / avalanche game. i understand that the blues got their asses kicked last night far beyond what a 3-2 (OT) score would suggest.

but what i am understanding even more intensely right now is that the game is at 8:30 (CT), and it's 8:42 and it still hasn't started. what the hell is going on over there in denver

i am VERY busy

they probably wanted to wait until the tampa-florida game finished, as both are on TNT

it's not a great system

and yes, the blues are completely outclassed

so you're saying i should be on them to win. that's how bets works, i think

i will avoid sports betting and instead indulge another psychological fantasy, which is believing the blues will win simply because i really want them to and i never watch

Lightning beat the isles with a goal in the final ten seconds of a 2020 playoff game, so I can relate to the panthers’ angst.

xxp buy the dip

beat the spread

i watched the blues a lot when i was a kid, and i have fond memories of shanahan, hull, pronger. but i think my fandom was significantly dulled by our analog television and the especially poor reception we got on KPLR-11, the station the Blues games were on. it was just visible enough to be watchable, but fuzzy enough that it really was difficult, even as a kid with laser vision, to find the puck sometimes. a lot of people made fun of the puck tracker thing when it came out, but i remember thinking it was a positive development, haha

what's the smart place to watch game stats as they happen?

like, for baseball, you want a tab open for baseballsavant (the statcast stuff)

http://www.naturalstattrick.com

good luck

i was expecting rickroll
i found this choice

https://i.imgur.com/0w6ve94.png

i'm going full report

primer: https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/wiki/fancy_stats

thanks!

i like to know who is secretly doing good that i am not even paying attention to because i'm just watching the puck fly around like a dog

Perron on a 5-3 power play! Is Perron a name?

PERRON!!

you know, i've always like this perron kid

wait, he's 33? isn't he going to die soon in hockey years? then again, there was gordie howe...

david perron is pretty good!

(also a former penguin, with whom he wasn't super great)

2 goals tonight, this kid has potential

honestly kind of stunned that the blues might win a game

tbf i almost certainly said the same sort of thing last year when the avalanche went up 2-0 on vegas and then lost four straight

yeah I feel the past couple of years they have looked unbeatable for about a series and a half, and then something switches

I’d also like to agree with the comment up thread about the Oilers jerseys. They look like some kind of info graphic designed by an intern to stand out.

Alberta: try defense more

welp

mcdavid is terrifying

i don't get to watch him very often and man, yeah, not underrated! he's a beautiful player

great game but it really needed more closeups of matthew tkachuk chewing his mouth guard

the steph curry of the nhl

No idea why there is only one game today and they are making FL/TB do a back-to-back. Did someone have a graduation to attend.

supposedly the panthers begged the nhl not to schedule them against the heat-celtics series -- to no avail, as espn can apparently do what it likes -- so at least for one game they'll get their own timeslot, even if it's a shitty sunday afternoon one

I have a soft spot for these teams no one loves but Panthers need to make this into a series quickly

karl you let the blues down tonight

what's funny is that i actually did forget. i was going to watch!

i will watch the next two games though. i will get us up 3-2 before heading back to denver

i declare pre-emptive victory over the avalanche in games 4 and 5, with 100% certainty

one of them is going to be a nailbiter. the other will be merely close

however, they will lose either game 6 or 7. i can't be watching hockey all week

it's 2-2-1-1-1 but i salute your commitment

and yes you can be watching hockey all week because it is awesome

not going to be easy w/no biddington

props to the blues for blasting "gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight" for like a full minute between stoppages

it's 2-2-1-1-1 but i salute your commitment

shit

whatever, double-down. i bet 40 doubloons

not going to be easy w/no biddington

wait, what??

umm....you get a 5-minute grace period on doubling down, right?

*reaches for doubloons*

god, i really let down the blues tonight. i knew they'd lose, but i didn't mean to hurt the kid

vasilevskiy has allowed three goals on 105 shots vs florida

tip your cap, he’s been incredible in clutch situations

Wearing the dark blues instead of something orange in the Battle of Alberta should be illegal and people should go to jail.

— Down Goes Brown (@DownGoesBrown) May 23, 2022

That last goal by Kane for the hat trick was a beaut

Still a little weird to cheer for him after that fake covid card nonsense, and all the other legal issues.

I’m def not cheering for him at all. Or the oilers in this series.

Connor McDavid doing Connor McDavid things pic.twitter.com/z8KyfemSDe

— Charlie Roumeliotis (@CRoumeliotis) May 23, 2022

My god that dude is something

he giveth and he taketh away -- i think he had the primary assist on one of edmonton's breakaway goals in game two and he's certainly shutting down calgary's dump-and-chase game -- but it's an adventure every time mike smith leaves the crease and i'm not sure i could emotionally handle it if he were my team's goalie

lol the panthers are going to wind up with 60 shots and no goals

I need to rewatch tape of that blue jackets series sweep to remind myself Tampa can actually lose and give up goals

COME ON

panthers just cursed themselves by winning the president’s trophy

― mookieproof, Friday, April 29, 2022 12:25 AM (three weeks ago)

enjoy the banner tho

it would be one thing if they'd never been in the playoffs before -- i vividly remember the senators absolutely manhandling the penguins in crosby/malkin/letang's first berth in 2007, from which they learned a lesson

but they got smoked by tampa last year and they were not very impressive against the caps last round. bobrovsky is obviously not vasilevskiy but he'd have been plenty good enough if the high-scoring offense hadn't shit the bed. tampa is good, but three goals in four games?

It’s a shame.

Listening to the Avs radio broadcast can be fun since they are such blatant homers. They were just screaming “What’s your malfunction, David Perron?!” after his cross check on Makar.

Also enjoy the sheer goofiness of having one of your goal calls being “[goal scorer] is drinking from a fountain that’s pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain!”

oh no

blues outshot 15-3 but up 1-0 after one

good luck with that

Alexa play “Accuracy” by The Cure

I will tune in after I take care of business with the blue jays

look at what you did KM

This is the blue jays fault. The blue jays have betrayed the blues. Should have seen this coming

you got your walk off grand slam though

It was the yin to the Alonso yang

oilers honestly looking like they're having so much fun

omg that flames goal was shot from about 150 feet from the net

oopsie

I guess they can laugh about it now. It was a pretty funky bounce.

okay i didn't watch this blues-avs game but that is fuckin awesome

i mean they have no chance at all, but i love it . . . unless?

Nathan MacKinnon oh my god pic.twitter.com/2OutKNQ88X

— Brady Trettenero (@BradyTrett) May 26, 2022

hat trick goal, should have been the series winner...

kinda feels like this could be a leafs-habs repeat

that is fantastic

but yet i'm also restraining myself from suggesting that makar or mcdavid could've done it better

fuck's sake boys

hate in-game coach interviews but it is amusing seeing reporters try to get three words out of darryl sutter

The fuck is this game lol

wtf

lol 4 goals in 71 seconds

fastest four in playoff history

sutter must *hate* this

bad call imo

good call imo

pretty remarkable game/series by draisaitl, who is clearly having trouble moving

this is v. gutsy and everything but what the hell was the flames medical staff doing when it cleared him to play

What a gutsy performance by Chris Tanev who played with a torn laberum, separated shoulder and had a sprained neck.

Surgery next week.

— Rick Dhaliwal (@DhaliwalSports) May 27, 2022

at the end of the first period, i may be beginning to believe in miracles

you will need it

ayoooooooo! what a game! this is some blues devils magic, outshot 20-9, winning 2-1 so far

i don't need luck. this is why i don't do that weird shit in the woods

sorry, typo

this is why i do that weird shit in the woods

gaaaaaaaahd my heaaaart

ouch

Tell Alonzo that he has gotten his retribution and then some! Uncle

Alonso

that's a hard way to lose but honestly pushing it to six games earns everyone more props than the flames managed

(flames did get jobbed but that's another story)

man blues had some chances too

how many points for mcdavid next round? over/under 15?

Hell of a cameo at the end

Here’s the worldwide, clean, Digital debut of @espn’s @E60 masterpiece, “Unrivaled.” @Avalanche/@DetroitRedWings was the @ufc on ice. The fiercest rivalry in hockey history like you’ve never seen before. This trailer is so powerful it made my eyes wet by the last 20 seconds. pic.twitter.com/lferqwOmG0

— Chicken Parm Esq (@Buccigross) May 27, 2022

Guess I am going to have root for the Bolts again. Aargh.

rangers will finally get to take on a number-one goalie

well

this is CRAZY.

not surprised

just great end to end. nice saves (mostly) by the backups. was thinking, once it got to a 3 goal avs lead, of heading elsewhere, but it's too exciting and i want spoilers to win

fair
xp

this is good hockey

wake the fuck up, tampa

I hope this edm/col turns into a series. Really don't want it to end.
So much raw talent
And rly dgaf abt the Eastern teams at this point

i love it/them/him but there's no way this series goes back to edmonton

might not even go back to denver

yikes

rip

that was a bit of a shame. has there been a 2x overtime this year? woulda been a consolation if that game had gone on longer. not really invested anymore, but will watch and root for Col in finals.

i think there was a 2x ot in the first round? was really hoping oilers could make a series of it and really felt mike smith's anguish at that one. ultimately think that the avs are in best position to defeat whoever wins in the east and that's what i want at this point. like a lot.

mckinnon and crosby are buds who work out together in the offseason, so my wife and i like to joke that after each round there's a phone call.

"yo sid, nate. gonna be a little late again for our workout!"

Mike smith plays small

i think there was a 2x ot in the first round?

i'm a bad pens fan! first game, round 1. pens won in 3OT! seems like 3 years ago.

pretty remarkable game/series by draisaitl, who is clearly having trouble moving

and god knows it would be unfair to note that the avs fucking slashed his ankle every chance they got

classic trouba; such a shame the rangers are choking away a 2-0 lead

Swing... And a miss. 🤷 #StanleyCup | #GoBolts pic.twitter.com/obEPhat2jl

— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) June 10, 2022

what a shame

I approve

free (and great) hockey

torts + flyers = distinct comedic possibilities

Circus, meet your ringmaster.

I'm actually good with it in an accelerationist way.

Report is Trotz turned down a $7M/yr offer from the Flyers. He's no dummy.

tbf i think torts is pretty good at turning a bad team into a team that's at least hard to play against, and that may indeed be what the flyers need right now

but he's not the guy you want running an actually good team -- good players won't put up with his bullshit for long -- so a four-year term is kind of a surrender

this is maybe a little overlong, as the point is *very* thoroughly made, but also grebt/otm/imo

https://chaoticneutralzone.com/the-magicians-game

From the little bit I know about him, he sounds very much like Billy Martin.

yikes

yikes

i love this

Mo Seider winning the Calder is the high point of the Wings last several seasons

have to say that that *seems* like a pretty egregious too-many-men situation, but i don't think anyone really wants to see that militantly called

you could also not let kadri torch your defence

(i mean i would be fuming if i were a tampa fan . . . but i'm not, and they've won the last two cups, so)

yeah hard to imagine that ever being a penalty, and especially not in SCF OT

‘we’d have called it if we’d known it would lead to a goal’

I had gone to bed. Am I right that the TV guys didn’t mention it at all on the broadcast?

it wasn't easy to see on the ice...the goal itself was hard to see! it wasn't a story until Jon Cooper dramatically stormed out of a press conference

7:30 without a whistle

advertisers grinding their teeth

jack johnson, stanley cup champion

lightning were on the wrong side of a bunch of crucial calls, but in the end the avs deserved to win

btw looool corey perry

that waved-off icing with about 30 seconds left was ice fucking cold

also correct, as hedman had slowed to a crawl. one of the few brave moments by an official in the entire series

kinda rude that yzerman and sakic were so good *and* so good at building teams

only hall-of-famer to wear 19 for the penguins is brian trottier; probably missed their chance to hire him as GM

strong move by the leafs to add jason spezza to their front office tho

great stuff in here: https://theathletic.com/3384425/2022/06/27/hall-of-very-good

Good stuff. Love watching the Probert/Clark vid but the aftermath is such a bummer

love sean mcindoe

also love all this first-ballot Canucks HOF class

Wings hire Derek Lalonde as head coach, I like it.

mike grier is about to become the first black general manager in NHL history (with the sharks)

i couldn't imagine that hughes and gorton would ever choose juraj - from what i had read, he seemed totally outclassed by several of the other top 10s

but even still, and as a habs fan, i love the chaos of all this

hope the dach thing works out though, romanov was a darling

kinda think Juraj had the highest ceiling, idk

loving the Canucks pick

Flyers manage to find someone in the top 5 to draft who has skating problems smdh.

Then the Flyers just traded three picks for scumbag Tony DeAngelo. I'm done with this team and I am actively rooting against them now.

#ThatSealsTheDeal

Pens refusing to break up their core. Might work? Seems like they could some more young guys.

Johnny Gaudreau is apparently leaving Calgary to be closer to family. Which means either Philly (they have no cap space), the devils (tons of cap space) or the isles (I can only dream).

1) asking 75+ regular season games from both Syd + Malkin and then run the table against other, younger teams seems... unlikely.

2) Gaudreau leaving Calgary to join one terrible team (Philly) one team stuck in liminal space (isles) or one plucky team that is still maybe 3 years out with flabby goaltending is WILD to me

having a core that old isn't ideal, but the other options were worse. they weren't going to find a point-per-game second-line center better or cheaper than malkin at $6m. they weren't going to find a #1 defenseman who plays 23 minutes a game and is coming off his highest-scoring season who is better or cheaper than letang. rust is also a deal at $5m.

those guys weren't the reason they've lost five straight playoff series (the last two were absolutely due to goaltending), and i don't think those salaries should prevent them from addressing other needs. (really wish hextall hadn't extended jeff carter last year tho -- he fell off a cliff in the second half of the season.)

also it would have been pretty painful seeing malkin in another sweater.

the only takeaway i have from gaudreau is that he must fucking hate calgary, or darryl sutter, or something

also we need a new thread jimmy

i mean the pens are going to be utterly fucked when crosby retires no matter what happens; not much point trying to cushion the fall with half-measures now

yeah I was thinking the same thing—-the rebuild is on hold until Crosby retires

we're getting into the 'for how much?' part of the day

e.g. the flyers just gave nic deslauriers (8-5-13 and 113 PIM in 81 games last year) a four-year deal at just under $2m per

columbus just gave erik gudbranson (6-11-17 in 78 games last year) four years at $4m per

just insane shit

None of these deals are brick stupid yet i usually wait until something truly crippling happens

That Deslauriers deal is incredible. The guy has never scored 20 points.

OK then

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