THE BUSTED WINDOW OF CONTENTION WON'T STAY OPEN: THE NHL 2023-2024 SEASON THRED (INC KNIGHTS HANGOVER & PANIC MOVES. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

so today is native (american) heritage day, and marc-andré fleury, whose wife is first nations, wanted to wear a goalie mask designed by a native artist

and then the NHL said no
and then MAF was like, okay, i'll just pay the fine
and then the NHL said no, and also we will fine the hell out of the minnesota wild
and then MAF was like, okay, i'll just wear it in warmups
and the NHL still said no

and then it became a news story, and the NHL folded, and MAF is wearing it in the game tonight

i swear this league is run by the dumbest fucking people alive

Sure seems like it

Kane to the Wings rumors really solidifying, dunno how I feel about that.

Statement from the team: pic.twitter.com/1jqOm7pb5P

— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) November 28, 2023

Who would think Corey Perry of all people would do such a thing?

Jeez is there any news on what Perry did? Maybe related but I’m amazed by how little coverage the Lucic thing has gotten.

If the rumors are true, wow.

Also, if the rumors are true, it's fitting that the slimiest club in hockey will freak over consensual adult sex but cover up rape all day long.

i can't imagine the rumors (that perry slept with bedard's mom) are true, and in any case i don't think the standard player's contract covers such events

but yeah it's rough when the chicago blackhawks are trying to take the moral high ground against you

* googles connor bedard mom furiously *

it's rough when the chicago blackhawks are trying to take the moral high ground against you

lmao exactly

Rumor debunked apparently. Bummer!

joe pavelski is such a beast

coyotes have won five games in a row, and those 5 games were against the last 5 teams to win the stanley cup (caps, blues, lightning, avalanche, knights)

there's playoff talk for them lately - really happy for their fans honestly! the team's been well-managed from a player standpoint and it's about time things begin to turn around

(From the isles broadcast, after the sharks made another big comeback tonight)

Brendan: The Sharks have come back from 4-0 to win 6-5 in ot

Butch: They have no quit in them

Thomas: They have no start in them either

nice

he's a good coach, but somehow eventually they all eventually stale

feel like mike sullivan's time with the penguins is approaching an end

would you guys help me out? Toronto native, lifetime casual hockey fan and I’m looking to better my understanding of the game. Sites? Podcasts? Where do you guys look? I’m into advanced stats as well. Cheers! 🍻

Well goaltending wasnt invented until 2003 or so

it's a sid-getting-buried saturday night

xp how dare you slander kelly hrudey

you've definitely come to the right site fF

Pens blow obv. this is about the reception i expected

i (srsly!) welcome your input here. this is hardly the place for analytics, tho. the athletic is pretty good

but as a pens fan . . . maybe go to bed and think really hard about how different the world was in 1967

i enjoy sean mcindoe's stuff on the athletic; he's a long-suffering (as if there were any other kind) leafs fan

sean mcindoe is the best

he's probably the main reason I subscribe to the athletic, but their hockey coverage is generally good.

ok sick i already subscribe there. GO LEAFS GOOO

the hockey guy on YouTube has good all around coverage for all 32 teams

yeah, i love hockey guy. i’ve watched a bunch of his league rundowns

thanks guys. May 2, 1967’s #1 was “A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You” by the Monkees. Sid is the best: he made this casual, no-look backhand pass off the boards to a guy behind him like it was nothing. hockey is the best when you see those flashes of natural talent

relatedly, i shot a UA commercial once w/Subban and i'm standing on the ice a bit shakily, he starts flitting his stick super-fast between my ankles, just barely grazing each time (i would've ate ice otherwise!). It was actually crazy to experience the otherworldly talent to even do that. Super fun dude, my favourite.

winning in philadelphia: step one

Kyler Murray reporting for work in Philly wearing a Penguins Sidney Crosby sweater pic.twitter.com/qjkne3ep8v

— Omar Ruiz (@OmarDRuiz) December 31, 2023

this cutter gauthier/flyers thing is a train wreck

Pretty weird but I've moved on already. Drysdale seems great (other than the injuries).

i think they did pretty well with the trade return. but it raises questions like 'why would a top prospect simply not want to play there?' and 'why would anyone, draftee or free agent, want to get involved with a fan base that sends its former players death threats?'

and while i've no idea if it had anything to do with gauthier's situation, i suspect there aren't too many players itching to work with torts at this point

I was not a fan of the Torts hiring at the time. They need(ed) a long term rebuild, and he tends to raise a team's floor in the short term but wear on his players in the long term. That still could be the case, but seeing him up close, my view is he asks things of players that any good coach should be asking (play hard, play smart, play D). He seems open and straight forward and doesn't play head games.

Rumors are that Gauthier was salty that the Flyers wanted him to go back to BC for a second year.

welcome to the Island, patrick roy

this canucks season is so enjoyable

what a jinx

did not expect Patrick Roy at all, but it was time for a change. Isles do have a more offense approach this year, but it seems to have come at the expense of 1) no longer being able to close out games in the third period 2) allowing way too many shots per game

brutal elbow to the face from brendan gallagher last night and he won’t even have an in-person meeting for it, meaning the suspension can be no more than five games

that guy is a real pos imho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0faZG1iFzeo

That now makes it 13 NHL head coaching changes since the end of last season: NYR, Calgary, Anaheim, Washington, Nashville, Columbus (twice), Edmonton, St. Louis, Ottawa, Minnesota, NYI and now LAK.

— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) February 2, 2024

TmC has been on borrowed time for the last month

real shame that the oilers failed to match the 1993 penguins' NHL-record 17-game win streak

(tbf, they got goalied)

but

Since the Penguins’ 17-game winning streak in the 92-93 season is receiving much attention at the moment, a reminder: Mario Lemieux, in those 17 games, put up 27 goals, 24 assists and 51 points. And he did it only weeks after undergoing two months of cancer radiation treatments.

— Josh Yohe (@JoshYohe_PGH) February 7, 2024

I don't really follow hockey much anymore so don't post here much, but I was following it very much in 92-93 (good year for a Habs fan) and that Mario Lemieux season continues to be the most impressive thing I've ever seen in sports.

I was 13-14ish at the time and I don't think I realized just how crazy it was that he could do it, but as an adult, holy shit.

he's 58 now (born the same day as patrick roy!) but in the back of my mind i somehow keep vaguely expecting him to make another comeback