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

btw we really need to go back to conference 1-8 playoff seeding rather than divisions imo

seems like not a huge price for Guentzel (wish the Canucks had got him)

love him but i'm not sure how much more you can get for a guy who is a pending free agent

wish that 'conditional first-round pick' was much more likely to happen tho

he's so smart/sneaky -- poster boy for color commentators talking about finding empty areas (that are nevertheless prime scoring areas)

and by far the greatest hockey player ever born in nebraska

Gonna be in Seattle for a few days, my pal who works for the Kraken hooked me up with tickets to see them play Buffalo. The Sabres are so bad but they're kind of my second team, so I will be rooting for them. The arena looks very nice, will be cool to see a pro game in person for the first time in a while.

pretty good

Less than a minute into the game, the home point streak continues. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/kIgt5BhS25

— NHL (@NHL) March 9, 2024

also dan m. please ask your pal if he can get me a job with the kraken. me and ron francis go way back

70+ points in 32 games is manic

cheeky

RUSLAN ISKHAKOV IS A MAGICIAN IN THE SHOOTOUT🪄🤯@AHLIslanders | #HFDvsBRI pic.twitter.com/2BX6a7mLl9

— American Hockey League (@TheAHL) March 10, 2024

Woop

I’ve heard his last name pronounced three different ways but he seems to be doing well in the ahl. Isles fans wanted him up this season but that was before they turned it around the last 5 games.

things are not going well for the detroit red wings

Nope, and especially after a very good run

red wings were doing so good like 2 weeks ago.

is it just me or do big winning streaks followed by big losing streaks have the real potential to get the head coach a contract extension by the middle and then fired by the end.

maybe i like claude giroux now

hell ya pic.twitter.com/0G1QeZmg81

— Dimitri Filipovic (@DimFilipovic) March 15, 2024

that’s a great still

Sabres and Kraken put up four goals in the first six minutes, then Buffalo took control and it ended 5-2. Kraken home fans are loud but clearly lots are new to the game. Rink is super nice and easily walked to from downtown hotels. Overall a nicer experience than with similarly newb Chicago fans and Tomas Tatar should have stayed with the Wings.

rip chris simon, 52, and konstantin koltsov, 42, both by apparent suicide

have to suspect that CTE was a factor in the former, at least

Just saw the simon news :\

classic penguins game today: sid records 40th four-point game of career, team blows four-goal lead for just the third time in franchise history

oh and mackinnon’s home points streak is now at 34 games, tied for fourth-longest ever

the second eastern wild card -- and third in the metro -- are really coming down to who shits the bed least

currently lined up for a vegas-edmonton first-round series, which should be awesome

the kids are alright

ESPN gave us the reverse angle, this is so filthy from Nazar pic.twitter.com/pjURn4YUvk

— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) April 1, 2024

congrats to the flyers for winning a game

Utah Yotes! Move seems like it was handled with typical NHL grace and competence

Only just found out in French they call the power play “Supériorité numérique”. Listening to hockey in French is a trip.
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supériorité_numérique

huh, in all my hockey years all i've ever heard was "avantage numérique".

Montreal broadcasters were saying superiorite last night, maybe it’s a habs thing

rip coyotes

26 seasons, nine playoff appearances, two legit playoff series wins. better than the blue jackets, at least

what should we call them in salt lake?

Pioneers (u heard it here first)

Salt Lake Salt Licks is too obvious to actually happen

flyers pull the goalie in a tie game seconds after they were eliminated from the playoffs, immediately let in an empty net goal that would clinch the playoff spot for the caps

Caps get in the playoffs despite a negative 37 goal differential

i actually sort of respect that flyers move lol

Are we sure Tortarella knew they had been eliminated when he pulled the goalie? (Wasn’t watching the game)

i'm guessing he didn't! but if he did, it would be tremendously funny

red wings scored a tying goal against montreal with 3 seconds left in their game, and detroit getting a point was enough to knock philly out. philly pulled the goalie seconds after the red wings goal, so Torts probably did not know.

Keystone cops coaching for a keystone cops franchise.

Wings missed their chance at the playoffs when they were dog shit for the first two weeks of March. Going thru on tie breakers and last second goals should never have been necessary.

Happy Trails Jeff Carter #gkg

Ryan and Ashley Smith of Smith Entertainment Group bought the team and its existing hockey assets for $1.2 billion from Alex Meruelo, sources told ESPN. Meruelo had owned the Coyotes since buying the franchise for $300 million 2019, but the league lost patience in his ability to find a long-term arena solution in Arizona and facilitated a sale.

meruelo only got $1B of it -- the other $200m was split amongst the other teams -- but that's a tidy profit from being an utter failure for five years

Reminds me of some MLS owners

Disappointed that Matthews missed his 70th. (Guessing that, analytically, he's not one of the Top 10 players in the league?)

i think he totally is

Total non-fan for most of the year, just curious. Glad to hear that.

lotta ways to look at it; here's one: https://www.hockeystatcards.com/all

he's an MVP finalist 3 of the last four years (including this year probably). He's arguably the best defender among the 4-5 forwards with massive scoring numbers.

salt lake team will be called 'utah', may not have a nickname until year two

at least one of mcdavid, mackinnon, kucherov and matthews *won't* be an mvp finalist but i really don't know who

crazy that there were two 100-assist seasons the same year. I think MacKinnon will win the Hart and McD will be second but the choice between Kucherov and Matthews for third is practically impossible

Hellebuyck and my guy Quinn Hughes also putting in MVP-worthy years. Fun season!

yeah there are certainly arguments for quinn hughes (and panarin too)

barring mackinnon going apeshit tonight, kucherov will win the scoring race and i believe he's scored or assisted on over 50% of tampa's goals. plus there's a pretty big gap between him and anyone else on the lightning, so i think i'd vote for him

otoh mcdavid/matthews/kucherov have already won harts, so yeah probably mackinnon. i won't be mad