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

well at least the fucking rangers finally lost a game

after multiple slow motion/freeze-frame looks at that hit the other night, a new angle shows sam bennett absolutely sucker-punched brad marchand

🚨 New angle just dropped of Sam Bennett punching Marchand in the face 🚨 pic.twitter.com/fL8dNXWeR7

— Spittin' Chiclets (@spittinchiclets) May 12, 2024

otoh, marchand punches people an awful lot (if mostly after the whistle), so i can't say i feel too bad

at any rate this whole thing barely fired up the bruins for one period before they got completely outclassed

also

BROCK BOESER

― mookieproof, Sunday, April 28, 2024 8:03 PM (two weeks ago)

fuuuuck marchand forevs

this sort of stuff needs to be run out of the game. HOWEVER maybe marchand's nose will be straight after that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2eZiRrqes8

canucks still incapable of playing a normal game

intersting article on goalie positioning (athletic/nyt; sorry, not sure how to make an athletic gift link):

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5493020/2024/05/15/nhl-goalies-lundqvist-rvh

actually, maybe try this https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5493020/2024/05/15/nhl-goalies-lundqvist-rvh/?source=emp_shared_article

disappointing

Canes really got all our hopes up for a second

no one should so badly blow a 3-1 third-period lead (leafs excluded) at home but carolina is a team explicitly built to *not* do that

oh yeah they’ll be thinking about that for awhile during the offseason

omg

picked a pretty good game to go to!

Canucks overcame some truly atrocious reffing

good luck sym

pucks to the net, boys

rip

those last few minutes...

what a fun team. I hope all the Oilers die in a fire

possible cup winners ranked:

preferred: edmonton
manageable: dallas
if we must: florida
never in this life or any other: rangers

agree

no time, no space

let's gooooooo

i'm tired

you can sleep now

i did!

boo

lafreniere's second goal today was a beauty

and then trouba (shocking, i know) threw a flying elbow to the head and only got two for it. that guy is a menace

kreider and zibinejad finally on the scoresheet, but alas, to no avail ;_;

took a while but lafreniere has become a beast

Both series could go either way. Come on Panthers.

dallas has 10 shots through 40 minutes

that's not gonna cut it

https://imokuareok.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/mk3.gif

I cant believe u knobs are rooting for florida over nyc

i have never forgiven adam graves

Points at darius kasparitis like turgidson

- in my division
- hated them for 45 years
- dolan
- deeply enjoy noting that they've won one cup in 84 years
- if only the canucks had hit fewer posts and more twine 30 years ago
- fuck mark messier and his mark messier award for people mark likes, like flying elbow artiste jacob trouba
- also i live here

i do respect the fans for 'potvin sucks' although i wonder how many know the stories

i don't like florida as a concept, or any of the tkachuks, and i have not forgotten the 1996 eastern (prince of wales?) conference finals, but . . . priorities