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

dallas has 10 shots through 40 minutes

that's not gonna cut it

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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

that's right

let’s go!

tbh people who are not *from* NYC* but are yankees/rangers/knicks/nyfg fans are suspect to me

yes i am looking at you james earl mod

(all jets fans are suspect for other reasons)

Its about denying the state of florida anything!

let’s all welcome back Canada to the Stanley cup finals

that first McDavid goal

Let's fuckin go oil

expected goals tonight: dallas 3.37, edmonton 1.01

sometimes a goalie steals a game, and sometimes that goalie turns out to be stuart skinner

i hadn't noticed, but defector pointed out that the edmonton crowd's initial response to macdavid's goal was to gasp before they started cheering

understandable

here's a record that will never be broken: overtime playoff wins

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kind of rude to take a whole week off before Game 1 of the cup finals

so dumb

guessing they'd have liked to start thursday, but the NBA's own week off beat them to it. have to play saturday because that's HNIC

also there are a bunch of two-day breaks (that would still be there if it were dallas vs florida, so it's not about flight distance)

;_;

Dogshit

The capitals have bought capfriendly, and looks like they want to make it a completely different site / remove all that salary cap info that fans love.

rip canada, among others

well good for yous

that was fun!

oh my god Tkachuk just made the most amazing empty net save. didn't matter but still extremely cool

oilers have life

wild game

are they gonna do it?

that tkachuk dive was amazing, not least because he never stopped chewing his damn mouthguard

buying capfriendly somehow did not prevent washington from acquiring 7 years/$60m worth of pierre-luc dubois, a player three teams have now given up on before he even turned 26

LFG

L F G

L

F

G

wild wild wild

feeling unreasonably tense

I don't usually watch hockey but I'm super tempted to throw this on, mostly for the schadenfreude of possibly watching a team blow a 3-0 lead in the finals. Does that make me a bad person?

no

Definitely not and even if it did, fuck Florida

btw it's absurd that the stanley cup will be awarded, in a normal non-olympic/pandemic season, on june 24. it's full-on summer ffs

the 1991 finals went six games and ended on may 25

also it's gonna be funny when the florida fans boo bettman when his doggedness is the only reason they have a team

I cant bear the thought of the cup going to Florida, its against nature

alanis!

TSN here was airing G4 of the '88 final this afternoon, Edmonton vs. Boston. Watched a few minutes and saw Gretzky score a goal.

you realize tampa bay has won 3, and las vegas one(1) SC yeah?
xp

let's not talk about that

former penguins evan rodrigues and cody ceci making their presence felt

Just because they won it doesn't mean it's good IMHO

Also this game is nuts

as a lifetime Floridian, rooting full-throated Edmonton

fucking do something leon

a nation turns its lonely eyes to you

fuck