500 Million will get you 83 (+1/3) Jordan Staals: THE NHL 2016-2017 THREAD (INCLUDING VEGAS BABY, PITTSBURGH HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

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I posted this from my phone do you see Ann Margret's hinder?

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lucic to the wings speculation u_u

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so many newtons that wayne needs a W

man that expansion is not going to help me get back into this sport

tbf it isn't las vegas' fault the rangers suck

gee Mookie, that hurts.

<3

vegas will pick up our favourite teams' top players

and we will holiday in vegas on memorial weekend to watch them destroy our favourite teams

enjoy the casinos and buffet lads

Johnathan Ericsson to LV is already a Wingfan reality

Yandle to FLA 7/44.5

i remember a time when canuck fans hated lucic

shld be interesting if he gets signed

I remember when lucic hated canucks fans....I think he declared that Vancouver was dead to him.

canucks fans did suckerpunch him and vandalize the church his family went to, so he had a point

too true

seems strange that willes wld want him

money talks i guess

@Russostrib
Per sources, Thomas Vanek has been informed the #mnwild will be buying him out

lol

pavel datsyuk('s contract) to arizona for former penguins fifth-liner joe vitale and two picks

@mirtle
Auston Matthews on coming to Toronto: "Everybody has told me when they’re winning it’s the best place in the league."

lololol

xp in Holland we trust?

Usually I'd say teams like Arizona are a drag on the league but hey, if they want it...

Lindros, Pat Quinn Makarov & Rogie Vachon (!!!!!) in the HHOF

recchi jobbed

the guy's 12th in scoring all-time, c'mon

lindros wtf honestly

Recchi has a Glenn Anderson thing going from my pov but idk I'm a big hall guy and Andreychuck isn't in yet so

also for whatever reason i forgot Recchi got 3 cups so what do I know

yeah i dunno about lindros

i guess it's good that no one's calling him a pussy for having a very good career derailed by concussions, but i suspect that a wily russian player with the same career would still be waiting by the phone

Exactly, good player, never really made it to hof level imo

taylor hall to new jersey for adam larsson

lol edmonton u are the worst

@DownGoesBrown
I've been fanatically following NHL trades for over 30 years and I'm pretty sure this is the worst 1-for-1 deal I've ever seen.

PK TO NASHVILLE

for shea weber, wtf are you doing habs

and stamkos back to tampa, whatevs

pk for weber is just insane

cancel the nhl forever please

i cannot be consoled atm

trading the team's most popular player in a generation for an older, demonstrably worse guy WHO PLAYS THE SAME POSITION AND IS UNDER CONTRACT FOR EIGHT MORE YEARS is the dumbest fucking thing i've ever heard

i mean at least in edmonton you can argue you needed a defenseman i guess

received ten text messages in about 5 minutes, I thought a Paris-like attack happened again. thankfully it's just a trade and now I can laugh in the face of Habs fans for the next 8 years.

it's just good ol' racism rite?

i assume it isn't that simple but probably due to therrien, who the habs inexplicably kept after that car wreck of a season. bad team doesn't get markedly better, doesn't build for future, doesn't maintain most popular player, all to keep that dope around

Bergevin has completely altered his team's chemistry just to appease a coach who will be fired in December. Subban will flourish in Nashville, and Montreal will regret this over the next decade, perhaps for good. I haven't been this upset with the club since Chelios was traded, coincidentally on this day 26 years ago.

Direct result of Montreal fans insistance on having a french speaking coach, imo.

Haha this is madness

adrien otm

there are plenty of french-speaking coaches who aren't therrien; ottawa just hired one. (i dunno how much french kirk muller speaks, but i don't think it would matter.) that's no reason to trade your best skater, let alone trade him for a lesser player with a terrible contract.

and if they say a single word about 'character' . . . yesterday they gave a six-year deal to a guy who two months ago was suspended for calling a ref a 'fucking faggot', today they dealt a guy who's donating $10m to the local children's hospital

Brooks Bratten @brooksbratten
Subban: "Right now I'm going to a team that wants me." #Preds
5:41 PM - 29 Jun 2016

btw the last time therrien was fired, his former team won the Cup four months later (hi dan!)

I've been following hockey less and less the last couple of years, but this trade seems insane. PK was the most interesting player on this team and was incredibly popular. This team just got a lot more boring.

Maybe I should become a predators fan.

there are plenty of french-speaking coaches who aren't therrien; ottawa just hired one. (i dunno how much french kirk muller speaks, but i don't think it would matter.) that's no reason to trade your best skater, let alone trade him for a lesser player with a terrible contract.

Guy Boucher wouldn't do with Bergevin, nor would Kirk's limited french work with the press and a subset of fans, what I'm aiming at is that this trade has not been done for hockey reasons and part of it is because of a toxic old-school culture the Habs as a franchise can't getting away from. For fuck's sakes, lots of analysts on TVA Sport and RDS are praising the trade.

As a canucks fan its refreshing to see that there at least two worse GMs working for Canadian teams.

hey now let's not go overboard

@reporterchris
Phil Kessel has officially chosen to host his day with the Stanley Cup in Toronto next month. The city remains his second home.

I hope he fills it with hot dogs

^_^

How can anyone not respect the sens rly

Good thing out of this sens loss is that i can stop watching hockey til next season

Just heard this will be the first time there is no canadian coach in the finals? Barf

Last year's stanley cup winner and...
Nashville in the final

I'm out.

I will heavily cheer for Nashville because Ryan Ellis and PK Subban are some of my favorite players, and the Pens won it last year, let's not turn into the NBA shall we.

If anything subban deserves it but...whatevs

let's not turn into the NBA shall we

tbf there haven't been repeat champions in 20 years; little fear of that

it's gonna be hard for me to root against PK but so it goes

Yeah, PK has me cheering for the Preds. Also I hear wonderful things about how much they've energized their fanbase.

holy shit what a goal by aberg

a beauty

"Go Pittsburgh. Go President Trump. Go Penguins." pic.twitter.com/dHqIhCL83M

— Deadspin (@Deadspin) June 3, 2017

Tainted by trump

And this is how we got shitsburgh

must we

Fact: Hillary Clinton received 80% of the vote in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh stands with the world & will follow Paris Agreement @HillaryClinton https://t.co/cibJyT7MAK

— bill peduto (@billpeduto) June 1, 2017

someone else wants to weigh in: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/chicago-blackhawks-jonathan-toews-speaks-out-climate-change-instagram-1.4144723

If global warming is real then how come we still have ice rinks HUH?

The second thing Toews did that I found likeable (first was scoring at the 2010 olympic finals).

he's much more likeable than his teammate

how about when he accidentally swore in a post-game interview after winning the 2007 world juniors and made an adorable "oops" face?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWFH6CnnaOU

god bless this nashville crowd.

so much yellow

it ain't the SCF without a too many men penalty.

charles barkley otm

never thought I'd see an actual lynching attempt in my life, I stand corrected

that is in poor taste

it was in considerably poorer taste for your team's star player to, by all appearances, demand a penalty after smashing subban's head repeatedly into the ice, frankly

my team's star player gave subban several cheap shots, for which he should have been (further) penalized, in a sports game. it was not an attempted lynching, or rape, or holocaust. grow the fuck up

yeah, it was a dick move by Crosby and bad reffing but lets be real, that kind of comparison is gross.

good game. nashville got jobbed by that quick whistle, but i'll take it

Goodbye season now taking submissions for new season title

^_^

why don't we have a board?

because there are only like five of us

It's not worth it

Congrats mookie!

thanks!

As another (the other?) Pens fan here, gotta say I didn't feel good about that quick whistle call. BUT dems the breaks. Preds had basically two full periods of opportunities to capitalize and just couldn't find a way.

Does seem ridiculous that Toronto can call em up and blow the horn for an miscalled onside goal from 2 minutes ago (game...3? 4?) and not blow the horn on a puck that clearly wasn't in Murray's control and ended up in the net on a frankly cool and wild diving highlight real quality goal. Oh well.

as i understand it, the argument is that when the whistle blows, people stop playing, and therefore you cannot reconstruct what would have happened had the whistle not blown. as opposed to a belated offside (or goal) review, where a correct call would have ended the play.

that argument didn't really apply to last night's nashville goal in practice and i'd totally be pissed if i were their fan, but . . . so it goes

considering the preds did not otherwise score in the final two games of the series, i don't feel like they were robbed of a title -- but then i suppose i wouldn't

the whistle logic is sound

At least it didn't happen in a seventh game

Drouin to Habs for Sergachev.

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Was thinking 'Marian hossas skin condition will free you from the las vegas knights' bc that's the most stupid thing

i don't doubt that hossa has a skin condition at all, but . . . it's awfully convenient

he's already made $59m of the $63m on his contract; there's obvious incentive to put up with things when yr making $8m or $4m a year, less so for the four remaining years in which he makes $1m per

hawks can put him on long-term IR rather than suffering cap-recapture penalties if he straight-up retired

I can't say anything nice so I'm not saying anything at all

Vegas jerseys look very German nat'l team to me.

somehow medieval helmet doesn't scream hockey to me

Or Las Vegas

it's saad, he was a blue jacket

caps re-sign oshie for a lot of money over way too long

i suppose being good at shootouts is a skill that ages well

and is very useful for getting over that playoff hump

lol

Lose to Las Vegas and lose your division: THE NHL 2017-2018 THREAD (INCLUDING THE COYOTES SOMEHOW, PITTSBURGH HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)