NO MORE FLORIDA MEN PLEASE: THE NHL 2024-2025 SEASON THRED (INC PANTHERS HANGOVER & SALARY CAP CONFUSION HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

No one wants a Florida repeat amirite dudes

I kinda like their jerseys

How strongly did Sidney Crosby demand that the cap hit on his new contract (8.7M) match his number (87) ?

Wings signed Lucas Raymond to an 8 year deal, that is good now do Seider plz

Their colors are very nice i like the kitty cat on their jerseys xp

kyle okposo has retired

xxp crosby's salary has been $8.7m basically since his rookie contract expired back in the 2000s. i think it was kind of a joke back in the day when that was a high number but now he doesn't really seem to care that much about money? needless to say, i love him

oh that’s funny that he managed to keep it that way his whole career

who had dylan guenther for first utah hockey club goal

btw crosby was born on 8/7/87 which is where all this 87 stuff comes from

Apparently I can watch all the Stars games for free on their new streaming service. Maybe have to finally give hockey a chance.

they're pretty good! probably an ideal time to give it a go

We got goalie goal

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5846676/2024/10/16/wild-filip-gustavsson-goalie-goal/

This year for me is all about having fun watching Michkov hopefully grow into a star.

Still hate this Flyers organization/front office with a passion and think they haven't a clue.

evgeni malkin now leading the league in scoring (2-9-11 in five games)

tristan jarry *not* leading the league in save %

roughly midway through a scoreless game in edmonton, the penguins are being out-shot 31-8

needless to say, it did not end scoreless

wicked burn in the nyt crossword today

27D: Vessel that hasn't crossed the Canadian border since 1993

not accurate, but yes that's well met, New York (1994)

oh yeah, technically incorrect, but still

First game listening with the sound on this season *waves arms at NY political commercial dogshit* and let me tell you the rangers’ booth is truly the sign of a declining empire. Hang em up boys.

fuck jeremy roenick

how about them jets

haven't watched a rangers game on MSG in forever (i no longer have cable and am blacked out on espn+) but just saw this clip of gabe villardi's great goal against them and yeah, sam rosen does not sound well.

this is his final season, at least; let's hope he can go out with just the one cup in forty years in the booth

penguins are absolutely cooked

quite a run though. they have been resisting the rebuild for awhile.

islanders somehow getting by despite injuries to nearly a third of their opening day lineup.

can't say it pleases me, but man ovechkin is running amok

I am deeply emotionally involved in Ovi's season this year and I am deeply concerned about the injury.

I have super mixed feelings about him but as a lifelong Capitals fan it’s hard not to have a major soft spot for the dude.

Week to Week but a proper medical eval tomorrow when they're back in DC. This team this year has been a shock and I don't want anything to mess with that momentum.

all three 2023 jack adams coach of the year finalists have now, 18 months later, been fired

one bad start / long losing streak and you are toast

like it doesn’t matter that Montgomery went 120-41-23 in his coaching tenure

In that vein, lots of Wings fans calling for Lalonde's head now too

what will it take for them to call for stevie y's head

I heard his contract got extended to 10 years so idk

Dead Wings 2: The Curse Of Little Caesars

crosby scores 600th goal while getting blown out at home by Utah Hockey Club

Layla plays

penguins have now played 114 regular-season games in boston all-time; tonight they (very improbably) got their 30th win

v. sad to see the rangers in such (still mild) disarray

v. sad to see them dispatch their captain to a bad western team. not sure why anyone would want trouba at $8m/yr, but the ducks are nowhere near the cap, so whatever

v. funny for larry brooks to suggest the rangers were targeting brady tkachuk as a return! fucking be serious, larry (and chris drury for presumably leaking it to him)

almost felt bad for trouba -- apparently his doctor wife still has another year of residency at a hospital in NYC -- but then i remembered all the elbows to the head, so fuck him

Everyone else just fires their coach after a losing streak, this seems more of a downer for the team spirit in general

freeing up space to extend shesterkin is pretty canny tho

I think everyone saw Jim Montgomery as a bit too hasty so Laviolette ain't going nowhere. Ducks got a raw deal here.

man the sabres

^^^

Investing in the Sabres is not a good idea

The Hockey Guy did a video on the Caps and cursed us! Is it exposing some frailties and some goal scoring issues? Absolutely not. It's a Youtuber.

a) someone tell me why elias petterson and j.t. miller hate each other?

b) panthers have 10 SHG; no other team has more than four

c) saw a bit of celebrini vs the oil the other day; seems promising

Lalonde out in Detroit, bout time

well i was not expecting dallas to bow out so meekly to . . . stuart skinner

feel like the loss of hyman (so to speak) will loom large, but let's fucking go oilers

otm re: teh Oil

i'm gonna need esa tikkanen to drop the game one ceremonial faceoff

maybe punch barkov while he's doing it

getting Ekholm back could be big. Panthers still looking invincible unfortunately.

they are so (incredibly annoyingly) good

and now six days off until the finals start

ffs

next wed: g1
next fri: g2
the monday after that: g3

Time-out from the playoffs: learned this morning that one of the guys I play euchre with at the library is Mike Bossy's cousin.

Am I the only one watching?!

Saw the third period and OT. Awesome action. When FL came out strong in OT I kinda thought, “just survive this and you’ll be fine Oilers” and that proved pretty OTM. I find myself pulling hard for them, if for no other reason than they’re a Canadian franchise that’s not the Leafs or Canadiens.

yeah once the oilers got revved up in OT they didnt stop, fantastic game

pleased with the result but man the puck-over-the-glass penalty is such a garbage rule

i actually felt bad for florida man when that happened. then i got over it.

you can murder a guy on the ice in playoff overtime with no call, but a misdirected puck gets you two minutes. I guess the puck-over-glass rule turns offensive zone pressure into an advantage, but in the most inane way. They should just start calling real penalties.

^^^

the league/refs like it because they don't have to use any judgment/cannot be blamed for the results

they could easily just turn it into a defensive zone faceoff and no lineup change, like with icing.

they *could*

but they actually *want* more power plays -- they just don't want to be on the hook for the outcome. which, as you said, is why breaking your stick crosschecking someone won't be called, because 'let the players play'

Holy heck, that McDavid assist

Dammit

Seeing El Wayne at intermission makes me want to puke.

never been as excited about anything as eddie olczyk is when somebody loses/breaks a stick

or there's *almost* too many men

crazy game

ohhhh my god

and it keeps getting crazier

oilers were so close to getting out of it, panthers are a horror movie

that was fun

i'm in the uk, watching 10 min highlights on youtube the morning after, and even that arrangement is unbelievably tense

go oilers!

i got too attached and can't bear to watch the oilers lose : /

Not over yet but not looking great

itll be tough if they go down scoreless here

well this sucks

Reinhart can’t be stopped

Congratulations Florida Men, even if most of you don't know alligator from lutefisk

not finding any positives here

rats on the ice

Fuck a Florida

i got too attached and can't bear to watch the oilers lose : /

yay?

do we need a new thread with free agency opening tomorrow and the draft/trade talk already getting going

i vote yes

sí

Jimmy mod help us out

Ya

Marner going to Vegas was a surprise

ffs jmod

Gotta come up with a good thred name

LOL @ EVERYONE SIGNING 30-YEAR-OLD DEFENSEMEN TO RIDICULOUS CONTRACTS 2026 (HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

also props to the kings for signing (asshole) corey perry; his impeccable history of losing in the finals would be a step up for them

WHEN WILL BETTMAN DIE: THE NHL 2025-2026 SEASON THRED (INC PANTHERS HANGOVER 2 AND SAD ATTEMPTS TO DETHRONE THEM HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

IM ON VACATION OK I CAN’T DEAL

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