DAVID CLARKSON AND THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE OUTLIER SEASON: THE NHL 2013-2014 THREAD (INCLUDING HAPLESS LUONGO SIGHTINGS, A FULL SEASON OF UPPER BODY INJURIES, STANLEY CUP CHAMPION CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS H

lol even nash has scored

Yeah I was there, stopped cheering after the 4th goal. I understand it's 7-1 and you are mad at your team but why would you leave 10 minutes before the end of the game?

Also, I'm so tired of the extremely loud dubstep playing all the time at the Bell Centre, I wonder how it is in other indoor arenas for other sport events.

Everyone who stayed gave a standing ovation for St Louis getting the first star, that was a very nice moment.

^I think I heard something vaguely dubsteppy at Rogers Arena once, but it's not common, I don't think.

Is it worse than listening to Chelsea Dagger all the time?

nothing is worse than chelsea dagger srsly

Tokarski, the wild card!

rip Price

6 points in 2 games by McDonagh, love this. Love this.

whoa

yeah whoever wins the east has no chance against the Hawks and Kings.

http://deadspin.com/the-doc-emrick-soundboard-is-here-1579530027

poll thred

In "nobody cares" news, team USA lost to CZE 4-3 and were eliminated from the world championships. Notable pussy Red Wings player Justin Abdelkader was ejected from the game and faces likely suspension for a headhunting hit on one of the Czech players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqA_qAy33-8

sweet goal in the ahl playoffs by sometime penguin brian gibbons

Refs in this game are fuckin terrible

what a painful goal

Bleh, we were never going to sweep the series, I am not blaming him for the lost (nor the terrible refs) but I expect a better Lundqvist on Sunday.

broken jaw for stepan

'automatic' 10 games for carcillo

this damn team!! so little apparent ego; so much freakin' talent and smarts

Have there been a lot of goalie runs this year or is it me?

displeased by this turn of events

guess i have to root for the kings? ugh, mike richards. i don't like the dynastic implications of either western team, but better that than the rangers ffs

(i actively like henrik and marty and a.v. and don't particularly hate any other ranger -- although marc staal was pretty dirty last round -- but decades of loathing cannot be dissipated so easily, and also i live here)

seems like barry trotz was a nice signing for the caps but there's a team i will never not hate because its fans are the worst

displeased by this turn of events

trying to not get caught up in #hype of LA seeing as how they have won in my lifetime (!!!) but like come on guys this was almost easier when the team wasn't good.

my goodness

Hawks are by far the better team tonight

too bad the kings tied it up. go hawks!

that tying goal was heads-up

http://deadspin.com/blackhawks-twitter-account-tells-mexican-president-to-f

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that was the most anticlimatic goal since Kane goal in Philly in 2010.

man it's quiet in that building

FRANTICALLY SETS GOOGLE ALERT FOR THE MONTAGE

lol

gary bettman is fully erect thinking about this finals matchup

Quick gives up a lot of goals. Can he top Lundqvist?

lundq MVP probably no matter what happens

marian gaborik is one of the better deadline pickups in recent history

Kovalchuck to devs (lol); bishop to ning, maybe. i was cool on bishop last year but he seems to be better than I thought

I can't see the rangers doing anything in this series.

Giguere.xls

And lundquist is 10x the goalie that giggy was

http://vine.co/v/MpilOHZ56Pb

what a disaster of a power play

drew doughty does some beautiful shit

http://www.talkhockey.ca/DoughtyCelebrationFinal478.gif

Is doc emrick dead

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaarf

lol girardi

jim rutherford is the new penguins gm

kinda feel like they let that pierre mcguire stuff float around just so whoever they hired would look reasonable in comparison

also to troll legions of nbcsn watchers who thought, fleetingly, they'd be rid of mcguire forever

McGuire would have been a trainwreck of Matt Millen-esque proportions.

maybe he'd have hired barry melrose to coach

What will happen first? A canadian stanley cup or McGuire becoming a GM?