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that tweet is so funny

imagine if the penguins took toews in 2006

like I know there are infinite nhl draft counterfactuals, but it's insane that was even a possibility

jordan staal thinks about this every night

ie he'd have been a third-line center just like staal was

https://www.hhof.com/htmlInduct/ind15Prolog.shtml

your 2015 eligible HoFers

isn't pronger still under contract?

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Kings have terminated the contract of forward Mike Richards, the club announced today.

The club has issued the following statement and will not comment any further at this time:

“The Los Angeles Kings today have exercised the team's right to terminate the contract of Mike Richards for a material breach of the requirements of his Standard Player's Contract. We are not prepared to provide any more detail or to discuss the underlying grounds for the contract termination at this time.”

wau

Fedorov, Housley, Lidstrom, Pronger, Ruggiero, Hay & Karmanos.

@A_W_Gordon
The man who moved the Whalers just got inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Fuck everything.

btw that makes 10 hall of famers from the 2002 red wings; presumably datsyuk will at some point make it 11

Karmanos is also huuuge in Detroit youth hockey history with the Compuware teams. Saw someone tweet Detroit wouldn't be "Hockeytown" without him.

kessel to the pens

i dunno man

didn't give up maatta or pouliot, guess i'm okay

salary cap nightmare tho

sekera deal is great for the oils

Enjoy your Phat Phil Kessel Mooks

Wings get their top-4 right sided D in Mike Green, could be in for Brad Richards?

kessel's gonna score about 70 next year, good deal for both teams. leafs should be happy they got spaling + picks.

all these contracts seem pretty reasonable tbh

weird

Pavel Datsyuk ‏@Datsyuk13

Congratulations to Martin St Louis! great player, phenomenal career! Thanks for making it a little easier to win the lady byng trophy now 😄

http://i.imgur.com/AtHEeAG.png

sharp to dallas

It's hilarious that only a few months ago all the Blackhawks est 2010 fans were shitting all over the guy, now they're sad he's gone.

Eric Stephens Verified account
‏@icemancometh

Kesler's new deal is huge. Six years, $41.25 million. ($6.875M AAV).

lmao

Ah there we go

full no-movement for the first five years (which doesn't even start until *next* season)

He had 20 goals and 47 points in 81 regular season games last season

rip jamie benn

attn dan m

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/ten-facts-about-a-fun-team-2002-wings-edition

Those were the days, and they really were old as hell. I remember the wtfs when they signed Robatille.

http://www.sportingnews.com/photos/4513960-best-nhl-jerseys-ever-all-time-sweaters-logos-uniforms/slide/171524

mostly otm, no really bad offenders except the wild and coyotes imo, love the old kings jerseys

whoaaaaa

Lou Lamoriello named Leafs General Manager

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/08/07/baffoe-patrick-kane-is-not-your-friend

otm

srsly

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-heavyweight-belt-of-nhl-rivalries

rip al arbour

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNgjDBaUsAA-4uV.jpg

rookie card w/ drw

this cannot be real

http://news.sportslogos.net/2015/09/03/hello-brooklyn-islanders-to-unveil-black-and-white-uniform

the blue/orange colorway was one of my favorites in the league :(

grim

P.K. Subban donates http://www.si.com/nhl/2015/09/16/montreal-canadiens-pk-subban-donation-childrens-hospital0 million to Montreal Children's Hospital

yikes

http://www.si.com/nhl/2015/09/16/montreal-canadiens-pk-subban-donation-childrens-hospital

that's great

Hospital officials have called Subban's donation, “the biggest philanthropic commitment by a sports figure in Canadian history.”

what about by a sports figure period?

TheRichest.com (?) lists most charitable athletes by sport in an article in 2014, listed here so you don't have to clickbait:

Dekembe
Manning the younger
Jeets
ERIC LINDROS GAVE 5M to London (ONT) Health Sciences Centre
Beckham
Jeff Gordon
Tiger
Andre Agassi
Kristi Yamaguchi
Michael Phelps

Cristiano Ronaldo gets a lot of credit for giving to various causes, apparently he gave 5 million pounds to Nepalese earthquake relief plus a ton of other smaller donations.

In other news, Patrick Kane is on the Hawks preseason roster lol/sigh.

Sounds like the Kane press conference is into some pretty surreal territory based on the tweets I'm seeing.

https://i.imgur.com/oFRwsNA.jpg

do u even lift bro

firewagon hockey in dallas

http://i.imgur.com/fKm0QKp.gif

hopping the boards gets the best of everyone once in a while

does anyone have a team in this race besides mook

Not anymore :(

^_^

which outcome in the west is more annoying? sharks/blues, sharks/dallas, nash/blues or nash/dallas? I'm thinking it's sharks/dallas

nash/dallas = endless 'look how rabid these fans are in non-traditional markets' comments, so that

Wouldn't mind seeing blues in the final for the first time since the Orr goal

morelike kari letdown-en

These teams have too many players I hate to get too into this but lol Dallas

corey perry continuing to do corey perry things (besides losing game sevens, i mean)

https://twitter.com/MarcMajeau/status/732639858829594625/video/1

Esa Tiki Tikkanen @tikitalk10
Maybe I go and talk to Corey Perry

25 years ago this evening <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEdgiPEDa8w

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ci2aRBSUkAA1vjB.jpg

Crrrazy game in Tampa

^_^

https://twitter.com/wingingitmotown/status/736229912881700864

^lolz

guess i should be glad, because the sharks should have had an extended 5-on-3 tonight, but man the officiating has been gutless

i'm not against puck-over-the-glass being a penalty, but it's silly to penalize that (because the refs don't have to take the blame of making a judgment) and let everything else go. even high sticking someone in the face is cool if it's after the first period

oh there's a game tonite

sample 2016-2017 titles: "what the fuck was that shit: your 2016-17 etc..."

kinda waiting for the penguins to trade everything but crosby, malkin, fleury and letang to toronto for kessel, just skate four

― mookieproof, Friday, June 26, 2015 8:40 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both teams had so many clank off the iron tonight.

rip gordie howe

generational extinction

I keep asking myself if there's anyone playing today who comes close to his style

http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-30-at-4.43.26-PM-603x434.png

heard this story yesterday, love it: http://www.wnyc.org/story/meet-man-behind-hockeys-best-goal-calls/

couple good stories from si:

jan 1955: GORDON HOWE & COMPANY

jan 1980: On And On And On And . . . : Gordie Howe, hockey's ageless wonder

first one has, politely, a little bit of the old 'yeah he's good, but imagine if he really tried hard!' never change, sportswriters

gordie howe only had 2 gordie how hat-tricks in his career was the surprise stat of the day for me

^_^

Grats

mazel

will make new thred when the first stupid move is made

https://twitter.com/DownGoesBrown/status/742191016455770112

anže kopitar is the new captain of the kings

the expansion city is going to be vegas apparently.

garbage

(possibly a rant but...)

wish we would invest and put more efforts into making the chl more popular

the canadian side of the ahl should be replaced by the chl

forget the nhl, it's over -- we should have our own major hockey league

i watch my team, they lose, and stop watching

bettman has destroyed the nhl

the stupid move to trigger the new thred will be the vegas announcement

former los angeles kings great vincent lecavalier has retired

greatest king of all time, no doubt

welp, there it is

possibly the only dumber move than whoever ends up signing eric staal

Please hold

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