27 YEARS SINCE A CANADIAN TEAM WON THE CUP WILL THIS BE THE YEAR (no): THE NHL 2019-2020 THREAD (INCLUDING BLUES HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

wow, the clean white boards

agreed, the defence is very civil

when did they stop using the Barenaked Ladies song?

the best players in history are playing right now

and the players that will be better than those players are alive today

tru, although that doesn't necessarily make the game better

suddenly the oilers and sabres are . . . good? the schedule hasn't exactly been difficult, but still

They were good this time last year too

penguins with a (very lucky) shortie in overtime tonight, which cannot have happened very often

indeed -- last done by the pens in 1996

christ look at these fucking numbers

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

hard to picture paul coffey racking up 104 PIM tbh -- probably 52 desperate hooking penalties after abandoning his point

lmao gretz scored 205 points and even took 6 games off, incredible

60 years ago today, Jacques Plante changed the game. After taking a puck to the face, the Canadiens' goaltender wore a mask to finish a game against the Rangers. Plante would become the first netminder in NHL history to wear one regularly #Hockey365 #GoalieDay #GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/x6RnHB5wz4

— Mike Commito (@mikecommito) November 1, 2019

10 straight wins for the Islanders, I am a happy person

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/sportsnet-don-cherry-cut-ties-nov-11-1.5355810

FLEURY, WHAT?? pic.twitter.com/Ur1IegBIu7

— NHL GIFs (@NHLGIFs) November 20, 2019

babcock out

keefe has by all accounts done a great job with the marlies but has no NHL coaching experience and not a lot of NHL playing experience

babcock out

Yeah same. Problem seems to be elsewhere.

idk -- it's not babcock's fault they lack a backup goalie, but . . .

iirc red wings players weren't too sorry to see him depart. this was his fifth season, they never got out of the first round, and sometimes players just need a different voice. they should be better than they are by now

damn, fifth? seems more recent than that.

the babcock-mitch marner thing is incredible. what an utter prick

and now peters is out in calgary

not sure if for racism or losing

is that final yet? don't see how he can continue now that the story is corroborated

1) Never wish anything bad to the person but you get what you deserve Bill.After years making it to the NHL had experience with the worst coach ever by far.Kicking me and punching other player to the head during the game...

— Michal Jordan (@TheBigCzech23) November 26, 2019

The Dallas Stars have dismissed head coach Jim Montgomery.

GM Jim Nill issued this statement through the team:

“The Dallas Stars expect all of our employees to act with integrity and exhibit professional behavior while working for and representing our organization. This decision was made due to unprofessional conduct inconsistent with the core values and beliefs of the Dallas Stars and the National Hockey League.”

these coaches fall like dominoes

Sergei Zubov played 82 minutes in game 4 of Pens - Caps series in 1996. As he once told me, right after that he smoked 2 cigarettes at once https://t.co/GoMA3iFWNF

— Igor Eronko (@IgorEronko) December 18, 2019

Of all things, I'm reading a biography of Harold Ballard. What a life.

rip the habs

fwiw michel therrien is probably available

ffs

Connor McDavid. Absolutely ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/edUhMmFcmE

— Brady Trettenero (@BradyTrett) January 7, 2020

Rinne!

PEKKA RINNE SCORES! 🚨@PredsNHL | #NSHvsCHI pic.twitter.com/yDyGbMZY7j

— NHL on NBC (@NHLonNBCSports) January 10, 2020

Tight

not sure claude julien is gonna last much longer despite the win tonight

it's not claude's fault
rebuild pls

you can have alex galchenyuk back anytime you want him

insanely quick trigger in vegas, which has fired gerard gallant

The Islanders are retiring a JT and a 91 next month, and neither have anything to do with John Tavares. (Perhaps the poetic justice was too much to ignore, though.)

alex ovechkin: pretty good

rip red wings

https://i.imgur.com/JgsCRcG.png

good lord the kings are bad

🏒⚪🔵 Ci sono voluti 18 rigori per decidere la sfida tra Davos ed Ambrì. A risolvere la contesa ci ha pensato Tedenby con questa magia #HCD #HCAP #NLA #Shootout pic.twitter.com/LynhTgDAMC

— Sport RSI (@RSIsport) February 13, 2020

good lord

leafs lose to their zamboni driver
https://old.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/f83hr6/full_david_ayres_post_game_interview/

Not much of fan, but I'm staying with friends who are, so I was watching tonight--pretty great (and embarrassing for the Leafs). He's 42, and evidently had a kidney transplant as Sick Kids many years ago.

Astounding

I thought there might be a parallel with baseball; less with a position player mopping up in relief than, say, both catchers going down and sending in a position player to finish the game. I thought that each team must have a skater or two who played some goal as a kid and could finish the game. But my friend assured me that goaltending is so radically different that no skater could ever do it.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimg2.imagesbn.com%2Fp%2F9781599218069_p0_v2_s260x420.JPG&f=1&nofb=1

i have played goal in shitty pickup games and basically just sat there with my legs out hoping they shoot glove-side. because i cannot be beat glove side. but it is seriously exhausting -- the up and down, and being down on time takes a *lot*

aren’t we all https://t.co/lLH7ooFktR

— evan scott huber (@evanscotthuber) February 24, 2020

10 years ago

https://preview.redd.it/t2pf19za5pj41.png?width=640&height=388&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=03ffef6bbe71d65ba178a76306f51e2d20e4e2c6

Let's go Islanders, win it for Pat Lafontaine

okay then

Yikes

we should probably just be grateful that they shit the bed last year

19:51

rick bowness leading a team to the stanley cup finals is really trashing the idea that having a smart coach matters

Happy for the Stars, if only because absolutely no one gave them a chance to win the last two series.

puck-over-the-glass PPG in overtime, naturally

they should really only call that when the player is conceivably delaying the game

Isles got some fight left. Going to be really tough to win 2 more, but enjoying this tonight.

one of my besties couldn't even bring himself to watch it on his big tv, would only watch on the corner of his phone. msged me every 5 minutes shitting.

he is jubilant rn. hope they pull off the miracle.

weird that we don't have any lightning fans on this here board

Varly's victory slide already classic

SLIDING INTO GAME 6 LIKE… pic.twitter.com/iUSsC2UC3Y

— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) September 16, 2020

I'm rooting for the Isles. Fuck all sunbelt expansion teams.

they should really only call that when the player is conceivably delaying the game

refs gathering around the ipad, zooming in to get a good look at the player's eyes to suss out intent while the cheeky soundguy plays "anticipation" over the pa.

i'm not necessarily against puck-over-the-glass being a penalty. i just object to the fact that the refs can and will choose to let more egregious things slide depending on the game situation, but this silly thing is called because it's black-and-white.

(tbf, both these last two games had penalties called with under six to go in the third, and i'm surprised beauvillier got a double minor, so good for them)

if you think Whitecloud intended to hit that puck into the stands, I don't know what to tell ya xp

https://grantland.com/the-triangle/is-the-puck-over-glass-rule-the-dumbest-regulation-in-sports/

Like most dumb problems, the solution for this one is easy: Treat any puck shot into the stands the same as icing — which, it should be pointed out, usually involves shooting the puck out of your own zone to relieve the pressure and is therefore essentially the exact same thing. You have a faceoff in the defensive zone, the defending team doesn’t get to change lines, and off we go. No worrying about whether the puck clipped the glass, no trying to triangulate whether it might have crossed into neutral airspace over the bench, and no trying to explain to new fans why shooting the puck over there is treated differently from shooting it over there.

And if you’re really worried about an outbreak of players shooting pucks into the stands (which, again, has never been a significant issue before), then you can let the referees hand out penalties for really obvious cases. They could make the call using their own judgment. There’s even a precedent for that: Virtually every other penalty in the rulebook.

I've been living in Canada for 8 years and I didn't understand this rule till just now

we should be handing out pamphlets at the airport

it wouldn't break my heart if they treated it like icing.

where the main punishment is you stay on the ice tired.

I guess I always assumed part of the penalty was for endangering spectators by putting the puck over the glass

if defenders have time to wind up a slapshot, they're probably not going to use/miss the glass -- it's weaker stuff. plus there are nets now.

pretty sure the whole thing was a chickenshit way to get more power plays/increase scoring without the refs having to bear the burden of making judgment calls

i want to say let's go all night, but tampa is just better and let's get it over with

christ i hate corey perry

pavelski, fine, but fuck that guy

eight shots through two periods

No results found for hockey "nascar of the far north".

Pretty crazy they won almost entirely without Stamkos (though he did score a pivotal goal).

yeah i can't argue with them at all. they never even faced elimination

They deserved to win, although with a couple lucky breaks and bounces, the Isles could definitely have taken it to 7 games. The last second TBL goal in Game 2 (plus all that NYI power play time) and Nelson missing on the OT breakaway in Game 6 loom large in my head. Still pretty happy with this season though.

king henrik deposed

what a moment

Jack Johnson on waivers for purposes of buyout

— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) October 5, 2020

jack johnson on waivers as a chrysalis becomes a butterfly

Lundqvist to Caps it’s probably time for a new thred

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