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a bruins-caps playoff series would be intense

This is why the Leafs exist. For moments like this. #Canucks

— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) April 19, 2021

<3

ffs the penguins were up 6-0 after two, at home, against new jersey, and managed a 7-6 win

also hey congrats patrick marleau i guess

yikes

happy 25th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLdh2yxXg7I

i was living in minneapolis, didn't have cable and couldn't get it on AM inside my apartment. so i was outside in my car at 1am because my car radio could pick up KDKA pittsburgh 900 miles away

almost had a skater (artem anisimov) forced to play in goal!

https://www.nhl.com/news/senators-anisimov-ready-to-be-emergency-backup-goalie/c-324014362

xpost that was a great game! I never tuned in until the OT began (and Lemieux was already tossed) but was happy with the 3+ periods witnessed

Not every tweet’s a winner. pic.twitter.com/jG0l8t5OWy

— Matt Porter (@mattyports) May 4, 2021

some ugly shit

I won't even pretend to understand why that's bad and just say fuck the Caps

the 'violence' tom wilson chose was punching a guy in the back of the head while he was lying face-down on the ice

...and when panarin stuck up for his mate, wilson grabbed him by the hair and slammed his head to the ice, injuring him.

I found video, smgdh

no suspension too, fuck the NHL. Panarin done for the season apparently

i read his injury had nothing to do with the hit?

still a travesty - permanently suspend wilson and charge him with assault

ok think i was mistaken, sorry!

bold statement from the rangers

pic.twitter.com/M7tw4YOeDF

— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) May 4, 2021

wau

NYR have fired John Davidson and Jeff Gorton

— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) May 5, 2021

(Shouldn’t they have just each gotten a $5,000 fine?)

— Alison (@AlisonL) May 5, 2021

guess it's gonna be that kind of night

pic.twitter.com/VyOlycWafC

— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) May 5, 2021

I was thinking earlier this will be the biggest rumble since Wings Avs

100 PIM in the first period

upsetting that the jets' abject collapse may rob us of a leafs-habs series

leafs have got to win at least one series this year right

brutal: https://defector.com/guy-boucher-where-is-he-now-ottawa-senators

The highlight of Guy Boucher’s time as Ottawa Senators head coach, a job he held for almost three seasons, was getting to the Eastern Conference Final in 2016–17, then losing in double OT of Game 7. The lowest point of his tenure came in November 2018, when a bunch of his players laughed about how much the team sucked as they rode in a car to a hotel.

kunitz forever

$250K fine for that Rangers tweet

I mean, glad to see the NHL going after the real bad guy.

and they're probably gonna suspend buchnevich for the cross-check...

fuck this league

im a lapsed hockey fan and shit like this does not help at all

The NHL is like the junior high vice principal that watches some older kids beat up a 6th grader, then gives the 6th grader a detention for being late to class.

bunch of bootlickers: https://www.tsn.ca/new-york-rangers-expensive-statement-galvanized-support-for-george-parros-1.1635561

parros went to princeton and is supposedly a very bright guy, but it's pretty weird having a career goon lead player safety. at least he doesn't have a son in the league, i guess

They should put Bobby Clarke in charge of handing out the Lady Byng.

College
Parros played four years at Princeton University, where he totaled 52 points and 119 PIM in 111 games. He was named team captain for his senior season in 2002–03. While at Princeton, Parros majored in economics and wrote his senior thesis on the West Coast longshoremen's labor dispute.[3] In 2010, he was chosen as the fourth-smartest athlete in sports by the Sporting News.[4]

today maxime lagacé became the 66th goalie to play for the pittsburgh penguins (and the 19th of them from quebec)

i'm not sure if that's more or fewer than i would have expected

feels bizarre to say, but this florida-tampa series will be v. intersting

I agree. Panthers have been great this year.

Fun fact: Every time in NHL history that the Leafs and Habs have met in the playoffs, the winner has gone on to win the Stanley Cup. https://t.co/4beVrK9iqq

— Down Goes Brown (@DownGoesBrown) May 12, 2021

I'm obligated by birth to have a rooting interest in the Toronto-Montreal series.

Not seeing a huge amount of excitement for the Toronto-Montreal series here in Montreal, I guess mostly because everybody expects Montreal to lose in 5.

having announced that they’ll wear their yellow third jerseys for all playoff home games, the penguins will likely be swept

feeling quietly confident for oilers' series with the jets. then likely get beaten by whoever wins out of leafs and habs (leafs are just better and oilers didn't do great over the season against habs)

apparently every single playoff game will go to OT

great pace in the first game of the florida series

what a game

Am really pulling for the Panthers, especially since they haven’t won a series in 25 years. Crowd was great though.

WAKE UP PANTHERS

Alas