8 ARMS TO HOLD THE STANLEY CUP THE NHL 2021-2022 SEASON THREAD (INCLUDING LIGHTNING HANGOVER AND KRACKEN SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

seriously

need one more

there you go

huge

I was at the game. That goal was a huge bummer.

silky

Johnny Gaudreau scores on the penalty shot👀 pic.twitter.com/JYeCO0VfZl

— Shayna (@hayyyshayyy) May 10, 2022

Happy retirement to Patrick Marleau

btw looooool at pierre mcguire lasting less than a year in ottawa

can't believe that guy was seriously bandied about as a legit executive; only melnyk would hire him

habs win the top pick in the draft

nearly halfway through the game and the leafs have six shots on goal

hugest leafs period since . . . dougie gilmour, probably

great game

Happy retirement, Penguin great Patrick Marleau!

Then There Were Two. That leaves (by my count) Thornton and Chara as the last active NHL players who shared the ice with Gretzky.

Wasnt mike smith coached by gretz *touches nose*

think we've all learned an important lesson tonight: never go up 2-0 or 3-0 on the road

if the oilers lose this -- let alone in six -- that will really be something

Fingers crossed for LA, but leafs game is something else so far

I mean I wld love for any Canadian team to win the cup, but grew up in SoCal so can't not root for my team

Here we go, lol.

One thing I’m not going to miss about this series is opposing teams w identical color schemes.

Go Bolts. Should be a good game 7.

yikes minnesota

A PLAYOFF GOALIE GOAL BY JOEL HOFER pic.twitter.com/DwkJLCgOFH

— x - Springfield Thunderbirds (@ThunderbirdsAHL) May 13, 2022

my ass literally hurts from clenching watching the Leafs last night.

Diehard fan that I am, I'm giving the Leafs a one-goal deficit--if they fall behind two, I bail.

both the jays and leafs are playing Tampa tonight strangely enough

if they fall behind two, I bail

classic my dad move (and not unwarranted)

you still have to check in in the third to see if they clawed one back tho

I sincerely feel sorry for anyone who lives and dies with this team. My friend's dad turned 90 recently, and he's been swearing off them for 50 years.

CLEM WE'RE TIED UP

NOT ANYMORE

>>I sincerely feel sorry for anyone who lives and dies with this team

they must have the most ironic goal song in the league with "you make my dreams come true" (hall and oates)

fuck

gotta get more than 14 shots in 40 minutes

pucks to the net, good things happen, etc etc

i persuaded a wendel-sweater-wearing friend of mine to let his auston-sweater-wearing pre-teen stay up late for OT the other night

fucking sack up leafs

Not that I know what I'm talking about, but that was my sense too: that the Leafs spend a lot of time looking for the perfect shot, whereas Tampa Bay fires away. I guess it works for them most of the year.

that is not inaccurate

i'm told that the crowd spent much of the third period of game 5 shouting SHOOT THE PUCK

they're shooting now

the bums

well shit. i guess my friend's kid now truly understands the leafs experience

but also i somehow wanted clemenza to join the bandwagon and now that's failed as well

They had that one good power-play, but geez, not much near the end. I feel terrible right now, so I can imagine how faithful fans feel. The Blue Jays beating the other Tampa Bay team almost makes it worse--tonight you switch places?

5 straight seasons losing in the winner-take-all game, how is that even possible

It is possible if you are the leafs. Not as bad as last year’s meltdown to the habs though.

Battle of Florida series incoming

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

Basically if it’s the Leafs - and their season is on the line, I tune out. Yet again, I have made the correct choice this year.

I’m on the Battle of Alberta bandwagon. I’m going to say it’s doable for the Flames tonight

Yep, bring it on!

This has been nuts so far. The flames have been all over the stars so far …. And they finally scored!!!!

Lol. As I was typing

Oettinger was Bubble Demko-worthy

that was an insane performance. i thought for sure the Stars would win it with some flukey goal every time Oettenger kept them alive after an insane barrage.

as the resident pens fan, that was disappointing

on one hand, even before crosby got hurt, pittsburgh was down a top-pairing defenseman, a top-six winger, and forced to start a minor leaguer in goal. they really shouldn't have challenged the league's best goalie

on the other hand, the penguins dominated the rangers at 5-on-5, guentzel scored more goals than anyone else had in a series in 10 years, and they chased shesterkin twice

on the other other hand, they very thoroughly blew a 3-1 lead. and they blew two-goal leads in games 5-6 and a late one-goal lead in game 7. and they got utterly destroyed on special teams despite having earlier in the season had quite a good PK

anyway i am bummed because i think they're better than the rangers. probably not better than carolina or the florida teams, but a round would have been nice

at least we have been granted battles of alberta/florida! although i do think the oilers' all-navy-with-orange-lettering sweaters are fucking awful