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

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good luck

i was expecting rickroll
i found this choice

https://i.imgur.com/0w6ve94.png

i'm going full report

primer: https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/wiki/fancy_stats

thanks!

i like to know who is secretly doing good that i am not even paying attention to because i'm just watching the puck fly around like a dog

Perron on a 5-3 power play! Is Perron a name?

PERRON!!

you know, i've always like this perron kid

wait, he's 33? isn't he going to die soon in hockey years? then again, there was gordie howe...

david perron is pretty good!

(also a former penguin, with whom he wasn't super great)

2 goals tonight, this kid has potential

honestly kind of stunned that the blues might win a game

tbf i almost certainly said the same sort of thing last year when the avalanche went up 2-0 on vegas and then lost four straight

yeah I feel the past couple of years they have looked unbeatable for about a series and a half, and then something switches

I’d also like to agree with the comment up thread about the Oilers jerseys. They look like some kind of info graphic designed by an intern to stand out.

Alberta: try defense more

welp

mcdavid is terrifying

i don't get to watch him very often and man, yeah, not underrated! he's a beautiful player

great game but it really needed more closeups of matthew tkachuk chewing his mouth guard

the steph curry of the nhl

No idea why there is only one game today and they are making FL/TB do a back-to-back. Did someone have a graduation to attend.

supposedly the panthers begged the nhl not to schedule them against the heat-celtics series -- to no avail, as espn can apparently do what it likes -- so at least for one game they'll get their own timeslot, even if it's a shitty sunday afternoon one

I have a soft spot for these teams no one loves but Panthers need to make this into a series quickly

karl you let the blues down tonight

what's funny is that i actually did forget. i was going to watch!

i will watch the next two games though. i will get us up 3-2 before heading back to denver

i declare pre-emptive victory over the avalanche in games 4 and 5, with 100% certainty

one of them is going to be a nailbiter. the other will be merely close

however, they will lose either game 6 or 7. i can't be watching hockey all week

it's 2-2-1-1-1 but i salute your commitment

and yes you can be watching hockey all week because it is awesome

not going to be easy w/no biddington

props to the blues for blasting "gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight" for like a full minute between stoppages

it's 2-2-1-1-1 but i salute your commitment

shit

whatever, double-down. i bet 40 doubloons

not going to be easy w/no biddington

wait, what??

umm....you get a 5-minute grace period on doubling down, right?

*reaches for doubloons*

god, i really let down the blues tonight. i knew they'd lose, but i didn't mean to hurt the kid

vasilevskiy has allowed three goals on 105 shots vs florida

tip your cap, he’s been incredible in clutch situations

Wearing the dark blues instead of something orange in the Battle of Alberta should be illegal and people should go to jail.

— Down Goes Brown (@DownGoesBrown) May 23, 2022

That last goal by Kane for the hat trick was a beaut

Still a little weird to cheer for him after that fake covid card nonsense, and all the other legal issues.

I’m def not cheering for him at all. Or the oilers in this series.

Connor McDavid doing Connor McDavid things pic.twitter.com/z8KyfemSDe

— Charlie Roumeliotis (@CRoumeliotis) May 23, 2022

My god that dude is something

he giveth and he taketh away -- i think he had the primary assist on one of edmonton's breakaway goals in game two and he's certainly shutting down calgary's dump-and-chase game -- but it's an adventure every time mike smith leaves the crease and i'm not sure i could emotionally handle it if he were my team's goalie

lol the panthers are going to wind up with 60 shots and no goals

I need to rewatch tape of that blue jackets series sweep to remind myself Tampa can actually lose and give up goals

COME ON

panthers just cursed themselves by winning the president’s trophy

― mookieproof, Friday, April 29, 2022 12:25 AM (three weeks ago)

enjoy the banner tho

it would be one thing if they'd never been in the playoffs before -- i vividly remember the senators absolutely manhandling the penguins in crosby/malkin/letang's first berth in 2007, from which they learned a lesson

but they got smoked by tampa last year and they were not very impressive against the caps last round. bobrovsky is obviously not vasilevskiy but he'd have been plenty good enough if the high-scoring offense hadn't shit the bed. tampa is good, but three goals in four games?

It’s a shame.

Listening to the Avs radio broadcast can be fun since they are such blatant homers. They were just screaming “What’s your malfunction, David Perron?!” after his cross check on Makar.

Also enjoy the sheer goofiness of having one of your goal calls being “[goal scorer] is drinking from a fountain that’s pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain!”

oh no

blues outshot 15-3 but up 1-0 after one

good luck with that