50-PERCENT CAPACITY IN PHOENIX: THE NHL 2022-2023 SEASON THREAD (INC AVALANCHE HANGOVER & SALARY CAP SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

folks, ron hextall is a bad gm

lol at all these clubs acquiring defensemen from anaheim, one of the worst defensive teams of all time

feel like a lot of the last minute trades are barely going to move the needle for each team

I don’t know if Toronto adding like 5 people to a team that was already going to the playoffs is great for chemistry though? I know they are desperate to win a playoff series for once

actually feel bad for toronto

they can trade for whomever they want but they're basically locked into facing tampa in the first round, and if vasilevskiy chooses to be godlike, it won't matter

and if they survive that, then boston. and then carolina or new jersey. the east is a killing field

bruins 33-0-3 when scoring first

third period: bruins 91 GF, 40 GA

uh tampa has four shots on goal through two periods in carolina

and they were all in the first

Rangers and bolts have been pretty bad lately, almost bad enough that you start to think the East wild card race may get even more crowded.

Maybe this is the year the Leafs finally win a series (before getting steamrolled by the Bruins)

penguins fell behind columbus 4-0, at home, before rallying to win 5-4 in OT

if this is a test, i am going to fail it

isles have looked very trotzian since barzal went down, and it’s been working for them again.

Stars with ten goals tonight!

Isles-Pens rivalry has been very good the past couple year.

144 penalty minutes in the Tampa-Vegas game too. So many game misconducts.

mo seider first career SHG today, and it was a v. nice one

<3 Seider

<3 <3 <3 flower

MAF was mic’d up last night 😂

pic.twitter.com/Yf9GGrOCUw

— Nick Maraldo (@nickmaraldo) March 16, 2023

...WHAT?! 🤯#LetsGoBuffalo pic.twitter.com/F3fzZ8hMHh

— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) April 1, 2023

banks are open

Still trying to process this Rickard Rakell goal. 😱 pic.twitter.com/VU2jfC9YuG

— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) April 2, 2023

No games scheduled for tonight, all 32 teams play tomorrow. Good luck to The Hockey Guy.

how could the penguins lose that one

Feels like goaltending has been suspect for the pens all year. I think jarry needs a change of scenery.

The worst regular season loss in Penguins franchise history, and it is not even really close. https://t.co/ruIPnJEdEf | @Pensburgh

— Adam Gretz (@AGretz) April 12, 2023

The 2023 NHL playoffs will be the first playoff without the Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, or Washington Capitals in NHL history (not parody)

— evil gritty (@DrEvilGritty) April 13, 2023

Since '67 I suppose.

[watches hockey once] this mcdavid guy is such a smooth skater

xp clearly a sign in favour of the leafs amirite

good first-round matchups imo

hextall and burke out in pittsburgh, thank god

I mean a dark era is coming for penguins hockey, but they did a number of things to hasten its arrival

NHL clearly setting Pens up to get Bedard in the draft

Hush your mouth.

xp i like the way you think

things hextall did right: trading for and then re-signing rickard rakell last year; getting malkin and letang to re-sign (although apparently the latter was an ownership demand)

two years ago he got jeff carter, who was a great rental, at the deadline. but then he re-signed him for his age 37-38 seasons, during the latter of which he was borderline unplayable

things he did wrong: pretty much everything else? when they clearly needed to get younger and faster, he resolutely went older and slower without even getting bigger. his key deadline pickup this year was 31yo mikael granlund, who managed one (1) garbage-time goal in 21 games and has two more years at $5m per ffs

Sports in the salary cap era are cyclical and they got 3 Cups. They did good (I hate them).

oh, totally. it feels good to heap blame on a flyers legend tho

TIL Don Beaupre has 268 career NHL wins

panthers have actually played quite well but it isn't nearly enough

man joe pavelski got exploded

wow what a great win for the (la) kings

Way to get a Canadian grade 7 class's attention:

(Looking at Chromebook while they work on math) "(Gasp)!"

Class looks up.

(Moves finger across screen as if reading) "Auston Matthews out for remainder of season..."

I should have left them distraught till they got home, but I let them know I was kidding. (Not that they wouldn't have Googled right away anyway.)

harsh

That is violent i love it

o god the leafs

brutal

Serious stop they’re already dead energy

GOOD CLEAN HIT, YOU FUCKIN LOSER

Incredible work by everyone all around. pic.twitter.com/jfeDcnonPX

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) April 20, 2023

see, we don't need F-slurs to chirp

hey the leafs

Devils need to wake up

otfm

if lou were still in charge he'd have fired lindy ruff during the second intermission and taken over the bench in the third

also what is going on with colorado

Love the Isles PA announcer trying to announce a goal but constantly getting interrupted by another Islanders goal. 4 goals in 2:17!

lol that is awesome. (it's so deflating when the road team scores before the home team can even announce their last goal.) fastest four playoff goals ever, right?

honestly been waiting decades to ride the winnipeg jets bandwagon but it just never seems to work out