Two Putin Boosters on the Potomac; One has a Stanley Cup: THE NHL 2018-2019 THREAD (INCLUDING CAPS HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

peaking too early amirite

@RickCarpiniello - funny story from last night’s game. Guy sitting next to penalty box was lighting up Sid all game with some fantastic chirps. A trainer delivered this to him after the final buzzer. pic.twitter.com/4DZf9ZtlxF

— MG35 (@pickledotcom) January 3, 2019

- rick nash has retired due to continuing concussion symptoms

- the caps have won 14 straight against the bruins

- tampa bay is really good

That sucks about Nash. I mean he had a long career but you never want to see a guy have to retire for that.

As a long suffering Islanders fan, very happy to see them go on this 15-3 run and into 1st place.

front office changes ‘imminent’ in edmonton

Cawlidge Hawky game I went to last week (my Alma mater lost)

https://www.bemidjipioneer.com/sports/hockey/4561176-mens-hockey-bsu-outdoor-game-coldest-modern-era?amp&__twitter_impression=true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGcooSVK4S4

Toronto has too many hockey players and not enough goalies —- so there’s a booming market of “rental goalies” (who make about $50 a game).

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/sports/hockey/-goalie-ringer-.html

reminds me of my last beer league tbh

happy 47th to the . . . well, not GOAT, but he's really up there

http://images.performgroup.com/di/library/omnisport/f7/58/jaromir-jagr-100515-usnews-getty-ftr_jzxg1pdurp2t16mumt7nco8db.jpg

man i can't believe he's almost fifty and still playing pro. truly thought we'd never see that again after, like... chelios i guess

a) it is bullshit that we are never ever going to get a habs-leafs playoff series

b) excited for columbus to go all in and miss the playoffs

c) it will be amazing when tampa somehow doesn't win the cup despite being clearly miles and kilometers better than everyone

d) lololol at the sens firing guy boucher because they didn't like 'how the team was trending'

e) western conference go jettts and/or flaaames

f) jesus christ oilers

g) hey kings maybe trade someone in addition to muzzin

Brock Olson's got the whole package pic.twitter.com/6MrAm5Apoy

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) March 6, 2019

One of the very best hockey traditions.

PETTERSSON. GOODNESS. pic.twitter.com/8wYmLeYIH0

— NHL GIFs (@NHLGIFs) March 16, 2019

https://i.imgur.com/Z4jne0W.jpg

WE ARE NOT WORTHY. WE ARE NOT WORTHY. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/NRLbVaWiql

— NHL (@NHL) March 29, 2019

toews ended up having a very strong season offensively but was unable to will his team to the playoffs; is he really, therefore, a winner? NEXT on Coach's Corner

lol good canadian boys are exempt from having their leadership questioned

dallas RW valeri nichushkin is two games away from going the entire season without scoring a goal or taking a penalty; he's played in 57 games averaging 11:55 of ice time

will he put a puck over the glass in these two games y/n

Lol, how is that even possible? Just like the most ineffectual season of all time.

Poehling having second-best NHL debut in history makes a real satisfying ending to an up/down Montreal season.

https://deadspin.com/whos-keeping-the-nhl-out-of-quebec-city-1833781497?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_campaign=sharebar

quite a comeback by lumbus

great game/atmosphere at ye olde nassau coliseum

lotta weird bounces/ppl falling down in that game

which is fine, just strange

leafs are gonna do this again, huh

yikes tampa

They have studied at the feet of the caps. Although the (old) caps would have won the first two, then proceeded to choke.

This is what happens when half your team is former Rangers.

holy shit tampa

well, at least the penguins getting smoked wasn't the biggest story of the first round i guess

hockey is so flukey

Barry Trotz has moved into a tie for 2nd place for series wins by an #isles coach (1) with Jack Capuano and Terry Simpson. Al Arbour won the other 29. #NHL #NHLstats

— Eric Hornick (@ehornick) April 17, 2019

I interrupt your playoffs for a bout of joyous non-verbal grunting

On the 19th of April in 2019, No. 19 is coming home. https://t.co/se0kyvrNrM

— Detroit Free Press (@freep) April 19, 2019

❤️

first-round bloodbath

winnipeg is being out-shot 27-6 through two periods in a must-win game

Disappointing. Assuming the Leafs don't stage a miraculous comeback--befitting my bandwagon fandom, I'm ducking out for a movie--I really can't see them winning a Game 7 in Boston. Today was it.

So if the leafs don’t make it the only teams worth rooting for are NYI and NSH and the asteroid

short handed OT winners have got to be pretty unusual. crazy ending

Tomas Hertl’s game-winner for the @SanJoseSharks tonight was the first shorthanded OT goal beyond the first OT period in NHL history. It was just the second shorthanded OT goal for a team facing elimination (Fernando Pisani, EDM vs. CAR, Game 5 of 2006 Stanley Cup Final).

— Elias Sports Bureau (@EliasSports) April 22, 2019

hockey >>> g.o.t.

not a shocker

wild cards 3, division winners 0

The system works.

if columbus or colorado wins their next series I think it will be the first time, under the new playoff and division system, that a team wins a division it isn't part of

what kind of lead are we expecting the leafs to blow tonight

idk how that got in

rip jake gardiner