27 YEARS SINCE A CANADIAN TEAM WON THE CUP WILL THIS BE THE YEAR (no): THE NHL 2019-2020 THREAD (INCLUDING BLUES HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

PEKKA RINNE SCORES! 🚨@PredsNHL | #NSHvsCHI pic.twitter.com/yDyGbMZY7j

— NHL on NBC (@NHLonNBCSports) January 10, 2020

Tight

not sure claude julien is gonna last much longer despite the win tonight

it's not claude's fault
rebuild pls

you can have alex galchenyuk back anytime you want him

insanely quick trigger in vegas, which has fired gerard gallant

The Islanders are retiring a JT and a 91 next month, and neither have anything to do with John Tavares. (Perhaps the poetic justice was too much to ignore, though.)

alex ovechkin: pretty good

rip red wings

https://i.imgur.com/JgsCRcG.png

good lord the kings are bad

🏒⚪🔵 Ci sono voluti 18 rigori per decidere la sfida tra Davos ed Ambrì. A risolvere la contesa ci ha pensato Tedenby con questa magia #HCD #HCAP #NLA #Shootout pic.twitter.com/LynhTgDAMC

— Sport RSI (@RSIsport) February 13, 2020

good lord

leafs lose to their zamboni driver
https://old.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/f83hr6/full_david_ayres_post_game_interview/

Not much of fan, but I'm staying with friends who are, so I was watching tonight--pretty great (and embarrassing for the Leafs). He's 42, and evidently had a kidney transplant as Sick Kids many years ago.

Astounding

I thought there might be a parallel with baseball; less with a position player mopping up in relief than, say, both catchers going down and sending in a position player to finish the game. I thought that each team must have a skater or two who played some goal as a kid and could finish the game. But my friend assured me that goaltending is so radically different that no skater could ever do it.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimg2.imagesbn.com%2Fp%2F9781599218069_p0_v2_s260x420.JPG&f=1&nofb=1

i have played goal in shitty pickup games and basically just sat there with my legs out hoping they shoot glove-side. because i cannot be beat glove side. but it is seriously exhausting -- the up and down, and being down on time takes a *lot*

aren’t we all https://t.co/lLH7ooFktR

— evan scott huber (@evanscotthuber) February 24, 2020

10 years ago

https://preview.redd.it/t2pf19za5pj41.png?width=640&height=388&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=03ffef6bbe71d65ba178a76306f51e2d20e4e2c6

Just finished my first season of very low-level, beginner-friendly men’s league after many many years of watching my kids play. So much fun and a great workout and I’m hooked. Sad that I have to wait for November for the league to start up again.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/edmonton-oilers-colby-cave-coma-1.5525003

a canadian team will not win the stanley cup this year

OR WILL THEY (THEY WON'T)

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/gary-bettman-newser-nhl-playoff-format-1.5585260

how about single elimination

you must be a leafs fan

why don't we just draw cards

This week marks the first time in the Toronto Maple Leafs' 102-year history that their season is still alive in June.

— Down Goes Brown (@DownGoesBrown) June 4, 2020

We are proud to announce the formation of the Hockey Diversity Alliance 🏒✊🏿 pic.twitter.com/TAucuYJxp2

— Wayne Simmonds (@Simmonds17) June 8, 2020

Love to see it

featuring a pair of former penguins greats

Introducing your Hockey Hall of Fame inductees for 2020

Full story: https://t.co/cc4hJXsp5n pic.twitter.com/XgpvPgmStc

— Hockey Night in Canada (@hockeynight) June 24, 2020

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weird 2 me that doug wilson is in HHOF and not, like, Mike Richter (Roenick is cancelled iirc)

wilson won a norris, eight-time all-star, plus he gets credit as an executive

i think the hall struggles with how to rate goalies, and tbh i don't feel like richter was really on the level of some of his contemporaries (hasek, roy, cujo, belfour). his first comp on hockey-db is . . . former kings great kelly hrudey. plus his greatest moment was the 1996 world cup, and, you know

it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with fleury. never really a top-top goalie, never won a vezina, but he's won three cups, been occasionally brilliant, and is already fifth all-time in wins

And the sharks’ first captain

I think richter straddles the accomplishment/fame threshold.

Fleury reads like Osgood to me tbrr

wilson is also the highest-scoring defenseman in the history of an original-six team. (yeah it was the 80s, but still).

yeah, i can see the osgood comp. but i think he's likely to end up third all-time in wins, which, while not a great measure, is still historic.

luongo's obviously in; i guess henrik too?

osgood shd be in the HoF imo

not for any logical reason, he was just one of my favs growing up

the bar seems higher for goalies, fairly or not

in the last 20 years: Fuhr, Roy, Brodeur, Hasek, Belfour, and Rogie Vachon.

tough to compare across eras, too. grant fuhr's career save percentage was .887!

Tim Thomas and Carey Price should make it in, along with Lu and Lundqvist. I wonder about cases like Ryan Miller, Kiprusoff, or Pekka Rinne...

Fuhr won the Vezina with an .881 pctg...you couldn't keep a starting job with that now

you wouldn't be in the league with that now!

not so sure about tim thomas -- a few incredible seasons, but he didn't play very long and him being a dick won't help

Tim Thomas had a high short ceiling; I would also like to see osgood in as well just to keep it weird. Heinrik is 100% in. Price seems too brittle to have any real traction - I could see him getting in eventually. Idk if luongo is in first ballot even tho he’s a beloved weirdo

Curtis Joseph (choker) isn’t in and he’s’ 7 all time

Fleury not really a starter for two of his three Cups. He was also such a head case in the playoffs sometimes. I do love him for all time for his performance in the 2011-2012 Flyers-Pens series. Who knew you could make Bryzgalov look good?

I mean maybe fleury’s comp is Fhur in that he was on a bunch of stellar teams and racked up weeeeeeens but isn’t the Difference maker

He's impressed me way more in LV than he ever did in Pitt.

They deserved to win, although with a couple lucky breaks and bounces, the Isles could definitely have taken it to 7 games. The last second TBL goal in Game 2 (plus all that NYI power play time) and Nelson missing on the OT breakaway in Game 6 loom large in my head. Still pretty happy with this season though.

king henrik deposed

what a moment

Jack Johnson on waivers for purposes of buyout

— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) October 5, 2020

jack johnson on waivers as a chrysalis becomes a butterfly

Lundqvist to Caps it’s probably time for a new thred

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