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)

I can see the fix is in again to get the Pens the #1 pick.

lol

pens have a) never won a best-of-five series, and b) never beaten the habs in a playoff series. neither of these facts were supposed to be relevant this year but here we are.

also not sure i can recall a pittsburgh athlete as hated by his/her own fans as jack johnson. it’s rough

i defended jack johnson for a season or 2, possibly out of pity for his personal life and terrible family ripping him off, but damn.

good luck pittsburgh (seriously)

Some knowledgeable Canadian hockey fans I interact with online couldn't believe the Penguins signed Jack Johnson to that contract. He might have been overpaid at half that cap hit.

it was a terrible signing, and its been both disastrous and uncharacteristic of the current regime that he's still there and still in the lineup. apparently a very nice guy, tho!

It hurts me to acknowledge that Rutherford has otherwise made some shrewd moves. I will go to my grave not understanding how acquiring Phil Kessel worked.

oh, leafs

Columbus is a team I wouldn't choose for the Flyers to play. They could just run out of steam, but I think they will be a tough out.

awooooo

liking the coyotes even though my heart is full of lobsters

does your heart ever just go

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idgi

I can see the fix is in again to get the Pens the #1 pick.

― Mom jokes are his way of showing affection (to your mom) (PBKR), Thursday, August 6, 2020 9:11 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

happy birthday, sid

For whatever reason there is an Islanders win meme this year related to the old Nickelodeon sketch, "Court dismissed, bring in the dancing lobsters."

Michael F, are you on the Island?

I live in Boston but I grew up in Queens (Flushing) so my teams have always been orange and blue (Isles/Mets). My parents are out on the island now, thorough.

I've been on the Island since '01 and have been to lots of games at the Colosseum. During those years I always hated the Rangers but never the Islanders.

The Coliseum was definitely a cool place to see a game. I vivid recall the symphony of car horns doing the let’s go islanders chant in the parking lot during some early ‘90s games.

My former company had season tickets in the corner on the end the Islanders attacked twice and there was a famous crusty Islander fan nicknamed "goldilocks" who had season tickets just below. Every game he wore a gold foil wig and a Rangers jersey that he had embroidered "S-U-C-K-S" in the Rangers' font just below the franchise name.

edmonton’s gonna get the top pick for the fifth time in 11 years; i wanna see PBKR complain about *that*

bettman must be choked about these results

Are Ontario golf courses open? Asking for a friends

Lol, mookie. I don't hate the Oil like I do the Pens. Western Conference might as well be the KHL.

We (oilers) can get the #1 pick in perpetuity and we'll still stink

it is pretty remarkable. at least they can't take nail yakupov this time

Just a combination of a shit organisation and a too loyal fanbase (theres no consequence to them sucking, fans will still be loyal and show up, buy merch etc.)

whoa

maffew what have you done

thanks for the notice, i am in bed

that was so epic that they almost have to get blown out on sunday

huh how about that

that was so epic that they almost have to get blown out on sunday

― mookieproof, Friday, August 7, 2020 11:13 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This would be so on-brand for the Leafs.

quinn hughes is my best friend

That might be the best/most fortuitous period of Flyers hockey I've seen in 25 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYEUNA6192g

i mean . . . yes it's all macho bullshit but it was very well understood macho bullshit and the world might have become a better place had some flyer killed claude lemieux then and there

20yo shayne corson with the initial move

Classic.

Glad it was that and not the 1989 playoffs where Hextall leaves the crease to decapitate Chelios in retaliation for the hit on Brian Propp games earlier.

I'm definitely not pining for the days of goons, but miss the craziness once in a while. Last gasp was probably that Flyers-Senators game in 03-04 with 419 PIMs (NHL record for a single game).

Flyers should beat Montreal, but I have a feeling it is going be a tough series.

so is Toronto, Pittsburgh, or Edmonton winning this thing

minnesota imo

would like nashville or winnipeg to get it

Canucks fans will never stop whining if Minnesota wins

As long as its not the Pens or Rangers.

can't be the oilers again surely

if we accept that the fix is in and it'll go to the market most in need of a boost, it's probably florida (ugh)

winnipeg would be great. for me the only unacceptable answers are rangers/leafs

Panthers would be the anti-fix pick.

God, Rangers fans will be planning the parade. You would think a fanbase that went 54 years without a Cup would have some perspective, but having to live/work amongst them - no.

prefer to think of them as ‘the team that’s won one cup in 80 years’

Will this Cup have full legitimacy in your (everyone's) eyes y/n?

For me it'll definitely be asterisked, and a bit less than fully legit.