TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING ARE THE CHAMPS 2020-2022 THE NHL 2020-2021 SEASON THREAD (INCLUDING LIGHTNING HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

Yeah that's... weird

happy kelly hrudey's 60th birthday everyone

And we are underway

20 yo Joel Farabee on pace for 224 points in 56 games.

watched the first 2 oilers canucks games (im an oilers fan who lives in vancouver, so very relevant to my interests), pretty decent. mcdavid with a nice hat-trick last night after not scoring any points the night before. glad the hockey is back. will enjoy all the games against canadian teams this season.

Yeah, all canadian division is very cool stuff. I think some of the teams are a couple of years away (OTT, MTL), but they're all decent to good.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsCHtNVXUAMUF3I?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

this might be the closest to an all canadian league we'll ever get

north and east division probably the toughest, i'd say

it bums me out it happened right before seattle was about to get a team, because this happens to be probably my second favourite team vancouver has had

what's your favorite?

they really shoved a bunch of good teams into the east, the group of death. it will be hard to assess relative strength with this setup, it's like college football or something

just noticed st louis in the west and dallas in the central, which seems like wrong geography

Yes, that is the coronavirus on the goalie mask of @penguins keeper Tristan Jarry. @PensInsideScoop had the story: https://t.co/sce5HAOEjI pic.twitter.com/iUcrY5aEwU

— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) January 13, 2021

Gotta say, I really love this format.

Who streams games these days? I can get an espn login but other than that idk if I can even get Wild games over the air in Mpls.

last night the penguins, for the third time in franchise history, scored while shorthanded two men. goalie casey desmith got the lone assist for his first nhl point

here's 16 minutes of 3-on-5 goals: https://www.nhl.com/video/5-on-3-shg-in-nhl-history/t-277350912/c-5385637

surprising number scored by defencemen. feels like half of them are either by the flyers (usually mike richards) or against the rangers. modano's was the most impressive imo

Yeah, Richards was a SH monster. My favorite Flyer for a couple years there.

welp

Capitals' Alex Ovechkin, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Dmitry Orlov and Ilya Samsonov are all in quarantine. Laviolette just said he believes all will miss the next four games and then under review.

— Samantha Pell (@SamanthaJPell) January 21, 2021

Regrettable

In Russia, etc.

lol torts benched pierre-luc dubois for the last 45 minutes of the columbus game and it's gonna get ugly

oh boy.

h8 torts but i can't exactly blame him. this was dubois' last shift

Everybody: “How dare Torts bench him!”

The constant level of effort to battle for the puck: pic.twitter.com/5EJxBsmYph

— Mike (@mikebrucePT) January 22, 2021

Looks like a guy trying to stay away from the boards or any contact so he doesn't get hurt before he is traded.

what's your favorite?

― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Monday, January 18, 2021 8:52 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

i guess this is the obvious choice, but definitely the sedin era

i'm younger so i lived through it and was able to experience all of the excitement, though

having said that, it must've been something else to see cpt canuck or the russian rocket play

what about you?

Who streams games these days? I can get an espn login but other than that idk if I can even get Wild games over the air in Mpls.

― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, January 19, 2021 4:15 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

if you google it on game day you can find a few trustworthy sites

The Columbus Blue Jackets traded center Pierre-Luc Dubois to the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday for right winger Patrik Laine and center Jack Roslovic.

Who's the first to flame out with their new team?

Laine. one does not move from winnipeg to columbus and find it an upgrade

people seem to hate playing in columbus -- is it the city, or tortorella, or something else?

and management

Maybe it’s the cannon

what about you?

― Punster McPunisher, Friday, January 22, 2021 10:24 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

hard to say...the bure/linden/kirk team was very easy to love when I was a kid, the sedins/luongo era came with a bit more angst (and some incredible moments). Canucks always seem to have one or two transcendent players, and eventual heartbreak of course.

Team looks way better after playing Ottawa three times in a row huh

penguins have one regulation win

also they are 5-3-1 (and bad)

Wings are bad too

The story behind your favorite team’s highest PIM game

I think I know the Flyers without clicking: early 00s game against the Ottawa senators that is the highest PIMs of any game in NHL history.

Paywalled, but I was right: the game even has its own (long) Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Flyers%E2%80%93Ottawa_Senators_brawl#:~:text=At%20the%20end%20of%20the,and%20the%20Minnesota%20North%20Stars.

Same game is the record for both teams. The whole thing is up on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS-39I9mzqM Lol @ Senators announcers calling the fight like Rob Ray didn't get ragdolled by Brashear.

Those early 00s Senators teams were such dirty weasals.

The rest of the game proceeded without any fights; the Flyers only had three players left on their bench, while the Senators had two.[9] The Senators tallied the final goal of the game with 13 seconds remaining, with Peter Bondra scoring on the power play to make the final score 5–3.[10] At the end of the game, it took the officials 90 minutes to allocate all the penalties that had been given to the two sides.[11] The two teams combined for 419 penalty minutes, an NHL record, breaking the previous total of 406 in a 1981 game between the Boston Bruins and the Minnesota North Stars. Philadelphia's 213 penalty minutes was also a new League record, as were the 409 minutes assessed in the third period. Interviewed after the game, Mike Fisher of Ottawa said that the Senators "knew [they] had to fight back. [They] had to stand up for each other."[1]

as an adult i cant fathom how fuckin dumb bench-clearing shit like this is. like im the goalie and im supposed to just go and be mad at the other goalie with whomst i have had little to no contact until now, its like getting drafted into the Hockey Team army no fuckin way

Oh, definitely, despite being a Flyers fan I'm not pining for the 80s-90s glory days of fighting, especially when so many of the heavyweights have had concussion/mental health issues later in life. I do find it amusing/amazing that the league let insane shit like this happen.

I did have more respect for a straight brawler like a Rob Ray than a little weasel like Havlat who would do sneaky stick (and skate) work and often get away with it.

have you guys seen ice guardians?

the first half is pretty interesting, but the second half gets really weird because they use some weird logic to justify the role of the enforcer

Team looks way better after playing Ottawa three times in a row huh

― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, January 29, 2021 11:00 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

ugh look at us now lol

as an adult i cant fathom how fuckin dumb bench-clearing shit like this is. like im the goalie and im supposed to just go and be mad at the other goalie with whomst i have had little to no contact until now, its like getting drafted into the Hockey Team army no fuckin way

otm but i did enjoy the occasional exception when once in a while you would see goalies shrugging or laughing, or visibly checking with each other like "you up for this?"

ugh look at us now lol

― Punster McPunisher, Friday, February 5, 2021 8:02 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

36 shots against per game, worse than chicago, is suboptimal

There were some classic Red Wings - Avalanche battles that included good goalie fights.

vernon v roy, i memmer

yikes

Well this is something. Hearing Brian Burke will join Ron Hextall in PIT. Burke as president of Hockey Ops; Hextall as GM
Going to miss this teammate, loved working with you Burkie

— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) February 9, 2021

Hextall arriving 2-3 years too early for the rebuild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBPA-e7qHAI

haven't seen this in a while

totally legal! totally common! but egregious, and this habs homer will not let the Lightning forget it. given how much the cap constrains (most) top teams, it is literally unfair (although definitely not illegal) for that roster to have played.

the purpose of the salary cap isn't to create parity (which the nhl has more of than any other pro league I follow anyway), it only exists so team owners can avoid paying their employees their actual worth

agree! but better parity's clearly one of the side-effects, and there are clearly a slew of rules surrounding the cap that are meant to maintain that. (the LTIR loophole remains baffling - best i can see it's from the lack of a super easy fix?)

it's not all black and white. there's levels to circumventing the salary cap that are more acceptable than others. the LTIR loophole that the lightning found and abused of is on a bigger scale

Habs should have circumvented the cap too.

That being said I don't mind younger teams winning it 3 times, hockey has room to grow, I just wish it was Winnipeg, or Nashville, or San José, or whatever, just not Winterbirdopolis.

Where does this Tampa team rank against the greats? They seem pretty tough.

"Winterbirdopolis"?

Hillsborough County (where Tampa and Tampa Bay is located) has a median age of 37.2, which ranks 58th of 68 counties in median age in FL, in fact is below the median age for Florida as a whole (42). snowbirds don't go to TAMPA, they go to places like Sumter County

this tampa team is one of the best. the players themselves are extremely skilled.

neanderthal, it's a reference to a lot of canadian snowbirds vacationing anywhere in florida, i assume, not moving there. also, i imagine canadian snowbirds visit anywhere where they can stretch their canadian peso, so you even get people going to the less popular parts of mexico

still don't think 'Tampa' is their destination but

snowbirds definitely go to clearwater, st petersburg, tampa etc.

yes, it doesn't define the city, the probably make up a perishingly small % of the population in the winter. although i imagine they're overrepresented at hockey games

A lot of the snowbirds I know congregate around Tampa.

But in the context of hockey, where Tampa and Sunrise share the division with Toronto, Ottawa, in no small part because of the snowbird audience.

At any rate, I have my doubts Tampa will ever become a hockey city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwEHN7rEvY

Nikita gueule.

Too bad he doesn't have a legion of cheering drunk fans to talk to

this is all steve yzerman's fault

Love it. Best presser cap space can buy.

lol the sens hired pierre mcguire as a vp of player development

also the oilers traded actual assets for the right to pay the ghost of duncan keith $11m over the next two years

that's some peter chiarelli shit, despite him being gone for two and a half years

You have to feel bad for McDavid (until you remember he's making $11M a year or something like that).

nine years into the dual parise/suter 13-year, $98m contracts and the wild have won two first-round series

welp

I was in MN when both were announced, and I can still remember Dan "The Common Man" Cole chanting:

Winning the Cup will be easy
Now that we've got Parise

you thought he was done

incredible pic.twitter.com/B4aSRzOfkK

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) July 12, 2021

there's more where that came from

https://nhl.nbcsports.com/2021/07/11/kucherov-continues-glorious-stanley-cup-celebration-with-18m-over-cap-shirt/

https://i.imgur.com/zjanzF9.png

People who have figured out how to live.

oh man that shirt

Things are about to get interesting this week with the expansion draft + actual draft + free agency. Do we need a new thread?

get to work jimmy mod

crazy times in montreal

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