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

still can't believe edmonton got swept

welp.
fire bergevin, hire a young quebecois genius for their dream job.
fire ducharme, bring in joël bouchard,
give weber to seattle

well at least i didn't watch it

go jets

Wild making a series out of it instead of rolling over like I expected.

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

not trying to rip on them; it's just disappointing. and tbf they kept running into the chicago buzzsaw in the first several seasons

ps i love the sweaters and the state and bill guerin but 'wild' is still a stupid team name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZyDsF-Gp3o

let's just... hold for a couple days about my whole fire everything everyone comment

<3

It has been noted that Jesperi Kotkaniemi, who wears #15, was playing in his 15th playoff game. He scored the winning goal at exactly 15:15 of overtime, ending his night with a time on ice of exactly 15:00. The winning goal in overtime was also the 15th total shot among the two teams.

Simulation must be glitching.

I don't watch enough hockey to know how routinely this happens, but I watched that overtime and Toronto demonstrably outplayed them; checked the shots on goal and it was 13-2 for the Leafs. Which is worth nothing, I know, but I hope that's a positive sign for G7.

more shots give more chances for weird deflections and rebound opportunities, but Price seems to stop what he can see. i think coming off an OT win gives that team some momentum for at least part of the first period of the next game. i need to find a way to watch this

I use sportsurge dot net

tyvm

you don't often see a nine-minute power play

predicting a leafs blowout tonight, but youneverknow

anyway it can't be as bad as game seven against the bruins in 2013, right?

would be pretty funny if joe thornton's veteran leadership resulted in teaching the kids how to blow multiple-game playoff leads tho

I think they might squeak by, but they’ll have their hands full with the Jets if they can’t get their Marner or Matthews going.

Avs look pretty intimidating so far.

yeah they look amazing. some beautiful goals last night

o shit

Lol, never change Toronto.

14 shots through two ffs

Two goals feel unsurmountable at the moment.

Exhausting

"lwafs blowout" in which direction? Like a leafblower?

Someone forgot to put 2 coincidental penalties on the board during NYI-BOS, and they wound up playing an extra minute of 4-on-4 hockey before play stopped/the officials realized it. I don't know how something that sloppy happens in a playoff game.

lol!

glad the habs are looking like doing it but kind of would like the leafs to score to make it interesting

carey price still got it

the habs are looking good!

xxp hey hey!

wow. did not expect the goalie to be pulled at that face-off.

xp :))

Lol leafs. Never in doubt (that they would lose).

I knew it was bad, but not havent-won-a-series-in17-years bad for the leafs.

feel bad for the nurses doug ford condemned to watching that

every other canadian team has won like at least 3 or 4 series in that same time period (and those canadian teams have generally not been any good!)

🗣️ OLÉÉÉÉ OLÉ OLÉ OLÉ

— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) June 1, 2021

Real Montrealers know no team will ever represent the city as well as the Maroons.

Having lived in Montreal since 1995 and hating the Habs has not, at all, made me bitter.

Glad I'm not emotionally invested in hockey--I feel bad enough as a bandwagon guy, I'm sure there are lots of people really shell-shocked tonight.

xp been wondering for a while but okay tell us why you hate them and bring it all

My dad raised me to hate the leafs and pity their fans.
I pity both tbh.

lol. This series is the first time I've watched full games in ages. Feeling bad for my dad who is hoping to see the Leafs win another cup...

xp been wondering for a while but okay tell us why you hate them and bring it all

― mookieproof, Monday, May 31, 2021 9:51 PM (fifty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not all of it is rational, it's sports!

It's part that they are the Yankees of hockey, in that they have had enough success already as it is why bother more, but also as in their fans are pompous and always quick to remind them of their rings and their celebrations of the past is so tacky (admittedly not as tacky as the Yankees let me be clear). I can't with the flambeau anymore. I can't.

The other part is you are a kid and you see the Mario Tremblay and Patrick Roy moment played in loop surely for years to no end it can't help.

Speaking of which, being a kid with all those great teams and superstars like the Avalanches, Red Wings, Penguins, etc, they probably felt less essential. My family's team is essentialy the Girondins de Bordeaux, I was born in Montreal but really my first few years were in Houston, it didn't really matter that I liked Brian Leetch and the Rangers for whatever reason, I was free of not loving the Habs.

But the biggest part for me is the ethnocentric chauvinism of fans which was probably all fine in the fifties when you couldn't get a worker to speak to you in french on St-Catherine, and I am always mad when anglo pundits don't believe Maurice Richard is a top five player ever. However, nowadays that same nationalism is as ugly and short-sighted as the current political equivalent. The french speaking punditry around the Habs is medieval in thinking and speaking hockey, but also in other more important issues. And anyway, who is the latest truly great French Canadian to play for the Habs? It's not like they have been contributing to development of hockey in the region in a positive way anyway (Quebec just doesn't produce players like they used to), so one hand it's nous autres but on the other hand it brings not tangible benefits to Quebec culture.

So all of that and then you get to hear about them 24/7 because of Montreal has to be, of course, a one sport city, which in a way was mirroring the short sightedness of Quebec culture until recently, it just becomes this awful thing.

Oh also they turned the Meccah of hockey into a shitty mall (with a good cinema nonetheless).

Imagine if they had done that to Fenway or Camp Nou.

i hear you but tbf they haven't won anything in almost 30 years; they're less like the yankees than, idk, the brewers or something

i suspect quebec produces as many good players as it used to, but also there are 25 more teams and the league draws from a rather greater pool than it used to. i mean it's not lemieux's or fleury's fault they got drafted by the best club elsewhere

sports fandom is inherently conservative, though! every fan will look back fondly on the times of victory, and i'm pretty sure that if mike keane or chris chelios had delivered, they'd be as fêted as Patrick or the '70s teams.

anyway i'm maybe too drunk to suitably make the point, but i think you're being unfair! i like the penguins, because i'm from pittsburgh, and have reasons to be proud of them and reasons to hate, say, the flyers and capitals. if the penguins were the lone team in the league from a location that spoke my language, i can imagine being even more invested

Isles win in OT and I can finally breathe for the first time in an hour or so.

fwiw Québec *does* have a problem with forming hockey players these days, the french media discuss it a lot-

players per million inhabitants:
quebec: 7.189
finland: 10.692
sweden: 9.57
canada overall: 11.49

i don't share Van Horn Street's anti-Hab consternation, possibly as a non-Québecer who moved to Montreal as an adult; i think i also have more <3 in my heart for québecois culture than they might, for understandable reasons. imo there is some of the Yankees in the Habs pedigree, but it's mixed up with a long recent history of being shitty which makes for a very good sports/fan narrative

pk subban forever though

Yeah the treatment of Subban was the final nail in the coffin for me.

I do have love for Quebecois culture in my heart. Just none for chauvinism across the board.