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

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)