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

25 fantastic minutes of pens swarming and shooting their asses off was good enough against the sharks, fortunately. bit more concerned about the blues thursday. gonna be more of a grind.

holy shit Cale Makar pic.twitter.com/CDxU3qcq91

— Dimitri Filipovic (@DimFilipovic) January 5, 2022

obviously shit can happen -- we're not even halfway through the season -- but eight eastern conference teams are now above 90% to make the playoffs

and the rest are fucked (unless the isles go absolutely insane)

Isles (and possibly Sens too) continue to have some of the worst luck/scheduling issues I’ve ever seen in a season. It’s like as soon they finally got back into a groove they were given 13 days off.

On this day in 1993, Mario Lemieux announced he had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Lemieux would miss nearly the next two months for treatment, but would return in March and win the scoring title by season's end #Hockey365 #LetsGoPens pic.twitter.com/HZkhggBcUq

— Mike Commito (@mikecommito) January 12, 2022

Flyers and Isles are so horrendously bad at shootouts that they went 9 full rounds (17 misses) before the Isles finally got a single goal to win it

Also, didn't realize Habs now have the worst record in the league. Go Coyotes!

so the panthers scored 16 goals in like 25 hours this past weekend

i'm not sure i believe in them -- they've played like two-thirds of their games at home so far -- but that's pretty cool

anyway the eastern conference playoff situation is now basically locked up lol. and all eight teams are awesome as best i can tell

Panthers need to at least win a playoff series this year to put that long drought to rest.

i don't even know what to say about the oilers

no doubt the addition of evander kane will fix everything

The Flyers have lost 10 games in a row for the second time this season.

I'm just so sick of the old boys network that has run this team into the ground the last 15 years.

The Oilers are the California Angels of the NHL. They’ll find a way to screw things up even when they have 2 of the very best players in the league.

rip clark gillies

POV: You’re jumping into a pile of teddy bears with Alex Alexeyev #TeddyBearTossHershey #HersheyBearsCares pic.twitter.com/mQuYWvUsu1

— Hershey Bears (@TheHersheyBears) January 23, 2022

the jets got one off em yesterday, but there's this from a person on twitter:

@JakeDecker__
Here is a cool stat

The Penguins currently have the BEST penalty kill in the history of the NHL.

The best before this season was the 2011-2012 Devils at 89.6%

Halfway through the season, the Penguins are at 90%

of course the jets got it after super killer teddy blueger had to leave the ice after his visor destroyed his nose.

impressive how the flyers can have two double-digit losing streaks in 40 games and still be 11 points up on last year's cup runners-up

lol apparently ron duguay is dating sarah palin

NECES HANDLES ARE INSANE 🔥 pic.twitter.com/J4r1AqRmcy

— Pavel Barber (@HeyBarber) January 29, 2022

i read a piece that said duguay was her bodyguard, i believe, and thought that was strange

flyers win!

Just in time to start a new 10 game losing streak.

can someone check in on gritty

marchand's hat trick against the pens last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6Udfzr9C8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiqd4e8T4NU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYrE3pbnvkc

Not sure if that hat trick makes up for his subsequent six game suspension. Also Tuuka has now officially retired.

total joke that an nhl team is going to play here . . . but also going to be an awesome place to see a game

The bowl is taking shape at ASU’s multi-purpose arena. pic.twitter.com/rVYJpriE3p

— Craig Morgan (@CraigSMorgan) February 14, 2022

Coyotes will sell out every game for three years straight

happy 50th to the legendary jaromir jagr

he’s 8-11-19 in 35 games for kladno this season

https://assets.listia.com/photos/0ef7f9bca1307b9fccc9/original.png?s=320x320m&sig=a4f7d396ddfa6581&ts=1606861170 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xwobgBWwJKQ/hqdefault.jpg

Imagine being a goalie and seeing that hair coming at you

sid with his 500th tonight

also his 50th against the flyers lol

lool

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FL6qGL-XwAEjNE2?format=jpg&name=small

hahaha

Ok completely forgot that staples center is now called “crypto dot com arena”, yuck.

who cares

"We now have the ability to really almost do anything."

The NHL and Amazon have teamed up to predict every likely face-off winner in real time. Here's how it works and what you'll see: https://t.co/Bz6C8FO5o3 pic.twitter.com/T1WBxXjWSO

— luke fox (@lukefoxjukebox) March 1, 2022

florida is scary

the eastern playoffs are going to be incredible

barring some miracles for the bruins and jackets, it's pretty much mathematically over but for the seedings in the east, right? west-pacific gonna be a fun one to watch between now and then with like 5 teams vying for the wc or trying to hang in there.

https://defector.com/the-all-black-league-that-invented-hockey-as-we-know-it/

wow at the flyers re-signing ristolainen for 5 x $5.1

that’s some jack johnson shit, plus 50% more expensive

Yeah, this franchise is insane. They have no idea what they are doing. I used to live and die with that team. I’ve watched maybe five total periods this year.

By advanced statistics, Ristolainen is one of the worst dmen in the league period, not just for his salary.

They have Gritty tho

Gritty is the best thing they've done since 2004.

Sorokin is good.

Gonna be thinking about this save for a while 😳 pic.twitter.com/u1QtZiJ5mu

— NHL GIFs (@NHLGIFs) March 17, 2022

i was in d.c. for work earlier this week and was in the crowd when ovi scored 767 to overtake jagr for 3rd all time. pretty wild to witness!

Antonio Stranges’ edge work is like something out of a video game 😱 pic.twitter.com/jlOvB9eUBY

— Gino Hard (@Ginohard_) March 19, 2022

daaaamn

can anyone explain what is happening here? the kid's right skate on his first few strides if you look closely the toe of his skate is where the heel should be. how can anyone skate like that?

What the hell did I just watch ? This is disgusting

pic.twitter.com/5AHl1B03za

— Ryan Whitney (@ryanwhitney6) March 19, 2022

fuck. sorry for reposting the thing lol

it's like if you were running with one of your feet backwards. i've watched it like a dozen times and still can't figure out how he does that or why

if you're skilled enough i think you can corner better that way -- i've seen mcdavid occasionally do it -- but don't know how you'd generate power