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

well

this is CRAZY.

not surprised

just great end to end. nice saves (mostly) by the backups. was thinking, once it got to a 3 goal avs lead, of heading elsewhere, but it's too exciting and i want spoilers to win

fair
xp

this is good hockey

wake the fuck up, tampa

I hope this edm/col turns into a series. Really don't want it to end.
So much raw talent
And rly dgaf abt the Eastern teams at this point

i love it/them/him but there's no way this series goes back to edmonton

might not even go back to denver

yikes

rip

that was a bit of a shame. has there been a 2x overtime this year? woulda been a consolation if that game had gone on longer. not really invested anymore, but will watch and root for Col in finals.

i think there was a 2x ot in the first round? was really hoping oilers could make a series of it and really felt mike smith's anguish at that one. ultimately think that the avs are in best position to defeat whoever wins in the east and that's what i want at this point. like a lot.

mckinnon and crosby are buds who work out together in the offseason, so my wife and i like to joke that after each round there's a phone call.

"yo sid, nate. gonna be a little late again for our workout!"

Mike smith plays small

i think there was a 2x ot in the first round?

i'm a bad pens fan! first game, round 1. pens won in 3OT! seems like 3 years ago.

pretty remarkable game/series by draisaitl, who is clearly having trouble moving

and god knows it would be unfair to note that the avs fucking slashed his ankle every chance they got

classic trouba; such a shame the rangers are choking away a 2-0 lead

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what a shame

I approve

free (and great) hockey

torts + flyers = distinct comedic possibilities

Circus, meet your ringmaster.

I'm actually good with it in an accelerationist way.

Report is Trotz turned down a $7M/yr offer from the Flyers. He's no dummy.

tbf i think torts is pretty good at turning a bad team into a team that's at least hard to play against, and that may indeed be what the flyers need right now

but he's not the guy you want running an actually good team -- good players won't put up with his bullshit for long -- so a four-year term is kind of a surrender

this is maybe a little overlong, as the point is *very* thoroughly made, but also grebt/otm/imo

https://chaoticneutralzone.com/the-magicians-game

From the little bit I know about him, he sounds very much like Billy Martin.

yikes

yikes

i love this

Mo Seider winning the Calder is the high point of the Wings last several seasons

have to say that that *seems* like a pretty egregious too-many-men situation, but i don't think anyone really wants to see that militantly called

you could also not let kadri torch your defence

(i mean i would be fuming if i were a tampa fan . . . but i'm not, and they've won the last two cups, so)

yeah hard to imagine that ever being a penalty, and especially not in SCF OT

‘we’d have called it if we’d known it would lead to a goal’

I had gone to bed. Am I right that the TV guys didn’t mention it at all on the broadcast?

it wasn't easy to see on the ice...the goal itself was hard to see! it wasn't a story until Jon Cooper dramatically stormed out of a press conference

7:30 without a whistle

advertisers grinding their teeth

jack johnson, stanley cup champion

lightning were on the wrong side of a bunch of crucial calls, but in the end the avs deserved to win

btw looool corey perry

that waved-off icing with about 30 seconds left was ice fucking cold

also correct, as hedman had slowed to a crawl. one of the few brave moments by an official in the entire series

kinda rude that yzerman and sakic were so good *and* so good at building teams

only hall-of-famer to wear 19 for the penguins is brian trottier; probably missed their chance to hire him as GM

strong move by the leafs to add jason spezza to their front office tho

great stuff in here: https://theathletic.com/3384425/2022/06/27/hall-of-very-good

Good stuff. Love watching the Probert/Clark vid but the aftermath is such a bummer

love sean mcindoe

also love all this first-ballot Canucks HOF class

Wings hire Derek Lalonde as head coach, I like it.

mike grier is about to become the first black general manager in NHL history (with the sharks)