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Isles won a wild one tonight in NJ. Devils pulled the goalie for pretty much the final 8 minutes of the game.

happy birthday jimmy mod

thank u friend i do not feel very wise!

Went to the Isles/Bruins in Boston the other night and can report that being the only one cheering for your team’s goal while 15,000 other people don’t even acknowledge that it happened is still great.

I did this at a Flyers-Isles game at the Coliseum years ago when the Flyers scored twice in the first five minutes. Each time the family in front of us briefly looked around to see what was up. A couple minutes later the Isles scored and one of the kids who might have been 12 jumps up and turns around and shoots me and my friends the most hysterical tough guy look.

so the bruins are 32-4-4

also #1 in goals for (156) and goals against (88)

19-0-3 at home

that's pretty decent

president’s trophy curse incoming?

Did not expect them to be this good honestly

During Odjick’s rookie season, for example, which took place during the Gulf War, a fan brought a sign to a game that read: “Gino is tougher than Saddam,” in reference to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

The story goes — and, in truth, there are a ton of different versions — that Odjick, having seen the sign in the crowd, approached then-Canucks head coach Bob McCammon (or then-Canucks captain Trevor Linden), to inquire as to which guy exactly on the other team was “Saddam” because he wanted to fight him.

Gino Odjick RIP

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/35461463/vegas-goalie-lehner-files-bankruptcy-cites-50m-debt

Lehner's debts also included missed payments for a collection of rare snakes he purchased for $1.2 million in 2017, according to the bankruptcy filing. Lehner keeps the snakes at his reptile farm in Plato, Missouri.

i'm not even mad at ivan provorov; ideally he'd have simply gone with the flow and skated warmups wearing a slightly different sweater. but i don't know what pressure is placed on him as a russian guy playing in north america

and also i recognize that torts is trying to shield his guy

but honestly fuck torts for this whole charade. just say that 'everyone can play' is bullshit compared to his team missing the playoffs by 10 instead of 12 points. or don't. instead, he's too cowardly to make a call

Provorov is a russian guy who has played in North America since he was 14 - he doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt as a dumbass and possibly a bigot. At this point, Torts is a frozen caveman coach who fits in perfect with the org.

The Flyers used to be my favorite team in sports. Now I want the entire org gone for trying to get me to root for Kevin Hayes.

Torts sux and always has

also the way the canucks/jim rutherford are treating bruce boudreau is garbage

terrible ownership, terrible management. this year feels like a new low for a franchise with a lot of them

they're losing tonight (to the reigning cup champions), so no doubt that will be the 'reason' they fire him

like school in the summertime: no fucking class

Kirill Marchenko became the fourth player in NHL history to have each of his first 12+ career regular-season points come in the form of goals, joining Joe Malone (16 in 1917-18), John McKinnon (13 in 1926-27) and Howie Morenz (12 in 1923-24).#NHLStats: https://t.co/xJLu35WWoU https://t.co/RUVzZv08JX

— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) January 28, 2023

I posted this a few years ago on some other thread, but me getting Bobby Hull's autograph at a book signing.

https://phildellio.tripod.com/hull.JPG

You have to be really careful with old-guy autograph stories, but: he was really cranky with me because he didn't like the book I had with me, but he let the good-looking woman behind me wear his Stanley Cup ring for a photo they took together.

I really had no idea about all the unsavoury shit in his life

Someone just passed this along to me:

https://defector.com/bobby-hull-was-not-complicated

happy 30th anniversary of gary bettman getting booed becoming commissioner

No one mentioned the Rangers refusing to wear pride-related warm-up gear. Hope they go another 50 years.

Er, another 25 years, I mean.

one cup in 82 years is, while not as satisfying as zero, brutal for an original-six club

fuck them forever

he’s having a great season but this extension seems like a lot for bo horvat

and he's almost 28, hasn't played a game for them yet...glad the canucks aren't paying that contract (instead they're paying a bunch of other terrible ones)

Am not surprised, I think Lou doesn’t make that trade without knowing the extension is happening. Isles have needed a pure goal scorer since Tavares left, hopefully this is it. Is it too much? Maybe, but I don’t think he goes anywhere else for much cheaper.

great quote:

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/islanders-lamoriello-after-signing-horvat-its-too-long-and-its-too-much-money/

appreciating the top five

Since October, The Athletic has been counting down the top 100 NHL players of the post-expansion era.

No. 1 was never in doubt.

This is the #NHL99 ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/UNFrDhVVKl

— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) February 10, 2023

Props for putting Mike Bossy that high. If his career wasn't cut short, he had a very strong chance to be the all-time leader in goals.

McDavid needs a ring but could join that top 5 by the time his career is over.

Lots of points to quibble with but

No rocket Richard?

— Torrid Fergi (@FergiTorrid) February 10, 2023

Also I know I'm the resident Wings partisan but Yzerman behind Sakic on what fucking planet

no rocket because it's only since expansion

can't really speak to yzerman vs sakic but i am comfortable with lidstrom as the second-greatest defenseman

xp ah that makes sense then, thx

also who goes 'no rocket' before 'no gordie'

I realized the error of my ways quickly but no one had responded about him :(

<3

maybe Thornton put up solid numbers but I never thought he was truly one of the greats. and i used to watch lots of Sharks games when living in sf. i think Forsberg was better than Sakic, too

happy 50th to enigmatic russian alexei kovalev. he was filthy

not as filthy as mcdavid tho

Just another day at the office for Connor McDavid (@cmcdavid97). 💼 pic.twitter.com/NDuMsFlOoW

— NHL (@NHL) February 24, 2023

It’s a shame the kings’ goalies are such horseshit

kopitar is really a low-key all-time player

i mean i'm happy for dustin brown i guess, but kopitar's statue had better be twice as large

wild 2 me ryan miller is #1 on us goalie wins list considering how unremarkable most of his teams were

just learned there's a doom metal band called MALARCHUK

they are of course from buffalo

🚨 LINUS ULLMARK 🚨

WE HAVE A GOALIE GOAL. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/ym7OLU0jlU

— NHL (@NHL) February 26, 2023

Nice to catch this live after flipping on the last few minutes of the Canucks game

awesome

except that it made jack edwards happy because fuck that guy

bruins outshot 57-19 tonight, won 4-3 in OT

also sounds like the jonathan quick era is over in los angeles

All hail the Pheonix Copley era

Copley era will be annoyingly brief. Their goalie situation is so very forgettable right now