50-PERCENT CAPACITY IN PHOENIX: THE NHL 2022-2023 SEASON THREAD (INC AVALANCHE HANGOVER & SALARY CAP SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

Bandwagon idling in the garage, officially at the ready.

i've totally mentioned this before, but i miss the days where several of the western canadian teams had blue kickplates at the bottom of their boards (as opposed to yellow). bring that back imo -- let's have (however artificial) some rink individuality

Atmosphere at MSG seemed kind of tame tonight. Also, bunches of empty seats behind the benches in full camera view.

I probably mentioned this last year but really wished the bolts and leafs could differentiate their uniforms more.

On the same note, if you’re Winnipeg and all your fans wear white to your games, it doesn’t make immediate sense for you to wear your all blue uniforms and have the visiting team wear white.

congrats to toronto but still hoping they can blow it

they are never ever incapable of blowing it

Ooooooh boy oilers

Oh woops there was more space dust

awesome game

great series

draisaitl has been on the ice for all 14 edmonton goals in the series

o shit, leafs showing backbone

i mean they'll still probably lose, but forcing OT down 4-1 on the road with 11 minutes left is Character-Building

love to see an eberle OT winner

nice depth scoring from the oilers last night. hyman scored with his face!

meanwhile in the east, brock nelson scores off of aho's face!

i know hockey feature's face-offs, but this is ridiculous! ba-dum-dum.

finally saw makar's hit on mccann from the other night -- pretty egregious, and difficult to see how it wasn't a major. no doubt he only got the one-game suspension because mccann never returned

i'm not sure when we as a society decided that we needed 'rules interpreters' for games -- is the color commentator incapable of doing that? -- but these hockey ex-refs are the very worst of a bad bunch. so afraid of stepping on the current officials' toes that they end up saying a bunch of words that mean nothing

leafs lose an elimination game, crazy

This is so messed up.

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— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) April 30, 2023

what a moment

Tavares has now got 2 series winning OT goals that have snapped long playoff win droughts for both teams he’s played for. Leafs finally had a series where a lot of the breaks / puck luck went their way.

thank you for not mentioning david volek

I held back on that just for you

<3

In truth i am glad the oilers won

Two Canadian teams win series on the same night. Down is up.

Leafs will win it all 12-0, calling it.

omg bruins

No comment until its over

let's gooo

Hockey!! https://t.co/4vc92TzpwR

— Conor McKenna (@mckennaconor) May 1, 2023

omg omg omg omg

otm

presidents' trophy curse strikes again

there's also something about the best ever in regular season play that just makes you so susceptible in the playoffs, no matter the sport. maybe it's the lack of adversity faced + the pressure to win, but also it makes everyone else want to root for the underdog.

Such a bummer that there were zero Marchand close-ups after that final goal.

long live the rally rat

tbf i'm not sure we really want to encourage matthew tkachuk

Was just thinking the same thing: he may be the next Marchand

I mean the rangers went wire to wire what’s boston’s problem

(at least the '93 penguins, as we've recently touched on, made the second round i guess)

pretty brutal! linus ullmark, who will probably win the vezina, getting benched for game seven. blowing a 3-1 lead, with games five and seven at home. giving up 15 goals in the final three games. making paul maurice look like a great coach ffs. sending patrice bergeron into ignominious retirement.

cam neely must be beside himself

good job kraken

not sure whether to cry or wind my watch

Such a bummer that there were zero Marchand close-ups after that final goal.

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otm X 1000000

forecheck of the year

Ondrej Palat + Michael McLeod = one absolutely beautiful goal! 😍

McLeod's first career #StanleyCup Playoffs goal breaks the ice in #Game7.#NHLStats: https://t.co/AO6KHpnk36

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sure they lost, but at least jacob trouba got a head shot in

fuck the rangers

as it wound down, i was hoping the fans would chant "TROU-BA" instead of igor. good riddance, rangers.

not really rooting for him but god bless joe pavelski. what a player

RIP Petr Klima, one of the enduring players from my early Red Wings memories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88SG6R_bo_w

canes just became the fourth team in history to score three shorties in a playoff game . . . and also the third of them to lose

oilers are getting a godlike playoffs from leon draisaitl so far but I’m not sure they beat Vegas. Seems like a coin flip.

panthers may never lose again after that bruins series the way things are going