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

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! 😍

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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

if the leafs get swept i can only imagine that everyone is fired/sold for parts

probably need to get to game seven for that *not* to happen

also not doing a lot for john taveras' legacy

this is the funniest possible thing to happen to Toronto

Tracy: WE DID IT KENNETH! WE CHANGED THEIR MINDS!

Liz: NO. NO YOU DIDNT

tanking works

i haven't watched all of the edmonton-vegas series, and i'm told that the oilers (particularly evander kane) have gotten away with some pretty egregious shit

but i absofuckinglutely guarantee that pietrangelo would never have been suspended for a baldfaced attempt to injure if they hadn't been able to take nurse as well

garbage league

oh, but george parros went to princeton! gtfo

praise bob

rip canada, yet again

also rip stuart skinner

congrats to carolina for edging out vegas as the northernmost possible cup winner

It’s as if the Stanley cup is allergic to any city that is within 700 miles of Canada

the curse is spreading

apparently las vegas is very slightly to the north of raleigh

ugh what a gross selection of teams, go hartford I guess

rip coyotes

sad awooo

let’s go to the seventh

too soon

so:

dubas out
spezza resigned even before the above was announced
keefe will presumably be out whenever a new GM is named
gonna be awesome when the new coach is joel q

at what point does any of this start sticking to shanahan?

is Theo Epstein available

let's goooo (to OT forever)

entertaining game, both teams getting tons of chances

Panthers are unstoppable in OT