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

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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— NHL (@NHL) May 2, 2023

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

nm

tkachuk just running off the ice

only panthers weakness i've seen is (perhaps) the PK; fortunately for them no one commits penalties in the playoffs

i don't like tkachuk but how fucking incredible must it be to score an OT playoff goal (let alone two in a row)

I think i want LV to win fuck florida texas and the carolinas

if bob is gonna be like this it doesn't matter what you want

Yeah he was amzng today

this is putting bob in the hof

two vezinas plus whatever you want to call this is hard to deny

dallas utterly imploding

Two teams of destiny enter, only one exits with the Stanley Cup

some real horseshit from jamie benn last night

you're down 2-0 in the series and the other team scores 71 seconds into game 3. so naturally you crosscheck a guy in the face on your first shift, draw a match penalty, see your team give up a goal on the ensuing power play and go on to be shut out

and then he split without talking to the media after the game. i'm not a fan of sportswriters being all huffy because they didn't get to hear someone say 'it is what it is' but benn's the captain. that's his job. and because *he* didn't have the backbone to go out there, three of his teammates had to answer all the questions about how stupid and selfish he was. give pavelski the C this instant

Yeah co-sign on that

tkachuk is the angel of death

it's hilarious that we're (potentially, likely) one game away from the finals and the playoff goals and assists leaders are still draisaitl and bouchard. then again.

obviously jamie benn should have been a healthy scratch

maybe tkcachuk isn't *quite* ready to become the New Messier

it will be ridiculous if the vegas fans boo gary bettman but i hope they do it anyway

𝐀𝐃𝐃 𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐄 🏆🏆🏆

Phil Kessel is a three-time Stanley Cup champion!#PrideOnIce pic.twitter.com/7Uvzooz9Jq

— Minnesota Men’s Hockey (@GopherHockey) June 14, 2023

when a new GM comes in and for his first contract gives a three-year deal to 36-year-old ryan reaves, it does not bode well for toronto

also we need a new thread jimmy