2024-2025 NHL Hockey season

[wlu_lax6]

[Nonlinear FC]

Goalie mentality. That save in a losing effort. You're not getting a freebie on my fucking goal. Love it.

[sancarlos]

[rass]

Anyway, glad I don't even think about staying up for West Coast games.

[sancarlos]

It’s a sad day when your team lost to the Sharks.

[degenerasian]

It’s a sad day when your team lost to the Sharks.

They are looking better though. Celebrini has been good, almost a point a game. Get another 1st overall pick and get Schaeffer, the defenseman.

[sancarlos]

It’s a sad day when your team lost to the Sharks.

They are looking better though. Celebrini has been good, almost a point a game. Get another 1st overall pick and get Schaeffer, the defenseman.

Yes, at least Sharks’ fans have hope for our future. Just not the present,

[rass]

It’s a sad day when your team lost to the Sharks.

They are looking better though. Celebrini has been good, almost a point a game. Get another 1st overall pick and get Schaeffer, the defenseman.

Yes, at least Sharks’ fans have hope for our future. Just not the present, or the past

FIFY

[degenerasian]

Flames stole this trade. KUzmenko is very one dimensional, will be in Torts doghouse fast and Pellitier has never reached his potential, a tweener between NHL and AHL, recently passed waivers. Farabee by far the best player in the deal. Flames somehow are pushing for a playoff spot when most pre-season predictions was the lottery. This team has earned itself a shot in the arm, and the GM gave it to them without giving up any top prospects, first round picks and didn't take on any older rentals in the process either.

[mister d]

Some real Dry Island Lite, just get these guys out vibes here, no? Clearly bailing on not just the Farabee contract, but seemingly Frost too given they only got a 2nd, one guy who is a one-dimensional rental and the other who was on waivers.

[sancarlos]

Yeah, I agree. Reads like a contract dump to me.

[Square Rob]

Not NHL, but at the Grenoble v Bordeaux hockey tonight. Grenoble are top of the table, Bordeaux are third. In a marvelous case of nominative determinism, the Bordeaux goalie’s last name is Papillon, butterfly in French.

The Grenoble team is called Les Breulers des Loups. Which translates roughly to the flames from wolves, which is pretty great. They’ve got mercy that has the slogan ‘le feu sacré’ which is the sacred fire.

[Square Rob]

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ETA je fucked up and spilled a puck in the first ten seconds to give up a goal. Hahaha

[sancarlos]

Pretty cool.

[govmentchedda]

Hahahahahahaha

[sancarlos]

The rumors are Chytil, Lindgren, 2 meh prospects and a 1st. Which is way too much for a contract that should be dumped, not auctioned, even with the massive injury risk Chytil carries.

Let's hear your analysis, Mr. D!

NYR Acquires:
J.T. Miller
Erik Brannstrom
Jackson Dorrington
VAN Acquires:
Filip Chytil
Victor Mancini
1st Round Pick (Protected)

[mister d]

Rangers cannot handle an unfucked cap.

[sancarlos]

Thanks, Trump.

[brian]

Still no excuse. Poor form.

In real hockey news NHL announced YUGE increases to the cap the next three years. Will be $114.5M by 27-28. McDavid’s extension gonna be hilarious.

[mister d]

Still no excuse. Poor form.

Sarcasm?

[brian]

Still no excuse. Poor form.

Sarcasm?

No you don’t boo another country’s anthem. Sports are supposed to be beyond or at least not beholden to all that petty bullshit.

[brian]

And the reason they’re booing is fucking tariffs. It’s not like Trump nuked Winnipeg.

[travzilla]

Still no excuse. Poor form.

Sarcasm?

No you don’t boo another country’s anthem. Sports are supposed to be beyond or at least not beholden to all that petty bullshit.

L O fucking L that these are the norms that are just too sacred. Better start clutching those pearls harder because it's going to get so much worse.

[brian]

I’m not losing any sleep over it or clutching any pearls but I don’t agree with it. You want to boo Trump, fuck yeah do it. I’ll do it with and if I got a bucket of tomatoes and he’s in distance I’ll chuck them with you.

But Trump does not = America. No more than Trudeau = Canada. The majority of Americans didn’t vote for him and at least roughly half actively despise him.

[duff]

Still no excuse. Poor form.

Sarcasm?

No you don’t boo another country’s anthem. Sports are supposed to be beyond or at least not beholden to all that petty bullshit.

L O fucking L that these are the norms that are just too sacred. Better start clutching those pearls harder because it's going to get so much worse.

Yeah, i am with Trav on this. The US has booed other anthems before events. And it is more than just tariffs. The orange fuck threatened to make Canada the 51st state.

[travzilla]

I’m not losing any sleep over it or clutching any pearls but I don’t agree with it. You want to boo Trump, fuck yeah do it. I’ll do it with and if I got a bucket of tomatoes and he’s in distance I’ll chuck them with you.

But Trump does not = America. No more than Trudeau = Canada. The majority of Americans didn’t vote for him and at least roughly half actively despise him.

Maybe I give people enough credit to understand context that the fans are in fact booing Trump, and not them personally?

And sorry, Trump does = America, maybe not 100% but more than you seem willing to admit.

[brian]

I’m not losing any sleep over it or clutching any pearls but I don’t agree with it. You want to boo Trump, fuck yeah do it. I’ll do it with and if I got a bucket of tomatoes and he’s in distance I’ll chuck them with you.

But Trump does not = America. No more than Trudeau = Canada. The majority of Americans didn’t vote for him and at least roughly half actively despise him.

Maybe I give people enough credit to understand context that the fans are in fact booing Trump, and not them personally?

And sorry, Trump does = America, maybe not 100% but more than you seem willing to admit.

That’s exactly the kind of stuff that gets his tiny old man dick hard so I don’t like to believe it.

[sancarlos]

ETA: The San Jose Sharks host the Montreal Canadians tomorrow. Even though the Bay Area is a liberal bastion, the average sports attendee is certainly more conservative and there is always a certain chucklehead contingent at any game. So, I'm cringing about the thought of what might happen during the Canadian anthem tomorrow.

[degenerasian]

Wait until Canada plays the US in Montreal on the 15th.

[Steve of phpBB]

Holy shit.

[rass]

Holy shit.

Beating the Flyers is great, right?

[wlu_lax6]

A buzzer beater brings the number to 17 for the Great 8.

[DSafetyGuy]

Lalonde fired in Detroit and Todd McLellan is the new coach, signing a multi-year deal. Assistant Bob Boughner is also gone.

How long does the new coach bounce normally last? Wings dropped their first under McLellan, but have won four straight since.

Now seven after scoring four goals in the first eight minutes and coasting past the Kraken, but against a mostly weak schedule (WAS at home and WPG on the road are the highlights). Obviously, regression will come eventually, but if they're not careful, they could end up on the fringes of the playoffs again.

The Wings now have a second seven-game win streak under McLellan and are 15-4-1 since switching coaches (Lalonde was 13-17-4). Last four have come on the western Canada-plus-one trip (EDM, CGY, VAN, SEA).

[A_B]

My Kraken sweatshirt I got for Christmas is super comfortable. that is all.

[Steve of phpBB]

Holy shit.

Beating the Flyers is great, right?

Oh yes. My only regret was that I don’t have a Patrick Kane jersey to parade in front of the Flyers fans.

[Steve of phpBB]

Dylan Guenther’s OT goal tonight was beautiful.

It’s his second fifth-minute-of-OT goal this week, and (at least) his third of the season.

[Nonlinear FC]

Ovi with another goal in last night's win over the Flyers. 15 to tie, 16 to break the record.

Tied an obscure goal scoring record in doing so.. Tied Mario Lemieux for the most 4 game goal scoring streaks at 34. Gretzky is the only other guy with 30.

Overall, as much as I was meh on them in chunks of January, they are absolutely back to playing quality hockey. Rolling with 3 productive lines and a solid workman 4th line. Plus a lot of stability in the D pairings. Knock on wood, this team isn't being ravaged by injuries. Which, Ovi aside, says a lot about some of the older guys that were hanging on the last few years.

I loved Backstrom and Oshie, but, man... It was past time to go.

[brian]

Fuck Boston btw

[degenerasian]

4nations should be a fun tournament.

Projected lineups

USA


Canada


Sweden


Finland

[sancarlos]

Names can fool you. Barkov and Granlund are Finnish. Zibanejad and Raymond are Swedes.

eta: The Athletic has a good article today on how the Canadian team is stacked at forward and defense. But weak at goalie.