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Post by SportsFan19 on Feb 24, 2024 20:21:38 GMT
Career plus/minus. Marchand active leader. McCrimmon HOF? Not for me no. Marchand on that list, yet not Crosby is a thing. Empty netters, I don't think they were pulling goalies late in the older days. Some argue that teams should pull goalies even earlier, if they're down 5-3, what difference does it make 2 minutes or 5, you can give yourself a virtual power-play with the game nearly already in hand. I wonder if it would draw more penalties from the leading team?
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Post by NJtoTX on Feb 24, 2024 21:22:29 GMT
There must be a word for it when empty netters extend the lead, and the pulled goalie begrudgingly goes back out to finish the game.
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Feb 26, 2024 1:48:04 GMT
Patrick Kane scores a game winner against his former team.
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Post by SportsFan19 on Feb 28, 2024 12:12:34 GMT
Nathan MacKinnon with a 29 home game point streak.
MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP!
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 4, 2024 5:07:57 GMT
Tonight I discovered that College Hockey South is a thing - when Miami Hurricanes won the DIII 'natty'.
What a time to be alive.
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Post by NJtoTX on Mar 4, 2024 22:52:50 GMT
Devils fire Lindy Ruff.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 11, 2024 19:12:37 GMT
Wild win an OT game after pulling their goalie.
Apparently, had they lost with an empty net, they'd be awarded zero points.
I wasn't aware of this rule, & seems most everyone else didn't either.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 23, 2024 13:49:44 GMT
Coyotes ownership to participate in land parcel auction. If that fails, they're all but on the clock out the door.
I think Bettman probably sees this as a personal legacy issue for himself. Failing in Atlanta, & possibly Phoenix would be a dent - likely most ppl couldn't care less but he would.
Salt Lake City would be an instant destination, even if the NHL would (obviously) want grand expansion fee windfall instead.
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Mar 31, 2024 1:58:01 GMT
Matthews with another 60 goal season.
Getting those goals in before the Leafs are raked up in the first round, I suppose.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 31, 2024 5:37:49 GMT
I like to go through the arrives of the Sporting News online at times. Fun to see how much sports have changed and how much they have stayed the same. I was looking at the issue from January 5th, 1977 and noticed a huge article about a player in the Junior Ontario Hockey League who just turned 16. Comparing this kid to Bobby Orr. TSN didn't write too many articles about OHL players. Of course, it was about Wayne Gretzky. How the scouts couldn't figure out how how this skinny kid could do the things he did on the ice. How some thought he might threaten the OHL's record for most points in a season (he bested it by 30). The article finished with "no one is saying Gretzky will be as good as Guy LaFleur or Gilbert Perrault but he on the road to stardom". I had heard the apocryphal tale of Gordie Howe. Howe was talking to Maurice Richard before a Winnipeg game and he told Richard "see that kid for Edmonton wearing 99? That skinny little kid is going to break every one of our fucking records someday."
The issue also had a letter from an Angels fan who was livid over the team letting its best player go (Bobby Bonds in this case). The more things change...
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 7, 2024 3:07:31 GMT
Sens' Brady Tkachuk with a salary cap era record 16 hits in a game; 4-3 loss to NJ.
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Post by sdm3 on Apr 10, 2024 10:39:08 GMT
The Buffalo Sabres' playoff drought is now 13 years old. An eighth-grader; they grow up so fast.
Tied with the NY Jets for the longest drought in pro sports. And I thought they'd turn it around when they drafted Dahlin. AT least they made it until April before getting eliminated this time.
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Post by SportsFan19 on Apr 10, 2024 19:34:27 GMT
NHL drafting 2 schedules, one for if the Coyotes move to Salt Lake City.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 11, 2024 12:41:32 GMT
Salt Lake City has an owner willing to throw all the dollars at the NHL for this, the league should just get on with things & make it happen. Arizona has proven it simply doesn't want to invest what it takes, & the NHL gave it all the chances it could.
Also seems the NHL does not wish to expand past the current 32 teams. There's no truly golden egg market left anyways. Kansas City, Portland... meh. Quebec City is in Montreal's media market for good. Mexico is not happening for the NHL.
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Post by SportsFan19 on Apr 11, 2024 14:42:26 GMT
Salt Lake City has an owner willing to throw all the dollars at the NHL for this, the league should just get on with things & make it happen. Arizona has proven it simply doesn't want to invest what it takes, & the NHL gave it all the chances it could. Also seems the NHL does not wish to expand past the current 32 teams. There's no truly golden egg market left anyways. Kansas City, Portland... meh. Quebec City is in Montreal's media market for good. Mexico is not happening for the NHL. There'll be expansion plans revealed by 2030.
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Apr 14, 2024 0:34:48 GMT
Matthews gets his 69th goal of the year.
Nice
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 16, 2024 15:46:59 GMT
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Post by sdm3 on Apr 17, 2024 9:43:28 GMT
Playoff bracket essentially set… and we still have to sit through two more nights of pointless regular season hockey.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 18, 2024 2:17:23 GMT
Leafs have, yet fcuking again, a lack of identity going into the playoffs. I think having nothing much to play for year in/year out after New Year's with this bunch has eroded their potential.
Naturally, I'm trying to reverse jinx them for the Bruins...
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Post by sdm3 on Apr 25, 2024 17:34:33 GMT
Bob Cole died at 90. Now that’s a loss.
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