ulf sammuelsson was right
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
I only caught the first couple of years of Borje Salming's career, pretty much a baseball fan after that. As I'm sure you know, they had a big emotional ceremony for him Saturday night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2XAruUdTk
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 November 2022 23:09 (one year ago) link
avs, down one, had a 5-on-3 for the last 1:45 of the third — and pulled the goalie with a minute left to go 6-on-3 — and did not score
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 04:46 (one year ago) link
My daughter’s pee wee A team had a tie gamethis weekend with like 45 seconds left and a face off in the opponents’ zone. I so wanted the coach to pull the goalie to show the kids what GOING FOR IT looks like. But he didn’t. Game ended a tie.
― tobo73, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
kings with basically a perfect road game tonight
outshot edmonton 32-23, 29 blocked shots, held mcdavid and dreiseitel scoreless with one shot each. only oilers pp was cut short when mcdavid crosschecked someone behind the play. danault-arvidsson-moore line was killer
― mookieproof, Thursday, 17 November 2022 06:02 (one year ago) link
Highly recommended:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq5W3GxuIuw
I knew the story reasonably well--and was watching Game 8 in my grade 6 pod--but it's hard to convey just how bizarre some of that was, especially Alan Eagleson's antics during the final game. Tretiak comes across as the nicest guy in the world; what Bobby Clarke did in Game 6 puts a damper on Canada's win.
― clemenza, Monday, 21 November 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
rip börje : /
glad he got that moment two weeks ago
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 November 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
sidney crosby *in* philadelphia (regular season): 40 GP, 25-33-58
regular season + playoffs overall, he has 67 career goals vs. the flyers, apparently the most of all time
<3 <3 <3
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
https://i.redd.it/tom84w2td00a1.jpg
― clemenza, Saturday, 26 November 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiyxsdLVQAAhqsV.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 07:47 (one year ago) link
kris letang had a(nother) stroke
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
anaheim has played 26 games and has one (1) win in regulation
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 December 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
stayed up late to see if the canucks could maintain their wild comeback v. les habs. so glad i did! matheson won't soon forget losing his edge like that.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 6 December 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link
Quite a comeback, people were saying Vancouver’s season was over a few weeks ago.
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
wonder if there's ever been a game with that exact sequence of goals before
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
(4 goals for one team, then 5 for the other, then 2 for the first team, then 2 for the other)
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
Probert pic.twitter.com/S63XgebuJV— Jen (@NHLhistorygirl) December 7, 2022
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 05:36 (one year ago) link
lol tony deangelo is a healthy scratch for the flyers tonight
― mookieproof, Friday, 9 December 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
The entire Lightning franchise should be suspended ten games for the jerseys they wore last night. Sweet Jeebus!!
― tobo73, Friday, 9 December 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
Isles won a wild one tonight in NJ. Devils pulled the goalie for pretty much the final 8 minutes of the game.
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 10 December 2022 02:45 (one year ago) link
happy birthday jimmy mod
― mookieproof, Thursday, 15 December 2022 06:23 (one year ago) link
thank u friend i do not feel very wise!
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 15 December 2022 12:46 (one year ago) link
Went to the Isles/Bruins in Boston the other night and can report that being the only one cheering for your team’s goal while 15,000 other people don’t even acknowledge that it happened is still great.
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 15 December 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
I did this at a Flyers-Isles game at the Coliseum years ago when the Flyers scored twice in the first five minutes. Each time the family in front of us briefly looked around to see what was up. A couple minutes later the Isles scored and one of the kids who might have been 12 jumps up and turns around and shoots me and my friends the most hysterical tough guy look.
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Thursday, 15 December 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
so the bruins are 32-4-4
also #1 in goals for (156) and goals against (88)
19-0-3 at home
that's pretty decent
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 January 2023 07:55 (one year ago) link
president’s trophy curse incoming?Did not expect them to be this good honestly
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 9 January 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link
During Odjick’s rookie season, for example, which took place during the Gulf War, a fan brought a sign to a game that read: “Gino is tougher than Saddam,” in reference to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
The story goes — and, in truth, there are a ton of different versions — that Odjick, having seen the sign in the crowd, approached then-Canucks head coach Bob McCammon (or then-Canucks captain Trevor Linden), to inquire as to which guy exactly on the other team was “Saddam” because he wanted to fight him.
Gino Odjick RIP
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 05:22 (one year ago) link
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/35461463/vegas-goalie-lehner-files-bankruptcy-cites-50m-debt
Lehner's debts also included missed payments for a collection of rare snakes he purchased for $1.2 million in 2017, according to the bankruptcy filing. Lehner keeps the snakes at his reptile farm in Plato, Missouri.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
i'm not even mad at ivan provorov; ideally he'd have simply gone with the flow and skated warmups wearing a slightly different sweater. but i don't know what pressure is placed on him as a russian guy playing in north america
and also i recognize that torts is trying to shield his guy
but honestly fuck torts for this whole charade. just say that 'everyone can play' is bullshit compared to his team missing the playoffs by 10 instead of 12 points. or don't. instead, he's too cowardly to make a call
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 January 2023 05:30 (one year ago) link
Provorov is a russian guy who has played in North America since he was 14 - he doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt as a dumbass and possibly a bigot. At this point, Torts is a frozen caveman coach who fits in perfect with the org.
The Flyers used to be my favorite team in sports. Now I want the entire org gone for trying to get me to root for Kevin Hayes.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Friday, 20 January 2023 13:05 (one year ago) link
Torts sux and always has
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 20 January 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
also the way the canucks/jim rutherford are treating bruce boudreau is garbage
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 January 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
terrible ownership, terrible management. this year feels like a new low for a franchise with a lot of them
― symsymsym, Saturday, 21 January 2023 02:16 (one year ago) link
they're losing tonight (to the reigning cup champions), so no doubt that will be the 'reason' they fire him
like school in the summertime: no fucking class
― mookieproof, Saturday, 21 January 2023 04:53 (one year ago) link
Kirill Marchenko became the fourth player in NHL history to have each of his first 12+ career regular-season points come in the form of goals, joining Joe Malone (16 in 1917-18), John McKinnon (13 in 1926-27) and Howie Morenz (12 in 1923-24).#NHLStats: https://t.co/xJLu35WWoU https://t.co/RUVzZv08JX— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) January 28, 2023
― mookieproof, Saturday, 28 January 2023 04:25 (one year ago) link
I posted this a few years ago on some other thread, but me getting Bobby Hull's autograph at a book signing.
https://phildellio.tripod.com/hull.JPG
― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
You have to be really careful with old-guy autograph stories, but: he was really cranky with me because he didn't like the book I had with me, but he let the good-looking woman behind me wear his Stanley Cup ring for a photo they took together.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 00:40 (one year ago) link
I really had no idea about all the unsavoury shit in his life
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 02:11 (one year ago) link
Someone just passed this along to me:
https://defector.com/bobby-hull-was-not-complicated
― clemenza, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 02:21 (one year ago) link
happy 30th anniversary of gary bettman getting booed becoming commissioner
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:10 (one year ago) link
No one mentioned the Rangers refusing to wear pride-related warm-up gear. Hope they go another 50 years.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:15 (one year ago) link
Er, another 25 years, I mean.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:18 (one year ago) link
one cup in 82 years is, while not as satisfying as zero, brutal for an original-six club
fuck them forever
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:36 (one year ago) link
he’s having a great season but this extension seems like a lot for bo horvat
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 February 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
and he's almost 28, hasn't played a game for them yet...glad the canucks aren't paying that contract (instead they're paying a bunch of other terrible ones)
― symsymsym, Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
Am not surprised, I think Lou doesn’t make that trade without knowing the extension is happening. Isles have needed a pure goal scorer since Tavares left, hopefully this is it. Is it too much? Maybe, but I don’t think he goes anywhere else for much cheaper.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 6 February 2023 00:03 (one year ago) link
great quote:
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/islanders-lamoriello-after-signing-horvat-its-too-long-and-its-too-much-money/
― symsymsym, Monday, 6 February 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
appreciating the top five
Since October, The Athletic has been counting down the top 100 NHL players of the post-expansion era.No. 1 was never in doubt.This is the #NHL99 ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/UNFrDhVVKl— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) February 10, 2023
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 February 2023 01:32 (one year ago) link
Props for putting Mike Bossy that high. If his career wasn't cut short, he had a very strong chance to be the all-time leader in goals.
McDavid needs a ring but could join that top 5 by the time his career is over.
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 11 February 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link
Lots of points to quibble with but
No rocket Richard?— Torrid Fergi (@FergiTorrid) February 10, 2023
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 11 February 2023 03:38 (one year ago) link
Will start new thred once i get back from holiday
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 19:16 (eleven months ago) link
The seven years to mayfield and engvall is certainly wild, although I’m assuming the strategy is that the cap is going way up in the next few years so it will look better. I guess you can’t also underestimate the friendship between Varlamov and Sorokin. There is something to the “islander for life” mentality over the past decade though. It’s a team with very low turnover once you’ve fit in.
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 4 July 2023 20:01 (eleven months ago) link
Debrincat to the Wings n_n
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 10 July 2023 01:09 (eleven months ago) link
seems . . . nice for u
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 July 2023 04:00 (eleven months ago) link
THE BUSTED WINDOW OF CONTENTION WON'T STAY OPEN: THE NHL 2023-2024 SEASON THRED (INC KNIGHTS HANGOVER & PANIC MOVES. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 10 July 2023 13:52 (eleven months ago) link