500 Million will get you 83 (+1/3) Jordan Staals: THE NHL 2016-2017 THREAD (INCLUDING VEGAS BABY, PITTSBURGH HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

patrick roy has resigned from the avs

http://sinbin.vegas/report-name-selected-one-three/

There are three names the team appears to be moving forward with: the Desert Hawks, the Red Hawks, and the Nighthawks. These names were all registered as several different domain names by Black Knight IP Holding Company, LLC, the company owned by Las Vegas hockey owner Bill Foley within the last few weeks. -Chris Creamer

please not red hawks

actually, please not a team in vegas at all smh

Those are some real garbage team names right there. I guess the last one might appeal to Tom Waits fans

nighthawk sounds like an x-man

hoping they wear wings on their backs and use glitter on their sweaters

shithawks would be better.

can imagine just how horrendous their "home" crowd will be: drunk Albertan oil bros wanting to add some hockey to their gambling and johning weekend in vegas

"If it comes to 100% skill, they win. 100% grit, we win." —T.J. Oshie, on all you need to know about USA vs. Canada

lololol

see also justin abdelkader on the second line and everything john tortorella has accomplished in the last decade

Yeah fuck this team, NA 4 life

When is this fucking season starting

Kessel shoots... Scores!

https://twitter.com/pkessel81/status/778426548651163648

GOAT

Kessel might be the NHL manny ramirez

My buddy and I were saying that this might be the best Team Canada we've seen in our lifetimes. They are just so unbelievably dominant out there. For some reason I still wanna cheer for team NA but gosh. Canada.

Price looked incredible, both of those goals were weird. In my mind he played shutout-worthy hockey.

the people who run USA hockey are obsessed with canada and apparently think that finishing every check is the way to beat them

there's probably no way to beat canada, because that team is amazing, but this method is not working. and nor is it helping team USA beat anyone else. 5-0 loss to finland in the 2014 bronze medal game, 3-0 loss to 'team europe' here. kessel otm

This basically summed it up for me: http://www.wingingitinmotown.com/2016/9/12/12873616/team-america-fun-police-why-i-can-t-root-for-team-usa-s-world-cup-team

esp: "You wonder where’s Tyler Johnson, Paul Stastny or Bobby Ryan. Players who actually can move the puck through the neutral zone and get shots."

I would also add that a bunch of the young guns being put on Team NA instead of the full US team is a travesty, such as Larkin, Saad, and Gaudreau. But then again, lolTorts, Lolmbardi.

what a continent

i though the whole idea was that the young guns only went on team NA? i mean if they were allowed to take those guys, i can't imagine canada would have passed over mcdavid.

still usa's roster is hilarious, even without all of those awesome and fun younger dudes you'd think they'd put together a squad worth watching

is it true that they only put ryan kesler o the tema to fuck with crosby?

i thought they only put dubinsky on the team to fuck with crosby, but then they sat him last night

https://youtu.be/gJ2np7R-Uwg

not a great showing for the tuomases, outscored 9-1

Canada has yet to lose in best-on-best action since the preliminary round of the 2010 Olympics, a stretch of more than six years.

lil sketchy there for a while!

Feels great to finally come out on top in the historic Canada-Europe rivalry

feel kinda sad for the guys from a lot of those countries given that's the closest they'll probably get in their careers to winning an international tournament... but man could they have made them look more like the hyper-generic villains in a kids' hockey movie? like they were straight up iceland in mighty ducks 2.

also JONATHAN TOEWS IS MY FAVOURITE INTERNATIONAL ICE HOCKEY BOY STILL!

that's the closest they'll probably get in their careers to winning an international tournament

pretty close! i mean it's been 10 years since the sweden-finland olympic final, americans took canada to overtime in the 2010 final, but that's about it.

thought the europeans played great -- nothing flashy, but more that nick lidstrom 'always in the right position' way -- but they just didn't have the offensive talent (or the four lines of all-stars) to actually beat canada

by "they" i mean players from slovakia, slovenia, germany, switzerland, norway etc. since there's a good chance that this team NA/team Europe thing will be a one-off. sweden & finland i feel will always have a good chance.

i know it's preseason but i could see NJD being better than NYR this year

at some point mcdavid will drag the oilers to respectability all by himself despite them, but until then looool

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cuk5CkTUsAE_4hF.jpg:small

https://twitter.com/barstooltweetss/status/786353404230504453

four goals in his NHL debut O_O

too bad nhl.tv didn't let me see it

The talent in the league is so amazing relative to 10 years ago.

I'm feeling like modern hockey is moving toward lacrosse whereas baseball is moving toward trap-era hockey

@DownGoesBrown
Random time-waster: Which NHL team could build the best six-man starting lineup of players who combined to play fewer than 200 games for it?

for the penguins i've got:

F Luc Robitaille (46 games)
F Marian Hossa (12)
F Jarome Iginla (13)
D Sergei Zubov (64)
D Tim Horton (44)
G Tomas Vokoun (20)
total 199

Flames:

F Marty St Louis (69)
F Fredrik Modin (4)
F Brett Hull (57)
D Brad Marchment (37)
D Mike Commodore (18)
G Curtis Joseph (9)

blues make a solid squad

F Wayne Gretzky (18)
F Dale Hawerchuk (66)
F Martin Havlat (2)
D Scott Stevens (78)
D Phil Housley (26)
G Martin Brodeur (7)

scratch hawerchuk and havlat for Dickie Moore (27) and Peter Stastny (23) and you get . . . six hall-of-famers

winnipeg clearly wins this with laine

vancouver is the last undefeated team in the league, just like everyone predicted

I was kind of hoping they would keep up the run of games won without holding a lead.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvTPiyuWIAEi4_H.jpg

Shea's really let himself go

pk would never do that

the Canes won one!

i'll take this streak, even if it's the longest we'll have this season

@ArponBasu
Looks like Kurri-Gretzky-Semenko is a line for Oilers alumni. As it should be.

best start for the oilers since 1985

looking forward to all the paeans to milan lucic's leadership