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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

http://www.hockeyfights.com/quickhits/entry/red-wings-continue-to-lead-nhl-in-fights

wings have won five straight AND have the most fighting majors in the league, even dylan larkin dropped his gloves

where's bill magill?? ;)

rip al montoya

also lol that bobrovsky had a shutout, at home, and was not one of the three stars

al montoya was a PR pick

hey, at least the pens beat the oilers

Leafs lose 7-0 THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT HAPPENED ALL DAY

(sorry)

bryan bickell (now with carolina) has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis

jeez

what in god's name
http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/18114686/nhl-how-vegas-golden-knights-got-their-nickname

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLub8oFBbUA

whatever

winnipeg days, vegas knights

a fitting first franchise of the trump era

he'll change the name to white knights

things are going to get unpleasant in pittsburgh

marc-andre fleury is the fucking best dude/teammate ever, and he's the franchise leader in everything for goalies, and he's just not as good as matt murray and he has a (fully deserved) no-trade clause and there's gonna be an expansion draft. so either he accepts a trade he probably doesn't want to accept or he'll become a villain

ugh

@shoffren
Patrik Laine described his GWG accordingly: "Top shelf where grandma hides the jars of jam"

take that, jimmy mod

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/its-time-for-the-nhl-to-make-the-goal-nets-bigger