Lose to Las Vegas and lose your division: THE NHL 2017-2018 THREAD (INCLUDING THE COYOTES SOMEHOW, PITTSBURGH HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

I forgot Caps had made Stanley Cup final once before, in 1998 (where they were swept by the Red Wings)

olie kolzig and peter bondra haven't forgotten

i mean i'm for vegas if only because it might force the other 29 GMs to just throw the book out of the window and stop it with the old hockey clichés.

hah -- it would do just the opposite. 'look at this team -- no stars, don't even have a captain, just hard work and a will to win' etc etc

i want vegas to win because i live in vancouver but am not a vancouver fan and the canucks have never won and a club in its first season winning is going to upset people

ie i am a dick/troll

That was me for years when I lived in Chicago.

this thread got quiet once the finals started! the grind of playoff season got to us. i'll just put this here. enjoy!
https://www.reddit.com/r/penguins/comments/8ne6cf/ryan_reaves_crosschecks_tom_wilson_in_the_face/?st=jhw20ef4&sh=248a2245

Even on slomo replay it looked so fast. Also cheap and painful. Wld feel bad if Ovi gets no cup this year. Good series so far though

Upon further review I rescind my "cheap" comment. That was kinda awesome. Watched game at a bar w no sound on so hadn't realized who received the blow. And hadn't really picked up on Wilson's initial intentions

yeah clearly looks like wilson thought he was gonna blindside him, instead...

fuck

don't think marc andre fleury has the best playoffs save pctg anymore

Von Bondies and then The Darkness, it's 2004 at Capital One.

LVK getting run out of the rink

russia hacking the game clock

ovi reaction shots are so beautiful

lol godamnit was about to write the same joke

Glad for the Caps, glad for Ovie.

But so freaking tired of Holty’s mom

Will Mookie ever recover from this pain?

probably not : /

this joke was better:

As if a clock would ever work in Las Vegas.

— Down Goes Brown (@DownGoesBrown) June 8, 2018

Also happy for Trotz.

actually, if they turn down a white house invitation, i'll recover and even salute them

still not happy about the pens going last year

Vegas crowd boo’d Bettman. They are now officialy part of the family.

Man, fuck this result

(crosspost to Canadian politics thread)

Did they boo bettman? I couldn’t hear

Yeah, a bit late but enough to stop his speech for a second.

haha that's absurd but i appreciate the effort

Last time a team didn't have an overall top 2 draft pick to win the Cup was 10 years ago, miss you Pavel.

#GoKnightsGo

— Bryce Harper (@Bharper3407) June 8, 2018

wouldnt get my hopes up about the team refusing the invite, but at least the whole team won't go:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/devante-smith-pelly-president-trump-white-house-1.4695235

I'm glad, in their season of firsts, that Las Vegas Golden Knights have learned what it is to lose the Stanley Cup on home ice.

Plain spoken Canadian boy blows past the soft language of American sports diplomacy

it would be extremely un-hockey for them not to go to the white house, but who knows

will vegas make the playoffs next year? it helps that they're in a shitty division

there's one adorable MAGA lummox but only 7 americans on the roster it is a mystery maybe Trudeau can get to them first that would be a twist

Devante Smith-Pelly has apparently said he won’t go the White House. Fox News is making a big deal of this in their inimitable way

it's too bad the sabres are cursed because buffalo deserves better

Top 10 Markets for Entire Stanley Cup Playoffs on Platforms of NBC

t1 Las Vegas 4.5
t1 Pittsburgh 4.5
3 Buffalo 3.3
4 Washington, D.C. 3.2
5 Nashville 2.6
6 Tampa 2.5
t7 Baltimore 1.9
t7 Boston 1.9
9 Providence 1.8
10 Ft. Myers 1.7

— NBC Sports PR (@NBCSportsPR) June 8, 2018

uh

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/mike-hoffmans-longtime-girlfriend-allegedly-behind-campaign-of-harassment-against-melinda-and-erik-karlsson

wow that's worse than colangelo (if true)

just learned that zarley zalapski died of a viral infection in december. he was 49

;_;

also

The Canadiens have acquired forward Max Domi from the Arizona Coyotes tonight, in return for Alex Galchenyuk. #GoHabsGo

— Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) June 16, 2018

RIP zlapshot

Christ, RIP

uh, barry trotz just quit

Was Caps owner Leonsis being too cheap in not paying him what he wanted? Or will Caps do fine with Trotz's assistant ?

BT was asking for five years and I think the caps thought that no coach is worth 5 years of top money. I think I agree with them.

And I think there was generally bad vibes between the two parties since the team never really seemed to be totally bought into him once GMGM left.

And they're fine with the asst guy Todd something.

the coach's salary doesn't count against the cap right?

it does not

i believe trotz was the previous general manager's hire, and he was underpaid by the standards of such things. he took the opportunity to exit while his stock was high as a cup-winner and the caps didn't really seem bothered to stop him

it's kind of weird, and putting a rookie coach in charge of a successful veteran team may or may not work, but hey, they just won their first cup two weeks ago. worry about this stuff in three months imo

Leonsis can prob afford to pay the big bucks

i dont think the big bucks are necessarily the problem, it's the long-term deal that is. They don't want to be committing to pay a dude huge money when maybe ovechkin and backstrom and holtby are gone in a few years and who knows what will be going on. i am inclined to agree that BT doesn't justify that committment.