the NHL Thread

[TonyGin&Juice]

MoJo is the new Mike Green.

 

[Southpaw]

Fucking Ducks. I hate Corey Perry and Ryan Kesler. Not looking forward to watching those douchebags. Dammit Edmonton.

 

[silverwheels]

Go Predators. Not sure I can watch a Pittsburgh-Anaheim series.


Oilers gonna wreck shop next year.

 

[Southpaw]

Time to start gettin hype. Hope the extra rest was put to good use.

 

[kella]

Preds better give me reason to keep posting that gif

 

[Simo77]

Where are the fans in Anaheim? Good lord there's a lot of empty seats.

 

[goblue96]

Anaheim has fans?

 

[Irishman]

LA traffic, babby.

 

[sayo]

Preds are relentless.

 

[sayo]

Anaheim sloppy af

 

[Simo77]

That is a shamefully quiet building. Also fuck Anaheim.

 

[sayo]

For sure. Kinda reminds me of my pops watching 3in at the local rink.

 

[kella]

Has someone thrown it into their own net yet? If not who cares.

 

[sayo]

That hit highlight was great.

 

[Simo77]

Who joined the party late?

OT it is.

 

[silverwheels]

predzzzzzz

 

[Southpaw]

A fappy good time. Barely stayed awake. Night night.

 

[silverwheels]

love that the game winner bounced off perry

 

[kella]

Fuck Corey Perry into the earth's core

 

[sayo]

I honestly don't know who's worse, the clippers or ducks.

 

[silverwheels]

I honestly don't know who's worse, the clippers or ducks.

As far as dislikeability goes? It's close. At least the Ducks have a title though.

 

[Wuf]

I'm actually watching hockey

 

[silverwheels]

Go Sens go!

 

[Karl Hungus]

This is some great writing that happens to be about hockey.


https://nplusonemag.com/online-only...with-their-fists-to-put-a-period-in-a-basket/

I’VE ALWAYS CONSIDERED PITTSBURGHbackup (/former starter and first-overall draft pick) Marc-Andre Fleury a bad-team goalie who’s been trapped on good teams his entire career.

The bad-team goalie is the goalie who can face a lot of rubber—maybe kinda needs to face a lot of rubber, since the action keeps him warm, keeps his head in the game. He can become hot, as they say; can work himself into such a rhythm that he stops almost everything, steals games his bad team has no business winning. He allows the occasional dribbler, but who cares, he’s right back to b-boy’ing in his crease after that. Maybe he’s weaker, mentally, than the good-team goalie who faces fewer shots and, as such, has to be more focused.

There’s something of Sisyphus in Fleury. He makes flailing, cartwheeling, never-say-die saves—and moments later, he’s leaning away from the near post, thinking about nachos or whatever, and a bad-angle shot wriggles through.

Washington’s Braden Holtby, on the other hand, has struck me as the consummate good-team goalie. He is compact, composed, patient—focused. His movements are quick, crisp, and assured; he tends goal like the fast-forwarded game footage of a man who’s already earned the shutout. Holtby is rarely called upon “to come up with the big save,” but all that means is he absolutely, positively has to make all the other saves. I pity Holtby, in a way. His team allows so few goals that he must feel every one personally. There he is, staring ahead, feeding his most recent failure into the high-pressure forge of his loathing, transforming goals-against into rare precious things.

 

[kella]

I actually was next to holtby at dinner last night. Crazy how young he is. His gigantic hobo beard belies the fact that he's like 24 or something. He's also not very big at all.

 

[sayo]

Nashville cheesing that CPU dman passing.

 

[sayo]

Lol Gibson.

 

[goblue96]

<Nashville-mascot.gif>

 

[sayo]

Fancy pants.

 

[Simo77]

Rinne has his 1st weak game of the playoffs.

 

[Southpaw]

Yeah that's why I really didn't want to see the Ducks. They always plant some big fucker in front of him and he seems to be real susceptible to being screened.

Gotta win both at home.

 

[Irishman]

Gibson really pulled it together after a very poor start. This series is going to be fun.

 

[goblue96]

 

[Irishman]

This game is insane.

 

[Karl Hungus]

This game is insane.

So much better than game 1, fewer goals and all.

 

[Karl Hungus]

Holy shit, some dumbass asked Boucher to comment about people on Twitter complaining that the game was sloppy @Brick

 

[Irishman]

Both games were great, but I agree @Karl Hungus, this was the better game. I'm still in awe that MAF hasn't turned back into a pumpkin yet.

 

[BasinBictory]

Just re-watched Goon on Netflix. Now I'm ready to watch hockey again.

 

[Southpaw]

This series is getting nasty. Knew it would with douches like perry and kesler. It's gonna go 7 too.

 

[Simo77]

What a freaking game. Preds 3rd was really, really good.

 

[Southpaw]

I was about to lose my damn mind with those two disallowed goals in like 10 seconds. I don't know enough about the rule to really argue that they were bad calls, but as they were against my team, they sure pissed me off!

 

[Southpaw]

Titans O line and Mariota at the game last night lol. Mariota a teetotaler @Brick

 

[Simo77]

The Oline as the hype men made me laugh. Lewan looks so serious. Like that's his offering to a god.

 

[kella]

That's awesome

 

[kella]

Real MAF has shown up

 

[kella]

Someone get Hawk on the call. HE GONE

 

[Irishman]

I can blame MAF for the 4th goal only. Two freak bounces and then the D left him out to dry.

 

[kella]

That freak bounces account the pens have had open for a few years was massively in debt to their benefit. Luck is a 0 sum game sooner or later. Get fucked pens

 

[Southpaw]

This sucks. I wanted to watch a good game. Time to flip to lebron.

 

[Irishman]

I would rather watch an 8-0 game between the worst teams in the league than anything involving LeBron.