2021-22 NHL Season Thread

[Poirot]

just found out Guy Lafleur died, one of the best of all time

He's lying in state for two days at the Bell Centre and March 3 it's the funeral. The Quebec government gave it a national funeral status.

On the last game of a mediocre season the Canadiens scored ten goals. 10 was Lafleur's jersey number.

[dead0man]

LGB, 15 to go.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I fear it will be the Rangers in 6 against my Penguins.

[The Dowager Mod]

I hope it will be the Rangers in 6 against his Penguins.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I hope it will be the Rangers in 6 against his Penguins.

Rangers new mascot

[sting in the rafters]

I hope it will be the Rangers in 6 against his Penguins.

Rangers new mascot

Pens got experience on NYR and could win if they split the first two and get Jarry back but yeah tough vs Rangers PP/goaltending. As usual rooting for the Panthers as the team w/most Flyers alumni and they should take it against the aging Caps.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I should not be watching this with my weak heart. But there is no better content than NHL playoff sudden death OT. (Except when your team is a participant? I wouldn't know because this is a new experience. 2015 was another lifetime.)

[KaiserDave]

I’m straight up done with hockey (for the next 12 hours)
Put a statue up of Shesterkin taller than the World Trade Center

[Orwell]

That was the most exhilarating OT I've seen never been a big hockey guy before either

[T'Chenka]

I'm doing really good in my work hockey pool right now.
I have:

COLORADO - MacKinnon, Rantanen, Makar
ST LOUIS - Tarasenko

CALGARY - (Calgary's team goaltending), Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Lindholm, Hanifin

FLORIDA - Huberdeau, Barkov, Giroux
TAMPA BAY - Kucherov, Hedman

CAROLINA - Aho, Svechnikov, DeAngelo

for the record, my prediction (from before the playoffs started is Florida (or Tampa) vs Calgary in the Finals. Florida vs Calgary if a third team caveat is not allowed.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I'm happy with the 1-1 split in the Garden.  Now if we can at least get DeSmith back that would be nice.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

I'm happy with the 1-1 split in the Garden.  Now if we can at least get DeSmith back that would be nice.

Rangers 1
Refs 1
Pengus - ZEROOOOO!!!!! 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I'm happy with the 1-1 split in the Garden.  Now if we can at least get DeSmith back that would be nice.

Rangers 1
Refs 1
Pengus - ZEROOOOO!!!!! 

[KaiserDave]

Shesterkin owns your franchise.

[Badger]

I'm happy with the 1-1 split in the Garden.  Now if we can at least get DeSmith back that would be nice.

Or better still, Jarry.

Grumpy, maybe you have closer news being nearer to Ground Zero-where I'm actually heading with the wife and kids this weekend to visit my parents and sister-but the best I can find online is he was only expected to miss the first two games and is "day to day" beyond that.

EDIT: Desmith is out for the season after undergoing core muscle surgery.

We better hope Domingue doesn't also go down. His backup- which for the record is the backup to the backup to our backup goalie- spent half his season with the illustrious Wheeling nailers. Heck, even there he had a crappy save percentage!

[JGibson]

My Blues, which took a 1-0 series lead, are now down 2-1 in the series to the Wild. Injuries to our D-line are costing us big time.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

I'm happy with the 1-1 split in the Garden.  Now if we can at least get DeSmith back that would be nice.

Rangers 1
Refs 1
Pengus - ZEROOOOO!!!!! 

Lovely... now with Domingue in net for the duration, Bettman's star-addled league sweethearts are going to be a "feel-good story" if they have more success in the series.  It's like calling the Yankees the Little Engine That Could. 



I thought once we'd removed Pierre McGuire from the broadcasts that we'd have no more of this;

[Badger]

I'm happy with the 1-1 split in the Garden.  Now if we can at least get DeSmith back that would be nice.

Rangers 1
Refs 1
Pengus - ZEROOOOO!!!!! 

Lovely... now with Domingue in net for the duration, Bettman's star-addled league sweethearts are going to be a "feel-good story" if they have more success in the series.  It's like calling the Yankees the Little Engine That Could. 



I thought once we'd removed Pierre McGuire from the broadcasts that we'd have no more of this;

Butthurt Rangers fan says what?

[T'Chenka]

Wanna share some butthurt Rangers fans with y'all...

I don't even know what the f*** this means. Is that some sort of slur because he's Russian?

Your team needed a f***ing three bounces in the first and a softy in the third and won the game by 1 not counting empty net goals. I wouldn't be bragging about your scrub ass team. Your superstar Hall of Famers also couldn't score on even 5% of their shots in the first two games on a goalie you said is crap in the playoffs. Your team is trash and will f***ing move to Kansas City after Crosby and Malkin retire like they should have until uncle Bettman gave them Crosby.

Did your goalie who will be working at Arby's in three years not allow four goals on less than 30 shots

Your team was gifted a goal that never occurred. Got two penalties in quick succession after, one of which was about as soft of a call as you will see and the other took our best PK'er off the ice because the referee couldn't correctly assess who committed a penalty. Goals were scored on both PP's. Then later your team scores a goal after one of our defenseman was hounded with no call about as much as the penalty we committed that led to that first penalty. Just no consistency. It's all to favor Bettman's favorite team.

If only Crosby could play in goal. The position would come naturally to him seeing how he has already made a career of diving and flopping around the ice.

No, actually I don't know who Don Koharski is. Had to look him up. He retired 13 years ago. Why would I know a referee from 13 years ago who has so little knowledge about the league that he can't even name the main players in a series? He's been gone so long that he hasn't even refereed a game with any player on our team, so that should tell you how relevant he is.

Your fan base is whining. You guys are so worried about a supposed flop by our goalie, who once again you guys can't score against. Thats 10 goals in more than 20 periods of hockey this season. I can't even search his name on twitter without seeing the incessant whining from Penguins fans and alleged Penguins journalists. It just proves my point. I think it's clear as day that Carter hit him, but regardless, why don't you worry about why you lost instead of whining about the Rangers?

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Wanna share some butthurt Rangers fans with y'all...

I don't even know what the f*** this means. Is that some sort of slur because he's Russian?

Your team needed a f***ing three bounces in the first and a softy in the third and won the game by 1 not counting empty net goals. I wouldn't be bragging about your scrub ass team. Your superstar Hall of Famers also couldn't score on even 5% of their shots in the first two games on a goalie you said is crap in the playoffs. Your team is trash and will f***ing move to Kansas City after Crosby and Malkin retire like they should have until uncle Bettman gave them Crosby.

Did your goalie who will be working at Arby's in three years not allow four goals on less than 30 shots

Your team was gifted a goal that never occurred. Got two penalties in quick succession after, one of which was about as soft of a call as you will see and the other took our best PK'er off the ice because the referee couldn't correctly assess who committed a penalty. Goals were scored on both PP's. Then later your team scores a goal after one of our defenseman was hounded with no call about as much as the penalty we committed that led to that first penalty. Just no consistency. It's all to favor Bettman's favorite team.

If only Crosby could play in goal. The position would come naturally to him seeing how he has already made a career of diving and flopping around the ice.

No, actually I don't know who Don Koharski is. Had to look him up. He retired 13 years ago. Why would I know a referee from 13 years ago who has so little knowledge about the league that he can't even name the main players in a series? He's been gone so long that he hasn't even refereed a game with any player on our team, so that should tell you how relevant he is.

Your fan base is whining. You guys are so worried about a supposed flop by our goalie, who once again you guys can't score against. Thats 10 goals in more than 20 periods of hockey this season. I can't even search his name on twitter without seeing the incessant whining from Penguins fans and alleged Penguins journalists. It just proves my point. I think it's clear as day that Carter hit him, but regardless, why don't you worry about why you lost instead of whining about the Rangers?

Is it "butthurt" if it's all true?  Real hockey fans should be appalled at this travesty as the league has decided before the fact to give the Crosby-Malkin-Letang trio one last ride at the Rangers' expense.  It's really sad!  

I didn't expect to win it all in the first year back, so the learning process is what it is.  Hopefully these literal baby-eating demons from Pittsburgh get a good thwack in the next round from a team a bit more Cup-ready.  

Fact is, the Penguins are a disgrace and continuously ruin the legitimacy of the league.  Hopefully the next commissioner folds the franchise for these crimes against the sport.  

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I still think the Rangers will win the series, but Honkey Dude is a typical whiny bitch Rangers fan who hates greatness.

[The Dowager Mod]

The Islanders fired Trotz. 

[Poirot]

I thought once we'd removed Pierre McGuire from the broadcasts that we'd have no more of this

McGuire has been fired by the Senators less than a year after they hired him. Maybe he will do broadcast...

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

I still think the Rangers will win the series, but Honkey Dude is a typical whiny bitch Rangers fan who hates greatness.

Unclr Gramps you guys need to be sending the “war room” in Toronto a big ol’ fruit basket at the end of this series considering the nonstop gifts they keep bestowing upon you.

[KaiserDave]

Grumps, Badger, I hand you my sword. Good God what a calamity.