Not NHL related but had a friend throw a 50th bday party/hockey tourney. Then a bunch of folks played some awesome music. Reminded me why I love hockey and my small town.
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Not NHL related but had a friend throw a 50th bday party/hockey tourney. Then a bunch of folks played some awesome music. Reminded me why I love hockey and my small town.
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Impromptu hockey is often the best!Quote:
Originally Posted by lifelinksplit
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Just wanted to clear that up. Unfortunately the Wings looked like a team afraid to win the last 2 games against Columbus.
I was at that Wild game, and also noted the reverence for Mark Andre Fleury. I think most of the Utah fans either rooted for him with Vegas or have no past reference to him other than hes a great goalie and a very nice guy. It was likely the last chance for most of us to see him play in person, so the reverence of seeing an icon play is understandable. Obviously as a Wings fan you have a completely different history with the 08 and 09 Cup Final battles against MAF and the Pens.
My hot take: One beef about the Delta crowd I have is the number of third party NHL jerseys I see people wearing there. I have no issue with other jerseys as a whole- wear your college team, youth program, or Slap Shot or Shoresy jersey all you want. Coyotes jerseys are certainly acceptable at a UHC game, as are wearing a current player of one of the teams you are watching previous teams jersey (a Pens Fleury jersey at that Wild game, for instance). But what is with the just wearing a random NHL teams jersey? No one at the UHC Wild game cares that you are a Bruins/Blues/Knights/Dallas fan.
Is this just a thing in a new NHL city, or is it everywhere now? Granted I havent been going to NHL games until this year since I moved to Utah, but no one ever did this at Pens games I went to for 20 years.
That’s pretty funny. We were at the UHC v. Devils game on Saturday and I was thinking the same thing seeing a guy wearing a Leaf’s jersey on the train. Then we get there and there are tons of other jerseys floating around.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarsB
I was impressed with the overall scene though. People seemed pretty stoked on the O’Brien fight. Also thought it was hilarious that when some fans got on the big screen they immediately pound their beer. Honesty must be kind of weird being a Mormon there, but as long as they don’t try to take away the traditional hockey experience who cares.
MAF is the only goalie I've seen in a fight. Can't remember who with, the other goalie obviously. And it was part of a general melee. I have nothing against him. When you get beat by a better team there's nothing personal about it.
BTW, why such a big deal about Ovi breaking the regular season goal record--which the TVs just call the goal record, obviously to hype it and keep people watching. The total goal record is more important IMO and is probably out of reach. Although maybe not. Last night Caps v Rangers I heard the words Ovechkin and burst of speed in the same sentence so maybe he has at least two more seasons in him.
I had noticed they seem to be spoon feeding Ovi a lot of empty net goals this season so I looked up career EN goals. Ovi had 64 vs Gretzky at 56 which I think was as of 2024. But yeah it would be cool to see him eclipse Gretzky overall, and crazy if he could make it to 1,000 regular season goals. Just put him on the ice every time the net is empty.
The Rat is off to Florida. That will be interesting to watch.
Should be interesting indeed. If you look up Florida Man in the urban dictionary you'll see his picture.
I’m so mad about this. And to Florida of all places.Quote:
Originally Posted by atree;[emoji[emoji6[emoji640
At least it’s one more reason not to sit and watch this team repeatedly collapse for the rest of the year.
Bs also traded away Charlie Coyle today
I hadn’t heard that. Fuck. This team will be garbage until Pastrnak retires
Such bullshit. Fuck Don Sweeney and Charlie Jacobs. And if Cam signed off on this fuck him too.
Pastrnak’s probably next
Blowing it all up. Marshy should have finished as a Bruin, but the greats always get traded at the end. Thing is...wtf did we get for him?
So many moves for the Avs, I won't even know who is on the ice tonight. They have to go for it with Makar and Mackinnon in their primes, but they have basically zero picks and prospects at this point. I do think they have the kind of team that can just roll 4 lines now, and those are the teams that win the cup.
In two years the bruins have gone from winning the presidents trophy by a mile to fire sale. Crazy. What an addition for Fla.
The Avs will be fine when they get Landeskog back. Sure.
Boston, minus Marchand, Coyle, McAvoy, and Lindholm took apart the Lightning, who decided it was just a practice. Including a shot from just over the red line that Vasilevskiy decided was too much work to stop.Meanwhile everyone in the hunt for 8th in the East keeps getting points except the Wings. Goddamn OT games where Rangers and Ottawa both get points. Wings make no significant moves, have obviously written off the season already.
But haven't been able to finish. That was an excruciating end to an epic season.Quote:
Originally Posted by atree
The fact that we didn't get a deal together and he was willing is unfortunate, but expected. It does kill me where he ended up, but if he can get another cup I'll be happy for him even though he is an ass on the ice. Now we can hate him too I guess [emoji16]
Ovi scored twice tonight to tie Gretzky at 894 goals.
The cool stat is Gretz did it in 1487 games while Ovi did it in 1486. Cant get much closer than that!
Gretsky still has more assists than Ovechkin has total points.
Different era. What ovechkin is doing right now is extraordinary.
Crazy to think that if Ovi didn’t get injured earlier this season he would have shattered the record.Quote:
Originally Posted by evdog