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The West this season was really a tale of haves and have-nots. You have eight teams with 98+ points and then it quickly goes down. Two teams around 90 pts; three teams around 80 points; and then three teams under 60 points, with the Sharks having one of the worst modern seasons. Usually you would have a gradual drop from 110ish to 70ish, but this season saw a major dichotomy. Mr. Kite fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Apr 19, 2024 |
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Being forced to look at, hear about, and pay attention to Brad Marchand for a week and a half has to be considered cruel and unusual punishment, right?
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Apr 19, 2024 22:29
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Mike Works posted:This might be a weird thing to say, but is it just me or are there are a lot of good teams in the playoffs this year, at least in the west? Vegas is an 8th seed. The West is all good, but maybe not all great, imo. The east has the Caps and Islanders sneaking in but the other six teams are elite, I'd say. Should be a fun year!
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Apr 19, 2024 22:35
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Mike Works posted:This might be a weird thing to say, but is it just me or are there are a lot of good teams in the playoffs this year, at least in the west? Vegas is an 8th seed. yup. doesn't matter because the canucks are winning it all tho
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Apr 19, 2024 22:36
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:Being forced to look at, hear about, and pay attention to Brad Marchand for a week and a half has to be considered cruel and unusual punishment, right? Game 4 is the 27th, why would you keep following the Bruins when they're in the second round?
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Apr 19, 2024 22:45
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This is the first year my kids seem to care about hockey and they keep asking me if the Canucks are winning the cup and I don’t have the heart to tell them. I suppose time will jade them.
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Apr 19, 2024 23:14
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Mike Works posted:This might be a weird thing to say, but is it just me or are there are a lot of good teams in the playoffs this year, at least in the west? Vegas is an 8th seed. and Edmonton is there too
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Apr 19, 2024 23:25
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Wonderllama posted:three threads; playoff teams, non-playoff teams, and the clinically insane actually, i'm clinically insane in my playoff thread posting as long as the avs are still in
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FrenzyTheKillbot posted:Being forced to look at, hear about, and pay attention to Brad Marchand for a week and a half has to be considered cruel and unusual punishment, right? Buddy we all know what people look like in Brampton. He’d fit right in, if he lost a few more teeth.
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Prediction thread up: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4058949
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fermun posted:actually, i'm clinically insane in my playoff thread posting as long as the avs are still in 
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Get this depressing doom posting about the penguins outta here. This thread is for unbridled optimism and hope I am full delulu about Vegas beating the stars and making it to the cup, only because a) it would be extremely funny, b) Pete DeBoers magic expires in the playoffs, and most importantly c) it would make the NHL league office and Gary Bettman look extremely silly for allowing Mark Stone to play for free in the playoffs every year.
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Apr 20, 2024 00:20
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It's going to be awesome watching McDavid skate through the entire Kings team in the neutral zone and score every game.
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Apr 20, 2024 00:37
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Madkal posted:It's going to be awesome watching McDavid skate through the entire Kings team in the neutral zone and score every game. OR, the Oilers do Oilers things lol As a Kings fan I think they lose in 5 but come on, would it really surprise you to see the Oilers gently caress things up collossally?
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MaoistBanker posted:OR, the Oilers do Oilers things lol Thats what I love most about the NHL playoffs. Someone always gets Halak'd or Oilers it up. e: Boston with their record setting season losing to the 8th seed Panthers last year for example, ruled.
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So what happens to the Coyotes name/history/etc. if more than 5 years goes by? Obviously Meruelo is likely going to take his $1B and run, but if another billionaire someday wants to try hockey in AZ again, and gets NHL approval, would they be eligible to re-use the Coyotes name/etc? I'm assuming they could, but it would probably be as a true, new franchise named Coyotes instead of having the history/etc., similar to the Jets.
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Canned Sunshine posted:So what happens to the Coyotes name/history/etc. if more than 5 years goes by? Obviously Meruelo is likely going to take his $1B and run, but if another billionaire someday wants to try hockey in AZ again, and gets NHL approval, would they be eligible to re-use the Coyotes name/etc? It will be a future expansion location, assuming a new buyer can get a stadium deal.
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Canned Sunshine posted:So what happens to the Coyotes name/history/etc. if more than 5 years goes by? Obviously Meruelo is likely going to take his $1B and run, but if another billionaire someday wants to try hockey in AZ again, and gets NHL approval, would they be eligible to re-use the Coyotes name/etc? Friedman said he doesn't know on today's 32 Thoughts so I think that part isn't out there yet. I'd guess it reverts to the NHL. I also don't think Meruelo would have negotiated this if he really planned to give up and not use that $1B to finance an arena, the question is more about whether he fucks it up along the way and how long it takes.
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Kings are going to blow everyone away and actually play hockey rather than 1-3-1ing themselves to a 5-game loss.
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 Can’t wait to get my New York Rangers Celebration Suck and gently caress model!
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Koopa Kid posted:Only good Leafs defender lately has been McCabe, they’re mostly banking on Rielly randomly becoming decent in the playoffs like he has the last two years I have to assume part of it is just him rationing shits to give as he gets played way more than anyone else, hopefully it's left him with enough in the tank. Those six D don't combine for anything close to 60 minutes so the moment something goes wrong Keefe is probably going to double shift him and McCabe until they die
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fermun posted:actually, i'm clinically insane in my playoff thread posting as long as the avs are still in The Colorado Avalanche are going to win the Stanley Cup
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Post real images, not thumbnail links to images. What kind of 2005 internet are you using?
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According to those charts, Edmonton would still be number 1 with 0 defense. Connor McDavid is better than the New York Rangers.
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The games are made up and the points don’t matter.
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Now that the NHL is fully in bed with sports gambling companies I wonder how much longer coaches are gonna be able to give out the classic “our starting goalie?? Heh, not sure yet. Injured player X? He might play today, might not  ”
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Both the Avalanche and the Jets will be missing a 19 goal scorer going into the first round. Drouin is hurt and won't be available for the Avalanche. For the Jets, Cole Perfetti is in perfectly good health, but Bowness would rather play a 3 goal scorer who plays the right way than some 19 goal fancy boy
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Speaking of https://x.com/dalter/status/1781714223011140017 Good. Great, even. Love to hear it
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Cartoon Man posted:It will be a future expansion location, assuming a new buyer can get a stadium deal. That makes sense BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:Friedman said he doesn't know on today's 32 Thoughts so I think that part isn't out there yet. I'd guess it reverts to the NHL. That's what I've thought too, but then I also saw an interview where Meruelo said he basically had no choice, because the NHL came to him in March and basically told him the team needed to be relocated because of their current conditions, so instead of dragging it all out, he got $1B with the inactivation options, but I feel like if the NHL had really wanted to try and push him to truly get the arena and re-activate, they'd have made him pay back some of the $1B he got (though he'd probably then just proceed with dragging it all out). I mean, if he can actually buy the land and get the district set up like he proposed, it actually has the opportunity to be a windfall for him, if only because there are numerous events up in that area each year that draw in a lot of people and he'd fill out the hotel rooms for (the Barrett Jackson car auction, the Phoenix Open, and Spring Training is about 10 minutes away via Loop-101 that he wants to built along (Salt River Fields), plus multiple casinos near that. But given that he couldn't even show up for the Coyotes last game on Wednesday, not holding out much hope for his actual interest.
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According to this Friedman article, Meruelo has to return the $1 billion when/if he wants to reactivate the Coyotes for his new arena: https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/how-the-nhl-moved-the-arizona-coyotes-to-salt-lake-city/
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https://twitter.com/GoldenKnights/status/1781744096257937553?t=ar4UYzlCMdYqPtu_fjQ9uw&s=19 Fuckit just take my appendix is a new level of dedication to the cap circumvention game
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Canned Sunshine posted:That makes sense Yeah, he does have to pay back the $1B to get the team again. And there's no question the NHL was sick of this poo poo and him keeping the team was no longer an option. What I mean is that if the NHL really had all the leverage in this situation and Meruelo was perfectly happy to be rid of the team for above market value, then the NHL would have paid him $1B to gently caress off forever. The presence of the reactivation clause at all says that Meruelo still wants to be part of the club. But even though he has to pay back the $1B to get the team, he can use that money now to get the arena built and he can include minority partners in that, so that's not nothing. I just think the most likely outcome is losing the auction and the second most likely outcome is the city telling him to gently caress off when he tries to build the Meruelo Entertainment District.
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Koopa Kid posted:Speaking of The best part is how it's a built in, pre-installed excuse to bring Keefe back yet again.
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The Leafs being the embodiment of the song No Children will never cease to power me.
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Reminder that the 5 NHL coaches hired before the pandemic are Cooper Bednar Sullivan Rod the Bod and Sheldon Keefe???
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I think I'm bandwagonning the Canes. A solid roster somehow getting Guentzel and Kuzy as reinforcements is intriguing as hell.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I think I'm bandwagonning the Canes. A solid roster somehow getting Guentzel and Kuzy as reinforcements is intriguing as hell. Isnt Tony D still on their payroll? Cant support any team that willing hired that idiot. So with no horse in this race Im backing the Vancouver Canucks (west) and New York Islanders (east). Side note: watch the vod for Thursdays SAW, we won our match.
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