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Cup winning acceptability ranking. This is a final and definitive list. 1. Florida Panthers - they're fine and seem fun. 2. Washington Capitals - not #1 because of Ovi's Putin love but still mostly fine 3. Tampa Bay Lightning - unfortunately would spark the 'dynasty' debate 4. Pittsburgh Penguins - eh, who cares at this point? 5. Toronto Maple Leafs - definitely the least bad of the Canadian playoff teams to end the Canada cup drought 6. Nashville Predators - they exist that's fine 7. Carolina Hurricanes - not great but not bad. Kinda annoying. Employ DeAngelo. 8. Dallas Stars - they won't win but whatever. It would mean Benn and Seguin winning though. 9. Colorado Avalanche - Kadri will be fun but their ardent anti-pasta stance loses them a lot of points. 10. New York Rangers - seem fun but are actually the bad guys. Kreider in the playoffs is always a hoot. 11. St. Louis Blues - would be a lot higher if not for the idea that Binnington would have multiple cups. 12. Los Angeles Kings - Brown, Doughty and Quick with three rings each. Barf. 13. Boston Bruins - Boston. 14. Minnesota Wild - no no no not them 15. Calgary Flames - it would make a good friend of mine happy, otherwise terrible That is the end of the list because it is not acceptable under any circumstances for the Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup.
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Misanthrope posted:"definitely the least bad of the Canadian playoff teams to end the Canada cup drought" ... oh no wait, you're drunk. Ottawa isn't in the playoffs otherwise it would be them. All of the western Canadian teams would be dreadful including the Canucks. Montreal would be way too smug. So it's the Leafs by default. Their fans are pretty long suffering at this point so they score some sympathy points. It'll evaporate entirely if they win when I see how annoyingly full of themselves they become overnight.
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Apr 28, 2022 16:26
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Jhet posted:I feel honored that the hatred of the Northwest division is still alive. Wes Walz extinguished the youthful spark of joy this sport once brought me.
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Apr 28, 2022 17:12
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Leafs fans intense doom and gloom makes them kinda lovable. Every other Canadian franchise that enjoyed a stretch as one of the top teams in the league developed a massive fanbase of cocky, obnoxious bandwagoners. Not the Leafs they, they seem to have declined in popularity if anything and there's such a sense of inevitably to the Leafs blowing it that I think I'd be genuinely happy for them if they finally got over the hump. I guess 15 years living in Ontario has led to Stockholm syndrome.
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Apr 28, 2022 20:16
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Yes. Very much so. The hyper focus of the media on Toronto doesn't bother me too much. It can be a bit corny sometimes but they're the biggest hockey market on earth and they're very good at the moment. It was much more annoying when the Leafs were terrible and articles would be headlined "Leafs Lose Draft Lottery."
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Apr 28, 2022 20:43
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Leafs/Bruins would rule so hard
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Apr 29, 2022 16:55
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Draisatl gonna pot 6 tonight That would be doubly impressive as he'd be shooting from the press box. https://twitter.com/Bob_Stauffer/status/1520095005351628800?t=AhpNoTIxqVuKnTpgId8qIg&s=19
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Apr 29, 2022 22:21
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fawning deference posted:I really do feel like Calgary could wind up in the SCF and the chances are non-trivial. They are really really good. Given how stratified the league was this year, I wouldn't be at all surprised if any of the playoff teams won the cup this year. Except for Toronto of course that's not happening.
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May 1, 2022 14:15
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mennoknight posted:There are few things better in life than waking up to a colossal Mike Smith gently caress up They power my existence. I thought the Oilers looked pretty good outside of goaltending though (three of the Kings goals were really weak). Spence and Martinez were getting walked all night. I am not sure how a 20 year ended up matched against McDavid but it was bad.
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May 3, 2022 12:56
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mennoknight posted:well guess the flames are taking it all sorry everyone 1-0 is the new 10-0.
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May 4, 2022 16:20
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Sutter v. Bowness hockey is the worst thing I've ever seen.
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May 6, 2022 12:11
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$3.6mx6 is a terrible allocation of cap space in a league with a rapidly shrinking middle class. He is fine defensively but provides an offensive contribution slightly above replacement. There are about 40 guys on the free agent market every year who can provide pretty much the same contribution as Goodrow for like $1m, just without the playoff pedigree. He's fine now, but I'm sure the Rangers will want that $2m of extra cap space back when they have to start handing out second deals to players like Lafreniere, Schneider and Miller.
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May 6, 2022 14:57
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Eric the Mauve posted:One of the most shocking developments I have ever seen in my life is that the refs are actually calling hooking and holding and stuff. In the playoffs!!! They do this every year for the first few games of the first round but the moment they get to elimination games the whistles travel to the shadow realm and are never heard from again
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May 7, 2022 22:11
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I'm closing my eyes and trying to picture Connor McDavid doing something as cool as throwing a game for gambling purposes and I just can't.
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May 9, 2022 14:38
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Should the NHL have the Hawks and Preds redo their series in case it was rigged? No disrespect to the preds, I'm a firm believer that Nashville sweeping them was rigged and robs the Hawks of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last few days in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the entire regular season watching the Hawks play great hockey it's just not fair. If the Hawks lose again I will face that the Preds deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was rigged and does a big disservice to the Hawks and the NHL.
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May 9, 2022 16:42
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Pros to rooting for one lovely team only: the rest of your life seems more pleasant by comparison.
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May 9, 2022 19:36
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Wow really unfair for the league to punish the Kings like that by suspending Nurse.
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May 11, 2022 16:23
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Darnell Nurse excels at being friends with McDavid and Draisaitl and isn't the power of friendship more valuable than any trophy could ever be? No.
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May 11, 2022 21:32
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Have we considered the possibility that Crosby was actually elbowhunting Trouba with his temple and the Rangers are the real victims here?
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May 12, 2022 19:37
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Triple header game 7s on Saturday is uh pretty cool.
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May 13, 2022 12:03
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The Athletic is reporting that Crosby does indeed have a concussion
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Except for the years of success cumulating in the franchise's first championship after 45 years of waiting, what a waste the Ovechkin era was and will be for the remaining four years of his contract as he chases the all-time goals record.
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Kawalimus posted:Totally different sports and football has a postseason way more prone to flukes with its one-and-done playoffs. And again, I don't mean ovechkin himself I mean the inability to build a team around him that could succeed in the postseason. Except they did! The Caps won a cup. Hockey is one of the most luck based sports on earth. The 2nd all time leading point scorer won a pair of cups as a bit part on the early 90s pens as a teenager then spent the remaining 22 years of his career when he emerged as the best winger in history wining nothing and returning to the finals just once aged 41. The NHL's sixth highest scorer Marcel Dionne never won a cup, in fact he appeared in just 49 playoff games over 18 seasons and never made it past the 2nd round. Ray Bourque, probably the 3rd best defenceman in history, had to be traded to a super team aged 39 before he finally won a Stanley Cup. The best player in the league today in Connor McDavid (and arguably since Lemieux) hasn't won squat yet. I get that Ovi hasn't won as many cups as his archival in Crosby, but not many guys in history have. Ovechkin and the Caps have done petty well all things considered and statistically should've won like maybe one more cup. Overall I don't know how you can call the Ovi era anything other than a success unless your baseline expectation was "80s Oilers dynasty in the cap world somehow."
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Another Bill posted:He's right over there, talking to Carey Price And Luongo. And the Sedins. And Sundin. And Iginla. And Oates. And Hawerchuk. And Perreault. It's really hard to win in hockey. Individual accomplishments have relatively little overall impact on a game.
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Close your eyes and picture the idea that your team is an even older franchise, has won no cups, never really appears in the playoffs and has never had a player even half as good or entertaining as Ovechkin. That is the hell in which Sabres and Canucks fans live. Be thankful for 2018.
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I cannot believe they actually blew it again
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Jealous? You know why they're in their own sections right? And why there's no alcohol served in the venues. English football fan are the absolute worst. Drinking in english football stadiums is just banned in the stands which makes it worse as people chug pints in the concourse in a rush to return to their seats.
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May 17, 2022 12:14
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Calgary please keep this up that ruled
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May 19, 2022 12:13
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Please stop making the Tkachuks so darn likeable.
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May 19, 2022 15:52
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Why has Suter's strict defensive style become "flail around wildly and hope for the best" since the start of this series?
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May 21, 2022 12:33
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Mike Smith has been better than Jakob Markstrom I think you'll find my food only horribly sickened 80% as many people as yours. 
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Hell yeah murder hockey is back
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fermun posted:https://twitter.com/Peter_Baugh/status/1528503107927392258 Bewbies, what have you done?
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Flames have been in full panic mode since the 6-6 goal in game 1.
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fisting by many posted:I posted this in the offseason thread last week, but I've worked on it some more and polished it up since then, and I want to share and show off this thing. This is terrific and really highlights where the wheels started to come off for the Flames in the first before any of the goals the way a highlight package absolutely cannot.
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Please suspend Perron for the rest of the series. If that elbow had connected it would've been one of the most messed up situations in the sport since Dale Hunter hit Turgeon.
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May 24, 2022 14:57
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This is the price those Flames fans must pay for summoning that demon to get them past the Stars.
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May 25, 2022 12:11
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Ginette Reno posted:It's gonna be very tragic when Mcdavid blows through the west putting up like 50 points along the way and then gets slowly grinded to death by Tampa en route to their threepeat You mean 'life affirming/hilarious,' correct?
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The Flames have been the far worse team outside of maybe three periods combined this whole series. I fully expect they will be out of the playoffs tomorrow.
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