2024 2025 Around the League Part 2

[BaconNater]

These final days of the regular season have been a drag, I've actually started to read more that's how boring it's been!

 

[JWK]

I think it's hilarious how other sport is able to find a schedule where every teams' last game is on the same day and the same(mostly) time but NHL can't do it

 

[Metallo]

The best door to enter.

 

[Foppa2118]

I think it's hilarious how other sport is able to find a schedule where every teams' last game is on the same day and the same(mostly) time but NHL can't do it

Maybe that's why? NHL has lower priority and gets the leftover dates.

Every year the NHL's schedule makes less and less sense.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Well damn. GGs Columbus hell of a run.

 

[McMetal]

Do they still call that?

I feel like I've seen this a couple times recently. I'm pretty sure Coyle was one of them. I remember being confused how he got away with it, because it was so obivous. Don't think anyone else touched it first.

Maybe they stopped calling it like they did kicking the second guy out out for a penalty. Which is good because that was a stupid rule.

From what I remember, the rule is about covering the puck with your hand in the crease, the way a goalie would to freeze play. You can swipe at the puck with your hand to clear it out of the crease, but you can't grab it with your hand to throw it out or try to cover it to get a whistle.

 

[Ararana]

Don't play your stars in meaningless games.

 

[NikB]

Don't play your stars in meaningless games.

Played everyone just to get pumped by a bottom 5 Preds team, 5-1 halfway through the game. Their game thread is a good read.

 

[Ararana]

Played everyone just to get pumped by a bottom 5 Preds team, 5-1 halfway through the game. Their game thread is a good read.

I seriously don’t know what the f*** DeBoer is thinking

 

[illegitimate]

Don't play your stars in meaningless games.

you really, really

hate to see it

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Tyson 2C Jost bangs one home.

3-2 Habs with just under 6 minutes left.

Canes need 2 goals and to win in regulation to give Montreal the heart attack.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

Habs are in!

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

Dallas dresses basically their entire lineup, gets Robertson hurt, and are getting throttled by the Preds, 5-1 after the 2nd.

 

[dahrougem2]

Don't play your stars in meaningless games.

Not happy for an injury, but...


Oh f*** ya bud

 

[the_fan]

Too bad for CBJ

 

[Foppa2118]

From what I remember, the rule is about covering the puck with your hand in the crease, the way a goalie would to freeze play. You can swipe at the puck with your hand to clear it out of the crease, but you can't grab it with your hand to throw it out or try to cover it to get a whistle.

Could be wrong, but I thought RIAL was referring to the newish rule about not playing the puck with your hand off the face-off, until a third player touches it.

I haven't seen it called in a while, but I've seen players doing it again.

My attitude my whole life about face-offs is don't overthink it, just drop the f***ing puck already.

 

[The Moops]

Excited to have the Habs in the playoffs. Atmosphere is always electric. I still have fond memories of Halak upsetting the Caps, and Mike Cammalleri was just unstoppable that one year

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Excited to have the Habs in the playoffs. Atmosphere is always electric. I still have fond memories of Halak upsetting the Caps, and Mike Cammalleri was just unstoppable that one year

I have fond memories of the ‘93 Habs winning 11 of their 16 wins in overtime. Just heart attack after heart attack.

Prime Patrick Roy was absolutely insane, the most clutch goaltending performance night after night in those overtimes. After a while, you just knew they would pull off the win because Roy simply wasn’t going to get beat in overtime no matter what.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[dahrougem2]

All this just to get his shit pushed in by the Blues in round 1.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

All this just to get his shit pushed in by the Blues in round 1.

They're gonna beat the B-Lose like a drum.

 

[the_fan]

Yeah yeah, Hellebuyck is the best goalie in the regular season blah blah blah. Can he do it in the playoffs? That’s the big question

 

[CharlesPuck]

More Canadian teams in the playoffs the better.

 

[Pokecheque]

Rags failed on their picks but they already had Igor and somehow inherited Fox and Panarin. They didn't do their rebuild, they ended up cancelling that plan.

Don’t agree with that at all. They got Bread and Fox in 2019, then proceeded to tank for the first overall pick. They came out with those two picks, an elite superstar scoring winger in his prime, and a franchise defenseman. And it turns out they already had another franchise goalie. That’s plenty of building blocks.

That whole debacle has made me totally rethink my opinion on drafting. I used to say BPA always, but now? If you don’t have a franchise center and you have a high pick, f*** the consensus, TAKE THE F***KING CENTER. Especially since they already had two star wingers in Bread and Kreider.

They also wasted time with a couple wildly overrated coaches, and traded away a legit two-way winger for a supposed tough guy who spent most of his time in NY on IR.

Should also not be overlooked picking Lias Andersson 7th overall in 2017. Nearly every other player picked after him in the first round has been better.

 

[Metallo]

In the plane this evening and I had a couple of insufferable Habs fans raving on the team a couple seats back. Wished it was a crying baby instead.