Around the NHL 2025 playoff edition

[TheUnseenHand]

Way less pressure here though and way less chances of being bothered in public too. I'm sure Jack and Luke talk to him about that aspect here too. We have basically 0 media pressure, especially when compared to Canada.

Plus they really do seem extremely family oriented and I do think it matters to them that their parents could just come and root for the same team and all 3 of them.

I just don't see how he doesn't come here when he's a UFA.

Be careful about getting your hopes up. Money talks, loudly.

 

[thebeernerd]

Really rough spot for the Canucks

Old Man Rutherford even said they're probably not going down the free agency route this offseason. It's probably because the market isn't great and that they can trade or offer sheet someone better. That, or he won't shut up.

 

[Mr Bojanglez]

fun little watch. only 20 minutes

 

[Guttersniped]

In Game 5 of the AHL Pacific Divison Finals, a Colorado Eagles threw a chair (?!) at the Abottsford Canucks announcer. (Abbottsford won the game 5-0 and moved onto the WCF.)





Or was no chair thrown? The alleged attacker defended his, uh, honor on Twitter.

 

[JrFischer54]

Way less pressure here though and way less chances of being bothered in public too. I'm sure Jack and Luke talk to him about that aspect here too. We have basically 0 media pressure, especially when compared to Canada.

Plus they really do seem extremely family oriented and I do think it matters to them that their parents could just come and root for the same team and all 3 of them.

I just don't see how he doesn't come here when he's a UFA.

worse thing for the canucks is missing the playoffs again and the devils making it that will completely seal the deal on him coming here.

 

[Devils731]

worse thing for the canucks is missing the playoffs again and the devils making it that will completely seal the deal on him coming here.

Vancouver missing also means probably another not great year for Petterson, making his contract look like a big road bump moving forward.

 

[Forge]

 

[My3Sons]

It’s been awfully quiet in Toronto. I thought for sure they’d have fired Keefe by now with how they got eliminated this year. He is obviously holding them back.

 

[Clam Jensen]

It’s been awfully quiet in Toronto. I thought for sure they’d have fired Keefe by now with how they got eliminated this year. He is obviously holding them back.

Maybe Freddie Andersen will bounce back for them next year.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

Hyman is donezo

 

[njdevils1982]

Hyman is donezo

111 hits in 15 games....holy shit

 

[Mgd31]

Damn, tough loss for Edmonton. But Florida is banged up too so I think they will be fine.

 

[Clam Jensen]

Jeff Skinner has been waiting his whole life for this moment

 

[guitarguyvic]

Jeff Skinner has been waiting his whole life for this moment

It would be so hockey for him to come in and play hero in the final.

 

[Forge]

 

[My3Sons]

Did Roy win a power struggle with Lou?

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

old friend

 

[thebeernerd]

Man, Lou's personnel decisions are so bad. I have to imagine that this is put up or shut up time for Roy.

 

[Bleedred]

Roy is a mediocre head coach at best and a piece of shit human.

He has a very Rick Tocchet/Travis Green looking resume. One playoff berth in a season he actually started the year as head coach. But I think this was only his fourth full season as a head coach in the league. He hasn’t coached as many games/years as the other guys.

Sounds like some kind of Quebecois connection with Darche.

 

[MadDevil]

Roy is a mediocre head coach at best and a piece of shit human.

He has a very Rick Tocchet/Travis Green looking resume. One playoff berth in a season he actually started the year as head coach. But I think this was only his fourth full season as a head coach in the league. He hasn’t coached as many games/years as the other guys.

Sounds like some kind of Quebecois connection with Darche.

I thought Darche had actually played with Roy, but I was confusing Columbus and Colorado lol

 

[MadDevil]

The ex-Devils purge continues.

 

[Bcap88]

 

[Camille the Eel]

Maple Leaf’s GM says they “have to change their DNA.” Stupid expression (living creatures don’t change their DNA) and especially when you read the rest of the interview, that seems to imply their being better in crucial game situations and maybe not in personnel. What the hell he means by this, I don’t even think he can say. He wants a different result. Doesn’t every team in the league except one?

 

[Bleedred]

I’d love to be 37 again, that’s still young to me.

But it’s old in this league, especially when you haven’t played a game in it since prior to your 35th birthday.

If Toews wanted to come back last year after only one year out of the league I think a lot more teams would have been interested. But after two years out of the league?

He wouldn’t be the oldest player to make a comeback though.

Claude Lemieux didn’t play pro hockey anywhere for 5 years and none in the NHL for 6 years before playing 2 games in China, then heading directly over to the AHL Sharks and eventually playing 18 games for the NHL Sharks at 43 years old. Toews might draw more interest than we think.

 

[thebeernerd]

Maple Leaf’s GM says they “have to change their DNA.” Stupid expression (living creatures don’t change their DNA) and especially when you read the rest of the interview, that seems to imply their being better in crucial game situations and maybe not in personnel. What the hell he means by this, I don’t even think he can say. He wants a different result. Doesn’t every team in the league except one?

Obvious answer points to "he's Magneto."

In all seriousness, the team has a mental block that the current core couldn't overcome, and now it's time to break it up. It seems like Shanahan wanted to run it all back, which... why? And also, how?