Around the NHL: The 2024 NHL Playoff Thread

[Butt Ox]

How does a team impose it's style of play on an opponent when the coach can't even figure out what style of play he wants to implement?

The only imposing I recall was on fans, in my case "good old reliable drop pass and then stand still at the line" entry scheme on the power play. Those empty calories starved me for a couple of seasons.

 

[Der Jaeger]

I'd go with Mountaineers.

 

[Dingo44]

This article has some great quotes about the Tkachuk - Pastrnak fight.

Matthew Tkachuk on David Pastrnak fight and Panthers-Bruins mayhem: 'Guess I wanted in on the action'

After fighting the Bruins star, Tkachuk is looking forward to his reception in Boston: “It’s going to be good. It’s Friday night in Boston.”

theathletic.com

Tkachuk said, smiling. “I don’t know, I guess I wanted in on the action. I asked him to fight. He said, ‘We’ll do it next game.’ I’m like, ‘Maybe we should just do it right now.’ He’s like, ‘Alright, I’m going out next shift.’

“Give him tons of respect. Those are two guys that aren’t known for fighting — me and him — and two players that are probably known more for the offensive side of the game.”

Tkachuk: "Both emotional guys that are leaders for our teams that really just want to show we’ll do whatever it takes to win. We weren’t going out there to play patty-cake or anything. We were going out there to have some fun in the fight and, I don’t know, try to land some punches.”

Tkachuk is a lot more experienced dropping the gloves than Pastrnak, but he quipped that he doesn’t like to fight because his brother, Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk, and father, former NHLer Keith Tkachuk, “say I’m not very good at it.”

Tkachuk’s father was actually at the game and looked fired up after the fight. But when his son got the boot with an accompanying 10-minute misconduct, Matthew said his dad “was just excited that he got to leave early. I think he was ready to get out of there.”

 

[5 Minute Major]

There are reasons Boston is the team that they are and it's because of things like this.

I’ve said as much this past month. The Sabres have too many players that are afraid to step out of their comfort zone the way Pasta did last night.

Even though the Bruins lost, they also showed why they are a winning organization.

 

[Diaspora]

Yeti is best.

I can tell the jerseys would be sick

All fur?

 

[BB79]

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Looks like a belt buckle

 

[Beerz]

How do you not let them fight there?


Jesus

 

[DapperCam]

Yeh he beat up Pacioretty

If Tage actually fought consistently enough to develop it as a skill, it wouldn’t be fair with his reach. Too much of a risk to break his hand though.

 

[Old Navy Goat]

You watch the Rangers powerplay and they just outworking the opposition. There's no standing around, it's all work

 

[Dingo44]

Maple Leafs head coach candidates: Why Craig Berube, Bruce Boudreau are good fits for Toronto

For just the third time in nine years, the Toronto Maple Leafs need a new head coach. Here are 10 options to consider.

theathletic.com

Berube
Gallant
Rod the Bod
McLellan
Gruden (Marlies Coach)
Boudreau
Carle
Blysma
Woodcroft
Evanson

 

[Beerz]

I love Svechnikov

 

[NotABadPeriod]

I hope Keefe ends up with a team I don't hate (say, Winnipeg) and immediately leads them to a Cup.

Toronto would explode.

 

[Old Navy Goat]

I hope Keefe ends up with a team I don't hate (say, Winnipeg) and immediately leads them to a Cup.

Toronto would explode.

Have Ruff hire him as an assistant, just getting past 2nd round would make Leafdom implode

 

[ValJamesDuex]

Looks like a belt buckle

It was a rave band in the 90's

 

[Beerz]

Refs love giving Rangers PP's

 

[Chainshot]

It was a rave band in the 90's

Duo.

And probably the last time before Stranger Things that someone resurrected older Kate Bush material -

 

[Old Navy Goat]

How not to powerplay 101. It's egregious that not once but twice you half ass it and get beat to the net by a forward. The breakaway is poor passing, the shorty was Burns not busting his ass

 

[Jacob582]

How not to powerplay 101. It's egregious that not once but twice you half ass it and get beat to the net by a forward. The breakaway is poor passing, the shorty was Burns not busting his ass

Burns was slow as f

 

[Dubi Doo]

There are reasons Boston is the team that they are and it's because of things like this.

I still think there's a bit of a ripple effect left from Chara's leadership there.

 

[TehDoak]

The sabres need to demand compensation for the hurricanes stealing the sabres power play. Is Matt Ellis consulting down there?

 

[Ace]

Carolina is 0-15 on the PP this series.

Will not be hard to figure out why they didn’t make it out of round 2.

The sabres need to demand compensation for the hurricanes stealing the sabres power play. Is Matt Ellis consulting down there?

Teams with Buffalo players are tearing it up.

Carolina has our PP instead.

 

[Ace]

Carolina ties it with the goalie pulled. They pulled the goalie with control of the puck in their own end…instead of waiting for seven full shifts of control of it behind the opponents net…but that’s none of my business.

 

[Fezzy126]

Playoff overtime vs the game I actually want to watch, again.


Thankful for the intermission at least...

 

[EichHart]

Huge goalie diff in rangers/carolina series

 

[Ace]

Carolina is on sweep watch. At least Andersen will be rested.