OOT Scoreboard 2023 playoff edition

[Bleedred]

I guess Quick has been the dressed backup.

They just had Thompson skate out there in his gear and pads for the cup celebration. They probably have a bunch of guys out there in their gear for the celebration that weren’t dressed, like all teams do.

I remember randomly spotting Scott Wedgewood dressed in the Tampa cup celebration in 2020. And he never played a game for the NHL Lightning. Not even sure he dressed at all that season for an NHL game or was more than a black ace.

 

[njdevils1982]

sean burke ring

 

[Jack Be Quick]

The crowds is just so quiet lol

It's embarrassing.

But it's not as if the douches in Sunrise would've been much if any better.

Thank god this thing is over.

 

[njdevils1982]

nm

 

[Camille the Eel]

somehow they’ve made the ceremony trite, with the flame and spark shooting torches and Bettman’s extended remarks and other stuff. And the sentimental voice overs from Gretzky and Jones.

It’s more impressive if they just let it speak for itself. Keep the camera on the players. If you interview anyone, interview them.

It used to be a more genuinely emotional ceremony.

 

[Patrik26]

Love watching some of these guys struggling to lift the Cup. Amazing no one has fallen backwards with it.

 

[Devilsgrl35]

The merch is ugly as hell this year. Imagine winning and the merch sucks that year.

 

[njdevils1982]

Stone probably isn’t the most handsome captain in the league lol.

mike ricci wearing the A for your sharks lol

 

[Camille the Eel]

We’ll see everyone in the off-season that just officially began

 

[PKs Broken Stick]

that score though, wow.

 

[Satans Hockey]

I think it's great Marc Staal still doesn't have a cup. Glad the season is over, I've been watching but I just haven't been into it since we were eliminated. Bring on the next season already.

 

[Satans Hockey]

The merch is ugly as hell this year. Imagine winning and the merch sucks that year.

I'll gladly love to have that problem but yeah the 20 and the 23 being so far apart is goofy looking. Makes it look like they won in 2020 and 2023 to me lol ...

 

[Bcap88]

 

[Bleedred]

I think it's great Marc Staal still doesn't have a cup. Glad the season is over, I've been watching but I just haven't been into it since we were eliminated. Bring on the next season already.

Both the oldest Staal’s are bad at NHL hockey and shouldn’t play after this year.

I can’t believe the eldest Staal was brought back from the NHL dead after an entire year.

Pretty sure this is the end for him. Some dummy signs Marc for a year cause dat vetrin D. He’s been worse than Eric for a long time.

#Tallon

 

[Patrik26]

Marchessault is 5' 9". I thought maybe Jackie Redmond was wearing heels when she was interviewing him. Amazing.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Did I just hear that right? Ekblad played with a broken foot, dislocated shoulder and a torn oblique since the Boston series.

 

[Patrik26]

Did I just hear that right? Ekblad played with a broken foot, dislocated shoulder and a torn oblique since the Boston series.

I missed that ... freaking A/C kicked in and volume was low. I noticed Jackie Redmonds' reaction though. That's insane.

 

[Saugus]

Of all players, Reilly Smith randomly ends up with the Cup clinching goal, having scored the fourth goal in a 9-3 rout.

 

[Devs3cups]

Someday soon that’s going to be Nico lifting the Cup for us, and it’s going to be glorious.

 

[njdevils1982]

antonio banderas satisfied gif

 

[Dialamo]

Did I just hear that right? Ekblad played with a broken foot, dislocated shoulder and a torn oblique since the Boston series.

A lot of people make fun of his play, but are unaware of the injury troubles he has had over the course of his career. I honestly feel bad for him.

 

[Brodeur]

Fighting the temptation to bump some old Facebook posts from a high school friend who lives in Vegas now. He was anti-Eichel/Pietrangelo and complained that the team would be better with Tuch, Krebs, and Schmidt.

Edit: Bah, he preemptively admitted that he was very wrong.

 

[njdevils1982]

well then so closes another season for the neverglades... and with that ladies and gentlemen, once again,

THE GREAT PRETENDERS.

 

[Camille the Eel]

In the end, feeling it was such a crappy and disappointing final and that this playoff season ended so oddly. Vegas is an impressive club but was or wasn’t Florida worthy of coming out the east? Did injuries just get them in the end, were they a legit club or just another Montreal from 2 years back on an improbable run?

It all seems to have lasted too long, the 9 day break before the finals really broke any flow, and I wonder why I fell for watching and listening to this stuff for so long with interest.

Seeing that garbage time at the end. The TV guys telling “score” on empty netters . . . What a let down. One of the least satisfying, maybe the least satisfying final I can remember.

 

[MasterofGrond]

i thought the first two rounds were pretty damn good

last two were snoozefest