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The play in question:
In related news, Nazem Kadri has been suspended for the remainder of the playoffs for Spurgeon's hit.
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This is why I'm rooting for St. Louis Blues to win this series. I'm certainly no Blues fan but I just don't want to risk the Avs playing the dirty-as-fuck Minnesota team in 2nd round.
Watched bits and pieces of the first 4 playoff games last night. Didn't expect all but one of them to be such blowouts (who had two 4+ point shutouts on their bingo card?)
Watched bits and pieces of the first 4 playoff games last night. Didn't expect all but one of them to be such blowouts (who had two 4+ point shutouts on their bingo card?)
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I'm not sure I can actually root for a St Louis team given my Chicago roots, but it certainly removes the mild partisanship I felt for the Wild.
More on the non-suspension.
This logic kills me every time I see the NHL use it:
I kind of understand the 2-min vs 4-min high-sticking distinction based solely on the appearance of blood, as no one wants the league making federal cases out of relatively routine events. But I don't give two shits about whether Buchnevich was injured--Spurgeon clearly intended to injure him. To not suspend him is an abdication of duty by the Dept of Player Safety.Despite the apparent intent on the play, Spurgeon avoided suspension, primarily because Buchnevich was not injured on the play. The Blues winger returned to play on the ensuing power play in Game 1, which St. Louis won to take a 1-0 series lead.
Now St Louis is likely to try to take his (or Kaprizov's) head off tomorrow.
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Yup. One of my biggest frustrations. The league could easily make the games safer. But they don't really want to. I grind my teeth every time the announcers follow up a conversation on fights and hits within a game with "this is good hockey". Or they lament someone being injured after clearly supporting the violence.
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The Montreal Canadiens will have the No. 1 pick in the 2022 NHL Draft after winning the NHL Draft Lottery on Tuesday.
The New Jersey Devils won the No. 2 pick, and the Arizona Coyotes have the No. 3 pick.
The Canadiens, who at 18.5 percent had the best chance of winning the lottery, will pick No. 1 for the sixth time, the first since selecting forward Doug Wickenheiser in the 1980 NHL Draft.
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Yeah, rooting not so much for the Leafs as against the Bolts. TNT flashed a stat on screen: Toronto is on an 8-game losing streak when it comes to closeout games (a nice way of calling them choke artists).
Edit: well, make that 9 games.
Also rooting for LA to finish off Edmonton but that one may be a taller order.
Also, LOL:
Edit: well, make that 9 games.
Also rooting for LA to finish off Edmonton but that one may be a taller order.
Also, LOL:
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JOHNNY HOCKEY!!!!
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And the only reason game 7 wasn't a blowout.
From The Athletic:
Oettinger, more than anything, was the obstacle for the Flames to get past. He entered the game with a .954 save percentage in the series. On Sunday, the Flames heavily outplayed Dallas — that’s an understatement — dominating them 134-59 in all situations by night’s end. Their 67-28 shot differential was the widest margin in any Game 7 played in the league. The Flames had 22 high danger chances and 5.49 expected goals for, according to Natural Stat Trick.
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Yep.Zaxxon wrote: ↑Mon May 16, 2022 10:39 amAnd the only reason game 7 wasn't a blowout.
From The Athletic:
Oettinger, more than anything, was the obstacle for the Flames to get past. He entered the game with a .954 save percentage in the series. On Sunday, the Flames heavily outplayed Dallas — that’s an understatement — dominating them 134-59 in all situations by night’s end. Their 67-28 shot differential was the widest margin in any Game 7 played in the league. The Flames had 22 high danger chances and 5.49 expected goals for, according to Natural Stat Trick.
I mean, Jacob Markstrom was really good in his own right. 1.53 GAA and a .943 SV%. But he was definitely overshadowed by Oettinger's heroics.
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That game was nuts.
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Also, RIP Panthers.
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Calgary Flames score shorthanded...132ft from their own zone.
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That’s why they always tell you to just get it toward the net.
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On May 27, 2009, Darren Helm scored the series-winning goal in OT to send Detroit Red Wings to Western Conference Finals.
13 years later, to the day (as in, yesterday), he once again scored a series-winning goal with 5.6 seconds left in regulation to send Colorado Avalanche to the Western Conference Finals.
Funny how history sometimes repeats itself!
13 years later, to the day (as in, yesterday), he once again scored a series-winning goal with 5.6 seconds left in regulation to send Colorado Avalanche to the Western Conference Finals.
Funny how history sometimes repeats itself!
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Avs all the way. Screw the Bolts.
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Yeah, I've loved the Avs since the legendary 90's matchups with the fantastic Red Wings teams. I still love the uni's.
#3 for me behind the Kings and Sharks (essentially my home teams, as I was living in LA when Gretzky was traded to the Kings)...
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Colorado Avalanche are the 2022 Stanley Cup champions after they beat Tampa Bay in game 6. Woo-hoo!
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My daughter right after the final buzzer: THERE'S TOO MANY MEN ON THE ICE!
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