NHL Hockey thread

[Grey Fox]

It's fair. Gotta celebrate beating Goliath once in a while.

[Jacob]

That's kind of hilarious 

[Jacob]

Denmark beat Sweden as well, for the first time ever in the World Cup.

[saskganesh]

Always love for the Lettish. Wonderful baltic burn there.

Happy about the Jets, who have not beaten the Oilers in the playoffs since 1979.

[viper37]

Denmark beat Sweden as well, for the first time ever in the World Cup.

World Cup is always kinda off the radar because it coincides with the NHL playoffs and the best players are often not participating.

But it's losing an important game in the olympics to an unknown entity that sucks.  I'm not sure Sweden has yet gotten over their loss against Belarus in the Salt Lake City olympics so many years ago

[Jacob]

World Cup is always kinda off the radar because it coincides with the NHL playoffs and the best players are often not participating.

But it's losing an important game in the olympics to an unknown entity that sucks.  I'm not sure Sweden has yet gotten over their loss against Belarus in the Salt Lake City olympics so many years ago

Oh Sweden knows Denmark alright. And they know they're better than us

[Barrister]

Always love for the Lettish. Wonderful baltic burn there.

Happy about the Jets, who have not beaten the Oilers in the playoffs since 1979.

They haven't beaten them yet!

Edit: The last time the Jets and Oilers played in the playoffs was 1990.  Jets eventually led the series 3 games to 1 after a double-OT thriller in game 4.

Oilers went on to win the next three straight and then won the Stanley Cup.

This thing 'aint over till it's over.  2 games to zero is nothing.

[Grey Fox]

Disaster is striking in Edmonton, except in the BBs household were it's celebration all around.

Go Jets!

[Barrister]

Disaster is striking in Edmonton, except in the BBs household were it's celebration all around.

Go Jets!

That. Was. Epic!!!!!11111

I mean I still had the game on but had mostly written the Jets off tonight.  But then they come back from 4-1 with 10 minutes left, score 3 goals in 3 minutes, then score again in OT to take a 3-0 series win.  Holy shit - that was one of the best hockey games I've ever watched in my life.

Edit: celebrating with my son Tim was everything I hoped being a dad would be like.

[Valmy]

Edit: celebrating with my son Tim was everything I hoped being a dad would be like.

Yeah I took my kids to watch Texas beat West Virginia and win the Big 12 Baseball title last Saturday. That was everything I hoped it would be when I dreamed of taking my kids to sporting events

Anyway the Caps have reverted to an even more pathetic and chokier version of their past selves since 2018. This is brutal man, they barely even put up a fight anymore. Three straight first round exits, each one more uninspired than the last. I did not even watch the last two games man. Ah well, at least they had a 2018 that can last me a few decades.

[Barrister]

Okay, so Oilers-Jets went into 3 OTs before a winner was decided.

I have to admit - I tapped out at midnight after 2 OTs (100 minutes of hockey, or just over 4 hours since puck drop).  I had an 8:30 pre-trial and went to bed.

Of course now this morning I learn that the Jets Kyle Connor did score to win the game late in the 3rd OT to give he Jets the win, and to sweep the series 4 wins to 0.

Listening to Edmonton sports talk radio on my drive in this morning was a hoot.   

[Grey Fox]

#FreeMcDavid.

I'll never understand how McD thought signing an 8 year contract with that organization was a good idea. He owned them nothing.

[Barrister]

#FreeMcDavid.

I'll never understand how McD thought signing an 8 year contract with that organization was a good idea. He owned them nothing.

He wanted to be the next Gretzky.  He wanted to not only win championships, but take a sad-sack team and lead them to greatness.

Easy to want, hard to do.

Oilers really need more depth to win anything though.  In particular in Winnipeg when the Jets had last change, they just put the checking line of Lowry-Copp-Appleton on McDavid's line every time and were fairly successful in shutting them down.

[Grey Fox]

Even Gretzky wasn't successful at that.

[Barrister]

Whats McDavid going to do anyways?

He carries a $12.5 mil salary cap hit for the next five years.  While every tea, would want McDavid, in a flat cap world it would be extremely hard for the Oilers to trade him.  And McDavid values his squeaky-clean, good-Canadian-boy image so he'd never go public in any kind of trade request.

Oilers have him under salary for 5 years.  If they don't do something in that time he can sign as a free agent at age 28 and make all the money in the world with any team he wants.