NO MORE FLORIDA MEN PLEASE: THE NHL 2024-2025 SEASON THRED (INC PANTHERS HANGOVER & SALARY CAP CONFUSION HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

No one wants a Florida repeat amirite dudes

I kinda like their jerseys

How strongly did Sidney Crosby demand that the cap hit on his new contract (8.7M) match his number (87) ?

Wings signed Lucas Raymond to an 8 year deal, that is good now do Seider plz

Their colors are very nice i like the kitty cat on their jerseys xp

kyle okposo has retired

xxp crosby's salary has been $8.7m basically since his rookie contract expired back in the 2000s. i think it was kind of a joke back in the day when that was a high number but now he doesn't really seem to care that much about money? needless to say, i love him

oh that’s funny that he managed to keep it that way his whole career

who had dylan guenther for first utah hockey club goal

btw crosby was born on 8/7/87 which is where all this 87 stuff comes from

Apparently I can watch all the Stars games for free on their new streaming service. Maybe have to finally give hockey a chance.

they're pretty good! probably an ideal time to give it a go

We got goalie goal

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5846676/2024/10/16/wild-filip-gustavsson-goalie-goal/

This year for me is all about having fun watching Michkov hopefully grow into a star.

Still hate this Flyers organization/front office with a passion and think they haven't a clue.

evgeni malkin now leading the league in scoring (2-9-11 in five games)

tristan jarry *not* leading the league in save %

roughly midway through a scoreless game in edmonton, the penguins are being out-shot 31-8

needless to say, it did not end scoreless

wicked burn in the nyt crossword today

27D: Vessel that hasn't crossed the Canadian border since 1993

not accurate, but yes that's well met, New York (1994)

oh yeah, technically incorrect, but still

First game listening with the sound on this season *waves arms at NY political commercial dogshit* and let me tell you the rangers’ booth is truly the sign of a declining empire. Hang em up boys.

fuck jeremy roenick

how about them jets

haven't watched a rangers game on MSG in forever (i no longer have cable and am blacked out on espn+) but just saw this clip of gabe villardi's great goal against them and yeah, sam rosen does not sound well.

this is his final season, at least; let's hope he can go out with just the one cup in forty years in the booth

penguins are absolutely cooked

quite a run though. they have been resisting the rebuild for awhile.

islanders somehow getting by despite injuries to nearly a third of their opening day lineup.

can't say it pleases me, but man ovechkin is running amok

I am deeply emotionally involved in Ovi's season this year and I am deeply concerned about the injury.

I have super mixed feelings about him but as a lifelong Capitals fan it’s hard not to have a major soft spot for the dude.

Week to Week but a proper medical eval tomorrow when they're back in DC. This team this year has been a shock and I don't want anything to mess with that momentum.

all three 2023 jack adams coach of the year finalists have now, 18 months later, been fired

one bad start / long losing streak and you are toast

like it doesn’t matter that Montgomery went 120-41-23 in his coaching tenure

In that vein, lots of Wings fans calling for Lalonde's head now too

what will it take for them to call for stevie y's head

I heard his contract got extended to 10 years so idk

Dead Wings 2: The Curse Of Little Caesars

crosby scores 600th goal while getting blown out at home by Utah Hockey Club

Layla plays

penguins have now played 114 regular-season games in boston all-time; tonight they (very improbably) got their 30th win

v. sad to see the rangers in such (still mild) disarray

v. sad to see them dispatch their captain to a bad western team. not sure why anyone would want trouba at $8m/yr, but the ducks are nowhere near the cap, so whatever

v. funny for larry brooks to suggest the rangers were targeting brady tkachuk as a return! fucking be serious, larry (and chris drury for presumably leaking it to him)

almost felt bad for trouba -- apparently his doctor wife still has another year of residency at a hospital in NYC -- but then i remembered all the elbows to the head, so fuck him

Everyone else just fires their coach after a losing streak, this seems more of a downer for the team spirit in general

freeing up space to extend shesterkin is pretty canny tho

I think everyone saw Jim Montgomery as a bit too hasty so Laviolette ain't going nowhere. Ducks got a raw deal here.

man the sabres

^^^

Investing in the Sabres is not a good idea

The Hockey Guy did a video on the Caps and cursed us! Is it exposing some frailties and some goal scoring issues? Absolutely not. It's a Youtuber.

a) someone tell me why elias petterson and j.t. miller hate each other?

b) panthers have 10 SHG; no other team has more than four

c) saw a bit of celebrini vs the oil the other day; seems promising

Lalonde out in Detroit, bout time

the NHL, where you will be fired roughly every 3.5 years but then instantly rehired (often enough by someone who fired you earlier!)

torts: five teams
laviolette: six (including five of the eight metro teams!)
lindy ruff: five (counting buffalo twice)
deboer: five
mclellan: four
maurice: five (counting carolina twice)
bylsma: three
montgomery: three
berube: three
tocchett: three
cassidy: three
sheldon keefe: only two, but i feel like he's gonna go a long way

hitchcock: six (counting dallas twice)
quenneville: five (counting colorado twice)
bowman: five
darryl sutter: five (counting calgary twice)
lemaire: five (counting new jersey three times! because lou lamiorello is insane!)
burns: four
julien: four (counting montreal twice)

feel like laviolette is gonna get a chance to make it seven very soon

i wonder how many times and in how many combinations of teams tortorella and laviolette have faced each other

The pool of people who want to coach in the nhl is not getting any bigger it seems

Caught the second half of that Latvia/Canada game on TV and it was super awesome

Winter classic in Miami lmao

not too often you see a team straight up waive its no. 1 goalie making $5m/yr, but that's where the penguins are (and it's about time)

they've played 46 games this season and have allowed a goal on the first shot faced in nine of them!

That's gonna be an expensive AHL contract

will miss the isles beating up against Jarry

his legacy in pittsburgh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4X0eXbz4TI

<3

so last night the sabres did not have a shot on goal in the third period . . . but they nevertheless scored:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du69htQwz_8

waive tristan jarry --> score a goalie goal

mikko to the canes!

Someone explain to me what Chicago was doing with that trade.

wanted to see an islanders home game around my birthday, and saw they were playing a rare weekend back-to-back at home this past week. drove down from
Boston and to my surprise, they won both games, including a come from behind OT winner against the canes. had great seats, and seeing the players up close really accentuates how fast these guys go all the time. got to see some sweet goals on odd man rushes.

the giant lighthouse in the arena blowing steam and shooting a tracking light when they score is a fun touch. Thought it was also cool that the isles team store had an upcycled gear section which had some really unique and hip designs.

nice!

i have no idea what chicago was doing in the rantanen deal beyond wildly overpaying for a third-round pick

rip utah yeti : /

maybe the takeaway is that teams continue to be eager to trade Taylor Hall

dislike shitting on a(n essentially) pittsburgh kid but j.t. miller sounds like an asshole and also fuck the rangers

Do we know precisely what was the conflict between him and Pettersson? (also fuck the rangers)

i never heard any details, just stereotypes (pettersson the laid-back enigmatic european, miller the intense in-everyone's-face competitor)

there's rumors going around local media of JT getting into a fistfight with a video editor after a game

2 goals and -1 for JT in a 6-3 Rangers loss

cue every single hockey writer demanding a chaotic trade like the NBA just provided

a) an NBA star plays like 85% of every game; an NHL star plays maybe 33%
b) sports writers seem to think news is owed to them
c) i mean i really like mcindoe but its a matter of hours until he complains that the nhl has failed him by its lack of similar trades

Cap is gonna go up to something like $113m in 4 years so maybe then!

a j.t. miller for everyone is possible

it took 1 hour:

https://bsky.app/profile/downgoesbrown.bsky.social/post/3lh6cmmjlzk2a

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/slovenian-stars-kopitar-doncic-will-reunite-in-los-angeles/

I don't understand. Is the argument that blockbuster, illogical and fanbase enraging trades is what the NHL needs? And are they aware that this is so unique and bizarre everyone is losing their minds because of how unique and bizarre it is?

year 45 of my time on earth and bozos still want hockey to be more like basketball

Gukbe otm

a single NBA move really has the power to stop a franchise from being competitive for a decade, NHL doesn't work like that fortunately

starting to think this is going to be the most heated Four Nations tournament ever

https://i.imgur.com/9aDGvLN.jpeg

at least no twines were bulged, i guess

interesting article in the athletic. some of the issues sound similar to the 'crisis' in baseball pitcher injuries

https://i.imgur.com/xcvM5xk.jpeg

Canada’s ‘mind-boggling’ goalie crisis has been a decades-long descent

now watch binnington shut out sweden tonight

chills for mario

That's what they get for holding grudges against Logan Thompson

Super gross

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/article/seattle-dad-charged-after-teen-referees-shoved-to-ice-at-youth-hockey-game/

Guentzel sounds a little like Kessel if you say it fast enough.

why did they ask michelle kwan to do that introduction and why did she agree

As a hockey fan and Canadian, all the events building with unfathomable electricity to McDavid's goal, were emotional beyond belief.

Imagine your BFF suddenly starts openly considering harming you, and reasoning makes it worse. You didn't want it to come to this, but they need to be confronted somehow. A hockey rink in Montréal happens to have an event at the exact right moment. A political, cultural, athletic event they're going to write books about.

(from a bipartisan, sports-relates perspective, what a moment for USA hockey as a whole, bravo)

That McDavid goal was something else. I know he took the pass in stride, but he is so incredibly fast with the puck.

oh man rip mike lange

https://www.nhl.com/penguins/news/mike-lange-colorful-calls-brought-pittsburgh-penguins-hockey-to-life

his schtick could be corny -- he worked for the home team -- but he was a great play-by-play guy, both on radio and tv. and he was never an asshole like jack edwards. and he loved jazz, and hockey, and i will miss him

rip

listening to mikey and the old 29er helped me love to learn listening to hockey on the radio. rip.

go canada.

SMOKED HIM LIKE A CHEAP CIGAR

you love to see it

Yay Canada--woke up the seven-year-old kid in me. (Beautiful goal.)

that was an amazing game, as intense a sporting event as I've seen really

insane stuff by binnington in overtime

prez sure knows how to pick em

Binnington was poetry in motion, some of the most fun I've had watching hockey in years