***Official 2018-19 NHL Season Thread***
 

The puck drops tonight!!!

Damn, with all the Chiefs fun, the season has crept up on me. Looking forward to it.

And **** the Wild. :)

In for another year. Lets go Pens!

***Official 2018-19 NHL Season Thread***
 

Hockey is back! PBJ

Tom Wilson suspended 20 games for this hit in the preseason... the media seems to think he has pretty good potential, but every time I see him he's being a douchebag.


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10.3.2018

Odds to win Stanley Cup

Oops.

Pretty crazy suspension of Wilson. I guess credit to the league for starting to seem serious about head injuries.

Meh. It's not like these threads stay at the top very long with all of the Mahomes excitement.

Tavares with his first goal as a Leaf, they're going to be a fun team to watch.

I swear the play the Wild like 20 times per season.

Read something in THN about teams that have taken a big leap in the standings, and how a team like the Senators should have known by advanced stats how they weren't really a conference finals team, and shouldn't have gone all-in..... and they mentioned the Avalanche, Knights, and Devils, saying they all stayed the course this offseason and didn't do anything crazy.... and at the same time, missing the playoffs isn't necessarily a step back (unless they have like a 48 point season).

Thought it was an interesting take... even now I'm not sure what to think of the Golden Knights.

And as far as the Avalanche, I'm sadly looking forward to Saturday far more than the opener... **** the Wild.

Auston Matthews has 7 goals in 3 season openers.

If I was an Avalanche fan, this would be the greatest season ever. They can take a stab at getting in the playoffs and rolling the dice, while the Sens are floundering to a lottery pick. Imagine being a playoff team that drafts Jack Hughes 1st overall... Horrifying fail for Ottawa and Duchene, (who goes from one dumpster fire to another).

Penguins have had a full summer off, so I'm hoping that revitalizes them for another playoff run.

The puck's already been dropped, bitch: http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=317910

I'll go into the box for about 2 minutes... and feel shame.

I searched the lounge for a thread but nothing came up. The ****...

Well, if nothing else, 3 people creating the Official thread shows there's some interest this season... and that no one checks the 2nd page. LMAO

... well I wasn't gonna scan page by page and thought a search would suffice.

Then I think about it and I must have set the parameters to "Six months and older." :facepalm:

What a ****ing meltdown

**** the Wild

Amen. Good showing for the Avs tonight.

.. yeah **** the Wild.

Blues fire Yeo. Craig Berube named interim coach.

As I recall, Yeo called his own firing earlier this year. I thought EDM's McClellan to Hitchcock move was more interesting.

Flyers just hired ex Wild GM Chuck Fletcher for GM. Sighs

NHL to Seattle is official. Starts 2021.

http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/2...nchise-seattle

Took their time making that one official.

Seattle had to finalize their Arena reno before it became official, but yeah, this has been pretty obvious for a couple of years.
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but Bettman is improving the league. All he needs now is to save the Senators, (to keep the franchise prices where they are), and a significant upgrade in the TV contracts/ coverage.
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Welcome to the Thunderdome, Arizona.

I would rather seen the league move Edmonton and Calgary to the Central and Colorado to the Pacific for travel purposes, but whatever.

Well, as long as he's done expanding for a bit.

And I just saw a quote from him yesterday about the pending lockout in a couple seasons, saying "the players know when it expires, nothing is being done, it's in their court". :banghead:


It'll bring the Avalanche here more often. And hopefully they always play the Wild on Wednesday nights.

Beautiful little hit on Tom Wilson last night. He's due about 40+ more of these, by my count.

https://i.imgur.com/Nt3mTRV.gif

https://deadspin.com/ryan-reaves-inj...hit-1830875006

Nice. First one isn't bad, either. Douche.

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Dilly Dilly to Reaves for planting that jackass.

Anyone watching the Cats/Blues ?

Leafs/Canes for me. When are the Blues gonna trade Pietrangelo to the Leafs for Zaitzev. Do I have to wait until he's off IR?

Man, by my biased eyes Wilson was coming for him and he reversed on that jackass.

You cannot in fact, score off a ref's dick 'n balls.

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It was funny until I realized it probably seriously damaged his actual dick 'n balls. (I don't believe the refs wear cups).

I've taken plenty of pucks off he hips, arms, knees, and TOO many off the shins from my players. Happy that the jewels remain safe. So far.

They do. I frequently don't when I'm coaching instead of playing, but I might now!

I was at the game, and it happened right across from us. Pretty comical.

The ref's beanbag has as many goals as Pat Maroon does...

I should not laugh. But it was Tim Peel.

Wow, the end of the Blues game was AMAZING!! WOW!!!

Skate-off shorty.

And many of us learned a rule that I'm sure few of us ever knew.

Go Bolts! Going for 9 straight tomorrow.

Flyers FINALLY fire Hasktol.

In a perfect world, I'd be headed to KU/ASU tonight... but, decent seats are kind of insane. Avalanche/Yotes is a good consolation though... maybe the Avs can bounce back from the lowly Blackhawks, despite the back to back games.

Uhhhhh so how about those Blues, yea?

Man, we just got home and watched the OT, and them dudes, on both teams, were friggin TIRED... Wow...

I'm having trouble reconciling the Avs team that looked great for the first two months with the dumpster fire they have become. Bizarre.

Yeah, something like 3-15 since mid-December, with an OT loss or two in there. :shake:

If it wasn't for the Stars and Knights winning a few games lately, the entire WC would be a dumpster fire.... they should just start the playoffs with the top two teams in each division, definitely no need for the wild cards.


On another note, the Leafs got Matthews signed... they have the money to sign Marner and Matthews will get his insane contract a couple years early.

Bolts exhausted themselves shooting wide of the net.

The routine (for them) half-ice tape-to-tape passes they were missing in OT suggests there was a lot going wide.

It's pretty telling when you see those guys missing those passes. And not in a bad way, it tells me that both teams must have skated their living asses off in the 3rd.

Hats off to both teams, they really did leave it all on the ice.

Avs fans shouldn't be fans of the Matthews signing, (as a Leafs fan, I'm not fond of it) - it sets the table for all other RFAs getting big money and minimal term.
Rantanen & Co. will probably wait until the Leafs overpay Marner to negotiate their contract.
The Matthews deal has set a bad trend on contracts - IMO.

Fun game in Nashville.

How 'BOUT THAT goal... Woot!!!

Love me some Subban, but today was the Blues' day...

Nothing fun about watching Jake "Alexsmith" Allen trip over his dick in big games.

8 straight wins for the Blues!

1 straight win for the Avs (which kind of seems like about the same level of accomplishment right now)!

:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

LMAO

And against the Jets of all teams... on the road. :spock:


The Leafs play in Phoenix tomorrow... I'd really like to see them live, but tickets that are normally $50-60 on the secondary market are $140+, since they jack up face value for "premier" games to like $180 for lower level.

I'd like to see the Leafs live too but the average price of a ticket in Toronto is $368.60.

The Leafs played in Vegas on Valentines Day and it looked like over 50% of the crowd were wearing Leaf jerseys.
"Hey honey, for Valentines Day we're goin' to Vegas!!! and we're going to the Leafs game..."

Every year me and about 17 buddies head down to Vaygus for a boys trip.

Hardrock. Rooftop. Pool. Side. Villas.

I've never seen so much **** in my life! Anybody tell you they've seen more **** than that's a liar!

Vegas tickets are insane, too.

Looks pretty packed in Phoenix, a lot of blue. Through the 1st period, not worth $275 it would have taken for a pair of lower level tickets.

I always look to see if a team is on the 2nd of a back to back... neither of these teams played last night, yet the Leafs still only have 6 shots more than halfway through the game. :shake:

IMO - Whether the Coyotes are playing a team on the end of a back to back, or against a team that's just played Vegas, it doesn't seem to doesn't seem matter. There will be a hangover either way.
That said, it's a good thing you didn't go see it live. It seemed like a pretty slow and clunky game overall.

4-0 Blues.

****. The. Wild.

Flyers look like they have finally found themselves a goalie.

They've played 8 of them.

It's ruining their lottery pick chances, but yes, he seems like the real deal.

So the Blues are flat out dominating teams during this streak.

I’m riding this hype train through June.

The Cup is coming to St. Louis.

Tuesday night was really exciting, and I'd say dominating wasn't the case.

And I gotta thank that official for standing where he was in OT, I think that was a huge part of our OT goal..

Wheels have come off in this second period. Jesus.

It was like all of a sudden there were no tracks under them, just a creek...

https://media.giphy.com/media/JYEEdjzlsb280/giphy.gif

3 team fight for the Central now, that 2v3 series in the Central is going to be a hell of a first round battle.

Duchene to the CBJ's.

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I'm actually happy that he's getting out of the shithole that is Ottawa. I was a bit sour on him for how he left the Avs, but he served his punishment. I'm also glad we'll almost certainly get a huge player for him in next year's draft.

Damn, a Duchene/Panarin pairing would be fun to watch.

Certainly helps solidify the Sens' draft position, he's having a pretty decent year.

Great haul for a rental, not bad for Columbus if he stays. He might clash with Tortorella.