Official 2022 Lord Stanley Cup Playoffs Thread

[MikelArteta]

Tippett would have still had separated draisatl and mcdavid

 

[DANKTHRONE]

Tippett wouldn't have made the playoffs

 

[PortCityProphet]

That shorthanded goal

 

[Regular_P]

Depend on Mike Smith, brehs.

 

[MushroomX]

I just saw Edmonton botch a save. Guy needs to get his vision checked.

 

[BucciMane]

Karma for Mike Smith being a dirty flopper for most of his career.

 

[Rell Lauren]

 

[PortCityProphet]

Damn entertaining last period

 

[MikelArteta]

Oilers up 3-1
With shoddy goaltending and only two lines

Mcdavid on the ice for like half the game

 

[MikelArteta]

I’m still laughing at the San Jose sharks what a dumb ass franchise. No wonder their liquored up gm had to “step down”

Cutting a in prime power forward who was a constant 30 goal scorer playing with bums

 

[JLova]

I’m still laughing at the San Jose sharks what a dumb ass franchise. No wonder their liquored up gm had to “step down”

Cutting a in prime power forward who was a constant 30 goal scorer playing with bums

The allegations were terrible. I get it. They couldn’t trade him.

 

[the next guy]

Yeah I wasn't talking the original Hornets, I was talking their return in '14. I was living in Charlotte when they returned and I get the reasons why. They have a solid following in the city but it isn't as strong as I'd expected, and it isn't stronger than The Canes are here...

Raleigh could support the Hornets and in an alternate reality where there was ever serious progression towards Raleigh needing an arena to land them, I think it'd happen. I've also lived in Memphis and the Grizzlies have been there for 21 years as a basketball-first city with the Tigers being the legacy draw in town, they are HUGE in Memphis. New Orleans has supported two different basketball franchises in the last 20 years with the Saints being a bigger draw and New Orleans City being a major domestic tourism magnet....

Living in both Charlotte first and Raleigh the last three years, Raleigh is a basketball city on every level. Prep/AAU, to of course college, and even pro, without an NBA team here there's major basketball discussion and following. Charlotte is opposite, it's a football city from the youth up. The Hornets are now middle of the pack in attendance which is a plus for them, but I have no doubt they'd draw better here, no doubt at all...

Its all a hypothetical and I appreciate and understand your points made!







How did yall become hockey heads? Especially you Port being from Alabama lol. First of all are all of you black, and what's the black following like in your hometowns? Gotta ask, @Regular_P was silently white for years on here and I didn't know, gotta go in the archives to see if he dropped any n-bombs (I'm kidding P)...

Now that I've even begun following hockey on the most casual of levels, it's interesting to me to see black folk who are into it. I'd assume there are more black followers in the Northeast than anywhere else because of hockey's base up north and Canada, but I lived in the Northeast before too as I mentioned upthread (Elmira, then Albany NY). Again I wasn't seeking out black fans then and it was a decade ago, but I do know brothers weren't randomly discussing hockey the way we talked about other sports...

It's just interesting to me! Oh yeah Cabes are trash, is there any precedent in recent history of a team being so Jekyll and Hyde in home-to-road performance?

Grew up in Canada, still watch the sport closely. Its I connected with people on.

 

[puckkhead]

shocked that panthers were swept four straight...i thought they would go all the way this year...

 

[Rell Lauren]

Oh my God at that goal by Mackinnon. Wow. Skill.

 

[Regular_P]

@FireMikelArteta that's why I've always maintained MacKinnon is that guy. Him and McJesus are clearly the two best players in the league by a wide margin.