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Fukui San
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I look forward to their upcoming rivalry against Anaheim, the Kraken vs. the Quacken.

roamyn
roamyn

The year isn’t even a qtr of the way over, but you’d be hard pressed to find a better story than a 42yr old kidney transplant survivor and Zamboni driver for an AHL team, winning as an emergency goali

xaxat
xaxat

I feel bad for the NHL now. Their calendar allows the NFL to operate pretty close to business as normal. Sports writers and commentators are poring over the minute details of re-opening proposals offe

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Maximum Taco

Maximum Taco

Pens are coming up CLUTCH, Bonino in game 1, Sheary in game 2. Sharks just don't have the clincher when they need it. But as everyone always says, you aren't in trouble until you lose at home. San Jose can easily have this tied by the time they head back to Pittsburgh for Game 5.

But the Pens are 2 wins away from the Cup! And that puts me 2 wins away from winning my bracket!!

Let's Go Pens!!!

Maximum Taco

Maximum Taco

The Pittsburgh Penguins are Stanley Cup Champions again!

Thanks Pens, for winning my bracket for me. You guys rock.

I think Kessel should've won the Conn Smythe, but Crosby was a good choice too, Letang also would've been.

Congrats Pens, Congrats Pens fans, I was happy to number myself among you for these playoffs. Now that it's over though: Go Leafs! Boo everyone else!

Carey

Carey

What a night!  I didn't get to enjoy it as much as I did in 2009, but for me, it made up for what has been a rather awful week. Pretty quiet, but nice to see the Pens look and play like they were the best team in the league.  Loved the underdog role from late last decade but this time, Pittsburgh looked like a team that was going to have great things come their way over the next several years.  Coach Sullivan running things is pure awesomeness

 

Agreed on how San Jose wasn't going to score. It was pretty much what happened with Tampa. They get momentum to achieve a tie, and that goes away before one could even tweet or post about it.  The Penguins opponent would not score again. Meh on Crosby winning The Conn Smythe but similar to where the Pens won it all, I don't care. Amazing how there were a few that actually were okay with a Pens loss so they could win it at home on Wednesday.  No thanks to that!

 

Hopefully next year, if Pittsburgh can stay true to form and improve, they'll get Chicago.  If things are close, however, the league might make that happen. Don't agree with that, but it would be great for the NHL to see Sid vs Kane

dkb

dkb

I got to go to the USA v Czech Republic game tonight, my first hockey game at the ACC! I felt bad for the American's, most of the people in our section we were cheering for the Czech's and were actively booing them. It felt like they were totally over it, which I kind of understand but I thought they would be a little more aggressive so that they don't lose all their games.

 

One dude was yelling "Kessel, Kessel" at the US, which was pretty funny.

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xaxat

OK NHL, you need to get your act together and program an actual "opening night" for the season. 

The defending champions with Sydney Crosby didn't play. Connor McDavid's Oilers aren't a national game. Ovechkin and the President's Trophy winning Caps? Nope.

I understand the hockey's ratings are driven by local markets, but that will always be the case unless you market the few guys that people who are "kind of" hockey fans have heard of better.

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Daisy

9 hours ago, xaxat said:

OK NHL, you need to get your act together and program an actual "opening night" for the season. 

The defending champions with Sydney Crosby didn't play. Connor McDavid's Oilers aren't a national game. Ovechkin and the President's Trophy winning Caps? Nope.

I understand the hockey's ratings are driven by local markets, but that will always be the case unless you market the few guys that people who are "kind of" hockey fans have heard of better.

Even if the Penguins played last night, Crosby wouldn't have been a part of it as he's suffering a concussion. With everything else, probably, but that's not on the NHL - that's on NBC. Honestly, when the new television contract comes up, I hope that ESPN buys the rights because I personally feel they would do it right (so does a lot of media etc, but who knows hot that fire burns). but it has long been established that the League bows down to NBC (to the detriment of the NHL, but they are trying to keep the hand that feeds them happy), and not the other way around. and in America when you are the third loved sport nationally, I truly don't know how much power the NHL can invoke. 

And for as long as I've been a fan  the NHL never hyped uph the "first night" of the season - they push the entire week as opening night (like that's what they call it "Face Off Week" ) and basically all the major rivalries faceoff the first 4 days. 

(I was going to say, and the McDavid game was a national game.. but then I realised it was only national in Canada, hence your chiding). 

but History was made yesterday - Toronto Maple Leafs's Auston Matthews scored 4 goals in his debut game. first player to ever do that (and so naturally first 1st overall pick to do that). naturally - Toronto is buzzed right now.  

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Maximum Taco

Maximum Taco

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The NHL is terrible at US marketing. They simply do not know what they are doing. It would be so easy to set up a Pittsburgh/San Jose rematch, and on the last day of the season every team plays, it should be like that on the first day too. Everyone should play on day 1. And emphasize rivalries, Toronto/Ottawa and Calgary/Edmonton is good, but how about Vancouver/Chicago, Montreal/Boston, NYI/NYR? Come on NHL get your game together, this is why you are the worst league of the big 4.

But I don't care cause my favourite team's draft pick scored 4 goals in his debut!!! I love you Auston Matthews. Never leave. I want to see you hoist the cup, and when I am an old man I want to see #34 hang from the rafters beside 27, 13, 93 and 17. Never leave.

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Daisy

Daisy

Is there any sport though where everyone plays game one? I can't even think off the top of my head if there's a game if that happens during the season (and if it does it's super rare). there are also building availabilities and traveling and all of that stuff. 

I also know (talking to a former NHL exec) - they don't want to have a repeat of the Cup Finalists (because they can pump that during the season when it is needed most AND they can cash in on the more natural-grown rivalries of the teams that got there). And Again. the NHL bows to NBC,, vs. NBC bows to NHL and the schedule makers like some of the stuff they have on rivalry night really makes me raise an eyebrow, but that's what NBC wants. and to keep the dollars that's what the NHL will continue to do. 

I would say that what showed last night:
Ottawa/Toronto (though it's very bland now)
Calgary/Edmonton
Chicago/St Louis (esp with their last 4 years of playoff history)
LA/San Jose 

are great "welcome back to the League" games.
you've got the "last 2 cup winners before Pittsburgh and got eliminated by the weaker sisters" matchup. (and SJ/ST Louis won. boy does Chicago look off). so there's your drama. 

You've got an Canadian 19 year old Super Stud vs. Johnny Hockey in a massive rivalry (and it was very gong-show looking lol)
and you've got an American  19 year old Super Stud just. wow. (please don't ever leave Auston). I think personally, the League got it right. but i'm not who they target so maybe i'm wrong. 

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dkb

On 10/13/2016 at 10:05 AM, Maximum Taco said:

But I don't care cause my favourite team's draft pick scored 4 goals in his debut!!! I love you Auston Matthews. Never leave. I want to see you hoist the cup, and when I am an old man I want to see #34 hang from the rafters beside 27, 13, 93 and 17. Never leave.

 

On 10/13/2016 at 1:10 PM, Daisy said:

You've got an Canadian 19 year old Super Stud vs. Johnny Hockey in a massive rivalry (and it was very gong-show looking lol)
and you've got an American  19 year old Super Stud just. wow. (please don't ever leave Auston). I think personally, the League got it right. but i'm not who they target so maybe i'm wrong. 

I echo these sentiments, please don't ever ever leave us Auston! 

Of course we would still lose after that stellar game from Auston Matthews. Oh Leafs.

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