I almost posted about how Ovie's gonna be #2 in goals soon and will likely surpass Gretzky in "Other Sports," but I don't think the NHL is THAT down bad yet.
Yet.
Anyway, Boston and New Jersey are insanely good, my Rangers are meh at best, and Connor McDavid is the best player in the league right now.
End of an era in Los Angeles, as Jonathan Quick was traded to Columbus as part of a deal to get goalie Joonas Korpisalo and LHD Vladislav Gavrikov.
Quick has been atrocious this year, so much so that the Kings elevated AHL goalie Pheonix Copley and have been riding him for most of the season. Cal Petersen was supposed to take over for Quick, and was so bad himself that he's been banished to the AHL with no sign of return.
Both Korpisalo and Gavrikov are UFAs after this year, so we'll see if either is more than a rental. Given the Kings' goalie situation though, have to imagine they're going to work to keep Korpisalo if he's even halfway competent in net the rest of the way this season.
The move also opened up further cap space, leaving some speculation that the team might not be done yet.
WHY
WHO ASKED FOR THIS?
Did they not realize that the Nickelodeon X-Mas game worked because they had Patrick dunking on one of the teams?
LA is up to 89 points, just one behind VGK for the Western Conference lead.
He's only played 3 games for the Kings, but Joonas Korpisalo has been as advertised. Hopefully he can be that guy going forward, and the Kings can nail him down with a contract extension and put an end to our goalie anxiety.
Everyone on the Kings (and the Stars and Kraken) wore the Pride jerseys with zero incident.
And the Kings do have a (recently-acquired) Russian player, Vladislav Gavrikov, who has played on the Russian national team. He wore it.
And what a jersey it was:
Pheonix is... a joke.
By the way, I know hockey wives are notoriously beautiful, but some of the women in the Premier League are puck stoppingly beautiful as well.
Kings win Game 1 in an overtime thriller in Edmonton. Oh it's gonna be a stressful series.
Sure would be nice to play against Edmonton full strength for once. Last year it was no Doughty or Arvidsson. This year, Fiala and Vilardi are out (for now, supposedly returning at some point in the series). That's 51 goals right there. Let's see how Edmonton would fare without Draisaitl.
Also, as is tradition...
f**k Evander Kane and f**k any franchise that would still employ him in $CURRENT_YEAR.
Fiala ... out
On that note, Brock Faber stopped an overtime winner from going into a wide open net in his third NHL game.
I'll not be listening to your slander of our beloved scoring machine.
I'm very much looking forward to my dear Leafs losing to Tampa again, probably in 7, again.
I was all ready to be happy that Seattle was beating Colorado until I realized that Dave Hakstol is their coach. Boo. Now, I hope their entire team develops very uncomfortable hemorrhoids.
Fiala's been back for 1 period and he's scored an assist, drawn a penalty, and notched a second assist on the power play from that penalty.
TIL that the Seattle Kraken are a thing and that they are already relocating to Oklahoma City. Do they even have ice there?
I'm very much looking forward to my dear Leafs losing to Tampa again, probably in 7, again.
Or building up for epic disappointment? Who knows, even a blind squirrel can find a nut sometimes.
Mixolyde wrote:TIL that the Seattle Kraken are a thing and that they are already relocating to Oklahoma City. Do they even have ice there?
You almost had me.
Sorry, turned out that article I saw was from a humor/satire site. *sigh* Can't trust anything on the internet anymore!
Prederick wrote:Mixolyde wrote:TIL that the Seattle Kraken are a thing and that they are already relocating to Oklahoma City. Do they even have ice there?
You almost had me.
Sorry, turned out that article I saw was from a humor/satire site. *sigh* Can't trust anything on the internet anymore!
The best ones have that little kernel of truth in them.
This one was clearly written by a Seattle Supersonics fan.
Guess I am a Kraken fan now. How can you not love this story. Also I am already a Seattle Garages fan and just finished that Jon Bois documentary on the Mariners, so why not be a fan of more teams from a city I have never been to?
.............it's kinda nuts that Disney made a children's movie about hockey that was so popular, they made an expansion hockey team based on it, and they even won the Stanley Cup, right?
The 90s were wild, man.
The NFL put a football team in Jacksonville.
Prederick wrote:.............it's kinda nuts that Disney made a children's movie about hockey that was so popular, they made an expansion hockey team based on it, and they even won the Stanley Cup, right?
The 90s were wild, man.
The NFL put a football team in Jacksonville.
And the first finals they went to, they lost to the team Wayne Gretzky labeled a "Mickey Mouse organization."
As a Devils fan, I have no idea what's going on, this is not what I expected going into Game 6, let alone even getting to a Game 6.
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