Subject: Hockey

Winnipeg had Carrot Top turn the siren for game one...it was funny, to me at least.

Toronto sent Ottawa on vacation with a 4-2 on the road. No Carrot required. 

I suspect there were many Vegas fans surprised at Minnesota...they forgot how good the Wild were early in the season with healthy roster...they're not far away at all from going deep in the Cup Finals, for the next few years.

Ray Ferraro does excellent on-ice monologue dialog, so I look forward to his calls...but it occurs to me, that in old old language antiquated names and genealogies, his name means: "King of Fire"...

There must still be a bunch of Stars fans in Minnesota who followed them long before they relocated to Dallas...Minnesota North Stars...loyalty?

After moving to Dallas, they managed to change the name of the team in a way the gave a nod to its history but also made sense for the new location. Dallas Stars is the perfect name. There are examples of keeping the name when it made no sense (Utah Jazz comes to mind). 

I think I read into the Minnesota North Stars being put to sleep, in order to facilitate the beautiful birth of Dallas' fully new NHL squad (legally speaking).

Yeah   a lot of teams got their participation trophy's yesterday

I try to watch hockey games.  Both on TV and live at the arena.  I never see them score.  The announcer has to tell me.  Or, that red light.  Or the fans cheering.

Or the ripple of the net

A lot of the time hockey does look like kaos

it takes a while to figure it out

A while ago, Fox Sports put a sensor in the puck that would be picked up in the video feed. A slow moving puck would have a blue glow around it, and a fast moving puck was given a red tail. It helped to trace the puck, but the hard-core viewers objected. 

Fox Sports Glow Puck

Game 7 between St Louis and Winnipeg headed to second OT. Jets were down 3-1 in the third. 

Playoff hockey is awesome. 

As Ted Baxter would say, "The game is a lot closer than the score indicates."

Three Canadian teams in the second round. Our neighbors to the north hold their collective breath. 

I found trying to follow four playoff NHL games in one day wears hard on your nerves. Two at very most...but yeah, following that puck's EVERY VECTOR.

The multiview option in the "new" televisons is a cool concept that works great for football and baseball. Those sports plod along with flurries of action at predictable intervals. It's almost worthless for basketball and a nightmare for hockey. 

The goalie didn't merely do a 180 and reverse, he went full 360, with one third second pause...

Draisaitl is raging over his OG.

Really the first piece of bad puck luck the oilers have had all playoffs

it was wonderful seeing the stunned Edmonton fans though

JackStraw -- back on Apr. 15 in this thread, you more or less 'guaranteed' the Kings would bring back the trophy - even going so far as to encourage a bet on same.  Which of course I did.  I wagered a mere 10 bitcoins, and got 7-1 odds, so I assumed I'd be making a nice little fortune.  But.....................

Please forward those 10 bitcoins to cover my loss to MrFixit, and then he can forward them on to me.  Thanks in advance.....

It's still so painful - Kings should have swept them

games 3 and 4 two goal leads heading into the third

so many things went wrong

the coach still has a job but the GM doesn't

we'll see if the coach survives the new GM whoever he may be

( I was at game 5 the worst game the Kings may have played all season

we were cheering when they were able to clear the puck without icing it )

Edmonton is unstoppable when their third/fourth lines score: Brown, Kane, Henrique, whoever else...

Carolina arena cranks Ozzy, too cool...after Toronto's and Ottowa's awful lite rock.

Caps defenseman Sandin was fighting for the puck when his stick became wedged between the boards. Carolina left him there and immediately scored the fourth and game cinching goal. Tough break. 

Skinner was hot; Henrique and Kane scored. Edmonton won. 

I believe you had this one, Brewski. 

Maybe Draisaitl, McDavid, and Nugent-Hopkins get next.

A Ted Nugent and Nicky Hopkins pairing seems intriguing on first thought.................but naw...........wouldn't work - AT ALL.

If you can't beat em join em.

Rumor is ex Oiler GM Ken Holland is Kings new GM

may be announced today

Kings fans split between Give him a chance

and Just another old re-tread

Both are true. He's a retread, but he merits a look. 

The coaching carousel in the NHL is ridiculous. Coaches are hired and fired so quickly that one wonders why anybody would take the job. Only two current coaches were hired prior to 2020, and the vast majority have been in place less than three full seasons. In that regard, the NHL is a league filled with owners mimicking Cleveland Browns -- teams that have no clue what a good coach looks like: they hire losers and fire winners. 

The GM situation is only slightly better. The shelf-life of an NHL GM is about twice that of an NHL coach. They are hired to be fired.