Board 8 > NHL Discussion Topic - Playoff Edition

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No Dahlin for Chicago or Edmonton, which is all we could really ask for.
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Yeah, Chicago winning would've been a worst-case scenario.
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Aww, c'mon guys, what's so bad about Chicago getting a generational defenseman right when their current generational defenseman is on the back nine of his career? =P

(I too am glad Edmonton didn't win it)
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Why on Earth did they decide to televise only the top 3 and not the whole lottery?
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the rest was televised here before the game started
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also lol @ Bettman not even showing up personally!
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SmartMuffin posted...

also lol @ Bettman not even showing up personally!

He's the one in the room where the balls are being picked just like every other year.

I feel really good for Carolina getting #2 by the way. They're one of those teams who have never really tanked - always fighting right in that range of "not quite good enough to contend for a playoff spot but not terrible either," slowly getting a little better each year. I hope this puts them over the edge to be still in the picture at the end of the season next year.
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Don't do it NHL.
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I didn't think they'd do it.
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CBC stream stopped working in the middle of overtime fffff

Also, I don't really get why they separated the draft lottery announcement into two parts. It means only three teams' fanbases have a strongly vested interest in watching the second part.
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Man, I really don't know about that overturn... I think you gotta let that stand...
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Next time I am playing goalie, I will remember to just make myself really wide in a tense situation so people will run into it, it doesn't even matter if my teammates are part of the process.

It really is the ultimate save.
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To me it looks like Marchessault made contact with Jones's stick outside the crease, and that's what spins him around. I guess they're saying he clipped his pad, too? And he wasn't pushed at all?

Who even knows anymore...
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The Sharks are alive!
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Garbage. Whatever.
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When you take overtime goals away, that's usually what happens.
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15th pick for the panthers, guess I gotta hope some good players get passed on.
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I thought they'd overturn that one, but I didn't think they should've
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Does anything positive the Caps do in the first 50 minutes of a game even matter?

I've never been less excited for Caps goals than I am right now
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Meow1000 posted...

I thought they'd overturn that one, but I didn't think they should've

I thought they'd leave it alone but then it kept taking forever and started questioning everything.
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red13n posted...

Meow1000 posted...

I thought they'd overturn that one, but I didn't think they should've

I thought they'd leave it alone but then it kept taking forever and started questioning everything.

Isn't the NHL review system great
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When giving up a 2-goal lead isn't quite embarrassing enough, so you go up by 3 instead
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Refs trying to help the Caps get to 7?
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Ah the good ol puck is clearly in the net but no proof so no goal

Wow.

And that I thought would stand despite the still shot that clearly shows the puck completely, albeit just barely, across the red line
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249USDollars posted...

Ah the good ol puck is clearly in the net but no proof so no goal

That's what I thought it would be

Except they eventually turned up a clear picture of it in after a couple of minutes and still got it wrong
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How can Letang possibly argue that penalty call?
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Penguins opting for the shoot themselves in the foot strategy here by taking penalties. Bold move.
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Woo go my not penguins
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Going back to Washington!
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Hoo boy, Jets/Preds is delivering
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Jets getting reeeeeal lucky. Playing super sloppy, looking too slow. Hellebuyck has been great, but even he's flailing a bit.
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If the Jets win this game, my estimation of the odds of Vegas getting to the SCF increases by a lot.
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Good stuff from the Preds there
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whew

its starting to feel like nashville is the only thing that can save us from a vegas/pittsburgh final
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Looks like the refs got two wrong calls today in the Caps favor.

Ah well, it would help if the Pens realized the game starts in the first period instead of the third.
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Lou out as GM of the Leafs. Bring on the Dubas era!
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Fleury carried Vegas hard in that one.
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Seriously Vegas is so annoying. I was all like "There can't possibly be a less deserving cup winner than the Penguins" and the hockey gods were like "hold my molson"
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i just blinked and suddenly the jets tied it up
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The Jets/Preds series is fantastic.
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well, I didn't want preds/jets to go to OT, but not like this :(
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Go Caps

Fuck Tom Wilson, though.
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Caps caps caps
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NHL: *claims to care about player safety*

NHL: *also refuses to suspend or really do anything at all about Tom Wilson's continued deliberate attempts to injure fellow players*
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The hilarious thing is that they call ticky-tack bullshit against Wilson ALL THE FREAKING TIME

But when he legit destroys someone they do nothing

NHL will probably suspend him even though that was a clear shoulder hit and it's not Wilson's fault that idiots lower their heads when they see him coming
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And yet the guy who hit Wheeler in the head will not get suspended because wheeler wasn't injured. Watching Subban get laid out by Buff was immensely satisfying. Everyone says Crosby whines, complains, and dives like a diva, but Subban is just as bad, and all of those aforementioned things were on display from him last night.
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I mean it wasn't Kadri's fault that Wingels threw his head into Kadri's hip but he got suspended.
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