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Henrik Lundqvist has been pushed out of the building
Generally, quoting any of Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” films is reserved for the biggest tools in your life. Especially if it’s uttered by The Joker, because it’s usually the dude who dressed as the Heath Ledger version for Halloween one year and didn’t drop character for a second until like Novembe...
The Tampa Bay Lightning, the NHL’s best organization, finally have their stamp
It’s funny, if you remove the esteem, the adjectives, the histrionics we attach to those who win championships and those who don’t, and just look at the results on paper, the difference is small. We attach a chasm between the teams that lift the trophies and those that they beat for them, but in rea...
Lightning Break Tradition and Touch Prince of Wales Trophy
The Lightning won the Prince of Wales trophy as Eastern Conference champions, and dared to touch it — they kept the superstition five years ago, and lost the Stanley Cup Final to Chicago — after beating the Islanders, 2-1, on Anthony Cirelli’s overtime goal that bounced off the post, then Semyon Var...
If NHL Wants to Fight Racism, It Can Start With How It Treats Ryan Reaves
The Vegas Golden Knights were eliminated in overtime by the Dallas Stars on Monday night, 3-2, and an ugly racial incident on the ice appears to have gone mostly unnoticed and unreported....
Terrible Flyers Reporter: Can We Just Get Back to Hockey?
That’s some Broad Street Bullshit....
Welcome to the Revolution, NHL. We Hope You'll Stay Awhile (They Won't)
A day after players in other major sports leagues decided to not play to demand an end to racial injustice, the NHL canceled its Thursday bubble playoff games. A day late and a dollar short, so giving the NHL any praise for this is sorta like rewarding a puppy for peeing on the kitchen linoleum inst...
The NHL Stays On-Brand, Ignores Racial Justice Movement
As the sports world ground to a halt yesterday amid a growing movement to protest racial injustice, the NHL did the most NHL thing ever and offered a tepid, half-ass response before the Bruins-Lightning game in Toronto on Wednesday night. ...
Irate Canadian Maybe Says 'Vote Trump,' Then Maybe Not, Then, OK, We’re Lost, Too
San Jose Sharks forward Logan Couture has shown in the past that he knows how to handle himself in a fight. But maybe that’s only on the ice?...
RIP Dale Hawerchuk, a Really Good Player on a Team That Didn't Do Anything
Dale Hawerchuk was a man in the right time, but the wrong place....
It’s Not a Fluffy Lion Who’s Accused of Sexual Harassment, But a Real Person
Bailey, the Los Angeles Kings’ mascot, is a lion, and apparently one who, through the magic of corporate sponsorship, loves fancy popcorn....
Joonas Korpisalo Joins the Bittersweet Records Club: Here Are Some More Standout Performances in Losing Efforts
The Tampa Bay Lightning and Columbus Blue Jackets played the fourth-longest game in NHL history on Tuesday, taking five overtimes to complete the opener of their best-of-seven series in a marathon that finally ended when Brayden Point, found the puck on an open patch of ice and, on Tampa Bay’s 88th ...
The West is the Rest - NHL Playoff Preview: Western Conference
Let’s keep the machine rolling with the outlook for the Western Conference, entrapped in Northern Alberta. ...
Do You Mind If We Dance With Your Dates? - NHL First Round Preview: Eastern Conference
In a bit of true hockey hilarity, the actual NHL bubble-ized playoffs will begin without either of the “hosts” on Tuesday. Both the Toronto Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers scheduled a date for their respective faces with the pavement, and hence will have to watch these modified playoffs take place i...
Connor McDavid Deserves Better Than This Garbage
If you’re lucky enough to have never known true despair and yet wish to understand, even only to show empathy, look into the eyes of Connor McDavid. Look deep, and see true hopelessness, the fear that the world will never truly understand what you are through no fault of your own, the knowledge your...
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JFC, Connor McDavid [Look At This Ridiculous Goal]
The NHL is an infuriating league to follow but every once in a while the game of hockey provides us moments in which we remember why we watch it....
Matt Dumba Spoke From His Heart, and the NHL Left Him Out to Dry
Update: Ryan Reaves reversed course and kneeled for the anthem before Vegas’s game against Dallas, along with Robin Lehner, Tyler Seguin, and Jason Dickinson....
Ain’t A Sheet Of Ice North Of Fargo I Ain’t Played: NHL’s Return Preview - Western Conference
We roll on with hockey’s return, this time to Edmonton where the Western Conference is playing house. And they’ve picked the small window of time every year where the air doesn’t punch you in the face and insult your children in Northern Alberta. Onwards......
Ain’t a Sheet of Ice North of Fargo I Ain’t Played: NHL’s Return Preview – Eastern Conference
The winter sports and their summer bubbles return to us this weekend, because we’re descending into the Upside-Down. The NHL has decamped to Toronto and Edmonton, with a modified playoff system kicking straight off on Saturday. It’s a bit run-before-you-can-walk, with each team only getting one pres...
You’ll Never Believe This, but the NHL Whiffed on Its Protests
It’s obviously awkward for the NHL and its players to find a way to join in on the Black Lives Matter movement and protests before and during their games. It’s an almost entirely white league, with a majority of players not even from this country — and even the ones who are come from a generally aff...
On the Eve of Finally Playing Games that Matter, Sorta, the Coyotes are Still a Mess
You don’t think about the Arizona Coyotes. You might have even thought they were still the Phoenix Coyotes. No one really thinks about them, not even in the hockey world. When anyone does think about the Coyotes, it’s to either laugh at them, notice their favorite team is playing them late at night ...