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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:25 pm

I can't play hockey or watch hockey, so I'm bringing hockey to Animal Crossing

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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:28 pm

Now this makes me wish I could customize a sabertooth tiger fossil to be painted mustard yellow.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Sat Apr 18, 2020 12:29 am

Rumors are flying around that Dustin Byfuglien is retiring. I'll always remember him for his amazing performance in the 2010 SCF, especially this hit on Pronger in the finals. :allears:

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Post by Octavia (?) » Fri Apr 24, 2020 1:56 pm

10 years ago today! :allears:

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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon May 04, 2020 5:30 pm

The Preds and the NHL overall are really getting desperate for content.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue May 26, 2020 6:24 pm

Who's ready for some summer hockey? :amazing:

Short version: The regular season's over. 24 teams are going to the playoffs, with the top two teams in each division automatically getting in, playing a round robin set to determine seeding order. The next eight teams in each conference will play a best-of-5 series against each other in a qualifying round, with the winners advancing to face the divisional top two from earlier. The playoffs proceed from there, and while the length of each series in the first and second round isn't yet set, the ECF and WCF as well as the finals will be the usual best-of-7.

The Sabres, Devils, Senators, Red Wings, Ducks, Kings, and Sharks are out. Teams miraculously squeaking in under this scheme (whereas they would've been out had the NHL taken the usual division top three and conference wild cards) are the Isles, Rangers, Panthers, Habs, Canucks, Wild, Coyotes, and Hawks.

All these games will be played in one "host city" each for the East and West, which have yet to be chosen. Also as yet to be decided are the dates of these games, though Bettman says they'll be in "the summer into the early fall."

I'm really not sure this is the best idea, overall. Does the league really need to play game after game to what'll almost certainly be an empty arena? If the playoffs were canceled entirely, this wouldn't be the first time the Cup went unawarded due to a pandemic. It'd save the players and team staff from having to be sequestered for what might be a couple of months as well, but who knows; maybe the NHLPA is genuinely okay with this.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Tue May 26, 2020 11:11 pm

Now would be the perfect time for the Leafs to finally win it all, just so every non-Leafs fan would brush it off, saying "yeah but that championship doesn't REALLY count." :lol:
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Post by The Doctor (?) » Wed May 27, 2020 12:57 am

If the players are OK with it, I say go for it. They were so close to the end of the season, it doesn't seem right not to award the cup.

And go Avs!

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Post by The Doctor (?) » Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:09 pm



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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:14 pm

In case you missed it:


I still think it would've been nice if they had revived the Metropolitans name, but at least they seem to be working throwbacks to the old team into their material.
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Post by ixnay (?) » Thu Jul 23, 2020 1:29 pm



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I love the space needle anchor so much

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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Jul 23, 2020 4:16 pm

I like the name and logo. "Release the Kraken" will be a dynamite slogan for marketing.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Jul 23, 2020 4:27 pm

And "the Krakhouse" will be a much better name than Climate Pledge Arena.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:02 pm

I like the Anchor logo with the Space Needle more than the S logo.
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Post by The Doctor (?) » Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:36 pm

Their fans have already been dubbed Krak-heads. And there are already lots of "karen" jokes.
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I like the Anchor logo with the Space Needle more than the S logo.
Agreed. The Space Needle anchor looks nice.

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Post by The Doctor (?) » Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:50 am

Just 3 more days until new hockey games!

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Post by The Doctor (?) » Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:18 pm

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:cooliebelle: 9 penalties and a win for our exhibition game.

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Post by Octavia (?) » Sat Aug 01, 2020 5:07 pm

Hawks looking really strong in game 1. It turns out a team of veterans getting a ton of rest is a good thing.

Them winning the Cup would be the best purely because of the salt from the rest of the league. They probably wouldn't have even made the postseason if not for the covid schedule.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Aug 01, 2020 5:30 pm

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Them winning the Cup would be the best purely because of the salt from the rest of the league. They probably wouldn't have even made the postseason if not for the covid schedule.
I feel like the Bruins winning would generate more salt, if only because they would've won by default had the season been canceled entirely, so for the play-ins and playoffs to be run just for them to win it anyway would be a letdown.

So, y'know, if hockey becomes as hellish as the rest of our hellworld then we'll get a Hawks-Bruins SCF. :-I
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Post by Octavia (?) » Sat Aug 01, 2020 7:23 pm

Hawks/Habs would be an even saltier SCF, since they're both huge fanbases that weren't gonna make the playoffs without the new scheduling. :scheming:
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Post by The Doctor (?) » Sun Aug 02, 2020 9:09 pm

:awesomedash: what an ending.

Avs scored with .1 seconds left in the third period, breaking a tie and beating the blues. :scheming:

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Post by Octavia (?) » Mon Aug 03, 2020 3:01 pm

Fuck the Blues :dwi:
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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:21 am

Hawks win thanks to two late-third-period goals! :fluttercite:
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:19 pm

Kissing my Rinne bobblehead, in hopes that I can lend him my spirit energy and he can share it from the bench with the Preds in their time of need.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:37 pm

Welp. Sounds like it could have been a spectacular reversal, but the radio feed suggests the Yotes got one hell of a lucky bounce. It wouldn't have come to that if we had closed the game out in regulation, but... well, a hot goalie works wonders in the playoffs as always.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:39 pm

Somewhere around here is where I would customarily ask if it's October yet, but who knows what the 2020-21 season will look like. Hell, the last games of the SCF might be on in October.
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Post by The Doctor (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2020 5:52 pm

I am just going to assume after the cup finals, were probably not getting more NHL hockey until next fall.

They worked their ass off to get a bubble going for half the teams, just to play a modified playoff schedule. I can't imagine they would do this for the whole league, even if they tried a shortened season.
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Welp. Sounds like it could have been a spectacular reversal, but the radio feed suggests the Yotes got one hell of a lucky bounce. It wouldn't have come to that if we had closed the game out in regulation, but... well, a hot goalie works wonders in the playoffs as always.
It was a lucky deflection. Went right back to him.

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Post by Octavia (?) » Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:34 pm

Hawks advance! :fluttercite:
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Post by Octavia (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:21 pm

Lightning/Blue Jackets currently in 4OT :wowzers:

e: make that 5OT :starity:
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:29 pm

That's officially the fourth-longest NHL game ever, with two of the three longer than it dating back to the '30s.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:29 pm

Lightning FINALLY win halfway through the 5th OT.

Very on-brand for the Blue Jackets.
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Post by The Doctor (?) » Wed Aug 19, 2020 1:08 am

Dang. :rainbert:

:-/ I hate Vegas.

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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Aug 19, 2020 3:34 pm

I can't be too disappointed about winning a playoff series when they probably wouldn't have even made the playoffs in a normal season. :pinkieshrug:
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Post by The Doctor (?) » Wed Aug 19, 2020 10:04 pm

Avalanche advance, beating the Coyotes 7-1 for the 2nd game in a row. :scheming:

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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Aug 20, 2020 4:11 pm

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Avalanche advance, beating the Coyotes 7-1 for the 2nd game in a row. :scheming:
It might be up to you to keep the Blues out of the SCF. We're all counting on you. :jingo:
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Post by The Doctor (?) » Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:29 am

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It might be up to you to keep the Blues out of the SCF. We're all counting on you. :jingo:
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