Lol so you're still hanging onto the the past? I get it that folks think we shouldn't be a contender this quickly and hate that many of the best players want to play in vegas but this year our organisation actually did things the hard way. We made smart trades, lowered the cap and relied on our farm system instead of going all in on stars like Timo from SJS!!. And it's lead us to where we are in the conference today. We deserve respect for that imo.

Great. Finally they show a Blues game on TV, once they've been eliminated from the playoffs. Perfect.

For all the crap with digital ads and blackout issues, etc... I've loved their switch to espn+ (and personal get it "free" through a cell plan). And bonus, you would be blacked out from the Yotes!

Looking forward to the NHL playoffs, I never watch many regular season games.

I'm the same. I love hockey if I can watch it in person. So much goes on the camera doesn't see but the cup changes it. Well that and there isn't much other left to watch since Caitlin Clark is done for the season.

Saying I need to let it go is like saying I need to let go of the gum on the bottom of my shoe. It's not particularly pleasant that it's there, but it's hardly impacting my enjoyment of watching real teams play.

You're basically like all the Bills and Bengals fans here. Your team just isn't relevant enough for me to care.

First time in 14 seasons the Blues miss the NHL playoffs.

Why is the NHL not starting its playoffs this weekend? Bizarre choice by whoever made it, whether it was the league or TV executives.

Yeah, Blues fans have been really lucky in that respect. They rarely miss the playoffs. probably just a handful of seasons in the 38 years I've been watching them. They'll be back next season.

They missed in 2017-2018 in which they lost a win-or-go home with the Avalanche in Denver in Game 82 to the end season.

Lol we've won our division three times in five years, been number one in the conference twice and have been to a final and two conference finals and you think we aren't relevant? ROFL We're knocking on that door and deep in your heart you know what's coming :D

Cut Eichel, publicly shame Quick, and bring in the next batch of 30-something free agents if the team doesn't win the Cup? :shrug:

Ok, Bengals fan.

Lol for a team that's "not relevant" you sure as hell seem to know vgk very well LMAO . But keep hating because my team are ambitious and aren't in the business of accepting failure :thumb:

I know you must have been disappointed after we held off the Oilers last night and got the one seed huh?!! :D

Nice to see you admit to Vegas doing shitty things.

Didn't even pay attention. I couldn't have even told you that was the result. I just don't care.

Again, until the Knights actually accomplish something, my base assumption is that they'll fail when it actually matters. Just like the Bengals and Bills.

Lol I've never denied that we've made mistakes. People hate us partly because of what happened with Flower but he was trash towards the end and behind the scenes was causing problems so I wasn't bothered!!. As a young franchise mistakes will happen but we're in a better place now and so far this year there has been no drama.

The AVS have won one cup in twenty-two years buddy so let's not act like ya'll are the "Chiefs" of hockey :D . That belongs to the Lightning who I have a huge amount of respect for and admire what they've built over there.

Which brings us back to where all this started. People don't like your team because your fans (that's you) are obnoxious. There's no point in trying to have any sort of discussion because you just make shit up to argue about and then act like you've made some sort of point.

Lol I've stated nothing but facts in this debate and admitted where my team has gone wrong In the past but still your bitterness shines through smh it seems like that playoff series against us has left a mark you'll never get over despite winning the championship the very next year!!..heaven knows how you'll feel if we win it all this time :evil: .

Since you've stated nothing but facts, point me to where I compared the Avs to the Chiefs.

Nice start.

I didn't say you did. I said "let's not act like ya'll are the chiefs" which is true. You keep saying we're the bengals but that's belittling us a little because we've had more success than them both in the regular season and the playoffs.

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The fickleness of hockey.. dominate a game for a while and it's 3-3. :banghead:

MacKinnon hat trick to take the lead with under 2:00. **** yeah.

Felt like playoff hockey last night... I hadn't really been into games lately, but that got me in the playoff mood.

Granted, will be recording a lot of games with the 10pm start times for the Avalanche and Oilers series. :eek:

I understand that they want to maximize the number of games they can snow, but it's frustrating that the Avs are pretty much always in late series in the first round. Even in MT it's a bit rough.

Yeah, the quirkiness of the NHL... start the playoffs on a Monday night, but put McDavid and MacKinnon in 10pm EDT time slots.

AZ is pretty perfect this time of year being in Pacific time, with 4/4:30 and 7/7:30 double headers... but will cope with early morning replays this postseason.

Not really surprised, yet would have expected the Leafs to come out with some urgency... and then it's 3-0.

Tough call on the challenge... win the challenge and you're only down 4-2. Lose the challenge and TB has a two man advantage for a minute and a half... and now it's 6-2.

What an implosion. :shake:

Didn't it seem like Toews would **** up once per game last postseason, too? He usually makes up for it but...ouch.

This is gonna be a tough series. The Krakheads are no pushover. Led the league in 5 on 5 goals.

Frustrating game. Avs aren't really playing badly, but just can't get any breaks. Lots of close shots off the shoulder, off the bar, or both. Playing really physical, I like to see that. Still frustrating.

Grubs is playing well, gotta give him that.

You definitely know this is a game he would love to win.

First games are weird. If things hold as they are right now, all four road teams in the West will have won their first games.

And 6 out of 8.

Saves me a couple hours before tonight's games.

Barron on the Jets with 75 stitches to the face to start the series after taking Brossoit's skate to the face...yikes.

Yeah, that one was ugly. As bad as it was, it could have been a heck of a lot worse though.

With the size of the bandage 75 seemed like way to much, maybe 7 but was lucky to not lose an eye .

The ESPN article here does say 75+...video in the link if anyone wants to have a look see.

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...ing-skate-face

75 stitches would be for like 30+ cm length wound , for mouth you might need inside and out maybe but it looked high on the cheek .

No doubt. I was having flashbacks of the Clint Malarchuk injury.

It was across his forehead. Hard to tell exactly how high up.

Let of it was above eye he maybe have had multiple cuts but 75 still seems high.

(insert LeBron leg cramp meme)

I'm not generally one for over regulation, but I don't see why kevlar neck guards and caged helmets aren't mandated.

Awfully general statement there. It absolutely depends on the tissue being stitched (I've done more than my fair share of "sewing" on folks) but more often than not you make them a hell of a lot smaller and closer together on facial wounds to limit scarring. Some of it (especially if much of it were up on the forehead) may have also needed to be layered.

And then went back on the ice and finished the game.

Hockey players are something else...

It must have been multiple cuts , not a lot of skin on the forehead to have multiple layers , normally it’s what 2/3 stitches per cm let’s say you go to five that’s still a lot of area .

Yes, it'd be a pretty good sized area. 5 1/2 per cm (or roughly one every 1/16") is what I'd suspect to see on a facial wound (or even closer). With that you'd be looking at roughly 4" (or just over 10cm) if you're only doing one layer.

I do agree with your thought that 75 seems like a fairly high number, but I guess in reality, we didn't get a great look at it. I'll add that until you're sewing, you don't really know the edges and such that might take "another one here or there".

My wife who has done her air share of surgical stitches , she was planing on going into surgery before doing family medicine and still does plenty of lump and bumps clinics seems to think75 seems high as well but it still would be pretty scary thing to go through even if 0 stitches ,after taking a few sticks and skates to the face /half shield I went back to a full cage just wasn’t worth it.

My friend playing oldtimers who is 60 still doesn’t wear a cage and took a puck to the eye few weeks ago unless you are getting paid millions it isn’t worth it .

Ready to go for game 2.


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Welp, guess I'll root for Toronto this time. come on, O'Reilly, make some noise!!!

Hell yeah

Nice to see the Leafs show a little energy. Surely one of these years they'll win a series...

Seriously.

Though they have RoR now, so they have a better chance now.

Repeat of last year, except the Leafs won the first game 5-0 and TB was up in game two 5-1.

Hmm. Not that impressed with either TOR or TB so far.

Enjoy the late games... :sulk:

Avs:

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Finally, some ****ing offense!! 2 goals in about a minute...

Definitely started to look like ourselves at least. Hopefully we can lock it down in the 3rd.

Ohhh yeah. That was satisfying!! Avs take the lead!!

Really impressive win, considering how the 1st period went. That 3rd period was some really fun but tense hockey.

Woot. Don't love how we looked early, but glad we got things figured out. And I like our chances on the road.

I honestly thought they were done. I’m ashamed of myself. Huge comeback

If you switched the TOR coach for the TB coach, the Leafs would win the cup.
Keefe "Galaxy Brain's" everything to the detriment of his team.

Yeah, doubt many people expected that kind of start. Only watched the extended highlights, but looked like they're getting some great goaltending, too, when they need it the most.

Might have to watch the full game at some point.. looked like there was some Angry MacKinnon last night and I hate to miss that.

That was a good game.

Where can I get a good stream for the Wild game?

Gross.

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My best friend is an all Minnesota fan. He’s had a hard sports life.

I try to support him when I can. I like playoff hockey.

Your friend should be pretty happy with tonight's game.

Gophers, too?

I feel like this is McDavid right now...


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Yes, all of it. Vikings, Twins, Wild, Gophers. He hates his sports existence. He is amazed by Mahomes and what the Chiefs have become because we used to feel the Chiefs/Vikings had similar fates. Even add in 2015 with the Royals and he says we are living on different planets as sports fans now. ROFL

That was rough for Gophers hockey... the entire college hockey world assumed they were winning the NC this year for the first time in 20 years.

Yeah I think that devastated him. I watched that game and they got owned after that 1st period.

I think the only thing you can say is you never know when "your time" will be as a sports fan... just 10 years ago, I never would have expected the Chiefs, KU, and Avalanche would win championships in a ~10 month span... or the Royals (as short-lived as it was) and Chiefs would ever be relevant.


Minnesota-Duluth won back to back natties a few years ago... :shrug: