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