We were chatting a bit about having the last change earlier, which was interesting in that it was Cirelli's shutdown line for TB against MacKinnon's line to start... and TB obviously won that battle in the first 30 seconds.

But yeah, MacKinnon hasn't forced his will yet.

Really doesn't seem like they only have a couple shots, at least in the first several minutes... had some decent looks early.

If you look close, the puck knocked the mask off. Still horrible luck, but it was a good goal.

Just glad to see him playing well. Could easily be 3-0 right now. So many stupid turnovers.

Good kill.

I think the Bolts watched some Blues vs. Avs game film.

1st Star to Darcy Keumper that period. Should be 4-0. Worst 3 consecutive periods in a long long time. MacKinnon invisible - zero impact, normally solid-as-a-rock Toews playing shaky as hell, almost looks nervous. His weak pass led to the goal that kind of iced last game. Byram with a couple terrible giveaways that luckily didn't result in goals.

They need to flip some kind of switch or they're gonna have a tough time with this one. That was ugly, and they got dominated.

Yeah, that would have sucked... as it gets into the 2nd in a game like this, the next goal will be crazy important.

Or at least it seems after one period.... who the hell knows in this series.

Avs have gotten a ton of good looks so far. Just can't get a decent shot on goal...

Kadri mentioned the ice being garbage. I've seen Toews mishandle more pucks in the last 2 periods than all season and playoffs prior. Just not a guy who normally ever makes a mistake, let alone multiple. Wonder if they're playing on slush.

Yeah, far more concerned with the 17 shots against, even though they obviously need to get Vasilevskiy some work.

20 shot attempts for the Avalanche.

Yeah, ice didn't seem great.

Kadri played 5 minutes in the first, definitely wasn't shying away from contact.... better than I expected.

A little life, almost doubled their total SOG... and a power play.

Don't know WTF Rantanen was doing on the PP... but yay!

That PP was relentless.

That's more like it! Crisp passing that entire PP.

The Avs PP is lethal.

Stressful, but satisfying PP...

Great stick lift by Byram... didn't see a hook, but maybe need a better replay angle.

Tampa's PP was as good as Colorado's all season, fortunate they don't have it going on right now.

Are the Bolts the worst power play team to ever win a championship?

Uh, they've had a top 10 PP for years.

And WTF was that Kuemper... JFC.

Losing a bit of faith in Kuemper...

Yeah, he's been given the benefit of the doubt with the injury and what not, but it's ****in' go time in a 1-1 game and you have to make that save.

We can say he's the reason it was only 1-0, but that's the game sometimes.

1-14 ain’t good right now.

I mean, your specific question was "to ever win a championship" ....and they haven't won one this season. ;)

Seems like to me anyway, they sucked when they win the last two years in the playoffs but played better when not in a pp.

Apparently they thought it was a good idea to have a team meeting behind their own net with 5 seconds left in the period... JFC, guys.

Eh, ~25% is pretty damn good on the PP and that probably goes down a bit in the playoffs... so while 1/14 isn't good, good would only be ~3/14.

Much better, except for that weak ass gift by Kuemper. How on earth do you give up a 50mph backhand to Hedman when you have a clear view? TB buttholes were starting to pucker before that happened. Need to get the next goal.

Starting to worry about the fact that we seem completely unable to score 5v5. Gonna have to change that soon.

You just had to say it.

That'll help.

The joke is someone has to commit murder on the ice for the refs to call a penalty... but, would they call it in this game?

The last 4 minutes was brutal for COL. They should feel good getting to OT.

Another damn stressful OT! I have a performance evaluation in the morning...

:BLVD:

I'll take OT after the first period and that shitty soft goal.

****ing hell... so many chances.....

Huge stop on that one.

I think our own player deflected what would have been a goal on that last shot...

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Man, they look good though... only a couple TB butt-puckering 2nd chances in OT, but the Avalanche have had great help around the net.

Yeah, they are dominating this OT. Just can't finish...

What a battle, I have to give the edge to the avalanche to win this thing.

WTF??!

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PBJ PBJ PBJ PBJ

Holy shit 3 million people missed that it went in... LMAO

What just happened!!!!!!???

Kadri wins it.

And for it to be Kadri... ****ing perfect.

Complete domination of that O/T, looked like game 2!

:thumb:

Great to see him back, especially like that!

Lighting were just overwhelmed.

POS has to score that goal. Of course.

Tampa looked dead in the OT. Undermanned and tired.

Kuemper with the assist. LOL... didn't catch that.

Why? Guy has been a dirty player his entire career. He's basically Matt Cooke or Tom Wilson. Just a lot more skilled.

Holy shit.

Three chances to win the Cup and 2 of 3 at home if needed.

TB was ****ing gassed.

Yeah, with Point and Cernak out their roster is getting depleted. Hard to see them winning another 2, let alone 3 games. I thought Colorado would win the series in 6. Tampa had to run out of gas sometime and they feel like the older team.

yep, TB looked whipped, tired whatever in overtime.

I was at the Ball Sack watch party. Can confirm none of us realized it was in.

Kadri!!

Avs in 5

Some of the worst Ice ever. Hockey in Florida in the summer.

I thought it went wide, because I saw the puck get past Vasy and then just.... disappear. Then the reaction of everyone was so confusing, acting like Vasy had it.

Such a strange reaction to such a huge goal...... oh, celebrate!

Yeah, reminds me of Patrick Kane's Cup clinching goal in 2010.

Yeah, just get the inevitable over with.

Yep, remember that one well.

Byram knew all along... on those long shots from behind the net, noticed he celebrated right away just inside the blue line, then he was the first one in to tell everyone.

I remember meeting you at a Mavericks game, don't remember a giveaway (thinking it would be weird to give away a retro Blades stick, but it's possible).

That brand of hockey was terrible... if someone likes hockey fights, it's the place to go. The talent on the ice was so bad though. LMAO

Lightning coach is whining about too many men on the winning goal.

If that's it, he technically has a point by the strictest interpretation of the rules, but not in a million years would they call that. There's always a cushion near the bench.

That's it, the Canadian media is talking about it on TV right now.

Technically it was too many men, but the guy on the bench had no real impact on the goal at all and Colorado was dominating the play for a long time before that. Not bothered by it at all.

I see his point... in the 2nd video at 5 seconds, Kadri leaves the bench thinking Nichushkin is coming off, but they both skate away and then MacKinnon goes to the bench.

Had Nichushkin come off, there's no issue at all, but of course being the eventual goal scorer coming off early, there's going to be drama.

He probably would have been livid had they called that against TB if the roles were reversed... would have been kind of silly considering they were letting both sides get away with assault though the 3rd period.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here’s the video from <a href="https://twitter.com/SportsCenter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SportsCenter</a> <a href="https://t.co/rqwMmIJcZD">pic.twitter.com/rqwMmIJcZD</a></p>&mdash; Ben Ross (@BenRossTweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenRossTweets/status/1539839872386510848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the most damming footage I’ve seen yet. <br><br>As Nazem Kadri (the winning goal scorer) gets on the ice it takes MacKinnon over 5 seconds to get back to the bench and he’s clearly much further than 5 feet away. <a href="https://t.co/9ede4C6ZCU">pic.twitter.com/9ede4C6ZCU</a></p>&mdash; Kailey Mizelle (@KaileyMizelle) <a href="https://twitter.com/KaileyMizelle/status/1539834305694007297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

And one of the articles mentioned this from last season's Finals, hehe...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lightning had too many men on go-ahead goal. Barry Trotz after seeing replay: &quot;Seven f**king guys. There&#39;s seven guys on the ice. On the f**king goal. It&#39;s right there.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/CsLyoNq9c6">pic.twitter.com/CsLyoNq9c6</a></p>&mdash; Brady Trettenero (@BradyTrett) <a href="https://twitter.com/BradyTrett/status/1404978348124610562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That's gotta be one of the hardest rules to enforce.

Sure, he's got a point. But without going back and watching it again, they decided not to call at least two boardings, a trip, and a slash in the third period alone (a couple on each side). It was pretty clear that they decided to let the game be decided on the ice.

And plus, line changes are always a judgement call at some level. There's a reason they're not reviewable.

I didn't go back and watch them, but in real time both boardings looked pretty blatant. The non-call that would have been an Avalanche PP happened first, so when Avalanche player boarded TB guy on the other end of the ice a couple minutes later, I was immediately yelling at my TV.... YOU DIDN'T CALL THE OTHER ONE!

Glad they accepting my logic.


Landeskog's play against Hedman was strange... it's like he crosschecked Hedman in the thigh, which along the near boards looked like a trip, but thought they basically got it right.

Again, to preface my comments, I don't know the minutia of hockey.

I understand fudging the distance by the players getting off and on the ice but..... its the finals, the player definitely came out early, a winning goal was scored and probably won the series. Something that decides a championship game should be reviewable.

They did let a lot of things go in that game.