There are lots and lots of lucky goals in hockey, including some that decide playoff games. This wasn't one of them ...
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It's been a great Stanley Cup playoffs so far, with one more spot in the final four (between Montreal and Buffalo) to be decided. Carolina is 8-0 and looking great, but Colorado has been an offensive juggernaut.
Sore subject.
Tremendous G7 between Buffalo and Montreal.
BRUTAL loss for the Sabres.
Sacre Bleu! Les Habitants advance!
Same player, Alex Newhook, scored the Game 7 winner for Montreal in each series so far.
The Hurricanes are 5-0 in overtime this postseason, with all five wins coming by the final score of 3-2.
Also ...
I guess Vegas firing its coach and hiring the mercurial John Tortorella with 8 games left in the season has worked out pretty well. The Golden Knights are 19-4-1 since making the move, and they're now 4 wins from claiming the Stanley Cup after sweeping the Avs out of the playoffs.
Canadiens fans might want to to leave the arena and snag some 🍺 and poutine. Wow.
Hurricanes in 5.
We're got another barnburner in Raleigh.
I want Carolina but that looked like a goal.
Wow.
That was a helluvan entertaining third period and OT. Great series so far.
Speaking of entertaining.....WOW!!
Yikes. Rough way to lose for Carolina.
Quote from: MuggsyB on June 06, 2026, 11:25:52 PMYikes. Rough way to lose for Carolina.
Can't have own goals in overtime. That'll lose you a lot of games
As so often happens in hockey, a great game is decided by a total fluke goal.
Quote from: GB Warrior on June 06, 2026, 11:29:57 PMCan't have own goals in overtime. That'll lose you a lot of games
Or in regulation. It was an epic comeback but they couldn't cash in.
Spectacular winning goal by the Hurricanes' Jordan Staal has tied this epic series at 2 games apiece.
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What a beautiful goal by Aho. These guys are so skilled.
Asked after last night's game if he considered pulling goalie Carter Hart after the second period, Tortorella said: "Christ, that could be the stupidest question I've heard."
First, Hart already was the first goalie ever to allow 4+ goals in each of the first four games of the Stanley Cup Final, and he had given up 3 in the first two periods last night (and would allow a 4th, in the third period), and one of the goals was quite "soft." Hart also has a pathetic .856 save percentage in the series. So it wasn't a stupid question at all.
Second, throughout history, coaches more accomplished than Tortorella have pulled goalies more accomplished than Hart just to try to spark their teams. So, again, it wasn't a stupid question.
Third, even if it was a stupid question (and it wasn't), it almost surely wasn't the stupidest question he's heard. Reporters ask a lot of stupid questions. 8-)
Congrats to Carolina.
In 2014, a nanotechnologist named Eric Tulsky was writing articles in his spare time for a Philadelphia Flyers blog called Broad Street Hockey.
Tonight, he lifted the Stanley Cup as GM of the Hurricanes.
Pretty cool career arc.
Jonathan Toews, one of the most accomplished athletes in Chicago sports history and a really good guy, officially retired.
The Bash Tkachuk Brothers are reuniting in Florida.
Quote from: Pakuni on June 21, 2026, 06:13:41 PMThe Bash Tkachuk Brothers are reuniting in Florida.
Besides the obvious pluses of playing with his brother on a Cup contender, hard to get much more of a locational upgrade as a young athlete on a 8 figure contract than going from Ottawa to South Florida, unless he was in Winnipeg.
Quote from: JWags85 on June 21, 2026, 07:28:25 PMBesides the obvious pluses of playing with his brother on a Cup contender, hard to get much more of a locational upgrade as a young athlete on a 8 figure contract than going from Ottawa to South Florida, unless he was in Winnipeg.
Feel bad for Sens fans. That franchise has a long and storied history of alienating and/or trading away star players.
Brutal press conference from Dylan Larkin in the days after the Red Wings stripped him of his captaincy. That move was a delayed from earlier in July when he requested a trade.
But if you needed a sense of just how bad things are in Detroit, Larkin not only was the captain, but he's a Detroit native who played local (and has social media videos of him playing hockey in a Wings jersey in his basement with buddies as a teen), then went to USNTDP (which is Detroit suburbs), then played at Michigan for a season, then drafted by the Wings and was a key component straight away at 19, became the captain by 25. He's literally living every kids dream of being the captain on their worshipped hometown team and on a huge contract doing so...and still wants out.
But I get it. Detroit haven't made the playoffs in TEN YEARS, absolutely insane for a franchise like the Red Wings. He complained about their lack of front office moves last year and it seems like they were being morons again this off season. He'll be a villain in his hometown, but dude is still only 30 and wants to win, I don't really blame him.
Speaking of brutal press conferences... Alex O... is a dumbass.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on September 18, 2026, 06:06:25 AMSpeaking of brutal press conferences... Alex O... is a dumbass.
Surprised he hasn't been at any MAGA rallies
Quote from: JWags85 on September 17, 2026, 11:32:27 PMBrutal press conference from Dylan Larkin in the days after the Red Wings stripped him of his captaincy. That move was a delayed from earlier in July when he requested a trade.
But if you needed a sense of just how bad things are in Detroit, Larkin not only was the captain, but he's a Detroit native who played local (and has social media videos of him playing hockey in a Wings jersey in his basement with buddies as a teen), then went to USNTDP (which is Detroit suburbs), then played at Michigan for a season, then drafted by the Wings and was a key component straight away at 19, became the captain by 25. He's literally living every kids dream of being the captain on their worshipped hometown team and on a huge contract doing so...and still wants out.
But I get it. Detroit haven't made the playoffs in TEN YEARS, absolutely insane for a franchise like the Red Wings. He complained about their lack of front office moves last year and it seems like they were being morons again this off season. He'll be a villain in his hometown, but dude is still only 30 and wants to win, I don't really blame him.
I have zero issue with any player working behind the scenes to get himself moved to a situation he feels is in his better interests. But it's pretty clownish to make your trade demand public, then refuse to offer even a little explain for it in public.
If Larkin came out and said "I've given my best to this organization for 10 years, but I don't feel the organization has matched my commitment to success and believe now is a time to part ways," I imagine many Red Wings would understand. They may not like hearing that, but they'd have a hard time objectively disagreeing with it.
Refusing to offer an explanation feels kind of cowardly.
On top of that, demanding a trade but then using your no-trade clause to limit the Red Wings options to three contending teams - Vegas, Minnesota and Florida - that would struggle to package the assets for a solid offer makes this all worse. It takes away any team leverage to get a fair deal and makes Larkin look like a guy who's seeking the easiest possible path to a Cup.
Quote from: Uncle Rico on September 18, 2026, 07:04:28 AMSurprised he hasn't been at any MAGA rallies
Now, now, he only endorsed the puppetmaster, not the puppet.