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.