2025/26 NHL Season

[PalaceGun]

Modern day Rod Langway.

 

[CanuckSuns]

Habs collapsing back to Earth and it's glorious.

 

[CanuckSuns]

Celebrini's 2nd hat-trick of the seasons wins it for SJ in OT (3-2) over Utah. This is Celebrini's world and we're just living in it.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Celebrini's 2nd hat-trick of the seasons wins it for SJ in OT (3-2) over Utah. This is Celebrini's world and we're just living in it.

Last time two players aged 20 or under scored a hatty on the same night (Bedard) was 1944.

 

[two blue tiger]

Habs collapsing back to Earth and it's glorious.

Sharks trophy cabinet..........

 

[Bradesmaen]

Sharks trophy cabinet..........

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Habs have won 1 Stanley Cup in the time the Sharks have existed. Hardly awe inspiring. In that time TBL have won 3, BHawks 3, Kings 3, Penguins 4...

 

[CanuckSuns]

Sharks trophy cabinet..........

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Poor argument. Habs' only Stanley Cup was in SJ's second year of existence when they were still building up a team from scratch (as an expansion team). Since then, Habs have accomplished just as much as SJ. In fact, SJ has been a much more successful franchise since then. Sharks didn't have the benefit of playing decades in a 6-team league when Canadian teams had an unfair advantage over their American counterparts.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Poor argument. Habs' only Stanley Cup was in SJ's second year of existence when they were still building up a team from scratch (as an expansion team). Since then, Habs have accomplished just as much as SJ. In fact, SJ has been a much more successful franchise since then. Sharks didn't have the benefit of playing decades in a 6-team league when Canadian teams had an unfair advantage over their American counterparts.

now you've poked the bear. PG (who I have ignored) will come in here abusing you and saying he knows more than you about 'ockey because he's Canadian.

 

[PalaceGun]

I only call out old poor ol’ “I’m a victim” Sharky when he types out something completely absurd and incorrect, which is often on here…

The only history of abuse is in my PMs from you.

 

[PalaceGun]

Poor argument. Habs' only Stanley Cup was in SJ's second year of existence when they were still building up a team from scratch (as an expansion team). Since then, Habs have accomplished just as much as SJ. In fact, SJ has been a much more successful franchise since then. Sharks didn't have the benefit of playing decades in a 6-team league when Canadian teams had an unfair advantage over their American counterparts.

The empty trophy case isn’t an argument, it’s a fact.

The “unfair advantage” was having the best GM in the game, Sam Pollock. A smart man with a lot of morons as contemporaries. Read up on how he got to pick Guy Lafleur with pick #1 in 1971.

No Cups = No Success

 

[Great8]

Caps have been pretty ordinary to start the season but every now and then we manage to pull one out the hat.
We leak far too many goals but yesterday beat the Oilers 7-4 in DC and backed that up today by pantsing Montreal 8-4 on the road. Some horrendous work in goals by Montreal though

 

[PalaceGun]

Nothing better than playing the lowly Leafs on a Saturday night to end a slump.

Florian Xhekaj a goal short for a Gordie Howe hat-trick in his NHL debut. Kid can throw 'em.

 

[two blue tiger]

Starting to think that Dobes is a better bet in goal for the Habs than Montembeault......

Time for me to double down on this. Montembault has been appalling this season (and getting owned by the Sens today). Makes it tough on the offence having to find at least 4 goals a game…..

 

[Bradesmaen]

Time for me to double down on this. Montembault has been appalling this season (and getting owned by the Sens today). Makes it tough on the offence having to find at least 4 goals a game…..

TBH the defence in front of him is woeful. Focus is on offence rather than defence. Zub was left alone out in front, as was Batherson and so was Tkachuk.

 

[two blue tiger]

Watched the 9Go coverage of the Vegas vs NJ game this morning. Not a bad way for casual fans to get a look at game. Great initiative from 9 and the NHL to offer this.

 

[CanuckSuns]

Watched the 9Go coverage of the Vegas vs NJ game this morning. Not a bad way for casual fans to get a look at game. Great initiative from 9 and the NHL to offer this.

Too bad you had to watch Vegas

 

[damochandler]

Watched the 9Go coverage of the Vegas vs NJ game this morning. Not a bad way for casual fans to get a look at game. Great initiative from 9 and the NHL to offer this.

Would Stan take on the rights if espn dump the nhl again in a few years

 

[PalaceGun]

Just the lowly Leafs, mind you...

Hutson shines in Canadiens' best defensive game of the season

Before the Canadiens put the finishing touches on Saturday's win over the Maple Leafs, Lane Hutson delivered one of his most dominant performances of the season.

www.sportsnet.ca

"Before Jakub Dobes stopped John Tavares, and even before Alexandre Texier pulled off a move no one—least of all Dennis Hildeby—saw coming, Lane Hutson capped one of his most dominant performances of the season without even hitting the score sheet.
The 21-year-old’s fingerprints were all over this win for the Montreal Canadiens over the Toronto Maple Leafs, and you’d have never found them if you didn’t go dusting for them.
Usually, they’re unmissable. The dynamic defenceman is a highlight factory, with his fakes, dangles, spins and passes consistently feeding the hockey algorithm its shorts.
But Hutson doesn’t get enough credit for the simple stuff he does in the shadows, for the time and space he steals away with his skating and positioning, for the stick checks that enable him to poke away controlled pucks, and for the net-front and corner battles he more often wins than loses. It was rarely the talk of his Calder Trophy-winning season—over which he made history from an offensive standpoint—and it probably hasn’t generated the buzz it’s deserved through the 27 games the Canadiens have played so far this season."

All this goes way over the head of Sharky.