walksalone Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 22 Days \m/ 1 Quote Link to comment
walksalone Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 my boys are 2-0 and looking like they could do a little damage out west... oh, and f*ck Cindy Crosby Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 NHL adopts 24-team playoff if season resumes Quote The NHL will now move on to a 24-team conference-based postseason format that was approved by the NHLPA last Friday by a 29-2 vote, with the Carolina Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Lightning the only teams whose representatives voted against it. The games would be held inside empty arenas at two hub cities, where players, staff and others would be housed during the season restart. Originally, the NHL was seeking four different hubs, but logistics and a refocusing on the 24-team conference format narrowed that to two. Bettman said Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Edmonton, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Toronto and Vancouver are being considered. The hubs would have secure arenas, hotels and practice facilities, and there would be aggressive COVID-19 testing and protocols at each site. The top four teams in each conference ranked by points percentage -- Boston, Tampa Bay, Washington and Philadelphia in the East and St. Louis, Colorado, Vegas and Dallas in the West -- will play separate round-robin tournaments to determine seeding in the first round. They will be played with regular-season overtime and shootout rules. Those teams will be accumulating points within that round-robin, and if there are any ties, they will be broken by which team has a higher regular-season points percentage. As an example: If the Bruins and Lightning both go 2-1 in the round-robin, Boston would earn the top seed based on points percentage. The remaining 16 teams, seeded by conference, will play best-of-five play-in series. These games will be played with playoff overtime rules, and these play-in series will determine which teams advance to a traditional 16-team Stanley Cup playoff bracket. In the East, the play-in series matchups would be No. 5 Pittsburgh vs. No. 12 Montreal, No. 6 Carolina vs. No. 11 New York Rangers, No. 7 New York Islanders vs. No. 10 Florida, and No. 8 Toronto vs. No. 9 Columbus. In the West, it would be No. 5 Edmonton vs. No. 12 Chicago, No. 6 Nashville vs. No. 11 Arizona, No. 7 Vancouver vs. No. 10 Minnesota, and No. 8 Calgary vs. No. 9 Winnipeg. 1 Quote Link to comment
admo Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Hmmm... I think I could get behind this (Seattle Kraken). Esp since I'm an Oilers / Caps fan. Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Awesome game winning goal by the Av’s with .1 seconds remaining in regulation. Huge goal. Suck it Blues. Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Frickin' Lightning. Anyway, Las Vegas going for the earwax look next season: Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Retro jerseys released: Hurricanes wearing Hartford Whalers throwbacks: Avalanche wearing Nordiques: Quote Link to comment
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