OK, the son and I REALLY enjoyed the intermission report... "Does it smell? Yes, more than you can possibly imagine", THAT WAS HILARIOUS to a hockey dad with a goalie... And yes, hockey gear is the worst smelling gear in sports. Hockey goalie gear is the next level. That's why you put it in the back of a truck!

And we have two of everything for our son so we can wash it in Wet Suit cleaner. You can't do it with the leg pads very well, but you can pretty-much get the smell out of the blocker and catcher hands...

OMG that was funny.

Yeah, if only the product was as great as the NFL, where they don't delay the game for 7 hours... they just make it blatantly obvious who's going to win before the game is half over, so you don't even have to tune in for the second half, much less 7 hours later.

I opened my hockey bag for the first time in years a little while back and that awful smell took me back... LMAO

The wife asked me if I missed coaching (I coached my son through Bantam), and I told her I miss everything but the smell.

My cousins in high school playing high school football, meet them after the game and forgot how nasty the smell was. I remember our high school locker room, that was such a nice smell of teenage boy body odor, piss and shower water that wouldn't drain.

I grabbed my gear to play my first game of the season , around late sept, and when I started getting dressed my stuff felt a bit wet which seemd weird since I hadn't played since march I guess it doesn't dry well if you leave bag closed, the smell wasn't great but played through it , I didn't really notice the mold t'ill after the game though, had to throw some stuff out.

here are some pics of the backyard rink my father law put together this year, not your typical backyard rink. It turned out to be a great year for it with my sons Hockey season getting cancelled and most public ODR getting shut down.

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Anybody watching this Blues/Sharks game? Its freaking nuts.

I didn't, but the clip of Binnington taking weird shots at guys on his way off the ice is at the top of r/hockey. WTF happened to prompt him to do that?

I did see it, and you're right, that was a wild one!

Wasn’t sure where to post this or i even should but I though it was a nice gesture worth sharing here goes , my 13 year sons teammate passed away this summer from a stroke , he had been in rehab for multiple months after suffering one stroke in March , great kid , nice family.

Overall it is a pretty shitty story but this week after being contacted by a family friend EA sports decided to create a card/player and added to the NHL 21 game .so now all his teammate and family an play with him ., nice gesture from EA and can maybe somehow help the family cope .

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https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/northe...1_5188555.html

ESPN and the NHL have reached a 7 year deal:
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...iplatform-deal
Not sure if this is a good thing...

Only with the old theme music and a prime Gary Thorne

I was wondering how ESPN+ would factor in and just assumed those assholes would take the games normally on NBCSN and force you to subscribe..... I wonder if the "1000+ games on ESPN+" means it's replacing Center Ice/NHL.tv?

Well, reddit seems to think NHL.tv is dead... if ESPN+ sticks around $5-10/month, it's a win for the price difference.

Espn has completely buried the nhl the last couple years and have constantly hyped the nba. I wonder if this will change that. I doubt it.

JFC the Blues can't get anything in the net lately... Wow!

Vlad's return seems to be the kiss of death as it relates to scoring!

Such a weird goal in the frozen four tournament yesterday....

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That was funny, without the other angle, you never would've known how it went in.
Here's a similar one from Saturday night. It initially looks like he tips the puck in with his glove, then comes another angle:
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Blues season
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Ryan O'Reilly is pretty good.

NHL adds TNT and TBS to its new tv deal along with ESPN
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-turner-...bs/c-324075352

This move might mean that the NHL gets a higher national billing than Women's college badminton. Not too shabby. TNT should hire Don Cherry & Jeremy Roenick as an analysts. They're both available.

Playoffs!

I get to root against a Kroenke owned sports team.

Avs sealing 1st place in the West!

Don't blame you on that front. But I do love our team. Should be a fun series.

I don’t dislike the Avs yet, unlike SJ.

I respect Sakic for staying the course and not shitcanning Bednar after an atrocious season.

MacKinnon and Makar are fun to watch.

Hopefully Edmonton goes far McDavid is fun to watch , the gap between him and the next best tier of players got a lot wider this year he looks like someone hit fast forward every time he touches the puck.

Veach and Sakic, man... he knows how to deal.

I'm so ready to watch different teams play... really wish they would have seeded across divisions or something this year to mix it up right away, but oh well. What's 6 or 7 more games against the same teams... LMAO

Yeah, hoping to watch him a lot more in the playoffs, mostly just caught him against the Leafs or a Jets game or two....a truly incredible season.

Panthers over Lighting ?

Agreed. While I suppose it's nice to continue the (low key) rivalry between the Avs and Blues, I'm REALLY tired of seeing the same teams at this point. The semifinals are going to be a breath of fresh air regardless of who makes it.

I could only laugh at being put into a division with the Wild and Knights... and to a lesser extent the Blues. Glad the Knights and Wild play each other and the Avalanche don't play both. Granted, the game against the Knights the other night was pretty intense.

I'm hoping in a series like the Bruins and Caps, they really turn it up several notches. I generally enjoy those games in that trio of Bruins/Caps/Pens, but it's like all three have just been going through the motions for the most part... some of those games have been incredibly dull compared to what I'd expect.

The reseeding is very intriguing... win two rounds and they could be playing the Lightning or Oilers in the semifinals, or like the Pens or Leafs if the top seeds advance. Great year to win the President's trophy.

If fans were in the stands the leafs/habs series would have been crazy, now i'm hoping it is just competitive with most guys coming back from injury it might be if Price stands on his head, I hope Caufield plays I like his potential you can't coach up guys to being natural goal scorers.

Sakic has a good team, but the foundations of that team are high draft picks. They had to suck a long time to build through the draft. Nothing like the Chiefs current roster build. Chiefs don't have that many top 5 or top 10 picks.

Yeah, the Chiefs haven't made any key draft picks in the top 10...

It's obviously apples and oranges between sports and franchises, etc; but he's made a huge impact and doesn't ever seem satisfied.

Sure, get rid of their high draft picks obtained from sucking -- Landeskog, MacKinnon, Makar, Rantanen -- and they pretty quickly fall into at least mediocrity. Just like if the Chiefs get rid of Mahomes.

Neither of those guys just sit back, and more importantly, they don't panic, either; while making the most of the draft.

I'm not talking about one or two players. Look at their entire roster. Their top four players are all top 10 picks. Three of those players are top 5 picks. Bowen Byram will soon be joining them as another top 5 pick. They built their team through being really terrible many years ago. Maybe not planned that way, but that's the way it turned out.

I'll give Sakic credit for making good moves to supplement this roster. But he and Veach walked into completely different situations. They also built the roster in different ways. The similarity is they're both GMs of successful teams at the moment. There's many ways to skin a cat.

1-0 Avs over Blues at first intermission.

Bruins/Caps has been great, besides (or perhaps despite) the unfortunate existence of Craig Anderson.

Panthers/Lightning with 9-10k fans was really fun to watch last night... the crowd was really into it, felt like real playoff hockey.

And to the surprise of no one, the Wild and Knights gave us some bottom-of-the-barrel hockey...

Took the Avalanche ~5-6 minutes to get it going (and should have been down 1-0 at that point), but obviously got it going after that.... love watching this team, including that 14 year old kid who scored.

FFS. LMAO

Bennington made one heck of a save with his foot.

And the Avs come back and make a great play to stop a Blues goal.

Yeah, that was just as insane, especially since Graves is the one who gave up the puck along the wall.

Playoff hockey for ya!

HOW IS THIS GAME TIED?!?!?

****in' hockey. LMAO

Binnington.

And Graves, I suppose. ROFL

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Not tied anymore.

Well, almost once again... twice.

MacKinnon, man...

And that pass...

Three to one

I wonder if those 30 games against the Wild and Knights helped this season... they've had a lot of good energy and pressure on the puck.

50 shots and Landeskog with the Gordie Howe Hat Trick

Good start for the Avs. Fun game.

This season will be a complete failure for Colorado if they don't win the Cup.

They are by far the best team, ridiculously talented and fast AF.

They can't keep blowing opportunities.

Starting a game at 9:30pm in a team's local time zone shouldn't be allowed. That is all.

Colorado game is at 8:30 PM isn't it old man?

Not for Blues fans.

Should, but they won't

The Flyers are stuck in the Herm Edwards and Scott Pioli years of their lifetime.

Painful.

Well, last year was really the first time they've blown an opportunity... the previous two playoff duds were as the underdog.

But yeah, it gets tougher this offseason (Makar is a RFA and Landeskog, Saad, Grubauer UFA), and then more so after next season.


Even 8:30 local is a bit extreme, but I'm old... hell, I'm in Pacific time at the moment and don't love regulation ending after 10pm. LMAO

Gonna be tough for my Blues but I'm with them to the end. Let's go!

NHL playoffs rule.

Another crazy Caps Bruins OT....

You know that means its going into overtime tonight as well.

Bruins pull of another OT win. Poor bastards gotta be tired...

Sad way to lose a double OT game, but they very well could have won on the terrible defensive play a couple minutes prior.

Marchand had like 3 easy opportunities to win that OT, but just flat missed...

Carolina just scored 2 goals in the last minute of play! LOL...

WTF would they stick with the Canes clapping at center ice when the next game has dropped the puck?

FFS, NBC... and Graves scores, yay!

Goddammit, they missed the 1st goal? :cuss:

ROR is getting his ass kicked so far in this series.

Yeah, that was ****in' ridiculous. I had it streaming just in case.

FYI... these are really high quality for the price...

https://www.dhgate.com/product/the-e...977038:1367952

I've got one of the Nordiques throwbacks on the way. :)

Are things sewn on?

That baby blue Nordiques Sakic jersey is really tempting...

https://www.dhgate.com/product/quebe...c3e5708591a1:2