Thee Officialle 2021 NHL Season Thread: Catch the Fever!

[Alexei Ca$hin]

McDavid good

[Grand Moff Larkin]

McDavid good

Penis good

[Cacophony]

Jeff Carter with a walker just too much to handle here for Minnesota

[Cacophony]

Please just tank we have 2 first rounders

[Cacophony]

lmao the reaction the KK's gamewimmer. Just lost control of the puck and it slid behind Quick and people are flipping out lol we are so desperate.

[sutterfamily]

Caco I'm not sure anyone hates their favourite team as much as you. It's great!

[sutterfamily]

So many times I'll see a string of comments from you and think "oh man, how badly did they get creamed" and I check the score and they won. (As the SNES have also proved at times in the semi-recent past, winning games != "good", so of course I understand...)

[Grand Moff Larkin]

So many times I'll see a string of comments from you and think "oh man, how badly did they get creamed" and I check the score and they won. (As the SNES have also proved at times in the semi-recent past, winning games != "good", so of course I understand...)

I get a kick out of it, too, but to Cacophony's credit, they were playing the Kings, so winning 4-3 in OT is like losing 5-1 to a good team. Kaprizov having three points in his debut seems pretty good!

I would like to believe that my takes on the Red Wings are, if anything, too optimistic.

[nick]

Laine really upping his trade value last night. Played maybe the best game I've seen him play in a long time.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

I've never doubted that Laine could dominate, not sure if it was an effort issue or a linemate concern. Is he back with Stastny?

[nick]

He played with Stastny and Connor, with Ehlers playing with Scheifele and Wheeler. Connor and Laine seemed to have great chemistry; Stastny basically let them take charge and didn't do anything to slow them down. If Laine can be the kind of player who can drive a line as a winger as he did last night, then he's found another gear that I'm not sure I expected. And he *really* wanted to fight Tkachuk after he jumped on Hanifin after coming to Connor's defense after a boarding call -- took a gloveless swing, but the officials were all over them.

His exclusion from The Athletic's top 100 list a few days ago must've been good motivation

[nick]

[Alexei Ca$hin]

Laine was a on a mission last night.

Mission to get traded or mission to get paid? I dunno, maybe both, but he was at another level.

[Alexei Ca$hin]

That play where McDavid burst in on Edler (?) and threw on the breaks looked like slalom skiing.

[Alexei Ca$hin]

Does this work?

[captain]

that was a fun game

4th line is real bad however. i know everyone's thinking "stop complaining about the 4th line" but they've already been outscored 4-0 at even strength and there's no offensive ability there

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Are there other guys (taxi squad I guess) who could cycle onto the fourth line?

[nick]

Forgot that the JERTS' save of the night was by Derek Forbert, which led to a great pass and even better shot for the JERTS' first goal:

[sutterfamily]

He played with Stastny and Connor, with Ehlers playing with Scheifele and Wheeler. Connor and Laine seemed to have great chemistry; Stastny basically let them take charge and didn't do anything to slow them down. If Laine can be the kind of player who can drive a line as a winger as he did last night, then he's found another gear that I'm not sure I expected. And he *really* wanted to fight Tkachuk after he jumped on Hanifin after coming to Connor's defense after a boarding call -- took a gloveless swing, but the officials were all over them.

His exclusion from The Athletic's top 100 list a few days ago must've been good motivation

Is that the list where Austen Matthews is listed as being one of the three best players in the league?

[nick]

sure is!