Das 2025-2026 NHL Regular Season Thread: If Connor McDavid were a real team player, he’d sign for the league minimum

[sutterfamily]

OT in SNES/PNES was fucking wild.

[sutterfamily]

Hate the shootout, got a point at least. PNES were good, dominated the second but were unlucky with 3 or 4 posts. SNES were better in the third and OT, lots of chances to win it but nobody could bury. With the D kinda rounding out, their hugest hole remains having a proper sniper to take advantage of those chances.

[sutterfamily]

Okay, positives:

Ullmark is playing really well all of sudden. Yakemchuk looks good, I think that pick is going to pan out just fine. Uh... oh, SNES have (at least currently) the regulation win tie-breaker on basically every single other team around them.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Right, so what I said. Glad we could agree.

Is anyone saying they're the best team in the NHL, though? I know Sabres fans have a comical tendency to get ahead of their skis whenever Buffalo goes on a heater.

[sutterfamily]

But they've been playing (or at least get results) at that pace and have the best record in the league since Dec 1, so I'm just SAYING that at some point they will start to play (and get points like) a team that is not as good as that (which is what I mean by come back to earth).

[sutterfamily]

I'm assuming that you hope that starts tomorrow.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

They've stumbled a bit in the last week, so who knows.

[practice]

crazy miss by Marchment last night in the last minute