Thee Official 2026-2027 NHL Season Thread: What? Fuck? It Started?

[practice]

Leafs looking p good

Nevermind

[practice]

Defence sucks, need Simon Edvinsson statt

[hotnickelsyo]

[anger rises]

[Cacophony]

Defence sucks, need Simon Edvinsson statt

Rumor is he now ‘prefers to be traded’

[neuartillery]

Ovechkin’s hanging it up after this year, presumably will join the Russian army and fight the Ukrainians

[hotnickelsyo]

Thank god the national broadcasts have that to talk about for the duration of the season [barf]

[neuartillery]

Well, they'll talk about his retirement, I would be absolutely stunned if BizNasty ripped him for his Putin ties

[sutterfamily]

SNES are SNES'ing the broons pretty good (altho B's have made so many terrible turnovers hard to say what's the driving force here). Although Ullmark just came out of the game up 4-0 due to injury so SNES'ing a little too hard I guess.

[sutterfamily]

(Fairly obvious when he got hurt on a collision at the end of the second, hopefully not too serious, sigh)

[sutterfamily]

Ersson just absolutely gave the Bruins a goal out of nothing, jesus christ

[neuartillery]

Ersson real bad

[sutterfamily]

Yes. Love to see that Merilainen is playing GREAT in vancouver, too. I get the "increase stability in the crease" idea but doing it with one of the shittiest goalies in the league? not so much

Ullmark is on the bench backing up now so I assume it's not too serious.

[sutterfamily]

He's got absolutely nothing to show for it so far but William Eklund looks very good

[sutterfamily]

Not sure why Boston didn't pull their goalie at all

[practice]

He's got absolutely nothing to show for it so far but William Eklund looks very good

I looked up his individual xG through 2 periods on Saturday night and it was over .5 after whiffing on the empty net after Bob's giveaway behind the net and then missing the fuckin rocket of a pass from Batherson on the PP

[sutterfamily]

Another 0.39 last night and also setup at least another 0.5 worth?

Brady Thachuk staring the season with 0 points in three games is ok

[practice]

Actually I was looking at 5v5, with the PP miss he was 1.24. probably got too little xG credit for the miss on the empty net (I assume it can't tell/account for the fact that the net was empty just that it was a chance at the centre of the crease) and too much for the PP miss (I assume he registered a shot attempt from the edge of the crease again but the pass was a rocket)

[Alexei Ca$hin]

Omg Ersson looks even worse than last year

[neuartillery]

It's hard to judge the SNES without both Sanderson and Zub, with Ersson in net, and on the second night of a back to back. But it feels like they still need another impact forward.

[hotnickelsyo]

Marchand returneth, Marchand breaketh

Can't tell from the replay if it warranted all that drama or not. He folded pretty hard though. Never like seeing anyone get hurt.