Thee Official 2026-2027 NHL Season Thread: Bwady’s a Big Boy Who Wants His Bwanket

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I've been calling him (since I first read about this trade an hour or so ago) Alexandre Commande like he's French Canadian

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Troy the Boy Stecher

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Let's look at the facts, if the Leafs played in the west they would have been to the finals at least twice in the Matthews era

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Cowan looks like one of those Carolina fuckers, Blake or Jarvis type guy, he's creating chance every mf shift

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Getting the sense Tristan Jarry may not be good

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on the Matthew goal on Saturday night Cuthbert goes, scores, a beauty! 2-0 Leafs, nice and succinct and then it's just dead silence for 10+ seconds as Simpson tries to recover from his disappointment and then he starts with a few lines about the pressure the McDavid line had been exerting in the offensive zone before the bad stuff started

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it's a strange aspect of a Leafs-obsessed national hockey media environment that alters start times and does other annoying shit to other fanbases is there isn't a Leafs homer announcer on any network and Hughson and Simpson are outright hostile

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most every goal on Saturday (7 of them total icymi) was described in terms of what Mike Babcock must be thinking on the Oilers bench

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it's a strange aspect of a Leafs-obsessed national hockey media environment that alters start times and does other annoying shit to other fanbases is there isn't a Leafs homer announcer on any network and Hughson and Simpson are outright hostile

Reparations for living through Bob and Harry calls the previous 20 years.

[sutterfamily]

Nobody hates/is hostile to Montreal tho still and that is a major problem imo

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it's a strange aspect of a Leafs-obsessed national hockey media environment that alters start times and does other annoying shit to other fanbases is there isn't a Leafs homer announcer on any network and Hughson and Simpson are outright hostile

Reparations for living through Bob and Harry calls the previous 20 years.

Yeah actually that makes sense

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Alonzo Mourning dot gif

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Neon James still bad, morally and professionally

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Matthew Schaefer played all five minutes of OT

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that is wild

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I haven't watched that OT period so maybe they had possession most of the time and he could stroll around a bit, but whenever a defenseman is stuck out there for like 2:30+ on a shift, they basically become immobile. They're going to stand around in front of the goal and try not to take a penalty. Doubling that shift length is bonkers.

[Alexei Ca$hin]

Yeah context is important. Nashville took at penalty at 2:17 of OT and NYI took a timeout to give him a breather to play the PP.

[neuartillery]

I know Romanov is out but I’m trying to think about who their 2D is. Pulock and Pelech are still there but not the same guys anymore.

I checked the ice times and Logan Stanley was second among their defensemen, 12+ minutes behind Schaefer.

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Bob is a disaster, anyone can beat him up high. he's been beaten clean this year high glove by Backlund, Duclair, Axel Holmstrom, Ryker Evans, the Griddin from Calgary. it's pretty dire.

[neuartillery]

Griddy beat him? Ouch