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

[sutterfamily]

Heh, I saw it pop up and thought of you. Do those guys hate on Detroit fairly regularly?

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Lazerus absolutely, Gentille sometimes, McIndoe when the narrative tells him to.

Even when the Wings were doing well they all doubted it, which to be fair proved accurate, but I also wasn’t counting them in the playoffs until they clinched.

[Alexei Ca$hin]

Chabot on the ice doing contact drills 12 days after surgery for broken forearm?

[Cacophony]

Ron Francis still had a job?!

[sutterfamily]

Chabot on the ice doing contact drills 12 days after surgery for broken forearm?

He's... playing tonight? Does he have magic bone-juice?

[sutterfamily]

Maybe they kept Melnyk's liverboy tied up in the CTC basement

[sutterfamily]

(context: his injury was listed as 4-8 weeks but it happened 2 weeks ago... for those of you not religiously following the SNES)

[Alexei Ca$hin]

This cannot be a good idea

[sutterfamily]

Yeah, feels weird. Like, the Panthers are playing an exhibition level roster and are missing:

Tkachuk
Barkov
Rodrigues
Reinhart
Marchand
Jones
Kulikov
Ekblad
Lundell
Mikkola

Still lots of guys who can hack a wrist, tho. Why not let him heal longer until it's do-or-die?

[sutterfamily]

Isles are outshooting the Leaves 22-3 in the first period

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Must be nice to play a team that is explicitly tanking so they maintain their draft pick

[Grand Moff Larkin]

As it turns out, that applies to both Florida and Toronto

[sutterfamily]

Don't the wings also play the Panth?

[Grand Moff Larkin]

The last game of the year, when I’m sure they will be eliminated

Tkachuk was definitely in for the games last month

[sutterfamily]

Yeah, I mean I remember him being in last week! At this point of the game, 5 mins left in the first, it was 5-0 Florida.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Just explained the playoff scenario to my son

He’s hoping that the Wings win out and Ottawa gets four OT losses

I do not see that happening

[sutterfamily]

Afraid to type anything but an OT loss TONIGHT would be absolutely devastating at this point. I can see them losing in reg against the Isles on Saturday, especially with the new coach bump in full effect. If they can't beat NJD and TOR in their last two games then they deserve whatever happens tho

Buffalo's maybe doing their part at least.

[sutterfamily]

Shots in long island are 44 to 13, somehow the Leafs are still in the game.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Afraid to type anything but an OT loss TONIGHT would be absolutely devastating at this point. I can see them losing in reg against the Isles on Saturday, especially with the new coach bump in full effect. If they can't beat NJD and TOR in their last two games then they deserve whatever happens tho

Buffalo's maybe doing their part at least.

I probably should’ve looked at Ottawa’s last four games, they are not losing two of those

[Grand Moff Larkin]

3-1