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It should have just been the draft lotto for picks 1-7 for the 7 teams that were eliminated completely. Then do another lotto draft for picks 8-15 for the teams that lose the play in round series. Problem solved. It's certainly more fair than what they decided to do.

Agreed but I didn't really have any issues with the calls. Trocheck flexing his arms in the air at that Ranger(couldn't see who it was) after winning that final faceoff was fvcking hilarious. My only complaint presentation wise is that I don't like both goal horns and songs being played. The "home" team should be the only one that has those played.

That’s all I care about. If Montreal (or anyone else but the Rags) gets the #1 pick, that’s fine by me.

Schedule for today https://www.nhl.com/schedule

They should’ve just said from the start that they aren’t. This is just finishing the regular season without the sh!tty teams. They should’ve just labeled it as such. And they should’ve just done the lottery AFTER the play-in.

The true bullsh!t was the play-in round. And the whole notion that... the play-in teams ARE considered playoffs teams... but once they lose.. they aren't ?

Trotz against Quenneville is a chess battle after Chi vs Oils who`s like from late 80`s and Nyr vs Car like from AHL.

Edmonton has made it somewhat interesting late.

I'm enjoying the hell out of these games today so far. Too many penalties in the first game, but they'll figure that out. Oilers getting spanked. Panthers-Islanders is.. I mean, it's hockey. I'm happy to watch it. Lots of compelling games tomorrow.

It didn't sound too loud to me, I actually like the game audio instead for soccer during all this. Espn has been just amping up the mics and you can hear the guys yelling and screaming at each as well as convos from the coaches and refs but fox sports one has been pumping up the fake fan audio and it's loud and noticeable. During this mess of no fans I actually prefer the mics just being turned up instead of fake fan audio. Nothing about this situation is normal so they might as well do different things like turning up the mics everywhere.

I honestly wish they'd drop the pumped in crowd noise. I know you're a soccer guy, to me that seemed natural while the stuff pumped in for that game was awkward

Fun first game, but man too many penalties

im pretty confident that's 100% what's going to happen. But in all fairness, "hockey wize" i'd rather have him in MTL. They'd waste his talent, he'd have no center to play with and he's not THAT good. Their team structure is sh!tty. The fans would be annoying AF though and act like he's the second coming of Gretzky but wtv, im used to it by now. Him landing on the rangers and joining a very talented young core would be worrying though. In a perfect world though MTL and Chicago makes the playoffs and Arizona doesnt, then doesn't win the lottery.

I don't like this weird feeling of not wanting Lundqvist to let up goals

https://pucksandpitchforks.com/2020/07/31/new-jersey-devils-carolina-hurricanes-finally-finish-sami-vatanen-trade/ Vatanen is playing currently. So if he doesn't get injured this game, and plays in a second game in this series... we're getting at least a 4th back from Carolina. I think that's a fair compromise, and doesn't kill the spirit of the 5 games in the regular season condition.

Bubbles work, the MLS, NWSL and NBA have proven that. The MLB isn't in a bubble and guys are going out to clubs(Miami) and casinos(Cardinals). Guys not having any personal responsibility or self control is the problem with the MLB. It's not, they said he did something in practice yesterday.

If it keeps him off the Rags thats fine with me.

I really don’t like their chances with the King of Nothing in net. Sterio won’t like this but can the league please rig it for Montreal to get Laf? Lol

well what i said is one thing. He cannot take the same "title / job" from another team. But i also read that he had an "interview" with the devils owners and lied about it to his owner. Saying he was just making connections with owners across the league or wtv... but it WAS an interview. But i guess the devils were not interested ultimately? That's just rumours obviously i don't know for sure. I'm sure more details will come out eventually but right now there's too much missing information and anything he's doing is probably done that way for a reason.

Rags are tanking lmfao.

Personally I'd rather see the Rangers beat Carolina in 5 games with lots of overtime involved and then get swept in the first round. I'd rather see Carolina win the first overall pick than the Rangers. I want the same result with the Islanders, beat Florida and then get swept in the first round. A meaningless play in win series by both the Rangers and Islanders that everyone will forget and then getting knocked out in the first round is much easier to deal with than either of them winning the #1 pick.

It's awful convenient that the lottery ended on a "to be continued"

Updates to the Vatanen trade

Of course the obligatory tease to end it, this team is just so predictable yet still annoying.

what are we 8 games in and it already feels like a full season of crippling losses.

I'm all for the Rock being the new strength and conditioning coach for the entire team though, get him to work with Hughes lol...

MLB handled COVID just about as piss poorly as the entire state of Florida. Funny how focusing on the money and doing nothing about preventative measures until the train was already rolling was a bad approach. What a freaking joke. NWSL, MLS, NBA and NHL all have had zero positive cases in their most recent rounds of testing. EDIT: Just read they knew they had positive cases during the series and still kept playing, including yesterday's game. The Marlins should be heavily fined and beyond, what a bunch of arrogant fvcks. EDIT 2: A lot of panic that the MLB season will now be cancelled. Again, goddamn I love the NHL for actually thinking "hmmmm maybe we need to make sure people are healthy and once we prove they were, throw them in a fvcking bubble if we really care about the game..." instead of "but what about our money?" as the only point