Men's Ice Hockey NHL 2024 - 2025

[phelps 8,306]

3 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Screw the Panthers. Dirtiest team in the league. Every game a player tries to commit some illegal headshot, skate to the knee, choke, or other dirty play to the other teams star players. Everyone besides Barkov and Bobrovsky can be blasted into the sun and the punks Bennett, Ekblad, Marchands, Tkachuk and Mikkola can be blasted all the way to Pluto.

you're really a great fan of them, I see... 

 

not that I don't agree with you, but still, many of these guys made me win my fantasy league twice in a row (and finish 2nd this season), so, I just can't blame all of them...just those not on my team   

 

p.s. the problem is that if they don't win again, it's gonna be Edmonton, aka the worst ad for hockey...

they're just a 2/3-guy-team with no good goalies, no defense and a bunch of ordinary players beside the McDavid & Draisaitl scoring machine, just trying to outscore the opponents as their only plan

[orangeman 2,293]

22 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Screw the Panthers. Dirtiest team in the league. Every game a player tries to commit some illegal headshot, skate to the knee, choke, or other dirty play to the other teams star players. Everyone besides Barkov and Bobrovsky can be blasted into the sun and the punks Bennett, Ekblad, Marchands, Tkachuk and Mikkola can be blasted all the way to Pluto.

100%. And they'll keep getting away with it because Colin Campbell is still in charge while his son is the assistant GM in Florida. He helps him cheat today just like he helped him cheat when he was a player. It's been proven in court. This would not be tolerated in any other pro sports league (even little league), but unfortunately the NHL is an old boys network full of corruption. 

 

I would never wish injury on anyone, but I hope Edmonton is ready to put these thugs in their place right away. 

Edited May 30 by orangeman

[phelps 8,306]

the Florida Panthers, for most people's displeasure, completed their back-to-back and are still the NHL Stanley Cup Champions  

 

technically, totally deserved win for them, 4 games to 2 is even too much recognition for the Edmonton Oilers

 

the men from South-East were clearly on top of this year's final, Edmonton's partial wins were just a case, some kind of Florida's distraction rather than theiractual superiority on the ice

 

once again, the 2025 finals showed how it's impossible to win the Cup with a team built on 2/3 superstars eating out almost all the salary cap and a bunch of cheap guys as the supporting cast (and especially, no very good goalies): Hockey is NOT basketball, the NHL isn't the NBA 

 

https://www.nhl.com/news/2025-stanley-cup-final-panthers-oilers-top-10-moments

Edited June 18 by phelps

[JoshMartini007 2,768]

8 minutes ago, phelps said:

once again, the 2025 finals showed how it's impossible to win the Cup with a team built on 2/3 superstars eating out almost all the salary cap and a bunch of cheap guys as the supporting cast (and especially, no very good goalies): Hockey is NOT basketball, the NHL isn't the NBA 

 

Pretty much. Even the players who get a lot of ice time rarely play more than half the game. Plus they are only one player out of five on the ice (minus the goalie).

 

There's a reason why Vegas almost won the cup in their first season despite having no superstars in their prime. Turns out having a team of second liners is better than having a traditional set of 1-2-3-4 lines. 

[Topicmaster1010 5,435]

43 minutes ago, phelps said:

the Florida Panthers, for most people's displeasure, completed their back-to-back and are still the NHL Stanley Cup Champions  

 

technically, totally deserved win for them, 4 games to 2 is even too much recognition for the Edmonton Oilers

 

the men from South-East were clearly on top of this year's final, Edmonton's partial wins were just a case, some kind of Florida's distraction rather than theiractual superiority on the ice

 

once again, the 2025 finals showed how it's impossible to win the Cup with a team built on 2/3 superstars eating out almost all the salary cap and a bunch of cheap guys as the supporting cast (and especially, no very good goalies): Hockey is NOT basketball, the NHL isn't the NBA 

 

https://www.nhl.com/news/2025-stanley-cup-final-panthers-oilers-top-10-moments

[Josh 11,573]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

the Florida Panthers, for most people's displeasure, completed their back-to-back and are still the NHL Stanley Cup Champions  

 

technically, totally deserved win for them, 4 games to 2 is even too much recognition for the Edmonton Oilers

 

the men from South-East were clearly on top of this year's final, Edmonton's partial wins were just a case, some kind of Florida's distraction rather than theiractual superiority on the ice

 

once again, the 2025 finals showed how it's impossible to win the Cup with a team built on 2/3 superstars eating out almost all the salary cap and a bunch of cheap guys as the supporting cast (and especially, no very good goalies): Hockey is NOT basketball, the NHL isn't the NBA 

 

https://www.nhl.com/news/2025-stanley-cup-final-panthers-oilers-top-10-moments

Two new teams in the SCF next year, please  (and not the Leafs, Knights, Sens, Flames or Bruins)

[phelps 8,306]

21 hours ago, Josh said:

Two new teams in the SCF next year, please  (and not the Leafs, Knights, Sens, Flames or Bruins)

go Kings, go!