NHL 2022/2023 season thread

[prairie_girl]

The battle for those 2 Eastern Conf wild card spots is looking bloooooody.

The West as well. We play Calgary tonight and it’s going to be a HUGE 2 points.

 

[Love Ft Wilderness]

I'm happy that the Lightning ended their season with a win on fan appreciation night. Point achieved his 50th goal and many other milestones were met. Now we prepare for round 1 with the Leafs on Tuesday. It should be fun to watch no matter the outcome.

For those whose teams made it to the playoffs, are you ready for the battles to begin?
I realize that the west still has a couple to be determined yet. Talk about going down to the wire. It'll be a fun playoff.

 

[pens4821]

What a disappointment for the Penguins. Glad they got rid of some people today. Last two games against the worst teams in the league to go to the playoffs and they can’t come through. In a way I was ok with it though. We would’ve gotten destroyed in the playoffs.

 

[EACarlson]

I'm happy that the Lightning ended their season with a win on fan appreciation night. Point achieved his 50th goal and many other milestones were met. Now we prepare for round 1 with the Leafs on Tuesday. It should be fun to watch no matter the outcome.

For those whose teams made it to the playoffs, are you ready for the battles to begin?
I realize that the west still has a couple to be determined yet. Talk about going down to the wire. It'll be a fun playoff.

It's the Leafs, saw a joke on facebook a few days ago. No one has ever tweeted about the Leafs winning a playoff series. Twitter started in 2007 and the Leafs haven't won a playoff series since 2004.

Wild get the Stars in round 1. The team that almost turned me off hockey altogether when they left and the team that renewed my interest in the NHL.

 

[prairie_girl]

We play Vegas and there is definitely some unfinished business.

 

[AuroraluvsPhillip]

Best time of year.

 

[RedAngie]

I’m mad at the NHL. They stole my playoffs idea without giving me proper credit and compensation!!!!

Decades ago playoff games had a certain set schedule. For the first round teams played 4 games in 5 days: Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Then they went to a Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday or Sunday format for the rest of the first round and all later rounds.

Occasionally there were exceptions if the venues were previously booked for a different event.

Close to 40 years ago I wrote to NHL headquarters in New York suggesting the staggered method they now follow. Some series begin on one day, like tonight, and the other series start tomorrow. This way there could be games practically every night until the Finals.

I did receive a reply thanking me for my interest blah blah blah. About 4 or 5 years later the NHL adopted my suggestion but failed to call it the RedAngie format.

(I don’t want to hear that others may have had the same idea.)

 

[RedAngie]

First round of the playoffs the way they SHOULD be.

Boston v Florida
Carolina v NY Islanders
New Jersey v Winnipeg
Las Vegas v Tampa
Toronto v Seattle
Colorado v Minnesota
Edmonton v Los Angeles
Dallas v NY Rangers

Intra-conference series year after year after year is boring.

 

[Love Ft Wilderness]

Well, Game 1 has played out. Really odd that last night the road teams did so well against the home teams by large margins (exception Seattle v Colorado).

I'm excited to see how this round ends up.

 

[RedAngie]

I know it’s only one game, but the Maple Leafs…….

Wait until next year?

 

[prairie_girl]

I don’t know about anyone else, but I sure wouldn’t be returning to any activity after getting 75 (!!!) stitches. What a warrior.

Hockey players are a breed unto themselves.

 

[Love Ft Wilderness]

I know it’s only one game, but the Maple Leafs…….

Wait until next year?

I'm a Lightning fan but I'm not counting out the Maple Leafs just yet. They have a very talented team and now we have injuries. I think it's going to be a battle.

 

[fly girl]

What a disappointment for the Penguins. Glad they got rid of some people today. Last two games against the worst teams in the league to go to the playoffs and they can’t come through. In a way I was ok with it though. We would’ve gotten destroyed in the playoffs.

Terribly disappointing. But not shocking as they have struggled all season against the worst teams. Their third period performances were pathetic.

Agree 100% we would have been destroyed. That is why although I am sad we didn't go, I think it does have a silver lining. Dumping Hextall and Burke may not have happened if they advanced. Good riddance to both, especially Hextall.

 

[EACarlson]

Beautiful game last night by the Wild. No misconduct penalties and the Wild win 5-1. Wish I didn't have to stay up until 11pm to watch. Should have all playoff games start at their regular times based on where the game is being played. I could only watch the first period of games 1 and 2 because the NHL forces them into west coast start times. I could barely stay awake for the end of last nights game, at least Sunday's game is a reasonable time. Game 1 finished at 1:30 am

 

[prairie_girl]

Game 3 goes in just over an hour and there’s an electric feel to the air. Can’t wait to see the Whiteout! No one does it like us.

GO JETS GO

 

[EACarlson]

Watching the Leafs-Lightning game. According to the rulebook, the refs should have ejected Austen Matthews, Ryan O'Reilly, Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos for fighting in secondary altercations. On a play that wasn't a penalty. Crazy things going on in these playoffs.

 

[Babs Johnson]

I’m mad at the NHL. They stole my playoffs idea without giving me proper credit and compensation!!!!

Decades ago playoff games had a certain set schedule. For the first round teams played 4 games in 5 days: Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Then they went to a Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday or Sunday format for the rest of the first round and all later rounds.

Occasionally there were exceptions if the venues were previously booked for a different event.

Close to 40 years ago I wrote to NHL headquarters in New York suggesting the staggered method they now follow. Some series begin on one day, like tonight, and the other series start tomorrow. This way there could be games practically every night until the Finals.

I did receive a reply thanking me for my interest blah blah blah. About 4 or 5 years later the NHL adopted my suggestion but failed to call it the RedAngie format.

(I don’t want to hear that others may have had the same idea.)

I did some research. The NHL adopted your idea in the 1990 playoffs.

When the NHL expanded to 18 teams in the 74-75 season (Washington and Kansas City), the playoffs expanded from 8 to 12 teams. The four division winners got byes in the first round, and the other 8 engaged in quickie best of 3 games series.

The format remained the same until the 79-80 season when 4 survivors of the World Hockey Association (Quebec, Hartford, Winnipeg, and Edmonton) joined the NHL. The playoff pool expanded to 16 teams. No byes. The first round became the best of 5 series.

The first round remained best of 5 until the 86-87 season when it became and remains best of 7.

I do like some of first round matchups of the 75-81 era. Toronto vs Los Angeles, Philadelphia vs Vancouver, Montreal vs Edmonton, etc. I’d like to see inter-conference matchups in the first three rounds again.

And SC finals like Boston-Montreal, Philadelphia-NY Islanders, or NY Rangers- Montreal.

 

[prairie_girl]

Looks like we’ll be making an early exit on Thursday.

 

[RedAngie]

I did some research. The NHL adopted your idea in the 1990 playoffs.

When the NHL expanded to 18 teams in the 74-75 season (Washington and Kansas City), the playoffs expanded from 8 to 12 teams. The four division winners got byes in the first round, and the other 8 engaged in quickie best of 3 games series.

The format remained the same until the 79-80 season when 4 survivors of the World Hockey Association (Quebec, Hartford, Winnipeg, and Edmonton) joined the NHL. The playoff pool expanded to 16 teams. No byes. The first round became the best of 5 series.

The first round remained best of 5 until the 86-87 season when it became and remains best of 7.

I do like some of first round matchups of the 75-81 era. Toronto vs Los Angeles, Philadelphia vs Vancouver, Montreal vs Edmonton, etc. I’d like to see inter-conference matchups in the first three rounds again.

And SC finals like Boston-Montreal, Philadelphia-NY Islanders, or NY Rangers- Montreal.

Sounds about right. I wrote my letter to the NHL around 1985 or 86.

 

[RedAngie]

Egads!!! Tampa blew a 4-1 lead in game 4

Can the Leafs actually win a series???