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2025-26 NHL Miscellaneous Thread

Good for you, Victor. For your sake, I hope you can get into a better mental health space. It's a hard friggin battle that seems like the only light at the end of a tunnel is actually a train.
 
cmaleski2 said:
I've completely given up trying to understand the current NHL icing rules. I mean, I understand the rules as written (at least I THINK I do), but then almost every game you see a scenario play out where clearly the rule as not correctly applied, likely due to the linesmen just not seeing things correctly.

I've chalked it all up to it being very hard to actually make that judgement call in real time at ice level. It's a lot easier to question icing calls (who won the race?, did he make the line?, was that actually deflected?) when you are sitting up higher and can really see everything.
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At what point in the NHL game overall did the linesmen all get together and decide that everyone comes to pay and watch those guys drop a puck? The lecture they seem to love to give guys, even to seasoned faceoff pros like Jordo is comical...it has gotten to the point where they just feel like they need their own TV time and make a spectacle out of way too many faceoffs every night. Get them set ok, but drop the puck and cut it out with the "Johnny Murray School of Faceoff Madeness"...
 
CanadaCanes said:
At what point in the NHL game overall did the linesmen all get together and decide that everyone comes to pay and watch those guys drop a puck? The lecture they seem to love to give guys, even to seasoned faceoff pros like Jordo is comical...it has gotten to the point where they just feel like they need their own TV time and make a spectacle out of way too many faceoffs every night. Get them set ok, but drop the puck and cut it out with the "Johnny Murray School of Faceoff Madeness"...
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Ryan Daisy #81 last night, has worked 2 finals and the 2026 Olympics. Shandor Alphonso has also been around, last night was his 42nd playoff game. He hasn’t worked a final yet.
 
Alphonso was the one who couldn’t get his icing calls straight last night. Both of them got equally pissy about lecturing everybody in the circle for no real reason, so far as I can tell.
 
It was referenced before, but the other game last night was interesting. Vegas took Game 1 over Anaheim with a 3-1 win, banking a rare standout game from Carter Hart in net. Brett Howden remained hot with his 5th of the playoffs, which is bonkers considering he scored 12 goals all season. It was a pretty tight game with Barabshev breaking a 1-1 tie with like 5 minutes left, followed by an empty netter. That blown icing call led directly to a goal for Vegas, thus Queneville’s meltdown. Otherwise, it looked fairly even to me. Vegas just converted one more than the Ducks. Could be a tight series, if less bonkers than the Anaheim/Edmonton tilt.

Only one game tonight … Colorado/Minnesota Game 2. After the fireworks in Game 1, watch this be a 2-1 kind of deal.
 
jeffbear said:
It was referenced before, but the other game last night was interesting. Vegas took Game 1 over Anaheim with a 3-1 win, banking a rare standout game from Carter Hart in net. Brett Howden remained hot with his 5th of the playoffs, which is bonkers considering he scored 12 goals all season. It was a pretty tight game with Barabshev breaking a 1-1 tie with like 5 minutes left, followed by an empty netter. That blown icing call led directly to a goal for Vegas, thus Queneville’s meltdown. Otherwise, it looked fairly even to me. Vegas just converted one more than the Ducks. Could be a tight series, if less bonkers than the Anaheim/Edmonton tilt.

Only one game tonight … Colorado/Minnesota Game 2. After the fireworks in Game 1, watch this be a 2-1 kind of deal.
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The Wild will turn to Gustavsson in goal per Hynes.
 
I’m more concerned about that D group than their goalie situation. They spent a lot of time resources getting Wallstedt playoff blooded in the Dallas series, and this was really his first bad outing. I guess it’s natural to want to stop the bleeding when you just barfed up 9 goals, but it was chaos defensively in front of the kid. I’d have loved to see them give him a chance to bounce back unless he’s just shattered mentally. Then again, Gustavsson has some playoff experience and has decent numbers even if he’s never won a series. That whole thing is weird to be, from this distance. Gustavsson just signed a big extension that kicks in next season (5 years at $6.8 mil AAV) and they turn to Wallstedt for the huge series with Dallas … and he wins. They’ll have options, to be sure. It’s not like you couldn’t get a ton for a goalie with Gustavsson’s track record if you decided to trade him (or Wallstedt for that matter), and both are signed for next year at a not too insane total of $9 mil. So you could punt a decision off to next year if you wanted. Luxury problems to have in a league where there are a lot of teams with goalie issues.
 
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