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wow! Now that’s a shocker. Brunette coached them to the best record in the entire NHL, with one of the most high powered offenses (next to Colorado) and he’s replaced with an old school defense-first coach. 😮

VGK hired Bruce Cassidy: https://nhl.nbcsports.com/2022/06/17/cassidy-says-taking-golden-knights-job-was-no-brainer/ If the players were sick of Deboer’s strict + grinding style of play I’m not sure how much more they’ll like Cassidy. He has a similar coaching system + style as DeBoer. Very detail oriented. Very hard on the players. I’m a bit surprised they didn’t go with more of a player friendly coach to follow up DeBoer. I still like the hire for Vegas though. Cassidy is a damn good coach. and I’m still glad we got their 1st this year. I don’t see them picking as high as #16 next year. https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/stars/2022/06/19/report-dallas-stars-will-hire-peter-deboer-as-head-coach/ Looks like Dallas is hiring Peter DeBoer. Makes a lot of sense. The hire fits their roster well IMO and He will implement a similar style of play to what’s already in place in Dallas. Happy that 2 good coaches were hired by western conference teams! Now hopefully Trotz ends up in Winnipeg and not Detroit. https://www.nhl.com/news/john-tortorella-named-philadelphia-head-coach/c-334638670 and the flyers hired John Tortorella. Tortorella with the Philly media and fans… should definitely be interesting! Hopefully we get some Torts-NY type media moments. 😂

I thought you were talking about Matt Barkley. I was going to say why in the world do they want him? 😂

Yeah I know very little about lacrosse but goaltending seemed like the biggest difference last night. Colorado’s goaltender was unreal.

Wow, now that was a true ass kicking!

I would love to see them overpay for Fleury. He would be such a perfect culture fit. Id be good with a trade for Quick too. I thought it made a ton of sense last year and I still feel the same. Im a bit more skeptical about Gibson the way he’s played the last few seasons and he still has 5 years left on his deal. Adams talked about how he won’t block the kids when he discussed goaltending (which made no sense to me. We don’t even have the kids signed yet…). So I’m not sure I see him trading for that Gibson contract. I also don’t know about Gibson as a culture fit. I’ve read he can be an a-hole when they are losing - that he doesn’t handle it well. almost reminded me of Eichel in that regard. What I’m not ok with is status quo. Reports were that they already offered Anderson a contract and it was on him if he wanted to come back or retire. I know he’s well liked in the locker room but Anderson isn’t good enough anymore. A .900 sv% isn’t good enough. They need at least league average (.915). If they go the bare minimum route again I’m not going to be happy.

If your investment strategy requires the entire world’s economy to completely collapse, it seems like a very poor investment strategy. Just saying…

Great game so far! Tampa was having trouble dealing with Colorado’s speed in the 1st but looked better in the 2nd. Vasilevskiy also looked much better in the 2nd after not having a great opening period. Can’t wait to see the 3rd. Colorado’s speed + skill is going to cause Tampa issues all series but Tampa has a big advantage in net and they just know how to win when the pressure is on. and Vasilevskiy is so clutch! Palat is too. I wanted Buffalo to trade for palat years back when Tampa was trying to trade him and Tyler Johnson to clear cap space. I don’t know if they’ll be able to handle Colorado’s speed though. It should be a very exciting series. I am expecting it to go to game 7. Makar is just so fun to watch. That Makar/Toews pairing is fantastic. What a steal of a trade Toews was for a couple 2nds.

I hope she’s ok! 🙏🙏

Yeah I feel the same way. I didn’t really want either team to win. Im not the biggest avalanche fan either but I’m rooting for Colorado just because Tampa has won it the last 2 years, and because I feel like Mackinnon deserves a cup. They’re more exciting to watch too.

The bandits won game 1 and lost game 2 of the NLL finals. They will play a final game 3 at home next Saturday, June 18th at 7:30pm https://bandits.com/single-game-tickets/ Tickets start at $28. Please spread the word! I’d love to see a sell-out. I was there when they won the championship at home in the 90’s and it was an amazing experience that I still remember vividly to this day. I want to be there again! Anyone else planning to go?

Colorado has the speed and Tampa has the goaltending. Colorado is a bit higher scoring but both teams can score. Both teams have stars. Biggest difference I see is goaltending. At least Kuemper will be back for Colorado. That’ll help, but Kuemper is no Vasilevskiy. Should be a really good series! Itll be interesting to see if Colorado is able to score on Vasi when he goes into shutdown mode.

It’s just the timing of this that bothers me, not the money. I understood when they made the boychuck trade in season to stay above the cap floor. But making this move so early in the offseason, before free agency even opens? And only for a f’n 7th round pick? 🤮 Why do this now? It sure doesn’t give me much hope that they plan to make many improvements to the team.

After hearing the prosecutors worked with Watson’s lawyer s and the Texans and now this, it’s starting to feel more and more like the prosecutor just didn’t want to get a grand jury indictment. this is a police officer who investigated Watson saying that stuff. See above.

He must have really struggled if Connor Hughes is saying it. He is kind of a Jets homer. He can usually always find a way to put a positive spin on everything.

https://www.wtsp.com/article/sports/lightning-fan-sucker-punched-rangers-fan-madison-square-garden/67-c9ac9d05-9c4b-4034-bcd4-13f484196ac2 apparently the guy who sucker punched the lighting fan also punched another person that tried to stop him from getting away. the guy he knocked out was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition.

Meh. I’d rather use the cap space for a player that can actually contribute, not just sit on injured reserve. Or at least get more than a 7th round pick for helping Dallas get cap compliant, especially now with cap space at such a premium. I am not a big fan of these Ottawa style moves to hit the salary cap floor by sending as little money as possible. I’d rather see them overpay for a starting caliber goaltender to actually play for them. Its not that big of a deal though. The Sabres still have tons of cap space. But this makes me think they likely plan to be a salary cap floor team again.

Tampa Bay looks like they have found their game. I think they were just rusty those first 2 games but ever since about 1/2 way through that 3rd game they’ve looked much better. I don’t see the NYR winning this series. They really needed to win last night at home. I think Tampa most likely clinched the series at home next game. colorado vs Tampa has the potential to be a pretty good Stanley cup final (assuming tampa wins the series)

Thank you. I appreciate it.

You are making an awful lot of assumptions from the few seconds of video we see before the guy gets sucker punched. How do you know he was doing any of that? I don’t hear that Tampa fan say anything. He had his arms out and smiled. That’s all we see in the video. It didn’t even look like he was looking at the guy who hit him. It looked like he was looking past him at someone else ahead. But apparently you think that is justification enough to sucker punch him, and think I am wrong for saying it isn’t. 🤷‍♂️

Trash talking and physical assault are not the same. And Trash talking does not mean you are trying to get someone to be physical. It just means you are trash talking after a win. If you see trash talk as a reason to hit someone then you have issues and need to grow up or get counseling for your anger. Adults are able to realize that words are just words and not a reason to assault someone. Especially when we are talking about a stupid sporting event. It’s supposed to be fun. Nothing anyone can say about the Bills or Sabres losing a game would ever make me want to assault them. nothing that lightning fan said made him deserve to be sucker punched. (cue TBBills reacting to this post with an ❌ or 👎… 😂)

Is there a longer video of the incident you watched? If so Can you post it? I’d like to see for myself what you think justified that guy getting assaulted. edit - so does that thumbs down mean you watched the same video we did?

That legitimately made me laugh out loud. 😂

My youngest aunt just died from pancreatic cancer 2 days ago. 😢 she was only in her early 50’s.

just because a person talks trash after their team wins doesn’t give someone the right to sucker punch/assault them. If you take sports that seriously that you feel the need to assault someone for simply bragging about their team’s win, you have a serious problem with anger. I hope the guy in the red shirt was caught and has charges pressed against him.