Leafs love to end their season on home ice
That series might end up better than the cup final. Good chance the winner loses next round but those are two big, skilled and incredibly deep teams.
I love Marchand, think his play is criminally underrated due to the extra-curriculars. Good chance that guy is a future HOFer and I think he should be.
Willy watch, then Matty watch, and now figurative Mitchy watch. Although Marner had a hell of a 3rd period goal. I think it’s funny how Tavares gets so little blame when he’s the captain and been by far the worst playoff performer of the core 4 over these last 6 years.
8 years of that team with 1 playoff series win. The playoff drama surrounding this Leafs team is grade A entertainment. It’s like the last 10+ years of the Wild but times a billion.
Is it weird that I’m kind of pulling for the Leafs now? Boston has come back on them a few teams down 3-1 so would make for one hell of a story. Maybe Toronto win the next 2 and then blow a lead in game 7 would be the perfect ending
That defensive stop where Suns rotated all the way around the perimeter and then got a pass to the far corner picked off… straight into Ant’s hammer dunk. That was the coolest basketball sequence I can remember watching. Talk about closing a game out, wow.
Had me a little worried when Finchy went down. That’s next level bad juju when your coach gets carried off with 2 minutes left in a back and forth clinching game. Torn patella for the coach, wtf 
Brock Boeser have a game 
Preds signed 2/3 of their 1st line last summer for a whopping $7.5m
Trotz knocked out outta the park year 1
In 16-17 that same Avs team with Mackinnon, Lande, Rantanen, no Makar, but include guys like Duchene and Jarome freaking Iginla and then throw Semyon Varlamov in net. That same team ended with 48 points and was the worst team in the cap era until this years Sharks who ended at 47 points. Make it make sense.
Avs scoring 5 or 6 goals every game, their goalie just happened to let in 7 game 1
Any questions on Hellebuck yet?
Its crazy how alot of NHL star players just dont perform in the playoffs….
And apparently they all play for the Leafs. Watching that playoff implosion somehow gets more entertaining every year. JT, Matthews, Marner, all of them just ghosts in the playoffs every year 
Then you have McDavid, Drai, Mackinnon, Makar, Kucherov who somehow get even more dominant when the playoffs start. Kucherov not so much this year but his reputation is well deserved
I think that was the year Yeo got fired and Torch moved Haula to #1c and Granlund to wing? They got hot down the stretch and snuck in a weak west playoffs. Similar to the East this year, when either last year or 2 years ago every playoff team in the East had 100+ points.
Speaking of Granlund, I think he outproduced Rossi in his very disappointing first full season 
They took the best hockey player available
Yeah Yurov next season would have been nice, but he’s making huge progress in the KHL so hopefully takes another step there next year and comes over top 6 ready.
Funny I end watching more playoff hockey the years the Wild aren’t playing and really like it. Games have been great so far
Utah is going to win a Stanley Cup before the State of Hockey does.
California Nevada Texas and Florida did so why would Utah be any different
Utah is getting a nice little care package of players, prospects, draft picks, and cap space from Arizona. I’d say for sure better than Seattle ended up with and not quite on par with Vegas.
The Dallas Divers are back lol that team just can’t help themselves
Vegas might be my team for this playoffs… Bring on the chaos and tears!
Sorry for thinking it’s cool that Canadian cities get excited about playoff hockey 
Is that actual mpg or what the computer is telling you? My wife’s (gen2) Pilot is real world 18-19 mpg average, but the computer always shows it at 20-21.
Fuelly has the gen3 Pilots and RLs all at 20-21 mpg
but holy heck was that entertaining and The Peg was hopping outside the arena!
That’s what’s so awesome about the Canadian markets. Big or small they all get nuts during the playoffs
I’ll take Canes to win the cup, beating the Oilers in the SCF
Imagine putting up 6 on the Vezina winner in game 1 and losing 
Max Domi playing for Toronto makes it even sweeter ha what an idiot
Missing in all this discussion is the main reason Gary actually shut down Arizona to begin with. Revenue sharing.
Maybe that hasn’t been mentioned in this thread but does it need to be said? They play in a rink 1/4 of the size, of course they’re losing money… for everyone. Bettman actually cut Meruelo off at one point and says “Was he losing money?? You Betcha!! He was losing *a ton* of money”.
Great point on the NHLPA. The new guy seems to be getting after Gary and making stuff happen. He had that press conference in February that basically said this team is a joke, the player’s have had enough BS. Bettman had the coming coming to Jesus meeting with Meruelo in March.
The NHL still has the choice as to which city to award a franchise to. The Utah deal does not include an automatic franchise award even if Murelo somehow builds an arena. Something that by the way he hasn’t been able to do even when he actually owned a franchise.
Did you watch the video or read any of the reports? Meruelo still has a franchise, that’s why the NHL doesn’t get a vote… He already has one. Bettman says there’s 33 NHL franchises right now, the Coyotes are just “inactive”. I completely agree the NHL wants to bury this clown, they paid a billion dollars just to start the process. I just don’t think the little weasel is going down easy or going away quietly.
He has a 5 year window and best case scenario is he loses this June auction and they can start putting pressure on him ASAP. If he wins the land auction I think it gets ugly.
This clown is somehow even worse than expected
Faber playing months with fractured ribs…
What a beast. Did anyone tell Freddy?
The NHL it’s just going to quietly let the clock run out and bid this clown goodbye forever.
God I hope that’s what happens but don’t you think Meruelo is more likely to go down squealing like a pig than quietly letting the clock run out
LOL fair enough
This thread is just great to see brand loyalty is still alive and well!
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>buckybadger wrote:</div>
If I was to buy a GM vehicle today, it’d be a 1997 Silverado Z71.100 percent
Have big talking buddies who say this exact same thing all the time but yet to see anyone put their money where their mouth is 
Been a lot of changes to trucks in the last 20 years
because Atlanta and Houston will be the next expansion teams in the next 3-5 years, timing for Arizona’s next team is a ways away…
What’s being reported (Friedman) is the NHL might not have a choice. Meruelo is still an approved owner so the owners don’t get to vote on him. Really sounds like if he gets his arena built within 5 years, he gets the team back. And now he conveniently has a billion dollars to finance that new arena project
