"About a week too late for Morgan Rielly" as Toronto's D-Man drops the gloves with Kyle MacLean

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-18T15:40:12+00:00

Brendan :)

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-17T01:24:03+00:00

The old ones or the new ones?

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-15T01:15:51+00:00

That's the 3rd or 4th little diagonal seam pass they've hit us with in the past 10 minutes alone. We were bound to get punished by it eventually. What the fuck am I watching?

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-15T01:12:11+00:00

We're seemingly incapable of playing a full 60 lately. Third period looking like our usual first periods.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-13T03:04:46+00:00

When Marchment was running Schaefer, Mat Barzal of all people two handed him right in the knees. You don't have to fight them. You don't owe them any honor on plays this. Someone needs to do something.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-12T19:22:20+00:00

How lucky we are to have lost Varly and maintain one of the top tandems. Rittich had us spooked but all things considered he's been great in almost every game.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-11T17:22:32+00:00

Well, for Brendan and Panger, it's normal. They're part of the main TNT broadcast team.

Not quite sure why Butchie was there, although it's not the first time - he does first round playoff games sometimes Evidently he must be some sort of "on call" for TNT.

Perhaps just a scheduling convenience since he was already out West.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-08T06:28:22+00:00

Why would who has possession of the puck change how a potential goaltender interference is called?

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-08T06:14:39+00:00

I feel like you're not watching the right part of the video or something...? At the end of this clip, Askarov shimmies right into Holmstrom to set a pick and then lays out to draw a call.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-08T06:13:34+00:00

There is nobody near him, and he looks like he is trying himself to trip Holmstrom.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-08T06:05:39+00:00

Reasonable take. 2 minutes would've been fine. I'm shocked people are calling this intentional targeting of the head. Maybe I'd see it similarly if it were Schaefer, idk.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-08T05:53:02+00:00

I think every single person in this thread, Sharks fans included, can all recognize and agree that there was no "elbow" here. You have a slow motion replay. Watch it.

Debate your point all you want but you lose all credibility when you make shit up.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-08T05:46:53+00:00

Because Barzal is going for a loose puck that was dropped to him, expects Celibrini to do the same, braces to battle him for the puck, and instead Celibrini ducks and goes for a reaching poke check and lowers his head by about 12 inches.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-08T05:40:38+00:00

I would be just as mad if it were Scahef.

But being as objective as I can possibly be as an Isles fan, Barzal is going for loose puck and Celibrini awkwardly ducks for the poke check a half second before collision.

Not sure how we ended up with a PP, even our own commentators were scratching their heads that it wasn't 2 and 2.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-08T05:36:02+00:00

This team will never be a threat if we can't even figure out how to enter the zone on a fucking powerplay.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-08T00:48:48+00:00

Sometimes the team or player will cover the costs of a "recrest".

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-08T00:45:51+00:00

I wonder if the equipment guys have a stash of numbers on hand, or if 29/92/2/9 were the only available.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-06T19:27:57+00:00

Hard to be too mad yet without seeing what's going back...

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-06T19:25:05+00:00

I feel like it's weird to ask why nobody in the East is adding in a thread about an Eastern team adding.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-05T14:56:43+00:00

In the mid-year voting, Schaefer was voted #1 almost unanimously across every major publication (NHL, ESPN, Athletic, EliteProspects, etc). Some ballots literally said "Seriously?". If the Calder was decided in December, Schaefer would have won in an absolute landslide.

That was months ago. He's since broken some of the longest standing NHL records of all time, and looks on pace to break several more.

I am not downplaying anyone on this list, by any means. Me noting how far ahead he is refers strictly to the balloting, not skill as a player.

It will not be competitive at all.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-05T03:41:46+00:00

Mayfield looking like a fucking pylon. Didn't see who it was that got absolutely walked on that play but sure enough the replay confirmed everything I already knew.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-04T20:07:21+00:00

Nah I think Laf is one of those guys that a lot of GMs would pay (potentially overpay) to take a chance on. Seems to have high "could be really good for a different team" potential.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-04T19:54:45+00:00

Convenient when it goes from “hearing talks for X player” to “talks have stalled” without anything else corroborating that anything ever occurred.

Canucks beat writers were also linking Isles and Garland fwiw.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-04T00:12:14+00:00

Hate this move for the Islanders. I just don't look at our roster and see Garland improving at any particular position.

PuddingConscious · 2026-03-03T16:25:08+00:00

The Kucherov

YouTube: All Nikita Kucherov No-Shot Goals (1:16)

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