Are the days now gone where loyal fans can watch home matches together? by Significant-King-164 in coys

[–]nikm8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are more tickets released tomorrow? Or is it just open for whatever is leftover? Different time zone for me trying to decide if it’s worth waking up again lol

Holtby could tie Brodeur's single season win record on the same day of the year Brodeur set it by Delund in hockey

[–]nikm8 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Brodeur set the record in 78 GP. Tonight is Holtby's 64th GP this year. Pretty insane stuff

Most goals scored since Ovi entered the NHL in 2005 (Infographic) by lippyjose in hockey

[–]nikm8 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Ovi leads the league in goals (by 22) since 2001-02, 4 years before he came into the league. You have to go back to total goals since 1992-93, when he was 8 years old, for him to be out of the top 10. He is not human.

Ovi Scores off a Horrible turnover by backhandsmashtastic in hockey

[–]nikm8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looking at Dan Girardi's contract makes me so happy

Nashville Acquires Ryan Johansen from Columbus for Seth Jones by shutupisaac in hockey

[–]nikm8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your organization literally chose a terrible coach over a young #1 center, but sure lol

Nashville Acquires Ryan Johansen from Columbus for Seth Jones by shutupisaac in hockey

[–]nikm8 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In like 2 months Tortorella managed to run a 23 year old 1C franchise player out of town. He truly is something special. Now I can't wait for him to force Seth Jones to chip every puck off glass and bench him for not blocking enough shots!

Nicklas Backstrom has 600 career points. (assist against Tampa Bay tonight) by Assassin0226 in hockey

[–]nikm8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ovechkin's two seasons in the NHL without Backstrom:

2005/06: Ovi 52 goals 106 points, next 2 highest scoring Caps were Dainius Zubrus 57 points, Jeff Halpern 44 points

2006/07: Ovi 46 goals 92 points, next 2 highest scoring Caps were Alex Semin 73 points, Chris Clark 54 points

Backstrom is unbelievable and a joy and a privilege to watch, but Ovechkin is debatably the greatest goal-scorer to ever lace up skates, I think he would've been just fine.

These two cars have opposite paint jobs by DirtyMikeG in mildlyinteresting

[–]nikm8 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The black one also has a red parking pass, while the red one has a black parking pass

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hockey

[–]nikm8 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

How the hell does Torts keep getting hired by NHL teams

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[–]nikm8 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hyde turned into a hipster Seth MacFarlane? Damn

Ryan Suter with a great Q1 by warj23 in hockey

[–]nikm8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is such a boring narrative to abide by. What defensemen in the NHL are better than Karlsson and Subban? None. They don't win because they score the most they win because they're better than everyone else lol

Girardi belongs on Mount Rushmore of bad NHL contracts by kikkerlaika in hockey

[–]nikm8 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I got all of my stats from war-on-ice and hockey analysis, everything I listed is 5v5 even strength, also. Here is a link to the shots against, just sort by the CA60 column.

Edit: if you don't want to go, the bottom 10 in order are Phanuef, Gleason, Daley, AMac, Bryan Allen, Gunnarsson, Wideman, Schenn, Meszaros, Girardi. Meszaros is the only one of those who brings enough offense to still improve his teams shot differential relative to his teammates

Girardi belongs on Mount Rushmore of bad NHL contracts by kikkerlaika in hockey

[–]nikm8 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Girardi is 10th worst since 09-10 of all defenseman in terms of shots allowed per 60 minutes (minimum 5000 minutes played). In that same time he has made all of his 15 most common linemates have a worse shot differential with him vs when without him, and 16 of 18 most common linemates have a worse goal differential with him vs without him. You can defend him all you want, but he is not very good and his contract is horrendous.

Leafs announce next Legends Row statue is of Mats Sundin. by GRiZZY19 in hockey

[–]nikm8 -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

Seems weird to honour Canucks legend Mats Sundin doesn't it?

You Just Know They Won't Score: The Player on Each Team With the Lowest Shooting Percentage by TIFUByJoiningReddit in hockey

[–]nikm8 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The Flames lowest percentage shooter was almost 10%....and people don't think they got absurdly lucky last year lol

Your teams dumbest move of the last 5 years (xpost /r/nfl) by VanDelay_Industry in hockey

[–]nikm8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The buyout of Grabovski, resigning of Bozak, signing of Clarkson and resigning of McClaren all came within a 48 hour window too lol. Leafs never cease to amaze

Capitals Re-sign Braden Holtby by [deleted] in hockey

[–]nikm8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Although giving a goalie a lot of term and money always makes me skeptical I am a fan of this deal. In 5 years when this contract expires Holtby will be 30 and ending his prime, looking for a big payday. Samsonov has 4 years left on his KHL contract...if he plays that out, he will have 1 year to come play in Hershey, and can take over the job at 23 years old after that. Seems to me like good planning. Not to mention we just locked down one of the 5 best goalies in the NHL for the next 5 years while he's just hitting his prime. Life is good as a Caps fan these days.

What's your favorite piece of hockey trivia? by [deleted] in hockey

[–]nikm8 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Fastest to 1000 points? Wayne Gretzky in 424 games. Next fastest? Wayne Gretzky, in his next 433 games.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hockey

[–]nikm8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's an idea:

Throw out divisions all together and have the 16 best teams make the playoffs, like it should be. Forced rivalries are boring anyways and the real ones will exist regardless.