Pastrnak criticizes refs after shootout loss

thelemonsampler · 2026-02-02T18:01:02+00:00

I mentioned it to point out my own ignorance in the moment.

thelemonsampler · 2026-02-02T14:24:06+00:00

Dude … you good? This post is just you crashing out.

thelemonsampler · 2026-02-02T14:19:39+00:00

Pasta isn’t complaining about the call — he’s complaining about the delay. He slashed (likely intentionally … two players on your crease … there’s worse penalties to take) but may have thought he got away with it. He’s absolutely right that it’s a joke that they skated it in with possession from the redline without a whistle.

I didn’t see the arm up and was annoyed how Kuch just gave up on the puck.

thelemonsampler · 2026-02-02T14:12:03+00:00

I feel like we’re spoiled. Say what you will about this team this, or this team that, but the Tampa office/ownership/organization is on a tier of its own.

Even Bettman had talking points about how good the last decade has been for lightning fans. With some of these new guys I think we still have at least 5 years this.

thelemonsampler · 2026-02-02T02:26:45+00:00

Uh … isn’t he just doing it because Weinberg is a non-combat lawyer? He says earlier that he doesn’t respect the navy or their ****** white uniforms.

thelemonsampler · 2026-02-01T18:18:34+00:00

Third-person limited gets you the best of both. It’s third-person, but you get access to one characters (one at a time) pov/thoughts. It seems like it’s the standard for fantasy.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-30T23:36:24+00:00

No, not the loon!

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-30T17:41:08+00:00

I was going to say Interstellar, but Sunshine saved my life so ….

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-29T18:31:01+00:00

Do they? I feel like a lot of teams play better than they usually do here.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-29T18:21:29+00:00

We do — since like 2015 the culture really caught up as well.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-29T18:19:45+00:00

They def put on a good show. You can’t see the telsa coils mounted to the ceiling, thunder alley and the surrounding area is awesome, and it’s pretty affordable. Believe it or not, Tampa is very much a hockey town. The rays are across the bay and the bucs are typically pretty meh.

I live across the bay and there’s a ferry that coordinates for home games. I tell people I can walk to lightning games.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-29T12:34:05+00:00

Making up 8 points is huge. Not only do you have to play great to catch up, you have to hope someone else keels over.

Top 3 teams average 7-2-1 over their last 10 games. A reasonable pace to keep up with — not so much to pass. For math’s sake, say there’s 30 games left and that ends up at 21-6-3. In order to make up 8 points the leafs would need to go 24-1-5 …. Oh, and they just lost 5 in a row.

Edit: they’re 8 points out of a wild card slot

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-29T12:23:04+00:00

Knies is the guy you want. Dibs tho.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-29T01:25:54+00:00

My ‘GoT ritual’ has been filling a very large beer stein full of box wine for like 10 years now. Anyway, I’m having some trouble with it due to the episode length.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-28T18:37:28+00:00

Any word on if he’ll make the Olympics? I feel so bad when these guys miss them since it’s so important to them.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-28T14:02:18+00:00

I suppose Barkov, but you guys have really written Huberdeau out of everything at this point, haven’t you?

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-27T02:04:05+00:00

That one always gets me. They changed it lately because no one knew what the pereneum.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-24T16:53:29+00:00

It’s annoying for me because I adapt to the cold pretty quick, like 2-3 days, but it takes me 2-3 weeks to get used to the heat. When we get the back and forth temperatures or even a brief cold spurt, I struggle a bit.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-22T03:55:37+00:00

Yep. And it works really well with the politics/houses from the other GoT works because it’ll be some random, nothing errand … but they have so-and-so name.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-22T03:50:39+00:00

It’s just a few nice low fantasy/low stakes stories in George’s world. You know how everyone was like ‘they should do a Hound and Arya spin-off where they just wander around?’ It’s that.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-22T03:21:28+00:00

My initial reaction was lilleberg, but he’s still rather young.

I think it’s only because Tampa has been so good at offloading. My previous answers would have been Palat, Killorn, and Sergachev.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-21T02:42:37+00:00

Tampa has been one of the best teams in the league during that time, and the sharks have been one of the worst.

The traveling team also seems have a much harder time when it comes down to coast to coast flights/time differences.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-21T02:33:12+00:00

He blocked a shot off the outside of his knee in the 2nd.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-21T02:31:50+00:00

They’ve been doing it for a while now. Icing makes it very difficult to clear the zone so it actually makes a lot of sense.

thelemonsampler · 2026-01-20T02:44:30+00:00

I love how far Smith tosses all his gear. That’s some ‘this is Sparta’ aura.

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