NHL 2022-23 Season Thread

[Derwood]

Vancouver Canucks are 0-4, having blown multi-goal leads in all four games

[Derwood]

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[Brian707]

Keep tanking Hawks and luck into the #1 pick this year. Connor Bedard looks awesome

[jersey cubs fan]

Keep tanking Hawks and luck into the #1 pick this year. Connor Bedard looks awesome

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[Hairyducked Idiot]

Hockey, but a very very very long way from the NHL.

 

After a few months of planning and gathering gear, I dragged my 40-year-old out-of-shape carcass to a friendly hockey pickup and played goalie for the first time.

 

Watching hockey, playing it as a skater, I never realized goalies are the hardest working people on the ice. Moving side to side on that posture, going down and getting back up constantly, kills your legs in a way a 50-second skating shift never does.

[jersey cubs fan]

Hockey, but a very very very long way from the NHL.

 

After a few months of planning and gathering gear, I dragged my 40-year-old out-of-shape carcass to a friendly hockey pickup and played goalie for the first time.

 

Watching hockey, playing it as a skater, I never realized goalies are the hardest working people on the ice. Moving side to side on that posture, going down and getting back up constantly, kills your legs in a way a 50-second skating shift never does.

In order to coach you have to take a lot of courses and one of my first a goalie coach had us all stand and simulate what a goalie goes through in a shift. It wasn’t that hard for the 24 year olds, but the room was mostly 40-something’s and even some 50+ male and female. The moaning and groaning was prominent.

[jersey cubs fan]

Tage Thompson has 5 goals tonight with 4m to go in the 2nd.

[Derwood]

Tage Thompson has 5 goals tonight with 4m to go in the 2nd.

 

This is rock bottom for the Blue Jackets.

 

Oh, it's now 8-2.

 

Team has completely quit (well, ten of them are injured, but the rest have quit).

 

Brad Larsen is the worst coach of all time.

[Derwood]

9-2

[17 Seconds]

tortorella is such a dumb prick

[Derwood]

Blackhawks are 31 pts out of first place

 

Blue Jackets are 17 pts out of seventh place

[Derwood]

I don't know which of these feel more like a video game stat:

 

Conor McDavid with 89 points through 49 games

 

OR

 

Kirill Marchenko with 13 goals and ZERO assists

[soccer10k]

Ovechkin…

 

In 2018-19, he became only the 4th player aged 33 or older to score 50 goals in a season.

In 2019-20, he would have become only the 2nd player aged 34 or older to score 50 goals in a season if not for the pandemic (48 goals in 69 team games)

In 2021-22, he became the oldest player at 36 to score 50 goals in a season.

In 2022-23, he's on pace for 50 goals again.

 

If he gets 50 this year he'll be the only player with 10 seasons of 50+ goals.

 

A few years ago my dad and I were talking about his chances of catching Gretzky for most goals in a career and while it seemed like he had a shot at it, it didn't necessarily seem likely. Now it seems like a matter of when not if. Gretzky at 37 scored 23 goals in 82 games, at 38 he scored 9 in 70 games and then he retired. If it wasn't for the lockout in 04-05 which lost the whole season, the lockout in 12-13 and then Covid shortened years in 19-20 and 20-21, he could have the record already.

Edited January 29, 2023 by soccer10k

[Derwood]

In 2018-19, he became only the 4th player aged 33 or older to score 50 goals in a season.

In 2019-20, he would have become only the 2nd player aged 34 or older to score 50 goals in a season if not for the pandemic (48 goals in 69 team games)

In 2021-22, he became the oldest player at 36 to score 50 goals in a season.

In 2022-23, he's on pace for 50 goals again.

 

If he gets 50 this year he'll be the only player with 10 seasons of 50+ goals.

 

A few years ago my dad and I were talking about his chances of catching Gretzky for most goals in a career and while it seemed like he had a shot at it, it didn't necessarily seem likely. Now it seems like a matter of when not if. Gretzky at 37 scored 23 goals in 82 games, at 38 he scored 9 in 70 games and then he retired. If it wasn't for the lockout in 04-05 which lost the whole season, the lockout in 12-13 and then Covid shortened years in 19-20 and 20-21, he could have the record already.

 

I assume we're talking about Ovechkin here?

[soccer10k]

In 2018-19, he became only the 4th player aged 33 or older to score 50 goals in a season.

In 2019-20, he would have become only the 2nd player aged 34 or older to score 50 goals in a season if not for the pandemic (48 goals in 69 team games)

In 2021-22, he became the oldest player at 36 to score 50 goals in a season.

In 2022-23, he's on pace for 50 goals again.

 

If he gets 50 this year he'll be the only player with 10 seasons of 50+ goals.

 

A few years ago my dad and I were talking about his chances of catching Gretzky for most goals in a career and while it seemed like he had a shot at it, it didn't necessarily seem likely. Now it seems like a matter of when not if. Gretzky at 37 scored 23 goals in 82 games, at 38 he scored 9 in 70 games and then he retired. If it wasn't for the lockout in 04-05 which lost the whole season, the lockout in 12-13 and then Covid shortened years in 19-20 and 20-21, he could have the record already.

 

I assume we're talking about Ovechkin here?

 

Oops. Yeah. I had an opening sentence and then deleted it.

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mcdavid's recent game log is insane. his season is insane

[jersey cubs fan]

Avs trade for Jack Johnson and Stars putting a beating on Colorado. Coincidence? I think not.

[Derwood]

Oilers have two 100-point scorers and they're barely hanging on for a playoff spot

[Derwood]

This game is 7-3 fifteen minutes into the 1st period: https://www.espn.com/nhl/boxscore/_/gameId/401459671

[17 Seconds]

mcdavid just hit 60 goals and 138 points in 72 games. he already has 835 points and he's only 26. he might be closer to gretzky than lebron is to mj

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[Derwood]

This stuff makes me so sick.