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So Who is the power behind the throne? Is this Ralph’s team now? Adams just a yes man there to Kruger?

What is Casey good at? Not fast, doesn’t hit..yet..not a great shooter. He’s a good passer, right? Maybe he should concentrate on being the PP guy in Rochester. Just trying to picture where he fits. Not a super forechecker. What role does anyone see him filling, assuming he improves and makes the Sabres

Let’s go Islanders! Game 7. Just shows how quickly teams can turn things around. How did the Flyers get this good?

50 miles! Wow

That was a sick goal by Barzell

We are going to have to sign another goalie. No way we start the season trusting Hutton’s eyes

Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin said he was willing to spend to get a backup goaltender, one of the top priorities on his off-season to-do list. Turns out, it didn’t cost much to acquire Jake Allen, who can capably spell Carey Price to ensure Montreal’s $10 million man gets the proper res. Just a third-round pick – the one acquired from Washington for Ilya Kovalchuk, essentially found money anyway with his January signing – and some of the Canadiens’ ample cap space. It was a win-win-win for Bergevin. Allen may just be the best backup in the NHL next season, in what figures to be an uncertain year with a condensed schedule chock full of back-to-back grinds and more slates of three games across four nights. He finished fourth in the league in save percentage this season among netminders with a minimum of 20 appearances. Yes, the Habs might be spending $4 million more on goaltending than any other team next season, but Allen’s expensive deal has just one year on it and expires before Montreal runs into any sort of cap crunch. Plus, the Blues moving Allen and his $4.35 million salary cap hit just happened to increase the cap space and chances St. Louis could afford to re-sign captain Alex Pietrangelo, which lessens the chance a Canadiens’ division rival like Toronto might be able to take a run at him in free agency. “We’d love to get Alex signed,” Blues GM Doug Armstrong said Wednesday. “At the end of the day, it’s a math equation.” So too is the NHL’s annual game of goaltending musical chairs. Allen became the first goalie domino to fall in an off-season unlike any other for the position. It’s going to be a wild ride. “I understand the business side of it very well and I knew coming into this off-season after being eliminated that there was a chance I was going to be traded,” Allen said. “I didn’t really have an idea where or when, that kind of came out of the blue for me. I definitely knew that I was potentially going to be dealt.” The Canadiens and Blues are a rarity in NHL circles. With Price and Allen in Montreal, and Jordan Binnington and Ville Husso in St. Louis, they are two teams who have now firmed up their tandem. https://www.tsn.ca/jake-allen-trade-hits-play-on-nhl-s-goalie-musical-chairs-1.1518384

Who the heck would trade for Hutton? He has an eye issue

Claude Gireaux (sic) has been invisible in the playoffs. Five assists, no goals. So almost invisible

So tough to sit back and rest!

168 at 6’2” is thin!

That’s terrible! I’ve been dealing with a sore heel the last month or so. Started icing it, which helped some, now I’m soaking it in hot water which seems to help more. It’s mostly cycling for me now. Hope you recover soon

Good no call there.

Had a killer bike ride, ordered some food after, and I swear the food feels lighter to carry out when I’m hungry! But it filled me up, nice big Reuben sandwich

Solid team. Whose their biggest star? They are as tough as Boston but with more speed. I had trouble remembering who their defenseman were. The no name defense!

And all those other Bruins standing around picking their noses, too!

Haley with a good/lucky save

How about him always standing next to the post on PP? Why don't more teams do that? Or do they and just can't get the puck there?

NHL PLAYOFF GAMES SATURDAY Game 4: Lightning vs. Bruins (TBL leads 2-1) – 12 p.m. ET, NBC – livestream: The best offense during the regular season finally broke out as the Lightning put up their most goals since January to take the lead in this series. Tampa won both games of a back-to-back, scoring four-plus goals in each. Nikita Kucherov finished Game 3 by tying a franchise record for points (4) in a playoff game – previously accomplished by two of his teammates (Brayden Point in 2018, Tyler Johnson in 2016) and initially done by Vincent Lecavalier in 2011. Jaroslav Halak won his first four starts in the elimination rounds, winning Games 3-5 in the First Round to eliminate Carolina and then winning Game 1 of this series. Halak allowed seven goals in those four games total but let in four goals in both Game 2 and Game 3. After Tampa’s fourth went in in Game 3, Halak was pulled and Dan Vladar played the rest of the game – letting in three more goals on 15 shots faced in his first-ever NHL appearance. Game 3: Flyers vs. Islanders (Series tied 1-1) – 7 p.m. ET, NBCSN – livestream: The Flyers blew a two-goal third-period lead, but Philippe Myers scored 2:41 into overtime for Philadelphia to even the series. Philly jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first period behind back-to-back goals from Kevin Hayes and then Sean Couturier’s first of this postseason. Trailing by two with under nine minutes to go in regulation, Anthony Beauvillier cut the deficit in half with his seventh of these playoffs, followed by trade deadline acquisition Jean-Gabriel Pageau tying the game with 2:09 remaining. Philadelphia improved to 8-0 when scoring first this postseason (0-3 when allowing opening goal). The Flyers have not lost consecutive games since a four-game skid Dec. 31-Jan. 7, 2020. [NBC 2020 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFF HUB] Game 3: Canucks vs. Golden Knights (Series tied 1-1) – 9:45 p.m. ET, NBCSN – livestream: After missing 10 games due to injury, Tyler Toffoli returned to the lineup in Game 2 and scored 89 seconds into the game (and just nine seconds into his first shift). Vancouver jumped out to a 2-0 lead and finished Vegas off during a 5-2 win to even up the series. Vegas lost for just the second time this postseason (but for the second time in the last four games). Bo Horvat scored twice to jump Joe Pavelski and Nathan MacKinnon for most goals this postseason with eight. This was the third time this postseason that Horvat scored twice in a game . Only two other Canucks franchise history have scored multiple goals three or more times in a single postseason: Pavel Bure (five times in 1994) and Cliff Ronning (four times in 1992). Two nights after Robin Lehner recorded his first career postseason shutout, he allowed four goals on 26 shots. Peter DeBoer has not indicated who will start Game 3, though prior to the postseason he said he would use both Lehner and Marc-Andre Fleury. SUNDAY’S NHL PLAYOFF SCHEDULE Game 4: Avalanche vs. Stars (DAL leads 2-1) – 6 p.m. ET, NBCSN (livestream) Game 4: Flyers vs. Islanders (Series tied 1-1) – 8 p.m. ET, NBC (livestream) Game 4: Canucks vs. Golden Knights (Series tied 1-1) – 10:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN (livestream)

I was wondering where this went!

Games postponed until Saturday

The Hockey Diversity Alliance on Thursday formally requested the NHL suspend its slate of playoff games scheduled for that evening, as pro athletes in other North American leagues continue to refuse to play in unprecedented numbers to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake. San Jose Sharks’ Evander Kane, a co-founder of HDA, made the request public on Thursday, tweeting: “We the [HDA] have formally requested the [NHL] to suspend all playoff games today. We strongly feel this sends a clear message that human rights take priority over sports.” The league was criticized, including by some of its own players, for not joining the NBA, WNBA, MLS and some MLB teams on Wednesday in postponing games. The NHL has two playoff games scheduled for Thursday night, with Philadelphia and the New York Islanders playing in Toronto and Las Vegas and Vancouver playing in Edmonton. Thursday’s pregame media availability for Las Vegas and Vancouver were both delayed, with no official start time as of 1 p.m. Islanders Coach Barry Trotz said Thursday morning that his players were going to have a discussion about whether or not they’ll play Thursday night. He believed that the Islanders-Flyers game would go on as planned. When asked on his thoughts of other leagues choosing to sit out Wednesday and if he expects anything similar with the Flyers Thursday night, Coach Alain Vigneault told reporters via Zoom that he has “really no idea what is going on in the outside world” and that he is invested 24/7 on his team. “We’re all for equality and social justice ... but right now we’re here to play a game,” Vigneault told reporters via Zoom. NBA players agree to resume season in Disney bubble Kane, as well as Minnesota Wild’s Matt Dumba, had expressed disappointment Wednesday that the shooting of Blake wasn’t a topic of conversation among players in a league that consists of predominantly White and Canadian players. “The NHL, we’re always last to the party, especially on these topics,” Dumba said in a Wednesday interview on Sportsnet 650, a Vancouver-area radio station. “It’s kind of sad and disheartening for me and for other members of the HDA [Hockey Diversity Alliance] and I’m sure other guys across the league. If no one stands up and does anything, it’s the same thing. It’s that silence that you’re just outside looking in on actually being leaders and invoking real change when you have such an opportunity to do so.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/27/nhl-protests-jacob-blake/

People who the government employs to protect and serve who murder instead. How’s that? Boston is behind in their series ?

From what I saw it was.