Forecheck

Congrats Jack and Vegas. Dominant playoff run.

Congrats Vegas. Team is loaded. Stars, but more importantly, key supporting cast that always seems to contribute. Complete team top to bottom. And somehow they even find a new starting goaltender midway through the playoffs and don’t miss a beat.

Lol Levi has zero chance of being traded so you don’t have to worry.

Florida has totally lost whatever mo-jo they had going the first three rounds. This one feels like it’ll be over in 4 or 5 now.

Florida being outplayed by a huge margin in this series. Maurice should spend more time coaching, less time crying to the refs.

Vegas should be looking to take Tkachuk out of the series anyways. Now they have more incentive. He’s the only real threat the Panthers have anyways. Vegas up 4-0 tonight gives them the perfect opportunity to remove Tkachuk for good.

Yeah it felt pretaped. That was a bad mistake for ESPN to screw that up. Ruined a lot of the buildup.

I don’t think he will be a bust. He’ll be really good. He’s not McDavid level good. He won’t impact hockey games to that level, but he will be a really good player. I won’t predict enshrinement into the HOF yet though.

F Chicago They just lost BOTH of their icon players, Toews and Kane. I hate that they won this. Ugh. Luckily even Bedard alone won’t be able to turn that franchise around. They will need to keep tanking a few more years. Which they probably will.

Nice play by Eich on McJesus

Draisaitl is sooo good. Could be the second time in back to back nights that a player scores four goals and his team loses a playoff game. That has to be extremely rare.

Yeah even Meier with NJ had zero points in this seven game series. It definitely is a crap shoot to add at the deadline. Definitely hasn’t helped some teams that it looked like it certainly would at the time.

What a great couple days. First the Bruins and now the Rags are gone. Kane wanted to be a Ranger so badly. He chose poorly. Love it. Hope he rots somewhere next year when no one wants to pay him big bucks.

Third time in the last 10 seasons the Bruins were the President’s trophy winners. And NO Stanley Cups to show for their efforts. Gotta love that.

I think he just regressed to his career “normal” play. Picked a bad time to do it though. Oh well. Happy they’re gone.

Love watching Boston implode.

Not the same old Leafs this time around apparently.

Wow I’m getting old

Assuming Sabres beat Columbus tomorrow, they will end up missing the playoffs by ONE point. 1 point behind Florida due to that loss to the Panthers just last week.

The reaction time between Levi and a 41 year old Anderson has never been more apparent after tonight. Anderson has had the post save him multiple times when he has been too slow reacting.

They might as well just start allowing kicks for the entire NHL. So far they are only legal against Buffalo.

The PP has been struggling quite a while now. The power play has been bottom half of the league since the all star break. They were phenomenal the first half of the season.

It’s just mystifying how they haven’t tried to change anything up all year. Certainly a lot of the blame is the players and goaltending during the PK but when things aren’t working, that’s when coaches have to help out by changing things up in philosophy.

Yep the god awful penalty killing and the constant turnovers in our own end are never ending this season. Hopefully both are remedied next year.

That may be. But he’s part of the problem not part of the solution.