Flames trade for Dougie Hamilton from the B's

Give up 15th, 45th, and 52nd picks for him. Huge trade for Calgary. B's were in rough cap shape so kind of had no choice

Lucic to the Kings!

Rumor is the Bs are trying to package the 13th, 14th, and 15th pick to get into the Top 10 and nab Noah Hanifin.

Panthers also trying to get into the Top 10 but probably won't be able to now because of the Bs and a bunch of other teams being more agressive.

Wow, Flames reall bent Boston over the couch

Lol Chris Pronger just got dealt. That's such an NHL thing to happen.

How is that even allowed? Fucking Arizona. Fuck Pronger.

Also, the Islanders drafted a Chinese dude named AnDong Song. Amazing.

<font color=goldenrod>Some retards on Facebook are complaining about that pick, decrying it as nothing but a publicity stunt put on the part of Charles Wang.

It was a 6th round pick for christ's sake. Many of them don't pan out anyway.</font>

Knowing the dumb shit Wang has done, it probably was a publicity stunt attempting to get some of that Chinese money to help them from being relocated in a few years once expansion is approved.....

Kessel to Pittsburgh! Wow, the Leafs have some exciting prospects coming up.

Wings sign Mike Green, 3y/$18M

good pickup

Lol Mike Green is horrible. Another terrible signing by Holland.

How so? Fills a need

Now, the Richards signing I can see being a bad move

Probably the bigger piece to the deal is the Bruins free up around $4 million in dead weight cap space because of Savard's injury problems. Career got derailed once he became concussion prone and hasn't played a game since the last time they won the Cup.

Also freed up another $3 million by getting rid of Smith.

6 million for a d man whose best years are behind him and is horrific in his own end. It's another Weiss contract.

I don't think it'll be as bad as Weiss', but $6m is a bit much for an injury-prone player.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0YX1ZW20150611

sorta good newsish

What the hell are the Bruins doing? Matt Beleskey is horrible.

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/rich-clune-hockey-nhl/

Incredible read.

Rich Clune is an awesome story. Too bad the stats nerds won and enforcers are now gone. The leagur has become unwatchable.

Can't wait until 2017 when the Blackhawks win the cup again.

That should make some chants interesting

What an offseason. Insanity. Excited somehow though.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKnO2UhVAAAdYce.jpg

Yeah...this is real! O.O

http://www.tsn.ca/polopoly_fs/1.3351...onal-chart.jpg

Yeesh! O.O

What a horrible choice.

patrick kane allegedly being investigated on rape charges.

#buffalove

Patty Kane be raping bitches!

<font color=goldenrod>RIP Al Arbour</font> :(

Hurry up. I hate the NFL rn...

yeah football can suck it

let's go hockey

<font color=goldenrod>Isles should be fun to watch again this year</font>

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Habs score on first shot of the season lol

I literally couldn't care less about the NHL

:n: at that stinker of an opener the Bs had tonight. Basically a repeat of everything that was bad about last season for them.

We won a game!!! Wooooo.

yay

Lol Eric Boulton got signed to a one year deal to basically hang out with the Islanders. So great.

There was a time in my life where I never missed a Habs game, and I'd catch late games most nights as well..... I haven't watched a game all season long.....

I find it a really hard transition going from baseball season to hockey season. Where I'm used to expecting a game at 7:00 most weeknights for baseball, there's often 2 or 3 nights between games in NHL and I don't even bother checking when the team is playing next...

The games are so fucking boring

same with me 4 most of the teams I like

Still kicking ass in my Yahoo Fantasy league though....

The schedule is really messed up this year. The leafs have something like 16 back to backs and this week they play Monday and then Saturday. Like if the games were more regular and standard I would enjoy it more

It does seem really "fucking stupid" that there are back-to-backs then like 3 nights off. You'd think the schedule makers could do their job properly

Red Wings are so annoying to watch at times.

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/pat...van-nhl-abuse/

jesus

John Scott made the all-star game!!!!!!! Yes!

An absolute travesty that Zach Parise and Ryan Suter did not make the All-Star Game.

Apparently the NHL is currently dealing with a mess they helped create for the All-Star game due to a recent trade done by the Coyotes.

John Scott won the fan vote as a captain for the All-Star game but got demoted recently by the Coyotes. NHL got involved wanting him to drop his spot while he refused. League might get hit with grievance complaint by Scott if the NHL and/or Habs refuse to let him play. Habs rumored to be leaving him in the minors till at least after the All-Star game which could lead to Scott filing the grievance in retaliation.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It appears as if John Scott will NOT play in the NHL All-Star Game after trade to Habs. <a href="https://t.co/v52VgJfb9y">https://t.co/v52VgJfb9y</a> <a href="https://t.co/i4yWAiLyRm">pic.twitter.com/i4yWAiLyRm</a></p>&mdash; theScore (@theScore) <a href="https://twitter.com/theScore/status/688140155362803713">January 15, 2016</a></blockquote>
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http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/i...l-star-debacle

This story keeps getting fucking better hahaha

They got what they wanted. People are actually caring about the NHL All Star Game.

Flames Dennis Wideman got an indefinite suspension by the NFL for a blindside hit he gave to a ref during a recent game.

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He just buries the guy lol.

:lol: NHL still doesn't want John Scott in the All-Star game. Went as far as to use his children into the mess by implying he'd be bringing shame and ridicule to them if he played.

Also the GM for the Candiens implied it was the league that forced them to make a trade for the player.
http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2016/1/2...-thats-low-nhl

The NHL just keeps looking worse and worse in this

I was hoping Scott would surprise everyone in the hardest shot. But no.

Also, I don't think Arizona has a rep in the game? Scott was and he got dealt, shouldn't they have had a replacement? I guess it would have thrown the team balances off but still, weird shit!

The only thing that matters is that that Dylan Larkin kid is pretty good.

Phaneuf to the Sens!

yeah that was a huge shock this morning

Leafs trade James Reimer, Jeremy Morin for Alex Stalock, Ben Smith and a conditional 4th. What an odd trade for Toronto.

Seems like nobody was willing to give up a top quality young player for Eriksson but at least they get some more depth now at the cost of some draft picks.

another riveting trade deadline

I had the sportsnet.ca feed playing in my headset at work all day. What a waste of time. I don't watch the NHL anymore at all, but the trade deadline still excites me.

jared tinordi 20 games for banned substances.

Not counting 2005, first time in 46 years no Canadian based teams are making the playoffs.

Ottawa was the last hope of preventing it from happening but Flyers hold the tiebreaker against them for the final playoff spot and tonight's Bruins-Wings match prevents them from having a chance at the last divisional spot.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/...offs-1.3513988

Can't wait for Ronic to post

I guess this means, as of Wed. Mar. 30, 2016, Canada's relevancy in the NHL is dead. And this is all due to Gary Bettman making constant changes to the league's financial model to stop the NHL teams in Canada from ever winning the Cup again.

To him, having NHL teams in Canada is only seen as a token gesture to us, to keep our mouths shut.

To Gary, the teams here are only to be treated as a pro 'farm system' for the teams in the U.S. And he punishes all fans of Canada's teams for being that...fans of Canada's teams.

Gary is nothing more, to me, than a snivelling coward, just like Donald Trump. But, let's face facts, American financial conservatives, like him, buy the ability to escape punishment for unfair treatment of non-American collectives. It's his way to stay in power till he dies in office.

And he also won't permit the one who takes office after his death to let Canada's teams back into the Cup conversation. That his business model must stay in place, unchanged, long after he's gone.

It all reeks of institutionalized anti-Canadian corporate fascism coming from the NHL HQ in New York, and it all sucks wholesale.

Gary also doesn't want to see any display of Canadian patriotism on a U.S. TV network during a Cup ceremony, because, to him, and NBC in the U.S., who have editorial control over the league on TV, on both sides of the border, don't want to see, for example, the Habs winning the Cup at home on NBC, with a Canadian flag waving in the background.

To NBC, it's all about Old Glory, and nothing else.

It's time for him to be forced from power, by any means necessary. And he can take that bald idiot, Bill Daly, to Hell with him. > = (

Fucking bullshit

lol

:| Another late season collapse for the Bs.

The Isles completely tanked tonight's game to ensure that they'll play the Panthers instead of the Penguins.

I don't blame them. I don't know if the Isles will finally end their playoff series win drought but they definitely match up better with Florida than Pittsburgh.

Bruins decided to keep Claude Juilien as their coach for next season. There were rumors for a little while about him getting fired soon since he wasn't part of management's traditional end of season press conference and them having another late season collapse.

Isles :y:

Hate hockey. Sucks.

That mason goal. Yikes

Came right after he made a ridiculous save too

A Las Vegas expansion franchise is apparently a done deal and will be announced in May.

I don't really see how that will work. People go to Vegas to party and gamble, not to go watch a hockey game.

Damn. They built the T-Mobile Arena stupid fast out there.

An NBA team would be great in Vegas. Hockey, not so much. But atleast when I go out there again, something new will be waiting for me.

I feel like the Blues will find a way to lose their series after leading 3-1. Had a chance to close it out at home yesterday and couldn't get it done. I can't rule out the Sharks doing the same thing, either.

Not sure if I just automatically associate those two teams with blowing it in the playoffs or if I'm just convinced that the Blackhawks and Kings have magic horseshoes up their asses this time of year.

Well the Sharks advanced but the Blues once again choked away a chance to close out the series. So now they can finish the chokejob at home on Monday.

Hawks did the same thing to the Blues last year right? Plus, everyone wants the Hawks to advance in the playoffs.

I don't think anybody outside of Chicago or the NHL league office actually wants to see the Hawks advance tbh. I don't hate the Hawks or anything either, I just like to see new teams get in the mix.

Still a billion times better than the NBA's terribly boring and predictable playoffs.

I really enjoy the Hawks. Kind of want Pittsburgh to win just so Kessel can leave powdered donut sugar fingerprints on the cup

Don't mind the Hawks being the current powerhouse of the NHL since the playoffs are usually great overall.

John Fucking Tavares! Finally ending the 23 year playoff series win drought.

TAVARESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

The only team on ESPN.Com is the Hawks when they do promote the NHL playoffs.

Blackhawks are like the Cavs in the NHL world. Everyone roots against us. Hell, half the teams do this crap where we can't buy tickets if we are against then in the playoffs. If you have a certain zip code it won't allow you to purchase them.

New Non-Hawks/Kings champ guaranteed for the first time in 5 years.

The Isles AND Blues win series?!?! What is happening? What is life?

Caps/Penguins overtime brings back ugly memories

Oshie with a phantom (or not) hat trick game winner

Draft lottery tomorrow. Leafs really can't go wrong with either of the top four.

if Edmonton pulls #1 we riot. Or laugh.

Fucking canucks move down in the lottery, fml.

Fuck the Leafs

Pens/Caps is going at least 6 games. Tremendous 1st 2 games.

Woooooo #1

Happy for the Jets. Moved up to the #2 spot.
... so do the Leafs go after Stamkos in the off season now that they're guaranteed to get Matthews

I think every team will try to go for stamkos, you'd be crazy not to. The only thing with the leafs going for him is the term would have to be less than he may want. Regardless where he goes the dollar amount will be the same, it's more a term based signing I think. After 4 years the Leafs will have to pay their young guys so can they afford to have him locked up long term