The Official 2023-2024 NHL Season Thread: The Philadelphia Flyers are dead to me, even Gritty

[Cacophony]

Amazing meltdown by Vegas last night lmao

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Five teams with 83 or 82 points in the East

[Alexei Ca$hin]

Is Crosby really going to pull this shit off? Just an unbelievable run.

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Thank you for your service, SNES, although I would've liked a regulation win over the Caps

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Holy shit no

[linseman]

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Nedeljkovic being the goalie for the PNES now and bringing them back into the playoff mix is pretty wild, but this is weird



He was real bad! Going 2-7 to start the year and getting beat out by AHL goalie Magnus Hellberg (who the PNES also signed!) is his own damn fault. I'm sure he was bummed about being demoted but he was giving up backbreaking goals every game. James Reimer has been markedly better!

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Go Leaves Go

Auston reach 70 tonight

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Leaves,

[taps In Regulation sign]

[Cacophony]

Does anybody in the East want to make the playoffs?

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The Wings want to, who knows if they’ll show up as needed.

If they beat the Caps tonight it would be a huge help.

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Coyotes have a verbal agreement to relocate to Salt Lake City for next year, maybe?

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The NHL would purchase the Coyotes from Meruelo in a deal believed to be worth around $1 billion. This would mark the second time the NHL would have owned the Coyotes, buying the franchise from owner Jerry Moyes in 2009 after he filed for bankruptcy. The league owned and operated the Coyotes until 2013.

The league source said that after purchasing the team, the NHL would then sell the Coyotes to Smith at a price that could be as high as $1.3 billion -- much higher than the $650 million expansion fee that the Seattle Kraken's owners paid in 2021 to join the league. The source said the NHL's other 31 owners would split $300 million as part of the sale.

"The NHL has a deep-pocketed owner that desperately wants the team and that they want to have part of the family," a well-plugged-in NHL source told ESPN.

There is a possibility that, as part of the deal, Meruelo would be first in line to purchase an NHL expansion team should the league decide to return to Arizona, according to sources. The Phoenix area has been a desirable one for the league as a television market and due to its proximity to other U.S.-based Western Conference teams. The area has also reported growth in youth hockey. Several Arizona-born players are now thriving in the NHL, including Toronto Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews.

Meruelo shouldn't be allowed to buy tickets to an NHL game, let alone another franchise.

The NHL buying the Coyotes again would be hilarious, especially if their magical buyer falls through somehow (something that has never, ever happened)

[Cacophony]

This whole thing is ludicrous. Also saw somewhere that they move the team to SLC and if the Coyotes get the land in the auction they just give them and ATL expansion teams. How many times does this have to fail before they give up.

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Blooze scored on their first four shots on Mrazek tonight

[Cacophony]

Hawks are getting Macklin

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[captain]

never getting sick of the coyotes disaster