The Official 2024-2025 NHL Season: Let’s Get It Started, in Here

[Cacophony]

Wild stuff in Ottawa rn

[Alexei Ca$hin]

7 PP goals combined?

[sutterfamily]

My god the goaltending dropoff after Ullmark is insane. Not sure they can have much of a hope of making the playoffs if they can't get Forsberg miraculously back on track or making a trade or something.

[Cacophony]

Holy shit Gus with the goalie goal

[practice]

oh nothing just crying at the Johnny Gaudreau ceremony clips

[captain]

Who's been bad especially bad for the oil? I hope it's Jeff Skinner

he's been pretty good IMO - seems to be able to generate chances on his own which not a lot of players have done in edmo beyond 97/29

arvidsson has been okay? I think they're still finding line combos that work

I do really worry about speed, they're old and slow. turns out losing basically every skater still in their 20s was maybe not the best idea

[linseman]

first leaves game i'm watching now, looking pretty good

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Bonkers story from The Athletic:

Janne Puhakka, first openly gay player in top Finnish hockey league, found shot to death — ex-partner arrested
By Chris Johnston

A moment of silence was held before every game in Finland’s top professional hockey league Wednesday following the killing of former player Janne Puhakka over the weekend.

Puhakka, a forward who spent two years with the QMJHL’s Chicoutimi Sagueneens and played professionally in Finland and France, was found shot to death in his home on Sunday night. He was 29.

Police arrested Puhakka’s former partner, Rolf Nordmo, a 66-year-old Norwegian veterinarian, and are conducting a murder investigation because they suspect it was a premeditated act, according to multiple Finnish media reports, citing details confirmed by a police release. Nordmo has reportedly confessed to the crime and is cooperating with police, telling them that his motive was not accepting the recent end of his relationship with Puhakka after 10 years.

Puhakka was Finland’s first openly gay male pro hockey player. He came out publicly in 2019 after the end of his playing career and released a 2022 memoir called “Ulos Kopista” — which roughly translates to “Out of the Locker (Room).”

[Grand Moff Larkin]

56-year-old man enters a relationship with a closeted 19-year-old hockey player -- not great

[Cacophony]

56-year-old man enters a relationship with a closeted 19-year-old hockey player -- not great

Guess you haven't heard that hockey is for everyone.

[practice]

Tavares Holmberg Robertson line was under .5 xG% at 5 on 5 last night, no scoring chances for

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Oettinger gets 8.25 x 8 in Dallas

I'd take him over Swayman so I guess it's a good deal

[Grand Moff Larkin]

The Ontario Hockey League is aware of a report alleging eight former players sexually assaulted a woman in 2014, and the league will cooperate with any corresponding police investigation, the OHL said Thursday in a statement.

The woman — whose identity was protected by CTV — said she was 22 at the time of the incident. She said the player who invited her over to the billet house took her to a bathroom and initiated sexual acts before the other players — who ranged in age from 16 to 19 — joined in. The woman didn’t attempt to report the incident to police until earlier this year.

Some of the players went onto the NHL

[practice]

what else is new

[nick]

JERTS 5-0 to start, 24-8 goals for/against

Just like we all imagined

[Alexei Ca$hin]

Simon Benoit almost decapitated himself and scored an own goal on the same play. Impressive

[practice]

Leafs look great (timestamp 12 mins left in second period of tampa game that I am watching on replay)

[practice]

Knies is a gd beast, Mcmann too, I can't believe how good they both are

[captain]

Vasi had a shockingly terrible game, I'm not sure I've ever seen him THAT bad