The Official 2024-2025 NHL Season: Trade Deadline a Real War This Year

[Grand Moff Larkin]

And then the Beej manage to get a 7-6 shootout win against Vancouver

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Flyers are going to win out with these Torts-free vibes

[sutterfamily]

Perron-Cozens-Batherson has been so good.

[sutterfamily]

SNES are at 99+% to make the playoffs now in pretty much every predictive model thing and I'm still stressed.

[sutterfamily]

Ottawa is 8 points up on 9th with 10 games to go (8 of which are at home), is 10-3-1 (including 4-0 against NYR, DET, CBJ) in March and two of those regulation losses were to MTL and BUF, which I think just... bleeds into the otherwise positive feelings? I'm not used to anything ever being good or ok? I dunno!

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Seems like winning games is a good approach, curious if any of the other teams will take it

Rags won last night so the Wings are three points back of them with a game in hand, same with the Isles. Habs and Beej are each two points back with two games in hand.

I still think the Rags end up doing it because they have a legit goaltender and star talent.

[sutterfamily]

That would be disappointing, though is makes some sense. Still, not like they are doing much to prove it - blew a 2 goal lead against Anaheim up 4-2 with 5 min left in the 3rd and lost the game in OT/SO

In order of preference:

Detroit
Columbus
—— wide chasm ——
NYR
NYI
MON

[sutterfamily]

I gotta say tho, the Beej did not look good last night.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

That would be disappointing, though is makes some sense. Still, not like they are doing much to prove it - blew a 2 goal lead against Anaheim up 4-2 with 5 min left in the 3rd and lost the game in OT/SO

In order of preference:

Detroit
Columbus
—— wide chasm ——
NYR
NYI
MON

Same order of preference, even though I'm still miffed at Columbus for the no-call / GWG in the Stadium Series game.

I chuckled at the Rags blowing that game because the Wings almost did the exact same thing to Anaheim right after the Four Nations break.

The Wings' remaining schedule, with Montreal the only team currently outside of the playoffs and most of the games on the road, is absolutely brutal, so I still have a hard time seeing them staying in the mix. Like Carolina, Dallas, Florida, Toronto? These are not teams they beat. Their next game is against the Blooze who haven't lost in a while.

[Grand Moff Larkin]

I gotta say tho, the Beej did not look good last night.

It feels like they ran out of gas. Voronkov stopped producing in the last ten, Fantilli hasn't been as good since Monahan came back, and presumably other things not related to fantasy team gripes.

[sutterfamily]

3 minutes to avoid going 0-4 against the fucking Sabres this year (goal totals Buf 16, Ott 5)

[sutterfamily]

Make that 17-5

[sutterfamily]

Switching over to hopefully hate-watch the Panthers finish this game off against MTL

[sutterfamily]

Ugh they got an absolutely insanely lucky tying goal with 8 seconds left

[Grand Moff Larkin]

I just saw that it went from 2-1 Panth to a 3-2 Habs OT win

Really going against there being a just God

[sutterfamily]

Suzuki with a nice wrap-around to win it, fuck youuuuuu

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Florida goalie was real slow getting across on it

[linseman]

very disappointing results tonight

[Grand Moff Larkin]

Yeah the combo feels like the 85th nail in the coffin

[practice]

Ugh they got an absolutely insanely lucky tying goal with 8 seconds left

r/hockey post on this goal describes it as Hutson completing a pass to Suzuki