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2025-26 NHL Miscellaneous Thread

OK, so McDavid played last night for the Oilers (+2.5 game score, good for mortals but only OK when you’re Connor McDavid), and so did Dickinson (+0.5 game score, which is perfectly fine when you’re Jason Dickinson). Not sure if they were playing games with the injury list or what, but either way way the Oilers took that one fairly comfortably behind strong showings from Connor Ingram and Evan Bouchard coupled with a terrible game from Lukas Dostal in the other net. Sometimes the best puck luck you can get is when the opposing goalie has a bad night. That series stands at 3-2 to the Ducks who head home to the pond to see if they can finish it off on Thursday.

Minnesota took the best game of the night by a 4-2 margin to take a 3-2 series lead back to the heartland for Game 6. That one was a little bit of a theft, as Dallas had the better chances but couldn’t finish when it mattered. Fun game to watch.

And in the East, the Bruins figured it out to get the OT win and send this series back to Boston where they can try to fight off elimination again. Buffalo is faster, bigger and deeper, but Boston kind of refuses to go away. The Sabres looked to be slowly chipping away through the whole second half of the game, but it was Boston that made a play and got the W. Less fun game to watch.
 
On Wednesday night … two game 5s with series (Bolts/Habs and Knights/Mammoth) that are tied 2 game apiece, and another crack at moving on for Philly. By far the most watchable of these has been Tampa/Montreal, but I guess for Canes fans the Turnpike Series is the one to watch. I can’t see Pittsburgh hanging on through another one, but we’ll see. Tocchet is just dumb enough to decide to trap it up, take his foot off the gas in possession and give the Pens the slower pace they need to compete.
 
HeyKurtz said:
No matter who wins, we want all these other series to go seven games.
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The TV people clearly agree. From my perspective, if we’re gonna have to wait a long time for a couple of series to run their course, the rest of them may as well deliver some drama as well. Thus far, other that the Colorado/LA series, they’ve done the job … kind of. Frankly, I’m sick of watching the Pens and Flyers play because those games have been pretty awful. Everything else has at least been interesting.
 
The orange of Anaheim and that goldenrod of Pittsburgh have been hard on the eyes. I also found that I had to check myself in the OTT series given both teams wore black and white. Still hate the Canes road whites, too.
 
Yeah … I’ve never liked the Ducks’ gross orange uniforms but repeated exposure has made that even worse. Pittsburgh just looks like Nashville. It’s kind of sad, really.
 
jeffbear said:
Yeah … I’ve never liked the Ducks’ gross orange uniforms but repeated exposure has made that even worse. Pittsburgh just looks like Nashville. It’s kind of sad, really.
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Nashville always reminds me of a team of Plotchmans mustard jars on ice sans the red cap.
 
perfectstormhits said:
Montreal puts Tampa on the brink of elimination with a 3-2 win.
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Tampa looks old and slow to me. Montreal is young and absorbing the experience.

I really don't see either as being the Canes Achilles opponent, although one or the other will most likely be in the conference finals. I say that having not watched Buffalo since the first half of the season.

Pittsburgh and Philly look like traffic cones. Now that's boring hockey! Lol. The new NHL is all about my stick in your back and face.
 
KTown11 said:
Tampa looks old and slow to me. Montreal is young and absorbing the experience.

I really don't see either as being the Canes Achilles opponent, although one or the other will most likely be in the conference finals. I say that having not watched Buffalo since the first half of the season.

Pittsburgh and Philly look like traffic cones. Now that's boring hockey! Lol. The new NHL is all about my stick in your back and face.
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Fear Montreal.
 
Canes went 3-0-1 against the Flyers. All 4 games went to OT, 3 to the shootout.

10/11 at home - Canes win 4-3 in OT. Goals by Stanky, Hall and Staal. Jarvis had the OT winner. Andersen got the win.
12/13 at Philly - Canes win 4-3 in the shootout. Goals by Ehlers, Nikishin and Jarvis. Blake had the only goal in the shootout. Kochetkov got the win.
12/14 at home - Canes win 3-2 in the shootout. Goals by Carrier and Hall. Svech had the only shootout goal. Bussi got the win.
4/13 at Philly - Philly wins 3-2 in the shootout. Aho’s line, Staal, Ghost and Slavin had the night off. Goals by Nadeau and Ehlers. Blake, Nadeau, Miller and Nikishin all failed in the shootout. Bussi took the loss. The win put the Flyers in the playoffs.
 
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