NHL 2026: The Olympics Will Be Mammoth!

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Larkin is also already 29

And will be 30 this summer.

 

[MichVandal]

Best part of him wanting to leave is that nobody will miss him. He’s not done anything special for the team and as a captain has maintained the team out of the playoffs. No special moments or goals of anything that makes me want him to stay for nostalgias sake.

 

[bronconick]

The OIlers are looking at hiring Mike Babcock.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Rumor is that Larkin's post-Olympics partying and basically forgetting about the Wings was the last straw for an already strained relationship with Yzerman, who is famously just a bit straight-laced.

 

[Jimjamesak]

The OIlers are looking at hiring Mike Babcock.

And now the NHLPA and the league are saying an investigation into Babcock's actions in Columbus must be completed before he can be hired.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

And now the NHLPA and the league are saying an investigation into Babcock's actions in Columbus must be completed before he can be hired.

"Violations of player privacy"

I guess he demanded that players show him personal photos they had stored on their phones.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Carter Hart has given up 4 goals in every game of the Finals.

When Torts was asked about going to Adin Hill he responded with “that has to be the dumbest question ever!”

 

[bronconick]

Vasilevskiy, Vezina
Cooper, Adams
Kucherov, Hart

Lightning, out in round 1

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

That Larkin ad for the arrival of Sheetz in Michigan is so awkwardly-timed, lol.

 

[MichVandal]

Bussi to Heart- "no means no."

 

[Bronco]

So happy for Brandon!

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

I think he just locked in a contract extension!

 

[Slap Shot]

5th straight year a former Gopher wins a cup. Interestingly all of them won a cup after being in the league for more than a decade:

Johnson - 14 years
Kessel - 17
Okposo - 17
Schmidt - 12
Reilly - 11

Also did I really hear this correctly? The Canes are the first SC winner since 1984 to start 2 goalies in the finals.

 

[Kepler]

Yet another year the Blues keep the title.

-1993 as listed
94 NYR (held 3 seasons)
97 Det (12)
09 Pgh
10 Chi
11 Bos
12 LA
13 Chi
14 LA
15 Chi
16 Pgh (2)
18 Wsh
19 StL (8, and counting)

 

[Jimjamesak]

 

[Jimjamesak]

Yet another year the Blues keep the title.

-1993 as listed
94 NYR (held 3 seasons)
97 Det (12)
09 Pgh
10 Chi
11 Bos
12 LA
13 Chi
14 LA
15 Chi
16 Pgh (2)
18 Wsh
19 StL (8, and counting)

It must be exhausting to maintain that level of doucheness.

 

[Spartanforlife4]

It must be exhausting to maintain that level of doucheness.

I wondered what that was keeping track of. I guess Colorado doesn’t count even though Denver is home to the most successful college team.

 

[aparch]

I wondered what that was keeping track of. I guess Colorado doesn’t count even though Denver is home to the most successful college team.

IIRC, he believes hockey teams shouldn't exist below the 40th parallel, with exceptions, OR the NHL stopped expanding after the WHL merger. I forget which.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

Also did I really hear this correctly? The Canes are the first SC winner since 1984 to start 2 goalies in the finals.

Yes.

 

[Spartanforlife4]

IIRC, he believes hockey teams shouldn't exist below the 40th parallel, with exceptions, OR the NHL stopped expanding after the WHL merger. I forget which.

Ah. Along with how MLB coincidentally should have stopped expanding when the Mets were founded.