@number9concepts So why do the gloves and pants have to be black?
I’ve heard the “they have to share styles with the parent club” excuse. Maybe a little more than half of AHL teams match their NHL club, so clearly they don’t *have* to.
This would look much better with purple instead of black.
@ObeseCoach95@JFreshHockey No, it calls any game going to a shootout a tie. OT wins and losses move to the W and L columns. Utah somehow didn’t have any shootouts this season, but a team like LA went to 14. Crazy stuff.
@JFreshHockey The issue was always that he disappeared late in playoff series:
w/ TOR, Games 1–4: 12 G, 40 A, 52 PTS in 44 GP (1.18 pts/game)
w/ TOR, Games 5–7: 1 G, 10 A, 11 PTS in 26 GP (0.42 pts/game)
With VGK, he’s at 1.40 pts/game – and 3 G, 3 A in “crunch time”: Games 5–6 vs. UTA & ANA
@K9701087431180@puckempire Oh I know. I’m a Kings fan too. The original post was just about the playoffs, though.
Right around the 2012 trade deadline, they famously turned into a juggernaut and jumped from 2.05 GPG to 3.0 GPG during that 13-5-3 finish.
The game has changed but the Kings haven’t kept up.
@K9701087431180@puckempire That’s not exactly true. LA scored 57 goals in 20 games (2.85/GP) when the rest of the league averaged 2.36 that playoff year. Yes, they won four 2-1 games and one 1-0 game. But they had 9 games scoring 4+. Quick was the main reason they won the Cup, but the team was formidable.
@motownbert Sure, Philly was 21st in GF during the season, but Ottawa was 8th. I’m not even a Carolina fan but you can’t ignore that their team GAA is currently 1.11 (!).
I guess we’ll see how BUF (5th in GF) or MTL (7th) do in the East final.
@txtechsean@JFreshHockey Fingers crossed, right? But Hampton Slukynsky is a goalie. Carter George is also a goalie. Erik Portillo is a goalie too, but the clock might be running out on him. Remember when Bernier was supposed to be the guy but then Quickie leapfrogged him? Goalies.
@AustinInsley69 Easy there, kimosabe. I didn’t say that. The stats suggest he pads his stats playing with two of the best scorers in the league. And his glaring defensive mistakes do him no favours. All that needs to be taken into consideration, which the voters seemingly have.
@8fitzy8 MacKinnon was in on 43 of Makar’s 79 pts. That’s 54% compared to McDavid/Bouchard’s 63%.
Of Makar’s 59 assists, 26 were secondary = 44% vs. Bouchard’s 55%
They both benefit from playing with excellent players. But Makar doesn’t leech points like Bouchard does. That’s my point.