Hearing something about the Knicks last night in the online chat, haha.

i'm still not over the fact that the jets had longer cup and conference odds AFTER winning their 1st round matchup

The Canes need this one. Let's do it.

All I've got so far is, at least we have Freddie.

Don't let that American who knows nothing about hockey McLeafin get you down, go Carolina!

He's probably too worried about his Knicks blowing their 2-0 lead

Skinner to start for Edmonton, wonder how thrilled lozen is about that?

Let's ****ing gooooo

Same thing for the Caps, probably on some sportsbooks (they were the favorites on a few before the playoffs started)

Bang

Ridiculous penalty.

Let's ****ing go

is rowdy roddy brindamour gonna have to choke a zebra?

edit: not today, probably


i'd very much prefer if refs (in all sports) if refs would only call what they actually see, rather than assuming what happens when someone falls over, but fat chance of that huh

Making the Caps our bitch. Great way to head into game 4. I'll be in the house.

nice, thats nice. could've been for the sweep if the league didn't give the caps game 2

glgl

Shutout city for you guys.

And so it begins. lol Skinner

las vegas black nights: not quite dead yet

Think mcdavid had a jfc skinner face after the first goal

He's so ****ing bad. How was Pickard not the number one goalie all year?

it's really hard to tell the difference in quality of goalies because sample sizes are so small (one shutout or awful game will severely impact stats for the entire year) and so much of the goal scoring is luck based

we're getting better at figuring out things like whether the goalie was screened or the puck was deflected - whether it was a rebound or not (and importantly whether or not it was a rebound that the goalie should have not given up as a rebound but instead controlled)


i mean it's only recently that we discovered that in most cases a rested backup will perform just as well as a tired starter



so it's still very much gut and feel of the coach on whom in better and while i'm with you that i've seen skinner give up quite a few goals that truly surprised me, i've also seen him appear very good at times and it's not exactly like pickard has been crushing it - both are pretty similar statistically, both are below average goalies

while pickard has been slightly less bad, you could make an argument that skinner is the better goalie because pickard gives up goals from a bit further away than he does on average and is significantly worse on the pk when it's possibly a better test of goalie ability rather than the more random type of goal where you just throw it in front of the net and pray

oil!

looooooooooooooooooooilers

ouch that's an unfortunate own goal

yup, I feel terrible for oilers fans!