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Poor Steve Danlge, a life-long fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The rant starts around the 1:19 mark and goes for about 1/2 hour.
THREE HARD LAPS
* The Canadiens won a historic Game 7 against the Maple Leafs to complete their rally from a 3-1 series deficit, the third time they've done so in a best-of-seven.
* The Islanders pulled even in their Second Round series via an overtime winner by Casey Cizikas.
* The Hurricanes will look to even their Second Round series on home ice tonight against the defending Stanley Cup champions.
Here's the overtime goal by Casey Cizikas.
added 11:27pm, Game highlights are below.
NEW YORK (May 31, 2021) – The National Hockey League today confirmed the matchups, dates, starting times and national television coverage for the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs Second Round. Starting times and broadcast details for games listed as TBD will be announced as they are determined. All times listed are ET and subject to change.
They defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 tonight to win the series 4-3.
The Canadiens will now play the Winnipeg Jets.
Post-game videos coming.
added 9:42pm, Corey Perry with the GWG. added 9:48pm, Handshakes below. added 10:02pm, Highlights below.
Roughing/Unsportsmanlike conduct
via Sportsnet,
Big game of the night, NYI/Boston, Islanders need a win to even their series at 1-1.
The other game is Montreal/Toronto game 7. By not hyping this game, I am trying to reach out to the hockey gods for a great game.
Full schedule is below.
Three minutes of your time.
from Ted Kulfan of the Detroit News,
Red Wings fans who strolled from the barbecue or lawn chair Monday had another chance to gaze at the Red Wings' future.
Moritz Seider was playing for Germany in the world championships against Team USA — and didn’t look out of place as a 20-year-old defenseman.
Team USA won the game 2-0 — which included a scary moment for former Red Wing Justin Abdelkader, who suffered an apparent knee injury — but Seider did all his could with three shots on net in 16 minutes 33 seconds (second among German defensemen) and playing with poise all over the ice, on both specialty teams.
One more reason to be excited about the upcoming Wings’ season.
“He’s got a lot of work to do, but there’s a lot of potential for him,” said general manager Steve Yzerman, during Yzerman’s season-ending media session. “We’re excited to have him here next year. Our hope is he’s ready to play for the Red Wings at the start of the season.”
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Watch the incident below.
NEW YORK (May 31, 2021) – NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman today upheld the eight-game suspension that was assessed to Colorado Avalanche forward Nazem Kadri by the Department of Player Safety for an illegal check to the head against St. Louis Blues defenseman Justin Faulk during Game 2 of the teams’ First Round Stanley Cup Playoff series on Wednesday, May 19.
Commissioner Bettman heard Kadri’s appeal of the original decision, assessed May 21, at a hearing on May 27.
The incident occurred at 6:26 of the third period. Kadri was assessed a match penalty for illegal check to the head.
from Adam Hill of the Las Vegas Review-Journal,
The NHL’s most dangerous top line combined for 183 points in the regular season to lead the Colorado Avalanche to the Presidents’ Trophy.
It only felt as if they matched that total Sunday night.
Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog and Mikko Rantanen combined for eight points in Colorado’s 7-1 victory over the Golden Knights in Game 1 of the West Division final at Ball Arena.
“We played a good game,” Landeskog said. “It doesn’t mean anything going into Game 2. We’ve just got to follow it up and do the same thing again.”
The three combined for nine goals and 24 points in the first-round series sweep of St. Louis and picked up where they left off Sunday. Colorado has outscored its opponents 27-8 in starting the postseason 5-0.
via the NHL PR department,
Game 7 Trends
* The team that scores first is 136-46 (.747) in the 182 all-time Game 7s in the Stanley Cup Playoffs (1-0 in 2021).
* Home teams own a 106-76 (.582) advantage in the 182 all-time Game 7s in the Stanley Cup Playoffs (1-0 in 2021).
* Ninety-one of the 182 all-time Game 7s in the Stanley Cup Playoffs (50.0%) have been decided by a one-goal margin, including one of three in 2020.
* Forty-five Game 7s in the Stanley Cup Playoffs have required overtime (24.9%), including one of three in 2020. Home teams have a 23-22 edge in those contests (0-1 in 2020, played at a neutral site).
Instead of me giving you a history lesson on Memorial Day, I am going to ask you who do you honor on this day?
I honor my father, who was a company clerk under General George Patton in North Africa.
I also honor an uncle who was a pilot in WWII and another uncle who served in the Korean War. Until the day he passed, he refused to eat rice of any kind after returning home from Korea.
One more person to honor, my mother who worked at the Willow Run facility, helping build airplanes.
May they all rest in peace knowing they served their country proudly.
THREE HARD LAPS
* For just the second time in their storied, century-old rivalry, the Maple Leafs and Canadiens will face off in a winner-take-all Game 7.
* Nathan MacKinnon continued his scorching start to the Stanley Cup Playoffs as Colorado cruised to a 1-0 lead in its Second Round series.
* Barclay Goodrow scored another timely postseason game-winning goal as the Lightning also opened their Second Round series with a victory.
The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 7-1 tonight.
This of course happened in the third period of a blowout game.
via Sportsnet's YouTube page,
Ryan Reaves shoved Ryan Graves down to the ice and kneed him in the face after crosschecking Philipp Grubauer in the back of the head. Reaves was assessed a match penalty for 'intent to injure' and ejected from the game. Jonathan Marchessault also received two double minors on the play, leading to a 9-minute powerplay for the Avalanche.
added 2:59am on 5/31/21, game highlights are below...
As discussed post-game on HNIC, Kelly Hrudey felt Alex Nedeljkovic was expecting a shot up high, thus pulling away from the post on a shot along the ice.
Here's the GWG by Goodrow.
added 8:03pm, game highlights are below...
Two game 1's of the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs begin today.
Full schedule is below along with some information bits.
Also, feel free to comment on the game today.
Last night Elliotte Friedman mentioned Seth Jones does not plan on re-signing with Columbus when his contract expires at the end of next season.
Today, Aaron Portzline wrote about it.
Seth Jones (CapFriendly, modified NTC, 10 teams on his list he can't be traded to)) is 26 and is in the top pairing in Columbus. He plays in all situations.
So what would it take to trade for Jones. It is going to be expensive, he will be wanted around the league.
This is a situation where Yzerman could use the plethora of draft choices he has stockpiled. Of course, it would take much more than that.
from Aaron Portzline of The Athletic,
Blue Jackets president of hockey operations John Davidson declined to confirm reports that star defenseman Seth Jones has told the club he won’t be signing a contract extension with it this summer.
“There was an agreement to keep the discussions private,” Davidson said. “The Blue Jackets will continue to keep things private.”
But Davidson has made it abundantly clear that the Blue Jackets won’t take the same approach with Jones that they did two years ago with forward Artemi Panarin, who eventually signed with the New York Rangers.
“The No. 1 thing we’d like to do is keep Seth,” Davidson told The Athletic on Sunday. “He has every right in the world to leave if he wants to not extend the contract, but we’ll do what’s best for our team. We just want players who want to be here.
“This is a different scenario (than in 2019). We were in a position (then) where we thought we had a chance to make a pretty good run at (the Stanley Cup). Beating Tampa Bay (in the first round) was great. Losing to Boston in six … it was a good series, and they lost in seven in the Final.”
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from Eduardo A. Encina of the Tampa Bay Times,
Maroon now is playing for his third straight Stanley Cup, and everyone around him says it’s no coincidence that he has such bragging rights. Maroon is a role player, doing the blue-collar work on the Lightning’s fourth line. But If there are certain qualities that make a winning player — like a positive mentality and a reputation for being a hard worker and a good teammate — Maroon possesses those.
“I don’t want to toot my own horn, but I try to do the best I can to keep the guys motivated, keep them light, keep them laughing in the room,” Maroon said. “Just knowing our structure, our system and what works and what does not work so I try to just remind the guys as much as I can. I try to be a good leader. It’s been fun to watch our team grow the last two years and the way we’ve changed our game and the way we’ve competed. We know how we’re supposed to win and how we’re not supposed to win.”
Maroon gets a lot of attention for providing physicality. He is the team’s enforcer and doesn’t shy away from confrontations. He can be an agitator at times, but he’s always there to defend a teammate. And the grit Maroon provides is something the Lightning needed to win last year’s Stanley Cup.
from Ed Graney of the Las Vegas Review-Journal,
An interesting and yet perhaps meaningless stat: When a team in a first-round matchup of the Stanley Cup playoffs goes seven games to win a series and then meets a higher seed that swept its opponent, the lower seed is 5-0 in that next round.
It’s a potential reality for the Golden Knights.
They’re just not expected to do so.
Welcome to unfamiliar territory, the Knights entering their best-of-seven showdown with the Colorado Avalanche as an underdog in a series that begins with Game 1 on Sunday night at Ball Arena.
The Westgate sportsbook opened the Avalanche at -175 on Friday night. The market grew a tad higher Saturday....
The Knights have advanced to the playoffs in each of their four years and just once have not been favored to win a series. That came during the 2017 expansion season against Winnipeg in the Western Conference Final.
The Knights won in five games.
from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,
- When Craig Patrick was general manager of the Penguins, he used to talk a lot about maximizing his opportunities. In other words, he knew that he had Lemieux, then Jaromir Jagr, then the spectacular deal for Ron Francis. “We had to find a way to surround Mario with better players,” Patrick said. “We only had so much time to get it right.” Ken Holland must feel that way in Edmonton with McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, and Darnell Nurse on his roster. There is a certain responsibility now to get this right, to build a contender around his superstars. And the world is far more impatient now than it was when Lemieux was coming up in Pittsburgh.
- Colorado vs. Vegas should be great. My concern with the Golden Knights — strength down the middle, even with Nazem Kadri missing from the Colorado lineup. The four Vegas centres with Tomas Nosek out: Chandler Stephenson, William Karlsson, Nicolas Roy and Patrick Brown.
- Ken Campbell, out after 25 years at The Hockey News and The Toronto Star, is a rare gem in the hockey writing world. He can write games, off-days, features, report boldly on contentious subjects, tackle issues, and offer fearless commentary. He takes names and sides: Somebody needs to put him to work.
- Dumb hockey cliches: The fourth game is the hardest to win. And the Stanley Cup is the hardest trophy to win in sports
- I don’t think Ron MacLean did anything but trip over his own awkward words on Hockey Night In Canada. But everything, it seems, offends somebody these days and hardly a day goes by without someone apologizing for something.
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