The Official 2024-25 Season Talk Thread

[DrJones]

I really REALLY hate the trend of play-by-play announcers yammering about narratives or stats instead of actually calling the play. 75% of Sean McDonough's goal calls are him interrupting himself or Ferraro talking about BS instead of describing what's actually happening on the ice.

[Kobalt]

CBJ had all these Michigan alums and none of them decided to plant a flag in the middle of the ice? Embarrassing.

[l3ulvl]

Quote: Originally Posted by DrJones

It is tough - Miller's in a big blob of good-to-great goalies with similar numbers to Bobrovksy, Quick, Rinne, and Price. But including Patrick Roy for his last 4 seasons alone is certifiably insane. Even if you just wanted a goalie with a short but very high peak over the last 25 years, Tim Thomas is sitting right there.

Kiprusoff was another, I keep trying to find better examples and I'm like damn, we don't really have tenders with sustained excellence anymore. Maybe Vasilevskiy, who I'm just learning is only 30

[Majingir]

Leafs with the literal buzzer beater!

That's literally as close as you'll ever see to a buzzer beater in hockey.

Officially they had to put 0.1 second on the clock for the puck drop after but commentators think there was literally a few hundredths of a second left and that was it (since hockey counts a goal based on the time the puck crosses the line, which I've always disagreed with and like the NBA/NFL clock style where the clock could be at 0, but if you got the snap or the shot off before the clock got to 0 then you're fine)

[Majingir]

Panthers acquire Seth Jones (at 7m since Hawks retain 2.5m) for Spencer Knight and a conditional 1st.

Imo the Hawks got a steal. A bad contract like Jones is gone and they got a 1st AND a goalie who very well could turn in to their starter (say goodbye to tank commander Petr Mrazek).

Panthers give up a guy who could've taken over for Bobrovsky once he's done (he's 36 and has one more year at 10m) and instead replace that with a 30 year old dman making 7m for many more years, all while your top dman in Ekblad is expiring this season.

And Tkachuk being out...Panthers are going Vegas mode with LTIR that conveniently has a guy coming back in time for the playoffs while his team adds salary to their roster by the deadline.

[Kobalt]

Oilers might trade for Gibson before this game is over

[DrJones]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

Leafs with the literal buzzer beater! That's literally as close as you'll ever see to a buzzer beater in hockey. Officially they had to put 0.1 second on the clock for the puck drop after but commentators think there was literally a few hundredths of a second left and that was it (since hockey counts a goal based on the time the puck crosses the line, which I've always disagreed with and like the NBA/NFL clock style where the clock could be at 0, but if you got the snap or the shot off before the clock got to 0 then you're fine)

Finally saw the replay, that was damned impressive. Knies shot the puck at the top of the circles with 0.6 seconds left. The only other buzzer beating breakaway I can recall in recent times was Marchand's coulda-been series ender at the end of the 3rd period in Game 5 against the Panthers in 2023, and Marchand released his shot mid-circles with a full 1.0 seconds left and Bobrovsky made the save at 0.8.

Now I'm curious if that was the fastest ever non-EN goal from a faceoff in the defensive zone - 5.6 seconds.

[Majingir]

People used to say Wes McCauley has it out for Sheldon Keefe because Keefe testified against Wes' brother in law.

Some brushed it off as "Leafs fans exaggerating" but on Sunday another incident happened between the two, this time with Keefe in New Jersey.

Keefe gets fined while no sort of investigation gets launched on Wes.