Great game, which no one would have said an hour ago.

A Carter Hart implosion would be incredibly amusing.

Carolina has a way to play. It's tough to be an aggressive team when your goalie is iffy and the other team has better top end talent. Also, Aho and Svechnikov are at the milk carton level again.

Vegas' elite guys are having a period.

Carter Hart thinks Freddie was asking for knee to the head.

Vegas will feel hard done by, but it's as correct as the offside call.

Best way to win with Winnipeg's secondary, don't give a chance for an answer.

Good to see the Bombers' inability to cover when a quarterback has more mobility than a statue hasn't changed.

Lol. Again. I'm legit glad for Ehlers. The Jets never really knew, or cared, what they had.

Pretty goal by Nelson. He's been good in a game he needed to be for his hopes.

Canada has been really careless so far. Easy to blame the weather, but plenty of these guys play in Europe so they see this all winter.

12 years ago Ed Tait interviewed a hockey blogger from Philly about fancy stats. That Free Press article wasn't online, so he asked if someone with access to the paper copy could take pictures and send them to him. I obliged. Eric's come a ways since then, I'd say :)

Dobes has been fantastic all through the playoffs, but he can't take shots on the other net, and Montreal just isn't creating enough.

Pretty quiet after that goal.

Manson's got a legit beef there.

That's quite the turn of events. Colorado's finally started the series.

Miss ya, Nik.

If Makar can't come back this might be over in 4 because they need him to create some open ice. Vegas has had it pretty easy in terms of keeping the middle of the ice clogged.

Jesusfuckingmurphy :)

Wemby ran that OT like a boss.

No matter who wins this game, it's been a worthy start to the real NBA finals.

I'm sure Toronto's management will turn this 1OV into a cup just like they did in 2016.

The Moose are the lowest scoring team in the AHL for good reason. Poor passing and a lot of slow feet normally make it hard to create chances, and Manitoba has those qualities in abundance.

The Moose have a bunch of non-passers on the roster, and on defence in particular. Off the glass and out should never be the first choice, but they don't seem capable of more.

The Moose PP, late yesterday excepted, is 2 minutes best spent not watching.

The Moose did an A-1 job after the goal of completely closing GR off. Should have scored another, in fact.

I'm also reminded that Matt Fenwick pointed out the night McDavid was drafted that if any team could screw up McDavid, it was Edmonton. It looked a little hairy the last couple of years, but I suspect he's been proven correct, because they look like a spent force.

No more Oilers also = no more Screamin' Jack Michaels. There's no downside I can see.

Allow me to co-sign the sentiment of my learned friend from Cowtown.

Nothing better than celebrating twice, I always say.

Gus just made a very nice play to get Fagemo a clean look. Handy goal to have.

The Moose seem to need many, many chances to score. They've created many, many chances so far.

Timely, this was.

Marco Sturm was insistent before the start of the series that his team being bigger and stronger than Buffalo would be a difference maker. I think losing almost every 50-50 race and struggling under forecheck pressure might be a more salient one.

Yeah, Jeff Viel scoring a goal in the last few minutes could be a tell.

I'm not that sure Anaheim is a good team. They certainly can score goals on Connor Ingram, though, and that's apparently sufficient.

Raps are not always that good a team, but they do put in the work. Also, getting Ingram an easy look for a three could be a good thing going forward. Sometimes you just need to see a shot go in.

Great piece on drafting and developing in the NHL by @mystaes.bsky.social mystaes.substack.com/p/drafting-a...

Utah were full value for that one. They hardly gave Vegas a sniff in the last 15 minutes.

I'll just repeat what I routinely said to Oiler fans during the decade of darkness: A team going bad almost always starts with ownership. Chipman has to want change. If he can't get employees to change he needs to have different employees, but he has to want change and be willing to make it happen.

That's the best state for the Bruins: beaten and confused. Long may it continue.

Apparently Tage has had enough of that shit.

Also, for all you kids out there, when a team starts to slide, it almost always starts with ownership. If the Jets keep on with their current management and development staff, that'll be on the owner, and no one else. I'm no Chevy fan, but he doesn't sign his own paycheques.

Thank the deity of your choice that's over.

It's just astonishing, really. Endless logrolling, to use an old Spy Magazine term.

Tough game to play? One team played last night and the other looks like they belong in the SPHL. There's no excuse worth mentioning. They're exactly what their record shows.

Young skill vs. whatever the Jets are is not really a fair fight tonight.

Sawyer's endless excuses are something else. He'll have a job longer than Chevy.

I'm not putting any stock in this particular game, but one thing that the Jets have done for as long as I can remember is be second to loose pucks. A lot of it is their historic lack of mobility on defence, but some of it is that so many of their forwards tend to glide into puck battles.