Why catch a ball when you can punch it out for an opponent corner?

2-1 Canada if we counted Almost Goals.

Jonathan David has to bury that. I remember saying this a lot during the last World Cup.

We are roughly 63 hours away from the following people being devastated: - Carter Hart - John Tortorella - Mitch Marner - People who want Vegas to win for the Marner lulz Go Canes.

This South Korean goaltender has made some unreal saves to deny Czechia the late equalizer.

Sebastian Aho Do Something Challenge

A bit presumptuous of Darnell Nurse to think anyone wants him www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/...

Leafs should go with Coach: Pavelski Defence/PK: Muzzin Offence/PP: Thornton Just a rag-tag team of recently-retired legends.

What is a coach? Someone with a vision for how a team should play Someone who can communicate that vision well Someone who can adjust when things aren’t working Someone who can motivate & nurture various types of players (young guys, vets, stars, grunts) Someone who keeps those players accountable

Just thinking of an alternate reality where the Knies trade got in on time at the deadline, we gave Boston sixth-overall, & Matthews said “fuck this” and demanded a trade. Instead we’ve let Treliving & Berube go, Knies & Matthews are still Leafs, & we’re about to add Gavin McKenna in a few weeks.

One of the funniest narratives to come out about Marner’s playoff struggles with the Leafs is that they asked him to do too much. So let me get this straight: he ASKED for and GOT the most lucrative RFA contract ever given to winger straight out of an ELC, and THE LEAFS asked for too much from him?

I hate this shit. Oh yeah? You have a directory of people who were silent on Hart, and a directory of people who complain about Babcock, and you've cross-referenced the lists to confirm the hypocrisy? Any post that begins with "the same people who..." is a lazy generalization not worth the time.

Hire Pavelski. I’m convinced.

Abolish TonyBet ads.

If there are any parking lot World Cup flag vendors out there in Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver (or I guess, anywhere in Canada), and you’ve got an American flag as part of your product display, you may want to take a gander at the room and read it.

The only bad thing about the Laviolette hire by the Kings is it means Patrick Roy is still an option for Leafs coach.

Of all the Extremely Edmonton Oilers moves you could think of, this is the extremely-est.

Spent part of the morning reading Pavelski testimonials from former teammates and coaches. I think this could work and I'm actually kinda excited by the prospect of it, if Carle's off the table and the options are retreads (Roy, Laviolette) or this.

Larkin will go to FLA, but not TBL?

Marlies to the Calder Cup Finals!

Man these Marlies just don’t quit, hey?

Re: the Leafs & Pavelski If the Berube disaster taught us anything: head coaching experience is overrated if the game has passed the coach by. Give me a younger, more modern-thinking coach, even if they don’t have much experience (like St. Louis in MTL), over what we watched the last two seasons.

Sebastian Aho Do Something Challenge

Sebastian Aho Do Something Challenge

Barbashev flopped

Carlo for Mintyukov: do ittttt

Highest-scoring player on the 6 teams Patrick Roy’s coached: 2013-14 (COL): Duchene 70P in 71GP 2014-15 (COL): Iginla/Landeskog 59P in 82GP 2015-16 (COL): Duchene 59P in 76GP 2023-24 (NYI): Barzal 80P in 80GP 2024-25 (NYI): Horvat 57P in 81GP 2025-26 (NYI): Barzal 72P in 81GP Dude neuters offense.

Chayka needs to circle back to Carle.

I echo the sentiment about wanting emotional leaders on the Leafs. It’s why I’m aboard the Bring Laughton Back train & would look at Bunting & Marchment this summer. But we’ve played this game before: if your top guys aren’t willing to get punched in the face for their teammates, nothing changes.

I used to consider Pronman an S-tier NHL prospect evaluator, but: He had Drouin ahead of MacKinnon in 2013 He had Laine ahead of Matthews in 2016 He ranked Cale Makar at 15th overall in 2017 And now he has McKenna at 4th in 2026 I'm all for challenging consensus but this is madness.

Not much has been made of the Hurricanes only having a 12.5% success rate on the powerplay in these playoffs. 👀

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Steve Simmons was a POS for disclosing Matthews' COVID status & he's a POS for disclosing the complications from Domi's surgery. That info is for the players and team to disclose at their discretion. Simmons, once again, has no respect for personal health privacy. The look & behaviour of a weasel.

If the Canes can end this Habs Cinderella run AND stop Mitch Marner and Carter Hart from getting a cup, I’m willing to forgive all the dining out they did on the David Ayres stuff.

And with that Carrier shot with two seconds left in the second period, the Habs now have 80 shots in this series. It’s Game 5.

Let's talk Morgan Rielly, who almost everyone believes will be traded this summer. I have a lot of respect for Rielly as a person/leader, and he's delivered some great moments as a Leaf, but I also want to be objective about the player he has become recently. (1/x 🧵)

Mitch Marner heading to the Finals with Vegas doesn’t retcon nine years of him never showing up in the biggest moments as a Leaf. He can thrive somewhere else and still have been a major contributor to why the Leafs always came up short. Those aren’t contradictions.

Wait, they’re coming out with a new 007 game and it has NO multiplayer?

Save percentage, goaltenders left in AHL playoffs: Miner (COL): 0.947 in 10GP Murashov (WBS): 0.943 in 9GP Primeau (CHI): 0.924 in 9GP Akhtyamov (TOR): 0.922 in 11GP (Hildeby has a 0.921 in 3GP) Absolute brick walls.

Great showing from Artur these playoffs. Definitely complicates the goaltending picture, though. There was talk of moving one of Stolarz or Woll to protect against losing Hildeby on waivers next season, but Hildeby's getting almost no playoff reps to prove he's too good for the AHL?

Leafs might want to wait to see how things shake out with Bednar and the Avs 👀

I hope for Caleb Malhotra's sake that he isn't drafted by the team his father will likely be coaching next season. Just all sorts of potential for messiness.

For a team that needs to get faster, I wonder if Mikheyev could be a target for the Leafs this summer. Played at a ~20 goal pace for Chicago these last two seasons, although he would likely get far less offensive opportunity here than he did with the Hawks.

The Jays are 3-0, allowing only three runs, since this post. You’re welcome.

I see that Frederik Andersen has turned back into a pumpkin.

Brett Howden and Pavel Dorofeyev have a combined 19 goals in 13 games for the Golden Knights in these Stanley Cup playoffs.

Combined point totals of round 1 and 2 opponents: MTL 215 CAR 197 COL 194 VGK 184

Best comment thread in BlueSky history, hands down.

So, uh… are the Blue Jays maybe just not very good? I’ve been reading ‘maybe this is the thing that turns everything around’ takes since the second week of the season, and then they lose three straight. Is there some underlying stat that tells us this is a great team that’s just in a long funk?

Pathetic shit from Dahlin and Thompson there.