NHL 2021/22 Season - This is the Leafs’ Year...........It has to be, right?.......

**atomicpunk5151** · 05.23.22, 09:22 AM

Damn..... one of the craziest Playoff weekends in a looooong time.... and not 1 post...haha.. We really must be down to the last few hockey linkers.

#WaterbottleGATE ......lol... Binner and Kadri

2 different goalies get taken out.

Panthers look like shit.

Oilers are resurrected.

Rangers had a nice comeback.

**YankeeRose** · 05.23.22, 09:34 AM

I have been watching the Oilers games. I am very impressed with them! Mike Smith got a lot better! They looked like the 80's Oilers the last two games! I want them to win the Cup.

I am not happy two of the goalies in the playoffs were intentionally run into. It happened to Montreal in 2014 with Chris Kreider sliding in on Carey Price. Price was badly hurt and out, and the Habs were out not long after.

I hated Kadri with the Leafs and Lucic with Boston.

Both are dirty players. So it's no surprise they were the ones who did it. I did like when Kadri had a water bottle thrown at his head by Binnington during the interview after the game.

LOL!

**atomicpunk5151** · 05.23.22, 11:39 AM

Other big play. Barbashev big hit on Girard. Legal hit, but just unfortunate consequences. Girard out with a broken sternum.

**atomicpunk5151** · 05.23.22, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by YankeeRose

I have been watching the Oilers games. I am very impressed with them! Mike Smith got a lot better! They looked like the 80's Oilers the last two games! I want them to win the Cup.

I am not happy two of the goalies in the playoffs were intentionally run into. It happened to Montreal in 2014 with Chris Kreider sliding in on Carey Price. Price was badly hurt and out, and the Habs were out not long after.

I hated Kadri with the Leafs and Lucic with Boston.

Both are dirty players. So it's no surprise they were the ones who did it. I did like when Kadri had a water bottle thrown at his head by Binnington during the interview after the game.

LOL!

Kadri play is tough. Clearly going for the puck. Also hit by Calle Rosen, then they piled into Binner.

This is a pretty good explanation in slow mo.

**DJ Work'in Hard** · 05.23.22, 01:39 PM

The Rangers mixed up the lines to jump start the offence in the first two periods, and it worked. Kudos to Gallant.

**atomicpunk5151** · 05.23.22, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by DJ Work'in Hard

The Rangers mixed up the lines to jump start the offence in the first two periods, and it worked. Kudos to Gallant.

That has got to hurt Vegas....haha...

Gerard Gallant of the New York Rangers is a finalists for the 2021-22 Jack Adams Award.

**MF5150** · 05.23.22, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by YankeeRose

Don Cherry says he'll never be friends with Ron MacLean again!

Once inseparable every Saturday night during hockey season, Don Cherry and Ron MacLean aren’t friends anymore.

Cherry was fired after an anti-immigrant rant on Hockey Night in Canada’s Coaches Corner segment, on November 11, 2019, which he refused to apologize for.

MacLean did apologize though, saying the next day that Cherry’s comments were “hurtful, discriminatory… [and] flat out wrong.” The 62-year-old still works as a broadcaster for Sportsnet, which has produced Hockey Night in Canada since 2014.

Cherry said in the aftermath that he was “disappointed” in MacLean. They haven’t been friends since, despite an on-air relationship that lasted over 30 years.

Two and half years later, Cherry doesn’t think that will ever change.

“I don’t think we’ll ever be friends again,” the 88-year-old Cherry said, fighting back tears in a video posted to social media this week by Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun.

“You can’t be friends after that. You just can’t… It’s too bad… we used to have fun. It was fun. Coaches Corner was fun.”

Cherry added that he doesn’t have any “animosity” towards MacLean, but while he’s “willing to forgive,” he can’t forget.

https://dailyhive.com/toronto/don-ch...QAY-Wuz_CycEwI

Cherry’s a grown man who said something stupid on national television that got him fired.

Even at the time I was amazed how people were somehow demonizing MacLean for something Don said.

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**95Crash** · 05.23.22, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by atomicpunk5151

Damn..... one of the craziest Playoff weekends in a looooong time.... and not 1 post...haha.. We really must be down to the last few hockey linkers.

#WaterbottleGATE ......lol... Binner and Kadri

2 different goalies get taken out.

Panthers look like shit.

Oilers are resurrected.

Rangers had a nice comeback.

I still lurk but don't post much because my Devils haven't sniffed the playoffs in a few years.

Wanted to see the Leafs advance, but they're out. Thought the Bruins could beat the Canes, and they came close but fell just short. Am shocked by the Panthers' play in Round 2. Rooting for Colorado, Edmonton, Florida and Carolina to advance.

**Raldo** · 05.24.22, 02:11 AM

Originally Posted by atomicpunk5151

Kadri play is tough. Clearly going for the puck. Also hit by Calle Rosen, then they piled into Binner.

This is a pretty good explanation in slow mo.

Looked to me like he was going for the puck. Just bad luck.

**MF5150** · 05.24.22, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by atomicpunk5151

Kadri play is tough. Clearly going for the puck. Also hit by Calle Rosen, then they piled into Binner.

This is a pretty good explanation in slow mo.

Not a fan of Kadri, at all. But there wasn't anything intentional or even dirty about that.

**atomicpunk5151** · 05.24.22, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by MF5150

Not a fan of Kadri, at all. But there wasn't anything intentional or even dirty about that.

Interesting topic of conversation in Toronto this week......

@DownGoesBrown

Man I wish the Leafs could draft a player like Nazem Kadri.

HAHA......

But seriously..... Kadri is a bargain at $4.5 million. 2C and also plays PP1. 28 goals, 59 Assists for 87 Points..... Plus some INTANGIBLES .... Grit, and Truculence..

By comparison, John Tavares = $11 million. 2C and also plays PP1. 27 goals, 49 Assists for 76 Points. Some intangibles as well....leadership, good guy.

Hindsight is 20/20.... Obviously is not a 1 for 1 comparison either. Several players on the Leafs would be different. Possibly adding other scoring depth or a different goalie. There is also the fact that Kadri couldn't stop getting Suspended in the playoffs.....

**It's Mike** · 05.24.22, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by atomicpunk5151

Interesting topic of conversation in Toronto this week......

@DownGoesBrown

Man I wish the Leafs could draft a player like Nazem Kadri.

HAHA......

But seriously..... Kadri is a bargain at $4.5 million. 2C and also plays PP1. 28 goals, 59 Assists for 87 Points..... Plus some INTANGIBLES .... Grit, and Truculence..

By comparison, John Tavares = $11 million. 2C and also plays PP1. 27 goals, 49 Assists for 76 Points. Some intangibles as well....leadership, good guy.

Hindsight is 20/20.... Obviously is not a 1 for 1 comparison either. Several players on the Leafs would be different. Possibly adding other scoring depth or a different goalie. There is also the fact that Kadri couldn't stop getting Suspended in the playoffs.....

Last line. Yup

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**atomicpunk5151** · 05.24.22, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by It's Mike

Last line. Yup

2022 is going to be different. RIGHT??? I mean he can't possibly get suspended again. Right?

November 14, 2013: Suspended Interference with goaltender Niklas Backstrom

March 18, 2015: Suspended Illegal check to the head of Matt Fraser

April 4, 2016: Suspended Cross-checking Luke Glendening

April 13, 2018: Suspended Boarding Tommy Wingels

April 15, 2019: Suspended Cross-checking Jake DeBrusk

May 21, 2021: Suspended Illegal check to the head of Justin Faulk