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Nashville will compete for the Stanley Cup! Somewhere, Canada’s Taranna’s attendance-watching columnists have a sad. (Oh wait, do they shut up when Nashville is selling out every game and packing downtown? I see, it’s situational...)
Islanders Reads
- Vote for the Islanders Save of the Year, also known as a painful and unnecessary reminder that they spent most of the last two seasons with three goalies. [Isles]
- Introducing Garth Snow’s brilliant offseason plan to field nothing but an entire roster of goalies. [LHH FanPost]
- Mathew Barzal’s Seattle needs a win tonight to stay a live in the Memorial Cup. [NHL]
- Barzal’s Thunderbirds are trying to stay positive, and all that. [My Northwest]
- Barzal talked during intermission with guys who are older and less athletic:
Mathew Barzal, bastard son of Lord Eddard Stark, speaks with Sportsnet at intermission of today's Memorial Cup game. https://t.co/CIZmyJibTj
— Dan Saraceni (@cultureoflosing) May 23, 2017
Playoffs(?!?!!)
- Oh but Strome The Younger set a record as Erie demolished the Sea Dogs. [Sportsnet]
- The Predators
survivedwon last night and Colton Sissons (not Scissons) had the game of his life with a hat trick, but despite all evidence to the contrary the Perds still avoided touching what may still be the highest trophy they will ever win. Still, cheers to the victorious eight seed. [On the Forecheck] - “It’s kind of a thing you don’t want to think about,” said Pekka Rinne. [USA Today]
- History repeated itself for the Ducks (whom I must point out, feature Ryan Kesler, Corey Perry and Kevin Bieksa, so...I mean, karma?) [Anaheim Calling]
- The Ducks were up 2-0 when they almost completely stopped playing, so they were lucky to survive this — particularly after wasting a five minute power play after Nick Ritchie was ejected for checking Vicktor Arvidsson from behind, leaving this “R”-shaped blood stain and lots of Internet fun. [SB Nation]
- It’s continuation of a dream season for perennial also-ran Nashville. [NHL]
Thinking about this quote from P.K. Subban when he first moved to Nashville. Players know what's happening there.https://t.co/7V5NOP0FYn pic.twitter.com/Fd7XsGg2fO
— Alex Prewitt (@alex_prewitt) May 23, 2017
I’ll admit I take particular pleasure seeing “non-traditional” hockey markets do well after embracing the sport we love and doing justice to it the way too few Canadian Taranna columnists do, so hell yeah:
It'll be fun to see the team Jim Balsillie failed to buy & move to Hamilton versus the team Jim Balsillie failed to buy & move to Hamilton.
— Rick (@Rick_City) May 23, 2017