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Perry to Tampa. It's like he didn't know how to handle being the good guy for once and made the most villainous move he could. Gotta admire his dedication to the role.

I like to think I'm mentally prepared to see him move on, but seeing him move on there might actually be my breaking point as a Ducks fan. Vegas, Montreal, Edmonton, hell, I think I could even begrudgingly live with Los Angeles if it somehow made sense for him to join like Perry in Dallas, but dear lord no not there. A part of me almost wants to hate you for making me picture it.

Torture-ella. He's had beefs with Dubois, Duclair, Laine, Johansen, and also slandered Panarin and Bobrovsky after leaving Columbus. There's probably more I'm forgetting. Good coach who's capable of getting results out of weaker rosters but he seems like he'd have one of the worst personalities in the locker room.

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Literally 0 Ducks discussion lol straight to commercial

Man, I am not going to miss these laggy webcam drafts

Those Buffalo sweaters though! Shame the team wearing them is hot garbage.

These updates are more entertaining than the draft itself

I hope he closed all his incognito tabs before opening his laptop in public Y'know, the several naughty tabs he pulled up on capfriendly showing the stats of players on league minimum salaries

I wish this same type of courtesy could've been extended to Cogliano before BM decided to trade him for the hell of it.

Hahaha I know there's likely something else going on behind the scenes here but protecting Deslauriers is such a Barstool move it hurts. At least our team is very bad and we won't be losing a Theodore caliber player over this (who we traded last expansion because of Bieksa's insane contract.. so we could protect Vatanen.. who we traded for Henrique.. who is now being exposed)

Good freaking riddance Rinne. One of the luckiest goalies ever and I swear he banked it all to use against one team. I don't think it's a coincidence how he's been absolutely lit up in every playoff series he's played immediately after sneaking past the Ducks.

Chigago sends Duncan Keith to Edmonton for Caleb Jones. Keith was the best defenceman of the 2010s and I genuinely believe 2015 Keith might be the greatest performance by a d-man in my lifetime. This trade is still 4 years late though. It's a good move if the Oilers are looking for a hall of fame veteran to bring leadership to a gongshow locker room ala Montreal and Perry. This is the Oilers though, they probably believe they've finally acquired their top pairing star.

Say what you will about the quality of this series but at least Montreal didn't pull up to their first finals appearance since 1993 wearing some god-awful gradient shirt with THE MOUNTAIN written over a cheesy checkerboard pattern. I fear that's the future Nike has in mind for the NHL. They really know to make the most important games of the year look like a bogus Saturday afternoon in November.

Even on the one mistake Hedman made all game (all series?) when he flubbed the puck at the point on that last powerplay, he still managed to force the Montreal player all the way wide to the boards where the only play was a rushed cross-crease pass (which, to be fair to Montreal, almost worked) I don't understand why he doesn't just get the Lidstrom treatment at this point as the de facto Norris winner every year even when his offensive numbers aren't quite at the top. There's nobody on his level. The fact that Tampa is allowed to have this guy on the same team as Vasilevskiy, Kucherov & Point is borderline criminal.

The families of Lightning players have been denied entry into Canada to see a potential Cup clinching game. I know the reality of the situation but I like to imagine this was some top secret underhanded tactic by the Canadian government to get Tampa to throw game 4 and give Montreal a pulse. Watch the Lighting still win 9-0.

IMHO Fowler looked better than Drysdale in his first season. The timidness didn't become an issue until dirtbag Doan boarded him after getting undressed (and even then, it wasn't that big of an issue until a couple of years later when Stoll purposely drove his face into the dasher from behind as Fowler was falling.. one of the dirtiest things I've ever seen in this sport but somehow Cogliano is the only guy to get suspended from those old Ducks-Kings battles.) Rookie Fowler could be a bit of a nightmare in his own zone though. I remember him being one of the first real targets of advanced stats bloggers as they began to take off because of how awful his corsi was. That said, he still put up 40 points while being paired with lords of the giveaway like Lilja or Sutton on a team whose entire system was based on willfully surrendering possession on every entry. It wasn't exactly the sunniest situation to get thrown head first into. The Ducks don't make the playoffs without him that year. He should've won the Calder really. Edit: scratch that last statement. Don't know why but I thought Shattenkirk won it that year lol.

Easiest way for me, a Canadian that's indifferent towards the geographic rivalry, to start hating the Kings again: fill em with predaturds. I'd boo him if he was a Duck the same way I booed Aberg (up until the point where the rest of the team completely fell apart and he was the only guy capable of doing something positive with the puck of course)

Officials get let off the hook by the result in Montreal again. Not that it matters now but it's plain inexcusable to rule an icing when the puck clearly banked off Lehner's pad. Luckily Vegas didn't capitalize on such an egregious error in OT.

Imagine telling someone in 2019 that Montreal would defeat Vegas to win the Clarence Campbell Trophy

I'm not sure if that goes down as one of the greatest playoff goals of all time or one of the dumbest goalie decisions ever if Pulock doesn't come through with the block. Varlamov played that like when you accidentally press the button to take control of the goalie in a video game and skate out the crease.

Playoff overtime: where you can slash a guy's nose off with no consequences but god forbid if you miss the glass while clearing the zone

I've seen enough Pittsburgh playoff games over the years to know Vegas needs to chain Fleury to the posts for this overtime

Geoff Ward has a win% over .500. I'm considering this hire a big win for that fact alone.

I don't hate the Islanders (other than Trotz who stays forever $#*&-listed) but I just wish their fans would stop doing that Seven Nation Army chant every 45 seconds. At least Montreal waits until the game is in the bag before they bust out the Olé chant.