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Celebrating Pride‼️🏳️‍🌈 #LetsGoOilers

Except Greer. He was still flopping around a bit. lol.

Just an observation that if Florida would just play like tonight all the time people wouldn’t hate them nearly as much. Excellent execution of a smothering system. Winning battles. Incredible with their sticks. Even played physical. Win and walk. They choose to be jerks as well.

What a move.

YOUNGEST DEFENSEMAN IN NHL HISTORY TO RECORD 50 POINTS!!! 🤯

Connor McDavid pride tape!!!!

@paulyc1117 Thanks! I’ve got it bookmarked for my morning coffee tomorrow. Looking forward to it.

@ToughCallPod Elliotte Friedman put out this article and there’s a couple things about players safety and goalie interference in here sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/32…

This is quite a run he’s on. lol.

Offcials feel free to weigh in. This has always been my perspective as a player. Crosby and Svechnikov are the latest victims of game management - Tough Call Review youtu.be/-xJmVMR1mPI

@HellwarzNewz @KevinMcCurdy Is that a picture of you holding your own puck that you scored with? Because otherwise it’s not supporting your already weak chirp.

@KevinMcCurdy Like you ever scored in your life

I don't know about you, but if I scored a game winning goal in the Olympics I'd be pretty damn proud it was being displayed as an artifact in the HHoF. It's not his puck to own and never was.

@PrimeYuniorSev @JLazzy23 Another American blaming Canada for its problems.

@JLazzy23 It’s disgusting that this kid has to answer to all the insecure arrogant Canadians both at home and in the media (and in the HOF) over and over again with zero grace just because they can’t take a loss. Some of the softest ever. Time to withdraw protection.

#NJDevils Jack Hughes spoke about the Hall of Fame puck: “Obviously honored that the pucks there — it’s like the most special place in hockey, so I’m honored that it’s there, but obviously I think things were taken — you know, crazy. That’s the way I felt, and I didn’t know where the puck was — so it is what it is.” H/t @Peter_Baugh

In 2018, Hal Gill reflected on playing against — and eventually with — Sidney Crosby: “The first thing that struck me about Sidney Crosby was his size. He was … small. I wanted to dominate and overpower him. When we matched up, I wanted him to feel every ounce of my strength. I was still with the Bruins in 2005 when I played him for the first time. He was tearing up the league and I thought, All right, kid, you haven’t played me yet. First shift, I get him in the corner and I lean on him, and he doesn’t move. It’s like I’m pushing against a brick wall. And then he slips right off me, and he’s gone. I tried it again and again and again. Then sometime in the second period I realized: I’m doing exactly what he wants. He wants me to lean on him, so he can slip off me. He wants me to try to bully him, because he can’t be bullied. He’s too strong. So the next shift I get out there, and I think, OK, I’m going to force him to his backhand every time. That’s what I would do to guys I couldn’t handle, because everyone is weaker on their back hand; it makes it harder for them to pass. But Sid would fire pinpoint backhand passes 30 or 40 feet across the ice. It was like he was playing a different sport. How?! This guy is only 19. I don’t get it. Then I became teammates with him in 2007, and it all made sense. I saw his work ethic, his leadership and his passion for the game — nobody loves hockey more than Sid. And I saw his skill up close. His vision, his speed and — yeah, he’s got thighs like tree trunks — I saw why I couldn’t move him on the ice.” playerstribu.ne/Gill @Skillsy75 | @penguins | @NHL

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This is what Garland was doing to McDavid in Jan 2025 and it didn’t even get called then. Now imagine that happening every single shift. That’s what a lot of the old superstars went through. People talk about the goalies they got to shoot at. Trying to get there was a big issue.

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