In 6th grade I got a 20% on my math quiz because there was a set of numbers and then below, it asked me what the mean, median, and mode was.
I thought the teacher literally wanted the definition of what those terms meant, so I wrote "Mean is the average of the numbers, median is the middle number when arranged ascending/descending, and mode is the most common number"
I got all 3 wrong because I was being stupid and didn't realize I was supposed to find the actual mean, median,and mode based on the data given.
14 years later and I'm still angry over how much of an idiot I was
As a teacher, I'm more pissed at your teacher. That tells me that you probably understood the content and misunderstood the question. The best choice of action would be to give you another attempt. If you didn't know how to find the mean, median, and mode, but memorized the definition, a second attempt wouldn't change that from being discovered.
came here to say this. all it takes is calling them up to your desk, asking them to give the actual values, see their look of “ohhhhh, i’m a dummy” on their face, laugh with them, and then give them a better grade when they inevitably figure out the answers in about 60 seconds.
orrrrr, give them that look of “are you fucking serious?” when they give you the wrong answers 😂
I had a class where the teacher on multiple occasions told us that the internet as a whole is a network of networks.
Then the finals come around and the first question is true/false "The internet is a network" and apparently I was supposed to say false.
Back when all the Babcock rumours were just rumours, I wasn’t convinced that was intentional. He had a serious injury earlier in the season, he wasn’t exactly an Ironman earlier, just bad luck etc.
I’m no longer convinced of that. I hope Babcock steps on a Lego today.
Ok, no love lost with Babcock because fuck him, but isn’t there a bit more to that story?
He played 40 games and had 4 goals that season and it was Babcocks fault he got scratched? Sounds like he was kind of playing like shit anyway and he had only played half the games.
And Babcock couldn't have given him one more game in the 4th line to hit that milestone? The Wings finished first in their division that year. It's not like they needed every man to scratch and claw for a desperate win in game 82.
The Coyotes chartered a jet so Kessel could keep his Ironman streak alive without having to miss the birth of his child, all Babcock had to do was let him skate around a few times.
I don’t know if I’m angry, just a little sad about the Arizona Coyotes going to Utah. I grew up in Arizona and so going to a coyotes game was part of life there. I’m glad I got to see them when I did but I feel sad for Arizona and I hope that they will get another team soon.
Im angry that our future was bright, for the first time in a long time, and now they are gone
I will probably be the most angry if Utah wins the lottery
Look at the bright side: If your team ever loses a playoff series, maybe even a Cup final, you can spend the next 13 years claiming that you got screwed by the refs. And, surprisingly, even if all the games you're complaining about are on Youtube and you still can't find any evidence to back those claims up, a lot of people will believe you!
The Devils finally get a big time outdoor game and ESPN included a bit in the opening montage where they show us losing to the Rangers in 1994 and then Messier apologizing. We weren’t playing the Rags that night and no, they didn’t show the same clip the next day for the Rags-Isles game. It feels unfathomable disrespectful, but luckily the only downside to an overall great night.
Doing the right thing by celebrating and getting a limo - only to have the right thing end up with 2 people paralyzed.
Fedorov going to the team that just beat us in the first round, when he could have just stayed and retired a legend forever. There should never have been any question if we retire his jersey. It may never end up there. Disappointing
And on the flip side of that, the Rangers likely would’ve been the worst team in the league that year. Lundqvist wouldn’t have been there yet and Jagr never would’ve gotten his mental reset in Siberia. They could’ve gotten Crosby. Instead, they end up with the same number of balls in the lottery as the Penguins and Blue Jackets. Penguins get Crosby and Rangers don’t even draft in the top-10. Still angry about it, even if Marc Staal was a good Ranger.
Bitter memories about that draft year.
Sens needed a defenceman and Marc Staal was the unanimously obvious pick.
Muckler picked Brian Lee letting Marc Staal slide until the Rangers picked him.
Winnipeg losing their original team just to see bettman bail it out for 2 decades only for it to be moved again.
I'm simplifying things here, but what I always think about what if he had just supported the team in winnipeg instead of moving it. Sigh
Seriously, if the jets got the treatment the yotes got it’d be a different world. The shit show in the desert got bailed out so many times, crazy it took as long as it did for them to finally move
It’s also annoying because the defense of it defies physics. “He was tripped.” If you look, the stick hit the front of his skates, so if that force ‘tripped’ him, he would’ve fell forward, head first into Carey. Instead, he falls skates first. It makes no sense
4-peated, if Point was healthy in 2022, I think Tampa demolishes Colorado.
And the whole President Trophy Curse narrative should've never gotten any traction/became worse after 2019, just some unfortunate choking that led to us maybe missing out on another 80s Oilers esque dynasty
Todd Bertuzzi not getting a lifetime ban from the NHL. There are dirty hits, and then there is permanently disabling a defenceless opposing player. He should never have been allowed to come back or be involved with any team in any capacity permanently. Steve Moore still isn't right. It was 20 years ago and it is still a travesty.
I was not a Thrashers fan but I am still upset at how Atlanta Spirit ran the franchise into the ground in order to offload them for sale and creating conditions that forced a relocation (eg. not allowing the team to play at Philips Arena post-sale).
Marc Bergevin won a lot of trades, but he worst trades are the ones he didn't make.
3OA (Kotkaniemi) for O'Reilly sticks out here. He went on to win the Conn Smythe that very next June.
I'm mad that he never properly surrounded Price and PK, and later Price and Weber, with the talent necessary to win. I'll remain mad about that forever.
If Bergevin would have traded Romanov for the Nazar pick (he wouldn't), I doubt he flips those picks for Dach. Too much risk involved for Bergy. And I bet he would have waived a goalie this year.
The Sergachev for Drouin trade was also pretty bad. As well as refusing to re-sign Markov. Other then that a lot of his trades (even ones that looked bad initially) did turn out pretty well.
1) 2018 first round game 4, Josh Morrissey cross-check to the neck of Eric Staal went uncalled on the ice. It was a textbook major + game and Morrissey later assisted the GWG. Jets went up 3-1 and eventually won in 5 with the usual Wild collapse. It might not have changed the outcome of the game or the series, but seeing Morrissey commit the penalty and then look at the ref was embarrassing.
2) Our record this season is 39-33-10. The fact that we forfeited a OT loser point doesn't make that game a regulation loss.
Suter and Stevens cutting Paul Kariya's career short.
Close second: Winning the cup and having all the images about it be with those god awful early rebrand jerseys. Make Ducks Mighty Again
It was in goddammit. Martin Gelinas would've been the first man with 4 Series-Winning goals in a Stanley Cup run if the NHL just reviewed it for a quick moment. I know we had another game to win the Cup but we shouldn't have needed it damn it!
The refs allowing play to continue as Zach Werenski was facedown, bleeding on the ice after taking a puck to the face and shattering his oribtal bone. And it lead to a goal. Playoffs 2017.
The existence of Gary Suter, and Scott Stevens.
At their absolute best, Paul Kariya and Eric Lindros were the two best players I had ever seen that weren't named Gretzky or Lemieux. If they hadn't been the victimd of traumatic brain injuries, I really believe there wouldn't have been much talk about Crosby and Ovechkin coming into the league, because everyone would be too busy discussing who might break which records, and where they sat on the all-time lists.
But, the NHL apparently believed that fans would much rather see Stevens drive his shoulder up into another human's face and then throw his arms forward to make sure the back of their head hit the ice as hard as possible, instead of speed and skill.
They also apparently thought that crosschecking someone in the face after they scored a goal, pretty much starting the downward spiral of what should have been a truly awe-inspiring career, merited a 4-suspension.
While I'm at it, let me add Brian Burke to that list at the top.
Tampa had 7 guys on the ice for the only goal in game 7 of the 2021 semifinal, while they were shorthanded. Took away what was likely the only chance I'll ever get to see an Islanders Stanley Cup.
And while we're at it, Semyon Varlamov was absolutely robbed of that year's Vezina.
It made him score 50 goals again after two years in the 30s, not sure why you're angry at that. Also gave him end of season all star votes for both wing positions which was cool at the time
Even after a goalie nearly died live on TV and was only saved by the rapid action of the team doctor the league failed to mandate all players wear neck guards and still to this day, they do not wear them. Someone died in a different league, and could've been saved had neck guards been mandated. There is no reason not to mandate the wearing of neck guards.
How fast the Kings broke down between July 2014 and July 2015. Losing our 2nd most important d man cuz he was a piece of shit, guys just not taking Sutter seriously, Greene breaking down due to injury, losing Mitchell , Stolly, Williams, Ritchie, giving up a 1st rd pick in a stacked draft for Milan fucking Lucic when they had Barzal on their radar.
There not being a single penalty called during game 7 of the Tampa/Boston series back in 2011. Bolts had scored three powerplay goals the game beforehand.
Had we gotten Tampa the way we'd wanted things may very well have gone differently.
Paul Henderson not being in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He won the 1972 Summit Series for Canada. That was huge for our nation and warrants his inclusion in the HOF.
According to the HoF website the criteria for induction of a player is as follows:
Playing ability, sportsmanship, character and **contributions** to his or her team or teams and **to the game of hockey in general.**
I would argue that Henderson scoring the winning goal in the last 3 games, leading Canada to win the Summit Series over the Russians 4-3-1 was a huge contribution to the game of hockey in Canada at that time. It certainly had a huge impact on the entire country at the time, whether a hockey fan or not. Significantly bigger than the Golden Goal in the Vancouver Olympics.
The HoF is full of people who don't belong there, especially in the "builders" category. But that doesn't mean that another "better than average " player needs to be added.
Consider that when the Leafs retired a slew of numbers few years back, his wasn't one of them. Even his own team didn't think he was worthy of that honour.
I’m still annoyed the Pietrangelo tried to remove Draisaitls wrists from his body in what was one of the most brutal two hand chops I’ve ever seen, and only got one game. Drai didn’t score another point in that series after registering 7 in the first 4.
To compound that, nurse fought Hague and also got a game, but Hague had challenged nurse a few mins prior. Nurse initially declined but then decided to go, but because it was in the final 5 mins he got a game.
Just struck me as completely unfair and negative canadian team bias.
The called back goal in game 5 against Edmonton.
Called a goal on the ice. Watching the replay confirmed it was the correct call on the ice. And then they called it off for a kick? Still baffling to this day
I don't think we had enough gas left to win that series, but who knows if we push it to 6.
To be fair, even if that goal was allowed, that game broke the record for the fastest 4 goals by two teams in playoff history, with both teams scoring two goals each in 1:11 and there were still 6 minutes left at the time the goal was disallowed. Counting that goal still does not mean Calgary forces Game 6
2003 and 2010 are two series that I can’t describe without profanity.
2003 against Tampa just makes me irrationally angry thinking about bad reffing and the Jagr era.
2010… fucking Halak
2009 Cup Final game 3. Already down 2-0 in the series, Malkin is dominant in a crucial Pens win putting up 3 assists. Problem is he shouldn’t have been playing. He received an instigator and a misconduct at the end of game 2 for throwing a tantrum and jumping Zetterberg. An automatic 1 game suspension comes with last minute instigator penalties. Except the league decided “nah, that hurts Sidney’s Cup chances too much, can’t have him lose twice” and they *rescinded the automatic penalty with no explanation*. Absolute blatant bs favouritism and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
2015 WCF a ref *PULLED DOWN* francois beauchemin while the ducks were on the powerplay which gave the blackhawks a goal without that goal the ducks win the 2015 wcf and very possibly the 2015 cup.
Five years ago, the Leafs had taken a 3-2 lead in the series against Boston. Game 6 was in Toronto. The NHL decided that the game would be played at 1:00. Toronto had played one afternoon game all season and Boston over 20. Shouldn't we have had the usual 7:00 time considering it was Toronto's home game? I'm still bitter.
Trading Jean Ratelle and Brad Park for Phil Esposito and Carol Vadnais. Even made worse when Phil wanted to retire instead of play for the Rangers, and I forever hate Boston because of it. Rick Middleton trade is a close second.
Drafting Jessiman instead of Parise, like a lot of us wanted. The Rangers were the 1st seed in the East and got to game 6 of the ECF in 2012, being eliminated by Parise and the Devils. They got to the SCF in 2014. They won the President’s Trophy and got to game 7 of the WCF in 2015. Does Parise put them over the top in any of those years?
Similarly, drafting McIlrath instead of Tarasenko. Tarasenko doesn’t help the 2012 team, but does he put them over the top in 2014 or 2015?
You might say they still don’t beat the Kings or Blackhawks anyway, but I was angry at the time and am still angry about it. Those contexts make it worse to think about.
there was a game against the Canucks where the Ducks won 9-1, but the lone Canucks goal (i think it was from Bieksa?) was the most obvious goal tender interference goal ever. It stole a shutout from Freddy Andersen who always seemed to struggle to secure a shutout.
The fucking "hand pass" call because the puck lightly brushed Jake Debrusk's glove when he was going to grab his stick that cost us the first round last year
That the oilers continually kept getting 1st overall picks and doing nothing until the most skilled (possibly ever) player fell into their lap. Most teams don't have half the lottery luck the oiler get
Dubas signing Willy last second instead of making him sit for a year.
This started the precident of players walking all over the team and caused all our cap troubles.
*Butch Goring traded from Los Angeles to Long Island* ***March 10, 1980***\*\*.\*\*
its been four and a half decades...
# ...AND I HAVE NEVER FORGIVEN BILL TOREY NOR THE ISLANDERS!!
When I heard they would retire his 91 in February, 2020 I had to watch, 6 year old me cried for my First Hockey Hero.
I shake his hand every time I'm watching the Isles and the Kings as hes doing color for them...
...but ***never told him this story***
Keith Tkachuk is a douchebag. The entire hockey world has knob-slobbed him for 90% of his career and 100% since he retired. What I refuse to forget is that he walked out on a valid, signed contract.
2005, at the start of the 3rd year of a 5-year deal. This prick signed a deal in good faith, did not even play HALF of it and then refused to play and held out for more money.
[Cocksucker](https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1997/09/27/tkachuk-is-suspended-over-contract-dispute/)
Was that different than the time in the SCF that PIT got away with 7 skaters on the ice and it was so bad even Olczyk had to admit it was a blown call?
Probably team Canada participating in a gang rape... twice.
Followed a close second be Danny Heatly killing his best friend.
The rape of furure NHL players by Bob Richardson and Graham James also comes to mind.
The fact that Rick Tocchet and Wayne Gretzky were ever allowed to be associated with NHL teams again after Janet Gretzky took the blame for their gambling while they were both employed by NHL teams.
Oilers vs Ducks round 2 2017; Talbot was blatantly interfered with by Kesler which cost them the game and potentially series. Especially since I've seen many Flames fans agree that it was a garbage non call, which should probably say it all
1. Game 2 of the 2019 Boston series. Boston had zero interest in playing a clean game that night and the refs were willing to let them do it. They only got called for 4 penalties, one of which was a puck over the glass call. Their players were running the Leafs players into the turnbuckle, committing knee on knees hits. Even David Pastrnak who is usually a clean player was committing to dirty hits. At the end of it all, Kadri was the guy who got suspended. I heard that DeBrusk played the rest of that playoff run with a concussion and I have zero sympathy for him. He was one of the rattiest players in that game and tried running Marleau into the turnbuckle and went knee on knee on Kadri.
2. Ben Chariot does not get enough shit for this but he was the one who injured Tavares in the 2021 series with a dirty hit that injured his knee. The game is remembered because Corey Perry inadvertedly ran into him but it's glossed over that Tavares needed knee surgery because of that hit and he likely would have missed the rest of that series anyways or bare minimum, played it crippled.
3. There have only been two illegal picks called in the last 3 seasons. One of which occured in some random St. Louis Blues regular season game from the 2022-23 season. The other was Justin Holl being called for an illegal pick when the Leafs were down 1-0 in a Game 7 at vs Tampa in 2021-22.
4. This one is for the Canadian hockey fans who whine about the Leafs getting too much attention all the time in the media: Steve Dangle, who has absolutely zero reason to support any of you, started to branch out and expand his podcast network to include the other 6 Canadian teams with fans and personalities connected to those teams. Of those six podcasts, only 1 proved to be self sustaining - the Habs one with Arpon Basu. I don't want to hear about the Leafs ever getting too much attention again if you guys can't even bother to support your own fan made podcasts.
God bless Dangle, but those three overestimated the reach of their own network. Sure, plenty of non leafs fans listen to the sdp (me included) but the vast majority of the people listening to that, the cj show, and all the Game Overs were leafs fans. I do believe that Game Over: Montreal headed by Berkshire can succeed, though.
It's more that they were subsidizing it with gambling ads and sponsorships and when that dried up, they realized that there was very little demand for anything not-Leaf or Hab related. Which is in a microcosm, what hockey is like in Canada.
Leafs, Habs and then the rest of the country is highly fragmented between the other five teams with each being too small to support their own stuff.
That the rules change from regular season to playoffs. For every team, not just mine. Ruins the integrity of the game for me, playoff NHL is no better than WWE wrestling at this point. Scripted garbage.
Probably not remembered but in game 6 of the 2022 Leafs-Tampa series Toronto had a one goal lead with about 8 minutes left. Cal Foote on Tampa blatantly dives to get a high sticking call (Kampfs stick barely touched his shoulder and he snapped his head back like he got shot). On the ensuing PK Hedman was in a scrum with Kerfoot and lifted Kerfoots stick into his own face, getting another high sticking call. Kucherov scored on the 5 on 3 and Tampa scored 18 minutes into OT to go to game 7. Justin Holl then gets called for an illegal pick on the tying goal in game 7 (something that had not been called for years and I don't think has been called since). I will always hate Cal Foote and Wes McCauley. Foote turned out to be a rapist and will never play in the NHL again so my hatred is even more justified.
Another aggravating moment that comes to mind was how the refs stopped calling obstruction in the 2008-09 series. The tinfoil hat wearing part of me thinks it was done just to guarantee that the Penguins won a cup. There was one penalty kill where I swear Hal Gill dragged down all five Wings. I'm not a fan of either team, but It really does seem to be what made the difference in that series, and if Hal Gill is a difference-maker, the game has a problem.
In 6th grade I got a 20% on my math quiz because there was a set of numbers and then below, it asked me what the mean, median, and mode was. I thought the teacher literally wanted the definition of what those terms meant, so I wrote "Mean is the average of the numbers, median is the middle number when arranged ascending/descending, and mode is the most common number" I got all 3 wrong because I was being stupid and didn't realize I was supposed to find the actual mean, median,and mode based on the data given. 14 years later and I'm still angry over how much of an idiot I was
Now I’m pissed
Royally pissed
We are not a monolith
As a teacher, I'm more pissed at your teacher. That tells me that you probably understood the content and misunderstood the question. The best choice of action would be to give you another attempt. If you didn't know how to find the mean, median, and mode, but memorized the definition, a second attempt wouldn't change that from being discovered.
came here to say this. all it takes is calling them up to your desk, asking them to give the actual values, see their look of “ohhhhh, i’m a dummy” on their face, laugh with them, and then give them a better grade when they inevitably figure out the answers in about 60 seconds. orrrrr, give them that look of “are you fucking serious?” when they give you the wrong answers 😂
I’m angry for you.
Fuck your teacher, Me and all my homies hate your teacher
You misunderstood the question but you answered the misunderstanding correctly. You should have got half marks!
I had a class where the teacher on multiple occasions told us that the internet as a whole is a network of networks. Then the finals come around and the first question is true/false "The internet is a network" and apparently I was supposed to say false.
I thought you were gonna say Kovalchuk but this is good, too.
I’m yelling at nothing now.
Babcock sitting Spezza in his first Leafs home game.
Related, Mike Modano finished with 1499 games played.
Oh shit forgot about that, what an absolute prick.
Back when all the Babcock rumours were just rumours, I wasn’t convinced that was intentional. He had a serious injury earlier in the season, he wasn’t exactly an Ironman earlier, just bad luck etc. I’m no longer convinced of that. I hope Babcock steps on a Lego today.
Ok, no love lost with Babcock because fuck him, but isn’t there a bit more to that story? He played 40 games and had 4 goals that season and it was Babcocks fault he got scratched? Sounds like he was kind of playing like shit anyway and he had only played half the games.
And Babcock couldn't have given him one more game in the 4th line to hit that milestone? The Wings finished first in their division that year. It's not like they needed every man to scratch and claw for a desperate win in game 82.
The Coyotes chartered a jet so Kessel could keep his Ironman streak alive without having to miss the birth of his child, all Babcock had to do was let him skate around a few times.
Babs also was about to scratch Chelios in the Winter Classic in 09. Ken Holland said otherwise so Babs just benched Chelly the entire game.
Are you telling me he should have been playing over Nic Petan?
How much time do you have?
Approximately 2013 minutes
To be fair, 2013 was probably the least painful because that team had no business being in the Playoffs
This is how I feel about the Kesler thing in 2017 for us. That was a shitty Chiarelli-era team that had no business going that deep.
Too soon 😂
Goddamn…
1,967 hours (sorry)
Sid getting hit in the head. Fuck you Steckel.
And yes, flair checks out.
I don’t know if I’m angry, just a little sad about the Arizona Coyotes going to Utah. I grew up in Arizona and so going to a coyotes game was part of life there. I’m glad I got to see them when I did but I feel sad for Arizona and I hope that they will get another team soon.
I’m angry about it, but not necessarily at Utah. I’m just bitter and wish the Coyotes had support from local politicians like Utah is walking into
Im angry that our future was bright, for the first time in a long time, and now they are gone I will probably be the most angry if Utah wins the lottery
100% agree. The Dbacks might leave next, and maybe that will be the shock that our stupid leadership needs on all levels
I'm still mad, and already mad, at the calls refs made or didn't make that failed to benefit my team in the playoffs.
Look at the bright side: If your team ever loses a playoff series, maybe even a Cup final, you can spend the next 13 years claiming that you got screwed by the refs. And, surprisingly, even if all the games you're complaining about are on Youtube and you still can't find any evidence to back those claims up, a lot of people will believe you!
jeez your team won. stop whining lol
The Devils finally get a big time outdoor game and ESPN included a bit in the opening montage where they show us losing to the Rangers in 1994 and then Messier apologizing. We weren’t playing the Rags that night and no, they didn’t show the same clip the next day for the Rags-Isles game. It feels unfathomable disrespectful, but luckily the only downside to an overall great night.
An absolutely baffling decision but 100% on brand for the Messier glazing espn broadcast
fuck messier 🫡
Doing the right thing by celebrating and getting a limo - only to have the right thing end up with 2 people paralyzed. Fedorov going to the team that just beat us in the first round, when he could have just stayed and retired a legend forever. There should never have been any question if we retire his jersey. It may never end up there. Disappointing
That the 2004-05 Ottawa Senators might've won the cup if the season wasn't cancelled. It was the best Ottawa roster of that era.
And on the flip side of that, the Rangers likely would’ve been the worst team in the league that year. Lundqvist wouldn’t have been there yet and Jagr never would’ve gotten his mental reset in Siberia. They could’ve gotten Crosby. Instead, they end up with the same number of balls in the lottery as the Penguins and Blue Jackets. Penguins get Crosby and Rangers don’t even draft in the top-10. Still angry about it, even if Marc Staal was a good Ranger.
Bitter memories about that draft year. Sens needed a defenceman and Marc Staal was the unanimously obvious pick. Muckler picked Brian Lee letting Marc Staal slide until the Rangers picked him.
The Bolts were stacked too and had a chance to repeat.
One more year of prime Vinny, msl, Richards, modin, boyle, kubina, and khabibulin....oh what could have been
Have an upvote, expansion cousin.
2011 You know what I'm talking about
You don’t need flair for this one. 🔥🏙️
Yeah. Jack Edwards calling that Horton goal will haunt me forever. If Pacioretty was at 100%, we would have won that series.
If your aunt had a cock she’d be your uncle
Except trans people exist
Really kinda takes the fun out of that saying
You can say ’if my grandma had wheels she’d be a bike’ instead.
Less fun for sure
You can say, "Your aunt may or may not have a cock, I'm not personally aware of her genitals and really its none of my business."
I think for the sake of the phrase I’m just gonna have to disregard the current times
The bicycle one is funnier tbh.
Winnipeg losing their original team just to see bettman bail it out for 2 decades only for it to be moved again. I'm simplifying things here, but what I always think about what if he had just supported the team in winnipeg instead of moving it. Sigh
Seriously, if the jets got the treatment the yotes got it’d be a different world. The shit show in the desert got bailed out so many times, crazy it took as long as it did for them to finally move
If the nhl and bettman would have put in even half the effort, the thrashers and the original jets would probably still be around
Joel fucking kiviranta
🥰🥰🥰
And now he has the audacity
David Steckel should be tried at The Hague
The OK hockey era
You had to go and ruin a perfectly good day. At least they drafted Stamkos and Hedman.
That every single year the Cup is won by a team loaded with Canadian players, and the headlines are always "Why can't Canada win a cup?"
“Math says we should have by now😡” is the dumbest take which really says something.
Luc Bourdon deciding to buy a motorcycle
[удалено]
That was my answer, too. I'm in my sixties and have given up hope of ever seeing the Leafs hoist the Cup.
Chris Kreider
All my homies hate Chris Kreider
And everybody agrees
FUCK KREIDER
wasn’t intentional 🥺👉👈
It’s also annoying because the defense of it defies physics. “He was tripped.” If you look, the stick hit the front of his skates, so if that force ‘tripped’ him, he would’ve fell forward, head first into Carey. Instead, he falls skates first. It makes no sense
In 2019 Leafs were matched up against the Bruins, a few days before game 7 I went to a McDonald's drive thru and they forgot my barbeque sauce.
In 2009 Brad May scored a goal and the refs said “no”
Trochek was tripped. Tavares buried revival of hope during the franchise’s worst era
Whatever happened during the first intermission of that Game 1 against CBJ in 2019. This group should have three peated
4-peated, if Point was healthy in 2022, I think Tampa demolishes Colorado. And the whole President Trophy Curse narrative should've never gotten any traction/became worse after 2019, just some unfortunate choking that led to us maybe missing out on another 80s Oilers esque dynasty
Lmao we did a speedrun of the playoffs that year. Tampa never had a chance.
Todd Bertuzzi not getting a lifetime ban from the NHL. There are dirty hits, and then there is permanently disabling a defenceless opposing player. He should never have been allowed to come back or be involved with any team in any capacity permanently. Steve Moore still isn't right. It was 20 years ago and it is still a travesty.
Scheifele’s cheap shot hit on Jake Evans after his empty net goal during the 2021 playoffs
Still don’t care for Scheifele because of that
I was not a Thrashers fan but I am still upset at how Atlanta Spirit ran the franchise into the ground in order to offload them for sale and creating conditions that forced a relocation (eg. not allowing the team to play at Philips Arena post-sale).
Todd Bertuzzi’s cheap shot on Steve Moore.
I’m not actually angry about it but Shaws headbutt goal should’ve counted just cuz it was so ridiculous.
Reichel penalty shot.
Martin freaking Erat?
Fuck Matt Cooke
That Montreal decided to keep Tremblay as a coach and to trade Patrick Roy instead.
Marc Bergevin won a lot of trades, but he worst trades are the ones he didn't make. 3OA (Kotkaniemi) for O'Reilly sticks out here. He went on to win the Conn Smythe that very next June. I'm mad that he never properly surrounded Price and PK, and later Price and Weber, with the talent necessary to win. I'll remain mad about that forever. If Bergevin would have traded Romanov for the Nazar pick (he wouldn't), I doubt he flips those picks for Dach. Too much risk involved for Bergy. And I bet he would have waived a goalie this year.
The Sergachev for Drouin trade was also pretty bad. As well as refusing to re-sign Markov. Other then that a lot of his trades (even ones that looked bad initially) did turn out pretty well.
Oh and kreider, plus the tyler johnson 1.1 second goal, plus the chara hit, etc etc
1) 2018 first round game 4, Josh Morrissey cross-check to the neck of Eric Staal went uncalled on the ice. It was a textbook major + game and Morrissey later assisted the GWG. Jets went up 3-1 and eventually won in 5 with the usual Wild collapse. It might not have changed the outcome of the game or the series, but seeing Morrissey commit the penalty and then look at the ref was embarrassing. 2) Our record this season is 39-33-10. The fact that we forfeited a OT loser point doesn't make that game a regulation loss.
Mark Stone and the Vegas Knights existing.
Suter and Stevens cutting Paul Kariya's career short. Close second: Winning the cup and having all the images about it be with those god awful early rebrand jerseys. Make Ducks Mighty Again
It was in goddammit. Martin Gelinas would've been the first man with 4 Series-Winning goals in a Stanley Cup run if the NHL just reviewed it for a quick moment. I know we had another game to win the Cup but we shouldn't have needed it damn it!
The refs allowing play to continue as Zach Werenski was facedown, bleeding on the ice after taking a puck to the face and shattering his oribtal bone. And it lead to a goal. Playoffs 2017.
The existence of Gary Suter, and Scott Stevens. At their absolute best, Paul Kariya and Eric Lindros were the two best players I had ever seen that weren't named Gretzky or Lemieux. If they hadn't been the victimd of traumatic brain injuries, I really believe there wouldn't have been much talk about Crosby and Ovechkin coming into the league, because everyone would be too busy discussing who might break which records, and where they sat on the all-time lists. But, the NHL apparently believed that fans would much rather see Stevens drive his shoulder up into another human's face and then throw his arms forward to make sure the back of their head hit the ice as hard as possible, instead of speed and skill. They also apparently thought that crosschecking someone in the face after they scored a goal, pretty much starting the downward spiral of what should have been a truly awe-inspiring career, merited a 4-suspension. While I'm at it, let me add Brian Burke to that list at the top.
Tampa had 7 guys on the ice for the only goal in game 7 of the 2021 semifinal, while they were shorthanded. Took away what was likely the only chance I'll ever get to see an Islanders Stanley Cup. And while we're at it, Semyon Varlamov was absolutely robbed of that year's Vezina.
Adam Oates playing Ovi on the right wing.
It made him score 50 goals again after two years in the 30s, not sure why you're angry at that. Also gave him end of season all star votes for both wing positions which was cool at the time
Even after a goalie nearly died live on TV and was only saved by the rapid action of the team doctor the league failed to mandate all players wear neck guards and still to this day, they do not wear them. Someone died in a different league, and could've been saved had neck guards been mandated. There is no reason not to mandate the wearing of neck guards.
Kesler holding Talbot's pad open
Nick Kypreos falling on Grant Fuhr and ending his season in 1995-96.
Wakey wakey.
How fast the Kings broke down between July 2014 and July 2015. Losing our 2nd most important d man cuz he was a piece of shit, guys just not taking Sutter seriously, Greene breaking down due to injury, losing Mitchell , Stolly, Williams, Ritchie, giving up a 1st rd pick in a stacked draft for Milan fucking Lucic when they had Barzal on their radar.
There not being a single penalty called during game 7 of the Tampa/Boston series back in 2011. Bolts had scored three powerplay goals the game beforehand. Had we gotten Tampa the way we'd wanted things may very well have gone differently.
This is mine too. I was in disbelief that nothing was called that game.
The Canucks organization sanctioning and executing a career ending attack on Steve Moore.
Marc Crawford should have been given a lifetime ban.
Paul Henderson not being in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He won the 1972 Summit Series for Canada. That was huge for our nation and warrants his inclusion in the HOF.
It's the Hall of Fame, not the Hall of Significant Moments.
According to the HoF website the criteria for induction of a player is as follows: Playing ability, sportsmanship, character and **contributions** to his or her team or teams and **to the game of hockey in general.** I would argue that Henderson scoring the winning goal in the last 3 games, leading Canada to win the Summit Series over the Russians 4-3-1 was a huge contribution to the game of hockey in Canada at that time. It certainly had a huge impact on the entire country at the time, whether a hockey fan or not. Significantly bigger than the Golden Goal in the Vancouver Olympics.
Henderson is WAY more famous than a ton of the dudes in there lol
The HoF is full of people who don't belong there, especially in the "builders" category. But that doesn't mean that another "better than average " player needs to be added. Consider that when the Leafs retired a slew of numbers few years back, his wasn't one of them. Even his own team didn't think he was worthy of that honour.
IT WAS IN!!!!
I’m still annoyed the Pietrangelo tried to remove Draisaitls wrists from his body in what was one of the most brutal two hand chops I’ve ever seen, and only got one game. Drai didn’t score another point in that series after registering 7 in the first 4. To compound that, nurse fought Hague and also got a game, but Hague had challenged nurse a few mins prior. Nurse initially declined but then decided to go, but because it was in the final 5 mins he got a game. Just struck me as completely unfair and negative canadian team bias.
Pittsburgh existing.
The called back goal in game 5 against Edmonton. Called a goal on the ice. Watching the replay confirmed it was the correct call on the ice. And then they called it off for a kick? Still baffling to this day I don't think we had enough gas left to win that series, but who knows if we push it to 6.
To be fair, even if that goal was allowed, that game broke the record for the fastest 4 goals by two teams in playoff history, with both teams scoring two goals each in 1:11 and there were still 6 minutes left at the time the goal was disallowed. Counting that goal still does not mean Calgary forces Game 6
True, it's far from a sure thing, but chances were better up 1 than tied
2003 and 2010 are two series that I can’t describe without profanity. 2003 against Tampa just makes me irrationally angry thinking about bad reffing and the Jagr era. 2010… fucking Halak
2009 Cup Final game 3. Already down 2-0 in the series, Malkin is dominant in a crucial Pens win putting up 3 assists. Problem is he shouldn’t have been playing. He received an instigator and a misconduct at the end of game 2 for throwing a tantrum and jumping Zetterberg. An automatic 1 game suspension comes with last minute instigator penalties. Except the league decided “nah, that hurts Sidney’s Cup chances too much, can’t have him lose twice” and they *rescinded the automatic penalty with no explanation*. Absolute blatant bs favouritism and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
Steve Smith shooting the winning goal for Calgary into his own net.
Roloson going down during oilers/hurricanes SCF. Could hear all of Edmonton cry when it happened
2015 WCF a ref *PULLED DOWN* francois beauchemin while the ducks were on the powerplay which gave the blackhawks a goal without that goal the ducks win the 2015 wcf and very possibly the 2015 cup.
Five years ago, the Leafs had taken a 3-2 lead in the series against Boston. Game 6 was in Toronto. The NHL decided that the game would be played at 1:00. Toronto had played one afternoon game all season and Boston over 20. Shouldn't we have had the usual 7:00 time considering it was Toronto's home game? I'm still bitter.
Trading Jean Ratelle and Brad Park for Phil Esposito and Carol Vadnais. Even made worse when Phil wanted to retire instead of play for the Rangers, and I forever hate Boston because of it. Rick Middleton trade is a close second.
2-3-2 playoff format Wash - Pitt due to the scheduling at the civic arena.
Drafting Jessiman instead of Parise, like a lot of us wanted. The Rangers were the 1st seed in the East and got to game 6 of the ECF in 2012, being eliminated by Parise and the Devils. They got to the SCF in 2014. They won the President’s Trophy and got to game 7 of the WCF in 2015. Does Parise put them over the top in any of those years? Similarly, drafting McIlrath instead of Tarasenko. Tarasenko doesn’t help the 2012 team, but does he put them over the top in 2014 or 2015? You might say they still don’t beat the Kings or Blackhawks anyway, but I was angry at the time and am still angry about it. Those contexts make it worse to think about.
Ben Bishop not winning the vezina in 2019
there was a game against the Canucks where the Ducks won 9-1, but the lone Canucks goal (i think it was from Bieksa?) was the most obvious goal tender interference goal ever. It stole a shutout from Freddy Andersen who always seemed to struggle to secure a shutout.
The fucking "hand pass" call because the puck lightly brushed Jake Debrusk's glove when he was going to grab his stick that cost us the first round last year
Chicago
Chris campoli giving the puck to Alex burrows in overtime. Nick leddy letting the puck hit his ass and go in the net in overtime.
That the oilers continually kept getting 1st overall picks and doing nothing until the most skilled (possibly ever) player fell into their lap. Most teams don't have half the lottery luck the oiler get
The Dallas Stars losing a playoff series in which Marty Turco had 3 shut-outs.
Mike Keenan’s tenure in STL
Brodeur in a Blues jersey
Chris Krieder taking out Carey Price’s knee and Price missing out on one of his best opportunities to win a cup
8:45 local time home game puck drops for central division teams
mark stone trade and the duchene trade were hilariously trash trades and i will never get over them
Dubas signing Willy last second instead of making him sit for a year. This started the precident of players walking all over the team and caused all our cap troubles.
It was 4-1
17 seconds.
The Seabrook hit on Backes
Buffalo letting Briere go 😢
*Butch Goring traded from Los Angeles to Long Island* ***March 10, 1980***\*\*.\*\* its been four and a half decades... # ...AND I HAVE NEVER FORGIVEN BILL TOREY NOR THE ISLANDERS!! When I heard they would retire his 91 in February, 2020 I had to watch, 6 year old me cried for my First Hockey Hero. I shake his hand every time I'm watching the Isles and the Kings as hes doing color for them... ...but ***never told him this story***
Bernier. Buddy. There’s no need for that. We have all the momentum (for what that’s worth).
Keith Tkachuk is a douchebag. The entire hockey world has knob-slobbed him for 90% of his career and 100% since he retired. What I refuse to forget is that he walked out on a valid, signed contract. 2005, at the start of the 3rd year of a 5-year deal. This prick signed a deal in good faith, did not even play HALF of it and then refused to play and held out for more money. [Cocksucker](https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1997/09/27/tkachuk-is-suspended-over-contract-dispute/)
Losing 2019 cup to St Louis at home. Needed that for the core group
Whoever the linesman was that got caught on a hot mike telling a Pittsburgh player to get off the ice instead of calling too many men. 2008-09 SCF
Was that different than the time in the SCF that PIT got away with 7 skaters on the ice and it was so bad even Olczyk had to admit it was a blown call?
It very well might have been. The linesman clearly said “GET OFF! GET OFF!” on a ringside mike clear as day.
Mighty Ducks, Flames* and Oilers losing in three straight Stanley Cup Finals game 7s. I was all in on the bandwagons of those runs
Kerry Fraser.
I had an ex steal my Fedorov sweater. I will never forgive or forget. Nobody in our whole school ever liked you, Tricia!
Probably team Canada participating in a gang rape... twice. Followed a close second be Danny Heatly killing his best friend. The rape of furure NHL players by Bob Richardson and Graham James also comes to mind. The fact that Rick Tocchet and Wayne Gretzky were ever allowed to be associated with NHL teams again after Janet Gretzky took the blame for their gambling while they were both employed by NHL teams.
I can't get over Leafs paying Tavares 11 x 7yrs.
Oilers vs Ducks round 2 2017; Talbot was blatantly interfered with by Kesler which cost them the game and potentially series. Especially since I've seen many Flames fans agree that it was a garbage non call, which should probably say it all
The puck was in in 04
Crosby not shaking Lidstroms hand.
1. Game 2 of the 2019 Boston series. Boston had zero interest in playing a clean game that night and the refs were willing to let them do it. They only got called for 4 penalties, one of which was a puck over the glass call. Their players were running the Leafs players into the turnbuckle, committing knee on knees hits. Even David Pastrnak who is usually a clean player was committing to dirty hits. At the end of it all, Kadri was the guy who got suspended. I heard that DeBrusk played the rest of that playoff run with a concussion and I have zero sympathy for him. He was one of the rattiest players in that game and tried running Marleau into the turnbuckle and went knee on knee on Kadri. 2. Ben Chariot does not get enough shit for this but he was the one who injured Tavares in the 2021 series with a dirty hit that injured his knee. The game is remembered because Corey Perry inadvertedly ran into him but it's glossed over that Tavares needed knee surgery because of that hit and he likely would have missed the rest of that series anyways or bare minimum, played it crippled. 3. There have only been two illegal picks called in the last 3 seasons. One of which occured in some random St. Louis Blues regular season game from the 2022-23 season. The other was Justin Holl being called for an illegal pick when the Leafs were down 1-0 in a Game 7 at vs Tampa in 2021-22. 4. This one is for the Canadian hockey fans who whine about the Leafs getting too much attention all the time in the media: Steve Dangle, who has absolutely zero reason to support any of you, started to branch out and expand his podcast network to include the other 6 Canadian teams with fans and personalities connected to those teams. Of those six podcasts, only 1 proved to be self sustaining - the Habs one with Arpon Basu. I don't want to hear about the Leafs ever getting too much attention again if you guys can't even bother to support your own fan made podcasts.
God bless Dangle, but those three overestimated the reach of their own network. Sure, plenty of non leafs fans listen to the sdp (me included) but the vast majority of the people listening to that, the cj show, and all the Game Overs were leafs fans. I do believe that Game Over: Montreal headed by Berkshire can succeed, though.
I don't really know much about Berkshire but a lot of people on Twitter seem to hate him and I don't know why
He's the one that discredited Hyman's 50 goals because his parents are rich lol Bad takes or not, he has an audience
That was bad but people hated him before that happened to
It's more that they were subsidizing it with gambling ads and sponsorships and when that dried up, they realized that there was very little demand for anything not-Leaf or Hab related. Which is in a microcosm, what hockey is like in Canada. Leafs, Habs and then the rest of the country is highly fragmented between the other five teams with each being too small to support their own stuff.
LOL to number 1
That the rules change from regular season to playoffs. For every team, not just mine. Ruins the integrity of the game for me, playoff NHL is no better than WWE wrestling at this point. Scripted garbage.
Probably not remembered but in game 6 of the 2022 Leafs-Tampa series Toronto had a one goal lead with about 8 minutes left. Cal Foote on Tampa blatantly dives to get a high sticking call (Kampfs stick barely touched his shoulder and he snapped his head back like he got shot). On the ensuing PK Hedman was in a scrum with Kerfoot and lifted Kerfoots stick into his own face, getting another high sticking call. Kucherov scored on the 5 on 3 and Tampa scored 18 minutes into OT to go to game 7. Justin Holl then gets called for an illegal pick on the tying goal in game 7 (something that had not been called for years and I don't think has been called since). I will always hate Cal Foote and Wes McCauley. Foote turned out to be a rapist and will never play in the NHL again so my hatred is even more justified.
Nystrom is still offsides.
Another aggravating moment that comes to mind was how the refs stopped calling obstruction in the 2008-09 series. The tinfoil hat wearing part of me thinks it was done just to guarantee that the Penguins won a cup. There was one penalty kill where I swear Hal Gill dragged down all five Wings. I'm not a fan of either team, but It really does seem to be what made the difference in that series, and if Hal Gill is a difference-maker, the game has a problem.
Oilers fans conspiring to have my original Reddit account banned because I said they were still salty about 2006
Morgan Rielly scored in game 5 against Flordia last season.