#it's also just like. i think fleury went 'i mean i obviously also wanted to fight' (or whatever he says i'm paraphrasing) in the postgame-

[binnybinnychickendinny]

i actually think daily about the fleury/binner almost-fight bc. okay so obviously the consensus among every nhl fan ever is that they should've been allowed to fight right lmao. but what i think most people do not realize is that allegedly the fight was planned. from before the game even started. because binner and fleury have a friend or trainer in common or something? and binner knew getting into a fight was on fleury's bucket list and he was like "sure man i'll get into it with you if there's an opportunity" and then he saw fleury skating down the ice and was like "oh yeah okay let's go" and then the refs wouldn't let them. like everyone looks at it as "oh just jordan binnington being jordan binnington and fleury was going to kill him about it" and there's definitely a LITTLE of that but they also both wanted to get into a fight just for the hell of it LMAO. i totally understand why fleury didn't share that with the reporters immediately afterwards (and neither did binner, this is from an interview he did that i assume most people have not seen) but it is funny to me that the surrounding context is less "binnington being insane and fleury being the saint that he is deciding to fight him in that moment" and more "binnington being completely willing from the start to get into a homoerotic goalie fight just bc fleury wants to"

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Okay so now that we’re ? mostly? through the news portion of the summer, here are my Hot Takes about Stanley Cup 2019 stuff/some general season opinions. I’m probably going to update this when we hear for sure about Tom Wilson and Erik Karlsson, but this is written with the assumption they’re doing as predicted (Tom staying in Wash for at least 4, EK to Tampa) in case I forget. Obviously I’d love a Capitals repeat. In my mind, most likely/in some ways preferable scenario is 1-2 year slight retooling, then another cup, but we’ll see. Just, how Max Narrative would it be for Ovi to go out on a cup year, right? I really want the Coyotes and the Sabres to have a good season! I don’t think either of them is to potential playoffs competing quality, but I think they’re going in the right direction and I’m excited about their upcoming few years. Kinda same with Avs, tho I think they’re closer? I haven’t gotten a solid read on their potential as a team from what I’ve been listening to. Obviously I hope Grubi kills it. In my ‘likely(ish) playoff prospects’ bracket, obvi again I gotta put Sharks at the top. I would be happy with Golden Knights or Jets winning the cup. I like both teams and their fan bases a lot, and I would have been okay losing to either of them in playoffs this year. Preds I have some reservations but am generally positive on. Tampa....just very mixed feelings. Honestly, I like the team fine, I just was so incredibly negatively impressed by their fans during this playoffs season. There was just a lot of Gross stuff that made me :///. Idk, assuming they get Erik Karlsson I think they’re in good shape to win or be a serious contender, which...I mean the other big team everyone is up on rn is the Leafs who (sorry) are my new most despised team so. (To be clear, my reasons are like 90% irrational/emotional and 10% ‘fuck you John Tavares’/‘I deeply distrust Kyle Dubas and the entire convo around him’. Nothing really against the Leafs per se. I mean? They’re fine without me obviously lmao but I just want to be clear this isn’t like a Hawks/Habs/Sens scenario where I’m going to kind of side-eye people who are fans of the franchise. If I had magic hockey powers I’d probs have used them to get the Habs the leadership shakeups the Islanders have, bc I so much want to like them.) Can we please like jaws of death get Carey Price out of Montreal? Please? Idk the Wild have a cool aesthetic so I might follow them a little. Know literally 0 about them otherwise. I also just....resent the Islanders for taking B Trotz which makes NO SENSE but there we are! On the other hand, lots of Islanders fans hate John Tavares as much as me rn so....I kind of hope they get a reverse Marc-Andre Fleury spiritual victory. Also, Mat Barzal has managed to Charm me (and everyone), so. Honestly I’m not hating the Pens this year! We’ll see if that holds up, but I would like everyone to Eat Their Words with all the endless Jack Johnson contract complaining. Also, like, I do want Matt Murray to do well now that MAF has clearly won the breakup with Pitt. So I guess, Pens you’re on notice but currently I don’t care so much about you. Where the fuck did Beags go? Canucks? And museum guy went to Canes maybe? Anyway I hope they both do good and are happy. I’m sort of vaguely keeping an eye on the Canes in the next few years bc I like Andrei Svechnikov a lot. I keep trying to hunt down some kind of emotion for the Blues since they’re like? Sort of close to me? But no luck so far. Stars, kinda same? I like them okay (and they got a draft pick I like), but Arizona has p firmly clinched my youngish underdog y team emotional investment spot. (I don’t know that the Stars could really be called underdogs, but yk.) Columbus please distinguish yourself in SOME way because I’m continually confused that your jersey is some kind of 4th string Caps jersey. Anyone else? I mean, I kind of hope the Kings exceed expectations because I’m generally :/// about the way hockey culture is about ‘older’ players, but also like....Kings don’t really need another cup and depending on how their Situation plays out I might have serious reasons to dislike them. I hope the Rangers do okay, because I am sort of keeping eyes out for K’andre Miller and Vitali Kravtsov, assuming either/both of them stay there. Flyers kind of same? I feel vaguely fond of them for no real reason. (Okay, because Nolan Patrick and Claude Giroux’s dog instagram are both adorable. Don’t @ me) What’s Alex Semin doing this season and can I find a way to watch KHL games in English? Also, I need to pick a women’s hockey team at some point.

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What We Learned: Let Ovechkin be Ovechkin

The second you’re down 2-0, you need to start putting Ovechkin over the boards more often, not less. . (Getty)

So they might blow it now.

Just a few days after they led 2-0 in the series and were heading home, and it looked for all the world like the Capitals were going to roll Tampa, a team any observer had every right to feel was vastly superior.

In the three games since, Tampa has proven that superiority time and again. In Game 3, Tampa got by on special teams. In Game 4, they got by because Tampa’s overwhelming talent did the kind of things overwhelming talent occasionally does to steal a game.

Then on Saturday Tampa led for all but 0.5 percent of the game’s run time, and led by at least two for more than 80 percent. And when a team like Tampa gets up two goals for 50-plus minutes it’s going to be a long road back for whoever is trying to level the score.

The problem for the Caps, as it was for the Jets in much of the Western Conference Final, is that they flat-out didn’t show up in the first period. They got outscored 2-0, yes, and then gave up the third goal on the first shift of the second period, but they also got outshot 13-4. Tampa was up three before the Caps even decided they were going to play in this one, and while they put together a pretty good run down the stretch — they out-attempted Tampa 43-17 after the third goal — they also trailed by three so it didn’t really matter.

This is how score effects work; Tampa didn’t have to try too hard to score any more goals than it already had because three is plenty in most hockey games. Let the Caps empty the arsenal down the stretch, because you have an all-world goaltender and a roster of guys Nos. 1-18 who are at least pretty good defensively. The best defense is a good offense, sure, but the second-best defense is a good defense and Tampa absolutely has that. Washington came most of the way back — it was 3-0 for less than four minutes — but at no point did it feel like the game was winnable for the Caps.

The thing is, though, it should have been.

Even if you’re adjusting for score and all that stuff, Washington has certainly outplayed Tampa in this series, but is getting smoked on special teams (Tampa has six power play goals to Washington’s three) but in Game 5 in particular, Washington’s problems proved out.

For one thing, the way Barry Trotz has been managing his best player this series is a bit confusing. Let’s talk about Alex Ovechkin’s usage in Game 5, because it’s bizarre. Ovechkin played a little more than 20 minutes in the loss, after only about 17 per in Games 1 and 2, and at least 23 in Games 3 and 4. You say, “Okay, well in the first two games they led for a pretty good chunk of both and in Washington they trailed more than they led.”

That’s fine. You give your best players a breather when you don’t need them (or in this case when you need to protect a lead and you think their defensive contributions are suspect). I’d rather have Ovechkin out there but I get the rationale even if I disagree with it. And when you’re trailing, you put those guys over the boards more often because you absolutely, positively need a goal.

So why, then, in this game in which the Caps trailed by at least two goals for like 50 minutes, do you only play him 20:16 in the entire game? And more to the point, why does 4:28 of his ice time come in the last 4:48? You mean to tell me that Trotz couldn’t find a Devante Smith-Pelly shift to give the Ovechkin line instead?

And obviously Ovechkin didn’t have a great night, necessarily; he didn’t even put a shot on goal until about the 50th minute (though he did eventually score). And he only had one shot attempt through 40 minutes. But still, you have to let your best players play through that, right? But the Caps also didn’t draw a penalty in the entire game — which is the kind of thing that probably shouldn’t happen but that’s NHL officiating for ya — so there seems to have been a feeling that Ovechkin should have been doing something other than being Alex Ovechkin. He told reporters after the game he was trying to throw hits. Which is not what his job should ever be. I could’ve sworn that’s the whole reason Tom Wilson is on that line.

Some of that, you can say, is down to how well the Tampa fourth line has done in bottling Ovechkin up. He had the garbage-time goal in Game 5 but still has been outscored 3-2 when Ryan Callahan is on the ice. Against everyone else, it’s 2-1 for Ovechkin.

But at the same time, Ovechkin attempted a combined 31 shots in Games 3 and 4 and didn’t score on it. Doesn’t seem like there are too many 31-attempt stretches in which Ovechkin would not score at least a single goal. So again, why is Trotz not putting this guy — who rightly or wrongly is going to bear all the slings and arrows if (when?) the Caps lose this series — in a position to succeed when he gets the chance?

Even in Game 4, when the Caps were trying to come back and had that fearsome 6-on-5 working in the final minutes, the way the players were positioned on the ice was baffling. Ovechkin at the center of the point, TJ Oshie in the “Ovechkin spot,” John Carlson below Oshie near the dot. That oddity wasn’t just a random thing, either, because it was the same arrangement on the lengthy 6-on-5 on Saturday. I don’t know how you brain-genius your way into moving Ovechkin away from the part of the ice that colloquially bears his name, in an effort to get a defenseman closer to the net, but here we are. Carlson fanned on a cross-ice attempt in Game 4, took too long to corral a shot that Andrei Vasilevskiy easily stopped in Game 5. Does Oshie or Ovechkin make the same mistakes? Hmm.

Ovechkin of course needs to be better than “one shot attempt in the first two periods.” But he also only played 11:16 in those first 40 minutes, and it’s like, what is Trotz saving him for? Again, no power plays, but you gotta let your horses run, man. What’s the concern, that you’d go down 4-0 instead of 3-0? Who cares.

This absolutely goes back to hockey’s predisposition toward believing not-allowing goals is more valuable than scoring them. The second you’re down 2-0, you need to start putting Ovechkin over the boards more often, not less. Unless there’s something the Caps aren’t telling us — and it appears as though Ovechkin didn’t really miss a shift the entire game, they were just more spaced out than usual — there’s no excuse for this.

And no, it’s not why the Capitals lost, but it does highlight why their comeback attempt wasn’t a bit more effective. When Chandler Stephenson plays as much in the first two periods than the guy who won the Rocket Richard this year, that’s a deployment mistake, full stop.

What We Learned: Playoff edition

Tampa Bay Lightning: You can say what you want about Ryan Callahan and Chris Kunitz and what they get paid, especially at their respective ages, but if those are your 11th- and 12th-best forwards you’re probably in pretty good shape. Obviously you don’t expect them to outscore Alex Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov head-to-head over any appreciably long period of time, but this is five games and they’ve mostly played them to a stalemate, which is all you can ever ask of guys like this. Obviously they’ve gotten help from the Stralman pairing behind them for most of the series but still, Kunitz and Callahan are both at 50 percent in goals (2-2 and 4-4, respectively) in on-ice goals for this series despite playing more against Ovechkin than any other opponents in this postseason. Pretty incredible.

Vegas Golden Knights: I, of course, thought Vegas was an elite team even before the expansion draft. Anyone who tries to produce evidence to the contrary is Doing Fake News. But as if we needed further proof that this is a universe beyond understanding, “Ryan Reaves from Luca Sbisa” is the goal that puts a first-year expansion team through to a Cup Final. Yup, definitely makes a ton of sense and for sure validates everything that happened around this team all year long. This is absolutely in no way a product of Marc-Andre Fleury playing the absolute best hockey of his life for five months straight. Nah. This team just Tries Harder than everyone else. More on this subject tomorrow.

Washington Capitals: I mean, if you were scripting a way for the Caps to blow the biggest series of their modern era, how else would you do it than this? They went up 2-0 with two wins on the road against the best team in the Eastern Conference this year. They looked pretty damn good doing it. Even in Game 3, they lost but they looked like the better team. And now they’ve lost three straight and are returning to home ice where, hell, I dunno, they’re probably gonna lose, right? Even getting to Game 7 would feel like a huge accomplishment at this point. Wouldn’t even matter what happened there. Lose 15-0. Whatever, you clawed back that one win when everyone gave up on you. And if you win? Well, losing to Vegas in the Cup Final would be an extremely funny way to go out.

Winnipeg Jets: You figured the Jets would come out and empty the tank, right? But nope, just eight shots on goal in the third period of a home elimination game they trailed by one. And that isn’t gonna get it done. And sure, seven scoring chances, but only three were high-danger and Vegas had twice as many as that. Marc-Andre Fleury was the difference once again but also you gotta give yourself the best possible chance to succeed and, well, they didn’t. Hockey’s dumb, what can I tell ya.

Play of the Weekend

A very normal regular goal from two guys you all expected to be in on the big W.

Gold Star Award

Pretty crazy that Marian Hossa is not-officially retired for the second year in a row. Totally impossible to see this turn of events coming.

Minus of the Weekend

The Alex Ovechkin “chicken parm” at whatever restaurant that is? It’s not a chicken parm. They don’t put a pound and a half of mushrooms on a chicken parm, or have the chicken on the side. I will go to my grave attacking this vile pasta entree!!!

Perfect HFBoards Trade Proposal of the Week

User “HailMcJesus” might be an Oilers fan.

To Ottawa:

Oscar Klefbom, Jesse Puljujarvi, 2018 1st, 2nd, 3rd (All from Edmonton)

To Toronto:

Jean-Gabriel Pageau

To Edmonton:

Erik Karlsson (Verbal Agreement to Re-Sign) , Kasperi Kapanen

Signoff                  

Yes I should be go…… good lord what is happening in there?

Ryan Lambert is a Puck Daddy columnist. His email is here and his Twitter is here.

(All stats via Corsica unless otherwise noted.)

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Ramblings: Midseason Awards; Rangers On The Block; Poor Henrik – January 27

The Professional Hockey Writers Association released their midseason awards on Friday. These were voted on by 150 hockey writers and, presumably, over 2000 fans that would be amalgamated into one vote. Fans logged on and provided their winner for each of the major trophies, plus a few others like the Rod Langway award for top defencemen. These were the results:

Here are the results from the PHWA’s midseason awards voting. pic.twitter.com/oMZVR9IqvZ

— Matthew DeFranks (@MDeFranks) January 26, 2018

I did my own, naturally, and people can read through the Twitter thread here.

With no hockey tonight, or any real NHL hockey for a few nights, I thought it’d be worth some time to go over the midseason fantasy hockey awards. Let’s hop right to it. We’ll use ESPN standard roto scoring with one winner and two runners up.  

  Fantasy Hart Trophy

Winner: Andrei Vasilevskiy

Runners up: Nathan MacKinnon, Phil Kessel

Seeing as this is fantasy hockey, value (preseason ADP) is inextricably linked with performance.

I don’t know if there can be much debate about this one; on FantasyPros, Vasilevskiy ranked outside the top-12 goalies and across three different platforms had an ADP of the 15th goalie. As of the All-Star break, he’s the top goaltender in fantasy by a large margin and, among goalies with 20 starts, is leading the league in wins (29), save percentage (.931), shutouts (7), and second in goals against average (2.18). He had one bad stretch earlier this month but it was split up due to the bye week, so it’s not a certainty he even killed H2H players. Outside of that, his worst five-game stretch by save percentage was at the start of the season, and it was .914. That kind of stability in goal is coveted above anything else in fantasy hockey, and because of that and his preseason ranking, he’s easily the MVP.

While most should agree that Vasilevskiy is the clear MVP, the rest is subjective. You could make an argument for goalies like Connor Hellebuyck and Marc-André Fleury (despite the injury), or defencemen like John Klingberg or Erik Johnson. MacKinnon, though, was surely drafted outside the top-100, and likely outside the top-150, so his having 24 goals and 60 points at the break (!!!) is hard to argue with.

Kessel has 58 points with 33 coming on the power play, averaging over 3.5 shots per game along the way. He gets the edge for me among wingers and not Nikita Kucherov just because of ADP. Feel free to disagree.

  Fantasy Norris Trophy

Winner: Victor Hedman

Runners up: PK Subban, John Klingberg

After a (relatively speaking) slow start to the year which saw Hedman put up just two goals and 18 points in his first 30 games, he went on a tear afterwards; from the middle of December through to his injury, he put up four goals and 15 points in 14 games, averaging nearly four shots on goal per game. He’s far from the points leader (Klingberg) so this of course would obviously depend on your league setup, but in a standard roto league, it’s Hedman’s plus-24 rating that really puts him over the top. Again, please don’t yell at me in the comments how less valuable he is in leagues that don’t count plus/minus.

Subban is currently tied for his career-best in goals per game (0.26), highest points per game in an 82-game season (0.79), is nearly a penalty-minute-per-game player (0.94), and has already surpassed last year’s power-play output (16 points) at this juncture (17). His shooting percentage will regress, but his across-the-board performance has been elite this year.

Sorry, I can’t not include a defenceman on pace for nearly 80 points on the Norris runners up. He’s just so far ahead of everyone else in this regard. Klingberg is something special (and at this rate should win the actual Norris Trophy).

  Fantasy Vezina Trophy

Winner: Andrei Vasilevskiy

Runners up: Connor Hellebuyck, Pekka Rinne

What was said about Vasilevskiy under the Hart, ditto for Vezina.

When it comes to Hellebuyck, there are two lessons here. First, don’t give up on a goalie for one bad season. I wrote about this in a Ramblings this past summer with regards to Sergei Bobrovsky, but the same could be said about the Winnipeg starter. Yes, he obviously had a much smaller sample to work with. But he also tore up Hockey East, the AHL, and was above-average in his rookie year. There was a decent sample to show us that this was, indeed, a good goalie who had one bad year.

The second lesson is that goaltending numbers for fantasy are largely affected by the penalty kill, and more specifically the save percentage. Winnipeg is expected to give up the seventh-most goals per 60 minutes while short-handed, but have actually given up just the 20th-most. That’s because Hellebuyck’s PK save percentage is .913, a very good mark (second in the league, behind only Semyon Varlamov). Last year it was .858. The difference has meant about 2.4 fewer goals per 60 minutes of PK time or, rounding down, eight fewer goals to this point of the year. That might not sound like a lot, but if you add eight goals to Hellebuyck’s season, his save percentage drops from .924 (sixth among goalies with 20+ games) to .918 (outside the top-15 goalies). That’s not a huge margin of error for a significant drop.

I will say this about Pekka Rinne, it’s been pretty cool to watch him have a resurgence. I’m sure I’m not the only one that wrote him off after his .913 save percentage stretch from 2012-16 that saw the injuries pile up. He’s been a .923 goalie since the start of 2016-17, including playoffs, which spans 118 starts.

  Fantasy Calder Trophy

Winner: Brock Boeser

Runners up: Mathew Barzal, Clayton Keller

This is really splitting hairs. When it comes to the fantasy game, these two are neck-and-neck. In goals, Boeser leads by eight while Barzal has 16 more assists. Boeser has four more power-play points and 0.8 more shots per game, but Barzal has a clear edge in plus/minus. I think Barzal is clearly the best real-life player (I’m not saying Boeser is bad, Canucks fans, I’m saying Barzal has the makings of a franchise centre, and that is coveted over just about any winger), but I would lean to the goal-scorer playing for a much worse offensive team in the fantasy game.

I’ve mentioned it before but I’ll eat my crow on Boeser. I didn’t think he had the talent to overcome the lack of supporting cast, but his release is unbelievable. He’s also just shy of three shots on goal per game (2.98 to be exact), and that mark has only been surpassed by one rookie from 2013-17: Auston Matthews. No, he’s not Auston Matthews, but it does show just high a level Boeser is playing even setting aside his 43-goal/82 game pace.

A quick note on Clayton Keller:

Clayton Keller is 9th among ARI forwards in 5v5 TOI/game this month https://t.co/0TaBT2LXnA

— Michael Clifford (@SlimCliffy) January 26, 2018

He’s probably their second-best forward.

The line of Keller, Max Domi, and Derek Stepan was broken up for their game on November 14th. In the 19 games leading up to that, when the trio was together, Keller had 17 points in 19 games, including 11 goals on 61 shots. After that point, Keller has 19 points, including three goals on 74 shots.

It’s clear there’s been a drop-off since the line was split, but Keller is also shooting 4.1 percent. That’s obviously not sustainable. Even if he shot 10.4 percent (his season average), he’d have had eight goals and 24 points in 31 games. As it is, 19 points in 31 games is a 50-point pace over 82 contests, and that’s playing with depth players on one of the worst offensive teams in the league. That’s pretty good.

  Fantasy Selke Trophy

Winner – Patrice Bergeron

Runners up – Sean Couturier, Aleksander Barkov

Before Flames fans get mad at me for not including Mikael Backlund: he has truly been one of the best defensive forwards in the NHL this year. He also has nine goals. That’s just not going to cut it for fantasy purposes.

Maybe this is the season that Bergeron finally gets some love in the real world for the Hart Trophy? Then again, probably not. Either way, as usual, he’s absolutely dominating the opposition as he and Brad Marchand help the Bruins control 59.9 percent of the adjusted shot share when they’re on the ice together. You might think that Marchand has a big part in this, and he does to an extent, but even without Marchand on his wing, Bergeron helps the Bruins control 57.2 percent of the adjusted shot share. That’s huge. Remember it took like two months for the top line to have a five-on-five goal scored against them. Bergeron is a point-per-game player with 20 goals in his pocket already.

I don’t think Couturier needs much explanation here. He’s also a point-per-game player and is continually setting career-bests. If someone wanted to put him as the winner over Bergeron, I would not argue.

Barkov is an interesting player this year because the team around him is mostly bad. He makes his way to this list because of what he’s done on the penalty kill. When he’s on the ice on the PK, the team is break-even in goals and allow the lowest rate of shots than when any other Panthers players is on the ice. Think about that for a second: we’re at the All-Star break, and the team is even in goal differential on the PK with Barkov on the ice. That’ll worsen as the season wears on, but for now it’s impressive even if it’s unsustainable.

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That’s it for my awards. Feel free to yell at me in the comments. I’m sure I was wrong somewhere.

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There was an article from Larry Brooks at the New York Post yesterday indicating that the Rangers are prepared to blow it up. He specifically names Rick Nash (not a surprise), Michael Grabner (also not a surprise), Mats Zuccarello, and Ryan McDonagh.

This is going to be painful for Rangers fans, but I legitimately feel bad for Henrik Lundqvist. I mean, to the extent that you can feel bad for someone with tens of millions of dollars in the bank and is inarguably the most handsome man in hockey. If he were to maintain his current ratios (.922 save percentage and 2.61 goals against average), he’d finish the year with the second-highest goals against average ever for a netminder with at least a .922 save percentage. The only one worse would be Jonathan Bernier on that awful 2013-14 Leafs team. That speaks to just how bad the Rangers are defensively, and how much he’s bailed them out to the point where they’re still in the thick of the playoff race.

Playoffs aren’t good enough, obviously. In recent seasons, this was a team with Cup aspirations and though they came close once, they never got there. Lundqvist’s frustration has boiled over at times this year, but it must have been building for years. At this pace, it would be his eighth season in nine years with a save percentage of at least .920 and zero Cups to show for it. Before you get on his case about playoff performances, his career save percentage in the postseason is .922.

This is Hank’s age-35 season and he still has three years left on his contract. With a cap hit of $8.5-million, at his age, I can’t imagine (m)any teams would want to trade assets for him, so he’s likely stuck for the rebuild barring a miraculous trade. When he’s due to be a free agent, he’ll be 39.

Lundqvist’s career has been Hall-Of-Fame-worthy, but the Cup will seemingly elude him. If this report is true and the Rangers are going on a fire sale, he’ll end his career in a rebuild. A shame.

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With the All-Star Skills Competition and All-Star Game this weekend, a quick reminder: if you’re reading this, it’s not geared towards you. These aren’t events designed for 30- and 40-somethings jamming Doritos and Molsons while they sit on the couch yelling at Ryan Getzlaf for not making a thread-the-needle pass. They’re designed for kids. They’re for kids to see their favourite players play with their other favourite players. Please keep this mind. 

from All About Sports http://www.dobberhockey.com/hockey-rambling/ramblings-midseason-awards-rangers-on-the-block-poor-henrik-january-27/