#ron hextall

[doingdathockey]

sid just casually killed another man (gmrh)

[naanima]

I'm reading the HEXTALL article. And holy fucking hell, it is so damning. Beyond the whole fucking contract-gate fiasco that Sid, Kris AND Sully had to talk Geno down from there is just SO MUCH rage inducing parts. I'm gonna C&P some parts that truly stuns me.

To help sell a skeptical public on the new hockey leadership, Morehouse cooked up a story that Lemieux was heavily involved in the process.

OMFG. THEY LIED ABOUT LEMIEUX HIRING HEXTALL & BURKE?!

And the trades!!!

Hextall put Kapanen on waivers the day after fans chanted for his firing. Somewhat shockingly, the St. Louis Blues claimed him.

AND.

Hextall later enraged players and coaches by putting Brock McGinn on waivers while McGinn was enjoying some family time on the team’s annual “dad’s trip” in Nashville. Sullivan was forced to deliver the news.

Fuck, Sully really hated HEXTALL.

A four-game losing streak extended into the first week of November. By then, an exasperated Sullivan resorted to making one regular — Kasperi Kapanen, whom Hextall controversially re-signed during the offseason — a repeated healthy scratch. Days later, Sullivan asked Hextall for the first, but not final, time to trade for a defensive upgrade, specifically Jakob Chychrun, who was being shopped by the Arizona Coyotes.

Just WTF. And of course making Sidney Crosby DISAPPOINTED in the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Crosby rushed to console his now former teammate and after a few minutes returned to the dinner. “That’s not how we do things in Pittsburgh,” he said. Crosby remained mostly quiet the rest of the night.

What a shitshow. Fucking hell. He traded away Pens' future, wanted to break the core 3, ANGERED SULLY, made Sidney Crosby disappointed, and WASTED this fucking precious year for Sid, Geno & Kris. Fuck.

[goaliekisses]

you know what…

[st-louis]

“Ron Hextall hasn’t done an average job. He’s done a really, really bad job.” i am crying laughing at this lede

[kazokuhouou]

tagging @catboygretzky cause the heinous anons would go nuts over this

[msmillionworlds]

Trying to explain to my mother how evil Ron Hextall is but she can never agree with me on anything so now we’re arguing over what constitutes being a good GM and what people are allowed to get away with because “it’s just business”

[sergeifyodorov]

do u have ant thoughts on the pens play style ? i love to hear ur thoughts and the way u break things down :0

i love those old geezers so much okay

so the pens, coming off the three cups/crosbymalkin era, still play with a pretty straightforward forechecking style -- they're up there in hits/game and pretty good with the "first pass" (that pass once regaining possession, from defender to forward, out of the defensive zone.)

their major advantages: sid and geno. like, for real, that's THE number one reason. intangibles are hard to measure, but it's well known that the pittsburgh locker room is a very welcoming environment, one players want to stay in into their old age. which is why everyone in there is a million years old. also, the two of them (plus kris letang!!) have aged as players VERY well into their mid-thirties and are showing pretty much no signs of slowing down or stopping, all three of them almost exactly as effective as playdrivers as they were in the championship years. sid is on pace for nearly 100 points!!! he's 35!!!! that's simply not done.

their major weaknesses: their bottom six is not good, and their goaltending is inconsistent as hell. i think their bottom six has changed up a bit since the deadline and might be better now, but either way it is a very very weak set for a contending team. little goalscoring and negative defensive effect. also, their starting goalie is injured often and their backup is straight up bad.

the penguins: power of love for your captain and city. pros: they love each other :) cons: why is every single one of you thirty years old with two kids

[mulchmarner]

no, I'm sorry, we can't trade our star player. no, not because he's our star player, it's just his bestie is on the team.

[icedhockey]

not to catastrophise but chuck fletcher is out there somewhere, unemployed,

[punkrockmixtapes]

The Sainte Catherines - Reinventing Ron Hextall (I Don't Want to Say Goodbye)

[goaliekisses]

good riddance

[coffee-at-annies]

What if we NYI swept us in the regular season so we can sweep / take the series vs NYR because who knows? Before the doomers rise: we still can easily catch NYI in the standings w 18GP to go and a 2 pt gap in their favor. hard to imagine that scenario when after the Oilers game we were outside of a playoff spot because Detroit was hot only 2 weeks ago. Also erasing a 4-0 deficit vs a Metro team two games ago was already huge in case everyone forgot

Oh I’m not dooming and glooming. It was a disappointing loss to an otherwise good game but I’m not letting it get me down. This team is looking way better than it did before I took the time off. Unlike the oilers game this looks like a team that wants to win. That’s important. If we don’t want to win then we can’t scrape wins out of games that should have been losses.

We’ve struggled really hard this season with beating teams that are flat out better than us - both in the standings and on the stats sheet. We can play down to teams easily enough - that’s what happened to CBJ on Tuesday; nice as the comeback felt, CBJ is the worst team in the league and this was always their game to blow. I don’t know if the isles are a better team than us but last night we looked like the better team for long stretches. That’s really encouraging. We’ve gone into games against playoff teams and did not look like we were even trying to win, just get out of the game. There’s no way we’re going to meet the islanders in the first round but I can see a playoff series with them going either way. That’s a good thing. It means the pens are shaping up.

The only place the isles looked consistently better than us? Goalie. I love Jarry. He’s my favorite player on the team. The better goalie on the ice was Sorokin. He locked it down in the third and Jarry couldn’t. Now it’s not completely on Jars. The defense could have done more to help. We could have scored on the empty net. We could have not let up two back to back 1 on 0 breakaways in overtime to end the game. The pk in the first could have stopped the puck from crossing the line by inches. I’m not badmouthing our goalie but as much as I hate to admit it the better goalie won last night.

As for the rangers? Who knows. I don’t. I’m actually incredibly terrified for my tickets on Sunday. I’d like by believe we have a chance to not get swept by them but who knows. All I know is the Pittsburgh fanbase is not classy so there’s gonna be Igor chants on Sunday and the little hater that lives in my heart and wants nothing more than the rags to lose will have to fight the good little girl who also lives in my heart and thinks goalie chants are mean and dumb and we shouldn’t do them. Inside you there are two wolves etc etc etc.

[hauntedppgpaints]

Goalie Goals: a brief history

Hey y'all. Resident goalie lover coming at you with something that I have been obsessed with since I got into hockey: goalie goals!

There are two kinds of goalie goals: a goal that was awarded to the goalie because they were the last to touch the puck before the opposing team got an own-goal, and an actual SOG.

In total, there have been 18 goalie goals across NHL history, scored by 15 different goalies. 11 of those goals have been SOG, while 7 have been own-goals.

The first goalie to be credited with a goal is Billy Smith of the Islanders, during the 79-80 season. It was an own-goal, with a player on the opposing team (Rockies) accidentally shooting into their own net. As of right now, this is the only goalie goal where the goalies' team still lost the game (the Islanders lost, 4-7)

The next two goals would be scored by Ron Hextall of the Flyers. The first (1) would be in the 87-88 season, against the Bruins. The second (2) would be in the 1989 playoffs (first playoff goalie goal!), against the Capitals. Both goals would be actual SOG's, making Hextall the first goalie to score with an actual SOG.

The fourth goal (SOG) would be scored by Chris Osgood of the Red Wings, during the 95-96 season, against the Whalers.

The fifth goal (SOG) would be scored by Martin Brodeur (1) of the Devils during the 1997 playoffs (second playoff goalie goal), against the Canadiens.

The sixth goal (own goal) would be scored by Damian Rhodes of the Senators, during the 98-99 season, against the Devils. This is the first goalie goal to help with a shutout for the scoring goalie.

The seventh goal (own goal) would be scored by Martin Brodeur (2) of the Devils, during the 99-00 season, against the Flyers. This is the first, and so far, only goal to be considered the GWG.

The eighth goal (SOG) would be scored by Jose Theodore of the Canadiens, during the 00-01 season, against the Islanders. Second goalie goal to help with a shutout.

The ninth goal (SOG) would be scored by Evgeni Nabokov of the Sharks, during the 01-02 season, against the Canucks.

The tenth goal (own goal) would be scored by Mika Noronen of the Sabres, during the 03-04 season, against the Maple Leafs.

The eleventh goal (own goal) would be scored by Chris Mason of the Predators, during the 05-06 season, against the Coyotes.

The twelfth goal (own goal) would be scored by Cam Ward of the Hurricanes, during the 11-12 season, against the Devils.

The thirteenth goal (own goal) would be scored by Martin Brodeur (3) of the Devils, during the 12-13 season, against the Hurricanes.

The fourteenth goal (SOG) would be scored by Mike Smith of the Coyotes, during the 13-14 season, against the Red Wings. This one holds the record of being the closest to the end of the game, being scored with less than a second left on the clock.

The fifteenth goal (SOG) would be scored by Pekka Rinne of the Predators, during the 19-20 season, against the Blackhawks.

The sixteenth goal (SOG) wouild be scored by Linus Ullmark of the Bruins, during the 22-23 season, against the Canucks.

The seventeenth goal (SOG) would be scored by Tristan Jarry of the Penguins, during the 23-24 season, against the Lightning.

The eighteenth goal (SOG) would be scored by Filip Gustavsson of the Wild, during the 24-25 season, against the Blues.

Some fun facts!!:

There hasn't been a goalie goal scored at home since Mike Smith, over 10 years ago

7 goals have been scored at home. 11 have been scored away.

Only one team has had more than one goalie goal scorer: the Predators, with Mason and Rinne

Only two goalies have scored during the playoffs: Hextall and Brodeur

Only one goal was scored with a backhand: Theodore's

Only three goalies that have scored are currently playing: Ullmark, Jarry, and Gustavsson

Two teams are tied with most goalie goals against (2): Devils and Canucks

it's been 45 years since the first goalie goal was scored

[samuelerssonupdates]

Ron Hextall: 37 wins (1986-87)

Pete Peeters: 29 wins (1979-80)

Sergei Bobrovsky: 28 wins (2010-11)

Antero Niittymaki: 23 wins (2005-06)

Pelle Lindbergh: 23 wins (1982-83)

Samuel Ersson: 21 wins (2023-24)

Brian Boucher: 20 wins (1999-2000)

Following in the footsteps of trailblazing rookies and giants alike, Samuel Ersson is living up to his role in net in a huge way, and a historic one. With today's 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins, he has displaced now-color commentator (and once, #33 for the Philadelphia Flyers) Brian Boucher for the title of 6th all-time wins by a Flyers rookie goalie. Ersson has the third-best GAA on this list, 2.66, preceded only by Boucher (1.91) and Bobrovsky (2.59), and the second-lowest total GA, 104. (Boucher, 65 GA, is first.) And also of note: he is tied for the second-most shutouts on this list, with Boucher again coming in first with 4 shutouts.

It's relevant to note that Boucher in his rookie season was the backup to starter John Vanbiesbrouck, who played 50 games to Boucher's 35. (Ersson has played 42 games this season, and only recently reached 50 total GP in the NHL on March 12, 2024, a 3-2 win against the San Jose Sharks.) The rest of the goaltenders who currently sit above Ersson were all essentially starters, though Niittymaki shared the burden pretty evenly with Robert Esche in the 2005-06 season (46 GP to 40 GP). Peeters and Hextall also took their STACKED Flyers squads to the Stanley Cup Finals (Peeters played with some of the most venerated Flyers of all time – Bobby Clarke, Rick MacLeish, Bill Barber; Hextall played behind a filthy 80s team; Tim Kerr, Mark Howe, Rick Tocchet, and the bruise brothers, Dave Brown and Daryl Stanley. Fun fact: Both goalies played with Brian Propp!) Those Flyers had been to the playoffs every season from 1973-1989. Those Flyers won in '74 and '75.

These 2023-24 Flyers came into the season with low expectations, and three years of missing the playoffs. But behind those low expectations is a team that's apparently capable of beating the best teams in the league. Of the 12 wins over top-10 clubs (BOS, VAN 2x, COL, CAR, DAL, FLA 2x, WPG 2x, EDM, TOR) Ersson was the winning goalie for 8 of those. At times, including March 23 v Boston, the team they beat was #1 in the league.

To reach 4th place in all time Flyers rookie goalies, and not just tie with Niittymaki and Lindbergh, Ersson needs three more wins. The Flyers have 11 games left in the season, and the Gauntlet is almost over, with the most recent three games (against the teams that currently sit 2nd, 6th, and 9th in the league) yielding five points in the standings. The future looks bright.

And tomorrow, Florida.

Sources

Mitchell Leff / Rookie Flyers / Flyers History / Jordan Hall

[goodwoodpod]

EPISODE 9: BRINGING IT ALL FULL CIRCLE

You have walked through the valley of the shadow of death. The evil has come to pass. The Penguins are out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2006. You are free... and so is your schedule, since you have no games to watch! Join your hosts instead as we eulogize this messy-yet-fascinating season. Bec branches out with a new and short-lived segment called Connor McDavid Corner. Kit starts our quest for a new GM with Kyle Watch™. Jes starts campaigning for Team Granlund, who put the final nail in Ron Hextall's coffin. Who on our roster survives into next year? Will we see goalie Mike Crosby’s debut? Will things get better now that we've been freed from our saboteur GM? The Penguins' disastrous 2022-2023 season has finally ended. So too must Season One of GOOD WOOD. Join us to the bitter end.

Runtime: 57 min || Recorded on 4.26.23

Listen to Episode 9 here. Full episode list here.

Episode contents:

0:00-4:00 We Have Been Freed from the Agony of Playoffs

4:00-8:00 Connor McDavid Corner

8:00-12:00 Coping with the End of the Season (and the Streak)

12:00-29:00 We Try Clairvoyance (Predicting the 2023 NHL Playoffs)

29:00-52:00 Season Highlights

52:00-57:00 The Growth of the Fandom

[literaryslapshot]

princess and nolan as taylor songs :

my qualifications: femme lesbian who loves nolan. at the age of 8 i had brain surgery, now i only make decisions with my tayfrontal cortex.

-Picture to Burn. she sings this at every minor inconvenience

-I’m Only Me When I’m With You.

-Tell Me Why.

-The Way I Loved You.

-Mr Perfectly Fine. she sings this to him all the time.

-Mine.

-Story of Us.

-Stay Stay Stay.

-The Moment I Knew. he missed their dogs bday party. by party it was her the dog, doggie treats and doggie movie marathon.

-Come Back…Be Here. missing her man on a roadie :(

-Blank Space boys only want love if it’s torture. don’t say i didn’t warn ya.

-Wildest Dreams. their song. period. this is playing her her head at all times.

-I Know Places. his fans are taylor swift level stalker.

-Ready for it…? KNEW HE WAS A KILLER FORST TIME THAT I SAW HIM WONDER HOW MANY GIRLS HE HAD LOVED AND LEFT HAUNTED. all of us princes. every girl gay they them on tumblr wondered this when they saw this man.

-End Game. every wag claims end game is theirs because it’s about wanting to be on the first roster. so many sports references.

-Gorgeous.

-King of My Heart. their story.

-Dress. contrary to the rumours it’s not black, it’s pink.

-Call It What You Want. MY BABYS FIT LIKE A DAYDREAM WALKING WITH HIS HEAD DOWN IM THE ONE HES WALKING TOOOOOOOOO.

-I Forgot That You Existed. not them, just nolan. @ Ron Hextall @ Bobby Clarke @ the entire flyers organization.

-Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince. need i say more.

-NO THEY ARE NOT PAPER RINGS. it is a very cute sentiment but not for them. she’s not asking for the most expensive, but defs good quality. her ring is solid and no chance of their union breaking.

-False God. idk if they’re religious but if they are they’re going to hell cause they might as well set up deity alters for one another since they’re obsssssessssed obsessed. like it’s sacrilegious and we should call the Vatican.

-Afterglow.

-peace.

-the lakes.

-gold rush.

-no body no crime. they are criminals in love. these two are defs hiding a body together then fucking in the bed of his truck under the stars.

-ivy.

-Midnight Rain. nolan vibing to this one. she is sunshine i am midnight RAIN.

-Bejeweled. her. he lets her be bejeweled.

-Karma.

-Mastermind.

allow me to elaborate?

picture to burn - "there's nothing stopping me from going out with all of your best friends" she screams that line whenever they have the tiniest of fights. like she just puts in her airpods and blasts this song. he looks on spotify and sees what she's playing and he's like "dear fucking god it was a joke"

i'm only me when i'm with you - "and i know everything about you" yeah nolan knows everything about her and she knows everything about him. to everyone else it's kind of creepy how well they know each other, it's like they can read each others minds. and they're not afraid to be themselves around each other, no matter how opposite they are of each other.

tell me why - "and i need you like a heartbeat, but you know you got a mean streak" is so them cause like they literally need each other, can't live without each other, but both of them have the biggest attitudes in their own way. they'll snap and pop off on each other, but they just can't seem to live without each other.

the way i loved you - needs no explanation. this is them.

mr. perfectly fine - no comment, she just sings this very loud and nolan likes it when she sings

mine - "you are the best thing, that's ever been mine" nolan puts that in his wedding vows cause he KNOWS how much she likes that song :,)

the story of us - "i would lay the armor down if you say you'd rather love than fight" cause at the end of the day, both of them hate picking at each other and getting on their nerves, and all they wanna do is just love each other.

stay stay stay - "nobody else is gonna love me when i get mad mad mad" it's true. even when she's mad, even when he's been ignoring her all day, they still love each other even at their worst.

the moment i knew - this is her song when he is on a road game during her birthday early on in their relationship and she realizes that if she's gonna stick with this relationship, she is gonna have to realize he can't be there for her during every single thing, and that sucks.

come back...be here - "i don't want to need you this way" if you've heard the story behind this song, the way taylor wrote it, you KNOW this is so them. she didn't want to get attached to him right away, she didn't want to get so invested when he was gone five days out of seven.

blank space - "i get drunk on jealousy" she hates when other girls slip into his dm's, approach him in public, try and flirt with him. she cannot stand another woman even looking in his direction. she doesn't intend on getting mad at him, but it comes out that way. if he wasn't just so......hot this wouldn't happen.

wildest dreams - "he's so bad but he does it so well" she knows about hockey players, the stereotype's about them cause after all she is cousins with nate isn't she? she knows what she is about to get herself into, but she can't help it. she falls deeply in love with a bad boy.

i know places - she hates that everyone is always trying to see what he's up to, seeing if he's active, so she loves and appreciates that he always keeps things so private, only posting once in a blue moon.

ready for it - "every lover known in comparison is a failure" nothing compares to their love; their raw, angsty, dirty, gritty, incredible love. past relationships combined are all specs of dirt compared to him, for her.

end game - "i don't wanna miss you like the other girls do" she knows that his exes miss him, and she doesn't ever want to experience that. she'll do anything in her power to make sure she never misses him like anyone else does.

gorgeous - "you've ruined my life, by not being mine" is her thoughts when she is forced to go home alone after seeing him for the fifth time at the suit store she worked at, and not even getting his number. she's forced to think about him day and night...until he comes in the store...not for a suit, but for her number.

king of my heart - "your love is a secret i'm hoping, dreaming, dying to keep" she wants to keep his love, his words, his touch, his everything to herself for the rest of her life. the moment they first kiss she owns him, she's his forever from the very first touch.

dress - "i only bought this dress so you could take it off" is actually true for her. when they're first dating, like only a couple of months in, she wears the hottest dress he's ever seen in his life in hopes that he takes it off of her later that night...which he does.

call it what you want - "i want to wear his initial on a chain round my neck" the first gift he ever got her was a necklace with the letter N on it, and she wore it until it literally fell apart. which she got very emotional over.

i forgot that you existed - she gets with him once he moves to vegas, obv, and as he starts to open about how he was hurt by philly she listens to everything he says.

miss americana & the heartbreak prince - he is her heartbreak prince, her handsome, her loving, her angsty, her mysterious heartbreak prince that she'll do anything to keep to herself.

false god - "hell is when i fight with you" she hates fighting with him. even though she is so stubborn, even though he is so hard headed, she hates fighting and arguing with him. and even in the middle of it, she would still worship the love they have for each other.

afterglow - "tell me that i'm all you want, even when i break your heart" when she overreacts, when she gets mad over the littlest things, when she gets frustrated, she still needs to know that he still loves her. and he does, he's convinced that there is nothing she can do that will make him stop loving her.

peace - "give you my wild, give you a child" even though it's a big debate for years between the two, she wants to give him a child, but until then, she'll give him the wildest days of his life.

the lakes - she just wants to escape with him, and every summer they do. each summer they escape to manitoba for the time being, just being by one anothers side and not being bothered by anybody else.

gold rush - they love going around their families and hometowns together, because they are such polar opposites everyone is so shocked. the hippie, mountain man that nolan is with real life barbie hanging on his arm, nobody believes it.

no body no crime - listen....if it really came down to it....they would kill for each other. but she also knows that if she were to ever catch him with another woman, both him and the woman would be killed dead.

ivy - "my house of stone, your ivy grows, and now i'm covered in you" nolan was a cold, frozen up, shut-off to the world man, and now he's covered in the warm life of his princess that he's so incapsulated to be in.

midnight rain - except, she is sunshine and he is midnight rain

karma - he knew, when he had the listening party with her (he wanted to sleep, but she forced him to stay up and listen) that when this song came on it was gonna be her song for a very long time. and he was right.

mastermind - "the first night that you saw me i knew i wanted your body" this goes both ways; the first time she saw him, made eye contact with his crystal blues, she knew that she was going to be screwed for a while. he knew that from the very first time he saw her, he knew that he had to have her.

hits different - "each bar plays our song, nothin has ever felt so wrong" that first time they break up/take a break they both know that they're meant from each other. the first couple of days they spend away from each other and not because he's across the country, they know that they're meant for each other. the first time he hears their song, he is using the only pink key that he has on his keychain to go over to her place, to make it right.