Jeff Marek and Elliotte Friedman discuss a Sunday that provided two of the wildest upsets we’ve ever seen, preview the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and more on this full episode of 32 Thoughts.
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0:00 – Craziest single day of on-ice events in NHL history?
7:00 – Florida Panthers vs Boston Bruins recap
19:30 – Florida Panthers vs Toronto Maple Leafs preview
21:30 – Seattle Kraken vs Colorado Avalanche recap
28:00 – Seattle Kraken vs Dallas Stars preview
29:30 – Embellishment
35:00 – New York Rangers vs New Jersey Devils Game 7 preview
48:10 – Kyle Dubas and the Leafs
53:30 – Tampa Bay Lightning offseason look ahead
58:40 – New York Islanders offseason look ahead
1:10:00 – Los Angeles Kings offseason look ahead
1:17:00 – Minnesota Wild offseason look ahead
1:27:20 – Latest on the Ottawa Senators sale
1:29:30 – Calgary Flames update
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Wildest Day In NHL History? | 32 Thoughts
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When the teams playing aren’t my team I always root for the underdog. This was a great day for hockey
FLORIDA ARENA LIMITING TICKET SALES TO CREDIT CARDS WITH USA ADDRESSES ONLY!!!! NO CANADIANS ALLOWED!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 NO TICKETS FOR LEAF FANS!!!!!
Maybe they should have left Bergeron off the team until it went off the rails or the next round because they lost all his games.
Craziest day since the Gretzky trade?
I picked Seattle, because Vancouver beat the Blues. This was not the Colorado that won the Cup, due to injury or free agency they lost 3 of their top 6 and their 3rd line center (Kadri), and they never replaced them.
I think the Cats are underestimated, big time. If the Leaf players react any thing like the media in TO they are done.
All time choke by the Bruins. AVs were overrated coming in, played well in games 6/7, and just came up short against a solid 100 point Kraken side. Brilliant night of hockey.
gretzky trade?
MOST EPIC COLLAPSE IN ALL SPORTS HISTORY. BRUINS FANS SHOULD HIDE THEIR HEADS IN SHAME,THOIGH I DID PREDICT A PANTHER SWEEP AND GOT 100S OF HATE REPLIES FROM THE BOSTON CHOKER FANS
tHEY SHOUR RENAME THEM THE BOSTON CHOKERS… SINCE THAT IS ALL THEY DO POST SEASON IN THE 1ST ROUND
As a Kraken fan Id rather see Dallas than Minny. Not saying itll be easy or that SEA should be favored, rather that the Wild handled SEA much easier than DAL during the season.
Ullmark and Swayman did that celebration thing at end of wins, they had a unique bond, ullmark plays 3 or 4 then Swayman plays 1, they tried to roll with just ullmark, them on 7 put in sawyman, big mistake, that goalie rotation was magical, why change it, coaches often go with one goalie and ride him, bruins biggest mistake of the whole year.
Toronto's so fortunate to play Panthers instead of bruins.
You said Colorado eliminated Seattle around 2:30min error lol
why did he call cogliano, eberle LOL
Kings oilers 82, kings come back from 5 – 0 to win in OT and go on to win the series
Taking nothing away from Florida and Seattle, but Toronto's path to the Cup just became a tad more plausible; I hope I didn't jinx it. 😉
But a more important thing to me is the other big tournament that happens every year at this time. As I like to say: 'my favorite hockey team has a maple leaf on it's jersey, only it's red', and they're playing soon (IIHF World Cup starts May 12). Team Canada could be crazy good this year. McKinnon, Crosby, Stamkos, Makar, Letang, Marchant, Bergeron, Barzal; all are available to play. I mean, they still have to want to play, they're grown men and probably tired right about now, but if they do, it's going to be fun to watch.
Players shouldn;t be embelishing penalties. The reason they do, is because the Refs are teaching them that the only way they're gonna draw a penalty is by embelishing.
I gotta smirk when I hear these guys describing the Florida win over the Bruins as Seismic and Shocking etc…The Second half of the Panther's season was simply excellent as they were one of the best teams in the league and they also score a lot of goals, 290 which is more than the Leafs and only 15 behind the Bruins…They have very gritty playoff players like Tkachuk and a pretty good seasoned Coach…I would still have expected Boston to win the Series but the gap between these two teams was much much less than the 43 points that separated them…Elliot Friedman is so very overrated as a Hockey Analyst…`Nuff Said…
Worst day in NHL history! The greatest team in the history of the regular season gets bounced in the opening round by a team with maybe half-a-dozen dedicated fans, while the defending Stanley Cup champions are eliminated by the league's baby franchise _*the National Hockey League does NOT reward hard work! Bust your as for 82 games, just to end up in the same position as a SLACKER team that expended the minimal energy required to make the tournament! Why isn't the NHL more popular in America? Because it a SOVIET LEAGUE! There is NO REWARD for hard work!!!
There has to be a playoff structure that gives the top regular-season achievers a few days of to rest and lick the wounds inevitably accumulated over a brutal, months-long campaign!*_
A bye system? An NBA-style play-in? There are options that need to be considered!
I don't understand why nobody will admit that it was Fuhr that screwed up. Goalies should get out of the damn way by tucking themselves in the net. This prevents stuff like this, and clears the sight-lines for the guy with the puck. Fuhr just went for a little skate-around instead of doing his job properly – but it's Grant Fuhr, so he's immune from criticism, I guess.
got lots of respect for Marek, but "coasting into the hit" is possibly the weakest argument I have ever heard. That just means Eberle had even more time to see that he was staring Cogliano in the numbers the entire time. He still crushes him headfirst into the boards directly from behind, the only thing changed by his speed was the fact that he only broke 1 vertebra instead of more.
New Jersey will win tonight, not a fan of them but just the way I see it. Shame to see Rangers and Bruins go, loved the Kraken win and the Leafs (for the sake of their looooong suffering fans). There will be big surprises in the second round as well.
Lol, I love the Steve Dangle addition.
Was thinking the same thing about how I was happy they stayed with Bergeron and they didn't go to the interview. Very well done.
Very uninformed !! Just 1 example is every Ranger game in Jersey & Long Island require you buy a ticket package of around 5 games with 1 ranger game in it for years. Ranger fans always find a way to make it work, not Leaf fans?
April 5, 1970 was a ridiculous day in NHL history and it involved 5 teams.
By Dave Caldwell
March 31, 2016
New York Times
Late on the night of April 4, 1970, at an airport in Windsor, Ontario, Emile Francis, the Rangers’ coach at the time, bumped into Sid Abel, who was coaching the Detroit Red Wings. The two men had arrived with their teams for separate Air Canada charter flights to New York.
Francis and Abel had known each other since they were boys in Saskatchewan, and Abel ribbed Francis about the outcome of the game the two teams had just played at the nearby Detroit Olympia. The Red Wings won, 6-2, to earn a berth in the N.H.L. playoffs.
Francis, now 89, recalled last week from his home in West Palm Beach, Fla., that he did a slow burn as Abel gloated over the victory. Then Francis declared, “This thing is not over yet.”
The Rangers still had a chance to squeeze into the playoffs, but they needed to beat Detroit in the regular-season finale the next afternoon at Madison Square Garden — and the defending champion Montreal Canadiens would have to lose that night to the Chicago Blackhawks.
But even more would be required of the Rangers, something that seemed virtually impossible.
A Rangers victory and a Canadiens loss meant both would finish 38-22-16, tied for fourth in the East Division. The next tiebreaker, at that time, was goals scored. Montreal had 242, the Rangers 237.
For the Rangers to get in the playoffs, they had to win, Montreal had to lose, and the Rangers had to score at least five more goals than Montreal.
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“There was never any thought in my mind that we’d come out of it in the playoffs,” Francis said nearly 46 years later.
Somehow, the Rangers got there, beating Detroit, 9-5, on 65 shots on goal, still a club record. They then gathered at a Manhattan nightclub called Mr. Laffs to listen to a Chicago radio broadcast over a pay phone of the Canadiens’ 10-2 loss to Chicago.
“I went out and bought everyone a round of drinks,” Brad Park, a Rangers defenseman, said last week. “It was the most expensive round of drinks I ever had bought, and I was making only $11,000 that year.”
It was also a moment of significance for other reasons: The Canadiens missed the playoffs for the first time since the 1947-48 season, and it was the first time that no team from Canada advanced to the Stanley Cup playoffs. (Toronto, the only other Canadian team at the time, finished last in the East Division.)
It was also the only time until this year, when, as of Wednesday night, all seven teams from Canada had been eliminated from playoff contention.
But nothing that has happened this season comes close to duplicating what unfolded on April 5, 1970.
“How can I forget that day?” Rod Gilbert, 74, a forward for that Rangers team, said last week.
The Rangers arrived at their Midtown hotel at 3 a.m., to try to catch enough sleep for the nationally televised 2 p.m. game at the Garden. The Red Wings had arrived in town, too, but not before raucously celebrating their playoff berth, center Garry Unger said that day.
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Abel planned to start his backup goaltender, Roy Edwards, but he was having “headaches and chest pains,” so Abel started Roger Crozier for the second time in 18 hours. The Garden, as Park and Francis recalled, was only half full at the opening face-off.
Even after Gilbert beat Crozier 36 seconds into the game, Gilbert said: “They announced my goal, but the fans were still so down and disappointed. They didn’t think there was any possibility of pulling this off.”
Another reason they were less than enthusiastic, Gilbert said, was that he had had a poor year. The first-period goal was only his 15th of the season, so, as he said, “They weren’t happy with my name.”
By the end of the first period, though, the Rangers had 17 shots on goal — and a 4-1 lead. According to The New York Times, the Garden organist, Eddie Layton, punctuated each goal by playing a song called “More.”
Gilbert scored the fifth goal 20 seconds into the second period.
“When they announced it, I got a standing ovation,” he said. “First goal, they booed me.”
The fifth goal only meant that the Rangers had as many goals as Montreal, so Francis told his team to pour it on. They took 22 shots in the second period, rolling to a 7-3 lead. Apparently, some ticket holders had been watching the game on television and decided to turn up after all.
“We come out for the third period,” Park, 67, said, “and the place is full.”
With the Rangers leading, 9-3, Francis pulled goaltender Eddie Giacomin for an extra attacker. The Red Wings scored twice, while the Rangers failed to pad their goal total. But the stakes were now higher for Montreal, which had to beat or tie Chicago — or lose while scoring at least five goals.
Unlike the Red Wings, the Blackhawks were playing for something: first place in the East.
“We knew Chicago was going to show up,” Park said.
The Rangers gathered for dinner at Il Vagabondo on East 62nd Street and then reassembled at Mr. Laffs. Francis went home to Long Island and told his wife that he was going out for a walk. Gerald Eskenazi, who covered the game for The Times, went to the radio room at the office to pick up a broadcast of the Montreal-Chicago game, later calling Francis with updates.
Chicago had a 5-2 lead with 9 minutes 16 seconds to play, so Montreal Coach Claude Ruel pulled his goaltender, Rogie Vachon. The Blackhawks scored five empty-net goals and won, 10-2.
“What else could I do?” Ruel said after the game. “We had to get goals.”
Montreal forward Yvan Cournoyer was more upset with the Red Wings’ afternoon effort, saying, “Those guys have no pride.”
Thus, the Canadiens missed the playoffs for the first time in 22 years, and the Rangers made the postseason for the fourth year in a row. But the Boston Bruins, the eventual Stanley Cup champions, eliminated the Rangers in six games in the first round.
For the following season, the N.H.L. adopted head-to-head results as the second tiebreaker after wins and made goals-for the third tiebreaker. (Now, the third tiebreaker is goal differential.)
Montreal and Toronto made the playoffs in 1971, and for another 43 seasons after that, Canada had a team vying for the Cup.
Look like it's Edmonton vs Toronto. Destiny. Another type of heartbreak for the Leafs coming 😋