Detroit vs everybody

the ottawa senators’ uber shit-talk-our-coaches fest getting released to the public

the dallas stars’ general manager calling the organization’s two best players ‘horse shit’ publicly

the boston bruins using anders bjork’s history at und as winter classic hype, refusing to actually recall him for the game (with ~two days remaining)

the edmonton oilers trading for the guy who broke their superstar’s collarbone in his rookie year on purpose, causing him to miss three months and the calder

the blues are shit and robert burtuzzo and zach stanford decided to… fight each other… at practice… (burtuzzo signs a new two year contract with blues three days later) (brought to my attention by @i-hate-hockey and @eliasvlindholm)

jamie benn made a break up playlist after him and his ex broke up. tumblr found it. somehow that became drama too. (via @davidpastrnut)

the washington capitals trade brooks orpik (and his $5.5 mil salary) to the avalanche at the draft. the avs bought him out three days later. washington resigns him as a free agent for a nice, cheap one million/one year. it got looked into by the nhl. it was a thing (via @fleuryvevo)

patrik berglund stopped showing up to the buffalo sabres… anything. even though the sabres were/are one of the best teams in the nhl

john tavares is a toronto maple leaf. new york islanders fans are betrayed. they faced each other for the first time on the 29th. the islanders shut the leafs out 4-0 and barzal got a hatty. it was pretty cool.

dougie hamilton requested a trade out of calgary (which i believe but i can’t find any articles about? fine calgary, keep your secrets) and then they did trade him. but the report that came out after was that he was traded because he would go to museums instead of going out to breakfast/bars/restaurants/etc with the rest of the team which apparently put a strain on the team? idk. (via an anon, @nhlinfluenced and @gaudrhoes)

the philadelphia flyers ex-coach, hakstol, let goalie prospect alex stolarz play injured against the canucks

was later announced that hakstol had been fired and would be replaced by ex-hawks coach joel quenneville. coach q denied the reports. the flyers were on a plane and therefore couldn’t confirm nor deny the reports. when they landed it was discovered that hakstol wasn’t fired. then like, the next day, he was fired but wouldn’t be replaced by coach q. it was a whole ass thing (via @ivansprovorov)

pascal dupuis (retired former penguin) made some comments about how he thought that maybe there was an issue in kessel and malkin listening to what coach sullivan was saying. sullivan came back and called dupuis ‘irresponsible’ for his comments (via anon)

during the first round of the 2017-18 playoffs brad marchand decided he was going to lick leo komarov (pardon the don cherry). that drew enough criticism but he went on to lick ryan callahan during round two of the playoffs. then the nhl apparently asked him to stop licking players, brad said it was false, the nhl said it was false, and we were all confused

so andrew ference had words for the oilers. he called them out for not putting in the work to be better (he was talking 13-15. aka, the oilers while he was there, excluding the connor mcdavid season) and essentially said they could have whichever players they wanted but it wouldn’t mean shit if they were out until 5am partying (via @drakecaggiula91)

[more on the blues fighting each other] sanford was sent down after the fighting and hasn’t played an nhl game since. idk if he’s been called up since but he certainly hasn’t played. (via @islandofthelostsoul)

so, during 2018 there have been eleven (11) coaching change. five of those have game in the past three months. the kings/hawks/blues/oilers/flyers have all fired their coaches this season. (via @azurecrescent)

dylan strome was on the spittin chiclet’s podcast and his episode dropped on nov. 19, where he was talking hypothetical’s where arizona tells him he’s apart of their future and blah blah blah. tumblr was pretty into it. and then on the 25th he got traded… it was a bit of a whiplash moment for tumblr going from ‘oh did az say he was a future piece??’ to ‘oh he’s in chicago now.. okay then’ (via @bisexualnerds and then i got new information by an anon so this is slightly different than what i had at first)

nate schmidt got suspended for twenty (20) games at the beginning of the 18-19 season because they found performance enhancement drugs in his blood despite the number being so microscopic it’s laughable that the nhl penalized him on that. (via @bisexualnerds again)

the nashville predators raised some banners! they raised a few too many banners, for kinda weird reasons (i say as a preds fan). people laughed at them but they laughed at themselves so it’s good

alexander ovechkin and sidney crosby got in a screaming match recently. ovechkin told crosby to shut the fuck up (via anon)

the canucks banned fortnite from being played on the road. laine called them out and said that “they need something to blame [about last season].” (via @pilutszn)

jonathan drouin said, in an interview, about the ottawa senators: “we hate those guys like they hate each other, uh, like they hate us.” (via @nhlbarrie who i can’t tag because tumblr is a useless excuse of a website)

My beautiful captain so soft so sweet

the flyers on January 1st, 2019: