# NHL December 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 1, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422 "2018-12-01T23:41:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/41 "2018-12-14T07:16:27Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I just want to say that there is no way in hell that the new Seattle team will be called the Mud Sharks or the Geoducks. ESPECIALLY not the [geoducks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck). > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > And in an avian showdown, flight beat flightless, so that was nice. 🙂 :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/42 "2018-12-14T07:25:54Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > :mad: 😛 Hey, yer up a game on us this season already, so go ahead and feel smug about that (for another 5 weeks or so, anyway). ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/43 "2018-12-14T08:00:33Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Ouch! Sorry, Leafs; that looked like it kinda hurt. Not really. The Leafs outshot the Bolts 2-1, hit four posts and did everything they could to win. Vasilevskiy was outstanding on his return after a month off. I’m happy with the effort. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/44 "2018-12-15T02:08:02Z")
Capitals vs Hurricanes is one of the craziest games I’ve ever seen! Caps come back from being down 4-1 to score 3 goals in about 4 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/45 "2018-12-15T02:38:31Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Capitals vs Hurricanes is one of the craziest games I’ve ever seen! Caps come back from being down 4-1 to score 3 goals in about 4 minutes. Hopefully they can complete the comeback and win it. That’ll make me feel slightly less bad about the terrible blown lead to the Ducks a handful of games back. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/46 "2018-12-15T03:58:37Z")
Well that was an epic collapse tonight against New Jersey. I hate to lose in December. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/47 "2018-12-15T14:14:42Z")
I love obscure stats. Ovie is the 14th player to have back to back hat tricks multiple times. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/48 "2018-12-15T15:18:31Z")
how the hell do you lose at home to _Ottawa?_ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2018, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/49 "2018-12-16T04:35:25Z")
ffs Ovi is still a monster :eek: gotta love that guy! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/50 "2018-12-16T16:02:18Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > ffs Ovi is still a monster :eek: I often wonder what kind of number he would have put up if he played back in the 1980s. He’d probably be closing in on 1000 goals. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/51 "2018-12-16T22:08:56Z")
An excellent OT showing by the Knights to kind of make up for a lame slo-mo OT goal loss the other day! Good job, everyone! And hey, Lundqvist is freaking awesome. My buddy and I were talking early about the two old man goalies kicking ass and then later they flashed their ages onscreen and we had both been wrong about Lundqvist’s age (he was 2 years older than I thought). Anyway, loved watching him play. He’s quick as hell, he fills up the net like I like and he’s quick (like Fleury!) in realizing when he’s been had! His reactions are great because they come so quick after he gets beat; he’s really not often behind the curve like that and you can see it bothers him (like it bothers all great goalies, natch). > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I often wonder what kind of number he would have put up if he played back in the 1980s. He’d probably be closing in on 1000 goals. Hoodoo-boy he’da dominated. They’d have had to pass a rule that he and Gretzky couldn’t even be in the same conference, let alone on the same team. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/52 "2018-12-20T04:24:40Z")
How the Hell does a scorching hot Washington Capitals team lose to the pathetic Pittsburgh Penguins?? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/53 "2018-12-20T06:02:25Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > How the Hell does a scorching hot Washington Capitals team lose to the pathetic Pittsburgh Penguins?? Pathetic? We may be in a slump right now, but I would NOT call us pathetic. And Washington STILL defends that thug, [Tom Wilson](https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/capitals/capitals-see-so-much-more-tom-wilson-just-physical-play). If Pittsburgh had done so for Matt Cooke, there would’ve been riots! (And rightly so!) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/54 "2018-12-22T06:02:13Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > And Washington STILL defends that thug, [Tom Wilson](https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/capitals/capitals-see-so-much-more-tom-wilson-just-physical-play). If Pittsburgh had done so for Matt Cooke, there would’ve been riots! (And rightly so!) [I’m still watching this like 4 times a day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u72Zc10fI10). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/55 "2018-12-22T06:27:39Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [I’m still watching this like 4 times a day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u72Zc10fI10). 😃 Thanks for the link! One of the biggest mistakes Jim Rutherford did was trading Reaves. ☹ (I so wish Gary Roberts was still playing. He’d have knocked Wilson flat) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/57 "2018-12-26T03:22:22Z")
The scuttlebutt as related by Blue Elk is that Corey Crawford is done. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/58 "2018-12-26T03:49:44Z")
After 2/3 of the way through the season, the Leafs are in second place overall. Not too shabby. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/59 "2018-12-26T04:14:15Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > After 2/3 of the way through the season, the Leafs are in second place overall. > > Not too shabby. More like 45% of the way through. They’ve played 37 of 82 games. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/60 "2018-12-28T13:39:39Z")
I know NHL rules aren’t necessarily designed to make sense, but this occurrence stumped me. Near the end of a period (I think it was during last night’s Flyers-Lightning game), a delayed penalty was called on the Flyers. The Lightning had the puck, denied the Flyers control, circled in and scored. Since the penalty never actually started, you’d think the Lightning would then get two minutes of extra-man play. Nope, both teams were then back at full strength. Is there some logical reason behind this, other than the offending team just gave up a goal and we don’t want to punish them now? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422/61 "2018-12-28T14:52:13Z")
That’s just the way the rule works. The team that isn’t getting the penalty gets to pull their goalie for an extra attacker, and if they score it nullifies the delayed penalty. It’s been that way as long as I remember. I think you’re right though, it does seem unfair to get scored upon and then be expected to kill a penalty with a good possibility of getting scored upon again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-december-2018/825422.md?page=4)