# NHL Mar./Apr **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** hockey-nhl\ **Created:** [March 8, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650 "2022-03-08T03:18:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/1 "2022-03-08T03:18:20Z")
I thought **tim-n-va** ’s idea of doing a two-monther (and then a separate play-off thread) would, indeed, be an excellent compromise. Just reporting the rarity of my teams - Canucks and Flyers - actually somehow winning on the same night, last night, but not quite aligning with the vernal equinox. My narcissistic glow has not abated. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2022, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/2 "2022-03-09T00:57:39Z")
Alex Ovechkin and Nick Backstrom will play in their 1,000 game together tonight. Obscure stat but only the ninth pair to play that many games together. Ovie is 3 goals from passing Jagr for third in career goals and Backstrom is 3 points from reaching 1,000. Lots of milestone potential during their three games out west this week. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/3 "2022-03-11T17:58:49Z")
Ovie has tied Jagr. He needs to average 30 goals per season for the rest of his contract to catch Gretzky. Lots of speculation as to whether he can do it. I think it comes down to health/injuries and no one knows. Does the group here think there will be much fan pushback if a Russian approaches the record - like baseball when Babe Ruth’s records were challenged? Will the current global political situation be a factor? Another milestone approaching is Marc Staal joining Eric and Jordon as the first three brothers to play 1,000 games. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/4 "2022-03-13T18:47:09Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > Does the group here think there will be much fan pushback if a Russian approaches the record - like baseball when Babe Ruth’s records were challenged? Will the current global political situation be a factor? Wondered that, myself, and at a total loss as to what will happen there. Ultimately I’d be surprised if a Russian record will get as hotly contested as Babe’s did. Crazy for Ovi, with this convergence of reaching one of the greatest of hockey’s pinnacles, while contending with intense political opprobrium. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/5 "2022-03-17T00:35:20Z")
The Golden Knights have lost 5 in a row for the first time ever and some fans are impatient. > **[Fans create petition to fire DeBoer after Knights lose 5th straight](https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/goldenknights/fans-create-petition-to-fire-deboer-after-knights-lose-5th-straight-2546340/?fbclid=IwAR0tZI4yrkCxXRd4oPJ8Wg-R1KerTFfXsi6hdgKk9QTU0R2b-5FofY2oV-E)** > > Find out what fans have to say about the Golden Knights, who finished their road trip Tuesday by going 0-5. Still nice for an expansion team to not spend 20 years in the wilderness. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/6 "2022-03-17T01:07:30Z")
Hmmmm… Perhaps LV resident and long time (and absent) doper @Snoboarder\_Bo might have a thing or two to vent about it. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/7 "2022-03-17T05:48:52Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > Does the group here think there will be much fan pushback if a Russian approaches the record - like baseball when Babe Ruth’s records were challenged? Will the current global political situation be a factor? It’s pretty fucked up that the simple act of him changing his Instagram profile pic would have more of a lasting impact on the world than scoring #802 or #895 ever possibly could. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/8 "2022-03-19T11:42:46Z")
I was looking at the standings and with 20 games or so to play, 8 of the top 10 are in the east. 3 of the top 5 are in the Atlantic. It will be a tough path for the wild card team that has to go into a bracket with Florida, Toronto and Tampa Bay. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/9 "2022-04-01T06:37:29Z")
Unforgivable the other night with the Canucks blowing a 3-2 lead with four minutes to go to lose 3-4 in reguation to St. Louis, which told me the play-offs are completely out now for them. Hate it when a loss is so crappy you almost wanna boycott the next game. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/10 "2022-04-02T15:50:13Z")
The streak ends for Yandle. > **[Yandle's Ironman Streak to End at 989 Games](https://thehockeynews.com/news/yandles-ironman-streak-to-end-at-989-games?fbclid=IwAR14D3FoFNxz9l5k-qjhqTo90ZnywvoBMgqotg9d6HX1DlsOGMUewjbXgF0)** > > The Philadelphia Flyers will make Keith Yandle a healthy scratch on Saturday night, ending the veteran's consecutive games streak at 989. He surely should have been benched before this if it wasn’t for the streak. Still, you’re gonna end it tonight, short of the 1000 games? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/11 "2022-04-02T16:15:33Z")
Oof. That’s gotta hurt. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/12 "2022-04-02T17:01:46Z")
Is Mike Babcock coaching the Flyers? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/13 "2022-04-02T17:47:04Z")
Huh. As far as I know he’s still coaching the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. Where did you hear otherwise? Pretty sure it’s still just Mike Yeo at the Flyers helm. (heh - with no more Vigneault / Therrien hovering around) (yeah - that was one of the stranger - LOADED! - coaching teams, to be sure.) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/14 "2022-04-02T18:43:22Z")
The Flyers should just bring back Peter Laviolette and reinstate Dry Island. Or, start drinking more if they’re on the wagon now. > **[Peter Laviolette's Dry Island and the Flyers World We Don't Know](https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/peter-laviolettes-dry-island-and-flyers-world-we-dont-know)** > > Almost everything we know for sure about the Philadelphia Flyers takes place within the boards, on the ice. That much we can see with our own eyes, and even with that, we don't know the half of it. Off the ice, we know little more than what we're... ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/15 "2022-04-02T18:52:40Z")
Yeah I’ve always wondered how teams fared off-ice IRT partying / disciplinary measures. There could be some curious ‘cultures’, for sure, on some of them. Heh - I remember roomies Carter and Richards being a ‘thing’. (I always thought they got rid of Carter because he was becoming a fat, beer-guzzling slob, but what do I know.) ---
**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:** [April 2, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/16 "2022-04-02T23:26:50Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > As far as I know he’s still coaching the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. > > Where did you hear otherwise? I know that he isn’t the actual coach of the Flyers. However, there is a reason that Mike Modano retired with 1499 games played. It is because Babcock refused to play him in one of the last half dozen games of his career for no reason. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/17 "2022-04-02T23:35:56Z")
Heh. Cray! TIL. I’ll be surprised if he coaches in the NHL again. Or Torts. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/18 "2022-04-08T05:19:55Z")
After the last few Pens games, the LAST thing I need is a “dry” anything. 😢 ---
**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:** [April 13, 2022, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/19 "2022-04-13T10:15:59Z")
Caps beat the Flyers 9-2. I was curious if any team had scored nine and lost. Oilers, Black Hawks and North Stars all had such losses in the 1980s. There were three others during world wars. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650/20 "2022-04-15T16:47:21Z")
The wildcard race in the West is going down to the wire and will be pretty exciting, which is good. Hopefully it will overcome how hockey has pretty much sold out to gambling interests and I hate it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-mar-apr/960650.md?page=2)