# NHL Regular season thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** hockey-nhl\ **Created:** [October 16, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-regular-season-thread/1024014 "2025-10-16T04:49:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-regular-season-thread/1024014/81 "2026-06-09T00:33:13Z")
The final double overtime shot was crazy. The bounce off the backboard, then off the goalie’s skate into the net. I watched it on TV as it happened. Bonkers. I know official reports were that it bounced off his “skate”, but when they replayed it in slow motion, it was higher than that. Short video just showing that final goal: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3JeNH61szcU/maxresdefault.jpg "GOTTA SEE IT: Golden Knights' Theodore scores double-OT winner in Game 3") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JeNH61szcU) I’m not a huge hockey fan but that was fun. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-regular-season-thread/1024014/82 "2026-06-09T02:17:34Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > The final double overtime shot was crazy. The bounce off the backboard, then off the goalie’s skate into the net. I watched it on TV as it happened. Bonkers. Heheeh, and that’s the kind of thing that I point to when someone questions my belief that luck is _very_ important in hockey. The players are skilled, and have to be very skilled to make it to that level, but the outcome of the game sometimes doesn’t depend at all about how skilled a particular team is. Without a similarly crazy deflection going into the Canes’ net earlier in the game, it wouldn’t even have gone to OT. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-regular-season-thread/1024014/83 "2026-06-09T02:54:29Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > The players are skilled, and have to be very skilled to make it to that level, but the outcome of the game sometimes doesn’t depend at all about how skilled a particular team is. Once the puck is in play it’s gonna do whatever it wants. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-regular-season-thread/1024014/84 "2026-06-15T04:22:29Z")
And dat’s dat. Carolina sealed it with a shutout of Vegas in what appears to have been a heavily defensive game with a bunch of crazy scrambles at the net. I’m happy to see that Stankoven got an assist. His performance in the playoffs has made me miss him even more. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-regular-season-thread/1024014/85 "2026-06-15T13:07:18Z")
That’s 5 out of the last 7 cups won by south-east teams. What the hell is going on? ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-regular-season-thread/1024014/86 "2026-06-16T07:11:03Z")
Not only that, a team from the former Southeast Division has been in 8 out of the last 9 Cup Finals. And 14 out of the last 30 Cup Finals. ---
**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:** [June 16, 2026, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-regular-season-thread/1024014/87 "2026-06-16T22:03:20Z")
Torts won’t be coaching Vegas next season…😮 ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-regular-season-thread/1024014/88 "2026-06-16T22:48:05Z")
🤯 Wow, that’s more unexpected than him getting the job in the first place. > **[Tortorella won't return as Golden Knights coach | NHL.com](https://www.nhl.com/news/john-tortorella-wont-return-as-vegas-golden-knights-coach)** > > 67-year-old led Vegas to Cup Final after taking over on March 29 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-regular-season-thread/1024014.md?page=4)