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Hockey looking back on its history is not usually a good thing. The game is better now, it’s faster now, there is more skill than ever before, and the sport is better off now that it’s moved out of its bar brawl past, even if Flyers fans…

The Los Angeles Kings are not goodPhoto: APThe idea that the NHL regular season is just an 82-game preseason is maybe the last vestige of a time when 16 of the then 21 teams made the playoffs. These days, when exactly half the teams are…

New York City is a filthy armpitPhoto: Getty ImagesAs the New York Rangers lurched and stumbled their way to the conference finals last year (two seven-game series to get there, and needing the Penguins to dress up the beer guy as a goalie…

Photo: Getty ImagesYou know you’ve gotten things unfathomably wrong for an unfathomably long time when you are held up as an example of why teams in any sport shouldn’t rebuild. That was always the call when a GM was threatening to tear it…

Rough times in Toronto.Photo: Getty ImagesI am as guilty as anyone else of turning the NHL into “How The Maple Leafs Turn.”You spend enough time commenting on how everyone’s always commenting on the Leafs, and well, you’re then part of the…

Moritz SeiderPhoto: Getty ImagesWell yes, because they never shut up, no matter the team’s fortunes on the ice. They’re always around, screaming about the “Yzer-plan!,” and assuring you that the Red Wings dynasty will continue because in…

Jonathan Huberdeau (r.)Photo: Getty ImagesIt’s the kind of trade that’s only cooked up at the bar, and almost certainly not before midnight. It’s only then and there that the right kind of desperation can be tuned into, as fans of whatever…

Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy makes a save against the Florida Panthers during the third period in Game Three of the Second Round of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Amalie Arena on May 22, 2022 in Tampa, Florida. Image: Getty ImagesThe…

A Leafs fan is like “????” as the team gets eliminated in seven.Photo: APThey knew. As we said on Thursday night, as soon as Brayden Point stuffed home the overtime winner in Game 6, Leafs fans knew what was coming. It would be another Game…

Jack EichelPhoto: Getty ImagesIf you’re trying to blow your own face off and fall down a sewer for comedic effect instead of securing a playoff spot, you’d have to give the Vegas Golden Knights an Emmy for their performance last night.…