You know after watching five Game 7s in a row this Game 1 just feels like nothing.

When your assist is so good the goal scorer comes to you.

Aaron Ekblad has retired from professional hockey. My God.

Nill on Bowness: "He’s handled it, done a great job. The players respect him. He’s handled the situation very well. We had 98 points this year, that’s a pretty good year, so he’s done a good job. But, as I said, we’ll sit down with everybody and reassess everything."

— Matthew DeFranks (@MDeFranks) May 17, 2022

Read the entire thread to understand it. The next 5-6 days will be stressful for Stars fan.

TL;DR - Nill has one year left and is staying. Nill wants to keep Bowness around, Bowness wants a one year contract due to his age. Owner isn't sure what way to approach this, but all will be cleared in 5-6 days.

Oh look, refs making trash calls again. Nothing's new.

And FLA finally scored a PP goal because of it. Although this might get disqualified.

They really need to apply some way to challenge calls. This is getting ridiculous.

An interference penalty for checking the puck carrier?

Yep

Even when injured, Kucherov has a lethal shot.

They're gonna disallow this goal. But there's no way SergBob is stopping that if there's not contact.

You can’t call that goalie interference - a joke if that goal is called back

Edit: good

Worst call in the history of the NHL playoffs

When will coaches realize that challenging GI is never a good idea? It doesn't matter if there actually was any or not, the officials will almost never overturn their own call if there's any, any doubt either way

Yeah I mean Lucic ran over Otter when Lewis scored and it wasn't disqualified after coach's challenge. So at least they remained consistent.

TB PP is still lethal

Idk, man. I mean, it wasn't heavy contact, but he knocks his head sideways milliseconds before the goal goes in. To me that's goalie interference.

If otter was any good he woulda stopped it still.. smh

I'm getting flashbacks to the 2021 Canes-Lightning series with all of these Tampa powerplay goals

The Florida Faithful.....

At this point, you're better off watching the entire game. All the post game traffic will be gone by then.

Is Florida's PP % still 0 ?

You found a picture of Florida's Powerplay!

Tampa is winning the Cup per source

The fact Florida has Giroux, Barkov, Huberdeau, Ekblad, among other offensive weapons and has a PP that is at 0% is meme worthy at this point

Ryan O'Reilly opens the scoring pic.twitter.com/jNAxHC9q5t

— Shayna (@hayyyshayyy) May 18, 2022

That’s some ridiculous hand eye to control the puck, then roof it.