NHL 2013-2014 Season thread.

[LondonChick62]

Boston and NJ Devils are tied at 1 in the second.

Carolina winning 4-1 over Philly - YAY (can't stand the Flyers)!

No score in the Tampa Bay-Washington game as of early second period.

NY Islanders and Buffalo set to drop the puck in about 45 minutes.

[LondonChick62]

FINAL SCORES:

Detroit over St. Louis 3-0
NJ Devils beat Boston 3-2
Carolina defeated Philadelphia 6-5 (woot!)
Tampa Bay over Washington 1-0

CURRENT SCORE:

Buffalo up over NY Islanders 1-0 in the second.

[El Canuck]

6-5 in Philly/Carolina holy shit that's a high scoring game.

[LondonChick62]

Buffalo's up 3-2 over the Islanders third period. Pens getting ready to drop the puck against Ottawa.

[El Canuck]

Damn Buffalo.

[LondonChick62]

Columbus Blue and Pens kick off the playoffs Wednesday night on home ice scheduled for 7:30 PM on NBC Sports channel (at least in my area).

[LondonChick62]

Pens and Sens tied 1-1 at end of first period.

No score yet at the Colorado-Anaheim game in first period

Minnesota leads 1-0 over Nashville in first period.

[LondonChick62]

Pens and Sens are now tied at 2 end of second period.
Minnesota up 3-2 over Nashville in second period.
Colorado over Anaheim 1-0 in the second period.
No scores yet at Calgary-Vancouver and Dallas-Phoenix games.

[LondonChick62]

Pens and Sens in overtime right now!

[LondonChick62]

Pens end their regular season falling 3-2 to the Sens in a shootout.

On to the first night of playoffs against Columbus on Wednesday night.

[El Canuck]

And that's a wrap for the season.

Boston take the President's trophy and along with Pittsburgh, Colorado and Anaheim win the new divisions in the new system, which I have to admit is not as bad as I thought it would be. I wasn't overly struck on this new conference structure, but it works.

All four Canadian teams in the west made up the bottom four, Edmonton were last there, but third last overall in the league. (The Islanders were just ahead of them in 5th last in the league) They showed the makings of a good team in the last going off after acquiring Scrivens and Fasth as their goaltending unit. The front end seems to have loosened up a little and come out of their defensive shell and they had a great last leg of the season that I think, had they started the season like that, could have made them contenders for the playoffs. Next year will be interesting if they can keep this group mostly together. Ryan Smyth is retiring, sadly without a Cup to his name, but a run in the finals of the Playoffs in '06 and a pair of Olympic gold medals as well as being the face of the Oilers for nearly a decade post-Gretzky. It's a storied career despite being cupless.

Now, onward and upward to the Playoffs.