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aejix posted:shut up shut UP SHUT UP He also had an assist on the series wining goal.
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Eric the Mauve posted:All of this is stuff that tends to happen when the other team is better at ice hockey than you are. I mean okay I guess. Grats to Vegas for their lovely run.
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May 21, 2018 02:10
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If you think about it, jawknee is to thank for Vegas getting to the cup final.
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Vegas really can do no wrong. They not only dressed Ryan Reaves in a loving Western Conference finals game but he scored the gwg to put them in the finals. Also Maf is gonna make the hall of fame lol
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Ginette Reno posted:Also Maf is gonna make the hall of fame lol
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iospace posted:He also had an assist on the series wining goal. Reaves from Sbisa. Imagine the money you could make on that prop bet.
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Slappy Pappy posted:The best part about this is that if the Caps somehow pull a miracle and win out, they will only have won the Stanley Cup by beating an expansion team. That's fine with me, we could beat the Humbolt Broncos for all I care if it ends in a cup
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Ginette Reno posted:Reaves from Sbisa. Imagine the money you could make on that prop bet. whats funny is we offered odds on sbisa to score last but reaves was part of THE FIELD
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Slappy Pappy posted:The best part about this is that if the Caps somehow pull a miracle and win out, they will only have won the Stanley Cup by beating an expansion team. Technically every Cup that isn't over the original 6 is a win over an expansion team
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https://twitter.com/ByTimReynolds/status/998319687980257280
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iospace posted:He also had an assist on the series wining goal. He had the primary assist, in fact.
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MANime in the sheets posted:That's fine with me, we could beat the Humbolt Broncos for all I care if it ends in a cup that hardly seems sporting
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Can someone post that Vegas drummer .gif?
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Are there Pens fans on twitter melting down about the Pens keeping Murray over MAF yet
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Arabian Jesus posted:Can someone post that Vegas drummer .gif? https://i.imgur.com/p57S5dc.mp4
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The pregame shows for Knights home games in the finals are going to be fully sick
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Which has home ice if tampa or washington wins?
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Porrima posted:Which has home ice if tampa or washington wins? Goes by points in the finals so Tampa gets home ice if they advance. If Washington advances, Vegas will have home ice.
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And it'll be Tampa because so far it has always been the team I didn't want the Knights to play (Kings, Sharks, Jets)
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Bill Dungsroman posted:And it'll be Tampa because so far it has always been the team I didn't want the Knights to play (Kings, Sharks, Jets) It doesn’t seem to matter one bit whom the VGK face. They swatted away the Jets like it was nothing at all.
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Number19 posted:It doesn’t seem to matter one bit whom the VGK face. They swatted away the Jets like it was nothing at all.
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Battlegerard Gallantica Taking his ragtag, fugitive team home... Good job, bud.  Officially on the VGK wagon now.
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It only took until they made it to the Finals, but everyone is finally believing in Vegas!
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In all honesty, if Vegas wins the cup that's great for the players and the fans and good on them - but gently caress the NHL office. Seriously. I don't think I've ever seen this in top tier sports where an expansion/introduced team is given a relatively lax set of rules for poaching players then makes the final bout of the season. It is absurd from a league standpoint, but I don't want my point to detract from the fact that the players got themselves there and the fans have supported them in force all season. So if they win they win and I'll accept it, I just won't necessarily agree to how it came about. Also gently caress Tampa, go Caps because that would be so much more fun. Diet Crack fucked around with this message at 13:47 on May 21, 2018 |
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Diet Crack posted:In all honesty, if Vegas wins the cup that's great for the players and the fans and good on them - but gently caress the NHL office. Seriously. I don't think I've ever seen this in top tier sports where an expansion/introduced team is given a relatively lax set of rules for poaching players then makes the final bout of the season. It is absurd from a league standpoint, but I don't want my point to detract from the fact that the players got themselves there and the fans have supported them in force all season. So if they win they win and I'll accept it, I just won't necessarily agree to how it came about. The "lax rules" poo poo is starting to bother me, because after the draft everyone went "this team is going to suuuuuuuuuuuuuuck."
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Wonderllama posted:I don’t think vasilevskiy has been that great. Thanks for reading. To be fair i think he's gotten significantly better as the series has gone on
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The salt pouring out of people's little eyes about Vegas/expansion is so delightful and I cannot wait to see the meltdowns when they win the Cup
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Diet Crack posted:In all honesty, if Vegas wins the cup that's great for the players and the fans and good on them - but gently caress the NHL office. Seriously. I don't think I've ever seen this in top tier sports where an expansion/introduced team is given a relatively lax set of rules for poaching players then makes the final bout of the season. It is absurd from a league standpoint, but I don't want my point to detract from the fact that the players got themselves there and the fans have supported them in force all season. So if they win they win and I'll accept it, I just won't necessarily agree to how it came about. Give me a break. You can't honestly have expected the knights to get to the finals. Their roster is only good in retrospect of how well they did this year. I've been watching them all season and kept waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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The Caps are gonna lose tonight and I’m in full blown Kawalimus meltdown mode about it.
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Diet Crack posted:In all honesty, if Vegas wins the cup that's great for the players and the fans and good on them - but gently caress the NHL office. Seriously. I don't think I've ever seen this in top tier sports where an expansion/introduced team is given a relatively lax set of rules for poaching players then makes the final bout of the season. It is absurd from a league standpoint, but I don't want my point to detract from the fact that the players got themselves there and the fans have supported them in force all season. So if they win they win and I'll accept it, I just won't necessarily agree to how it came about.
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Vegas probably craters next year but they're really fun to watch right now and I hope they win everything
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iospace posted:The "lax rules" poo poo is starting to bother me, because after the draft everyone went "this team is going to suuuuuuuuuuuuuuck." There's no question that it was a more generous expansion draft than in the past. Whether it was too generous is something that should be discussed, too. The fact that everyone was wrong about it before seeing the result just means that all the poo poo we throw at GMs is bullshit and we're just as dumb.
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Going to the game tonight to watch the Bolts win. My first hockey game ever. Sitting in nosebleeds and I don’t even give a gently caress. Go bolts baybayyy.
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Veskit posted:On paper it's hands down one of the worst defences seen this year Schmidt and Miller are really good but yeah I don't know how the rest of it is holding up so well.
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iospace posted:The "lax rules" poo poo is starting to bother me, because after the draft everyone went "this team is going to suuuuuuuuuuuuuuck." That's because the second part of the Vegas problem is "how loving stupid is every GM in the NHL that they got us to BELIEVE this team was going to suck". They had favorable rules to pick a team and GMs happily gave up good players to either get out from under contracts they didn't like or get rid of players who didn't fit their vision for contending. The other issue is how a team with no star players rode a hot goalie to the Final and maybe even a Cup. Does skill matter so little in the NHL now? How random are playoff results? What happens if other teams start trying to copy this model, especially as a cover for not spending money on players? There is a legit discussion to be had about all this, but gently caress all the people whining about "their fans don't deserve it" or "there are teams that have been around for decades without winning a cup". Thankfully I haven't seen too much "the NHL rigged it so this would happen", people seem sane enough to limit the league's involvement to just the expansion draft and salary cap.
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ElwoodCuse posted:The other issue is how a team with no star players rode a hot goalie to the Final and maybe even a Cup. Does skill matter so little in the NHL now? How random are playoff results? What happens if other teams start trying to copy this model, especially as a cover for not spending money on players? As someone who doesn't really follow hockey, this is something I've been wondering. An expansion team going to the league final in year 1 doesn't seem like something that happens in stable leagues.
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No one expected Vegas to be good. It’s not like they were poaching top tier talent. Who had even heard of William Karlsson before this season?
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I ran into a guy who was convinced the league is rigging it for Vegas not to help the franchise succeed but so they can use it as a feel-good story to prop up anti-gun legislation through the liberal media. He was all kinds of crazy.
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