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Playoffs around the league for 2018
DC_1908:
V-G-K!!!
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alta:
that's a good example of why the SOG stat is a joke, if that puck hits just a hair higher it's a clean pipe hit and doesn't count as a SOG
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: alta on Saturday May 19, 2018, 12:11:31 AM Eastern ---that's a good example of why the SOG stat is a joke, if that puck hits just a hair higher it's a clean pipe hit and doesn't count as a SOG
--- End quote ---
I agree. High scoring chances is a better stat.
Maacoshark:
The Knights are in the Stanley cup finals. This is an embarrassment to the NHL. Bettman had to make sure this team was successful right out of the gate. Its all about the money. They should have had to go through the growing pains other expansion teams did. Make them build a team. It may take a few years and they may not have gotten support if the fans if they were a bottom feeder. If that's the case so be it. If the fans won't vsupport a team that is building then they don't deserve a team.
This is a black mark on the NHL. Pretty bad when it is a lot easier to build a team from scratch then it is to rebuild an existing franchise. Vegas not only was given a good team but they are mostly young players and they stocked up on draftpicks. They should be a solid team for quite awhile. This whole Vegas thing has really turned me off from hockey. At least the NHL.
I can now watch the Regina Pats play their 2nd game of the Memorial Cup.
BlackIce:
Well, I just finished watching some of the Jets/Knights game.
This is absurd. A first-year expansion team wins its division, then ROARS through the Western Conference to the Stanley Cup finals, playing only 15 games to get there. They are going to have a significant rest advantage over either the Caps or Tampa. It wouldn't be a huge surprise to watch them win the Cup in 6 games or fewer. And there is no fluke about it; this team's players support each other better and know where each other is better than teams with players who have played together for 10 years. Argue all you want about the quality of players, and whether or not they should have had the selection they did. But this team LOOKS as though they are playing a different game than anyone else is. I saw it when they played the Caps in the middle of the regular season; I see it now. It's almost as if they came down from a superior league and are toying with the other teams in this one.
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