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Playoffs around the league for 2018
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: BlackIce on Sunday May 20, 2018, 06:06:12 PM Eastern ---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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The team is coached very well. They play a good team game but they have good talent. Very good talent. And they have a lot of depth. We have 3rd line players that coulkdnt crack that lineup. The future also looks good for this team. I'm disgusted that an expansion team gets to the cup final and could very well win it.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Sunday May 20, 2018, 05:58:42 PM Eastern --- 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.
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I say go ahead and give the same draft rules to them. If the new expansion teams GN can do what GMGM did, more power to then, ok fact it would be funny to see em try.
Yes, their expansion draft allowed a bigger pool than any before. But the owners, GMs, and NHLPA agreed to it. The other GMs had the time and data to make GMGMs job all but impossible. But, they thought that “it’s an expansion draft, will keep our popular, NMC, and our “best players”, and pick or scrub and take en with you to the desert.
And GMGM took them ALL to school. He scouted drafted IQ, character, and contracts, to make an unconventional team that dominates them all.
A team with no superstars, no captain but six alternates, running a defensive system with liittke to no flash/dangling/toe drags. players that say “we” anytime they speak, and the players not only buy in, but demand this of each other.
So maybe this isn’t as much of a black-spot, but a black-eye this league needed to remind them there isnt just one way to build a winning team. Now watch as teams start modeling the way they build their rosters after VGK, and watch Gary, the NHLPA, and their agents go nuts over it.
So, sure give the next expansion team the same thinng. Hell, give em an extra 5-6mil on thier cap to, doesn’t matter because they’re not gonna do it better than Vegas did.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: Maacoshark on Sunday May 20, 2018, 06:18:52 PM Eastern --- The team is coached very well. They play a good team game but they have good talent. Very good talent. And they have a lot of depth. We have 3rd line players that coulkdnt crack that lineup. The future also looks good for this team. I'm disgusted that an expansion team gets to the cup final and could very well win it.
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And GMBetaMale protected two of of them (Bura and Eller) in the expansion draft.
alta:
Well this is great, may as well just present the Cup to Vegas now cuz the brooms will be out enmas against whom ever survives in the east.
I still don't know why this is surprise to anyone, the best championship teams ever don't have any superstars on the team, just a bunch of slightly above average players that bonded well and were coached well. If Herb was still alive he'd tell you the same thing.
Maacoshark:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Monday May 21, 2018, 07:53:22 AM Eastern ---And GMBetaMale protected two of of them (Bura and Eller) in the expansion draft.
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Yes I agree with that. Which is why I would have protected 4 dmen and left those guys exposed. If we did that we may have lost Wilson though. BTW we are not the only team in this situation. Intact I believe the other 30 teams have guys that couldn't make the Knights lineup. Because of the rules of the expansion draft I honestly believe they have the most depth in the NHL. Which is one of the reason they have been so successful.
Look at the bottom 6 and bottom pairings on most teams and you will see a lot of guys that should be playing in the AHL. We probably have 5 guys in our lineup that are not NHL calibre players.
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