Exactly. I was saying that a while back. They never rested for that long all playoffs.Maurice said the extra rest was good for the team, great for Bobrovsky too...
Our biggest flaw right now as a team is in transition. That is both defending in transition and attacking in transition. We are one of the best teams in the league at generating offense once we have established possession inside the other teams zone. It is somewhat ironic as the teams that first made the playoffs with this core were the exact opposite. Elite in transition and got killed in the cycle. Great teams can do both though and there is all of this talk about physicality and what not and while yes that is important....we need to become a much much faster hockey team again. Vegas got doubled up in hits last night but nobody gives a f*** because they absolutely murdered Florida in transition. Meanwhile Florida killed us in transition they just soaked up the pressure collapsed on the net waited on a mistake and made us pay for them time after time.
True, but it’s not just that. I saw them live the first time the Leafs played out there and they were unbelievably fast back then. Under DeBoer they seemed to lose that part of their game, but they got it back now.
Gary clearly wanted Florida to advance from the East but he wants Vegas to win the SC. Refereeing will be slanted in Vegas' favour. Gary gets what Gary wants. Gary is the worst thing to happen to the game of hockey. It now takes expansion teams one to two years to be better than most established teams. Gone are the days of the expansion Washington Capitals. Gary will sell his soul to get rich owners to buy in. Well done asshole.View attachment 715538
A florida fan showing a vegas player holding onto a Florida's player stick that leads directly to a goal, I can't
Just dripping with irony, do they not realize this lmao.
Bettman got what he wanted .
In order to have a “fix”, every single person in the NHL, from the PA, all officials, reporters, front office clerks, managers would need to be in on it because someone would find out and expose it like Watergate. People live to expose stuff.
I would not put anything past Gary. Sometimes you need more than favorable officiating to beat the much better team. For example, the Leafs, even with favorable officiating will not beat these Golden Knights unless Gary takes a page out of the WWE handbook and scripts the games.
Vegas has the right mx of players. They can beat you in alley if you want to play it rough or on the dance floor if you are the Toronto Ice Capades.
If Toronto had traded Marner for Tkachuk we still might be playing right now.
You don't need to have a widespread conspiracy that runs through every person in the sport to have officiating skew and impact games improperly.
No kidding. I dont see any difference between how toronto dominated florida in games 1-2 vs how vegas is dominating florida in games 1-2. The only difference is goalie variance and differences in penalties being called. More than 1 out of every 2 years we see a cinderalla type team (from the bottom 8 seeds) make a run to the stanley cup finals, mostly based on riding a hot goalie. These runs usually fail as luck starts to run out as the sample size increases. People like to mock toronto for getting goalied but fail to see plenty of other teams getting goalied along these cinderalla runs.
The reffing sure - Vegas is getting the good end of the officiating so far.
