Around the League - 2022-23 Season Edition

[Jimmy Firecracker]

I haven’t seen enough of Bennett looking like a sad sack.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Happy for Stone ... such a good player

 

[IPS]

This is shades of Montreal making it to the Finals on the back of Price a few years ago only to get easily hammered in the Cup Finals

Toronto's kryptonite: shitty teams with good goalies.

 

[Steven1562]

I wish our team had some sort of balance... I just can't see 4 guys willing you to a cup. You need a complete "team" not just a couple of players.

 

[Trapper]

Yep .. except you have to compliment him with the right players. Not an equally as slow Tavares

Mark Stone isn’t fleet of foot but he has always had an intensity that ours can’t spell.
The right core and sum of the parts with fire and desire.

 

[LastOne2100]

Toronto's kryptonite: shitty teams with good goalies.

You mean shitty teams with mediocre goalies that we make look like great goalies.

Anyways, not the ending I wanted, but a lot of worse teams could've won.

 

[Stephen]

I never thought I would be okay with Vegas winning a cup .. yet here we are

I keep an open mind about the city and fans, but really like the kind of team they built. It's just so refreshing compared to our thing.

 

[PromisedLand]

Not enough fingers. 9 goals now

Might want to add another finger.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Vegas ATM:

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Toronto's kryptonite: shitty teams with good goalies.

I can at least forgive losing to Price and Vasilevskiy, they were/are a couple of the best of their generation. Getting goalied by f***ing Korpisalo who’s stats are garbage outside of that bubble series and Bobrovsky who’s been nothing but mediocre to awful the past couple of years is less excusable.

 

[Stephen]

Shanahan once tried to hire Kelly McCrimmon to come work on his staff. He declined.

 

[Mess]

That prophesy was emphatically fulfilled on Tuesday night in Las Vegas, as the Golden Knights blew out the Florida Panthers 9-3 in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final to win their series, 4-1, and capture the first championship in franchise history .Captain Mark Stone authored a hat trick and Jack Eichel had three assists in the win. Goaltender Adin Hill outplayed Florida's Sergei Bobrovsky, making 31 saves in the win.

It was the first hat trick in the Stanley Cup Final since Colorado Avalanche star Peter Forsberg had one in Game 2 of 1996 -- against the Florida Panthers.

The Knights celebrated at the final buzzer as the gold-clad Vegas fans cheered wildly. They previously made the Stanley Cup Final in 2018 during their inaugural season and over time have turned this new NHL market into one of the league's hottest fan bases.

A few fans raised signs that read: "We've Been Waiting 6 Long Years For This."

 

[Budz]

I sure hope Gary Bettman gets a ring too.

 

[BallardEra]

Glad to see George McPhee finally get his Cup

 

[LastOne2100]

I can at least forgive losing to Price and Vasilevskiy, they were/are a couple of the best of their generation. Getting goalied by ducking Korpisalo who’s stats are garbage outside of that bubble series and Bobrovsky who’s been nothing but mediocre to awful the past couple of years is less excusable.

This. We need to accept our style of perimeter hockey with no one capable of battling effectively in front of the net - and a system that does not demand it - to make it actually hard for goalies is the cause.

NHL goalies are good, you need to make it hard on them to win.

 

[Nineteen67]

What a joke of a crowd lol

There's only a million of them, or close to it, watching inside and out.

 

[The Masters]

conn smyth is such a leafs trophy lolol

heres bettman stfu goof

 

[Trapper]

The Knights celebrated at the final buzzer as the gold-clad Vegas fans cheered wildly. They previously made the Stanley Cup Final in 2018 during their inaugural season and over time have turned this new NHL market into one of the league's hottest fan bases.

A few fans raised signs that read: "We've Been Waiting 6 Long Years For This."

Well they made changes in those years. Imagine if they just kept doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Lucky they didn’t.

 

[keonsbitterness]

The Knights celebrated at the final buzzer as the gold-clad Vegas fans cheered wildly. They previously made the Stanley Cup Final in 2018 during their inaugural season and over time have turned this new NHL market into one of the league's hottest fan bases.

A few fans raised signs that read: "We've Been Waiting 6 Long Years For This."

Vegas said no to a Paul Maurice-coached team.

 

[ACC1224]

Jonathan Marchessault.

 

[BertCorbeau]

What a great FU to Florida for letting him go in the expansion draft .. I f***ing love it

 

[The Masters]

 

[HolyCrap]

Welp. That’s a season glad Florida didn’t win. Get bent Bettman.

 

[Buds17]

That prophesy was emphatically fulfilled on Tuesday night in Las Vegas, as the Golden Knights blew out the Florida Panthers 9-3 in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final to win their series, 4-1, and capture the first championship in franchise history .Captain Mark Stone authored a hat trick and Jack Eichel had three assists in the win. Goaltender Adin Hill outplayed Florida's Sergei Bobrovsky, making 31 saves in the win.

It was the first hat trick in the Stanley Cup Final since Colorado Avalanche star Peter Forsberg had one in Game 2 of 1996 -- against the Florida Panthers.

The Knights celebrated at the final buzzer as the gold-clad Vegas fans cheered wildly. They previously made the Stanley Cup Final in 2018 during their inaugural season and over time have turned this new NHL market into one of the league's hottest fan bases.

A few fans raised signs that read: "We've Been Waiting 6 Long Years For This."

I bet they remember the earliest days too!

 

[SeaOfBlue]

I can at least forgive losing to Price and Vasilevskiy, they were/are a couple of the best of their generation. Getting goalied by f***ing Korpisalo who’s stats are garbage outside of that bubble series and Bobrovsky who’s been nothing but mediocre to awful the past couple of years is less excusable.

Korpisalo sucked mostly because Andersen just needed to not give up crap goals at the worst time and we would have been fine. Korpisalo stood on his head against Tampa too though... Vasilevsky was just that much better.

Bobrovsky did the same thing against Carolina and Boston so at least it wasn't only us, but he was beatable.

That is ultimately what sucks. These guys were beatable. We were getting chances on them and outplaying the other team more often than not. Really the one time we didn't was the series we ultimately won. But our players just find a way to beat themselves far too often, and they need to look at themselves to figure it out. No coach or GM or anything else is going to fix that outside of deciding to completely change the look of the team (i.e. moving the core), and it is not looking like Treliving is going that route.

And these guys have shown they can work through adversity. But also that they really haven't learned a whole lot either. So who knows. We could be a team that wins 3 straight Cups or doesn't even come close to anything. Really depends on those Core guys because the rest falls in line after that.