Around the League Thread Part II: Final Stretch

[Bandit]

What is Vegas doing? They look like us out there. Missing assignments. Giving up shitty breakaways. Can't hit the net.

Yet somehow they’ll win it on a Brayden McNooffense goal.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Montreal has limited Vegas to 14 shots on goal through 40 minutes, and their PK has been stellar. Quite impressive for a team nobody expected to get this far. They’re a scrappy bunch, like those 2003 Ducks.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Vegas is really the weirdest team.

Some days, they look like the 2012 Kings, or the 2000s Wings, or just a completely unstoppable buzzsaw that makes ANY opponent look pedestrian from top to bottom

Other times they look like they don't know their ass from a hole in the ground and may as well be holding their sticks upside down

Like sure teams have ups and downs but I'm not sure I remember a team quite like VGK

 

[fsanford]

Vegas is a bit long in the tooth and it is showing. Suzuki is skating circles around the team that traded him away​

 

[Schmooley]

Vegas looks so slow and bad tonight that Toffoli and Perry look like speedsters.
Games 3 and 4 vs Colorado they were pretty much the opposite of this.

 

[Lt Dan]

(Caulfield scores!)

Herby:

Lol gold

 

[fsanford]

Vegas looks so slow and bad tonight that Toffoli and Perry look like speedsters.
Games 3 and 4 vs Colorado they were pretty much the opposite of this.

Colorado played pond hockey, Montreal is just grinding on Vegas.

Montreal similar to Kings of 2012

 

[DryIslandBartender]

Vegas is a bit long in the tooth and it is showing. Suzuki is skating circles around the team that traded him away​

Could be wrong but isn’t he out scoring Pacioretti in this series?

 

[fsanford]

Could be wrong but isn’t he out scoring Pacioretti in this series?

Given Patches has yet to score a point (I believe) I am going to say you would be correct.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Could be wrong but isn’t he out scoring Pacioretti in this series?

They both had two assists in the series entering Game 5, but Suzuki doubled up with two more assists tonight. He’s looking like a playmaking center Vegas sure is missing.

Speaking of Pacioretty… he now has 11 points in 12 playoff games this year.

 

[HookKing]

BOHICA

 

[DryIslandBartender]

 

[Bandit]

(Caulfield scores!)

Herby:

This is the best Kermit gif since the Hurt video.

 

[Bandit]

God Vegas has even turned Martinez into a whine-at-the-refs twat.

 

[HookKing]

So Amart wants a penalty called for dropping his stick? Yep, he's fully Vegased now.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Vegas fans right now:

 

[kingsfan28]

So Amart wants a penalty called for dropping his stick? Yep, he's fully Vegased now.

I saw that too. I did a double-take thinking it couldn't be him. I loved gallagher chirping him from the bench after.

 

[kingsfan28]

I know most GM's dial up, but every team.

Carolina switch board...

Please hold, please hold, please hold...

 

[kingsholygrail]

Vegas fans booing their own team at the end of the 2nd. Glorious.

 

[kingsfan28]

To do that trade, you pretty much have some sort of issue with the player or you somehow regret the pick less than two years later.

Even though he played in the OHL, could he have played in Ontario instead of going back to Erie in his D+2 season since he was Slovakian? Maybe he was miffed and some shit went down because of it.

Or you have completely lost it and have totally ignored what your scouts and player development staff are telling you. all the Kings d prospects that time are either playing on other teams/ in Europe or failed except Cernak. Pretty sure there was an interview somewhere with Futa saying how bad that deal was. IMO, this is DL's ego gone off the rails, still believing every deal is the perfect move and his instincts are right. Anyone know what happened to Gravel?

 

[Herby]

(Caulfield scores!)

Herby:

LOL, good gif ,I didn't watch this one, just saw the highlights. I was driving to my lake house so had the radio feed it was actually Ahlers and Fox believe it or not, and they were both really good, amazing what not being blatant homers can do for two broadcasters. Fox was pretty glowing in his praise too.

I don't hype a ton of prospects, probably him and Hughes were the two I've hyped the most of non top-5 guys and were most confident would be difference makers in the NHL from watching them in college. I just have no idea how either fell to where they did in the draft possessing the skillsets they do.

Suzuki is an absolute beast as well, and insanely young too. Yes I'm jealous that Montreal has that duo for the next decade. It will be one of the best in the league. Pacioretty is a nice winger but Suzuki is already a better player and he is 21 years old.

Montreal gets 3 points from 21 year old Suzuki, Caufield is 20 and gets his 3rd of the series, and Kotkaniemi also 20 gets his 5th of the post season, matching his season total. You just rarely see young kids doing this in the playoffs, it's incredible to watch and it has them knocking on the door to the final. The posts saying they were drawing dead before the series aren't aging well.

Montreal is one win away from doing to Vegas what the Kings couldn't quite do vs. Colorado back in the day, trade one of their best players to a team and then KO them from the playoffs shortly after.

 

[kingsfan28]

Now playing on the record player:

'Shades of Mark Scheifele' by Matt Barzel.

Barzal got lucky, only a 5k fine.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Barzal got lucky, only a 5k fine.

I think it was because he caught him with his glove rather than the stick and Ruuta went down easy.

 

[KopitarFAN]

Vegas fans booing their own team at the end of the 2nd. Glorious.

Bless their hearts, boy do they fail to realize what they have and what's coming.

 

[Steve Zissou]

Barzal got lucky, only a 5k fine.

5 and a game with a fine to boot was the right the right call. Nothing else needed.

Hopefully he and NY bring it tomorrow night.

Kings are proof that they can get absolutely shell shocked (by SJ in 2014) but then regroup and the come from behind to edge out a 7 game series.