Miscellaneous NHL Discussion XCVII: Florida Panthers vs. Vegas Golden Knights Stanley Cup Finals (Poll in OP)

[CutOnDime97]

Sucks to end the season with this stinker

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

Nolan Patrick is winning the cup tonight.

 

[ponder719]

To be fair 90% of us and the league laughed at the majority of the team they picked from jump street, and they've just continued to perform greatly

100%. They draw a lot of jealousy, but they are either the best or second-best managed team in hockey, with an owner who is willing to let them do whatever it takes to win. They're a model franchise, and people who are mad at them should really be mad at their own team for not being more like them.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Nolan Patrick is winning the cup tonight.

Shea Weber too. All Ex Flyer

 

[trostol]

did Florida just give up at some point?

 

[bennysflyers16]

Like Friedman says, like 5 guys could win the Conn Smythe. Very impressive

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Shea Weber too. All Ex Flyer

He’s a Coyote.

 

[Magua]

I saw someone make a point about Vegas earlier on Twitter. They don’t really get credit for moving off players they didn’t really see fit from a salary cap/contractual standpoint. The conventional thing to do would be just deal with it out of the sake of “doing the right thing”. But they haven’t even when the conventional thinkers have claimed it will have players sour on them (which it hasn’t because players want to win).

I feel like Vegas is the Flat Cap version of the pre-cap Flyers. Chase championships at all costs, riverboat gamble, spend big on big talent, figure shit out after. It’s a wild path to a championship — not conventional — but it’s not haphazard because you can’t be haphazard today.

 

[CutOnDime97]

I feel like Vegas is the Flat Cap version of the pre-cap Flyers. Chase championships, riverboat gamble, spend big on big talent, figure shit out after. It’s a wild path to a championship — not conventional — but it’s not haphazard.

Chuck Fletcher thought he was doing that but with Kevin Hayes and Risto

 

[Magua]

Chuck Fletcher thought he was doing that but with Kevin Hayes and Risto

Chuck was the world’s leading expert on Flat Cap roster re-tooling.

 

[ponder719]

Chuck Fletcher thought he was doing that but with Kevin Hayes and Risto

Chuck Fletcher could lose money playing solitaire.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

If Seattle wins the cup or has a lot of success in the next few years I wonder how these expansion teams will be viewed historically

 

[wankstifier]

The takeaway is that teams should gamble on stars with back issues. Time to build around Couturier for a 2023-2024 run.

 

[RANKKA]

Nolan Patrick is winning the cup tonight.

IR the whole season he aint winning shit

 

[CutOnDime97]

Game 3 of the Calder Cup Hershey vs Coachella Valley is in OT right now

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

If Fletcher was a degenerate gambler he’d be living under a freeway.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Game 3 of the Calder Cup Hershey vs Coachella Valley is in OT right now

Prayers up for @Strawberry Fields

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Prayers up for @Strawberry Fields

I had to leave after the 3rd period, of course the mother****ers couldn't close it out 100% expecting a sweep now

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Never mind, Bears win

 

[GKJ]

Needing Florida to score one more

 

[ponder719]

Holy shit what a save by Adin Hill.

 

[Flybynite]

The real Conn Smythe should go to the LTIR clause.

 

[ponder719]

Needing Florida to score one more

Very much this. I love it when you get a list that's like "HoFer, HoFer, HoFer, Bob from Accounting, HoFer, HoFer..."

 

[Cody Webster]

Hill is straight up feeling himself right now

 

[Maurice of Orange]

IR the whole season he aint winning shit

Would be funny to see Nolan Patrick come out and be one of the last players to raise the cup.