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

[landsbergfan]

 

[freakydallas13]

 

[BernieParent]

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Nathan Grav's profile pic looks like latter stage Michael Jackson.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Wait...so Vegas won without having grinders?

Nahhhhh

defense wins cups.

clearly you cant just fill the net.

oh wait...

 

[deadhead]

Wait...so Vegas won without having grinders?

Nahhhhh

Kolesar, Carrier, at forward are grinders. Amadio and Howden are marginal 3rd line scorers. Karlsson and Roy are as much forecheckers as offensive skill guys. Stephenson was a bottom six forward in Washington before coming to Vegas. Not a lot of fancy pants guys on this team.

On defense, Hague, Whitecloud and McNabb are offensively challenged. And Martinez is well past his prime.

Marchessault at 5'9 183 is the only small player on Vegas.

Vegas lead the league in blocked shots.

 

[Sombastate]

Ekblad played with a broken foot, two separated shoulders and a torn oblique.

Meanwhile I won't be getting out of bed because Vegas won a cup.

 

[TCTC]

A Vegas/Boston final would've been more competitive. Panthers ran out of steam.

Ekblad played with a broken foot, two separated shoulders and a torn oblique.

Meanwhile I won't be getting out of bed because Vegas won a cup.

NHL players are a different breed. It's impressive how dedicated some of these guys are.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Congrats to Vegas. Well deserved. There were times last night where they looked like they were on the PP 5 on 5.
Florida had a good season but they just ran into a juggernaut

 

[ellja3]

My friend sent this with comment ''hurts'' [he's a BOS fan, yes yes, I make some questionable life choices].

Like, serrrrriously, dude? You're sending me this post to me - a fan of disfunctional franchise w last cup in 1975 - a post about VGK - a franchise 6 years old - winning a cup; and Boston - 2 cups relatively recently and generally solidy run team (I'll ignore the Mitchell Muller saga for sake of argument)......

.... Can't relate, bye.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

 

[landsbergfan]

Am I missing the point here? The Knights hat is clean af

 

[wankstifier]

How many horror stories do NHL players need to hear before they understand that playing through bad injury is a f***ing terrible idea? Expand rosters, fine noncompliance, and dismantle the culture of tough guy idiocy. The Cup isn't worth a lifetime of pain. I'm not sure if young players are experienced enough to understand that.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Am I missing the point here? The Knights hat is clean af

You should feel shame. It’s shit. The other hats are produced by New Era and the SC one is fanatics.

The quality is a joke. It’s just cheap/easiest to mass produce with no care for quality control. My Avs had from last year is already falling apart.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Kolesar, Carrier, at forward are grinders. Amadio and Howden are marginal 3rd line scorers. Karlsson and Roy are as much forecheckers as offensive skill guys. Stephenson was a bottom six forward in Washington before coming to Vegas. Not a lot of fancy pants guys on this team.

On defense, Hague, Whitecloud and McNabb are offensively challenged. And Martinez is well past his prime.

Marchessault at 5'9 183 is the only small player on Vegas.

Vegas lead the league in blocked shots.

Leading the league in blocked shots is bad.

 

[Curufinwe]

I don't mind the tweet, but I wish people would account for cap inflation more in general.

When the Pens won the Cup in 2009, Crosby was on a $8.7m cap hit with a cap ceiling of only $56.7m. So his Cap Hit percentage for that season was 15.3%. Eichel's CH% in 2023 is only 12.1%.

Thank You - CapFriendly - NHL Salary Caps

Thank you for the amazing 9 years

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Thank You - CapFriendly - NHL Salary Caps

Thank you for the amazing 9 years

www.capfriendly.com

I hadn't actually seen these estimates before:

SEASON	CONFIRMED	% CHANGE	UPPER LIMIT	LOWER LIMIT	MIN. SALARY
2025-26	NHL Estimate	5.14%	$92,000,000	$68,000,000	$775,000
2024-25	NHL Estimate	4.79%	$87,500,000	$64,700,000	$775,000
2023-24	NHL Estimate	1.21%	$83,500,000	$61,700,000	$775,000
2022-23	Mar. 29, 2022	1.23%	$82,500,000	$61,000,000	$750,000
2021-22	Jul. 1, 2021	0.00%	$81,500,000	$60,200,000	$750,000
2020-21	Jul. 10, 2020	0.00%	$81,500,000	$60,200,000	$700,000

 

[Kelmitchell2]

Ekblad played with a broken foot, two separated shoulders and a torn oblique.

Meanwhile I won't be getting out of bed because Vegas won a cup.

LeBron could never

 

[Curufinwe]

 

[ponder719]

Real talk, they all suck.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Lol.

 

[ajgoal]

Am I missing the point here? The Knights hat is clean af

Yeah, I'd be most likely to buy the Knights hat. The others are hideous.

 

[Lindberg]

You should feel shame. It’s shit. The other hats are produced by New Era and the SC one is fanatics.

The quality is a joke. It’s just cheap/easiest to mass produce with no care for quality control. My Avs had from last year is already falling apart.

The rest of those hats are awful and gaudy (NBA one).

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The rest of those hats are awful and gaudy (NBA one).

and yet they'll last longer than a year because they're not 100% heat pressed crap.

 

[Lindberg]

Ekblad played with a broken foot, two separated shoulders and a torn oblique.

Meanwhile I won't be getting out of bed because Vegas won a cup.

I'm sure he was juiced up but it's not like his play was anything good either.

and yet they'll last longer than a year because they're not 100% heat pressed crap.

That's a fair point but I don't wear hats anyways so from my point of view I couldn't care less.

I'd rather buy a hat that's actually better quality to begin with besides all that junk. That's ignoring all of the nonsense loser crap that gets made and disposed of in a 3rd world country.

 

[ponder719]

and yet they'll last longer than a year because they're not 100% heat pressed crap.

Having an ugly hat longer isn't all that much of a benefit.