NHL Out of Town Thread IX: Long suffering Vegas fans rejoice - VGK wins the Cup
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UncleRico
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He also wasn't injured.
Injuries don't care what your role on the team is.
It's a bit rich for him to be trolling the Leafs fans when he was healthy scratch through the playoffs. I know, I know, he contributed in the regular season, yadda, yadda, yadda. But still. Under the circumstances, maybe a little more humility is called for.
KrejciMVP
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its not a vegas board so you dont have to run to their defense every post
MrKabukiman
Ne pas plonger!
The 23-24 season will show us whether Montgomery has learned anything. If its evident he hasn't, I think they will remove him and find someone else to coach.
UncleRico
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You keep posting about how they are a super team and all I’m asking you is on what basis are they a super team. The only time I’ve actually brought this up is in response to your posts.
They weren’t even close to the betting favorites to win the cup. They weren’t favorites to win their conference.
I just want to know what basis you have for your claim that they were a bettman super team but you keep avoiding it and just making new posts about it.
All I am is interested to hear you back up your claim with even the smallest piece of evidence but you won’t.
It's about the "unfair" expansion rules. Vegas *should* still be the Western Conference whipping boy. Along with stupid Seattle.
Then he went and made the league give them Stone, Pietrangelo, Eichel AND take away bad salaries.
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Olden McGroin
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Nah, I love this from him, wish more players in the league would talk shit. Toronto media was pretty ruthless to him and now his name is on the cup 3 times while the Leafs celebrate first round wins like they won the whole thing.
Spooner st
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Not bad for a coach who was severely criticized in Providence because he saw early on Senyshyn was a fraud. Senyshyn's Superfans started a campaign of dumping everything on Cassidy... a few years later he was recognized as a great coach... then he wins the cup. lol, you can't make this shit up.
EverettMike
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My friend, you rooted for Florida during the Final like you're a diehard Panthers fan.
I can never tell if insane posts like these are sarcastic or serious.
KrazyLegs
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Ah, it all makes sense now.
I was wondering why this dude was so pro-Panthers in the SC, defending their post-game cheapshots and analogizing Tkatuck's gutless actions with what Lucic used to do.
He was just a Vegas hater, and it blinded him.
Gotcha.
Therick67
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Phil Kessel took plenty of shit, got no problem with him giving some back
BiteThisBurrows
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So the biggest thing that comes out of this for me is it's always a war of attrition. Vegas had depth. We also had depth. We got that part right. We faced the healthy Panthers, Vegas faced the banged up version and still they started the series targeting their D and top forwards and by the end Florida was the walking wounded (much like we were against St. Louis). This is hockey.
So you are left asking why didn't we learn from the past and know this?
We damaged Ekblad first. Remember the game he missed? That was our best game. Direct correlation I'd say. So when he came back, did we target him? No. We did not. Dumb. Tkachuk knew what had to be done. Hathaway was there to run his team, so he took him out first chance he had and Hathaway became a non factor. None of this is rocket science. The last time we actually WON a cup we were the bullies. Cam and Don and Monty should know this. It may be a faster and cleaner league now, but in the playoffs it is still, and always will be, a war.
Build for that war, play that way when the time comes, or just give it up and tear it down cause anything else is pointless.
So you are left asking why didn't we learn from the past and know this?
We damaged Ekblad first. Remember the game he missed? That was our best game. Direct correlation I'd say. So when he came back, did we target him? No. We did not. Dumb. Tkachuk knew what had to be done. Hathaway was there to run his team, so he took him out first chance he had and Hathaway became a non factor. None of this is rocket science. The last time we actually WON a cup we were the bullies. Cam and Don and Monty should know this. It may be a faster and cleaner league now, but in the playoffs it is still, and always will be, a war.
Build for that war, play that way when the time comes, or just give it up and tear it down cause anything else is pointless.
EverettMike
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The Bruins refusal to dump the puck in and punish the Panthers' shitty d-corps is still absolutely insane.
Therick67
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it certainly isn't rocket science, but for some reason Monty never gave that a shot.
Bruins offense wasn't their issue, it was the defense's inability to break the puck out against the Panther's forecheck. Playing dump and chase when we aren't built for that wouldn't have solved anything.
Therick67
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if you're playing in the Panthers zone, you don't have to break the puck out of your end as much.
Just letting them skate out of the D zone certainly wasn't the answer either.
EverettMike
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They absolutely had the horses for that style of play. They weren't a one-trick pony.
And the more time you spend in the offensive zone the less time you have to make defensive gaffes in your own.
Oh, that was sarcasm - figures the emoji was that easy to insert...
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