WCSF: Vegas Golden Knights (P1) vs. Edmonton Oilers (P2) (VGK Lead 3-2)

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If Seattle wins does Vegas the 1 seed not play them instead?
It's divisional playoffs with locked brackets(even though Seattle is Vegas division, as wild card, they get locked into the other division bracket). There is no reseeding. Winner of Colorado and Seattle auto plays winner of minny and dallas.
 
Sure, but not strong enough to catch VGK who were even stronger.
They were by far the best team since the trade deadline and if Vegas lost their final game then the Oilers would have been first.

Vegas were not as good as Edmonton for the last part of the season, actually last half season
 
Eichel gets his first real chance and stage to show he is in the tier of players everyone thought he was going to be

Vegas defence has to play like they are superior because they are. This is where having an alec martinez kicking around pays dividends.

Carrier and kolesar have to play their roles perfectly
 
I’m reading posts here saying McDavid is going to dominate and I’m shocked he didn’t score a goal in regulation against the Knights in the 4 regular season games. His only goal was an OT winner. Yet the Oilers still were able to score plenty of goals and took 3 out of the 4 (McDavid did get plenty of assists).

Don’t get me wrong though, I expect McDavid to score plenty of points (and goals) in this series.
 
As much as I was more scared of LA, oilers better not take Vegas lightly, another team who can run 4 lines, less offence but much bigger D who aren’t afraid to muck it up.
 
McDavid hasn't even been doing McDavidy things yet these playoffs. He's been good, but hasn't hit his next gear yet
 
X-Factor to me is Bruce Cassidy. Can he make the necessary adjustments against McDrai that Todd McLellan couldn’t? You can’t play passive against them. Force them to play a little D.

And will the Oilers’ depth continue to score goals? I doubt the PP will continue at over 60%.
 
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X-Factor to me is Bruce Cassidy. Can he make the necessary adjustments against McDrai that Todd McLellan couldn’t? You can’t play passive against them. Force them to play a little D.

And will the Oilers’ depth continue to score goals? I doubt the PP will continue at over 60%.
No probably not. The Oilers penalty kill will also probably be better than 66% too though.

Although oddly enough, in 4 games against Vegas this year the Oilers PP was 55.5%. Not far off from the 56.3% it was against the Kings in this past series lol.

In terms of depth scoring both teams match up pretty well. Of the Oilers current forward group Janmark scored goals at the lowest rate in the regular season. He had 10 goals in 66 games. Their depth scoring has been a strength all season.
 
If Vegas is healthy I have been bullish on them for three years. They have 51 wins while once again dealing with injuries and people pass on them time and again?

I don't get the disrespect.

The Oilers defense is going to have to contend with a heavy down low cycle. For me, their ability to handle this or not will decide the fate of the Oilers in this series.
 
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If Vegas is healthy I have been bullish on them for three years. They have 51 wins while once again dealing with injuries and people pass on them time and again?

I don't get the disrespect.

People picking the Oilers isn’t disrespect.

Vegas is a great team and has been since their inception.

However, they are not Tampa Bay, who is the only recent team that has earned some sort of right to push back against imaginary disrespect.
 
I am optimistic without caution. Knights in 5.
LA gives the oilers fits because they have two selke caliber centers to match up against Leon and Connor. They also squeeze the life out of their offense with the 1-3-1. Kings[sic] have no one to match up defensively they need to try and outscore the oilers who are the highest scoring team. Also their goaltending is even more sketchy than edmontons. Some of our guys played with Brossoit they’ll know his tendencies.
lol
 
I think Vegas is the better team than LA overall, but Oilers matchup better against them than LA and Brossoit is more shaky than Korpi. I think Oilers win in 6-7.
Brossoit has 1 regulation loss in 15 total games this year. That’s more unproven than shaky.
I dislike the Oilers pretty much more than any other team, but I am rooting for them since Vegas is playing well over the cap, and I now think their organization and Stone are dirtbags.

Oilers in 6
Our starting lineup is $2.3m below the cap but okay.
 
I think Vegas is the better team than LA overall, but Oilers matchup better against them than LA and Brossoit is more shaky than Korpi. I think Oilers win in 6-7.
That's how I see it. LV is a good team, but they may just not match up well against the Oilers, who have an 11-6-2 records against LV all time and went 3-1 against them this season.
 
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Brossoit has 1 regulation loss in 15 total games this year. That’s more unproven than shaky.

Our starting lineup is $2.3m below the cap but okay.

Do you mind educating me on how Stone was able to come back this postseason?

Also, it seems absolutely insane and risky to go over the cap if a timeline for a player's return is around the end of the season... unless somehow you knew they wouldn't be back when the cap is enforced... somehow
 
Do you mind educating me on how Stone was able to come back this postseason?

Also, it seems absolutely insane and risky to go over the cap if a timeline for a player's return is around the end of the season... unless somehow you knew they wouldn't be back when the cap is enforced... somehow
The point is Vegas isn’t even using Blueger or Quick. I’m not completely sure if Vegas could have squeezed Barbashev and Stone in but they could have easily excluding deadweight dollars in the minors.
 
Goaltending ... Sub .900 Skinner vs journeyman backup Broisoit. Draw

Forwards... Oilers

Defence... Knights

Going to 7
 
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Going with the Knights in 7.

Funny to see McDavid and Eichel meet up in the playoffs, albeit with one of them playing for a team that didn't exist when they were drafted.
 
Shows how little I followed Vegas the last half of the season. What's up with Thompson? And why isn't Quick an option?
Those games do include playoffs. Hill was backup the majority of the year and although he was somewhat inconsistent I’d say he is comfortably more reliable than Quick. Might have the details wrong but Thompson was injured early February, played 1 game down the stretch, reaggravated his injury, may have had another a setback prior to the playoffs, and there is no longer a time line for his return.
 
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They were by far the best team since the trade deadline and if Vegas lost their final game then the Oilers would have been first.

Vegas were not as good as Edmonton for the last part of the season, actually last half season
From the All-Star break to the end of the regular seasonVegas was 22-4-5.

Edmonton was 22-5-5.

You are right that Edmonton was the best team since the deadline (17-2-1!) but "by far" might be a reach as Boston was 17-4-0 and Vegas was 15-3-3.
 
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