WDSF Game 1: Minnesota Wild @ Vegas Golden Knights | 12:00PM | NBC, SN, TVAS

[max21]

Fook Vegas and fook the Maywedders

 

[ref19]

Minnesota under siege atm

Great road period to start playoffs. Vegas has had one decent chance -
karlsson

 

[Muffin]

Vegas controls play a lot but they lack elite talent up front. We saw it last year in the series with Vancouver and Dallas.

 

[TaLoN]

The pressure from Vegas, from the Wild losing D-zone facoffs. If that continues, it'll be a killer.

 

[Tryamw]

Power play VGK

 

[rynryn]

hanging on for dear life, MIN

 

[ref19]

That slash call lol

 

[Obvious Fabertism]

Wait they called Fiala for that after all the previous plays?

 

[Ocoee]

That was a penalty? The one they ignored moments earlier was worse

 

[Ginger Papa]

Wasn't a trip could be a hook.

Gotta call that hooking in my opinion.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Best Minny can hope for is getting out of this period 0-0

 

[rynryn]

Seems like the Wild are taking a lot of pucks off ankles.

 

[Soedy]

I hate Minny. But man what an awful call.

 

[HanSolo]

Best puck movement I've seen from the Vegas PP in a long time

 

[rynryn]

36 seconds we can do this.

 

[Tryamw]

Push the goalie in!.

 

[mooncalf]

Vegas dominating so far but lack of finish is what killed them last season and might doom them again this one

 

[TaLoN]

These lost faceoffs... ugh

 

[PromisedLand]

Somebody tell Pierre there is a hot victoria secret model who wants him and get him the F outta there. Guy is so freakin annoying

 

[TaLoN]

Hey, closest to a faceoff win we've had... let them win it so clean it leaves the zone...

 

[State of Hockey]

Vegas dominating so far but lack of finish is what killed them last season and might doom them again this one

It's not so much the lack of finish as it is this is the Wild team to a T. They are all defense and goaltending when the effort level is ramped up by the opposition. They are tough to score on, although they won't have the puck much.

 

[Wild11MN]

Yikes. At least they got out of the first, but that was rough.

 

[Ginger Papa]

Who were Minnys goalies this year?

Kahkonen was really strong as their rookie goaltender.

Some more memes ....

 

[Bounces R Way]

 

[HanSolo]

It's not so much the lack of finish as it is this is the Wild team to a T. They are all defense and goaltending when the effort level is ramped up by the opposition. They are tough to score on, although they won't have the puck much.

Yeah I was gonna say. Lack of finish can be a problem for us in the playoffs but it's more a problem Vegas has with suffocating prevent defenses. A lot of our shots this period came from distance without much of a screen.

The book on Vegas' offense is collapse the middle of the offensive zone with four guys, one guy presses the puck carrier and Vegas gets forced to take most of their shots from the perimeter or they try to force passes through traffic that often get blocked. Vancouver and Dallas understood this and so does Minny.