Around the League: Second Round Starts.

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Vegas Golden Knights (Pacific No. 1) vs. Los Angeles Kings (wild card No. 1)

Markazi: Golden Knights make history with series sweep
Wyshynski: The Kings' offseason game plan: The Drew Doughty conundrum takes the main stage
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Game 1: Golden Knights 1, Kings 0
Game 2: Golden Knights 2, Kings 1 (2OT)
Game 3: Golden Knights 3, Kings 2
Game 4: Golden Knights 1, Kings 0

"Defense wins Championships"

Las Vegas 4 wins giving up 3 goals against ..... Now that is how you do it.!!!
 
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@Mess go on now, drive Nylander and Marner to the airport for Drew Doughty!!! I understand he's no Nate Schmidt or Brayden McNabb, but he's definitely better and more valuable than Marner and Nylander combined!

The Kings' offseason game plan: The Drew Doughty conundrum takes the main stage

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The Kings have an expensive decision to make on franchise defenseman Drew Doughty in the near future.
 

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"Defense wins Championships"

Las Vegas 4 wins giving up 3 goals against ..... Now that is how you do it.!!!

The .977% save percentage helps here. Quite the dominance for Fleury and made some huge saves.

And that defence was built with efficient statistically defensemen.
 
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The .977% save percentage helps here. Quite the dominance for Fleury and made some huge saves.

And that defence was built with efficient statistically defensemen.

Its an amazing story for an expansion team made of castoffs.

51 win & 109 point regular season followed by a 4 game sweep of a recent 2 X Stanley Cup champ team, giving up only 3 goals against ion the series to win.
 

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Its an amazing story for an expansion team made of castoffs.

51 win & 109 point regular season followed by a 4 game sweep of a recent 2 X Stanley Cup champ team, giving up only 3 goals against ion the series to win.

2014 isn't really recent. Their core is awful now and in shambles. They haven't been very good for a long time. It's funny that some of the "big bad" Western teams look really awful right now.

Vegas is showing how to build a team in the modern area. Speed over anything else. Made a fool of quite a few teams and got some real good luck as well.
 

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2014 isn't really recent. Their core is awful now and in shambles. They haven't been very good for a long time. It's funny that some of the "big bad" Western teams look really awful right now.

Vegas is showing how to build a team in the modern area. Speed over anything else. Made a fool of quite a few teams and got some real good luck as well.

2014 is 4 years ago with really only the Pens standing in-between.

LA has #1G in Quick, #1D in Doughty and #1C in Kopitar = 3 most important building block pieces.

Kopitar #7 in NHL scoring 82 games 35-57- 92 points
Doughty #7 in Dman scoring 82 games 10-50-60 points
Quick #10 in Goalies with 2.40 GAA and .921 sv% with 5 SO.
 
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2014 is 4 years ago with really only the Pens standing in-between.

LA has #1G in Quick, #1D in Doughty and #1C in Kopitar = 3 most important building block pieces.

Recent to me is in the last year... maybe 2... not 4. Teams change a lot in 4 years.

A core is as good as it's depth. They don't have much of that.
 

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lmao at the kings getting swept

What are these vegas knights up to?

They look like Cup contenders the way they're playing.

If they did win it might become one of the greatest sports story of all time of an expansion team winning one of the hardest sports trophies to win.
 

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They look like Cup contenders the way they're playing.

If they did win it might become one of the greatest sports story of all time of an expansion team winning one of the hardest sports trophies to win.

I hate this story and look forward to the day Vegas is eliminated. And I hope they're a fluke and crash back to earth next year. Frickin' expansion team! We are a wasteland for 50 years and a frickin' expansion team!
 

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I hate this story and look forward to the day Vegas is eliminated. And I hope they're a fluke and crash back to earth next year. Frickin' expansion team! We are a wasteland for 50 years and a frickin' expansion team!

Vegas 51 wins and 109 points in their inaugural season >> 100 years of Maple Leaf seasons in both wins and points as Leafs century best is 49 wins and 105 points.

Hard to call that a fluke.

Vegas scored 272 goals for & 228 goals against and +44 goal differential
Leafs scored 277 goals for & 232 goals against and +45 goal differential
 

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Patty Marleau SJ Sharks are doing better than his TOR Maple Leafs.

If the Sharks win the Cup will Marleau have serious regrets of leaving believing the grass was greener ?
 

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Patty Marleau SJ Sharks are doing better than his TOR Maple Leafs.

If the Sharks win the Cup will Marleau have serious regrets of leaving believing the grass was greener ?

Sharks winning the Cup! :laugh: That's rich!

Besides, if he wins it in Toronto more than 12 people will care.
 

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Sharks winning the Cup! :laugh: That's rich!

Besides, if he wins it in Toronto more than 12 people will care.

Sharks are up 3-0 in their series and almost assured of the making the final 8, with your favourite expansion team on the agenda next (barring a collapse). .

What if its a Sharks vs Leafs Cup final?

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Sharks are up 3-0 in their series and almost assured of the making the final 8, with your favourite expansion team on the agenda next (barring a collapse). .

What if its a Sharks vs Leafs Cup final?

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Or Sharks/Capitals? I feel somehow there would be no winner.
 

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The individual games in the first round have been great, but it feels like every series will go five games. The NHL needs either The Leafs Boston or Wash CBJ to go long but I don’t think they will.
 

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Sharks are up 3-0 in their series and almost assured of the making the final 8, with your favourite expansion team on the agenda next (barring a collapse). .

What if its a Sharks vs Leafs Cup final?

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I wonder what Marleau thinks seeing that Sharks are in a more favourable position to go further than the Leafs. That extra 3rd year should be enough for him not lose any sleep over it :)
 

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That's why the team with the least GA in the league got ousted in 4 games right?

By a team the beat them at their own game Defense..

Vegas held the Kings to 3 goals over 4 games including a 2OT game.

LA only gave up 7 goals in the entire series and got swept .. Our Leafs gave up 7 goals in a single game (14 goals in only 3 games) and only down 2-1 in the series.

Lucky we aren't playing Vegas or LA. ;)
 

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"Defense wins Championships"

Las Vegas 4 wins giving up 3 goals against ..... Now that is how you do it.!!!


this really needs to stop.
defense can win championships but you also have to score. LA. had really good defense but couldn't score.
you can also win with offense and solid goaltending.
you can win with a blend of the two.
 
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