Around the League | Round 1: FIGHT!

[God]

Lol that's the weakest hooking call I've ever seen against Marchment, and I watched almost every Canucks game this year.

 

[Britton]

Brutal penalty call results in the instant goal where have I seen this movie before

 

[Bubbles]

That aerial of downtown Edmonton pretty much sums up the city. Depressing ass looking city with a giant stadium in the middle.

All I see are giant parking lots, and a small scattering of towers.

 

[SillyRabbit]

All of the LTIR abuses factoring into these goals lol.

Mark Stone, Tomas Hertl and Noah Hannifin.

 

[Nucker101]

Impossible to not hate Vegas

 

[LordBacon]

They got destroyed holy shit

 

[Britton]

Dallas still gonna crush Vegas though they are just too good

 

[LordBacon]

Dallas Vegas game is crazy good.

 

[calnuck]

King Oilers is going to be quite the series.

 

[SillyRabbit]

Kinda bullshit that the West has series like Dallas-Vegas and Colorado-Winnipeg while a team like the Hurricanes (not even first in their division) get the Islanders.

 

[wonton15]

God I love round one playoff hockey. Every series is batshit

 

[Flik]

The Oilers just own the Kings don't they

 

[calnuck]

Come on LA what are you doing

 

[wonton15]

How to break the 1-3-1: have McDavid

 

[LaVal]

You beat the 1-3-1 with speed through the neutral zone. Nobody has more speed through the neutral zone than McDavid.

 

[LordBacon]

LA is Vancouver's kryptonite while Edmonton is LA's kryptonite.

 

[Peen]

i just think a well coached team or a team with mcdavid/mackinnon will best the 1-3-1 over seven games most of the time

and i don’t think the kings are talent devoid that they need to use this system

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

The Kings are really not a good team. The Oilers will handle them easily imo

 

[arttk]

amazing how the Kings pissed away the assets to build this

 

[Britton]

The 1-3-1 is great in the regular seasons when teams to have to adjust to you cause you play differently then everyone else. It's a much different story in the playoffs though when the opposing gets to break it down over 7 games.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Jarvis 3 point night. Just sayin

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Well this was entirely predictable. Edmonton is going to be well rested by Round 2.

No idea why the Kings didn't intentionally piss away that game against Chicago...They would have matched up better against Dallas.

 

[Peen]

Only turned into this because the lakers game was on commercials and the vegas game was in INT

Have zero faith in LA making this interesting so yeah, this one is done

 

[arttk]

Are we going to see a team change to a completely new system mid playoffs?

 

[Regress2TheMeme]

LA should trade for Markstrom. A team that tries to play such a conservative defensive system should have someone better than Talbot.