Around the NHL 11 - 2023/24

[ennsjd07]

Friends, if we run into Vegas again in the playoffs, can we start a chant like “LTIR-clap, clap, clap clap clap.” Or something of the like? “Cap’s for slackers” or “hurt til playoffs” or something like that?

Watching Stone get all fired up about scoring goals when he shows up just for the playoffs and conveniently is injured all season feels like textbook cheating maneuvers.

 

[Hobble]

Friends, if we run into Vegas again in the playoffs, can we start a chant like “LTIR-clap, clap, clap clap clap.” Or something of the like? “Cap’s for slackers” or “hurt til playoffs” or something like that?

Watching Stone get all fired up about scoring goals when he shows up just for the playoffs and conveniently is injured all season feels like textbook cheating maneuvers.

“Show… us… your spleen. Show… us… your spleen.”

 

[Jets 31]

Hate Edmonton, Toronto but i really hate cheating bastards like Vegas . A little part of me wants them in the second round to be the team that knocks them out of the playoffs.

 

[Eyeseeing]

The Utah HC forum is a hoot...

The Team Name thread is a bunch of HFJets folks with bright ideas...

Wood Rats... Har... @Eyeseeing ...

Ha you looked it up didn’t ya !
There was another native species that I was going to use instead

 

[kanadalainen]

I think he jumped out of his hospital bed and right onto the ice.

What a brave brave hockey player. The entire Vegas team too.

For all I kept hearing about how good Dallas’ goalie is…

Jake Oettinger is demonstrably summat mediocre

 

[enuffidiotsalready]

is Utah team not the RoadRunners? thought it was a given

 

[The Blue Baron]

Faker Stone scores in his BS return for the 3rd year in a row.

FACK VEGAS!

Cheaters!

Someone needs to fire McCrimmon into the sun!

 

[WolfHouse]

Faker Stone scores in his BS return for the 3rd year in a row.

FACK VEGAS!

Cheaters!

Someone needs to fire McCrimmon into the sun!

I'm sure the owners are calling the shots

 

[bustamente]

Utah Fighting Saints

 

[snowkiddin]

I’m pretty disappointed no one went after Stone.

When you play Vegas, you play the refs and the league too, it’s f***ing ridiculous how blatant it is.

I did get a real hoot from the Vegas broadcast last night talking about how “challenging” it must be for Vegas to mesh when they’ve never played a game together with that lineup and how much of a “playoff warrior” Mark Stone is because he stepped right into the lineup in the playoffs without a tune up game. I feel like I’m living in a simulation

 

[surixon]

So nice to see the cheats have gotten healthy just in time and get the win. This is really quite embarrassing for the league.

 

[Jet]

“Show… us… your spleen. Show… us… your spleen.”

Maybe Gabe - has - a - better - spleen clapclapclap and so forth.

 

[LucianoBorsato]

So nice to see the cheats have gotten healthy just in time and get the win. This is really quite embarrassing for the league.

If there is one positive out of it, it's all fanbases seem to be unanimous in their dislike of Vegas. They are no longer the league darlings, now the villians. We were definitely amongst the earliest to voice their hatred

 

[GeorgeJETson]

Vegas is the only team against whom I’d root if the opponent is the Leafs in the SCF.

I’d root for Vegas if they play the Canucks, oilers or leafs

I'd root for none of those teams and just laugh at whichever team loses.

 

[WolfHouse]

Watched the Edmonton LA highlights... thought it was going to look worse - Oilers didn't seem to 'dominate' and the Lewis goal called back was pretty bogus...

 

[Ponds]

I thought Jesse Pollock made an interesting point in the latest Bardown video regarding this LTIR shite. To prevent a player (like Stone, always Stone) from returning right on time for game 1, make it so a player has to return within the last 5 regular season games. Every game they miss during those final 5 count towards missing a playoff game. If it were me, I'd make it that you'd have to return within 5, maybe even 7 games, and if you don't play in all of them, you miss the first round.

To play devil's advocate, nothing Vegas has done is technically against the rules. It is however blatant manipulation of a loophole that the NHL is doing nothing to fix. If they don't acknowledge that the hockey world is collectively up in arms about Vegas perennially abusing a flaw in their system and do nothing to fix it, they're even worse. It'd be hard then, to not accuse them of being bedfellows.

I know it's bad form to wish injury on a player. So let's just say, I won't shed a tear if Mark Stone is forced to miss the remainder of the playoffs be it from reasons clean, or otherwise. Him and the Golden Shites can frig right off, bud.

 

[roccerfeller]

Watched the Edmonton LA highlights... thought it was going to look worse - Oilers didn't seem to 'dominate' and the Lewis goal called back was pretty bogus...

So hard to tell if it was a hand or end of the stick

If I was an oiler fan and they called that a good goal I’d have been upset. I understand why it was called no goal

That said, I agree - the game itself was not as lopsided as the score or media personalities made it seem. Kings messed up giving oilers 4 penalties and they did not play their structure very well. It might have been because they were down early they stretched it out more - that style doesn’t suit them well. Lots of self inflicted wounds

If you go to the kings board they are super down on their team. I think they’ll make adjustments and surprise a lot of people second game, but I also thought they’d upset Oilers in game 1 so I haven’t exactly been Nostradamus lol

 

[roccerfeller]

I thought Jesse Pollock made an interesting point in the latest Bardown video regarding this LTIR shite. To prevent a player (like Stone, always Stone) from returning right on time for game 1, make it so a player has to return within the last 5 regular season games. Every game they miss during those final 5 count towards missing a playoff game. If it were me, I'd make it that you'd have to return within 5, maybe even 7 games, and if you don't play in all of them, you miss the first round.

To play devil's advocate, nothing Vegas has done is technically against the rules. It is however blatant manipulation of a loophole that the NHL is doing nothing to fix.

Well said ^

That’s also an interesting take from JP

 

[raideralex99]

I thought Jesse Pollock made an interesting point in the latest Bardown video regarding this LTIR shite. To prevent a player (like Stone, always Stone) from returning right on time for game 1, make it so a player has to return within the last 5 regular season games. Every game they miss during those final 5 count towards missing a playoff game. If it were me, I'd make it that you'd have to return within 5, maybe even 7 games, and if you don't play in all of them, you miss the first round.

To play devil's advocate, nothing Vegas has done is technically against the rules. It is however blatant manipulation of a loophole that the NHL is doing nothing to fix. If they don't acknowledge that the hockey world is collectively up in arms about Vegas perennially abusing a flaw in their system and do nothing to fix it, they're even worse. It'd be hard then, to not accuse them of being bedfellows.

I know it's bad form to wish injury on a player. So let's just say, I won't shed a tear if Mark Stone is forced to miss the remainder of the playoffs be it from reasons clean, or otherwise. Him and the Golden Shites can frig right off, bud.

So easy to fix make the salary cap apply for the playoffs too ... problem solved.
Whatever happened to Robin Lehner $5M goalie?
It's amazing how Vegas signs bad contracts and are able to dump them. It wouldn't surprise me if money is passed under the table.

 

[Wedgeden]

My new nickname for Vegas is the "Fakeus" Golden Knights.

 

[10Ducky10]

Just make the cap count in the playoffs.

 

[ps241]

Jarvis with a goal and two assists in the Canes comeback win from down 3-0!

The guy Chevy missed in favour of press box Perfetan!

Seth would be in the press box here too Sip

 

[Ponds]

So easy to fix make the salary cap apply for the playoffs too ... problem solved.
Whatever happened to Robin Lehner $5M goalie?
It's amazing how Vegas signs bad contracts and are able to dump them. It wouldn't surprise me if money is passed under the table.

Just make the cap count in the playoffs.

The argument against cap counting in the playoffs would be - if you have a key player get legitimately mangled during the reg season and need to reinforce to compensate for their absence in the postseason, it could hurt your ability to do so. The way this has continued on for the last few seasons in favor of a specific team, I'd be fine with it personally.

 

[WolfHouse]

The argument against cap counting in the playoffs would be - if you have a key player get legitimately mangled during the reg season and need to reinforce to compensate for their absence in the postseason, it could hurt your ability to do so. The way this has continued on for the last few seasons in favor of a specific team, I'd be fine with it personally.

You can get around this by just applying it to the active roster I think but then you'll have teams rest a star every second game to play a different star.. not sure how you fix this - because it sure would make it hard to the avs to play landeskog who's been legit injured

 

[tbcwpg]