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Series Talk: Around the NHL: 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs — First-round

First-round Series Winners

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SnowblindNYR

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PuckLuck3043 said:
The first year expansion Vegas Knights are looking to sweep the Kings after that first year expansion team won their division. Such a F'ing joke. Never in the history of professional team sports has a first year expansion team had so much success. It bothers me so much. Pay the NHL 500 million and anything can happen. I still can't believe so many of you are ok with it. I think they should suffer just like every other expansion in team in history and then build thru the draft, trades, and UFA signings over time just like everybody else.
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Were there no expansion drafts for other expansion teams?
 
Irishguy42

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Yeah, because it's so much better for new markets to have to suffer and possibly completely fail just so the league can have some sort if "right of passage to be a real team"

Uh huh. Sure.

No. Stop.

The expansion draft was perfectly fine. What ended up happening was a few idiot GMs got screwed six ways from Sunday. And they screwed up bigly. None of that is the fault of Bettman or the NHL.
 
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Bozle said:
The NHL didn’t force several GMs to make horrendous exposures and trades.
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Sounds about right. I guess as a fan of the Rangers more than the NHL, I'm a bit upset over it that they capitalized so easily on the stupidity of NHL management. Where it took us so long to build a division winning team.
 
Bob Richards

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Irishguy42 said:
Yeah! When is our turn to get traded an elite player?
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Not quite elite but I am folding my hands waiting for Chia let Klefbom go for a half solved Sudoku puzzle.

will1066 said:
Florida getting rid of Gallant has both the Panarin and Hall deals beat. Gallant now taking VGK deep most likely
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LOL didn't even think of that. Gotta double down on my earlier post. RIP Florida.
 
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PuckLuck3043

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Bozle said:
The NHL didn’t force several GMs to make horrendous exposures and trades.
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But they forced all NHL teams to expose some quality players and make some very difficult personnel decisions. I remember last summer we weren't sure if fast, Lindbergh, or Grabner would be exposed. The rules were very different for expansion teams in the past. Like I said, 500 million goes a long way to putting a very competitive team on the ice right from the get go.
 

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At least they make it a series. Probably more fun to see them lose in a game 6 or 7 overtime lol
 
mike14

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PuckLuck3043 said:
The first year expansion Vegas Knights are looking to sweep the Kings after that first year expansion team won their division. Such a F'ing joke. Never in the history of professional team sports has a first year expansion team had so much success. It bothers me so much. Pay the NHL 500 million and anything can happen. I still can't believe so many of you are ok with it. I think they should suffer just like every other expansion in team in history and then build thru the draft, trades, and UFA signings over time just like everybody else.
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Pretty sure they did build through the draft, trades and UFAs signings...
 
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