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WCSF: (1) Vegas Golden Knights vs. (3) San Jose Sharks | VGK Leads Series 3-2

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Pinkfloyd

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hansomreiste said:
Having watched almost all games of both teams in the previous round, I'm really looking forward to this. 50-50 for me, just will sit back and enjoy the hockey. By the way, when do you think the schedule will be released? I know NHL doesn't wait for a round to completely finish before starting the next one, though I also think they'll want to keep things as close as possible. So maybe a Saturday-Tuesday-Friday start for this one? Keeps both teams fresh, not so far off from first round and thus prevents a scenario where a round one G7 is played while VGK-SJS play G4 with one team up 3-0.
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If Toronto or Washington wins tonight, they're not starting round two until Tuesday at the earliest. They're not going to start a round two when a game five is going to happen much less a potential game six and seven of a series that would occur on a Monday and Wednesday. The league has almost never done it where the next round starts before the last one ends. That would only occur if building availability was extremely tight and forced them to.
 
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sTEALtooth

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The Sharks have plenty of reasons to put Thornton back in the lineup when he becomes available. Their power play would be much more consistent at puck retrieval, setting up, and putting pucks towards the net with him in the lineup.
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Is their any precedent for a PP specialist? i.e. only put him out for the power play?
 

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Martin Jones is the biggest pretender in the league and Sharks will have to face Fleury who's on a mission. Games will be higher scoring and will be very close, but Jones will allow some brutal 5-hole goals while Fleury keeps the momentum on the Knights side.

LVK in 6.
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Whatever makes you sleep at night. Go look at Jones playoff stats...but yeah he’s a pretender. He stole the game for the Sharks last night.
 
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Gardner McKay

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I had this matchup in my bracket. I have the Sharks going to the WCF to play Winnipeg. Vegas is such a good story though, I wouldn't mind if I was wrong on this one. I am pulling for them to win it all.
 

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Very misleading, season series was closer then record dictates 14 goals vk 11 goal sj.

The first game Vegas jumped on them quickly. And probably caught him off guard on the road the first game ever played in Vegas. They go very unlucky and lost in overtime. I can’t remember if it was a crossbar a bad break but the game was a tossup. Next game in San Jose we had a three to two lead with nine minutes left couple ****ty brakes broken sticks odd man rushes we lose that game 43. One was an empty Next game we dominate the Knights, subban stands on his head as we had shoot them 4725 and squeak at it two would win. Could’ve been five or 6 to 1 at the very least probably would’ve been the biggest blowout of the season series if not for that. And of course as everyone remembers it was the last game of a road trip we just played Nashville couple back to back‘s we were obviously tired and it still took A shorthanded beautiful goal by Karlsson to beat us barely by one goal so I would say every game is been close at the very least the sharks probably should’ve heard the split so the games really came down to a couple plays. And in the playoffs those can go either way
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In the first game the Sharks had a a goal overturned at the beginning of the third on a horrid call. Sharks should have won in regulation.
 
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As long as Thorton is around 75% and wont get reinjured he should play. His presence will draw attention from opponents and his vision can find the open man. Part of playing fast is passing the puck as it travels faster than anyone could skate. He made cheecho a 50+ scorer neither are fleet of foot.
 
Sam Spade

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I asked the magic 8-ball if the league has decided the Knights will move on to round three:

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Used As A Shield

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NHLpls said:
Just looked it up that their power play is at 30%. You want to shake that up?
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It actually looks much worse than the numbers currently indicate.

Looking forward to the series, should be fun, hoping the guys get the rest they need before this series starts.
 
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SharksFan17 said:
As long as Thorton is around 75% and wont get reinjured he should play. His presence will draw attention from opponents and his vision can find the open man. Part of playing fast is passing the puck as it travels faster than anyone could skate. He made cheecho a 50+ scorer neither are fleet of foot.
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Yes, but Thornton was in his prime that year, maybe 27 years old.

I wouldn't describe Las Vegas as a fast team, as much as I describe them as a great skating mobility team on all four lines. Far different from the Ducks who like to cycle along the boards methodically to capitalize on a defensive mistake; much like the former Soviet teams.

LVs uses their skating mobility to create chaos among the defense so they lose track of an opponent. LV also likes to cycle a forward to a high center position to make it harder for the opponents to break out and transition, thus making their forechecking more effective.

Then of course, there is that wall in Fleury, but Jones has also been a wall.

Thornton is very much needed on the PP as the Sharks need to improve their PPG percentage in this next round. I'm not certain where to slot Thornton in for 5v5 at this point.
 
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Yes, but Thornton was in his prime that year, maybe 27 years old.

I wouldn't describe Las Vegas as a fast team, as much as I describe them as a great skating mobility team on all four lines. Far different from the Ducks who like to cycle along the boards methodically to capitalize on a defensive mistake; much like the former Soviet teams.

LVs uses their skating mobility to create chaos among the defense so they lose track of an opponent. LV also likes to cycle a forward to a high center position to make it harder for the opponents to break out and transition, thus making their forechecking more effective.

Then of course, there is that wall in Fleury, but Jones has also been a wall.

Thornton is very much needed on the PP as the Sharks need to improve their PPG percentage in this next round. I'm not certain where to slot Thornton in for 5v5 at this point.
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Granted, that was the extreme example of him making others better, but "hockey sense" (finding the open guy) is not one of those skills that deteriorates like speed and shot making, etc.

Let the young guys get open and he can feed them all day. Not expecting 1st line minutes from him but he's an upgrade to the sharks 3rd line for sure (all pending his health of course).

Perhaps play him on home games where matchups could be more favorable and on the PP.
 
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