Around the NHL - (Playoffs Edition)

[Boo Boo]

Eww Vegas golden knights

This isn’t in response to any one thing but I’ve been feeling it for 5 years and finally had to let it out

 

[Ducks DVM]

vegas might be too much for dallas to handle

An extra 20M of players can do that for ya

 

[ff8]

f*** Vegas and f*** stone

 

[Ducks DVM]

Kings are going to be laughably mediocre for all eternity

PLD could always return to f…. Nope. Can’t even make myself say it without chuckling.

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

Cannot overstate just how much the Leafs miss Hyman. What a player

 

[dracom]

and here I thought the Kings would at least win 2 games this series lol. they just dont have the goaltending

 

[duckaroosky]

Crying Doughty

 

[Mr Rogers]

Crazy how some Kings fans were sure they wanted the Oilers. Just a brutal matchup and looks even worse this year than years past as Kopitar and Doughty have continued to slow down. I’m not even sure the Oilers have played their absolute best either.

 

[JAHV]

I hate Vegas so much. I don't even like Dallas, but I badly want Vegas to lose.

 

[190Octane]

McDavid is lazy, making everyone else do his work. They have 6 goals and he hasn’t even scored one of them.

 

[CrazyDuck4u]

This might be a sweep

 

[ohcomeonref]

McDavid is lazy, making everyone else do his work. They have 6 goals and he hasn’t even scored one of them.

What a bum

 

[190Octane]

What a bum

Kopitar is no Kesler.

 

[JAHV]

If there were some way for the Kings to lose in 3, that would be great.

 

[ohcomeonref]

Kings using up all their luck this game and they'll still lose.

 

[JAHV]

That was bad luck for Ceci's stick to break, although he's got to know to knock that puck into the corner, not into the middle.

 

[190Octane]

Kings going to use the purple and yellow jerseys in games 3 and 4 to really bring back that losing to a generational player on the Oilers every year feel.

 

[mightyquack]

Matt Martin trying to jump Noesen in the Hurricanes v Isles games, and getting rag dolled to the ground while Noesen is still wearing his gloves is hilarious.

In fact the whole Isles reaction after going 5-3 down was quite pathetic.

 

[AngelDuck]

Cannot overstate just how much the Leafs miss Hyman. What a player

Bouchard is low key ridiculous too. He had 82 points in 81 games and a +34 this season

 

[WhatTheDuck]

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

Bouchard is low key ridiculous too. He had 82 points in 81 games and a +34 this season

There’s a reason why Oilers fans feared the inevitable bridge deal. Man is going to get major big boy money at the end of next year, even with the cap going up.

Obviously also helps that he plays with Ekholm to cover some of his defensive deficiencies

 

[Rybread86]

Its hard for me to blame Vegas for their cap circumcision when they arent actually doing anything illegal, but still pisses me off and is something the NHL needs to address. I have to imagine other teams arent happy about it either.

 

[duxfan1101]

Its hard for me to blame Vegas for their cap circumcision when they arent actually doing anything illegal, but still pisses me off and is something the NHL needs to address. I have to imagine other teams arent happy about it either.

Agreed. I would hope that our GM does the same thing if the opportunity ever presented itself, but I do hope they change some rules.

I have a couple of thoughts on ways to address it:

1. Your dressed roster for a playoff game must be cap compliant. During the regular season, your scratched players count against the cap, so this would be a bit more lenient, but at least in theory, the players that are playing in the game fit under the cap.

2. If a player is on LTIR for the entire period from the trade deadline to the end of the regular season, then they have to miss some playoff games. The most lenient option would be a single game, the harshest option would be the entire 1st round. Maybe 4 games?

 

[Terry Yake]

the LTIR crap is annoying, but its not like vegas is the only team allowed to pull it off

why aren't other teams taking advantage of it?

 

[Dryish]

Playoffs really bring out the worst in me. I genuinely relish watching teams I dislike suffer. Case in point: