Honestly....who made the pre-season schedule? It's ridiculous. The Knights are playing their fifth pre-season game tonight. They're obviously now getting ready for the regular season to start. Hence why they are basically going with their starting lineup....just like Minny did. Meanwhile the Avs are just going to play their third pre-season game and once again a group of AHLers and secondary NHLers will probably have the front door kicked in.
Really not a fan of the imbalance. Seems tough to evaluate the Avs players when they're against such odds, and I question how much teams like Vegas and Minny really get out of these games. I know the Avs are trying to evaluate their fringe players, but I really wish they'd sprinkle a few more veterans in to try to make things more competitive. We saw it against Minnesota...things just got progressively worse as they were just completely overmatched. I think Grubauer for one just basically gave up. Kinda easy to do when you've got this:
Graves - Alt
Boikov - Lindholm
In front of you against a full quality NHL top 6.
