Vegas Cinderella story is over

KingsFan7824

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Man the Pacific division is ****.

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TomasHertlsRooster

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They are reasonably out of the playoffs if you use last year’s bar of 95 points and 41 ROW to make it as a Pacific Division team in the west.

However, this year, 3rd place in the Pacific is on pace for 82 points and 35 ROW. Vegas could still easily reach that.
 
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FalcorMulch

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A team that rode a PDO bender regressed the next season?

THE HELL YOU SAY!

They didn’t actually ride a PDO bender. They had legit underlying stats and a pretty average PDO.

Obviously certain players did (ahem, Karlsson) but on average the team just played well last year. If anything they’re on the opposite of a PDO bender right now. Worst save % and 4th worst shooting % at 5v5.
 

MadLuke

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A team that rode a PDO bender regressed the next season?

THE HELL YOU SAY!

Last season Vegas were a very standard 100.5 PDO teams that outshoot their opponent.

This year they have currently a very unsustainable and bad 96.3 PDO that is outshooting their opponent by a lot and should regress upward to something more realistic like .98 at worst.
 

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They are reasonably out of the playoffs if you use last year’s bar of 95 points and 41 ROW to make it as a Pacific Division team in the west.

However, this year, 3rd place in the Pacific is on pace for 82 points and 35 ROW. Vegas could still easily reach that.

With Stastny and Schmidt I think they crawl into the ass end of the playoff race, 1st round date with the Sharks. Those are 2 important pieces on a team with little depth. But if more injuries hit, they could also use a high draft pick.
 

madmike77

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Meh it’s a the tail end of a back to back. And the Flames were due for some puck luck. They just cashed it all in on Vegas.
 

Romang67

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They are reasonably out of the playoffs if you use last year’s bar of 95 points and 41 ROW to make it as a Pacific Division team in the west.

However, this year, 3rd place in the Pacific is on pace for 82 points and 35 ROW. Vegas could still easily reach that.
The heck... Did the entire division just decide to take the season off?
 

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That would require two of Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Anaheim, and Arizona making the playoffs.
 
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Vlad The Impaler

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I loved their run last season but suspected it would be hard to sustain. That's usually what happens if you create a huge upset. If you beat the odds, the odds still exist over the long term.

I don't get why people hated their run or think it turned the league into a joke. It's a bunch of rejects (coach included) who bought into a system and rode a vibe. As a hockey fan, I loved every second of it and am sure it turned a lot of people around Vegas into hockey fans.

Man, those threads full of people calling McPhee a "genious" must be really amusing to read now...
 

BattleBorn

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I loved their run last season but suspected it would be hard to sustain. That's usually what happens if you create a huge upset. If you beat the odds, the odds still exist over the long term.

I don't get why people hated their run or think it turned the league into a joke. It's a bunch of rejects (coach included) who bought into a system and rode a vibe. As a hockey fan, I loved every second of it and am sure it turned a lot of people around Vegas into hockey fans.

Man, those threads full of people calling McPhee a "genious" must be really amusing to read now...
I'd love to see some of those threads. All the threads I've seen for the most part have been people talking about how Vegas can't win the Western Conference year after year like that's some sort of high hockey knowledge take.

Glad you loved the ride.
 

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Eh I give them credit. They made it farther than anybody in their own organization I think thought they could.
 

Mobiandi

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The Pacific is terrible this season. If they knock off a few wins a row, they'll be right back in the mix
 

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Overachieved last year, underachieving this year.
 

JLo217

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Where are all the Vegas fans that said it wasn’t an anomaly? They got lucky and had years worth of tape on every team. No one had shit on Vegas. I’m glad they’re playing below average.
 
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