WCF Game 4: Winnipeg Jets @ Vegas Golden Knights | 8 PM ET | CBC, SN1, TVAS, NBCSN

[TruBlu]

Was anyone at the game tonight? Did the Knights look like they deserved to share the same ice surface?

I mean....they won?

 

[Filatov2Kovalev2Bonk]

Basletball is NOT a soft sport lol. You're basically in a small wooden box and need to score against massive people with great ability, haha.

Anyway, full credit to VGK here, they are just so timely and Flower is playing way over his head at times.
This team is driven. Series not over, but I find it hard to see WPG winning in 7.

 

[Channelcat]

The #2 regular season team getting eliminated by an expansion team is quite the “minor side story”.

I didn't give the Jets any chance. Even after game 1 to be honest. They wont be stopped.

 

[Drytoast]

Well i guess it's time to stop listening to the other 30gms and only listen to gmgm, because he's clearly a hockey genius and the only hockey mind who knows what he's doing.

Until he doesn't of course.

Hey, I'm seeing exactly what you are seeing here. I'm seeing a bunch of no names at the start of the year out work, out skill and out skate everyone.

Their highest paid player makes 5 mil. That's what he's worth. 5 mil. Not 8 or 10 even. Lol. 5.

So again? Why do we need a McDavid when you could/should fill it with a bunch of solid core 6 mil cost players who will just roll 4 strong lines against any team dumb enough to invest 15 mil into one player? Which is...oh yeah...EVERY OTHER TEAM IN THE LEAGUE.

Again, this is embarrassing for the league.

 

[Just Rude]

You’re wrong. This is really no different than the Oakland A’s of the early to mid 2000s in baseball, except Vegas is having success in the playoffs. Nobody thought that was a mockery. In fact, they made a movie about it.

Meh. Agree to a degree. Building a hockey team and a baseball team are two different beasts altogether. Apples to oranges.

 

[bring back the jets]

Vegas may be showing other GMS around the league there is another way to build a contender.

Pick all your players at once while every other team has to build trade by trade and pick by pick over the course of years or decades? How did no one else think of that?

 

[Frank Drebin]

Goalies don't win cups by themselves. This team is structured entirely different to what every other team is striving to build too.

There is absolutely ZERO need for super stars eating your entire cap space when you could fill it with 2nd line players who work hard. This Vegas run SHOULD be changing the entire way that the rest of the league builds teams and grades talent.

Again. It's turning our league (100 years of history) into a joke in how the team is structured and how the entire league grades talent.

You are overreacting. All the recent cup winners had plenty of superstars.

Sid/geno/phil
Toews/keith/kane/hossa
Doughty/quick/carter/kopi
Chara/bergeron/thomas


This team is a one off. It's not a revolution in how to build a team.

 

[Matt24]

Meh. Agree to a degree. Building a hockey team and a baseball team are two different beasts altogether. Apples to oranges.

Sure, it’s different, but it’s the same idea of finding value within market inefficiencies.

 

[BelovedIsles]

Jets sat back with the lead in game 1, and Vegas barely generated s***. Plus if a team is dominated to an extreme point (Jets had 10 scoring chances to Vegas 0 until the game winning goal), it still shows flaws on that team.

VGK is a flawed team. It comes out against a team w superior or equal skill. They are also getting outworked for stretches. But, WPGs puck management is not good, VGK are capitalizing pretty well.

 

[Leafsdude7]

Meh. Agree to a degree. Building a hockey team and a baseball team are two different beasts altogether. Apples to oranges.

And building an existing, established team through a prolonged, detailed management strategy is different than building a new team through an expansion draft where many high-end players were available that likely shouldn't have been if the NHL was being reasonable.

 

[Drytoast]

You’re wrong. This is really no different than the Oakland A’s of the early to mid 2000s in baseball, except Vegas is having success in the playoffs. Nobody thought that was a mockery. In fact, they made a movie about it.

I'm absolutely not wrong and nothing you just posted countered anything I said.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Series talk open.