First Round: Golden Knights (1) vs. Blackhawks (8)

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/NHLdotcom/status/1292660898373554176

Tuesday, Aug. 11, 10:30 p.m.: Blackhawks @ Golden Knights | NBCSN, SN, TVAS
Thursday, Aug. 13, 5:30 p.m.: Blackhawks @ Golden Knights | NBCSN, SN360, TVAS
Saturday, Aug. 15, 8 p.m.: Golden Knights @ Blackhawks | NBC, CBC, SN, TVAS
Sunday, Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m.: Golden Knights @ Blackhawks | NBCSN, SN1, SN360
*Tuesday, Aug. 18, TBD: Blackhawks @ Golden Knights | TBD
*Thursday, Aug. 20, TBD: Golden Knights @ Blackhawks | TBD
*Saturday, Aug. 22, TBD: Blackhawks @ Golden Knights | TBD

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

well damn.

These are the only two teams left that I really care much about and obviously only one is gonna go forward. :-\

 

[CarltonTheBear]

well damn.

These are the only two teams left that I really care much about and obviously only one is gonna go forward. :-\

I'm going Chicago, which is weird for me because I don't usually root for them but it'd just be genuinely funny to me if a 12th place team with no shot at even making the playoffs ends up winning this whole thing and I can't root for the East's equivalent of that.

Neat storyline here with Lehner (assuming Vegas makes the correct decision) playing against the team that traded him away at the deadline.

 

[Guilt Trip]

It would be interesting to see a 12th seed advance but I don't see it happening. Vegas isn't the Oilers in the D zone.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/HILITINGHOCKEY/status/1295173004415004673
https://twitter.com/NHLPlayerSafety/status/1295194365506314242

Potentially breaking someone's wrist with 11 seconds left in a game only costs $2,500.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

Not a huge fan of DeBrincat (I'm holding an old OHL grudge lol) but I absolutely loathe Max Pacioretty. Always have. Cannot stand him.

he deserved more than 2500 for that. They fined Brind'Amour way more just for *saying* something....

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Vegas knocks off Chicago were ease. Would have been a sweep if Crawford didn't steal a win.

Also, I look at Vegas' (one of the top contenders in the West) and I think, is their defence really that much better than ours:

McNabb-Schmidt
Martinez-Theodore
Holden-Whitecloud

Like Schmidt and Theodore are good defencemen but they're not top-10 guys, I'd even be hard pressed to call them top-20 defencemen in the league. Also they don't even have a single RHD in their entire top-4. Their only righty is whoever the heck Zach Whitecloud is.

I'm not really knocking these guys or anything, more to just say that the Leafs should really be trying to study to see how Vegas can be so good with this sort of set-up.