Round 3: Vegas Golden Knights vs. Montreal Canadiens

[Kin]

Vegas is the enemy, yeah? (Gifted a competitive team due to overly favourable expansion draft rules)

The expansion draft rules weren't really that favourable, Vegas just did a great job making a small handful of teams look extremely dumb. I think they should also be given a ton of credit for being super-aggressive and going out and getting a 1LW (Pacioretty), a 1RW (Stone), a 1G (Lehner), and a 1D (Pietrangelo) all in a span of 2 years while a bunch of other GMs just sat on their butts and did nothing to improve their teams.

Yeah, have to keep in mind that if the expansion draft rules had been as restrictive as in the past then that would have left Vegas with a bunch of minimum salary guys and, in order to reach the minimum, would have had a ton of money to sign UFAs so they probably get to competitiveness pretty quick regardless.

 

[Bender]

I'm nominally cheering for the Habs I guess but I'm pretty uninterested in actually watching any of this.

I'm curious just because the Habs steamrolled Winnipeg, but yeah I'm not the biggest fan, and I definitely won't be interested in the final, pretty much whatever combination it is.

 

[Bender]

The Habs looked good in the beginning but are taking some bad penalties. Also I thought the Leafs should've tried shot faking Price more. He bites pretty easily.

 

[Arn]

I cheer for the team whose fans will cause me the least grief. Montreal fans are among those that cause the most.

Thankfully not an issue we have in Ireland. I don't think I know of any Habs fans here and the hockey fan fraternity isn't exactly huge  ;D

 

[4EVRLEAFAN]

Anyone but Montreal.

Thank you, or Ottawa. 

 

[OldTimeHockey]

Also I thought the Leafs should've tried shot faking Price more. He bites pretty easily.

With Price's increased age, I find he's relying less on his speed and more on his positioning. He's playing aggressive to take away more of the net. That leaves a goalie swimming when the play doesn't go as planned. There were a handful of times in the Leafs series where Marner made him look really silly but couldn't finish.

 

[ZBBM]

3x more please, Vegas.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

 

[Bender]

Jeff Petry looks like he's of the undead.

 

[L K]

I guess the North division wasn?t completely trash after all.  Montreal is primed to win Game 2 up 3-1 with under 5 left

 

[4EVRLEAFAN]

I know it's only one game but I don't get it, how does a team so average in the regular season play so well in the playoffs, if they keep playing the way they did last night, you never know. It would suck large, but you never know.

 

[Bender]

I know it's only one game but I don't get it, how does a team so average in the regular season play so well in the playoffs, if they keep playing the way they did last night, you never know. It would suck large, but you never know.

Playoff Carey Price.

 

[L K]

I know it's only one game but I don't get it, how does a team so average in the regular season play so well in the playoffs, if they keep playing the way they did last night, you never know. It would suck large, but you never know.

Hockey is the only professional sport that calls the rules completely differently in the postseason than the regular season.  Montreal benefits from being allowed to play interference style hockey in a way that they don't get to do in the regular season.

That and Carey Price is good.  He was not good in the regular season.  Montreal would have had a better record in the regular season if Price was playing with a .930 SV% in the regular season.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/TicTacTOmar/status/1406079850406977543
Josh Anderson's last point was...

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/NHLGIFs/status/1406089189670653952
Some people just get all the bounces

 

[Peter D.]

What the hell?

Let?s Go Habs!

 

[Guilt Trip]

Haha. What a joke...Habs get dominated and win lol. Everything is going their way. Vegas' top centre is out...3 straight series with key centres going out for the opposition.

 

[Bender]

Haha. What a joke...Habs get dominated and win lol. Everything is going their way. Vegas' top centre is out...3 straight series with key centres going out for the opposition.

The stars are definitely aligning for them.

 

[Frank E]

I'm not gonna lie, this is pissing me off.

 

[ZBBM]

Me too dammit.

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