Round 3: Vegas Golden Knights vs. Montreal Canadiens

[herman]

https://twitter.com/CaufieldHabs2/status/1408427323330895878
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[CarltonTheBear]

Danault is gonna get $$$PAID$$$ this offseason... and I wonder if Montreal is even the team who does it.

I just looked back at how he was acquired. Chicago dealt him at the deadline when he was 22 years old and had 32 NHL games under his belt to the Habs for Dale Weise and Tomas Fleischmann. This was the year after they won their last Cup and they ended up getting knocked out in the 1st round. Montreal also picked up a 2nd rounder that they used to select Romanov too. Not a bad haul for two meh UFAs.

 

[Bill_Berg]

It's easy to shut star players down when you're allowed to hold one of their arms behind their back for them.

* shut not shit lol

 

[bustaheims]

Danault is gonna get $$$PAID$$$ this offseason... and I wonder if Montreal is even the team who does it.

I just looked back at how he was acquired. Chicago dealt him at the deadline when he was 22 years old and had 32 NHL games under his belt to the Habs for Dale Weise and Tomas Fleischmann. This was the year after they won their last Cup and they ended up getting knocked out in the 1st round. Montreal also picked up a 2nd rounder that they used to select Romanov too. Not a bad haul for two meh UFAs.

That .950% when he's been on the ice is certainly helping him look good. Certainly raises the question as to whether he's been that effective or if Price is helping him look that much better. He's a good defensive player, but not as good as he's looked in these playoffs.

 

[OldTimeHockey]

Yeah that's the big thing I can't get over. If a 86-point team can win the Cup then what's even the point of the regular season? I know playoffs can be fluky and every team needs some luck on their side to win once you get there but this just takes it to the extreme.

Yeah. I also think it highlights a issue with the differing officiating standards. With regular season level officiating or stricter, they don't make it out of the first round. With the lapsed enforcement . . . it's no longer about which team is the most talented, has the most skill, whatever, when they should be what the league is looking to highlight in the playoffs. Let the stars be stars when the light shines the brightest.

I don't buy it.  I think this is sour grapes stuff.  Here's a list of guys at a point per game:

Jonathan Huberdeau
Nikita Kucherov
Nathan MacKinnon
David Pastrnak
Gabriel Landeskog
Mikko Rantanen
Leon Draisaitl
Evgeni Malkin
Brayden Point
Aleksander Barkov
William Nylander
Charlie McAvoy
Brad Marchand
Mark Scheifele
Sam Bennett
Connor McDavid
Cale Makar
Kris Letang
Sebastian Aho
Steven Stamkos

There's a lot of stars there making things happen still.

Yeah I don't buy the superstars getting held and hooked is why Montreal got through.
Matthews and Marner did not do enough to advance. That's all. They did not fight through the Montreal collapse to the net. That's on them, not the officiating. The officiating has been equally sh*tty for both teams in every game I've watched. If Toronto has the better team, they should have overcame that. They didn't.

 

[OldTimeHockey]

Danault is gonna get $$$PAID$$$ this offseason... and I wonder if Montreal is even the team who does it.

I just looked back at how he was acquired. Chicago dealt him at the deadline when he was 22 years old and had 32 NHL games under his belt to the Habs for Dale Weise and Tomas Fleischmann. This was the year after they won their last Cup and they ended up getting knocked out in the 1st round. Montreal also picked up a 2nd rounder that they used to select Romanov too. Not a bad haul for two meh UFAs.

It was amazing how he was absolutely dominated in the first couple games by Matthews in the faceoff circle and then suddenly if did a 180. Matthews face off wins seemed to drop off the map. And suddenly the Habs started winning. Easiest way to defeat Matthews and the Leafs. Make sure they don't have the puck.

 

[Bender]

Danault is gonna get $$$PAID$$$ this offseason... and I wonder if Montreal is even the team who does it.

I just looked back at how he was acquired. Chicago dealt him at the deadline when he was 22 years old and had 32 NHL games under his belt to the Habs for Dale Weise and Tomas Fleischmann. This was the year after they won their last Cup and they ended up getting knocked out in the 1st round. Montreal also picked up a 2nd rounder that they used to select Romanov too. Not a bad haul for two meh UFAs.

We need to badly recoup assets in the same fashion...

 

[TheMightyOdin]

So Vegas defenseman Alec Martinez was playing with a broken foot.