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How well will Vegas do?

President's Trophy 1 5.00%
 
First in conference 1 5.00%
 
First in division 0 0%
 
2-3 in division 4 20.00%
 
Wild card 7 35.00%
 
Outside of playoffs 5 25.00%
 
Worst in division 1 5.00%
 
Worst in conference 1 5.00%
 
Worst in league 0 0%
 
Total:20
HomokHarcos said:
barneystinson69 said:

Flames should have an easy win tonight (hopefully). Goalkeeping looks good, but the defence was terrible during the first game.

Not everyone's going to beat Winnipeg 7-2, and the Flames couldn't even score against Edmonton. I'm certainly hoping for a win but I don't think it'll be easy.

barneystinson69 said:

I'm sorry, but why the hell should taxpayers fork out money for the arena and the let the owners get all the profits in return? Our city faces hard times, we don't need a billion dollar arena right now. They won't walk anyway, as they have no other market large enough to replace Calgary anyway, and moving somewhere else would cost hundreds of millions of dollars (if not billions).

Exactly, these owners are rich. The stupid thing is, if it's publicy funded, why do we still have to pay admission to attend games? Even more ridiculous is that after taxing the city to build a new arena, the owners usually charge more for tickets when the team moves to the new arena.

Remember when I thought Winnipeg sucked? Well they just beat nashville and are headed to the wcf...

#PekkaRinneIsTooGoodRightNow



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

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COKTOE said:
Let it be known that I'm the person who voted for Las Vegas to win the President's Trophy.

You were shocking close...

They are in the wcf now. #FleuryIsTooGoodRightNow



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

barneystinson69 said:
HomokHarcos said:

Not everyone's going to beat Winnipeg 7-2, and the Flames couldn't even score against Edmonton. I'm certainly hoping for a win but I don't think it'll be easy.

Exactly, these owners are rich. The stupid thing is, if it's publicy funded, why do we still have to pay admission to attend games? Even more ridiculous is that after taxing the city to build a new arena, the owners usually charge more for tickets when the team moves to the new arena.

Remember when I thought Winnipeg sucked? Well they just beat nashville and are headed to the wcf...

#PekkaRinneIsTooGoodRightNow

Would have never guessed that Winnipeg-Vegas would be the Western Conference final when the season started.



I want the Capitals to win it all but it looks like the goalie edge will probably be enough for The Knights to win the cup.



Well it looks like the Capitals will win it in five.



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barneystinson69 said:
COKTOE said:
Let it be known that I'm the person who voted for Las Vegas to win the President's Trophy.

You were shocking close...

They are in the wcf now. #FleuryIsTooGoodRightNow

Ha. Yeah. It was more dumb luck than anything tbh. I wasn't aware of exactly how much the NHL gifted Vegas in the expansion draft until very recently. They had more players to choose from than any expansion team had prior to them.

Chris Hu said:
Well it looks like the Capitals will win it in five.

Maaaaybeeee. I'm hoping the Capitals win, but it's not over yet.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

Washington will have 3 chances to win the cup. If they don't they will still be chokers.



The Knights are not much of a physical team, they are much more finesse. The Caps are similar, but can bring a physical presence if they really need to. You can see it has taken a toll on Vegas over the series and they don't know how to deal with it. They should be doing everything to play keep away and stay off the boards at all costs.

I think they made a big mistake tonight. They weren't coming back short of a miracle and should have just played defense and allowed Washington to coast. This is what led to the two Vegas goals in the third. The Caps had gotten lazy and cocky already. Vegas clearly decided to make a go of it and try to pull off a five goal comeback, which was a huge gamble. It didn't pay off and not surprisingly, the Caps woke up fairly quickly and held down the fort.

Then Vegas decides to make an even worse decision, and give everything they got to put on a good show and try to intimidate Washington, which was completely a lost cause. All they did was let the Caps know not to show up for the next game thinking they were going to walk away with an easy victory. That is EXACTLY what you would want them to think though. Let them have a super easy victory tonight and let them get lazy and cocky and assume they can stroll into Vegas and take candy from a baby. Then hopefully Vegas shows up to play and slaps them around, crushing their hype, getting themselves back into the series on a high with a chance to keep up momentum.

I worry the Caps are on the ball and know exactly what they have to do now, and are going to make Vegas execute to perfection to have a chance of defeating them. I've got nothing against the Caps because a few of them have waited long enough, I'd just prefer Vegas to win. Seems like they've run out of tricks though.