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Youre trolling. No one called Vegas to even glimpse the playoffs this year, including yourself. Youre arguing this all after the fact just to argue. GMs gifted Vegas that roster and pick spread with their panic trades leading into the expansion. Its well documented and talked about. And even then their roster isnt that good on paper. Their season has been a product of MAF, Gallants intense system and relaxed coaching, and a group of players with a chip on their shoulders playing an 110% team first game at 110%. Its a great underdog story, and theres already talks it will be made into a movie if they win it all. This is unprecendented in the world of sports. Seattles probably not goona be as good because i think a lot of GMs are learning their lesson right now bc of how stupid they look. Youre either trolling or clueless. Im not gonna engage either. Peace.

This. I wanted Gallant here when Florida got rid of him... Also, Fleury is playing out of his mind in most, if not all, of these post season games. Yup. Seemed like a dumb decision at the time, and it only seems worse now...

This 100%! Especially the bolded. You did forget Anaheim though, who traded Theodore to protect Vatanen. That was probably the dumbest move of all. It was not the league that "gifted" Vegas with a Cup contending team, it was the dumbass GM's that gave away great players to protect mediocre players. There is nothing wrong with the new expansion draft rules, but there won't be any of those stupid side deals when Seattle pick their team. If every team just protected their 7 best forwards, 3 best defensemen and one goalie, and there were no trades to protect additional players, Vegas wouldn't have been half as good as they are. Maybe a playoff team (probably not though), but not a division winner, and definitely not a Stanley Cup finalist (maybe winner). Why should an expansion team have to be terrible for a decade? That's the dumbest thing ever. The way it's set up now, they should still be bad, just not '74 Capitals bad. I'd put a significant wager that Seattle will have a losing record in their inaugural season, and likely won't make the playoffs. The format will be the same, but the GM's won't make the same dumb mistakes they made last year. It's really funny that you're acting as if you or anyone in the hockey world seen this coming. Before the season started very few expected Vegas to make the playoffs, let alone win the Cup. They came out of the gate firing on all cylinders and haven't slowed down one bit. After the first month, everyone was saying, they'll come back down to earth by Christmas break. They didn't. Then everyone said this won't last through the All-Star break. It did. Then everyone said playoffs is a completely different game, they won't get out of the first round. They swept them. The Ducks didn't put up much of a fight, they won't get past the Sharks. They beat them in 6. The Sharks are choke artists, there's no way they'll get past the juggernaut Jets. They beat them in 5. The Jets were tired after a 7 game series against the Preds, there's no way they'll beat the Lightning / Capitals in the finals... to be continued... Unbelievable underdog story. The fact that you're trying to downplay it, or blame the league or whatever is hilarious.

Kinda wishing I'd put money on my preseason prediction that Vegas would make the SCF. What. a. story.

Part of me sort of believes this...

Matt Cane just came out with his Free Agent predictions for this off-season. Here are a few notables... RFA's Larkin - 6 years at $6,320,945 Mantha - 2 years at $4,503,347 Athanasiou - 2 years at $1,881,831 Bertuzzi - 2 years at $1,057,648 Frk - 1 year at $1,017,035 UFA's Green - 5 years at $5,639,168 Tavares - 8 years at $10,734,881 Carlson - 8 years at $8,635,489 I'd prefer to get Larkin locked up for the max 8 years, but $6-6.5M would be a good deal for both sides. I'd also prefer to get Mantha locked up long term. Around $5-5.5M for 6 years would be what I'd like to see. I'd be okay with 3 of those deals for Athanasiou (1.75-2.25M), Bertuzzi ($1-1.5M) and Frk (1-1.25M). I don't think Green will get close to that, but if he does, Holland better stay far away. 2-3 years max at a much lower cap hit. And again, if we're bringing Green back, he better be willing to move another defenseman. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q-Pnzfvmo_1hDlWu7WqJHVyTZqy15386jVESKSOf0V4/htmlview?sle=true#gid=0

“Vegas is rigged!” Five guys on the Golden Knights got a point in Game 5. Three of them have played less than 100 NHL games. The other two were Ryan Reaves and Luca Sbisa.

I dont know, voodoo. The same can be said for Marchessault.

Its already been announced that Seattle draft would be the same that Vegas got and that Vegas will be protected. There should definitely be an embarrassment, but that is on the other GMs, not on the expansion draft. GMs gave out NTCs, NMCs and were forced to protect players they probably would not have. 1) The Florida Panthers traded Reilly Smith in exchange for Vegas selecting Jonathan Marchessault and a fourth-round pick in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. Florida wanted to lose Smith’s contract, but didn’t want Demers to be claimed. 2) The Pittsburgh Penguins traded their second-round pick in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Vegas selecting Marc-Andre Fleury. 3) The Minnesota Wild traded Alex Tuch in exchange for Vegas selecting Erik Haula and a conditional third-round pick in the 2017 or 2018 NHL Entry Draft. Minnesota wanted to protect Dumba. 4) The Columbus Blue Jackets traded their first-round pick in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, a second-round pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft and David Clarkson in exchange for Vegas selecting William Karlsson. Columbus wanted to protect Korpisalo and Anderson.

It absolutely is an underdog story. Everyone looked over their roster before the season began and concluded they'd be lucky to make the playoffs this season.

Thats where ur sorely mistaken nancy Held a girls hand in the 7th grade once Was hot AF 10/10 would do again

Just because she runs on batteries doesn't mean she's not real. Don't be a #fembotaphobe.

Yeah, because people in America really care about the Jets. They haven't been important since they had Joe Namath at QB.

Or we should be kicking Holland in his tires!