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Ka-nih-gits.

None of this is acceptable. Shameful. He's not a Tkachuk.

The refs have ruined this series.

He'd have more value if he proves himself to be a valuable playoff asset. Of course, at that point we might wind up keeping him around.

You forgot the poll option of "WTF is this s#^t?"

I'm tickled this thread is still around after 12 years.

I don't know if the parenthetical is warranted in this case. With Dahlin there are no caveats - you have to sign him no matter what.

I hope he's not out for the rest of the series. He's, like, a third of the reason I'm watching. It's the NHL. Plus, Tkachuk has been a real ass this series. The refs are doing Florida a favour.

Oof. Clean hit but brutal.

Vegas has been the more disciplined team through 4.5 periods, Bob lost his mojo through no fault of his own and Hill is playing lights out. Florida desperately needs to find a way to score a goal.

An interesting plot twist in the third. Tkachuk completely wrecked the Panthers.

This game is not disappointing.

So, we really need to update our game-day presentation.

Can't win more solidly than that. I thought Eichel's post-game interview showed a different Eichel than the one we had here. Time does amazing things. Yup. Both teams have highly competent forward groups and hot goalies. It's going to boil down to which team is grittier.

How much of Krebs game did he learn from KO?

I'm not Paul Maurice, sorry.

Paul Maurice wants to tell you a quick story.

Vegas has nothing left in the tank. Dallas has dug deep and found a well to tap into. Pretty interesting to witness the momentum swing. I wonder if Hill starts the next game.

He has a lot of assets on hand at this point to make a real splash.

Yeesssss...

Situations like these are like personality or psychological tests. We really have no idea why the event did not unfold in a traditional manner and therefore we fill in the gaps with our imagination, unable to bear the burden of not recognizing a pattern that makes sense. We thusly put on display the contents of our psyches through whatever we choose to fill the gaps with and also show how much (or little) we can suffer a non-linear narrative. Maybe we should just wait until Johnson and KA talk to the press about the process they went through instead of painting either into this or that corner.

Technically I believe it'd be called an abusive ad hominem fallacy.

Hmm...a lot of people are not going to be pleased to read this.

Dallas won by the skin of their teeth. Are we surprised McNabb cost them that goal? Vegas will win this but neither team is a match for Florida. We could see a sweep in the SCFs.

This game will be going down to the wire the way it's going.