Thorny

I don’t know, does he? Was curious as to what was informing your opinion The amount I follow the league and its players as a whole has cratered in the last 2-3 years. Think Frodo and Sam as they strip off all their outer cloaks and pans and weapons and stuff when trying to fight through that final stretch of their treacherous journey through an utter wasteland.

Why not?

Agree. Would rather a depth piece but maybe that’s what a 2nd could garner in a further move

Here’s the Smythe voting. Jack finished 2nd. Hill was 3rd. Marchessault got 13 first place votes, Eichel got the other 5. No one else was close. Voting points: Jonathan Marchessault, Vegas: 80 points (13 first place votes) Jack Eichel, Vegas: 56 points (5 first place votes) Adin Hill, Vegas: 17 points Mark Stone, Vegas: 8 points Matthew Tkachuk, Florida: 1 point

I’ve argued that for 2 years. But, it certainly continued, regardless. So, today, the chickens are certainly coming home to roost, in a manner of speaking.

Said in the moment they absolutely were looking for a sound byte. Jack was obviously super emotional but I thought was reasonably diligent in not throwing shade. He more spoke about how much adversity he had to go through, and, side with him or not, clearly he did.

Reciprocate what?

Jack doesn’t have a problem with Adams. He’s got a problem with Terry. That’s my theory anyways. JE has always said reasonable things about KA. Jack was disappointed in the directions the Sabres took BEFORE KA was GM, and disappointed in ownership’s apparent willingness to allow KA to long form rebuild. I don’t think he would shade KA on his actual aptitude in rebuilding, he merely (fairly) didn’t want to be a part of it. I doubt he thinks, or cares about what the Sabres have been up to since. And in fact after yesterday I guarantee he doesn’t.

Rebuild failed in part because of how difficult the tank made it. Strategy was faulty

His goalie cost him the national college title too with an all time gaffe lol I bet you he never he got over that, until yesterday

Absurd. It’s as much to do with Jack as any other one player on that team, and more than most. They said as much themselves. The fact they had several crucial players is exactly the point. That’s the only way to build a Cup winner. No player does it without a stacked team. Not a one. ”Well I’m not sure he was even all that important”. None of this stuff would ever enter the conversation for any other Cup winning team’s 1C. He’s their 1C! And led the playoffs in scoring, WITH dominant defense. Wayne Gretzky said he was the rightful Smythe winner for jeepers sakes. I think Wayne knows Puck.

If THAT’s the victory, it illustrates how significant the “L” was.

Can’t see it on my phone sorry

At least we got a happy ending

https://thehockeynews.com/.amp/news/point-men-the-active-and-all-time-scoring-leaders-for-all-31-nhl-teams ”scoring” is commonly used to refer to points. There’s a quick example ^

Scoring. Points scoring ya. 26, led the playoffs

“He definitely helped” he *led the playoffs in scoring* as their 200 ft 1C assisting on 9 of the Smythe winner’s 13 goals Ya, I’d say he helped

Im glad he led the playoffs in points to make up for it

Better team by far won. Happy for Jack

Eichel leads the 2022-23 Stanley cup playoffs in Points

From what Friedman said (he has a vote) the voters are down to a choice between Marchessault and Eichel for Smythe so I expect them to be 1/2 if Vegas holds on. Probably Marchessault first given how they were speaking Gretzky picked Eichel fwiw lol

At the risk of jinxing it

The final payment

Eichel might have won the Smythe with that shift