Thorny

And I’m sorry, if you want my heart of hearts truth: I don’t have disdain for your position I find it humorous. Jack won. it’s over. You lost. There’s no taking that Cup away and he led the playoffs in scoring to do it The more you post about your hatred for him the better - I fought that war for so long and the vindication is ever so sweet

I’m not really sure what to say: everything my understanding of hockey over the course of my life has told me is that these guys toughing it out through a laundry list of injuries during the playoffs isn’t just normal it’s so expected guys like Matthews get lambasted when they sit out. There’s nothing magical about Mark Stone “miraculously” being ready: he was ready only because pain tolerance goes up by choice in the playoffs. He contributed because he’s mark freaking stone but if you watched the games he was NOT good. Slow. Laboured. He gave an interview today where he said they lost because they needed a better regular season/first round matchup was tough. They aren’t trying to avoid playing their guys in the regular season they are simply using a questionable rule to their advantage

What about if the Amerks win the Calder cup this season? Does that shift the narrative of Adams’ performance in 23-24?

This is infuriating practice from the organization if true

It’s a powerful potion because there’s, unfortunately, a lot of logic in it on its face: if you are merely rooting against a team to NOT win a title, it’s more less a Monty Hall switcharoo where your long odds are flipped: very likely you “get what you want” every year

If the teams doing our dirty work are Dallas and Boston, it defeats the purpose With you. my lone exception/guilty pleasure is the Jets, but that’s a home town team dynamic

“Destruction of traditional team building principles.” lol ok Kevyn

What are you even talking about? It’s not a surprise, at all, that a non-healthy Stone would decline game 82 of the regular season and suck it up for a playoff game. Use your noggin Occam’s razor just once Teams have been doing the LTIR then back for playoffs thing for ages. Tampa did it. Your issue is with the league, not the teams Vegas just burns more (by the way, you should get that checked out) because of how much Eichel lives in your head rent free. You can admit that, right? They aren’t sitting a healthy stone out to expose and take advantage of a loophole: that’s a conspiracy theory. They are utilizing an arguably unfair rule because they have a legitimate injury

He wasn’t very good in the series and was clearly not 100%. Keep being big mad

Apparently that’s about it, any sort of actual success would be setting up for disappointment

Disagree

Only reasonably decently likeable teams left are Colorado and Florida Ya especially when you play the 1 seed in round 1. Good series

Jack’s was at least a great opportunity he created from nothing he couldn’t bury. Marchessault just egregiously missed The announcers were losing their ***** about Dallas changing their guys…It wasn’t icing!!! lol

I find it odd round 2 started already

Bahston strikes back

If Amerks win this series I think we can reasonably argue the Adams plan is on schedule

Exactly. We felt, and are still feeling the natural effects of employing that strategy. We make fun of it because it happened: it’s part of the reason we haven’t made the playoffs under this regime.

More on the stars for sure. For the reasons you said, and the fact Vegas just won the cup

Gutsy move to go to Hill for game 6. Paid off. Sick snipe by Hanafin. Eichel’s been the best skater in the series, phenomenal two way play game 7

Makes sense. I always go with Daigle