I'm not sour that they're ahead of us at all, though of course I want us to pass them. That team is just such a perfect storm for unexpected success, nobody would have foreseen Florida's ownership selling the team's soul to Vegas for peanuts, nor nearly all of their expansion draft choices panning out. If they're ahead of us while running our own former number 5/6 Deryk Engelland on their top pairing at times, all the power to them. Gallant is a hell of a coach and McPhee has done generally pretty well managing them, with a few mistakes as to be expected. It seems to get forgotten that despite the success this is a team built largely off of the 3rd and 4th liners, some young unproven prospects, and only a couple older players they were fortunate to grab.
There's some luck of course, this is a lightning in a bottle team like the Avs a few years ago, or the Hartley Flames a couple years ago. There were no expectations on this team whatsoever, just like the two teams mentioned above, so they've been going out night in and night out, having fun playing the game, and that's been a winning formula for them. I've watched or listened to every game the Knights have played thus far, and I can't help but laugh they're just such a fun team, they can be trailing in almost any game and they're virtually never out of it, because with a single goal they seem to storm right back like they did against the Lightning yesterday.
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