In the interest of avoiding the leafs and oilers sportsnet pep rally, just watched the post-game interviews on the knights website- cassidy, saad and stone. Stone surprisingly lackadaisical, like they played ok, just 'execution in the neutral zone' was the problem. Saad a little more critical saying they didn't play up to their standards in the second and third.
Cassidy, obviously, with a more realistic take, but still chalked it up to taking penalties, then top guys are tired, then oilers got a lucky one. Did say the oilers were better tonight. VGK has been there before so they are obviously not panicking but, as somebody who wasn't able to watch the game, how in the blue hell does vegas get 1 shot on net on AHL tweener pickard? And nurse/bouchard and their clown show? I get McDiver and Deutchebag are hard to handle, but they should be feasting on the rest of that roster. What is a bit concerning is scrubs like Brown scoring.
Obviously tweedledum and tweedledee will get their points, so seems like you need to be scoring at least 4 on the oilers with proper defense. Knights obviously have more poise than the Kings.
Dammit, this is just feeling like last year all over again. I was honestly expecting the knights to win 6-1 tonight. What happens after that in the series who knows, but losing convincingly at home is an awful start.
Of all the teams left in the playoffs, at this point it's Dallas and Florida that give me hope against the north alberta pigs.
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