Quoting: TheThunder
Are the Canadians deeper than VGK? No
TB? NO NYI?No I'll be shocked if they take VGK to game 6 before they give Them the congratulatory handshake. Beating Toronto didn't surprise me the way it happened did,but not the results. Historically teams that play 7 and face a team that swept the previous round win that series at an almost 3/4 clip so again no big shock here to me. Now they have REALLY TOUGH COMPETITION
Have you made the same kind of comment to other teams over the years?
Vegas 2017-18: Congratulations on making it out of the by far weakest division.now You have to play teams that actually defend, and are deep.
San Jose in 2018-19: Congratulations on making it out of the by far weakest division.now You have to play teams that actually defend, and are deep.
Likely not yet they've both came out of the weakest division and that just shows your bias. The reality is that both Toronto and Winnipeg were in the leagues top 12 in goals for (3.32 and 3.04GF) but when facing Montreal's new age trap they could only get a 2.18GF average, yeah Tavares and Scheifele were out so there was a little help from Mrs Luck but let's not kid ourselves thinking they would've been able to contribute to a goal per game. Reality is that Montreal's defensive system in the playoff has been suffocating opposite offenses and our top 4 (Weber, Petry, Eddy, Chiarot) were all cherry picked from western teams for a purpose, they're used to Western type of games.
I'm not saying I'm convinced Montreal is going to win against Vegas but everyone is already scratching them off their board like they did through the first two rounds and like they've done in 2012 with the Kings, if we weren't playing the games Colorado and Tampa Bay would already be in the Stanley Cup finals so wait for games to be played and enjoy.