Modifié 14 juin 2023 à 0 h 43
Quoting: GiggywithGibby
Vegas gives me a lot less superteam vibes. Last year to this year they lost Pacioretty and effectively Lehner, and their "Loading up" was Barbashev, Bleuger, San Jose's third goalie, and the ghosts of Jonathan Quick and Phil Kessel, neither of whole they used in any capacity in the playoffs.
They were just built right this year, and wanted to win.
Yeah, Florida had fits with Boston, but they rolled through Toronto and Carolina without much trouble, so I'm dubious about it being much easier to get to the cup finals for the knights.
If you look at Toronto series, yeah it was 4-1 but Florida only scored 4 more goals than the Leafs, lot of close games. Similarly with Carolina who they beat in 4 (but essentially played 5 games), they won by 4 goals, which really just means they won 4 games by a goal and that was quite literally the case in the entire Carolina series and for 3/4 wins in Toronto. Their loss was also a 1-goal game. So, it wasn't easy at all.
Vegas against WPG and EDM was pretty much a blowout in every game, win or lose, and the two close one's were a 4-3 and 6-4 game. Against Dallas, they had 4 close games (2 wins) and two blowout wins, overall it was a tight series though with 3 games decided in OT.
The Finals were two tight games and 3 blowouts in favor of Vegas.
The Vegas misfits looked pretty good, too good even which is why Seattle had tighter rules. Since, then they added Eichel, Stone, and Pietrangelo to their squad. 3 superstars+the misfits (who are pretty much all high end players) is enough to just add Barbashev as the big acquisition.
I think the big difference is that in the East it's the goaltenders neutralizing the superstars/super teams while in the West it's other superstar/star forwards and defenseman.