# NHL April 2018 & post-season **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 2, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611 "2018-04-02T00:27:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/221 "2018-05-25T01:20:40Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Practice was packed today; standing room only; people were standing at the windows to the rink 3 deep even. For practice? I’ve never heard of a packed rink for practice. Excellent to hear of the enthusiasm. Meanwhile I hear, here and there, on tv, the internet, and whatnot, fellow Canadians griping along the lines of “aaaaa, after a Knights’ game is over they’ll immediately forget about the game as soon as they walk outta there.” :rolleyes: There’s so many ways I could address that goofy pettiness, but suffice it to say: > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > And for this city, for this valley, it is amazing. Knights logos are absolutely everywhere. I grew up in South Florida in the late '70s and early '80s and Dolphin paraphernalia was nowhere near as prevalent as Knights stuff is here. I mean, this is even giving late '80s & early '90s Tallahassee-&-FSU gear a run for the money; it looks like a gang took over the valley. Who gives a flying turtle’s fuck if the fans don’t have the knowledge of a Habs crowd (one of the butt-hurt complaints I’ve heard). They’re enjoying an upstart winning team; kinda neat that all they know, so far, is winning, while toadstools up here bemoan not having seen a Cup on this side of the border since '93, which, while not being the rosiest picture, more or less comes across to me as jealousy when they somehow try to conflate it with the VGK’s success. Don’t blame McPhee for the brilliant way he’s been handling matters. Neat - so McPhee’s up against his old team from last year. I’ll bet he’s bit-chompin’. No way should any sane person put, like, _any_ money on this series. I wouldn’t put it past VGK to be down 3-0 and come back to bring the series to 7. (ok - an extreme longshot, sure, but I’ve been seeing a couple longshots already this season.) ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/222 "2018-05-25T01:31:03Z")
The schedule for the finals is a travesty. Vegas gets iced for over a week? They’re going to be very rusty by the time the finals start. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/223 "2018-05-25T02:42:39Z")
Holtby has third best all-time playoff GA at 2.01 (min. 50 games) and second best all-time play-off sv. pct. at .930 (min. 35 games) Uh, wow. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/224 "2018-05-25T02:43:37Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Neat - so McPhee’s up against his old team from last year. I’ll bet he’s bit-chompin’. No way should any sane person put, like, _any_ money on this series. I wouldn’t put it past VGK to be down 3-0 and come back to bring the series to 7. (ok - an extreme longshot, sure, but I’ve been seeing a couple longshots already this season.) Minor correction. McPhee was fired by the Caps in 2014 and he worked for the Islanders briefly before being hired by Vegas a year before they started play. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/225 "2018-05-25T03:15:55Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > Minor correction. McPhee was fired by the Caps in 2014 and he worked for the Islanders briefly before being hired by Vegas a year before they started play. :smack: Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/226 "2018-05-25T03:33:02Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Holtby has third best all-time playoff GA at 2.01 (min. 50 games) and second best all-time play-off sv. pct. at .930 (min. 35 games) > > Uh, wow. How are his and Fleury’s stats for this post season? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/227 "2018-05-25T04:27:33Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > How are his and Fleury’s stats for this post season? Yeah Fleury’s been on fire, eh? After three rounds - 1.68 /.947. Like I was saying earlier, should be a shoo-in for the Conn Smythe. The all-time list, though - 38th, at 2.53 / .913, which most teams would be more or less happy with. Hotlby’s not doing too shabbily (awesome adverb of the day) at 2.04 / .924\*, and because of [his](https://www.google.com/search?q=holtby&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwie4Yb9gKDbAhVo7IMKHWxSAagQ_AUICygC&biw=1023&bih=824)likeness to [Kevin Pillar](https://www.google.com/search?q=kevin+pillar&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmydzQgKDbAhWh64MKHRXiAJoQ_AUICigB&biw=1023&bih=824), it’ll be interesting to see if he maintains those numbers next round. Please don’t ask me to explain. fucking jesus: fucking _Monday_ \*This year’s playoffs ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/228 "2018-05-25T06:07:05Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Yeah Fleury’s been on fire, eh? After three rounds - 1.68 /.947. Like I was saying earlier, should be a shoo-in for the Conn Smythe. The all-time list, though - 38th, at 2.53 / .913, which most teams would be more or less happy with. 😛 > [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Hotlby’s not doing too shabbily (awesome adverb of the day) at 2.04 / .924\*, and because of [his](https://www.google.com/search?q=holtby&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwie4Yb9gKDbAhVo7IMKHWxSAagQ_AUICygC&biw=1023&bih=824)likeness to [Kevin Pillar](https://www.google.com/search?q=kevin+pillar&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmydzQgKDbAhWh64MKHRXiAJoQ_AUICigB&biw=1023&bih=824), it’ll be interesting to see if he maintains those numbers next round. > > Please don’t ask me to explain. Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! That is bizarre and I would never have known it had you not pointed it out. Now that you have, I can’t unknow it (of course; that was prolly your point, eh). ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/229 "2018-05-26T03:25:10Z")
I can’t deal with the head-exploding undertaking of posting a pic here, so just click on the top-left box (Fleury) [here.](https://www.google.com/search?q=fleury+puck+juggling+-+gif&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b) (requires a click on next page too, to eventually see the puck-juggling gif) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/230 "2018-05-26T19:44:38Z")
[Today’s feel-good piece about the Knights](https://apnews.com/ea218274df764db3be1d3dca9077a3de/Column:-A-golden-marriage-between-team-and-city-in-Las-Vegas): > [@](#): > > They call themselves the “Golden Misfits” because they all ended up in Las Vegas after being discarded by other teams. Even Gallant was unceremoniously dumped from his last job, kicked off the team bus after being fired by the Florida Panthers. > > They came to this gambling city wanting to be wanted again. And a city that waited 112 years for a major sports franchise to call its own responded with open arms. > > The games are all sellouts, of course. But the practices have also become events to see and be seen, with hundreds of fans crowding the team’s practice rink in the planned community of Summerlin where most players live. > > And everywhere people wear Golden Knights hats and shirts and talk about strange things like icing and forechecking. > > “I see it every day of practice when you got 800 people watching our practices,” Gallant said. “It’s definitely not one on one with people, but you see the fan support that we get is unbelievable. They love our players, they love our team, and they love what’s going on, and I know our players appreciate the things they do for us.” It was at least 800 people on Thursday. The line to get in went out the building and around the corner, and judging by how long it took people to file in, it went down the side of the arena and maybe around the back corner too. I’m pretty sure that every spot in the parking lot was taken for about 90 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/231 "2018-05-27T02:28:10Z")
So is Vegas holding watch-parties for home games too or just away ones? And do they charge, or is like in Pittsburgh, where you can just show up and watch on the lawn, aka “Mario’s TV”. (Apparently the league wasn’t too thrilled when Mario first did that!) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/232 "2018-05-27T04:07:42Z")
There’s an enormous video wall hanging in the T-Mobile Pavilion (outside the Arena) where people can watch for free. Henderson Pavilion is a fantastic outdoor setting with seating for a couple thousand; they’ll host a party. And City National Arena, where the team practices, will host a watch party as well. > **[Prep underway for Golden Knights watch parties](https://www.8newsnow.com/news/prep-underway-for-golden-knights-watch-parties/1197733982/)** > > If fans can’t make it to the “fortress” Monday night, watch parties are taking place across the valley with the Stanley Cup Final on the horizon. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/233 "2018-05-28T17:28:39Z")
I have no money riding on the outcome of this series (or any single game, even) but I’'m gonna go ahead and make a prediction in the spirit of a giddy, ridiculously overconfident fan: Knights in 4. And Fleury only gives up 3 goals in the entire series. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/234 "2018-05-29T01:14:22Z")
Wow, I only caught a little bit of the first, but both teams are on fire. I don’t envy the goalies. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/235 "2018-05-29T02:01:49Z")
The ice is in terrible condition. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/236 "2018-05-29T02:31:51Z")
Fleury scores for the Caps! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/237 "2018-05-29T02:36:06Z")
And the refs score for vegas. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/238 "2018-05-29T03:08:02Z")
woot ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/239 "2018-05-29T13:49:09Z")
I must say I did not expect 10 goals in the first game. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611/240 "2018-05-29T23:19:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Game 2 is Wednesday night on the Strip. Both teams intend to channel their nervous energy more constructively after an entertainingly ramshackle opener. [😛](https://apnews.com/6d0bc5b090d642fdb8a967d7fca6aad5/Knights,-Caps-try-to-keep-their-cool-in-Vegas-at-Cup-Final) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2018-post-season/811611.md?page=13)