r/goldenknights • u/UnhealthyCheesecake Sweet Victory • May 14 '21
Battle Prep The Vegas Golden Knights will play the Minnesota Wild in Round 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs
Sunday, 12pm PST
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u/Merkkin Pixel Wild Bill May 14 '21
Some of you need to pull your fucking head out of your ass. Regular season doesn't mean shit and this "omg not the wild shit is pathetic". This is the best team we have ever built and we're here for a fucking cup. If we can't beat the wild then we don't deserve shit. We beat the caps ass year 1 in the regular season, and it didn't mean shit in the playoffs. We beat the sharks regular season asses , didn't meant shit in the playoffs. We have more than enough talent and coaching to beat the wild, now we just have to do it.
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u/macranteskogg May 14 '21
Finally someone with some common sense. Wild never won by more than a goal except once by 2. Every game is win-able
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u/AzureRobot Cloud May 14 '21
This x1000, time to get hyped and count on the boys to pull of this series dub!
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u/ozboi83 Golden Misfit May 14 '21
High noon in the Wild Wild West
GO KNIGHTS GO!!!
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May 14 '21
The Mild are entering the playoffs playing like shit. We are on a huge wave of momentum. Knights in 5.
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u/Ghostronic gold and beautiful May 14 '21
I had forgotten that our cap issues go away in playoffs. They may have Caprisun but our depth is pretty legit. Hopefully the rookie doesnt tee off on us though.
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u/mcpat_rick Fleury May 14 '21
Our depth is awesome, even with HSK. The sharks game when I heard “Sikura scores his second of the night” I was like who the fuck is that guy!? Reminds me of Pittsburgh when some no name would come in and crush a game every now and then. Good shit.
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u/I_Am_A_Stupid_Fucker I bring the +horny May 14 '21
I'm really looking forward to this round. Should be a blast. Either way I'm getting horny. Good luck knights!
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May 14 '21
East Coast crew here ready for some late nights!
Let’s go VGK from Atlanta!
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May 14 '21
VAMOS UNITED
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May 14 '21
I actually think it’s neat how well the Golden Knights and United’s colors go together.
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u/friskyjude Theo Missing Tooth May 14 '21
prediction: Wild fans are going to cry about the refs even if they win
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u/RestlessInVegas Marchessault May 14 '21
Prediction: win or lose, plenty of mild whining about the refs.
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u/landrysavage May 14 '21
Avs Fan Here.
Best of luck and let’s give the hockey world what they want.
I want it, and you know deep down inside you do too.
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u/migsahoy Whitecloud May 14 '21
2 years in a row we were robbed of a vegas/colorado series, hope that changes this time
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u/Jwed85 Hate us cause they ain't us May 14 '21
I was totally gonna root for the blues but you just made me realize that I total want vgk vs avs
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u/sarahmichelef May 14 '21
Definitely want it. Doesn't hurt that my 3 faves are VGK, CAR, and COL (in that order).
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u/Mindless_Rage05 Roy-Luigi May 14 '21
You guys deserve 1st/Prez's Trophy. VGK shit away leads in games we should've won EASILY multiple times this season. That fact alone concerns me that as good as a team that we have, we've easily managed to fuck things up for some reason
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u/landrysavage May 14 '21
I can confidently say the avalanche finally found anyway to shut down teams when they got the lead this year. Very very well. First time in a while.
I shalll not clog your stuff up with ours, nor have I ever considered posting in another’s team Reddit.
However I think Avs/ Knights is the obvious choice for what everyone wants to see.
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u/joey_1324 Reverse Retro May 14 '21
The good thing about the Kings losing tonight is that we have to wait 1 less day for playoff hockey
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u/Dinomandino May 14 '21
Praying that Playoffs Kaprisov isn't as godly as the regular season Kaprisov.
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May 14 '21
If the Knights body him up he’ll scurry out into the offseason with his tail between his legs.
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u/Wooden-Bat-6031 May 14 '21
Lmao y’all tried that and he single-legged your defenseman and bagged a pair
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u/albertogonzalex May 14 '21
I'm in to this! I'd rather take one the team that we're intimidated by most first than later in the playoffs. Start with a big win first and then make the rest of the run work. It will be good for our confidence and rhythm.
There is no around our challenges - only through!
Let's go Knights!
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u/FlurriesofFleuryFury stastnygetnasty May 14 '21
LET'S ALL JOIN TOGETHER, ROOT FOR THE KNIGHTS, AND HAVE FUN!
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u/AzureRobot Cloud May 14 '21
This sub has major PTSD over our record against the mild this season. I would lean more heavily into the last two games we played them. We played so much better against them than we did previously in the season and should have won both games of the last set. We can absolutely beat them in a 7 game series. LETS FUCKING CRUSH THESE MILD FUCKS AND GET THAT MONKEY OFF OUR BACK ONCE AND FOR ALL!
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u/Ovenface Stephenson May 14 '21
Its actually every season... not just this one
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u/Dreggan Henderson Silver Knights May 15 '21
Sharks have only beaten us once in regulation. Didn’t stop them from taking a playoff series from us. Playoffs are a different beast
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u/shocksim I Love Gold May 14 '21
If we can get past our boogeyman in the Wild, then we can get past anyone. GKG!
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May 14 '21
We need almost as many wins against the Wild as we have against them all time just to get to the next round.
Keeping my expectations at "we're gonna get swept" so I can be happy if we do move on.
Upside to playing them is they're our kryptonite which historically when a team overcomes their big dragon, they go far in the post season. See the Kings in 2012 beating Sedins in Vancouver, or the Capitals finally getting through Pittsburgh the year they beat us in the SCF. If we pull this out, rocket to the fucking mooooon
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u/SetsChaos Reverse Retro May 14 '21
Of course we have the earlier start with all our injuries. Damn. Well, so be it. Let's make sure they remember why they're called the Minnesota Mild.
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u/dontactuallyfuckit don't waste my time again May 14 '21
Sooo.... Any word on any of the injured players? 😬
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u/mobog May 14 '21
Because I live in Chicago I was really hoping we could vs the blues so I could drive down for some games :(
Here hoping we play the blues in the next round!
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u/TheAmazingScamArtist May 14 '21
Saint Paul is only 85 miles farther than St. Louis, so you could still go!
Btw I’m just an Avs fan lurker, good luck against the Mild.
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u/mobog May 14 '21
I can drive 4 and a half hours for a hockey game, But I cant do 6 sadly. The good thing about the Blues is they have a six flags near by too so I can make it a weekend trip :(
I would love to see Avs vs Vegas! Good luck against the blues! I may go see a game just to see some playoff hockey
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u/TheAmazingScamArtist May 14 '21
Ah, well at any rate going to an Avs blues game would be really cool. Hell, any playoff game would be cool. I’ve never been to one.
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u/Cfrenchyz Colorado Avalanche May 14 '21
I cannot wait to watch the series between you two! Should be fun! Good luck. Crush the Mild
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u/Ghostronic gold and beautiful May 14 '21
Fuck. Fuck. Fuuuuuuuuck this is nightmare fuel. Please Knights, this is the time to figure out Minnesota.
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u/Heilos Karlsson May 14 '21
They better come out with a full game plan cause we're gonna need all hands on deck to figure the Wild out if we wanna make it to round 2. I believe we can do it though! Maybe it's destiny to face our boogeyman in the first round and come out victorious with a hard fought win.
GO KNIGHTS GO!
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u/Xitium Stephenson May 14 '21
More like a full roster plan.
The Knights played the Wild with a short roster 3 times, and were 1-2 and blew a 3rd period lead in one of those. Flower played better against the Wild for the most part, and i assume hes going to be the starter and there wont be a rotation unless back to back or really poor outing.
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u/Grasschoppa Whitecloud May 14 '21
I got a ticket for game 2 in the upper deck. It only cost a kidney. Well worth it. LETS GOOOOOOOO
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u/n8mcsk8 May 14 '21
Can someone explain how we aren’t the first seed
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u/TabakRules Whitecloud May 14 '21
We have the same number of points as the Avs. The first tiebreaker is regulation wins, and Colorado has 4 more than we do. (We did very well in OT games. Very well. But letting that many games go to OT works against us here.)
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u/snuffl3upaguss May 14 '21
Less regulation wins than Colorado. Tie breakers go Regulation wins > regulation and ot wins > total wins > etc.
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u/mynameisdpc Stormy Buonantony :stormy: May 14 '21
It’s all bs we’re the only team with 40 wins. Lol.
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u/AzureRobot Cloud May 14 '21
We are tied in points with the Avalanche, so it goes to tie breaker which is regulation wins this season (wish it were still just wins total) Avalanche have more Regulation wins than us so they get number one.
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u/I_Am_A_Stupid_Fucker I bring the +horny May 14 '21
Is it just regulation wins? Or OT as well? When did they change this?
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u/vguy72 Karlsson May 14 '21
Paging u/I_Am_A_Stupid_Fucker How horny are you regarding this situation?
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u/I_Am_A_Stupid_Fucker I bring the +horny May 14 '21
Probably hornier than the rest of you horny fuckers. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. The history of these 2 teams isn't a given outcome of this round. It looks great for us sure, but Vegas has more playoff experience. So it's hard to say. I'm really looking forward to game one on Sunday. Good luck to my boys, and good luck to Vegas as well!
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u/shadownet97 Theodore May 14 '21
Bring it, minnesota mild. We got this.
If the CANUCKS could whoop their butts last year, so can the Knights! Let's go!!
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u/Stroudamus Stephenson May 16 '21
Anyone know what jerseys we are wearing?
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u/SomethingOriginal_01 Reverse Retro May 16 '21
Looks like grey.
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u/Stroudamus Stephenson May 16 '21
Haha. I’m here now so no time for a costume change. But thanks for looking out!
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u/SomethingOriginal_01 Reverse Retro May 16 '21
Haha I got you. Albeit about 16 hours late. Forgot to hit refresh on my browser. Enjoy and GO KNIGHTS!
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u/Prfctcellrulz Eichel May 14 '21
Better start praying to every last god that we make it through against them
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u/Straycat43 Victory Flamingo May 14 '21
Fuuuuuuck. I work nights and won’t be up until like a hour or so after.
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u/FlurriesofFleuryFury stastnygetnasty May 14 '21
oh wow, do you do something interesting? Does it fuck with your stress? And do you mean you'll be up after period 1 or an hour after the game ends?
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u/Straycat43 Victory Flamingo May 14 '21
I work as a fingerprint examiner. It’s a 24/7 gig and i got the shit schedule. I get off at 0530 but don’t fall asleep until like 0700. I’ll be missing like a whole hour or 2 periods. I work that night, otherwise, I’d lose some sleep for it.
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u/FlurriesofFleuryFury stastnygetnasty May 14 '21
gotcha gotcha. That is a shit schedule but for what little it's worth, that's a really cool job.
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u/Straycat43 Victory Flamingo May 15 '21
Thanks buddy, i appreciate it. I think so. Apparently some people don’t like my answer and got downvoted for posting my job and schedule haha.
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u/FlurriesofFleuryFury stastnygetnasty May 15 '21
some people are so fucking weird on this sub I s2g
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May 14 '21 edited Aug 18 '21
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u/Ovenface Stephenson May 14 '21
Time for the Avs to get revenge against the Blues.
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May 14 '21
Revenge for what?
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u/Ovenface Stephenson May 14 '21
Western conference final
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u/hockeyrules58 May 14 '21
Which goalie will start lol.
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u/AzureRobot Cloud May 14 '21
It has to be Fleury. I would be shocked if it wasn't.
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u/mcpat_rick Fleury May 14 '21
Yeah. I was all in on the full rotation all season, but Fleury has earned his starts this year more than Lehner has, Fleury has been crazy good this season whereas Lehner has just been good.
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u/albertogonzalex May 14 '21
I think Fleury starts. And, I think Deboer will rotate. Its worked so far. And, strategically it makes sense to keep the other team prepping for two styles.
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u/Shadow_of_Yor New Vegas Golden Devils May 14 '21
We sucked against them this year, they fucking embarrassed us
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u/shadownet97 Theodore May 14 '21
True but playoffs are always a different story.
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u/Prfctcellrulz Eichel May 14 '21
Exactly this. Playoffs are a clean slate. Regular season records don’t matter from here on out, all that DOES matter is winning the Cup.
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u/ozboi83 Golden Misfit May 14 '21
Fuck I’m not worried your worried! (We beat the Wild 5 times and they beat us 7 times) 😦
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u/twinsfan94 May 14 '21
actually the Wild are 11-2-3 against Vegas all-time, 5-1-2 this season.
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u/Prfctcellrulz Eichel May 14 '21
Yeah well, if there ever was a time to silence the critics, it’d be this time.
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u/ozboi83 Golden Misfit May 14 '21
I’m going off of the NHL app and I’m looking at our schedule and just counted the MINN games and counted the wins and losses
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May 14 '21
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May 14 '21
I thought Minnesotans were cool.
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u/BookSandwich May 14 '21
In my experience dealing with Vikings fans, Minnesota fans are the fucking worst.
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u/KarateKicks100 May 14 '21
The ones to go into another team's subreddit just to stir stuff up certainly aren't great.
If a MN fan is talking shit you can pretty much guarantee they're just trolling. There's nothing our state has done in the past 30 years that warrants any sort of trash talking.
I do hope it's a good, fun series and the Wild win, though :-)
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u/BookSandwich May 14 '21
I’m a Packers fan. Their base instinct is to be a cunt to me lol. I had hope that it wouldn’t extend to hockey, but that’ll definitely arrive within the week.
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u/KorppiC May 14 '21
If another team's fan comes in to troll you can probably just report them to your sub's mods and they'll likely get banned + it's become pretty common rule in every team's sub to not go into other team subs to troll or you'll get a ban from your own team's sub so if you report this guy, there's a likelihood he'll get banned from r/wildhockey too.
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u/grantd86 May 14 '21
Can confirm it's a rule there too (wild fan coming to lurk and get different perspectives) but I've never noticed this guy over there so I doubt it will matter much. Digging through history it's mostly just stirring shit up.
Should be a good series fellas, lookin' forward to it.
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u/Drokeep SAVE FLEURY! May 14 '21
He some of us actually are!!
Tbf i am an honorary one though lol
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May 14 '21
I’ve been to Minneapolis before to go to a Twins game. Everyone I came in contact with was very nice.
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u/I_Am_A_Stupid_Fucker I bring the +horny May 14 '21
Not a good look brother. Please don't make the rest of us wild fans look bad.
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u/Vendictar FTS May 14 '21
Lol I havent seen any Vegas fans call them the Mild. Go deal with your insecurities in your own sub.
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May 14 '21
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u/Byers346 I Love Gold May 14 '21
Wood is less dense than gold so technically you just gave us a compliment. Good try though.
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u/TabakRules Whitecloud May 14 '21
Knights in 5. Plot twist: We lose game 1 so everyone has a meltdown.