so a $20 ticket would get you $10,000. Imagine holding one of those tickets! I'm sure there were a handful of people who live in Vegas who purchased such tickets for shits and giggles. Now they are 5 wins away from giggling all the way to the bank :)
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Some of them have had decent numbers in the past but nothing earth shattering.
Hard to believe an expansion team in its first year could win the cup.
GO BOLTS
well now it's getting serious.
It's a terrific story and a really good team with an excellent coach.
I went to two games this season and it is unexplainable being in the arena, it's like a Happening, pool party,night club, show and also a hockey game.
Go Knight's Go!
Was prob Floyd Mayweather
He just can't lose
24 people bet on Leicester winning the Premier League at the start of the season — here's how much they won
It must be fun to get one of those calls.
It must be fun to get one of those calls.
id sell half of it, if possible
It must be fun to get one of those calls.
No idea how they could possibly know who the people are. I often place prop bets, and they know zero about me, I get a ticket and I leave. It's a cash transaction. I mail the ticket back to them when I win (or if i happen to be in Vegas I'd bring it with me).
I don't remember any more scrutiny places on a long shot or higher $$ wager. is there?
Please elaborate on this. Or maybe better yet, please do not.
The NHL has never been better. The league-wide talent quality has never been matched. The diversity (in countries) has never been anything like what we're seeing now, more and more sources of players are being uncovered) most games have playoff like intensity, and hockey is the best sport to watch on TV or live.
Did they botch the expansion draft process? yes, very likely, most expansion teams are brutal for a few years so it seems the league may have over-compensated.
But that point being allowed no one that looked at this LVG roster (and I mean no one) before the season had them even .500 let alone making the playoffs, and certainly not in the SCF. Outside of the fact an expansion team having this much success isn't a good thing in the minds of hockey traditionalists (like myself), it's an incredible story.
This is a true team. Each player is a great story in itself the Golden Misfits
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Please elaborate on this. Or maybe better yet, please do not.
The NHL has never been better. The league-wide talent quality has never been matched. The diversity (in countries) has never been anything like what we're seeing now, more and more sources of players are being uncovered) most games have playoff like intensity, and hockey is the best sport to watch on TV or live.
Did they botch the expansion draft process? yes, very likely, most expansion teams are brutal for a few years so it seems the league may have over-compensated.
But that point being allowed no one that looked at this LVG roster (and I mean no one) before the season had them even .500 let alone making the playoffs, and certainly not in the SCF. Outside of the fact an expansion team having this much success isn't a good thing in the minds of hockey traditionalists (like myself), it's an incredible story.
the league sucks. there are too many teams, to many meaningless games, different laundry playing the same dull style. The NHL is nothing but a Ponzi schem to enrich owners by distriburting expansion teams entrance fees. That a sweetheart deal like this was allowed for LV to be able to make it to the Finals is a disgrace. Quality of play sucks, there is no diversity in styles, every team has their long winning streak, long losing streak. They change the playoff format to screw the best teams and force them to play each other in the 2nd round. Need I go on pjcas18?
As someone who goes back to the early '70s NHL, this era sucks. The best NHL era was the eraly '80s to mid '90s. 21 teams, LOADS of new talent from the US and East bloc, great innovators like Glen Sather in edmonton, Herb Broooks, Scotty Bowman and great rivalries playing each other 6-8 times per year.
His teams finished above 3rd place one time. Once in seven seasons.
You lose any credibility when you lament for the days of Herb Brooks' NHL.
If you can't notice a difference between styles of a guy like Cooper vs Vigneault or Julien vs Cassidy you would not appreciate what we're seeing now.
If you can't watch Connor McDavid, Patrik Laine, David Pastrnak, Johnny Gaudreau, Tarasenko, Crosby, Ovechkin, Karlsson, etc. etc. etc. and realize that hockey is currently in it's best era ever than you would post comments like yours.
Yes goalie pads are bigger, but guys are shooting the puck much harder with composite sticks, and while I'd love to see smaller goalie pads, the goalies themselves are also bigger, and that is why we have half the goals per game from peak Gretzky era.
So for fans who want to see a high scoring no defense games, then sure the Gretzky era is your hey day, but I do not value that style of play more than today.
How many enforcers are there in today's game? Teams run 4 lines out there today. They rarely did that back in the 80's.
His teams finished above 3rd place one time. Once in seven seasons.
You lose any credibility when you lament for the days of Herb Brooks' NHL.
If you can't notice a difference between styles of a guy like Cooper vs Vigneault or Julien vs Cassidy you would not appreciate what we're seeing now.
If you can't watch Connor McDavid, Patrik Laine, David Pastrnak, Johnny Gaudreau, Tarasenko, Crosby, Ovechkin, Karlsson, etc. etc. etc. and realize that hockey is currently in it's best era ever than you would post comments like yours.
Yes goalie pads are bigger, but guys are shooting the puck much harder with composite sticks, and while I'd love to see smaller goalie pads, the goalies themselves are also bigger, and that is why we have half the goals per game from peak Gretzky era.
So for fans who want to see a high scoring no defense games, then sure the Gretzky era is your hey day, but I do not value that style of play more than today.
How many enforcers are there in today's game? Teams run 4 lines out there today. They rarely did that back in the 80's.
He was an innovator. They had a distinct style. That they had the great Isles dynasty in their division playing the traditional Canadian style made it that much more interesting. And was also the major obstacle to their advancing since you had to play out of your divison back then.
Just like most of the time since the early 90's, team success has been driven more out of scheme than talent. The 70's Canadians. The 80's Oilers and Islanders. Those were teams stacked with talent. The latter part of the 90's and since then were dominated with zone trapping and defensive ploys that allowed a guy like Torts to take middling teams far and those who executed well like the Devils and Hurricanes to Cup runs and titles.
I will say that the last several years has seen more young talent coming to the league in some time and that bears hope. And some lesser countries like Germany and Switzerland have made runs lately on the World scene, but overall, there is still room to go before it being the best ever.
Wow things changed from my age group to yours. We were overwhlemingly Ranger fans in the late 70s in Junior high, probably 65/35 Rangers/Isles when in graduated in 1982 in the High School
Such as:
1. the point system. I hate the way the tiers are now, though I do have to stay I thought I'd hate 3v3 OT, but that's some of the most exciting skill on display I've seen. I like 3v3 a lot. I'd get rid of shootouts and have 3v3 until a winner. I don't see the risk, you don't get players as tired out since with only 3 on the ice you can change more regularly. And either adopt the INTL point system (3 pts for regulation win, 2 pts for OT win, 1 pt for OT loss and o pts for regulation loss) or just 2 pts for a W and 0 for a loss period. Makes wins that much more meaningful.
2. faceoffs, the rules now take a little away from the game. just drop the puck, it's almost to the point now 1 player is kicked out of the circle every face off. and the worst part is publicly at least many players and the coaches say they don't know why
3. penalties. I hate the ticky tack slashing calls. It should be harder to get a penalty. I don't want hockey penalties to become like holding in the NFL where some retired NFL refs say 'we can call holding every single play". I'd like penalties to be more egregious.
4. fighting. this may seem a little contradictory to other things I've said, but I think fighting needs to be more prevalent in hockey. Since the 4th line became more prominent and not just filled with enforcers and goons, players have become more free with cheap shots without having to answer for it, and sometimes just clean hard hits get responded to with cheap shots because the feeling of having to eventually answer for your actions is lessening. I hate the cliche that the game polices itself, but to an extent hockey always has. It's losing some of that.
5. offsides replay. I always feel like if you have human refs and you can be reasonably sure they're not corrupt, you live with their calls. If they miss an offsides honestly, then it sucks but they miss an offsides. So many of these reviews come down to if a player, not involved in the play, had a skate in the air while crossing the blue line ahead of the puck or not. it might be letter of the rule, but it's never been the intent IMO. it sucks for the game overall even if they get the calls technically correct.
Still people could probably add more.
with all of that, today's game is light year's past the 80's.
I was in Lake Grove. Went to Wenonah Elemntary, Sachem District K-12
No one, and I mean no one, expected this.
If you had to pin the Vegas situation on any one team, other than giving the team the credit they've earned, it's the Florida Panthers.