The Swamp

Do you guys usually get this many people out just to watch a practice?

"Usually it's packed. It makes me wonder if people work here. I don't know. Maybe they just work at night. We always have people at practices, and they seem really interested. It's been pretty chaotic sometimes, actually, but it's good to see they're interested and they seem to enjoy it."

rass wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:12 pm A guy who excelled at building very good regular season teams in DC.

rass wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:01 am I was partly damn well going where you thought I was going, and partly tweaking that exact sort of Caps fan. It was a two fer.

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:04 pm This thread is going to be fantastic when Ovie lifts the cup in June and the Golden Knights are playing golf just after taxes are due.

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:04 pm This thread is going to be fantastic when Ovie lifts the cup in June and the Golden Knights are playing golf just after taxes are due.

Rams Fanny wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 5:14 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:04 pm This thread is going to be fantastic when Ovie lifts the cup in June and the Golden Knights are playing golf just after taxes are due.

I going to assume you are predicting a VGK first round exit and not failure to make the playoffs. We don't have props for which level of the playoffs they reach yet but do have failure make playoffs prop up:
Wash to win Cup 12/1
VGK to not make playoffs 13/1
We can't parlay those here but I believe you can somewhere off-shore. Using those odds a $20 bet would yield $3,120

brian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:24 pm Calgary is the last Western Conference team to play Vegas, but it's on tonight.

As I stated before, this is the pivotal road swing of the season -- six games in 10 days. If Vegas can get 6 or 7 points from this road trip, I'll be happy and the Pacific Division should be there for the taking.

“It’s the atmosphere over there,” Washington Capitals winger Alex Ovechkin said during All-Star weekend. “It’s not a regular rink. It’s like an unbelievable show. You get excited. It’s like you’re in a nightclub. It’s like a party. Everybody dancing ... it’s like, are we in a hockey game or is this a pool party out there?"

brian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 4:11 pm Vegas makes more fans Not Mad Online. (Just busting your balls a little. That tying goal was lucky as shit.)

You guys see this quote from Ovechkin about the crowds in Vegas?

“It’s the atmosphere over there,” Washington Capitals winger Alex Ovechkin said during All-Star weekend. “It’s not a regular rink. It’s like an unbelievable show. You get excited. It’s like you’re in a nightclub. It’s like a party. Everybody dancing ... it’s like, are we in a hockey game or is this a pool party out there?"

I don't know how similar it will be next year (very, hopefully), but some of y'all need to plan a trip down here for a game next season.

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 4:37 pm

brian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 4:11 pm Vegas makes more fans Not Mad Online. (Just busting your balls a little. That tying goal was lucky as shit.)

You guys see this quote from Ovechkin about the crowds in Vegas?

“It’s the atmosphere over there,” Washington Capitals winger Alex Ovechkin said during All-Star weekend. “It’s not a regular rink. It’s like an unbelievable show. You get excited. It’s like you’re in a nightclub. It’s like a party. Everybody dancing ... it’s like, are we in a hockey game or is this a pool party out there?"

I don't know how similar it will be next year (very, hopefully), but some of y'all need to plan a trip down here for a game next season.

He did follow up with more on the team's actual play in a very complimentary fashion.

blundercrush wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:46 pm The visceral feeling of being there live is unbelievably important (like literally, I didn't believe it was that important, it is). Too bad watching it on TV is like 10% as good.

They had no idea what was waiting for them in Las Vegas, but they, like most of the world, guessed it was going to be a little sleazy, a little tacky and about the worst place in the world to bring up kids and play hockey.

Wrong.

“I was not expecting this,” said Bellemare. “It’s so much better. When I first got the news I was, ‘How do you raise a family there?’ But 85 per cent of the world has no idea what Vegas is all about. You come here and see the communities, they are unbelievable. There is no point being on the strip. The restaurants all around town are unbelievable and they’re made for the locals, and if you want to have a crazy night out, you go on the Strip.

brian wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2018 12:27 pm Sighted at T-Mobile last night. That's some good rivalry-ing right there.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:08 am I don't think AV is anything close to the worst coach, but I'd put his job this season up against anyone else in terms of worst coaching performance. Like how the fuck do you play Girardi top pair only to admit its better to pay him not to be on the team then turn around and elevate Nick Fucking Holden to that role, on his off-side, and then trade him for only a low 3rd? And why isn't anyone stopping this?

degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:42 amThe Rangers just don't have the horses. They are rebuilding.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:48 am

degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:42 amThe Rangers just don't have the horses. They are rebuilding.

Derek Stepan, horrible as that trade made as a standalone was, isn't the difference between 102 points and tear it all down.

degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:58 amEveryone's a year older, and looking out of gas. Hasn't Lundqvist played the most games out of all goalies? He's breaking down facing 30+ shots a game.