Post Game Thread: Vegas Golden Knights at Minnesota Wild – 30 Mar 2024

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1. Fire John Hynes into the sun. If you’re going to pull the goalie and go for it, do it at the end of regulation. At least try to prevent the Knights from getting a point. Once the Knights get the 1 point, it’s all irrelevant.

2. The real victory here is being able to turn off the fucking ESPN broadcast.

3. It’s the hope that gets ya

4. THE AMOUNT OF FUCKING LEADS WE HAVE GIVEN UP IN THE 3RD TO THEN LOSE IN OT IS TOO MOTHER FUCKING HIGH

5. Can’t wait for all the bandwagon fans to pile in here and act like they have solutions. 

6. i was gonna make a joke about “putting the loser in loser point” if we lost but I CAN’T EVEN DO THAT CUZ WE LOST THE LOSER POINT.

7. I’m down bad fellas. Analytics this and analytics that, I fucking hate the pulled goalie in OT. Get the 2 points and live to die another day.

   All in all, this hockey club isn’t bad. We’ve got a BRIGHT future ahead and missing playoffs this year is probably good for us in the long run. But man is it a hard pill to swallow. I wanted to watch some playoff hockey so badly. I’m down bad…

8. Welp. Next year. Excited to see Wallestad at least.

9. fabertooth tiger is funny

10. I like the play to pull Gus. It’s not gonna work every time, but some times you gotta roll them bones. The team needed 2

11. I hope Jesper Wallstedt plays at least 3 games

12. “Welp……*𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘦s*…let’s get em in 2025 boiz”

13. Well.. at least we had some fun this year.

    I will now shift my reasons for watching the remaining games to hoping Faber gets a bunch more points so he can pad his inevitable Calder award. LFGBF!

14. The amount of penalties that went uncalled is ridiculous, can’t afford to have Vegas miss the playoffs. That said we didn’t play good enough to overcome the adversity.

15. Vegas Golden Dildo Refs

16. Why pull a goalie thats having a great game?

17. I would’ve preferred that we pull the goalie in regulation because then VGK would potentially get nothing. However, we did need to pull the goalie at some point. So I can’t be mad at the result in OT. What I would really blame for being in this situation is our subpar record against our division teams and those ahead of us in the standings.

18. I will say I love that we are the pulling goalie in OT pioneers. Sucks it didn’t work today, but we’ve left our mark on hockey. In our own shitty way lol

19. Well… Idk I got nothing creative to say.

20. Hello darkness my old friend

    It’s that time of year again

21. IT’S OVER

22. On the bright side my girl has fallen in love with this team and maybe now we can afford tickets lol

23. Hynes just ensured the remaining 9 games are meaningless

24. It’s been a season. Give the prospects ice time and Get it goin in October.

25. A good day for Yankee fans

26. Can’t complain about the goalie decision. One point wouldn’t have helped this team in the slightest.

27. I try my best not to blame the refs, but holy Christ that was the worst reffed game I’ve watched in a long time! At least 2 trips, a slash and a blatant high stick not called and then the softest calls go against us. Bettman was never going to let the Knights miss the playoffs, but at least make it a little more subtle.

28. At least we got Gophers hockey here in a couple minutes

29. We score after pulling Gus like we did just a few short weeks ago, and everybody is in here thinking Hynes is a messiah. 

    I get he’s not the most popular coach (or even one that a majority of teams would want to have at this stage), but at least we’re fucking exciting in risking things. 

30. The real playoffs were the friends we made along the way.. right?

31. We were 9 points back of Vegas with 10 games remaining. We could have been 7 points back of LA with 9 games remaining.

32. My terrible take for the day:

    I had a nice time and that was a fun game.

    Gus played like the season depended on it, Khuts with some promising looks, Fabes and Rossi were their usual selves, thought even Freddy had some fight on defense and Hartman getting a misconduct after we whiffed is the chefs kiss. Plus Kap was absolutely buzzing and Chisholm will outlive even the cockroaches after coming back after that hit.

    Now let’s go Canes!

33. It’s kinda crazy how that shit start to the season changed so much down the stretch

34. First round started early this year.

35. i have never felt the energy in the x go dead as fast as i did with that empty netter. the joy has gone out of my life

36. Honestly, going for 2 here would have kept the season on pure life support. Getting the loser point only hurts the team in terms of draft position. It was the right call.

37. well at least people can officially switch gears for the eventual twins disappointment and the vikings mishandling of the draft.

    MN way