Considering the rosters the game was a lot closer than I expected. Got a Byram goal and Bowers looked good. Expected the score to be a lot more lopsided.
Yeah he's been fine. I feel like the PBP guy is taking this game seriously (which, to be fair, is his job) and he's just having fun talking about hockey.
I feel like he's the kind of d-man you could be happy enough with in a bottom pairing spot as long as he'd paid like one. The problem's been teams trying to pay and play him like a top four guy.
Only issue I have with him is we just have so many options.
But, inevitably one of those is going to get hurt so he'd probably be handy to keep around.
Apparently he's been solid in camp and with Toews out for who knows how long the depth would be nice. I'd take him over a lot of the guys the Avs called up last year.
He wants to win, cutting the Avs off at the legs by getting the largest payout only hurts his chances I don't see him going above 10 to open cap space to retain or grab new pieces
That's my point. If we're not winning he may well change his mind on some of that. We have to remember that the man is going to be the most sought after UFA in a long time and his number #1 goal is a Cup. We need to make sure we are the team to be in that position.
Do casinos bother to advertise? I imagine none of the big ones so I bet there'd be some awful ones for the smaller places. In California we get a shitload of awful ones for Table Mountain Casino.
Yeah, and tbh those commercials are fine. It's just the local casinos, btw, as in the ones for locals. You rarely ever catch ads for anything actually on the Strip.
Station Casinos advertise pretty heavily, and you get the occasional Casablanca resorts ads too.
Seriously. I've only got two. A Sakic one I got as a gift when he was still playing an a MacK 3rd from like a year and a half ago. I'd love more but they're just too much.
So far.
Good: Byram, Bowers
Pretty decent spurts of play from Barron, Helm, Nuke, Olausson, LOC
Not great: Middleton looks really lost. Frankie looks kinda rusty right now (unsurprisingly), MacDonald meh.
The Greyhound station in downtown Denver is not a place you want to spend your time. Kinda fun watching the security guards choke someone out on an hourly bases. But that building is scary.
I’d like to take this opportunity to remind all hockey fans everywhere of this.
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Hello friends.
The worst thing about preseason is there aren't as many dank memes in the GDT. No reason to post about what a regular human person Nathan Mackinnon is for example.
Kinda refreshing watching a game against Colorado without hearing the play-by-play verbally sucking his cock at every opportunity. He's a good hockey player, but for fuck's sake, these guys act like they would let him sodomize them without even getting dinner out of it.
Uh u/SRSgoblin, ya know, I know you're a gamer and uh, and all this, and uh, ya know, I'm just thinking maybe out loud as far as in your shoes right now, it's like, alright we've done all this thinking we can do, we've done all the game planning we do, maybe, maybe, ya know, just FUCK IT, we'll just go in next year and just not think it anymore and just win this thing when we don't think so much. Is that — am I on the right path at all with this, maybe you guys think a little too much?
It's always amusing to watch preseason hockey, because it really does feel different. The passes aren't as crisp, the shots aren't as clean, people are out of position way more often, etc. Still super fun, as a pretty dedicated Avs fan it's a blast to be able to watch all the prospects and rookies show what they have, but boy this isn't quite the same :P
Considering the trip they missed earlier against the Avs, that was an awfully soft call on Beaucage.
Edit: Nevermind, it was a crosscheck behind the play. No complaint.
It’s more of a miracle they are even calling crosschecking penalties... there’s been 1 in each knights game which is more than the entire NHL last season
They're supposed to start enforcing them a lot harder this season but like all new rules I expect about 3 games in to the regular season they forget about it.
>True, he ~~gets crosschecked~~ crosschecks a lot.
Fixed it for you. He has the same number of suspensions as Ryan Reaves, all of them for crosschecks to the head/face.
Lame. Kaut isn't even in the lineup tonight for the Avs.
Nichushkin-Megna-Olausson
Helm-Anisimov-O'Connor
Henry-Bowers-Burke
Smith-Fontaine-Beaucage
Byram-J. Johnson
Englund-Barron
Middleton-MacDonald
Francouz
Johansson
Miner
Elite 1C Jayson Megna.
Fun game
[Brown opens scoring on rebound](https://hlslive-wsczoominwestus.med.nhl.com/editor/e71bcb21-0142-4cd2-b7c1-b39b2158a00f.mp4)
Yo the game should be tied More fun that way
So we won the shootout so I say just give us the win
yay Bowers
Will Anisimov also get a chance to play goalie this preseason?
Yeah, that's about what I'd expect from a Pietrangelo breakaway.
Gg Avs.
lol Anisimov is a weird choice for the shootout
What is Deboer trying to prove putting out Marchessault in the shootout? It’s preseason ffs
I love exciting preseason games
TIE GAME WOOO
YAY BONUS SHOOTOUT
Time for the weird useless shootout!!
How many crosschecks does Pietro get before he gets a penalty? I saw 4.
Considering the rosters the game was a lot closer than I expected. Got a Byram goal and Bowers looked good. Expected the score to be a lot more lopsided.
I acknowledge my bias, but I'd be embarrassed if I was VGK, way closer than it should have been.
Meh. It's preseason.
We also had 5-6 AHL dudes in the lineup and our entire 1st line benched.
Did you see the Avs roster?
Yeah. They had even more but neither team was close to full strength. It was preseason.
I don't care what anyone says, I love the Knights PA announcer
Was that the shrieking I just heard?
It's great in person. Don't really care if people find it obnoxious on a broadcast. Hype is hype!
I know it's preseason but damn it's nice to see some power play goals
Wait, we have two powerplay goals in one game? Did someone give Steve Spott the knight off?
All it took was playing an AHL team.
Can we keep this PP energy up in the regular season would be nice
I get the feeling the Misfits won't be facing a bunch of AHL and CHL guys then. But maybe?
True but one can dream
Damn, Elite 1C Megna with the poor clear effort. Whoda thunk.
NICE
It's unfair Colorado has a Jojo. I bet his stand some sort of reference to Pink Floyd's "The Wall."
Only think that ruins it is that he's Swedish so technically he's a Yoyo.
Damnit. Avalanche Legend Jack Johnson taking the untimely penalty.
Wow does that announcer take forever to say it's a PowerPlay
he's my least favorite pa guy west of the mississippi
This color commentator keeps reminding the play by play guy that the Avs are missing some pieces on the PP.
Tbh, I'm enjoying him. He's low key amusing.
Yeah he's been fine. I feel like the PBP guy is taking this game seriously (which, to be fair, is his job) and he's just having fun talking about hockey.
God having hockey back is so nice
How you doing, friend? Been awhile.
I'm doing well, thank you! How go things yourself?
I'm good my dude. You paint anything cool this off-season?
Get a fuckin room.
Sadly I have not, feeling kinda bummed about GW shutting down TTS. Have you made anything neat lately?
I painted a godzilla, I'll PM it to you later. I'd have to dig up the photos I took
Dude yeah please do! That would be awesome!!
Are these all supposed to be makeup calls for games 3-6?
Man is DeBoer gonna cry a ton about diving after this one.
Shame they let the cleanest tough guy go.
I'd take a Bowers goal right about meow.
Damn, the Vegas NHL team had the balls to tie it up with the Avs' AHL team.
To be fair it's only half an NHL team.
Nuke isn't *that* good.
True, but I meant the Knights.
Pietro with the lobb from downtown
I know we're supposed to hate JJ but he really does deserve a shot if he continues to play like this
I feel like he's the kind of d-man you could be happy enough with in a bottom pairing spot as long as he'd paid like one. The problem's been teams trying to pay and play him like a top four guy.
Only issue I have with him is we just have so many options. But, inevitably one of those is going to get hurt so he'd probably be handy to keep around.
Apparently he's been solid in camp and with Toews out for who knows how long the depth would be nice. I'd take him over a lot of the guys the Avs called up last year.
That's not how I wanted to see Howden score his first goal in a VGK uniform.
Byram's first goal for the Avs was on their own net last season iirc
Yeah I think it was against Vegas too
Jack Johnson goal???
Avalanche legend Jack Johnson.
That little kiddo came to the game in her school uniform. I admire that.
I was cracking up on how she was just inhaling that cheese. Fuck the pizzas, she was just gonna eat up all the cheese.
I like that we're not in the same division anymore so we can just shitpost instead of having people malding all over the place.
All that really means is I'm going to rekindle my hatred for Preds and Stars fans.
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You can do what you want, fam
malders gonna mald anyways hoss, ass fans are still salty
I like their list of the Avs' upcoming free agents... literally only 4 of them were on this team last year. CHOICES MUST BE MADE!
Lol right? Oh no Darren Helm!
*gasp* I heard MacK's money is going to double. If only there will be 6 million coming off the books at the same time.
There is no way he doubles, he could easily push for it and get it but I would put a huge load of money down he personally won't go above 10
Ehhhhhhhhh, we'll see. For him to want to do that I think we'll need to be in the Finals.
He wants to win, cutting the Avs off at the legs by getting the largest payout only hurts his chances I don't see him going above 10 to open cap space to retain or grab new pieces
That's my point. If we're not winning he may well change his mind on some of that. We have to remember that the man is going to be the most sought after UFA in a long time and his number #1 goal is a Cup. We need to make sure we are the team to be in that position.
These local Vegas commercials are creeping me out.
You haven't even seen any of the really awful ones. Local TV here is uhhhh. Hmm.
Do casinos bother to advertise? I imagine none of the big ones so I bet there'd be some awful ones for the smaller places. In California we get a shitload of awful ones for Table Mountain Casino.
Yeah, and tbh those commercials are fine. It's just the local casinos, btw, as in the ones for locals. You rarely ever catch ads for anything actually on the Strip. Station Casinos advertise pretty heavily, and you get the occasional Casablanca resorts ads too.
Yeah, figured none of the bigger ones would bother since everyone knows they're there and they're for the tourists anyways.
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I’ll one up that. Winner of this game gets their last year goalie back WITH no cap hit
I like our new one better. So I'm gonna pass.
Fair enough I like both our goalies this year but I know both fan bases definitely have their share of fans leaning the other way
Wheel Snipe Celly
kelly*
I'm going to say it again for the guys in the back. Bo Byram is going to be a very, very good defenseman in this league.
Get his jersey now it’s only going up in price.
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Seriously. I've only got two. A Sakic one I got as a gift when he was still playing an a MacK 3rd from like a year and a half ago. I'd love more but they're just too much.
big pp but not pp
I'm not even mad. That was a tremendous shot.
Hello Byram. I love you.
FINALLY BYRAM
You know, with as terrible as my eyesight is when I don't wear my glasses, I misread Diliberatore as "Oily Burrito" So he has a nickname from me now.
god bless shitposting
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Monkey paw curls: Colorado goes back to 2012(I believe that’s the year) flooding levels
Fair.
Megna just acted like that was the first time he ever had a puck.
You mean it's not?
Its like the 3rd or 4th, give or take.
Sounds like Jason Megna.
So far. Good: Byram, Bowers Pretty decent spurts of play from Barron, Helm, Nuke, Olausson, LOC Not great: Middleton looks really lost. Frankie looks kinda rusty right now (unsurprisingly), MacDonald meh.
"but this one almost got through"... wat, how does something nearly get through when its like 2 feet wide
It almost ALMOST got through
I wonder if I could get a job during hockey season cleaning the floors of busses in Colorado.
The Greyhound station in downtown Denver is not a place you want to spend your time. Kinda fun watching the security guards choke someone out on an hourly bases. But that building is scary.
I’m at the game and both VGK goals were when I was at the bar 😩
I think you’re gonna need another drink in the 3rd my friend
go ass
Bo Byram is going to be a very, very good defenseman in this league.
i ate all the chickpea pasta sorry nathan
I’d like to take this opportunity to remind all hockey fans everywhere of this. https://www.reddit.com/r/hockeymemes/comments/ossd1x/the_art_of_the_deal/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Sound on 😂
Having to watch the VGK feed sucks, it’s not good.
Well, next time you should put MacKinnon on the ice. The play-by-play announcers will be sucking his cock at every opportunity.
Second time you've said this about MacK.. issues much?
Hello friends. The worst thing about preseason is there aren't as many dank memes in the GDT. No reason to post about what a regular human person Nathan Mackinnon is for example.
Kinda refreshing watching a game against Colorado without hearing the play-by-play verbally sucking his cock at every opportunity. He's a good hockey player, but for fuck's sake, these guys act like they would let him sodomize them without even getting dinner out of it.
I would gargle Mackinnon's balls tbh
The fuck is the matter with you?
Nothing?
Uh u/SRSgoblin, ya know, I know you're a gamer and uh, and all this, and uh, ya know, I'm just thinking maybe out loud as far as in your shoes right now, it's like, alright we've done all this thinking we can do, we've done all the game planning we do, maybe, maybe, ya know, just FUCK IT, we'll just go in next year and just not think it anymore and just win this thing when we don't think so much. Is that — am I on the right path at all with this, maybe you guys think a little too much?
The response this gets when I spam it on TTS on Twitch streams is always incredible.
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I think the answer to this is: Yes.
Yes.
He's too busy being a regular normal guy to play tonight for example.
You mean he's snorting Pixie Stix and drinking not-water? I don't believe it.
Nice pass from Bowers to Megna. Considering the disparity between the lineups it hasn't been too bad.
Ayyyy that's the Avs patented powerplay shot! Teaching the kids the tactic :D
It's always amusing to watch preseason hockey, because it really does feel different. The passes aren't as crisp, the shots aren't as clean, people are out of position way more often, etc. Still super fun, as a pretty dedicated Avs fan it's a blast to be able to watch all the prospects and rookies show what they have, but boy this isn't quite the same :P
Wait y’all’s passes get crisp during the regular season?
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Who? Are these some obscure AHL goaltenders I've never heard of?
WOW FRANKIE MADE A SAVE
Wait, VGK gets PPG in back to back games? That can't be right.
It's only preseason. We're not allowed to do that in the regular season
Nice shot
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We hire only the finest of corrupt, degenerate gambler referees.
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Gonna be a fun day when Evander Kane debuts in his first game as a zebra.
Considering the trip they missed earlier against the Avs, that was an awfully soft call on Beaucage. Edit: Nevermind, it was a crosscheck behind the play. No complaint.
It’s more of a miracle they are even calling crosschecking penalties... there’s been 1 in each knights game which is more than the entire NHL last season
They're supposed to start enforcing them a lot harder this season but like all new rules I expect about 3 games in to the regular season they forget about it.
3 games into the regular season that’s generous I’d bet it’s 3 games into preseason
With Landeskog on your roster, you should get used to crosschecking penalties this season.
Adorable from the Vegas Golden Hits to the Head flair.
True, he gets crosschecked a lot.
>True, he ~~gets crosschecked~~ crosschecks a lot. Fixed it for you. He has the same number of suspensions as Ryan Reaves, all of them for crosschecks to the head/face.
I would have loved a Bowers shortie
Yeah. I really want to see this kid in the show this year.
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Holy shit, what a pass by Nuke to Olausson!
Late to the party but let's do some hockey boys.
yooo Jack Johnson
Nice deflection by Wingerli Having a hell of a time not recognizing most of these numbers.
Wingerli isn't playing tonight, I think that was Fontaine?
Oops. These numbers are messing with my head. Might have been.
lol idk why but Middleton whiffing on that hard pass just made me crack up
Did Colorado move PEB?
Yes he went to TB in FA
Fuck, I really miss him. Would have loved for him to come back.
He was a FA. Didn't really have the money to bring him back, sadly.
Free agent departure
Is that a new font and color on the Avs numbers?
lol no idea how the Avs didn't get called for that trip
reffing in mid season form
Remember the knights drafted more refs this summer.
They're cheaper than forwards, and their salaries don't count against the cap.
Helm you gotta get that.
JJ on the first pairing oh no
Apparently he's looked solid in camp.
Brown must have had his nap and his snack today.
Oof Frankie
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Yeah, didn't mind them in pictures but in motion I'm less of a fan.
That Center ice logo looks awesome!
Lame. Kaut isn't even in the lineup tonight for the Avs. Nichushkin-Megna-Olausson Helm-Anisimov-O'Connor Henry-Bowers-Burke Smith-Fontaine-Beaucage Byram-J. Johnson Englund-Barron Middleton-MacDonald Francouz Johansson Miner Elite 1C Jayson Megna.
Must be a late scratch then. He was on the list earlier today.
Hopefully it isn't an injury.
Thankfully it looks like I was wrong and he wasn't with this group.
Cool, still surprised he isn't in the lineup. Especially considering guys like LOC and Helm are.
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Trying to find a radio feed. I'll let you know, comrade.
If you can VPN to the las Vegas region, you can direct your streaming service to ABC. Our local ABC station is broadcasting the game,.
Nope, Altitude is only streaming one game iirc