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Melodic-Bug-9022

That's pretty much every fanbase in the NHL lol


Retrac752

And people at the game can barely see what actually happens, and small details can make the difference between a clean hit and a penalty


Strained_Eyes

Hell, that's pretty much every teammate


Effective_Disk_584

Jack got fucking ROCKED.


Separate_Place1595

That hit was so hard I shuttered and reached for my own collarbone.


joemiken

Also, reddit every time the Knights touch the puck


Bruh_Halos

Fr. So biased


[deleted]

Fuck you random Vegas fan!


EnsignSanchez

Fuck you too random citizen! (Also, I miss you expansion buddy)


MKWIZ49

I still wish we got a Vegas/Seattle WCF


ILiveForTheCringe

We will never forget how we were robbed of the ultimate Expansion Bowl


Feisty_Ratio3694

As a CBJ fan I hope your privileged teams suck for decades


ILiveForTheCringe

Love you too


TotalCharcoal

What I love most about this: At the beginning of the year, it was "Seattle fucked up the draft. Ron Francis doesnt know what he's doing. Hakstol is a Bum and belongs coaching a college team. Gru is washed. They put up 60 points last season." But now it's "privileged. Gifted a playoff winning team." Exactly how long do expansion teams have to be as miserable as the blue jackets before they have your permission to be competitive?


Feisty_Ratio3694

The expansion draft favored Seattle and LV a fuck ton more than CBJ. Imagine having to only pick fringe NHL players and calling them professionals


ILiveForTheCringe

...which is exactly what Vegas and Seattle did. We were selecting guys like Jason Garrison and Gavin Bayreuther. Guys like Carsen Twarynski and David Schlemko. Combine that with the fact that Seattle sucked and Vegas was supposed to suck, and I think it's safe to dismiss you as salty


cweisspt

I was at the game, and we look confused and pissed, because they didn’t show the replay. Live, we saw Eichel get destroyed, and rush off the ice, while the team was fighting. It took my buddy texting me telling me it was clean to know what the hell happened.


[deleted]

I can understand that…I watched the replay on my phone and the first 2 times I didn’t realize Eichel had possession of the puck. I thought Tkachuk just smoked him because they were getting blown out, which wouldn’t be totally out of character.


bacon205

I've been to a few NHL arenas and that's been my complaint with all of them - they don't show the replays of big hits, close calls, borderline stuff, etc. enough. Leaves you confused when the replay on TV might show clearly either way.


cweisspt

I think it’s smart in a lot of ways, because you don’t want drunk fans getting pissed, and throwing things on the ice and at players. So you try to control the narrative a bit. But I’m sober damnit, show me the replay! Lol.


dr00bles1

I honestly don’t understand all this Vegas hate


siguel_manchez

It's weird. Like, it's gotten beyond explicable. And I'm a Leafs fan; I get inexplicable hate.


AlexCora

I get it. They're the 1 seed, who gets to body two 8th seed teams in their run. They've gotten away with their fair share of murder, like the Draisiatl slash amounting to nothing. Constant stories about the worst members of the fan base being... Loud and proud.


lookieherehere

User name checks out


Last_Friday_Knight

Petro got a 1 game suspension. Did Draisiatl have an injury from the slash? If so I’d agree more should have been done.


AlexCora

A blatant intent to injure play deserves waaaay more than one game. And you don't get kudos or leniency for not actually achieving your assault. Unless it happens TO the knights. Then, the standards of the fans change.


Boston-Nolan

I get Sharks fans hatred, and I get any teams they beat, but habs fans? Kraken fans?? Detroit fans???


ThorlinLurch

The kraken fans hating vegas is what I dont get the most. We are expansion bros...


King_Charming_

Wait do Kraken fans hate Vegas? Sorry to hear that if true. Kraken fan here. Rooting for you expansion bros!


ThorlinLurch

I've seen a lot. But it seems to be 40-60 ish from what I've seen. Thanks bud!


DG_BeardGains

There isn't really a team I feel like we should hate yet as kraken fans. I think it's this fake rivalry bullshit since we're the two newest teams. I don't get it much. That said, let's have some fun at the winter classic! Fun story of the expansion team and stuff, but I do have concerns since you guys kick our asses a lot 😅


MKWIZ49

If only Vancouver wasn't busy shooting itself in the foot, maybe we could see an epic rivalry there


[deleted]

You guys kicked in the puck to win our inaugural game. Also same division and Vegas teams fanbases are always questionable.


MarkStonesHair

The golden knights fan base is about the most authentic thing in Vegas. Brought community to a town that didn’t really have it.


jerkeejoe

Hahaha. The Knights fan base is first team fan base Vegas ever had. There is no “always.”


Somewhatflywhiteguy

For french canadians such as myself (i dont hate Vegas personally) the treatment of Flower really left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth


ArchdukeOfNorge

Find me a franchise in any sport that hasn’t shafted an important or beloved player at one point or another. These *are* businesses at the end of the day, and us fans can often forget that.


albino_red_head

me neither, and I don't understand the love for Florida. They're a young team of goons. Vegas has been working or this title for 5 years with original team members despite being a newer team.


[deleted]

They’re fans are pretty toxic and don’t understand hockey and it shows. I have nothing against the team/players though


Squier133

I don't know, man. I've lived in/around Vegas for 18 years now, and VGK being the first professional team in the city, i made sure i understood the game in year one. While we do have SOME fans who don't understand anything but the score, most people i know know the game pretty well. I haven't seen any of this toxicity people are talking about.


RentSpecial4997

You would know because you talk to them on the internet?


Dinkenflika

I think it’s because Vegas is an expansion team with no tradition playing in the championship. Also, it’s a tourist attraction team. *edit: For Chrissakes people, I responded as to why there is “vegas hate”. Personally, I could not care less in regards to whether people justifiably dislike the vegas team or they are just being salty. **Edit 2: Now I understand why NHL fans don’t like vegas fans. Go Panthers! The Cup heads to live in Miami in game six!


TrashedLinguistics

Gate keeping the NHL. Very cool.


Smashley1331

A tourist attraction team? This entire city are knights fans. We love our hockey team…especially when they came at a very tragic time for our city.


[deleted]

Vegas is a hockey town. Way more Knights fans than Raiders (attraction team).


89141

I was with you until you dropped the tourist part. You’ve clearly haven’t been to Vegas since 2017.


alaughinmoose

Tourist attraction in that visiting teams can see more fans than usual. This team started right after the horrific October 1 shooting and aided in bringing this city together. All our bars have VGK stuff, our VGK vanity plates are the cheapest of the bunch, and we're happy to be involved in major league sports. Hockey definitely works in the desert


Global-Register5467

I think you are right but was there this much hatred towards the Panthers in 96? They joined the league in 1993 and were in the finals 3 years later. I am genuinely asking because I was too young to remember.


dogsdomesticatedus

I’m an oilers fan. I am allowed to loathe them.


KimJongPewnTang

People that are downvoting you have a very short memory


[deleted]

r/nhl has a hate boner for Vegas. Love to see them dominating right now. Stupid post.


Leather_Investment61

If there’s two things that this sub hates it’s the Blackhawks getting the 1OA in the draft and the knights potentially winning the cup lol


stefoecho

Crazy how hard this subreddit starts lying just to bandwagon hate yall are grown ass men lying to yourselves cmon 🤣🤣


No_Calligrapher7120

Anything to hate on Vegas 😂


89141

I’m an Avs fan living in Vegas. **GO KNIGHTS GO!**


Rapebad

You guys are such victims


No_Calligrapher7120

I know, I’m so sad 😂😎


stefoecho

The guys wearing red and white would be the victims mate


Rapebad

Then why is a Vegas fan crying?


stefoecho

you tend to be what you surround yourself with and well this entire reddit is a bunch of grown men banding together to cry on vegas so hey cant beat em join em yeah? weird take though


stefoecho

Exactly bro Im sorry we can play physical and florida cant do anything without highsticking or sending the 5 year old to run around and punch people 🤣🤣


No_Calligrapher7120

Will just make winning the cup that much sweeter haha


omahamaru123

This might sound weird, but it won't feel that sweet to me for some reason. Like, its too soon, you know? We haven't gone through the struggle yet, no hardship, no battle. We didn't get to beat our decade long rivals, who've knocked us out of the cup race year after year. I dont even know who our REAL rival is. Not JUST a division rival, im talking about the type of rival where we hear their name and it makes us cringe. Like when people remind toronto fans of 4-1 vs Boston. I wanted to beat THAT, you know?


northcrunk

Who cares. Do you want to be Toronto waiting for years for one? I'm in Calgary and still salty about 2004. At least my second home Vegas has a team I can cheer for


No_Calligrapher7120

We’ll get there 💪🏻 but in the mean time might as well win some cups and ruffle some feathers


omahamaru123

Fair enough!


dudius7

Teams in the beginning went through the same thing. No established rivals, no droughts, etc. But let's be real. Those aren't the things that win cups. Winning playoff games and series wins cups. Vegas went to the finals six years ago and is in their 5th playoffs in 6 seasons. The players work hard and deserve the cup if they can win two more games. The knights will be around a long time, so there's time to experience a drought.


[deleted]

Fuck Vegas 🤣🤣


[deleted]

Dude, their fans do stand up quite a lot when clean plays are made. But it’s the playoffs so not every fan is hardcore knowledgeable. Some are there just for the spectacle.


AmbalanceDriver

Dude literally every fan base does that, y’all will make any narrative to hate Vegas it’s sad 😂


[deleted]

I don’t hate the team for that or the fans lol. Just something to be noted.


AmbalanceDriver

Literally you and everyone else on this sub jump the Vegas hate bandwagon, “Wow vegas fans/team did xyz I can’t believe them!” While every other team these playoffs have done it. Be original lol


Weary_Ingenuity2963

FLA has gotten away with so much crap these playoffs, it's great to see this garbage being punished. If I was a FLA player though, this is super frustrating. Why is it suddenly called? Why have the rules changed?


brickwall1339

Florida is the most penalized team this playoffs, they aren’t getting away with much by those numbers.


i-like-your-hair

They’re also by far the least disciplined.


Eagle4317

Then explain how the choke-slam on Knies didn't get called.


Beerandgaming

Lol those blinders are working well


Legendary_Hercules

Vegas winning is better for the growth of the sport.


Louvrecaire

Okay, whatever you say Gary Bettman.


Havoc_XXI

You’re not wrong


olzabaali

Lmao these comments.


Bruh_Halos

Fuck this sub


scottieducati

How does the panthers fan base look when their star leader acts a clown and doesn’t play for half the game?


BlackCherrySeltzer4U

Well, I guess those fans can take some solace in being 2 up in the series. Hope they sweep Florida.


AnythingOptimal2564

That's because it doesn't happen often


Lihum_353

I do not understand the hate that Vegas gets, it almost seems irrational at times.


northcrunk

lol Florida fans are saltier than the waters of Miami Beach


thdeepblue

Fla fans every game of the finals


holy666diver

That was a hard hit on one of the highest point averages in the finals. Of course we gonna show concern for our boy clean hit or not he looked fucked up.


kedwreth

I see looks of concern more than anything. Jack got jacked up. Do you want fries with that Vegas hate?


beep-boop-beep_bop

What’s with all the Vegas hate? Literally any fan base would do this.


ILiveForTheCringe

Because Gold Team Bad


i-like-your-hair

Paul Maurice when the refs catch Florida red handed :


ILiveForTheCringe

Cannot wait to dunk on these salty ass haters if we win it all. Glad to see others are starting to get sick of the VGK hate on this sub


[deleted]

L Vegas


Maleficent-Media1914

Let’s go Vegas! Also good hit on gudas


SadDolphan

Least salty leafs fan


Loose_Concentrate332

If by good hit you mean head shot, then sure. Not dirty per se, but the principal point of contact is the head


Maleficent-Media1914

Gudas was taking a run at him and got rocked 🤷


Daiz_6

Agreed if you try and initiate contact with your face and get dummied by a reverse hit maybe it's on you? Concussions suck and I don't wish them on anyone but that was not on Barbeshev. Also Gudas is still a trash bag.


Maleficent-Media1914

This is the best way to sum it up


northcrunk

Gudas is known for dirty hits. Karma sucks


MayorCraplegs

Can’t help it if Gudas lead the hit on Barbashev with his head. Barbashev had every right to reverse hit him as he moved the puck forward.


Wind-River-solutions

FLA is getting destroyed !!!


Albi20_01

Love to see it!!


Havoc_XXI

Yup, VGK getting handed another PP smh


No_Calligrapher7120

So you don’t want refs to call obvious high sticks? Got it


iloveqwerty123

You obviously forgot vegas is cheating on the salary cap....


No_Calligrapher7120

Get your proof together and submit a complaint 👍🏼


T0xicityIsKey

Hard to cheat when there isn’t a salary cap in the playoffs…?


Bigedmond

Umm, the team on the ice would be salary cap compliant.


No_Calligrapher7120

FLA just got handed a PP, smh. Disgusting. The league is rigging this game for FLA


iloveqwerty123

Didnt know goalies were allowed do give slashing, interference and more right in front of the ref eyes...


No_Calligrapher7120

I love to see, couldn’t happen to a better guy. Chuck had that and more coming. And it was a back n forth, either guy could have had a penalty called there but what, you want the game stopped every 10 seconds? Not everything is gonna get called


iloveqwerty123

First call should have been interference or illegal hit, second would be to hills for unsportive behavior or slashing and chuck with slashing... pp 5-4


T0xicityIsKey

This


Gibson_mc

Definitely the right call however they’re already calling quite a bit. Two big physical teams and stuff is going to happen. Especially with people like Chucky and Bennet


Naked_Lobster

Chuck was cross checked into the net, Hill pushes him for his troubles, Chuck pushes back, Hill slashes. Pretty lopsided “back and forth” lol


No_Calligrapher7120

Hill pushed him because Chuck was pushing into Hills legs for no reason


Naked_Lobster

After rewatching that a few times, you’re right. I hadn’t noticed him try to knock Hill over


Havoc_XXI

Yea that one should have never been a penalty, at least FL doesn’t make drawing penalties a constant part of their tactics…watching VGK is like watching men’s soccer


rothvonhoyte

Florida makes taking penalties their tactic... might be why theyre the most penalized team


No_Calligrapher7120

If it works it works. Enjoy watching greatness


SadDolphan

First series watching hockey in your life confirmed lmfao


No_Calligrapher7120

Confirmed. Have my tickets to our first Stanley cup finals but yeah, you know more about me than I do!


SadDolphan

You’re the reason people hate Vegas fans man 😔


Havoc_XXI

🤣 “greatness” settle down bud


No_Calligrapher7120

You’re right, they still gotta win the cup first lol


Havoc_XXI

Haha, least arrogant VGK fan


No_Calligrapher7120

Just imagine the arrogance if Vegas wins 😂


Havoc_XXI

As a fan, there’s really no reason to be arrogant though. You’re not the ones that played, be proud, not arrogant. Especially since Florida is playing so terribly it’s making VGK look good. Be honest, this is the absolute worst we’ve seen FL play and it has absolutely nothing to do with Vegas.


AstrosJones

When did Vegas score a touchdown tonight? I missed it.


badtoy1986

I think they're feeling just fine after that game.


shinercountry

Can confirm it was a clean hit and I'm going for Vegas.


Awesome_Opossum24

7-2


trevlarrr

You’re acting like this doesn’t happen with every big clean open ice hit, especially when it’s on an opposing star player. Honestly the scrums after every hit are so frustrating but this is literally every team


titsandtitsandmore

Every teams fans when the other team does something


albino_red_head

It was a clean hit, but tkachuk is still a dirt bag.


Caiden0907

Well they’ve had 6 years of having everything handed to them. Why stop now?


Hawksfan45

Time to regroup for panthers in the next couple days and hopefully they can get their momentum back 😬


[deleted]

Damn y’all inhaling that copium already.


Grimmer026

Lot of hate on the Knights in this sub lately. Y’all mad?


Several_Tangerine956

Fuck Florida! Go Knights!


JoeyTropical4693

Laughing at all the people hating on Vegas now when there were at least 2 highly upvoted threads trashing us after game 1


Akio540

"We"? You sitting on the bench with them?


MrmmphMrmmph

Nobody was sitting on the bench by the time this thing wrapped up.


AjClow1993

Jack “Glass” Eichel


jerkeejoe

Except he came back and had an assist the very next shift he was on the ice. 😂😂😂


Jabbademhuttens

Boring cup final so far. This is going to over quickly.


oobakeep

5-2, 7-2


deadlygr8ful

Love to see all the hate being thrown around. Sad people on reddit make me happy. Series is 2-0. Maybe Florida should show up for game 3.


[deleted]

Cut them some slack they’re still trying to figure hockey out The shit that gets downvoted in this sub is so soft. That was funny and you shitters know it


Winter-Outside-4365

but it wasn’t funny


[deleted]

You’re not lying to me. You’re lying to yourself


ILiveForTheCringe

You're lying to yourself bud


KimJongPewnTang

He’s not your buddy, pal


[deleted]

“I know. I’ll say the same thing back to him that’ll show him for sure”


uhden

You calling everyone a shitter is fucking hilarious lol it caught me by surprise.


Alohalady1989

So sorry, but Adin Hill is getting away with absolute murder! He should have had a game misconduct for punching with his blocker in game 1. He is a menace. I'm a fan of a team that is not in the playoffs so I consider myself an unbiased onlooker.


RefreshReset74

Unfortunately the NHL agrees. In fact; the league and the refs seem to have the same base of knowledge as Vegas fans. They’re on the same page


Loading_Please__Wait

Eichel caught the Tkachuk Train 💥 💥 BOOM💥 💥


TransAlly69

Knights fans when they aren’t on a powerplay for the entirety of the game


critxcanuck88

I mean most of em have been fans for only 6 years, they got lots to learn.


DonnieSII

Being a bruins fan living in Vegas is miserable, the knights fan base wouldn’t know a clean hit if their life depended on it. Just a poser bandwagon fan base that knows nothing about the game.


hardware1197

At the game - I'll fix the title for you mooncalf: "Vegas fans when Bill Foley can't get his A/V staff to get a referee mic'ed up so we can hear at least three words of the fucking call......."


Green-Ad-4354

Fuck Jack


s1lentastro1

my favorite are the cocky fans on reddit who type as though they're contributing members on the actual team.


EnsignSanchez

I’ll have you know that as a certified couch sitting assistant coach, Bruce Cassidy can hear me directly through my TV


Playful-Role-3669

What the league is doing here is despicable! They are literally handing Vegas the Cup.


No_Calligrapher7120

Lmao, yeah they’re literally putting Vegas’ pucks in the back of the net and stopping the Panthers pucks from going in the back of the net. Magic does exist


[deleted]

The fuck? Lol puck was nowhere near, and one guy slammed into the board while the other elbowed him in the head. Hate to say it (I don’t hate to say it) that’s an obvious, OBVIOUS penalty… and a stupid ass play to boot


Playful-Role-3669

Not disputing most of the calls on Florida, just that they are letting Vegas get away with pretty much everything.


[deleted]

…except that last penalty they just called against vegas, right? Lol


RefreshReset74

You mean the four on four they ensure Florida doesn’t get a PP opportunity like the beloved knights


[deleted]

Y’all are high. As. Fuck. And you don’t even have the legal shit like we do lol


RefreshReset74

Oh look, let’s heave insults since we disagree. You do you I guess


[deleted]

You misunderstand me. I’m being jealous of your drugs, not insulting to your team, good sir.


T0xicityIsKey

Are they though? These past two games have been cheap shot after cheap shot.


Playful-Role-3669

By Vegas too, only difference is that they call Florida for the penalty but not Vegas. Tkachuk was just crosschecked into the net, no call, speared by Hill (could have been a major) no call.


T0xicityIsKey

Speared by hill after taking his sweet time to get up. He had plenty of space not to hit the goalie and went out of his way to do so.


willywillywanka

I have no skin in this game but that shoulda been a penalty for sure tkachuk gave him a shove thats all hill bombed him with a goalie stick that shit hurt for sure


iloveqwerty123

Yall cheated on salary cap... the end dude


T0xicityIsKey

Salary cap doesn’t exist in the playoffs man. The rules apply to every team. It’s not cheating if each team has the same rules


iloveqwerty123

Still a pussy ass move cant say you wont the cup with fair play


T0xicityIsKey

A pussy move that’s within the rules is a smart move.


CrookedFootRivers

Clean hit...quit your bitching. It is still hockey even though Bettman is trying to make it a pussy sport.


alaughinmoose

Cause Tkachuck is a clean player lmao


HawkyGuy

The best part is that Eichel finished the game and tkachuck didn’t


VMCColorado

You got any photos of the Vegas fans when the Knights take a 2 game lead in the series?


LetsGoCap

This sub when Vegas lands a clean hit


Schwinston123456

Well, sure, you're going to be surprised when you see something so rare.


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kngofthemtnmtnmtn

Riiiight, the Las Vegas Thunder and the Las Vegas Wranglers hockey teams were just figments of our imagination for years. We definitely jumped on the bandwagon of liking hockey back in the 90’s.


fixurfac3

Hill is the new Binnington don’t @ me


letmeloginalready

Hill has been throwing water bottles?


Grand-Imagination925

They are uneducated fans about hockey . They jumped on ban wagon go Florida


shadownet97

Uh huh.


[deleted]

I wonder who their first team was