No matter how much you believe in this team, and how little you believe that the VGK feed off the emotion and energy of the crowd at T-Mobile, it was clear that — believe it or no —something special happens when 17,504 (“seventh man”) fans and 19 skaters get together at T-Mobile. It’s actually magical. […]
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Knights on Ice — A Soft Penalty In OT Overshado...
Since October 2017, I’ve written 281 blog posts on the VGK and their games played. In my last two, unfortunately, I’ve had to call out the on-ice officials. In Game 1 on Sunday, their calls, or the lack thereof, and mismanagement didn’t have a direct effect on the final score, but it did lead to […]
Knights on Ice — Just Flush It
Actually, the way Mark Stone put it was, “We’ll flush this one. We’ll see what we did wrong. There are a few areas that we were actually not bad at, but there’s a lot we need to improve. We’re fortunate to have two days in between games here, a little bit of rest, a little […]
Knights on Ice — Jan Puts His Mark on Game 7; P...
Every young hockey player has dreams about playing in the NHL and in their dreams, they see themselves scoring a big goal in the 7th game in a playoff series. Last night, Mattias Janmark’s dream not only came through, he also scored a hat trick in the VGK’s Game 7 victory over the Minnesota Wild […]
Knights on Ice — VGK Returning to a Familiar Pl...
The VGK unfortunately are returning to a familiar place, one that they could and should have avoided in their last 2 playoff appearances and now for the third time. In the last 3 years, this team has blown a 3-1 series lead forcing a Game 7. Losing last night 3-0 in an extremely disappointing performance […]
Knights on Ice — 52 Seconds Later
The stage was set. The crowd of 12,156 was ready and T-Mobile was prepared to host a series-clinching game for the first time in VGK history. Mark Stone was ready, willing, and able to make this all happen, taking a touch pass from Alex Tuch along the left side boards. Stone picked up the pass […]
Knights on Ice — Mark With a K+, Marc with a C,...
When the heart and soul of your team is Mark Stone and your goaltender is Marc-Andre Fleury you can beat just about anyone, including the State of Hockey, otherwise known as Minnesota. Yes, Minnesota is known as the State of Hockey, but a group of misfits from the city of Las Vegas is on the […]
Knights on Ice — Mark Stone Matters
In the latest “Hockey Knights in Vegas” podcast which is available to view on YouTube.com or on my Facebook page or the Facebook page of Vegas Hockey Guy, my co-host Eddie Rivkin posed this question. “What’s more important: Minnesota shutting down Stone or the VGK shutting down Kaprizov?” Without any hesitation or doubt, I said, […]
Knights on Ice — If He Sees It, He Stops It
There is no other way to describe how good Marc-Andre Fleury has been in these first 2 playoff games. He has played, in my opinion, the best 2 back-to-back games since he arrived here in Las Vegas gift wrapped from the Pittsburgh Penguins in June 2017. Last night, he picked up right where he left […]
Knights on Ice — One Mistake, Plus a Few Fortun...
A costly mistake by Alex Pietrangelo in overtime cost the VGK Game 1 in their best-of-7 series against the Minnesota Wild yesterday at T-Mobile. What makes matters even worse was that Vegas won an important faceoff in overtime deep in their zone to the left of Fleury, who was nothing less than spectacular. The VGK […]
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