If you are a fan, don't be stung by it, Vegas is starting to print LTIR Champion sweaters to sell 😂

@@DiogenesTheCynic. They are the LTIR champs.

Being down 0 - 2 stings more.

Loving Tears In Realtime

@@mikem9536that crown goes to Tampa, they found this loop hole

He has a good understanding of the game.

This is what differentiates this channel from its copycats, yes.

I love these videos because as someone who doesn't watch other sports and never grew up around them, these videos help me to understand the game of hockey so much more. I learn more and more every day and my knowledge has grown so much in the past 2 years because of videos like these.

One of the clutchest doc´s in NHL history. Should go into the HoF.

@@TheWarlord9883under rated comment

Making bank I bet

The dude would probably make you regrow limbs, best doctor in the NHL

Fake doctors note

What a move, what a goal, Oh baby!

Yep. Bob was a legend. Him and Harry were a joy to listen to.

He was the best at it!!

Try being a leaf fan 😢 it doesn’t get much worse than that, you’ve gotten to see a winner

@@hockey_highlights_and_more i can get half of the experience by watching steve dangle lol.

Im a knights fan. I LOL'd when the fans boo'd Stone everytime he touched the puck.

Just complain about LTIR it's a hilarious gotcha on the Knights

@@shinyuta no you can’t, watching it is much different than living it

Just mad my team didn't think of this con first 😂

@@CL-ie5fz100% false.

​@@willsee7452He means to the same extent. Vegas is 14 mil over cap

@@ace2585 Tampa Bay did it first when they kept Kucherov and his 9.5m cap hit off the payroll for the entire 2020-21 season allowing them to re sign other players and add at the deadline. When the playoffs started Kuchervov was suddenly ready to play lol

As a VGK fan, my favorite part is everyone getting mad at us and calling us cheaters when we pull off trades like we did for Hanifin, Mantha, and Hertl. No one is holding a gun to these other general managers and making them trade with us! If they think we are cheating like all the fans do, then why do all these GMs keep helping us and trade us these players? If we are the villains and the cheaters of the NHL, why do other teams keep trading us star players if they all feel the same as the fans do? It just makes me laugh at how salty people can be! Call it what you like, but you have to respect how the front office goes about acquiring talent!

UrinatingTree will have you covered.

@DiogenesTheCynic. Who is Urinating Tree?

Those Dallas pint glasses ain't gonna have time to ever get frosted at this rate

Sour grapes by what can only be a Leafs fan. Too bad Toronto's front office has been circling the drain for many consecutive decades. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. When up and down the franchise there is no personal awareness of how mediocre you are - and when you are mediocre, you are always at your best.

I mean he did buy them just to drink out of them when Dallas bows out, he just didnt expect round 1

​@@DiogenesTheCynic.Lmfao funny how Vegas got punked in game 7 😂

Bruins experienced a Bobbery

Vegas lost

@Evan-C I watched the whole series, Dallas dodged a bullet

@@thedistrict95 new champs this year

Also that year we were outscoring our problems, which isnt a way to win a cup

Presidents Trophy is a curse!

I hate Tampa too 🤣

The Blackhawks did it before Tampa 🤷‍♂️

That’s a lot of 🤷‍♂️

17 teams above the cap, 12 in the playoffs, Leafs (98m) and Bolts (93m) are losing right now. Its not just about the salary cap circumvention, its about picking the right guys to fill up the slot left behind by injured players.

them bolts bout to be swept

Except the only reason they have that depth is because they abuse LTIR at the trade deadline. Vegas is currently almost 9 million dollars over the cap. Quite convenient for them when the cap is no longer applicable in the playoffs.. Teams should be required to be cap compliant on the last game of the season, and players on LTIR should be eligible to play the last game of the season. If the team is not cap compliant, they should forfeit their playoff eligibility and any player who is not cleared to play game 82 of the regular season should not be eligible to play a single playoff game. That would solve the problem right there. Oh, and that goes for my home team too since they are currently over the cap. There, those should be the new rules.

Yeah it’s almost like if you have more firepower than you’re supposed to be able to afford you’re gonna have more firepower than you’re supposed to be able to afford

@@natev580every team does it. Colorado did it on their run and so did Tampa back to back. Blame the GMs for voting on it. Our front office is just doing it better than everyone else

@@ryanalaniz4525 Yeah, they all do it. It is technically within the bounds of the rules. But it needs to stop. And I'm not sitting here saying "Vegas needs to stop abusing the system". I'm an Oilers fan.. They're over the cap too. I'm saying that as a whole, the system needs to change.

@@natev580 that’s fair. I agree, I think it’ll change soon for all the heat we’re getting for it now

You guys beat us twice at our place in the wc finals last year. Its not over.

I'm a Stars fan too and I know holding onto hope right now is hard. But Kenny is right, we took two games from them last year in Vegas. We're not out of it yet.

No, Stars won one game in Vegas and one in Dallas in OT last year.

There is no hope when facing a circumvented team. The Kings circumvented in 2014 and won a cup, Chicago did it in 2015 and won a cup, Tampa did it and won a cup, Colorado did it and won a cup, then Vegas did it last year and won a cup, now they did it again this year and are up 2-0 against a really tough team. Vegas's traded for Eichel, a player they couldn't afford and they've been abusing their ltir ever since, even one of their own players went public about how Mcrimmon is abusing ltir. The year they picked up Eichel he had a neck surgery that had never been done before on a player in a contact sport, so Vegas had to put him in to make sure, so there goes Stone on ltir, Eichel plays for a little over a month then goes back on ltir and stone comes off ltir. I learned a long time ago it's a waste of time and money watching the playoffs when a team circumvents, that's why I haven't watched the playoffs since 2019, I've got better things to do than watch a fake champion purchase a cup. If fans were smart they'd boycott the playoffs and the league would lose millions and that garbage loophole would be gone

@@dougosullivan7111lol you just names teams who won, there are a bunch of forgotten teams that used the ltir that didnt win. Fake champions, guess you’re a fan of a loser organization

I’ve been loving them as a new hockey junkie

@@joey4222welcome to the sport my man. please dont cheer for vegas tho 😂

Hard not to when you load up on 3 superstars players while your captain sits pretty with a "lacerated splean". Miracle recovery. As he does every year I dont see how vagas wont win the cup. And if they do, the NHL will be worse for it. Not a serious league

We Knights fans were more afraid of Edmonton and I 35% think they lost to the ducks on purpose. Also, if the Cannucks throw a game, is it on porpoise.

He just explained why they have a better match up against the Stars. it's no mystery. it's up to the coaching staff to fix it

@@borrow4654who tf is VAGAS?

@@HalfNHalf. god forbid someone writes a typo

Who knew that market manipulation would be a bad thing, just like in the real world when the government cannot keep its nasty hands off the free market? The Tampa Rays and Oakland A's prove most of the time that a hard salary cap isn't necessary for a team to be competitive, and the Yankees and Angels keep proving that you can't just buy championships.

On the upside it drowned out her dumb questions

@@liljoe31 Leah Hextall only has a spot in the NHL game crews because of her uncle. I once trolled her wiklpedia page and called her the worst play by play hockey announcer on a major network in the last 25 years.

Harry Neale was the best color man, hands down. During a game in Winnipeg, a TV light started flashing like mad, necessitating a halt to the game till it could be repaired. Harry said to Don Whitman, 'it looks like a concert in here from The Iron Maiden, or one of those bands that you listen to.' At a Philly game, the camera held on one of the off ice officials who was wearing a helmet at the scorer's desk. "lots of celebrities at the game tonight, Don. There we can see Darth Vader enjoying the play." During an LA playoff game, the camera went to Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman sitting together. "I'll bet its going to be nights of thunder when they get home.'

Chicago taught them first, actually.

He wasn't injured to begin with, get real.

@@Srdjana-where do you get your information. I’d like to see your source besides the voices in your head.

@@Srdjana- please show me where doctors said his liver wasn’t lacerated.

​@@lvhatrick and you got you info.. ..."because vegas said so." Correct?

​@@spencerstewart8765please show what they said was verified....you know it wasn't. They don't give out any injury details.. (like Tor/ Nylander) "Lacarated spleen" recovery time is generally a longer window. And, how astoundingly coincidental stones recovery 'just happened' to perfectly coincide with trade deadlines and first day of playoffs simultaneously. It's amazing, it's a miracle....or...it's blatant abuse of the system. Tampa did it too, egregiously, miss most of the season and returns for game 1..? BS. league and owners need to initiate some changes to prevent abuse in this area. It undermines the integrity of the sport to let it go like this.

Tampa Bay complained that Blackhawks exploited it in 2015 when Patrick Kane returned in the playoffs. Then, because the NHL wouldn't close it, they took advantage of it, too. The point is, closer to 10 years.

Cheating isn’t good management lmao I’m not against cannibalism because I wish I could eat people. Only people who say this don’t gaf about the game or its integrity

They should really close it and not remove it for the playoffs

Teams voted 29 - 1 to keep the rule in 2015.

@@danolsen7405 AND expressed zero interest in even voting on it again. We'll see next Governors Meeting, but this year it was, according to Elliot Friedman, a 45 second conversation of "figure out a solution and present it."

See if my 755.00 on Vegas to take the cup works out.I have been purchasing slips November

“Joining hockey in the inaugural season for Vegas” followed by that shit take makes sense

So true

And then get suspended for the remainder of the series, aka 1 game.

And give Vegas more LTIR money? You sure about that?

Dallas, always classy in losing.

He'll probably fake another untouched fall first.

Wanting a player hurt while screaming LTIR Cheats isn’t a good look slick. You’re obviously emotionally immature and a super fan of Dirty Dallas Fans throwing popcorn. Stay classy, even if you can’t.

The entire blue collar population of Las Vegas is with you on this comment

Feels good to cheat the system and stack the team with a way over the cap trick....... Being rewarded for getting injured. Shameful.

@@selfaccountable3464 I honestly don’t care. I based my teams off of their colors and logos, with the exception of my favorite teams stay my favorites and Vegas is one of them. I don’t care about the behind the scene of the teams

@@Cyclonetic Cool.... so you prefer to be ignorant that your team is cheating. So you are ignorant indeed.

@@selfaccountable3464 other teams have done it before so it isn’t cheating

🤣

Oh nooooooo 😂

seabrooks contract didnt come till after 2021 and kucherov was actually hurt.

@@ethanparker7900 So was Mark Stone. All of you are the conspiritards claiming he wasn't. And no, Kucherov timed his surgery to miss the whole regular season. He played with that injury the season before.

They all gamed it. Cope bandwagoner

Are you the only guy VGK fooled? Second year in a row they are abusing a loophole.

@@DiogenesTheCynic. from what I heard that injury was first sustained in the bubble over the summer

Uh ok bud.

@@chairmanofthebored6860 Not wrong.

Hanifin literally scored in a 2-1 win both games Stars had a chance advantage in shots and now got creamed in game 3 while Vegas goalie stood on his head and still lost. All of those guys have been big contributors you cannot be this ignorant.

😂I’m a Vegas fan and that’s too accurate. Time to make an edit

there are restrictions. 63" heel to butt-end for the shaft, 12.5" heel to toe for the blade. special requests for extensions must be made in writing, will only be granted to players 6'6" or taller, and only extend the shaft length from 63" to 65" max. whether the players actually follow that, or the teams have a MAD pact and don't call BS on illegal player sticks is a different matter. but there are rules on the books that restrict equipment size.

Riiight. Cuz no other professional GM could ever figure out what a bunch of dipshit fans easily can. Everyone knows ‘how’ to do this. Vegas chooses to do so and most other teams don’t. You can agree or disagree with either philosophy but this ain’t rocket science man.

Definitely one way of looking at it. Lacks integrity and no one would bat an eye if this was purely the corporate world. But it's not. It's a corporation...but it is also professional sports. Where the integrity of a sport and a code of honor tends to be held hallow. I am fairly indifferent personally, being a part of that corporate world. But fans pay a good chunk of the bills in this sport and a lot of them are not happy.

​@sports2hedz542 boo hoo fans are crybabies

@@armstrongaddy1155when it’s not their team doing it right, they complain

Some GMs are playing fairly and some have no shame* But all GMs should start cheating aswell so this loophole gets fixed

I saw Vegas fans complaining about ricocheting a puck off a goalie's head....ha ha ha

They're breaking everyone's hearts though and pissing everyone off

@@devinlapointe6257 than they should do the same.

Yes they are. LTIR stands for long term injury reserve. Hope this helps

​@@DigitalHayds If they're breaking the rules then why isn't the League punishing them? And the Leafs?? And Tampa?? And every other Team that's over the cap??

@@HopefulNihilist for the same reason congressmen practice insider trading, it’s a conflict of interest. Also do you know how much money Vegas makes the league?

I hope Jets meet them in 2nd round....I think they have a better chance beating Vegas than Avs imo.... Jets have the big guys and goaltending to.give Vegas s run for their money....Go jets!

Logan Thompson Is Ridiculuzzz

@@liljoe31 You're only as good as your defense. If Stars or Jets can they break that line, he can be vulnerable - exposed..

Honorable mention goes to the Vegas Golden Knights

@@Middyman43you forgot the Vegas golden knights😭

You are coping Coping and seething You just can't accept what you're seeing Yes, you're coping Coping and seething The truth it is scalding And now you are malding And coping Coping so hard 😂😂😂😂😂

@@DiogenesTheCynic. What are you? 12?

@@DiogenesTheCynic. what?

Exactly

They are mad over Hanifin and Hertl, the cap space is an excuse

Theyre definitely mad about something arent they

Have those teams had the same player go out 3 years in a row and then rebuilt their team with that cap space only to have the LTIR player come back?

@@garyelder4610 It wasnt 3 times, guess you are just another room temp IQ headline reader only

Dallas winning the series

@@merksmovies25in what world is Dallas beating a team that’s miles better than them

@@dstefaniuk5741 it’s hockey playoffs, anything can happen. Maybe dallas hasnt reached their peak or vegas will take their foot off the gas believing they already won the series

@@merksmovies25 this Vegas team is very similar to their cup winning team, I can’t pinpoint exactly who left, but Smith was the big one, however adding Hertl and Hanafin doesn’t take away the mentality of the team so I don’t think that’ll be an issue

@@dstefaniuk5741 yeah smith was the only one that left. You’re right. But maybe vegas will be so cocky thinking the solved dallas after dominating in the wcf last year, sweeping the season this year, and now winning these two games. I can see vegas taking their foot off tha gas allowing dallas to find their game and dominate

Bye!

They will feel your absence I'm sure. hahaha

It was a legal goal. Your city and your team are forever owned by Dallas teams in championships.

@@selfaccountable3464 it definitely wasn't legal by any measure....

@@selfaccountable3464 there’s wasn’t a replay. There was goalie interference.

@@charlesgallagher1376 Cry harder. We still have a Stanley Cup banner and our names on the Cup. Buffalo? Never!

I personally don’t care that Vegas leveraged the LTIR space. 31 other teams could’ve done the same thing…and they chose not to. Gotta respect the balls of Vegas

@@hockeypsychology I did still enjoy the video and your analysis is always valued. Its just that the weeks and months of constant hate, that seems to be ramping up is just getting to a lot of us. It gets tiring hearing the same things all across the internet.

@@hockeypsychologyThats what I’m saying

@@shinyuta If everyone is saying it, then maybe people have a point? What Vegas have doing is beyond tedious. I've been so stoked watching my Stars play all season and was so excited for a potential deep playoff run, and then the moment we got matched up against Vegas you just knew it was season over, because of course we get the team who has to jump through loopholes every year. The fact that it's in the rules is irrelevant to how people feel about it. The rules are there to help teams who have players who are actually injured, not teams who are exaggerating their players' health, stacking up an entire new roster for the rest of the season and then magically having everyone on LTIR return just in time for the playoffs. It's an abuse of the system and everyone is fully aware of what they're doing. We don't like you because you're unfairly ruining everyone else's chances at winning a cup, and that dislike for Vegas is completely justified - as it was with Tampa when they did it.

@@hockeypsychologyyeah man it’s badass like everyone could have done what Bernie Madoff did they just weren’t as ballsy hell yeah

That's because you're not a real hockey fan.

‘Ignores last three years while sweating’

Youll be hard pressed to make NHL fans believe that not having a salary cap in the playoffs isnt stupid as fuck. Surely you dont believe that yourself if you have any cognitive capacity

​@@borrow4654even if the cap was implemented for playoffs it wouldn't matter. Like he said, last year when Vegas won the team on the ice was cap compliant. Even this year I believe Vegas was cap compliant game 1 and would have probably been compliant game 2 if Martinez was scratched again.

@@CodeRedGraphics i guess thats true...just means you can load up on a few assets if you end up losing players to injury which is fair. Good luck preventing players from returning to play of they become healthy. Still would be a step in the right direction if you HAD to play a salary cap compliant team though.

@@borrow4654 I don't want a salary cap period. But you don't want a salary cap in the playoffs either if you actually thought about the consequences. And it doesn't matter if you do because the owners and Gms for sure as hell don't because they are aware of the consequences and don't want them.

You said everything I've been thinking. The complaining is getting old. They're mad at the wrong people aka the golden knights