It is so fucking hilarious how it went from “this is quite possibly the worst expansion roster in history, a team filled with 2nd and 3rd liners” to “Vegas cheated! The league made sure they were good with the totally unfair expansion draft!!!!” within a year.
lani99
Even if this argument was legitimate (which it’s not), can it even be made anymore? Aren’t half of our players from the inaugural season gone?
1trillion69
A team in its 6th season, only 6 players from the original, and already with a new GM and its 3rd coach…. doesn’t sound like they were handed anything, just sounds like pure fucking savvy to me.
Steve_Hunts96
I needed some quality laughter this morning! BRING IT ON HATERS!!!
WBY3
Mr. McPhee doesn’t miss
Sumdood88
I find it most ironic when Oilers fans say it. The team who got 3 straight first overall picks and the two best players in the world. Talk about gifted.
sipoloco
Wish there were more headlines. 5 headlines doesn’t quite have the sting I wish it did.
OpenMindedMajor
I keep this screen shot for receipts from round 2 of our inaugural season for this exact reason.
No bro you don’t understand bro, those articles were made at the request of Bettman bro, it’s all a big conspiracy bro
FinkBass420
I live deep in Oilers country (unfortunately) and the amount of salty oil fans that are complaining about “expansion teams shouldn’t already be this good, this is so unfair” is great. I can’t help but smile when they start to whine.
SulliverVittles
« No I saw two people say that they’d be good on day one so it was clear that they were handed the best team ».
asdf123lb
Flames fan here – This is purely anecdotal but most people that I know up here in Canada (south of Edmonton that is lol) have a favourable view of Vegas. You guys are the most exciting team left of the 4 that remain. Possibly the most complete team. While you don’t have a Bobrovski or a Draisaitl, Vegas plays and wins as a team.
Hoping you guys win it!
cangetenough
And then what happens is that people will add more reasonable reasons to hate Vegas and pretend that that was the real reason all along. For example, they hate the gold helmets. But those didn’t come around until 3-4 years after the team started.
OneBaadHombre
It’s just sad at this point. It’s been six years!
alecsharks
You still got handed an elite roster (or a good amount of elite pieces which allowed to get even more elite players).
Doesn’t matter what people said.
Be glad someone’s else check was big enough to buy a cup for the 1st time in the history of this league.
andyknapp003
Do these goobers not know VGK was just the 2nd expansion team in NHL history to make the Cup Finals? Other than St. Louis. And I think they could’ve beaten Washington then.
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It is so fucking hilarious how it went from “this is quite possibly the worst expansion roster in history, a team filled with 2nd and 3rd liners” to “Vegas cheated! The league made sure they were good with the totally unfair expansion draft!!!!” within a year.
Even if this argument was legitimate (which it’s not), can it even be made anymore? Aren’t half of our players from the inaugural season gone?
A team in its 6th season, only 6 players from the original, and already with a new GM and its 3rd coach…. doesn’t sound like they were handed anything, just sounds like pure fucking savvy to me.
I needed some quality laughter this morning! BRING IT ON HATERS!!!
Mr. McPhee doesn’t miss
I find it most ironic when Oilers fans say it. The team who got 3 straight first overall picks and the two best players in the world. Talk about gifted.
Wish there were more headlines. 5 headlines doesn’t quite have the sting I wish it did.
I keep this screen shot for receipts from round 2 of our inaugural season for this exact reason.
https://preview.redd.it/ppo901cmcn1b1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=3a723d86f56c6868bbce0c26ffa395cdb08fe754
No bro you don’t understand bro, those articles were made at the request of Bettman bro, it’s all a big conspiracy bro
I live deep in Oilers country (unfortunately) and the amount of salty oil fans that are complaining about “expansion teams shouldn’t already be this good, this is so unfair” is great. I can’t help but smile when they start to whine.
« No I saw two people say that they’d be good on day one so it was clear that they were handed the best team ».
Flames fan here – This is purely anecdotal but most people that I know up here in Canada (south of Edmonton that is lol) have a favourable view of Vegas. You guys are the most exciting team left of the 4 that remain. Possibly the most complete team. While you don’t have a Bobrovski or a Draisaitl, Vegas plays and wins as a team.
Hoping you guys win it!
And then what happens is that people will add more reasonable reasons to hate Vegas and pretend that that was the real reason all along. For example, they hate the gold helmets. But those didn’t come around until 3-4 years after the team started.
It’s just sad at this point. It’s been six years!
You still got handed an elite roster (or a good amount of elite pieces which allowed to get even more elite players).
Doesn’t matter what people said.
Be glad someone’s else check was big enough to buy a cup for the 1st time in the history of this league.
Do these goobers not know VGK was just the 2nd expansion team in NHL history to make the Cup Finals? Other than St. Louis. And I think they could’ve beaten Washington then.