The well-known stat is that the Golden Knights have never lost a game against the Canucks. What we don’t know, and will soon find out, is how Vancouver will react to having been beaten so thoroughly in the first game of this series. (SportsnetSpec)
, who are just as big, likely faster and surely deeper, with better goaltending and a visit to the Stanley Cup Final as recent two springs ago. There, they lost to Washington. So they’re also hungrier than St. Louis was.
Vancouver will have to increase their commitment about ten-fold if that is to happen. Truly, the Canucks merely dipped their collective toe into the Round 2 waters Sunday night, while Vegas had 20 guys who were submerged and churning out shift after shift of superior hockey to what Vancouver brought to the table.
The Golden Knights are an excellent forechecking club, forcing multiple failed zone exit attempts out of the opponent and then getting a change in that creates a fresh Vegas unit out against a tired opponent. Then they pin you in your own zone for another 30 seconds, before the dam predictably breaks.
“We’re definitely not going to just flush it and move on,” Green said. “Whether we played well, or didn’t, analyze our game. We’ve got to be better with the puck, that would be a start.
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