Vegas Golden Knights stumble through a tough stretch, struggling with late starts and faltering goaltending. Can Jack Eichel’s leadership energize a team running out of answers before the Olympic break—and is it time to panic in Vegas?
Tony Dasco and Chris Gawlik dissect VGK’s consecutive divisional losses, highlight Eichel’s attempts to rally the squad, and question Sean Burke’s future as goaltending coach. From Ivan Barbashev’s scoring surge to Aiden Hill’s glove-side woes, the hosts examine power play breakdowns, overpassing tendencies, and lineup shuffles that leave Tomas Hertl stranded. Key topics include locker room dynamics, the need for urgency, and the impact of fatigue on a team limping into a five-game road test. Will new coaching spark a turnaround, or do deeper roster concerns threaten the reigning Stanley Cup champs?
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23 Comments
Hill equal loss. Plenty of empty seats during home games! Wish the players would show SOME emotion when things go wrong! It looks to the fans like they just don’t care or are coasting! Poor goal tending means the rest of team has to help limiting their offensive push!
Golden Knights will save us a lot of money come playoff time if they don't start winning.
Go Knights Go Go Go! The tide will turn … Be patient and be less critical. 😊 You can do your job and not tear down our team. Everydayer here 🙏🏽😎
Anyone who has watched this team for any length of time knows that “stealing a game” is just not in Hill’s DNA!!!
Show Cassidy the door already
When you have piss poor swiss cheese goaltending and a useless bottom six you will not win many games. Lost to 2 borderline playoff teams. This team is embarrassing.
Well aware it’s not all on Hill but my goodness we have to get rid of him. Vegas has no chance to win with him and that.
Vegas as a team (outside of goaltending) play the way you need to in order to win. Boring yes but more disciplined than most. I always like to do the goaly swap analogy, if vegas and there opponents swapped goalie performances with the opponents how many games do they win?? I would hazard 8 more wins. The coulda woulda shouda win ometer would say so as well
Hill ain’t it kids. Sadly that’s just one of our issues.
yes lets continue to blame the goalie. yep every single one trade them all because it has to be the fricken goalies…. sound stupid… yep.
bring in Vasilevskiy and we are still dogshit. bring in patrick roy… still dogshit… name any goalie… still dogshit… please stop with the goalie garbage…. yes you can pluck the lowest hanging fruit. lets be toronto and do that. every single panic moment lets trade the goal tender… and fire the coaches.
forest gump hockey analysts here.
can we bring in substitute analysts.
there is finger pointing on this show… is it the goalie or the team make up your collective minds….
ill help it is team not goalies. it is lack of belief or buy in to defense first and make opportunities off that and make zero or a whole bunch less turnovers.
i watch this show because it is entertaining and sometimes a train wreck
you guys have the memory of a microwave. our goalies are and were solid because of mr shane burke. shane burke knows more about goal tending than both of you if each of you were 10 people.
shane burke is a professional talent you on the other hand are professionally untalented in hockey analysis mmmm if that is a word.
you guys need a filter…
if you guys can be critical of the players i think yourselves are fair game…..
i think neither of you gets to decide firing or trade…
unless it is yourselves…
really bad takes ladies
real talk
Kind of wild but all of VGK’s goalies are in the top 8 xGAA (min 10 starts). Lower xGAA the better… Hill and Hart’s xGAA is 2.28 and 2.44, which are #2&3 best in the league, which means the defense in front of him are doing their job, except for not clearing pucks after rebounds. Hills GAA vs expected is the worst in NHL by a wide margin at -1.23. Leafs’ Stolarz is 2nd worst at -0.97.
Hill’s medium danger save % is 0.765, abysmal. He’s also 0.533 vs high danger, both save % are worst in league.
Everydayer here, do you guys post in the discord? Also would be cool to meet and greet you guys during a game someday!
Lauzon could had blocked that 3rd goal from going in. He was right in front of the shooter but made no effort. He was probably thinking about his Hawaii trip during the Olympic break and didn’t want to risk injury. If Martinez or McNab were playing that goal isn’t scored. We have too many players not committed to winning. There is a reason Rondbjerg is in the AHL. He and Holtz are not NHL caliber players. Yes they skate around fast but thats it. Like a washing machine without detergent. They never finish the job.
Chris you are reaching to affirm the opinion you have.. yes the save we needed then i understand the term and the timing but our D is dog shizzle as a group. we should be a bakery …. golden knight hockey and bakery. can we come up with a name for the bakery. maybe that is a good use of your time.
Not stepping up for Rondo after Gudas smashed him and he leaves injured told me everything i need to know. These guys are fried, the mental game is the only thing keeping them from rolling. They got behind the eight ball losing so many guysv early, and now they're chasing chemistry and chaos. I wish we weren't stuck with that Hill contract. It's killing the options to get this team over the hump.
the problem as I see it, is the poor defence. Korzac, and Lauzon have to go. Korzac always loses it against the boards in his own end. Hutton is not much better. How about calling up a Dman and give him a chance? Their top 4 are excellent, but…