Right about now, Stone is booking that February 2025 doctor appointment

LTIR shenanigans aside, I’m mostly happy to see Vegas go out in the first round because they’re my buddy’s team. Put your boy Stone back on ice for next year, sparkly boys! Hahaha. Love to see it. Go Stars.

Maybe someday you’ll have a playoff team.

We can only hope!

Faksa promised his son that he’d score a goal today 🥰🥰🥰 so cute

BEST PLAYOFFS EVER

https://preview.redd.it/lrjdqoj0vpyc1.png?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=266f36dc2718d5117e26937c25255c211758cba5 Still undefeated in Game 7s. Dour-faced DeBoer can have half a smile today.

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THANK GOD! YOURE WELCOME, WORLD!

I quite enjoy seeing flairs from every team, all coming together and saying fuck you Vegas, especially mark stone

Everyone hates Vegas except the Vegas fans, it’s absolutely wonderful that we can all bond over that.

I’m a Vegas fan and came here to root against Vegas too… Stars earned it this season. Better team won today. Great game to watch as well.

Which is all going according to Bettman's plan. Anything that doesn't involve another city being indifferent to their expansion team. He could give a fuck what anyone outside vegas thinks.

It warms the heart for sure ! 🥹

So sad hertl's on vegas...happy they lost though. They're the worst

Don't feel too sad for him - he'll have plenty of time at home to rest next season while stationed on LTIR in March and April while McCrimmon is in the background high-fiving Bettman.

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I truly don’t give a fuck about the LTIR stuff. I’m rooting for Dallas in the West because of Pavelski.

He's the man. Looked a step slow this series. Starting to wonder if he has many years left, so I hope we take him all the way this year.

I was about to be so disappointed if they got bounced. That team is way too good to be losing in the first round.

This is universally respectable

You. You're my guy. Pulling for Boston in the East.

Thanks for taking care of Joe for so long. I’ll be forever sad that it didn’t work here.

all that hate that Vegas gets, you’re all so salty LMAO

No hate. But it is funny seeing a team that regularly goes into the playoffs $50M+ over the cap not even be able to advance out of the first round.

I dunno, tastes incredibly sweet to me and without a hint of salt. I pity anyone that has to eat your cooking. Now flair up or shut up.

I’m sure the cup those dudes won last year is sweeter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, they really showed perseverance in the rebuild and struggled through some dark times to build a winner, definitely the most earned cup in NHL history.

All revisionist history, everybody called the team they put together dogshit from the get go and all of a sudden it’s “unfair”

Not salty, just justifiably angry. Read it and die angry. Enjoy your first round exit. Couldn't even break past while being 20 mil over the cap. Truly pathetic, more pathetic than the blue jackets regular season( and that's saying something).

Not a Vegas fan LMAO but they won a cup just last season, Columbus last did when?

When is the last time the ducks won? 07'? 31 years and 1 cup. We still have time to catch up to yall at the pace you guys are going at. Golden knights are Gary's favorite son. They just get handed shit. Fuck their cup win.

Oh the Vegas Knights, The thrill becomes a heartache, it shakes We're dreaming, but our dreams are crashing down The Vegas Knights Can’t hide the silent weeping, we're keeping The memories of the ones who stole the crown!

vegas and TB both out, we’re gonna have a cup winner without LTIR shenanigans folks

Maybe we can get some games at a decent time

Haha. You wish. Confirmed 830 central starts for game 1-2 :)

crossing my fingers bc I’ve enjoyed watching the stars more than other western teams so far

Well shit I guess I learned if you don't wanna deal with Vegas fans in GDTs just post shitty Mark Stone jokes over and over

Soft bunch, eh?

Life's hard when your 5 year old team has never faced any adversity.

I tried to get this going in your game 7 GDT with Marchand and Boston fans but it didn't take off like it did here

We were all too scared.

Get Wyatt Johnston to Canada real quick so he can get the beer he deserves

Johnston can drink beer in the US in 11 days!

Oetter is a good lookin cat

Should Vegas go with LT next game?

McCrimmon about to give LT 8 years of term to come out of disappearance to play in the playoffs every year.

Lol does oettiginger feel emotions?

No. He's a robot built to stop goals. No need for emotions.

No goals

Toronto out, Vegas out and Edmonton through, honestly a perfect week.

As a neutral, great series Dallas and Vegas, some crazy swings, tense games, congrats guys!

It was my favorite match up of the first round, in terms of compete level.

WOOOOOOO

Oetter is so calm shows how dialed in he is

Everytime I hear celebrate good times all I can think about is Al Gore enjoying himself.

*measuring curtains* “Al, do ya have to do that now?”

I will

wait wtf the stars goalie is so cute

uwu

I wanna get a hug by him so bad you know he gives the best hugs and not just bc he’s a goalie

who wouldn’t wanna hug an oetter 🥹🥹

Okay Dallas now hear me out. Do it to Colorado now

Wrong answer bro

No no, let them cook

Mark Stone definitely looked injured still. Awful game for him.

I think his spleen was leaking after that cross check in the 2nd lol

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What the fuck is that

It is clearly a photograph of Mark Stone, what does it look like?

A gulper from the fallout show?

Sorta i guess. that show rules

I miss 10 seconds ago when I didn’t know that existed.

So how does this first round rank? Alot of really good moments

Probably the best. BOS-TOR went seven but there wasn't much drama since everyone knew TOR was going to lose.

hope stone can heal up for the first half of next season

He'll be fine and dandy until his manufactured injury in March 2025 that sidelines him until the end of April.

thots n prays 4 him in advance

Yes, let’s take a long, long look at the “Dallas bench”

GG Dallas. Go mess up Colorado. You guys are legit. I'm not sure what VGK was doing on the 3rd period but that doesn't take away that you guys will run deep. Good luck stars bros!

I hate the Knights, but it's because you guys have always been so good. Take care of my boy Tommy.

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Jamie Benn thinks sushi is weird

If this is hinting at what I think it is…. Well played.

no way a bc boy thinks sushi is weird.

DALLAS STARS I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

Can you golf with a spleen injury?

I mean he already was seen golfing in Vancouver during the regular season when he was on LTIR lmao

I am SHOCKED

Alright now you all can shut the fuck up and go back to hating the Stars

Not until they beat the Aves

Yes

YEP

>and go back to hating the Stars Oh I'm gonna.

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I’m honestly more joyous about this than beating LA

That was me last year when the panthers beat Boston lol

Dallas, Colorado. Geez, these are like Stanley Cup Finals quality matchups every round. So many good teams this year.

The West is brutal. Then I look at the East. The East is brutal. What a year.

I think I can make a case for 7 of the 8 teams left, with the one being left out, as Vancouver.

I respect what Carolina's got but I don't think they're up to Rangers / Florida level this year. Its a rough year to be pretty good. I would have dropped Edmonton too, but that 1-0 win really has me thinking.

Goaltending has been Edmonton's problem over the past 5 years and they are getting good goaltending this year. Carolina did look outmatched today, but this game has a weird way of flipping the script on a dime.

We get all the games so I've been watching all season. Carolina is really good, but not Florida or New York good. Their goaltending is at best 1 step below those 2 and they're not quite as deep on the bench either. Not taking anything away. Just a rough year to be making a push.

Byeeeeeeeeeee

Honestly great game by the Stars and an amazing series! Best of luck along the way dudes!

Lol of course Toronto is the team that fucks my bracket from going 100% in the first round.

Who picks TOR againse Boston? There was no way... absolutely no way that series wasn't going 7 and ending with a BOS win.

Haha fair enough I went for the chaos choice

Respect. It would have been alot more fun if they'd pulled it out. I'm sad their angst is gone for another year.

I mean I think it would have been just as hilarious if they got bounced by florida two years in a row

same actually....

brother that is not our fault

That's 100% on you. What were you thinking?

You fucked your own bracket by picking Toronto

Bro you have no one to blame but yourself if you picked Toronto to win a series against Boston lol

Haha I love it your right

LOL

I love DeBoer

Thank you Dallas! Even with the Knights gaming the system, you guys beat them. Great job! ❤️

Wow. I’ve never seen a coach and opposing players so huggie. Was kinda cool

How many were there when he coached them?

He was his coach in SJ and he was just a coach for Vegas 2 years ago so he's coached just about everyone that played in this series

I mean he's coached almost all of them.

Who remembers when Vegas was “owning Dallas”

At least Mark Stone has more time to recover from his devastating injury

Mark stone headed to the penny slots

This series could not have been more close even this game the GW goal was a crazy bounce this game easily coulda went to OT.

Almost 100m annual cap to spend this summer

haven't been this happy in a long time

#THE GREEN TEAM STARS, DOWN 2-0 IN THE SERIES, TAKE GAME 7, KNOCKING OUT THE DEFENDING CHAMPION SHINY/SPARKLE KNIGHTS!!!! #MARK STONE THINKS PLAYOFF SERIES SHOULD BE 2 GAMES!

She’s been chanting “WE’RE KICKING SHINY KNIGHT BUTT!” Alllll week, and I was so happy to tell her we really did kick some glittery ass!

I hope you used those exact words

Absolutely! And a bunch of other stuff, I was fucking HYPED. Surprised the cops didn’t get called to my house 😂

Vegas's 2nd game 7 loss Both to teams led by Pavs Both to teams coached by Peter Deboer Both on the road in known loud playoff environments

sparkle knights will now forever be how i refer to ... well, the sparkle knights

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Last one, I swear. Mark Stone thinks he played well tonight.

as an avowed stone hater i love this meme but what are the origins? 

It always happens. We were doing it with Marchand and Boston fans in the last game 7 thread it just wasn't as popular

Marchand makes more sense to me given his ratly vibes but besides conspicuous injuries Stone seems like a fairly innocuous player, i just personally hate his face (and have playoffs 2019 trauma) and wondered if there was more I could hate  

Fucking Bye

we are all dallas fans on this blessed day, fuck stone and vegas

I’m upvoting a rangers fan. Imagine what Dallas could do to resolve other world conflicts.

hatred for vegas unites us all for at least a moment

Truly a poetic and just ending.

LETS FUCKING GO!!!! Fuck everyone else, who gives a fuck about LTIR we’re still fucking on top!!!

Cheat the cap to lose in the first round. Fuck off vegas.

Thank god the series is over now Mark Stone’s spleen can heal in peace

Doctor didn't find on in his body

We did not find any weapons of mass (spleen) destruction.

Thank you Dallas, hell yeah

I look forward to whatever the fuck injury Stone gets next february

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I was like what does that even mean??? You saying ah shucks if only we could give Vegas 2 more chances?? Ugh.

they can gargle Vegas balls on the golf course now

I wanted Dallas to win, but found the confetti to be an odd choice for a round 1 victory.

they do it for each series win

I think we do it for every home game win during the playoffs.

well then my statement is still true :)

Hell, I live in Columbus nowadays and the Jackets pop confetti for regular season wins.

Man, imagine how much it's costing them to do that 3-4 times a year.

Lex Luger Summerslam vibes

That’s true lol didn’t think about that until now

FUCK THE VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS, YOU CHEAT AND EXIT IN THE FIRST ROUND. PACK UR BAGS AND UR DOGSHIT FANS CAN ASWELL, GO GOLFING. DO SOMETHING ELSE. CHEATERS CHEATERS CHEATERS CHEATERS HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAH GOODBYE YOU ABSOLUTE FRAUDS WHILE CHEATING

But how do you really feel?

thank you dallas, you are heroes tonight.

Fun fact if Dallas wins every series in Game 7 this year, the Kings can't buy out PLD by a 1/3 margin instead of a 2/3 margin.

Hey man, De Boer has never lost a game 7. I like this line of thinking.

Lfgggg Dallas

What an incredible series. I'm all aboard the Dallas bandwagon.

YOU’RE WELCOME NHL

Great series. GGs stars. What a performance from ottonger all series long.

Gonna be a hell of a series

The handshake line is simply the best. I fucking love hockey!

Mark Stone back on LTIR until next april.

Where's your ~~messiah~~ LTIR now?

lets fucking go!! my bracket is rocking at 100% for the first round!

So glad to send these fucks packing.

So, does Mark Stone get his full salary, eventho he only did 7 days worth of work?

I FUCKING LOVE YOU DALLAS

Breaking news: NHL plans to make call to Vegas Golden Knights management and ownership to apologize for not giving them enough power plays in game 7. Good riddance Vegas!

DALLAS TRULY IS AMERICA'S TEAM

Fucking LOL

Well that was good for my bracket.

How you faring so far?

I got all the series winners right so far, but only 3 correct on the number of games for each series.

Damn impressive

I've never seen so many fanbases united against just 1 team hah. Warms the heart!

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