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DALLAS STARS 2 VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS 1 (49-22-9, 107 PTS) – SO (1-0)

Recap: The Golden Knights traveled to Dallas for a conference battle with the Stars. Brett Howden opened the scoring with his 6th goal of the season.

Dallas evened the score in the 2nd period setting up for a 1-1 time going into the final frame.

Both teams had opportunities to close the door on their opponent but neither could find the back of the net. Regulation ended 1-1 and needed overtime and shootout to determine a winner. 

The Golden Knights’ record drops to 49-22-9 losing to the Stars in shootouts. Vegas will finish off their season with a home-and-home series with Seattle beginning on Tuesday. Puck drop against the Kraken is set for 7 PM. (Recap by Jason)

Analysis: It was an incredibly tight game in which both teams seemed uber-focused on locking down the neutral zone. Naturally, each team had a bit of a breakdown in said neutral zone and that led to both goals. Both teams were strong defensively in front of the nets and the chances were limited each way. Defense first hockey game that would have been much more fun to have been decided by real hockey than a shootout. (Analysis by Ken)

Upcoming stories from the Vegas Golden Knights vs. Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center.

  • Something about the matchup with Seattle (probably)

Ken’s Three VGK Stars
*** Jonathan Marchessault
** Alec Martinez
* Alex Pietrangelo

 

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76 Comments

  1. Sorvino

    Well played road game by the VGK. Hoping Whitecloud won’t be gone for very long. Mathematically at this present time, it is only possible to play either the Seattle Kraken or Los Angeles Kings in a first round matchup. I would prefer to play the Kraken, but I believe that Vegas can beat either team. They have done enough to earn home ice advantage in the first round. Winning the Pacific would be nice. However, if they finish second, I’m fine with that. The number one priority is to enter the playoffs as healthy as possible. If that meant giving Eichel the day off, then I fully support that.

    • Pistol Pete

      If they beat the Kraken both games they’ll finish first in the west and play the second WC (probably not the Kraken).

      • Sorvino

        Good point. I stand corrected. I was wrong. Thank you Pistol Pete. I think mentally I was thinking that Edmonton would win the Pacific. (Sorry). Seattle can still finish third in the division and then the kings would move to a wildcard spot. The standings become very uncomfortable for the kings if they lose to Colorado and Seattle beats Chicago tonight, which are both probable outcomes.

  2. Satan

    Good evening to all. I am Satan. Some call me the Prince Of Darkness. Some of you may not know but this is but my favorite time of the year as I am a big hockey fan and tomorrow is a reminder of what I did to that little wimp Jesus when I had him nailed to that piece of wood that was shaped like a lowercase t. Being a supporter of the Sin City Golden Knights was an easy choice. The plans are in place not only for a Stanley Cup but for world domination. I cannot promise that it will happen this year but it will happen in the future. Good Knight. Satan has spoken.

  3. Pistol Pete

    Two ways to bust the 109 pts record:
    1-0-1 = 110 pts
    2-0-0 = 111 pts

    52 record wins waits another year (can tie by winning last two).

    Great playoffs-like defensive battle (Cassidy vs. DeBoer). Quick way better than I feared. Most shots was 5 by Dorofeyev. He looked great again on the SO attempt not missing by much.

  4. Jailbird

    Good playoff type game. Quick did good job. I missed the white cloud injury, what happened? Need 3 points in final two games to take pac/WC.

    • Ice Warrior

      Whitecloud injury looked bad. Ankle or shin, maybe knee but his face when it happened showed he was in terrible pain. He had to be helped off the ice. I’m predicting his season is done, very sorry to say. I THINK it was McNabb who cross checked a Dallas player into Whitecloud and the guy landed on Zach’s leg. His leg appeared to bend at a weird angle just above the skate. Jump in guys if I’m wrong about what happened.

      • Sorvino

        You nailed it Ice Warrior. I just wouldn’t speculate on the severity of the injury. As painful as it appeared, he still tried to get off the ice on his own.

  5. Satan

    Good evening to all. I am Satan. Some call me the Prince Of Darkness. Some of you may not know but this is but my favorite time of the year as I am a big hockey fan and tomorrow is a reminder of what I did to that little wimp Jesus when I had him nailed to that piece of wood that was shaped like a lowercase t. Being a supporter of the Sin City Golden Knights was an easy choice. The plans are in place not only for a Stanley Cup but for world domination. I cannot promise that it will happen this year but it will happen in the future. Good Knight. Satan has spoken.

    • satan – you are one sick puppy – of course you and everyone else know that so save yourself the trouble of being such an ass.

      • Julie

        Hey, HD! Hope all is well! Watched the game with my family. Hope Whitecloud will be ok. Vegas has quite a few goalies this season and doing well. Watching Boston/NJ now. Ready to schedule my days around the playoffs. On this Lucifer -wannabe, don’t worry. We all know that story how he fell from grace. No time for losers,. Happy Easter!

        • Happy Easter Julie glad you are still about and surviving the crazyness this world has become. Hope all is well with you and your family – it appears your husband’s team will be in the thick of things come playoffs. Take care and post once in awhile.

    • vegas fan in

      are you a fucking nut job

      • Satan

        Hdbiker7851, vegas fan in.

        I am Satan. In the future, please do not call me “a sick puppy” or “a fucking nut job”. I mean you no harm. I am not here to recruit followers on my future mission of a Golden Knights Stanley Cup and world domination. I am also not here to hurl insults to anybody. I respect you both, and some of the others who have goals that do not align with mine. I will not threaten anybody with promises of a judgement day and crap like that. I am not here to intimidate. I am not here to judge. Satan has spoken.

  6. Sorvino

    Dallas player fell on top of Whiteclouds leg

    • THE hockey GOD

      Dallas player was cross checked by VGK no. 3, who then fell on no. 2 leg.
      Have no idea what no. 3 of VGK was thinking at that time.

      He is going to be out for awhile it seems from looks of that injury. Pachal will have to step up big time now. No. 2 is a very smart player, he will be missed. He makes the most smart plays of anyone on the team.

  7. vegas fan in

    god dammit can’t we get through a game without a injury i will cross my fingers but it did not look good for cloudy it is Damm frustrating howdy hada sweet shot on the goal

  8. Bobby

    Getting at least the 1 point was big. Hope Whitecloud is ok, that was ugly. Does VGK have the tiebreaker on Edmonton?

    • Sorvino

      Edmonton has the tiebreaker. First tiebreaker is ROW, regulation plus overtime wins. Basically every win minus shoot out victories. Edmonton has 48 and Vegas has 44.

  9. Satan

    I am Satan. For those of you that do not believe in me or decide to hate me even though you don’t know me, that is unfortunate, but it is fine. I have many children that walk among us that you may not even realize that you know. Some of them can be your neighbors. One of my sons actually played in the NHL. Over 1000 games. He led the Buffalo Sabres in points for six straight seasons starting in 1998. You can even look it up.

  10. Bobby

    OK thanks Sorvino. Maybe the Avs beat the Oilers at home, to make the road easier.

  11. Satan

    Vegas fan in,

    This is Satan. You have said some things to me that are just not very nice. I am sad. I do not want to become a nuisance or contribute negatively to this website. Satan will agree to no longer post on this site in one condition. Why would Satan want to hang around if everyone does not want him here? That would not only be annoying, but disrespectful as well. The condition is that the HOCKEY god not post anything about politics or religious bullshit. If that condition is realized, you will never hear from Satan again. This literally could be my last post ever, but it all depends on the HOCKEY god. Today the HOCKEY god has posted a hockey related comment, which is just fantastic.

    For the record, Satan did not insult anybody but he understands how completely annoying and frustrating It could be to have non-hockey related posts. You may never hear from him ever again on this forum. It’s really not an unfair ultimatum. Satan is not asking the HOCKEY god to get lost or leave the site.

    But………. if the HOCKEY god posts Jesus crap tomorrow, Satan will return. Satan wants to show respect for this site, so much so that he would leave and never return if it made the site better. Satan has spoken.

    • vegas fan in

      you need a strait jacket moron

    • SMH

      I’m beginning to kind of like this Satan dude. Satan always played better tunes and scored hotter chicks than Jesus anyway…

      • SMH – apparently another sick puppy – amazing why does a hockey site seem to attract morons who know little to nothing about hockey and just post be garbage or disrespectful junk. It appears you have joined the legion of idiots now???

        • SMH

          Wow Hdb, it’s interesting that my light-hearted response post to Satan (that got a chuckle from others) triggered such a name-calling diatribe from you. But I suppose that is par for the course, as you quite often seem to have a stick lodged way up your ass in many of your posts. You really should try to be a less miserable person – especially on Easter Sunday, which everyone knows is Jesus’s birthday, on which day he bequeathed his only pet to all of mankind, his beloved Easter Bunny! Have a wonderful holiday.

      • Satan

        SMH

        This is Satan.

        I like the way you roll. Real cool dude.

        Satan has spoken.

    • TS

      Satan, interesting angle, here. I DO understand why you’re getting involved. As I tried appealing to him through God’s wishes, you are working the OTHER end. I would LOVE for ALL the BS to DISAPPEAR!

      • TS

        Btw, ummmm….that little..thing that happened in 1978 was a huge mistake. I knew it then, and I have made up for my….transgression. don’t know what the devil I was thinking! I was young…..

        • Satan

          TS

          This is Satan.

          My existence on this site will continue as the HOCKEY God has made his decision for the others and was not willing to sacrifice. I am responding to you because you addressed me yesterday. If you wish for me to not address you in the future, please say so, and I will gladly comply. Do not worry about that thing in 1978. You are a kind person who cares for others and that 1978 thing was not a big deal at all.

          Satan has spoken.

          • TS

            Thanks. Between you and me, sometimes a person just HAS to kick up their heels, throw reason and caution to the wind and be BAD! But, i’m good now. Except i swear like a frigging sailor! The flesh is weak..LOL….

  12. Sorvino

    Ha ha ha SMH. I have no issues with this Satan guy. I read his posts and he wasn’t insulting anybody on here or calling them names but people are calling him a nut job, moron, and saying he needs a straight jacket. It’s too bad we might not hear from him again.

  13. Sorvino

    Happy Easter everyone!

  14. TENNESSEE VGK FAN

    Back to hockey, my three thoughts.

    Today’s game was one of the vgks best efforts of the season, a 60 minute game.

    Pavel is the first VGK draft pick that will become a super star in the NHL. Don’t know anything about his contract, but ownership better get it’s wallet ready. Watched him all throughout the game, he goes to the net relentlessly.

    Quick needs to be a top consideration to be in the goalie tandem for the playoffs. You can’t ignore experience.

  15. Pistol Pete

    More Dorofeyev cheerleading from PP lol:

    The more I watch each and every shift he plays the more convinced I become what a combo he’ll make with Eichel and whoever is on the other wing of that line.

  16. Tim

    What people will do to get 15 minutes of fame. Enough said.

  17. THE hockey GOD

    happy EAster every one

    pray for whitecloud quick recover, that was a nasty hit !!

    It’s resurrection Sunday. The resurrection of Jesus (Biblical Greek: ἀνάστασις τοῦ Ἰησοῦ) is on the third day after his crucifixion, starting – or restoring – his exalted life as Christ and Lord. According to the New Testament writing, Jesus was firstborn from the dead, ushering in the Kingdom of God and the ultimate defeat of Lucifer. Fallen “angel” aka satan, among other things.

    For the Christian tradition, the bodily resurrection was the restoration to life of a transformed body powered by spirit,[web 3] as described by Paul and the Gospel authors, that led to the establishment of Christianity. In Christian theology, the resurrection of Jesus is “the central mystery of the Christian faith”.[2] It provides the foundation for that faith, as commemorated by Easter, along with Jesus’s life, death and sayings.[3] For Christians, his resurrection is the guarantee that all the Christian dead will be resurrected at Christ’s parousia (second coming).[4] Lucifer has no such power over the dead.

    The bodily resurrection was the restoration to life of a transformed body powered by the Holy Spirit,[web 3] as described by Paul and the Gospel authors, that led to he establishment of Christianity. In Christian theology, the resurrection of Jesus is “the central mystery of the Christian faith”.[2] It provides the foundation for that faith, as commemorated by Easter, along with Jesus’s life, death and sayings.[3] For Christians, his resurrection is the guarantee that all the Christian dead will be resurrected at Christ’s parousia (second coming).[4]

    The conviction that Jesus was raised from the dead is found in the earliest evidence of Christian origins.

    Relics

    Main articles: Acheiropoieta, Shroud of Turin, and Veil of Veronica
    The resurrection of Jesus has long been central to Christian faith and appears within diverse elements of the Christian tradition, from feasts to artistic depictions to religious relics. In Christian teachings, the sacraments derive their saving power from the passion and resurrection of Christ, upon which the salvation of the world entirely depends.[271]

    An example of the interweaving of the teachings on the resurrection with Christian relics is the application of the concept of “miraculous image formation” at the moment of resurrection to the Shroud of Turin. Christian authors have stated the belief that the body around whom the shroud was wrapped was not merely human, but divine, and that the image on the shroud was miraculously produced at the moment of resurrection.[272][273] Quoting Pope Paul VI’s statement that the shroud is “the wonderful document of His Passion, Death and Resurrection, written for us in letters of blood” author Antonio Cassanelli argues that the shroud is a deliberate divine record of the five stages of the Passion of Christ, created at the moment of resurrection.[274]

    As well as the The Sudarium (Latin for sweat cloth) , held in Church in Oviedo Portugal, is thought to be the cloth that was wrapped around the head of Jesus Christ after he died as described in John 20:6–7. The blood and DNA on the cloth matches that of blood on the shroud of Turin. As well as matching facial markings. There is no doubt that the same person touched both the shroud and the Sudarium.

    Gospels and Acts
    Main articles: Mark 16, Matthew 28, Luke 24, Acts 1, and John 20

    Jesus is described as the “firstborn from the dead”, prōtotokos, the first to be raised from the dead, thereby acquiring the “special status of the firstborn as the preeminent son and heir”.[1][web 2] His resurrection is also the guarantee that all the Christian dead will be resurrected at Christ’s parousia.[4]

    After the resurrection, Jesus is portrayed as proclaiming “eternal salvation” through the disciples in the intermediate ending of Mark 16:8), and as calling the apostles to the Great Commission, as described in Matthew 28:16–20,[41] Mark 16:14–18,[42] Luke 24:44–49,[43] Acts 1:4–8,[44] and John 20:19–23,[45] in which the disciples receive the call “to let the world know the good news of a victorious Saviour and the very presence of God in the world by the spirit”.[46] According to these texts, Jesus says that they “will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you”,[47] that “repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in [the Messiah’s] name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem”,[48] and that “[i]f you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained”.[49]

    The shorter version of the Gospel of Mark ends with the discovery of the empty tomb by Mary Magdalene, Salome, and “Mary the mother of James”. A young man in a white robe at the site of the tomb announced to them that Jesus has risen, and instructed them to “tell Peter and the disciples that he will meet them in Galilee, ‘just as he told you'” (Mark 16).[50] The longer version says in 16:9 further forwards, which is a later addition, that Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene, then to two followers outside Jerusalem, and then to the eleven remaining Apostles, commissioning them to spread “the good news” (often referred to as “The Great Commission”), saying: “The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned.”[51]

    In Matthew, Luke and John, the resurrection announcement is followed by appearances of Jesus first to Mary Magdalene then to other followers. The Gospel of Matthew describes a single appearance in Galilee, Luke describes several appearances in Jerusalem, and John mentions appearances in both Jerusalem and Galilee. At some point, these appearances ceased in the early Christian community, as reflected in the Gospel narratives: the “Acts of the Apostles” says that “for forty days he had continued to appear to them”.[52] The Gospel of Luke describes Jesus ascending to heaven at a location near Bethany.[53]

    In the Gospel of Matthew, an angel appeared to Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb, telling her that Jesus is not there because he has been raised from the dead, and instructing her to tell the other followers to go to Galilee, to meet Jesus. Jesus then appeared to Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary” at the tomb; and next, based on Mark 16:7, Jesus appeared to all the disciples on a mountain in Galilee, where Jesus claimed authority over heaven and earth, and commissioned the disciples to preach the gospel to the whole world.[54] Matthew presents Jesus’s second appearance as an apotheosis (deification), commissioning his followers to “make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [20] and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you.”[41] In this message, the end times are delayed “to bring the world to discipleship”.[55]

    The three Marys at the Tomb of Christ (1470) at the west portal of Konstanz Minster, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    In the Gospel of Luke, “the women who had come with him from Galilee”[56] come to his tomb, which they find empty. Two angelic beings appeared to announce that Jesus is not there but has been raised.[57] Jesus then appeared to two followers on their way to Emmaus, who notify the eleven remaining Apostles, who respond that Jesus has appeared to Peter. While they were describing this, Jesus appeared again, explaining that he is the messiah who was raised from the dead according to the scriptures “and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem”.[58][59] In Luke–Acts (two works from the same author) he then ascended into heaven, his rightful home.[59]

    In the Gospel of John, Mary Magdalene found the tomb empty and informed Peter. She then saw two angels, after which Jesus himself appeared to her. In the evening, Jesus appeared to the other followers, followed by another appearance a week later.[60] He later appeared in Galilee to Peter, Thomas, and two other followers, commanding Peter to take care of his followers.[61]

    In Acts of the Apostles, Jesus appeared to the apostles for forty days and commanded them to stay in Jerusalem,[62] after which Jesus ascended to heaven, followed by the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and the missionary task of the early church.[63]

    Hallelujah it’s RESURRECTION SUNDAY, rejoice in the Lord. His kingdom is at hand.

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  18. Jailbird

    We could end up playing the Kraken up to 9 games in a row!

  19. THE hockey GOD

    [Chorus]
    I want to know that my Jesus (He) will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    I want to live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know
    I want to know that my Jesus (He) will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    Let me live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know

    Verse: Big Chief]
    I do not know the day my Savior will call
    I must be prepared to go
    Here from earth I know he’ll call me, o Lord
    That’s enough for me to know

    [Chorus]
    I want to know that my Jesus (He) will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    Let me live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know
    I want to know that He will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    I want to live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know

    I want to know that my Jesus (He) will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    I want to live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know
    I want to know that He will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    I want to live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know

    listen to song itself here

    the Statesman Quartet play I want to Know, for Paster Dr. Gene Scott
    have a listen to hear the song. You will NOT be disappointed, trust me.

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  20. Satan

    This is Satan.

    the HOCKEY god has ensured my purpose. I will stay on this forum. Satan wanted to respond to posts by TS and SMH yesterday but he did not as he wanted to keep his word that he would leave forever as long as the HOCKEY god would comply with what were very fair terms. the HOCKEY god has made the decision that he cannot sacrifice even the smallest thing for others.

    Appparently the story is that Jesus poured out His life — “He poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with transgressors. For he bore the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors” (Isaiah 53:12). This means that he literally gave up his life and emptied himself so that we could become full.

    Was it worth it???? Look at the crap he created. If humans were created by God then he failed miserably. Look at the selfishness out there. the HOCKEY god could have destroyed me but he chose to be selfish. Nobody wants to hear his religious posts. Has the HOCKEY god ever sacrificed the slightest little thing for anybody that didn’t benefit himself?

    Who is the bad one here? At least Satan had valid concerns about other people’s feelings and was going to leave this forum if the HOCKEY god would simply stick to hockey. Does the HOCKEY god care about what any of you think? He knows you don’t want to hear the religious crap but he says it anyways because he is selfish and doesn’t care. Satan is respectful of others on here. the HOCKEY god is not. He insults people for simply not having the same viewpoints and calls them very disgusting despicable names, and proclaims the judgement day will get them.

    Satan wishes you all a happy Sunday and to spend it with your loved ones if that is what you wish to do. Satan will not insult or judge anyone. Satan will likely purchase a couple of prostitutes and spend some time with them today. I know this type of behaviour may be frowned by some but Satan won’t be hurting anyone. Satan also respects whores as people as well. Unlike the HOCKEY god Satan is not into transsexuals.

    Satan has spoken.

    • vegas fan in

      beat it you piece of shit nut job you think your real funny don’t you ass clown

  21. THE hockey GOD

    rejoice in the word, the evil posters of hate here will see GOD and Jesus on judgement day; and meet lucifer in eternal damnation. They know who they are. False prophesy, mockery, twister and spinster of words, putting words in people posts that aren’t there.

    so it is written
    so it will be done.

    enjoy more music for the ears !!

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  22. THE hockey GOD

    [Chorus]
    I want to know that my Jesus (He) will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    I want to live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know
    I want to know that my Jesus (He) will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    Let me live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know

    Verse: Big Chief]
    I do not know the day my Savior will call
    I must be prepared to go
    Here from earth I know he’ll call me, o Lord
    That’s enough for me to know

    [Chorus]
    I want to know that my Jesus (He) will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    Let me live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know
    I want to know that He will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    I want to live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know

    I want to know that my Jesus (He) will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    I want to live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know
    I want to know that He will welcome me there
    I do not want to be denied
    I want to live in that city so fair
    That’s enough for me to know

    listen to song itself here

    the Statesman Quartet play I want to Know, for Paster Dr. Gene Scott
    have a listen to hear the song. You will NOT be disappointed, trust me.

  23. Satan

    This is Satan.

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    ‘To be born again,’ sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, ‘first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. Tat-taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won’t cry? How to win the darling’s love, mister, without a sigh? Baba, if you want to get born again …’ Just before dawn one winter’s morning, New Year’s Day or thereabouts, two real, full-grown, living men fell from a great height, twenty-nine thousand and two feet, towards the English Channel, without benefit of parachutes or wings, out of a clear sky.

    ‘I tell you, you must die, I tell you, I tell you,’ and thusly and so beneath a moon of alabaster until a loud cry crossed the night, ‘To the devil with your tunes,’ the words hanging crystalline in the iced white night, ‘in the movies you only mimed to playback singers, so spare me these infernal noises now.”

    Gibreel, the tuneless soloist, had been cavorting in moonlight as he sang his impromptu gazal, swimming in air, butterfly-stroke, breast-stroke, bunching himself into a ball, spreadeagling himself against the almost-infinity of the almost-dawn, adopting heraldic postures, rampant, couchant, pitting levity against gravity. Now he rolled happily towards the sardonic voice. ‘Ohé, Salad baba, it’s you, too good. What-ho, old Chumch.’ At which the other, a fastidious shadow falling headfirst in a grey suit with all the jacket buttons done up, arms by his sides, taking for granted the improbability of the bowler hat on his head, pulled a nickname-hater’s face. ‘Hey, Spoono,’ Gibreel yelled, eliciting a second inverted wince, ‘Proper London, bhai! Here we come! Those bastards own there won’t know what hit them. Meteor or lightning or vengeance of God. Out of thin air, baby. Dharrraaammm! Wham, na? What an entrance, yaar. I swear: splat.’

    Out of thin air: a big bang, followed by falling stars. A universal beginning, a miniature echo of the birth of time … the jumbo jet Bostan, Flight AI-420, blew apart without any warning, high above the great, rotting, beautiful, snow-white, illuminated city, Mahagonny, Babylon, Alphaville. But Gibreel has already named it, I mustn’t interfere: Proper London, capital of Vilayet, winked blinked nodded in the night. While at Himalayan height a brief and premature sun burst into the powdery January air, a blip vanished from radar screens, and the thin air was full of bodies, descending from the Everest of the catastrophe to the milky paleness of the sea.

    Who am I?

    Who else is there?

    The aircraft cracked in half, a seed-pod giving up its spores, an egg yielding its mystery. Two actors, prancing Gibreel and buttony, pursed Mr Saladin Chamcha, fell like titbits of tobacco from a broken old cigar. Above, behind, below them in the void there hung reclining seats, stereophonic headsets, drinks trolleys, motion discomfort receptacles, disembarkation cards, duty-free video games, braided caps, paper cups, blankets, oxygen masks. Also – for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled by reasonable, doing-their-job officials about the length of and distinguishing moles upon their husbands’ genitalia, a sufficiency of children upon whose legitimacy the British Government had cast its ever-reasonable doubts – mingling with the remnants of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother-tongues, violated privacies, untranslatable jokes, extinguished futures, lost loves, the forgotten meaning of hollow, booming words, land, belonging, home. Knocked a little silly by the blast, Gibreel and Saladin plummeted like bundles dropped by some carelessly open-beaked stork, and because Chamcha was going down head first, in the recommended position for babies entering the birth canal, he commenced to feel a low irritation at the other’s refusal to fall in plain fashion. Saladin nosedived while Farishta embraced air, hugging it with his arms and legs, a flailing, overwrought actor without techniques of restraint. Below, cloud-covered, awaiting their entrance, the slow congealed currents of the English Sleeve, the appointed zone of their watery reincarnation.

    “O, my shoes are Japanese,’ Gibreel sang, translating the old song into English in semi-conscious deference to the uprushing host-nation, ‘These trousers English, if you please. On my head, red Russian hat; my heart’s Indian for all that.’ The clouds were bubbling up towards them, and perhaps it was on account of that great mystification of cumulus and cumulo-nimbus, the mighty rolling thunderheads standing like hammers in the dawn, or perhaps it was the singing (the one busy performing, the other booing the performance), or their blast-delirium that spared them full foreknowledge of the imminent … but for whatever reason, the two men, Gibreelsaladin Farishtachamcha, condemned to this endless but also ending angelicdevilish fall, did not become aware of the moment at which the processes of their transmutation began.

    Mutation?

    Yessir, but not random. Up there in air-space, in that soft, imperceptible field which had been made possible by the century and which, thereafter, made the century possible, becoming one of its defining locations, the place of movement and of war, the planet-shrinker and power-vacuum, most insecure and transitory of zones, illusory, discontinuous, metamorphic, – because when you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible – wayupthere, at any rate, changes took place in delirious actors that would have gladdened the heart of old Mr Lamarck: under extreme environmental pressure, characteristics were acquired.

    What characteristics which? Slow down; you think Creation happens in a rush? So then, neither does revelation … take a look at the pair of them. Notice anything unusual? Just two brown men, falling hard, nothing so new about that, you may think; climbed too high, got above themselves, flew too close to the sun, is that it?

    That’s not it. Listen:

    Mr Saladin Chamcha, appalled by the noises emanating from Gibreel Farishta’s mouth, fought back with verses of his own. What Farishta heard wafting across the improbable night sky was an old song, too, lyrics by Mr James Thomson, seventeen-hundred to seventeen-forty-eight. ‘ … at Heaven’s command,’ Chamcha carolled through lips turned jingoistically redwhiteblue by the cold, ‘arooooose from out the aaaazure main.’ Farishta, horrified, sang louder and louder of Japanese shoes, Russian hats, inviolately subcontinental hearts, but could not still Saladin’s wild recital: ‘And guardian aaaaangels sung the strain.’

    Let’s face it: it was impossible for them to have heard one another, much less conversed and also competed thus in song. Accelerating towards the planet, atmosphere roaring around them, how could they? But let’s face this, too: they did.

    Downdown they hurtled, and the winter cold frosting their eyelashes and threatening to freeze their hearts was on the point of waking them from their delirious daydream, they were about to become aware of the miracle of the singing, the rain of limbs and babies of which they were a part, and the terror of the destiny rushing at them from below, when they hit, were drenched and instantly iced by, the degree-zero boiling of the clouds.

    They were in what appeared to be a long, vertical tunnel. Chamcha, prim, rigid, and still upside-down, saw Gibreel Farishta in his purple bush-shirt come swimming towards him across that cloud-walled funnel, and would have shouted, ‘Keep away, get away from me,’ except that something prevented him, the beginning of a little fluttery screamy thing in his intestines, so instead of uttering words of rejection he opened his arms and Farishta swam into them until they were embracing head-to-tail, and the force of their collision sent them tumbling end over end, performing their geminate cartwheels all the way down and along the hole that went to Wonderland; while pushing their way.

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    ‘To be born again,’ sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, ‘first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. Tat-taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won’t cry? How to win the darling’s love, mister, without a sigh? Baba, if you want to get born again …’ Just before dawn one winter’s morning, New Year’s Day or thereabouts, two real, full-grown, living men fell from a great height, twenty-nine thousand and two feet, towards the English Channel, without benefit of parachutes or wings, out of a clear sky.

    ‘I tell you, you must die, I tell you, I tell you,’ and thusly and so beneath a moon of alabaster until a loud cry crossed the night, ‘To the devil with your tunes,’ the words hanging crystalline in the iced white night, ‘in the movies you only mimed to playback singers, so spare me these infernal noises now.”

    Gibreel, the tuneless soloist, had been cavorting in moonlight as he sang his impromptu gazal, swimming in air, butterfly-stroke, breast-stroke, bunching himself into a ball, spreadeagling himself against the almost-infinity of the almost-dawn, adopting heraldic postures, rampant, couchant, pitting levity against gravity. Now he rolled happily towards the sardonic voice. ‘Ohé, Salad baba, it’s you, too good. What-ho, old Chumch.’ At which the other, a fastidious shadow falling headfirst in a grey suit with all the jacket buttons done up, arms by his sides, taking for granted the improbability of the bowler hat on his head, pulled a nickname-hater’s face. ‘Hey, Spoono,’ Gibreel yelled, eliciting a second inverted wince, ‘Proper London, bhai! Here we come! Those bastards own there won’t know what hit them. Meteor or lightning or vengeance of God. Out of thin air, baby. Dharrraaammm! Wham, na? What an entrance, yaar. I swear: splat.’

    Out of thin air: a big bang, followed by falling stars. A universal beginning, a miniature echo of the birth of time … the jumbo jet Bostan, Flight AI-420, blew apart without any warning, high above the great, rotting, beautiful, snow-white, illuminated city, Mahagonny, Babylon, Alphaville. But Gibreel has already named it, I mustn’t interfere: Proper London, capital of Vilayet, winked blinked nodded in the night. While at Himalayan height a brief and premature sun burst into the powdery January air, a blip vanished from radar screens, and the thin air was full of bodies, descending from the Everest of the catastrophe to the milky paleness of the sea.

    Who am I?

    Who else is there?

    The aircraft cracked in half, a seed-pod giving up its spores, an egg yielding its mystery. Two actors, prancing Gibreel and buttony, pursed Mr Saladin Chamcha, fell like titbits of tobacco from a broken old cigar. Above, behind, below them in the void there hung reclining seats, stereophonic headsets, drinks trolleys, motion discomfort receptacles, disembarkation cards, duty-free video games, braided caps, paper cups, blankets, oxygen masks. Also – for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled by reasonable, doing-their-job officials about the length of and distinguishing moles upon their husbands’ genitalia, a sufficiency of children upon whose legitimacy the British Government had cast its ever-reasonable doubts – mingling with the remnants of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves, severed mother-tongues, violated privacies, untranslatable jokes, extinguished futures, lost loves, the forgotten meaning of hollow, booming words, land, belonging, home. Knocked a little silly by the blast, Gibreel and Saladin plummeted like bundles dropped by some carelessly open-beaked stork, and because Chamcha was going down head first, in the recommended position for babies entering the birth canal, he commenced to feel a low irritation at the other’s refusal to fall in plain fashion. Saladin nosedived while Farishta embraced air, hugging it with his arms and legs, a flailing, overwrought actor without techniques of restraint. Below, cloud-covered, awaiting their entrance, the slow congealed currents of the English Sleeve, the appointed zone of their watery reincarnation.

    “O, my shoes are Japanese,’ Gibreel sang, translating the old song into English in semi-conscious deference to the uprushing host-nation, ‘These trousers English, if you please. On my head, red Russian hat; my heart’s Indian for all that.’ The clouds were bubbling up towards them, and perhaps it was on account of that great mystification of cumulus and cumulo-nimbus, the mighty rolling thunderheads standing like hammers in the dawn, or perhaps it was the singing (the one busy performing, the other booing the performance), or their blast-delirium that spared them full foreknowledge of the imminent … but for whatever reason, the two men, Gibreelsaladin Farishtachamcha, condemned to this endless but also ending angelicdevilish fall, did not become aware of the moment at which the processes of their transmutation began.

    Mutation?

    Yessir, but not random. Up there in air-space, in that soft, imperceptible field which had been made possible by the century and which, thereafter, made the century possible, becoming one of its defining locations, the place of movement and of war, the planet-shrinker and power-vacuum, most insecure and transitory of zones, illusory, discontinuous, metamorphic, – because when you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible – wayupthere, at any rate, changes took place in delirious actors that would have gladdened the heart of old Mr Lamarck: under extreme environmental pressure, characteristics were acquired.

    What characteristics which? Slow down; you think Creation happens in a rush? So then, neither does revelation … take a look at the pair of them. Notice anything unusual? Just two brown men, falling hard, nothing so new about that, you may think; climbed too high, got above themselves, flew too close to the sun, is that it?

    That’s not it. Listen:

    Mr Saladin Chamcha, appalled by the noises emanating from Gibreel Farishta’s mouth, fought back with verses of his own. What Farishta heard wafting across the improbable night sky was an old song, too, lyrics by Mr James Thomson, seventeen-hundred to seventeen-forty-eight. ‘ … at Heaven’s command,’ Chamcha carolled through lips turned jingoistically redwhiteblue by the cold, ‘arooooose from out the aaaazure main.’ Farishta, horrified, sang louder and louder of Japanese shoes, Russian hats, inviolately subcontinental hearts, but could not still Saladin’s wild recital: ‘And guardian aaaaangels sung the strain.’

    Let’s face it: it was impossible for them to have heard one another, much less conversed and also competed thus in song. Accelerating towards the planet, atmosphere roaring around them, how could they? But let’s face this, too: they did.

    Downdown they hurtled, and the winter cold frosting their eyelashes and threatening to freeze their hearts was on the point of waking them from their delirious daydream, they were about to become aware of the miracle of the singing, the rain of limbs and babies of which they were a part, and the terror of the destiny rushing at them from below, when they hit, were drenched and instantly iced by, the degree-zero boiling of the clouds.

    They were in what appeared to be a long, vertical tunnel. Chamcha, prim, rigid, and still upside-down, saw Gibreel Farishta in his purple bush-shirt come swimming towards him across that cloud-walled funnel, and would have shouted, ‘Keep away, get away from me,’ except that something prevented him, the beginning of a little fluttery screamy thing in his intestines, so instead of uttering words of rejection he opened his arms and Farishta swam into them until they were embracing head-to-tail, and the force of their collision sent them tumbling end over end, performing their geminate cartwheels all the way down and along the hole that went to Wonderland; while pushing their way out of the white came a succession of cloudforms, ceaselessly metamorphosing, gods into bulls, women into spiders, men into wolves. Hybrid cloud-creatures pressed in upon them, gigantic flowers with human breasts dangling from fleshy stalks, winged cats, centaurs, and Chamcha in his semi-consciousness was seized by the notion that he, too, had acquired the quality of cloudiness, becoming metamorphic, hybrid, as if he were growing into the person whose head nestled now between his legs and whose legs were wrapped around his long, patrician neck.

    This person had, however, no time for such ‘high falutions’; was, indeed, incapable of faluting at all; having just seen, emerging from the swirl of cloud, the figure of a glamorous woman of a certain age, wearing a brocade sari in green and gold, with a diamond in her nose and lacquer defending her high-coiled hair against the pressure of the wind at these altitudes, as she sat, equably, upon a flying carpet. ‘Rekha Merchant,’ Gibreel greeted her. ‘You couldn’t find your way to heaven or what?’ Insensitive words to speak to a dead woman! But his concussed, plummeting condition may be offered in mitigation … Chamcha, clutching his legs, made an uncomprehending query: ‘What the hell?’

    ‘You don’t see her?’ Gibreel shouted. ‘You don’t see her goddamn Bokhara rug?’

    No, no, Gibbo, her voice whispered in his ears, don’t expect him to confirm. I am strictly for your eyes only, maybe you are going crazy, what do you think, you namaqool, you piece of pig excrement, my love. With death comes honesty, my beloved, so I can call you by your true names.

    Cloudy Rekha murmured sour nothings, but Gibreel cried again to Chamcha: ‘Spoono? You see her or you don’t?’

    Saladin Chamcha saw nothing, heard nothing, said nothing. Gibreel faced her alone. ‘You shouldn’t have done it,’ he admonished her. ‘No, sir. A sin. A suchmuch thing.”

    • vegas fan in

      get back under the bridge where you live crack pot no one wants to here your bullshit

  24. Arnold Rothstein

    Satanism, ritual abuse, and multiple personality disorder**: a sociohistorical perspective
    ** person who posted as jose, alex, ts alex, fake knight fan, fake hockey God, obvious,and many others has now morphed into pure evil.

    Prayers and an exorcism is needed, on highest order. The Vatican has been contacted. They are sending a specialist.

    Abstract

    During the past decade in North America, a growing number of mental health professionals have reported that between 25% and 50% of their patients in treatment for multiple personality disorder (MPD) have recovered early childhood traumatic memories of ritual torture, incestuous rape, sexual debauchery, sacrificial murder, infanticide, and cannibalism perpetrated by members of clandestine satanic cults. Patients’ therapeutically constructed accounts, because the satanic etiology of MPD, is logically coherent with the neodissociative, traumatic theory of psychopathology, conspiracy theory has emerged as the nucleus of a consistent pattern of contemporary clinical interpretation.

    Bottom line, we are dealing with one psycho sick creep on this site, intervention is in order if this creep doesn’t seek therapy that is needed for their obvious mental instability.

    PS ARnold the BRAIN is
    always right.

  25. TS

    I didn’t really see too much intensity from either team until the last 4 minutes of the game. As both are in the playoffs, they both may have taken their feet off the gas yesterday, saving a little for playoff time.

    • THE hockey GOD

      ThG predicted as much a few days ago

      hard to win when your OWN players injury themselves

      it’s the CURSE, I say, Curse of the DEVIL

  26. vegas fan in

    no more injuries please

    • Satan

      Vegas fan in

      This is Satan.

      There will be more injuries. Brace yourself for that. There will also be current injured players that will return to the lineup healthy very soon.

      Satan has spoken.

      • vegas fan in

        go put a stake through your heart you piece of shit whack job

  27. Jailbird

    I don’t know what is being written, but doesn’t these long posts seem like written by the same person. Regardless of the name they use?

    • Walt

      You are correct my friend.

    • vegas fan in

      you are on to something jb

    • DOC DG

      I have 2 theories on this,
      1. Satan is actually THG looking for more attention and he has found a completely different wacko way of getting it with the Satan posts.
      2. Satan is one of the majority of people here who want to talk about and read about HOCKEY and wish that all of the religion and politics would move to an appropriate discussion board. He has promised to stop misbehaving when THG does the same.

      I am obviously in the majority I mentioned in the 2nd group.
      How many of you are?

      By the way I do read and often agree with THG when he writes about VGK and Hockey.

      • Satan

        DOC DG

        This is Satan. Double down on option 2. 100% correct that I will leave and never be heard from again if the hockey god stops his ridiculous, religious and political posts. DOC DG, TS and SMH seem to get it. No disrespect to vegas fan in, but this poster does not understand my existence. I exist because of the HOCKEY god. The only way to truly prove that I am being 100% honest and will leave and never be heard from again is if the HOCKEY God complies. He won’t comply because he is selfish, and only cares about himself. I like his hockey posts as well. And then they don’t matter anymore after his politics and religion crap. Absolutely nobody wants to hear it and even if they did which they don’t this is not a political and religious site.

        Has Satan insulted anybody on here. One particular poster has asked me to kill myself, and to stab myself through the heart. I have not responded and don’t wish to engage or escalate any fighting here. The hockey god is always a victim insulting people. The hockey God can dish it, but can’t take it. When someone stands up for themselves, the hockey guard threatens to call Nevada authorities, call them insulting names.

        Each time the hockey god posts, something about religion. I’ll post something twice as long about other stuff, not hockey. Again, the very minute, the hockey guy, the treats this site appropriately like everyone else, Satan will never be heard from again.

        Satan is actually understanding of everyone’s frustrations, and as you could see, is willing to negotiate his going away for good. Let’s see how far you guys get with trying to negotiate with the hockey god on not posting non hockey stuff.

        Satan has spoken.

      • TS

        DOC DG, couldn’t have said it better! Many, incl. Me, have taken a stab at stopping the ” extra- curricular lectures”, for years now. Satan’s unique approach is hopefully going to have an impact.

    • TS

      Jb, good morning. I’m pretty sure these are 2 DISTINCTLY different people here. It’s the classic ” Good vs Evil” battle….just not entirely sure which is which! The ” good guy” attacks everyone and everything, saying unspeakable things about them; but ths ” bad guy” seems to be appealing to decency and respect for others….
      I am SOOOO confused!!

      • TS

        …maybe a contest as to who can post the LONGEST, MOST INAPPROPRIATE stuff here..I’d offer them BOTH a prize, if they would STOP.

      • TS

        P….fighting FIRE with FIRE, PERHAPS????

  28. Sorvino

    Are you saying that THG and Satan are the same person.?

    • THE hockey GOD

      Sorvino THERE IS NO WAY, look at the icons . You can tell by seeing that the icons are different !!

      SHAME
      SHAME
      SHAME
      on you !!

      I am sane, the other person is creepy, psycho, nut job needing institutionalization of the highest order.

  29. Jailbird

    Yep, same person. It’s obvious. Insecure, lonely, needs attention, whatever. I imagine there are many on here that feel sorry for someone with this display of need and mental sickness.

  30. Tim

    Keep the posts coming when I thought it couldn’t get worse then it does.

  31. THE hockey GOD

    this is my favorite from JC Superstar

    trials and tribulations

    APOSTLES Look at all my trials and tribulations
    Sinking in a gentle pool of wine
    Dont’t disturb me now I can see the
    Answers
    Till this evening is this morning life is fine
    Always hoped I’d be an apostle
    Knew that I would make it if I tried
    Then when we retire we can write the gospels
    So they’ll still talk about us when we’ve died
    JESUS The end…
    Is just a little harder when brought about by friends
    For all you care this wine could be my blood
    For all you care this bread could be my body
    The end!
    This is my blood you drink
    This is my body you eat
    If you would remember me when you eat and drink…
    I must be mad thinking I’ll be remembered – yes
    I must be out of my head!
    Look at your blank faces! My name will mean nothing
    Ten minutes after I’m dead!
    One of you denies me
    One of you betrays me –
    APOSTLES How can he say that?
    Betray you? – Who? – Not me!.
    JESUS Peter will deny me
    PETER No, not me!
    JESUS In just a few hours
    Three times will deny me – and that’s not all I see
    One of you here dining, one of my twelve chosen
    Will leave to betray me –

    JUDAS Cut out the dramatics! You know very well who –
    JESUS Why dont’t you go do it?
    JUDAS You want me to do it!
    JESUS Hurry they are waiting
    JUDAS If you knew why I do it…
    JESUS I don’t care why you do it!
    JUDAS To think I admired you
    Well now I despise you
    JESUS You liar – you Judas
    JUDAS You wanted me to do it!
    What if I just stayed here
    And ruined your ambition?
    Christ you deserve it!
    JESUS Hurry you fool, hurry and go,
    Save me your speeches, I don’t want to know – Go! Go!
    APOSTLES Look at all my trials and tribulations
    Sinking in a gentle pool of wine
    What’s that in the bread it’s gone to my head
    Till this morning is this evening life is fine
    Always hoped that I’d be an apostle
    Knew that I would make if I tried
    Then when we retire we can write the gospels
    So they’ll all talk about us when we’ve died
    JUDAS You sad pathetic man – see where you’ve brought us to
    Our ideals die around us and all because of you
    But now the saddest cut of all –
    Someone had to turn you in
    Like a common criminal, like a wounded animal
    A jaded mandarin
    A jaded mandarin
    Like a jaded faded faded jaded jaded mandarin
    JESUS Get out! They’re waiting! Oh they’re
    Waiting for you!
    JUDAS Everytime I look at you I don’t understand
    Why you let the things you did get so out of hand
    You have managed better if you’d had it planned –
    APOSTLES Always hoped that I’d be an apostle
    Knew that I would make it if I tried
    Then when we retire we can write the gospels
    So they’ll still talk about us when we’ve died
    JESUS Will no-one stay awake with me?
    Peter? John? James?
    Will none of you wait with me?
    Peter? John? James?

  32. Jailbird

    Has anyone heard how serious Whiteclouds injury is? Thanks

  33. Sorvino

    Hey Jailbird, I have not heard anything regarding Zach Whitecloud.

    I believe they can get by the first round without Stone and Whitecloud. It would be amazing to have them both for the second round.

  34. Sorvino

    Mark Stone is on the ice in a blue non-contact jersey.

    Kaedan Korczak has been recalled from the AHL.

    Jack Eichel, Zach Whitecloud, Shea Theodore, and William Carrier are all NOT on the ice for practice.

    Thanks Ken

  35. Sorvino

    Adin Hill is back practicing with the Golden Knights after his conditioning loan in Henderson

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