Chemistry is like momentum in sports. It exists and it doesn’t. It’s real and it’s not. It’s never as big a reason for success as many want you to believe and yet enough of one to push some above their natural abilities.
So when things are going well in a playoff series as they are for the Golden Knights, anything that might tweak such a flow of energy isn’t paramount to the bottom line.
No matter how good Nikita Gusev might be.
“It’s just another player coming in,” said Knights forward Ryan Reaves. “We have to focus on the playoffs more than anything else.