Golden Knights fans concerned by the team backing into the Stanley Cup playoffs with seven losses in their past eight games can take solace in the thoughts of no less an authority than NBC broadcast legend Mike Emrick.
The hockey doctor said what happens at the end of the regular season many times does not set ground rules in the passion play stoked by Lord Stanley of Preston’s silver chalice, when tensions and chin whiskers rise — except, perhaps, for the Scandinavian players.
“Weird things can happen to teams that maybe finished poorly and now can turn things around,” said the Gordie Howe of the broadcast booth, who joined fellow peacock network pucksters Pierre McGuire, Eddie Olczyk and Mike Milbury for a teleconference on Monday.