Writer\u2019s block can result in some weird occurrences. One can stare at the wall, go for a walk, clean the garage, or in a modern-day form of procrastination, type prompts into AI. The latter resulted in a recent prediction which is on the verge of reaching a conclusion.<\/p>\n
It was a couple of weeks ago and the Vegas Golden Knights had broken out to a tidy 6-2 mark through eight games. A column had been promised but no ideas were flowing. Somewhere between hitting refresh on X for the umpteenth time and a Google search on Halloween costumes for middle-aged men, a prompt formed and was entered.<\/p>\n
Based on schedule and strength of opponent, what will the Golden Knights record be at the end of October?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Vegas Golden Knights are projected to finish October with a record of either 10-4-1 or 9-5-1.\u201d<\/p>\n
With one game left in the month, Vegas sits at 9-4-1.<\/p>\n
Friday afternoon\u2019s game between the visiting New Jersey Devils and Golden Knights will be considered the AI Bowl in this space. The Devils started newcomer Connor Hellebuyck in goal last night and they defeated the Dallas Stars 5-1 with the 33-year-old netminder making 17 saves.<\/p>\n
The Devils are in Colorado tonight to play the Avalanche in a back-to-back situation with Jake Allen listed as the probable starter. So, it\u2019s fair to expect\u00a0Hellebuyck to be the Devils goalie on Friday in Vegas.<\/p>\n
There will be plenty of USA Hockey rivalry\u00a0storylines in Friday\u2019s game. Hellebuyck was in goal when Team USA won Olympic gold earlier this year, and his new teammate Jack Hughes scored the winner in overtime to beat Canada. Vegas center Jack\u00a0Eichel and defenseman Noah Hanifin were key players for the Americans as well. Expect some good-natured chirping.<\/p>\n
Lavoie’s Long Journey<\/p>\n
Raphael Lavoie imagined a lot of things on draft day back in 2019 when the Edmonton Oilers selected him in the second round. Waiting seven years to score his first NHL goal wasn\u2019t among them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means a lot. It has been a long time coming. It feels really good,\u201d said\u00a0Lavoie, who scored the winner as the Golden Knights beat the Ottawa Senators 4-1 on Tuesday. \u201cIt definitely wasn\u2019t a solo effort. Pretty much everyone on the ice touched the puck. We finished at the net and got a nice little rebound.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Writer\u2019s block can result in some weird occurrences. One can stare at the wall, go for a walk,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[149,5317,5,4,74,39,5316],"class_list":["post-697975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-golden-knights","tag-goldenknights","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-vegas","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-vegasgoldenknights"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117521413796935302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}