If there is anyone that doesn't believe that Vegas is doing what they are doing because the egos have been put aside, one only need look at the two-time defending Cup champions.

It has been reported that Penguins winger Phil Kessel is in the midst of a rift with head coach Mike Sullivan over the fact that he was not used with Evgeni Malkin more in the playoffs.

Here is a team that has won two straight Cups with top tier talent, that is bickering over playing time and who was playing with whom. Hockey more than any other sport is a chemistry game and when a team has it they can rise above more talented teams that let their egos get in the way.

Vegas has none of that, and that is why a band of lesser talented players finds itself 3 wins from winning the Stanley Cup.

It is a fact that Vegas plays a very good uptempo game with passion, but the fact is that their talent level up and down the roster is average at best. Yes, Marc Andre Fleury is a Worldclass goalie, but most hockey experts have had him dead and buried the last two seasons as he sat and watched Matt Murray backstop the Penguins to the Cup.

Beyond Fleury there are no superstars, there are a bunch of lunchpale guys that pull their boots up and go to work. I know I will hear how great William Karlsson is and Jonathan Marchessault, but they have taken full advantage of an opportunity that was presented to them. They are products of a team that has believed in itself and battles for each other every night.

That is the intangible that cannot be fabricated nor taken for granted.

Bringing this back to the Wild, many used to say the Wild cannot win because they don't have the star player(s) that are necessary to step up in the big spot. I guess that argument is out the window, as Vegas doesn't either, yet here they are. The playoff experience was another argument used in past years, again not a factor for Vegas.

So why can't the Wild do the same thing? Simple they have very little team chemistry and enormous egos amongst the veteran so called leaders.

If there is one lesson to be taken away from Vegas to me, an all for one attitude must prevail over ego.

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