Mosby
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In a shitty season, a first Cup for OEL, Paul Maurice, Kyle Okposo, Alex Barkov and a Sun Belt franchise is a good way to end it. Nick Cousins and heartbreak in Edmonton is a nice bonus.
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What a year for the NHL.
One of its worst off the ice:
- Carter Hart and the Hockey Canada boys
- Corey Perry and "Mrs. Bedard"
- Shane Pinto's gambling
- Pierre Dorion's no-trade trade
- Mike Babcock and iPhones
- "Banning" Pride Tape
- Sharks the worst team in decades
- Another suit vs the Blackhawks
- Dead ratings for ASG and Winter Classic
- Losing a major market in Arizona
But then, on the ice, one of its best:
- Auston Matthews gets damn near 70 goals
- A growing market gets its first Cup
- McDavid gets to the Cup Final
- McDavid/Gretzky playoff records
- Bedard runs away with Calder despite injury
- Kuch and McDavid with 100 assists
- Four 50-goal scorers
- One of Crosby's best seasons in years
One of its worst off the ice:
- Carter Hart and the Hockey Canada boys
- Corey Perry and "Mrs. Bedard"
- Shane Pinto's gambling
- Pierre Dorion's no-trade trade
- Mike Babcock and iPhones
- "Banning" Pride Tape
- Sharks the worst team in decades
- Another suit vs the Blackhawks
- Dead ratings for ASG and Winter Classic
- Losing a major market in Arizona
But then, on the ice, one of its best:
- Auston Matthews gets damn near 70 goals
- A growing market gets its first Cup
- McDavid gets to the Cup Final
- McDavid/Gretzky playoff records
- Bedard runs away with Calder despite injury
- Kuch and McDavid with 100 assists
- Four 50-goal scorers
- One of Crosby's best seasons in years
OEL getting the Cup made me emotional. Nick Cousins is getting a ring too lol, ok fine. Poor Corey Perry. Bob I think deserved the Smythe but, at that point Bob doens't care, he's taking the big one.
Seeing OEL smile while raising that cup is priceless.
I'm proud of the Oilers. They showed their character after a disastrous start. The better team won.
I'm not sure you can say better team won this series, imo Oilers were better team in 5 out of 7 games. But that is really irrelevant as only goals and wins count.
I thought Edmonton was better in games
I thought Edmonton was better team in games 1,2, and 5 for sure with other 4 being fairly even. While Floride outplayed them in some periods I think overall Edmonton was better team. I thought Skinner was better than Bob in series but at the end it was Skinner who cost them a couple games, even Cup winning goal was one that can't go in.
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ok, lets talk stats...assuming everything is equal in the long run (not a bad, but not a perfect assumption)...Canada is now 0 for the last 30. Sorry Jakey...just the fact ma'am. 
With, say, 30 teams in the league (since we're going back to '92) each team has about a 3.33% chance of winning in a given year (remember the original assumption before getting your tuuk in a twist) that means that Canada had about a 20% of winning the cup in any given year, or 1 in 5. So, 1/5 raised to the 30th power is the chance of a Canadian team NOT winning a Cup in 30 yrs! This is an astronomically low low low number. I mean smaller than the average number of brain cells in a Coyote fan's delusional brain.
So clearly, SOMETHING IS NOT conducive to Stanley Cup acquisition in Canada. In stats world we call this a "special cause", changing an otherwise normal distribution. In this case, it applies across all 6 teams (unlike the Coyotes where the integrated ineptness applies solely to the formerly beleaguered franchise).
WHAT in the True North Strong and Free and in the name of McJesus is going on here??
Jakey, explain please!
With, say, 30 teams in the league (since we're going back to '92) each team has about a 3.33% chance of winning in a given year (remember the original assumption before getting your tuuk in a twist) that means that Canada had about a 20% of winning the cup in any given year, or 1 in 5. So, 1/5 raised to the 30th power is the chance of a Canadian team NOT winning a Cup in 30 yrs! This is an astronomically low low low number. I mean smaller than the average number of brain cells in a Coyote fan's delusional brain.
So clearly, SOMETHING IS NOT conducive to Stanley Cup acquisition in Canada. In stats world we call this a "special cause", changing an otherwise normal distribution. In this case, it applies across all 6 teams (unlike the Coyotes where the integrated ineptness applies solely to the formerly beleaguered franchise).
WHAT in the True North Strong and Free and in the name of McJesus is going on here??
Jakey, explain please!
LittlePipes
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What the hell are you talking about?ok, lets talk stats...assuming everything is equal in the long run (not a bad, but not a perfect assumption)...Canada is now 0 for the last 30. Sorry Jakey...just the fact ma'am.
With, say, 30 teams in the league (since we're going back to '92) each team has about a 3.33% chance of winning in a given year (remember the original assumption before getting your tuuk in a twist) that means that Canada had about a 20% of winning the cup in any given year, or 1 in 5. So, 1/5 raised to the 30th power is the chance of a Canadian team NOT winning a Cup in 30 yrs! This is an astronomically low low low number. I mean smaller than the average number of brain cells in a Coyote fan's delusional brain.
So clearly, SOMETHING IS NOT conducive to Stanley Cup acquisition in Canada. In stats world we call this a "special cause", changing an otherwise normal distribution. In this case, it applies across all 6 teams (unlike the Coyotes where the integrated ineptness applies solely to the formerly beleaguered franchise).
WHAT in the True North Strong and Free and in the name of McJesus is going on here??
Jakey, explain please!
Yup. As often as I've talked up the state of Florida here over the years, as weird as we are...Having the Eastern Conf rep in the finals go TB, TB, TB, FLA, FLA softens it a little.
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Sergei Berezin passes away at age 52 | TSN
Sergei Berezin, who scored 126 goals over five seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs, has passed away at the age of 52, the NHL announced on Wednesday.
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Sergei Berezin passed away at age 52,
G-d bless. Vivid memories of him here that 9/11 season. All the videos of them at ground zero, etc. Had a great career on the Leafs.Sergei Berezin passes away at age 52 | TSN
Sergei Berezin, who scored 126 goals over five seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs, has passed away at the age of 52, the NHL announced on Wednesday.
Sergei Berezin passed away at age 52,
