Around The NHL Discussion 2018-2019 - Part IV

[TheDizee]

lets go knights finish these bums off

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

Sharks live to fight another day. Good. Want every other team who advances to have to work for it. Flames win tomorrow and that will be every series in West going at least 6. Last time we made conference finals we ran out of gas. Don’t want to see rested teams waiting for us if we go deep this year.

 

[TheDizee]

 

[The Note]

Yzerman going back to Detroit, this time as GM.

 

[AjaxManifesto]

SJ sucks

 

[David Dennison]

Sharks live to fight another day. Good. Want every other team who advances to have to work for it. Flames win tomorrow and that will be every series in West going at least 6. Last time we made conference finals we ran out of gas. Don’t want to see rested teams waiting for us if we go deep this year.

Yeah this could very well be another season where the Central knocks the crap out of each other in the first two rounds and the Pacific team cleans up in the conference finals.

 

[Renard]

Makar is legit. Thank God they only got the 4th pick this year. That will be bad enough. Colorado is going to be a PITA for a long time.

One injury in the pre-season or offseason can change things in a hurry.

Do you remember the first Blues to score 50 goals in a season? It was Wayne Babych. He got 54 in the 80-81 season at the age of 22 years, and was injured in the following preseason ( a fight), and he was never the same.

 

[EastonBlues22]

I was reading the Post series Columbus-Tampa thread. I identify with the Tampa posters who were called out by their fellow fans for questioning their team's size and heart going into the playoffs. It seems speed and finesse alone aren't a guarantee for post-season success.

Nothing is a guarantee for post-season success...absolutely nothing.

Not having the best player in the game. Not having the best coach. Not having the best regular season record. Not being the best at a particular style of hockey, or having the most size, or speed, or skill, or high-end talent, or depth, or grit, or whatever. Not spending the most money on payroll. Not even having the consensus best team. If anyone says anything is a guarantee of postseason success, they're simply wrong.

Any team can still win a short series against anyone else. Even in relatively lopsided match-ups, the underdog still wins the series around a third of the time. Think about what that means mathematically. A perpetual 70% favorite vs the field (which is a huge favorite in hockey) will only win four series in a row about a quarter of the time. They'll lose in the first round more often than they will win it all (30% vs 24%).

There's no magic recipe for success. A lot of things need to go right to win it all, and there's always some luck involved as well.

All that said, I think it's silly to ignore major evolutions to how the game is being played. The state of the game matters, and certain things are going to benefit teams more than others, generally speaking, as the league continually evolves. Emphasis added because I think it's just as silly to pretend that the game is so simplistic that only one or two things "matter" when it comes to winning. Anything that can possibly benefit you matters...it's a question of degrees (X currently gives one a slightly better edge than Y), not one of exclusion (if X then not Y).

Since it's a sport with a lot of competitive parity, accruing those slight competitive edges matters over the long haul, even if they guarantee you nothing in the short term.

 

[Spektre]

Yzerman going back to Detroit, this time as GM.

Yzerman did a great job building Tampa but hometown heroes returning after the fact seldom work out. He has his work cut out for him in Detroit.

 

[MissouriMook]

Yzerman did a great job building Tampa but hometown heroes returning after the fact seldom work out. He has his work cut out for him in Detroit.

Very true. For every triumphant return of the hero story there are probably 10 stories of a tarnished legacy.

 

[The Note]

Looking like the Leafs will have a chance to win the series in Toronto on Sunday.

 

[TheDizee]

Boston got SCREWED on that 1st goal

 

[hullderko]

Nashville / Dallas are getting too many days off. Make them play a back to back to catch up.

 

[TheDizee]

Johnny Hockey officially has a choker label.

 

[ChillWill1]

Wow Colorado up 2-0... looks like they wanna finish this tonight. Wouldn’t it be something if we make it to the WCF and catch COL

 

[Dbrownss]

Flames exhibiting why no one around the league gave a f*** that they won the west.

 

[mk80]

Colorado look red hot again in Game 5. Calgary looking like an ECHL team against them.

 

[Itsnotatrap]

Nashville / Dallas are getting too many days off. Make them play a back to back to catch up.

This works to our favor, though, especially if we finish business tomorrow.

 

[BlueDream]

Knew Calgary wouldn't do anything. Always laughed at people that had them as the top contender in the West.

 

[The Note]

If it gets there (looking likely) Vegas-Colorado should be a hell of a series.

 

[Dbrownss]

Knew Calgary wouldn't do anything. Always laughed at people that had them as the top contender in the West.

I gave them a pity pass in my bracket. Deep down I knew they wouldn't do crap.


Boy Rantanen is going to cost ALOT

 

[The Note]

I don’t want to hear another word about how good and underrated Calgary’s defense is. They’re fine. Giordano is a stud but outside of that I just don’t get it.

 

[Dbrownss]

Man, Gaudreau cant catch a break.
Also, Sam Bennett...JFC....just ruined. Looked like a promising top 6 guy turned into an ineffective grinder

 

[BlueDream]

I gave them a pity pass in my bracket. Deep down I knew they wouldn't do crap.


Boy Rantanen is going to cost ALOT

I did have them beating Colorado but the Avs have been impressive.

I had Vegas pounding them in round 2.

 

[Dbrownss]

I did have them beating Colorado but the Avs have been impressive.

I had Vegas pounding them in round 2.

I think I had the same. Pens and Lightening shit the bed, so I stopped caring lol.

It was funny how Calgary finished 1st, but no one talked about it. Oddly enough goaltending isnt a problem