Why are you surprised? The final regular season game is on Thursday. I can't recall seeing a first round series start with a team only having one day's rest.
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But hey, that's why we have to play the games!
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But hey, that's why we have to play the games!
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Exactly. There's no such thing as an easy out in the playoff these days and considering our history, I'm a bit surprised by the amount of arrogance ITT. We haven't even clinched 1st for one thing, people really need to calm down. Hopefully they'll nail it down tomorrow and sure, we should be able to handle Ottawa without too much trouble but that's only if we play the way we can which we have a history of not doing. Recent playoff history has a number of 1st round matchups where a massive favorite got sent home so I wouldn't celebrate anything until it's been earned.
Just remember that there will likely be a lot more money bet on the Leafs which will drive the odds down a bit.
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Yeah I figure the teams that play Thursday are more like to start the playoffs Sunday. I mean there are issues such as arena availability but other than that, I assume the goal would be to give teams more than one day to rest if at all possible
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6 actually, but good point, I've been thinking about how that series went as well. Ottawa is young, hungry, 1st time in the playoffs in ages, I assume they'll be playing their butts off.
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It was 6 games, and this Leafs team is better than that Capitals team was at the time.
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Ohh ok, I just assumed it was going to be on Saturday. I’m guessing Edmonton and LA, and possibly Calgary would also start on Sunday considering both play each other on Thursday
Why does anybody care what Senators fans or fans of any team say?
Personally, I think that any NHL playoff team is capable of beating any other playoff team in a 7-game series so I'm never really surprised when upsets happen.. Please note that I did not say "equally capable". There are also such factors as injury, illness, penalties, luck, etc.
Personally, I think that any NHL playoff team is capable of beating any other playoff team in a 7-game series so I'm never really surprised when upsets happen.. Please note that I did not say "equally capable". There are also such factors as injury, illness, penalties, luck, etc.
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Last year, series started on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
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Oh wow, good to know. I hope that's not what happens, I mean I want us to be rested, but waiting that long would make me over the top restless.
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We have never "let the players stand around with impunity". That's just a lazy false narrative, made by people who don't understand that there is more than one way to defend and protect the net front. We allow more rebound shots now, and have all season. We allow the 8th most shots in general, and the 12th most high danger shots, so we're not really minimizing those either. There are aspects of defensive play that we are better at now, like shot blocking, but that has come at the cost of a lot of the other things that make up effective defensive play. We have dropped to 22nd in the league in overall defensive results.
There's nothing about the way we are playing that is inherently more successful in the playoffs. Some people have just been fooled into thinking there's only one way to be successful in the playoffs.
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Of course. The future hasn't happened yet. We have to see if TOR can be better than 5 playoff wins.
Goaltending going into the playoffs is considerably better. Better goaltending can certainly factor into playoff success.
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I think the league will aim to give teams two full days off before their first playoff games.
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Goaltending is the #1 reason for optimism IMO. Other reasons that come to mind are the fact that the PP is looking pretty good, we seem to be 100% healthy, the addition of Carlo has really solidified our defence and our chances of winning the division are really good which would be huge as well. There are other reasons too but those are perhaps the biggest ones.
Everything's looking pretty good really, the only big negative is our playoff history (actually the putrid PK is another big problem) so hopefully the players can put that out of their minds. If they play their best hockey on a relatively consistent basis, this team could go places. I don't want to get too excited because I've been disappointed more times than I care to think about but still, I have to say that things are looking pretty good.
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Agreed. The only benefit of Sunday is that it allows game 4 to be next Saturday, but I'm guessing that even if they start on Monday they will adjust the schedule to put game 3 on Saturday.
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