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OOT scoreboard 2025 playoff edition

Dallas has 5 million in cap space this summer and will lose at least 3 quality forwards. And half their defense stinks.

This is probably the best chance they had at a cup for a while and probably wasted it.
It's amazing in the exact same playoff where Dallas was heroic for beating Colorado without a couple of its stars, they're still going to go down as underachieving if they lose in five games here, and with Edmonton flat out handing them Game 1.

Either die a hero or live long enough to be a goat :P
 
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What’s the record for most series wins without a cup? Deboer has to be up there.

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Stars are the Buffalo Bills of hockey (sorry @AfroThunder396 lol)
At least the Bills keep it close and respectable when they lose to the Chiefs. Dallas didn't even bother showing up in this series.

I don't want a Canadian team to win the Cup because of how insufferable their fans are, but this really feels like McDavid's year.
 
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I'm rooting for McDavid. Obviously, in a vacuum I'd prefer a non-Canadian cup, but there are a couple of mitigating factors:

1) McDavid is so f***ING good, he deserves a Cup, truly. The game is worse if a guy who is probably going to go down as the 5th best player of all time (or better!) doesn't have a natty.

2) The Oilers winning will make Leafs (and probably Habs and Flames and Canucks fans so goddamn mad)
 
Unironically Lindy is probably also up there in series wins, Bruce Boudreau made the playoffs so often but I don’t even remember him making more than one or two Conference Finals
 
I'm rooting for McDavid. Obviously, in a vacuum I'd prefer a non-Canadian cup, but there are a couple of mitigating factors:

1) McDavid is so f***ING good, he deserves a Cup, truly. The game is worse if a guy who is probably going to go down as the 5th best player of all time (or better!) doesn't have a natty.

2) The Oilers winning will make Leafs (and probably Habs and Flames and Canucks fans so goddamn mad)

I legitimately think its bad for the league if the clear best player in the world never won a cup.

So I dont have too many qualms about it.

I also have never found this Panther team to be the least bit likable. They only got a pass until this point because its fun to laugh at Toronto and Carolina
 
I legitimately think its bad for the league if the clear best player in the world never won a cup.

So I dont have too many qualms about it.

I also have never found this Panther team to be the least bit likable. They only got a pass until this point because its fun to laugh at Toronto and Carolina

This is the way.
 
Once Florida throws out the trash in Carolina, I really don't care who wins out of the final 3 teams. Florida is just too good not to respect regardless of the game they play, Dallas is probably the most likable team left + Pete, Edmonton has the two best players in the world and eventually it'll prove to fans in this sport that you don't just throw away a core if they don't win off rip (yes this is a shot at some of you guys here)
 
I'd like to see McDavid win a Cup...but him deciding it's not in Edmonton and hitting free agency next summer is pretty appealing just for the sheer chaos it could create.
 
I'd like to see McDavid win a Cup...but him deciding it's not in Edmonton and hitting free agency next summer is pretty appealing just for the sheer chaos it could create.

There's no way he walks, only way that was on the table when the Kings had a 2-0 series lead round 1. Once they won that, that dream was over. They're going to re-sign him to a mammoth extension this summer especially if they win the Cup.
 
I legitimately think its bad for the league if the clear best player in the world never won a cup.

So I dont have too many qualms about it.

I also have never found this Panther team to be the least bit likable. They only got a pass until this point because its fun to laugh at Toronto and Carolina
There isn't really a lot to compare it to cause usually the 'best player' in a sport wins sooner or later, the obvious exception lately being Mike Trout, when he had working body parts. Judge too if the Yankees don't win in the next couple years, although at least unlike Trout he gets to the playoffs every year. Certainly the NBA the best player wins, the NFL best players are usually QB's and invariably they win one way or another. We know Gretzky, Mario, Crosby, Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr etc have won Cups.
 
I'd like to see McDavid win a Cup...but him deciding it's not in Edmonton and hitting free agency next summer is pretty appealing just for the sheer chaos it could create.
I wouldn't want to see it cause there's a non-zero chance he somehow winds up on Broadway. If there wasn't about thirty years' distance between the Oilers having Gretzky and McDavid I'd be envious of their luck but they haven't won yet with McDavid, and money issues kept them from extending the Gretzky dynasty another five years or so.
 

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