McJadeddog
Registered User
Honestly it shouldn’t have changed much. Not a big difference between down 3-0 at home vs down 3-1 heading into another teams barn. Win game 5 somehow and the odds would take a huge jump.
Yeah 3-1 is still a pretty ridiculous hill to climb, and nobody should be surprised at all if Florida wins tomorrow. But if we do manage to somehow squeak out a win in game 5, the odds are gonna take a huge jump like you say.
The uncomfortable truth every fan of this sport just kinda pretends not to notice is that isolated to individual game samples, the team with the better performing goalie is almost always the team that wins.
"Hockey should be called goalie" is one of my favorite sayings about the sport. As a former goalie myself, I can tell you that a lot of tending is luck as well. Sure, you put yourself in the position to statistically make the save, but its still a probability based on position, angle, situation, etc in many, MANY, circumstances. Luck plays a ridiculously high role in goaltending, although most goalies will deny this in my experience, lol.