NHL 2012: Playoffs! Pick Your Overtime Winners!

[REDaero91]

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Even Michigan Tech got Brian Elliott pulled once. I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened already.

It's because we have AHL backup (well, until we traded Ben Bishop, then he was the starter) Jake Allen backing Elliott up. Halak still isn't fully recovered from the ankle injury he suffered in Game 2.

[MountieBoyOz]

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I couldn't resist the urge, but I found a preview of the Caps special intro for Ovechkin.

[MavHockey14]

I hope someone is collecting all of jmh's whines from this playoff. It would make for epic reading when all laid end to end....

He and Troy Jutting are awfully similar, no?

[lugnut92]

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Based on Bradley-Terry rankings (i.e., KRACH) found here, the updated (after 4/30) most likely outcomes are:

West: LAK in 5 (20.0%), PHX in 5 (23.5%)
East: NYR in 6 (26.0%), PHI in 5 (24.1%)

Overall winning probabilities:
West
STL 31.6% - LAK 68.4%
PHX 77.5% - NSH 22.5%

East
NYR 68.5% - WAS 31.5%
PHI 78.1% - NJD 21.9%

As always, KRACH is not a perfect predictive system. In fact, it's not predictive at all; it's retrodictive. Home-ice advantage, momentum, and the like can not be accounted for reliably, so they are ignored.

Remarks: ...Kings ... Anyway, nothing particularly exciting going on mathematically speaking.

Next Round possibilities:

-------------------------
|WEST |    HOME         |
|CONF.|-----------------|
|FINAL| STL | PHX | NSH |
|-----------------------|
|A|PHX|24.5%|XXXXX|XXXXX|
|W|---|-----------------|
|A|NSH|7.12%|XXXXX|XXXXX|
|Y|---|-----------------|
| |LAK|XXXXX|24.6%|6.89%|
-------------------------

-------------------------
|EAST |    HOME         |
|CONF.|-----------------|
|FINAL| NYR | PHI | NJD |
|-----------------------|
|A|PHI|53.5%|XXXXX|XXXXX|
|W|---|-----------------|
|A|NJD|15.0%|XXXXX|XXXXX|
|Y|---|-----------------|
| |WAS|XXXXX|24.6%|6.89%|
-------------------------

[jmh]

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I hope someone is collecting all of jmh's whines from this playoff. It would make for epic reading when all laid end to end....

Oh totally. Man I have been PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSED.

[Kepler]

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You'd think a Cornell fan would absolutely love the way the Capitals have been playing.

Winning?

[jmh]

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So my fiancee and I are planning our wedding in Ithaca next year; is it wrong that I'm completely ready to pick this one photographer based on the fact that he did Dustin Brown's wedding?

[unh_hockey]

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at this point: anyone for the cup besides philly.

[cF[Authentic]]

at this point: anyone for the cup besides philly and the rangers.

I agree.

[hockeyplayer1015]

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So Radulov and Kostitsyn are out for game 3. Were seen out drinking at 4am the morning of game 2. Seriously, you have all summer to party like rock stars and they choose to do that before a playoff game. Dummies.

[unh_hockey]

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I agree.

Odd, I forgot to put in the rangers, but meant too.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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So Radulov and Kostitsyn are out for game 3. Were seen out drinking at 4am the morning of game 2. Seriously, you have all summer to party like rock stars and they choose to do that before a playoff game. Dummies.

Jordin Tootoo taught them well I see.

[Hammer]

Jordin Tootoo taught them well I see.

Actually, The first thing I thought of was Goose Loonies with Probert and Klima in the late 80's.

[MountieBoyOz]

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I'd rather have this than the Flyers winning.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Actually, The first thing I thought of was Goose Loonies with Probert and Klima in the late 80's.

Not anywhere near enough blow involved.