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NHL 2019-20 #1: Where Toronto Plans To Win Without Playing Defense.

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Kepler said:
Honest question: is there a special connection between Iowa and the history of flight? I mean other than the whole state being flat enough to be a runway?
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Iowa Pre-Flight was a dominant force in college football during WWII.

Their Seahawks nickname also didn't make a lot of sense geographically, but it was a naval school so that was fitting.
 
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MissThundercat said:
Wrong. ".... The Jazz moved to Utah where they don't allow any music."
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The Jazz, Lakers, and Dodgers made perfect sense in their natural habitat. They don't count.

The Penguins* were because of ice. You know hockey is played on ice. It's dumb as in unimaginative but it's not even in the top dozen dumbest.

The Wild is stupid because (1) Singular American sports team names are stupid. This is not Europe. (2) Even among singular names, "Wild" is spectacularly lame. At least there was a Chicago Fire. The logo is cool, though, except for the red which kinda ruins it. Make that a darkening grey you've got a beautiful color scheme. As it is it looks like the early Devils abortions.

But none of this matters because there will only ever be one Minnesota NHL franchise -- the keepers of the best logo, the best name, and the best color scheme in American sports history.

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* Fun fact: without looking it up, what's with the triangle? I didn't know.

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It's what they call downtown, isn't it? Golden Triangle?
 
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Lottery:

1. Placeholder - team eliminated in qualifying round
2. Los Angeles
3. Ottawa via SJ
4. Detroit
5. Ottawa
6. Anaheim
7. New Jersey
8. Buffalo

Wings can't even manage a Top 3 when they finish 12.5 back of the second worst team.
 
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MissThundercat said:
Was it like LaFreniere was really going to help?
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I know this was sarcastic, but yeah, it would help. Unless you bungle it like Buffalo and Eichel, who was lucky enough to be second in a draft with two generational talents, these guys tend to pay off (even if it looks to have taken Edmonton a few years). The crazy thing is if Matthews had been born two days earlier, there would've been three generational talents in 2015.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Lottery:

1. Placeholder - team eliminated in qualifying round
2. Los Angeles
3. Ottawa via SJ
4. Detroit
5. Ottawa
6. Anaheim
7. New Jersey
8. Buffalo

Wings can't even manage a Top 3 when they finish 12.5 back of the second worst team.
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So a team could win the Cup this year, and still pick first overall. What a fcking joke this league is.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
So a team could win the Cup this year, and still pick first overall. What a fcking joke this league is.
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No, one of the eight losers of the play-in round will win the #1 spot.

So the eight losers of:
#5 Pittsburgh Penguins vs. #12 Montreal Canadiens
#6 Carolina Hurricanes vs. #11 New York Rangers
#7 New York Islanders vs. #10 Florida Panthers
#8 Toronto Maple Leafs vs. #9 Columbus Blue Jackets
#5 Edmonton Oilers vs. #12 Chicago Blackhawks
#6 Nashville Predators vs. #11 Arizona Coyotes
#7 Vancouver Canucks vs. #10 Minnesota Wild
#8 Calgary Flames vs. #9 Winnipeg Jets

Will all have the same odds of winning the #1 spot.

Or in simpler terms:
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If Vegas odds are a thing, I would expect Montreal, Chicago, and Edmonton are even money bets.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold;n3589700 said:
So a team could win the Cup this year, and still pick first overall. What a fcking joke this league is.
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As aparch pointed out, it's just the qualifying round loser. The best team that could get the pick would be Pittsburgh, who is 9th based on seeding. But, based on league-wide points percentage, they're actually the 7th best team. In normal circumstances, I believe the best they could pick would be 23rd.

Unless I'm mistaken regarding the statistics, the NHL left a giant flaw in the lottery by keeping the standard procedure, or at the very least not weighting Phase 2. They kept the 15 slots for the top three picks, but since eight of the slots are just placeholders they essentially act as one team for the purpose of the lottery. Those add up to total 24.5%. Then, because the Phase 2 draw is equally weighted among the qualifying round losers, this gives each of those teams a 12.5% chance of being put anywhere from the first pick to picks 9-15.

(.245*.125) is a little over 3.06% for any qualifying loser to get the #1 pick. While this does reduce the odds for the teams who get Team A, B, or C (6%, 5%, 3.5%), normally reserved for 8-10, it increases the odds for the other five teams, who are normally at 3%, 2.5%, 2%, 1.5% and 1%.
 
The two hubs for the playoffs are Edmonton and Toronto. NHL was hoping to toss Vegas another bone but didn't forgot that Vegas opened their casinos last month with no social distancing or masks and was probably confirmed by the fact that Europe views America as a giant Petri dish and the players could never go home.
 
bronconick said:
The two hubs for the playoffs are Edmonton and Toronto. NHL was hoping to toss Vegas another bone but didn't forgot that Vegas opened their casinos last month with no social distancing or masks and was probably confirmed by the fact that Europe views America as a giant Petri dish and the players could never go home.
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How else will canadian hockey fans ever get to see the Cup paraded around on canadian ice?
 
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