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NHL 2012: Playoffs! Pick Your Overtime Winners!

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I'm really starting to hate LA.

And who are these guys and what did they do with my team?
 
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This game is a joke. In the worst days of the Devils I have never seen a team get away with as much as the Caps have been tonight. If this gave were being called reasonably the Rangers would have three times as many power plays as they do. It's do bad that even the announcers are calling then out on it with Boyle getting interfered with on that draw. These teams having a similar number of power plays is the worst kind of "don't decide the game" officiating where you totally ignore the fact that you can decide a game by not making a call too. I hope Torts points this out and gets a fine for it.
 
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REDaero91 said:
I'm really starting to hate LA.

And who are these guys and what did they do with my team?
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"We've secretly replaced the ghost of Terry Sawchuk possessing Brian Elliott with well, Brian Elliott. Let's see if anyone notices. "
 
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What a joke of a game. Those refs should be ashamed of themselves for that garbage.
 
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jmh said:
This game is a joke. In the worst days of the Devils I have never seen a team get away with as much as the Caps have been tonight. If this gave were being called reasonably the Rangers would have three times as many power plays as they do. It's do bad that even the announcers are calling then out on it with Boyle getting interfered with on that draw. These teams having a similar number of power plays is the worst kind of "don't decide the game" officiating where you totally ignore the fact that you can decide a game by not making a call too. I hope Torts points this out and gets a fine for it.
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You know the league hates Torts. :D
 
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jmh said:
This game is a joke. In the worst days of the Devils I have never seen a team get away with as much as the Caps have been tonight. If this gave were being called reasonably the Rangers would have three times as many power plays as they do. It's do bad that even the announcers are calling then out on it with Boyle getting interfered with on that draw. These teams having a similar number of power plays is the worst kind of "don't decide the game" officiating where you totally ignore the fact that you can decide a game by not making a call too. I hope Torts points this out and gets a fine for it.
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As a Rangers fan, I didn't think it was that bad. I hated the Boyle and Richards penalties but I think the Rangers were benefiting from inconsistent refereeing before that point. I think the linesmen really struggled in this game, missing offsides calls constantly and not paying attention on icings really took the flow out of the game. I think the Rangers were victims of some bad bounces and poorly timed mistakes. Next game I'd like to see Richards paired with Hagelin and Anisimov for a few shifts to see if something is there. Also, I think Lundqvist has to do a better job playing that puck on the second goal, be more confident with it if you're going to venture out of the net.
 
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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....
 
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goldy_331 said:
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....
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You'd think a Cornell fan would absolutely love the way the Capitals have been playing.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Even Michigan Tech got Brian Elliott pulled once. I'm a little surprised it hasn't happened already. :D
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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.
 
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I couldn't resist the urge, but I found a preview of the Caps special intro for Ovechkin.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xhT-GwX9o3A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 
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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 :mad:... Anyway, nothing particularly exciting going on mathematically speaking.

Next Round possibilities:
Code: 
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|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%|
-------------------------

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|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%|
-------------------------
 
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goldy_331 said:
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....
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Oh totally. Man I have been PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSED.
 
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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?
 
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at this point: anyone for the cup besides philly.
 
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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.
 
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