Hedberg
MLD Glue Guy
While I'd be happy to extend the deadline, the teams have advantages in such different things, I'm not really sure what can be proven in debate. It seems Brooklyn has better coaching, but Florida has home ice. Florida has better offensive forwards, Brooklyn has better defensive forwards. Brooklyn has better goaltending, Florida has a better top pairing. This is a series that should go 7 and could very well be determined be a variable that's impossible to take into account in the analysis of matchups on paper. To further the debate in a way that wouldn't go in circles (unless we could figure out clear ways of analyzing non-NHL leagues), I think we'd need to figure out which categories it's more important to have the edge in, but that's something that is impossible to quantify. As you can see from our team, I think that the ability to put the other team on the defensive as much as possible is the best style while Brooklyn seems to value counter-attacking after weathering the other side's offence. That is basically how I see it. I'm not really sure what I can "attack" as the teams are so different. Personally, I think our offence will be enough to overcome Brooklyn's defence, but it's impossible to prove that in discussion and the weighing of meaning to different faucets of the game will vary from GM to GM.
Good luck!
Good luck!