Around The NHL XXII: President's Trophy Race (Mod Post 685)

[The Lunatic Fridge]

Florida already down, sigh. Make it a fight damnit.

 

[*Bob Richards*]

OV with his 50th. 6th 50 goal season for him...

We have what as franchise? 3? Holy ****.

 

[Jabroni]

We have what as franchise? 3? Holy ****.

Hadfield, Graves and Jagr.

 

[The Lunatic Fridge]

FLA now up 2-1

TOR is also magically somehow up 2-1 against TBL

OTT is losing to DET 1-0

 

[trilobyte]

I don't think Ottawa is going to make it. Their bubble is burst.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

I wonder how the reffing was in the BOS-FLA game.

 

[trilobyte]

I don't think Ottawa is going to make it. Their bubble is burst.

Aha, so my reverse jinx worked

 

[The Lunatic Fridge]

OTT wins but so does boston. terrible goal on FLA with a minute left in the 3rd.

Tampa lost to the toronto "can only beat ottawa and no one else" maple laffs. That's interesting.

JT Miller almost gets his head taken off, Miller for detroit almost lost an eye.....not a good night to be a Miller.

 

[Kaapo Cabana]

In regards to that article about teams targeting Carey Price in Montreal:

 

[Beacon]

http://www.hockey-reference.com/friv/playoff_prob.cgi

Not that this is some kind of proof, but day in and day out, we have the best chance to win the Cup based on 1,000 computer probabilities. We've been consistently at 100% to win the division for about a week, have an over 80% chance of winning the conference.

If you do some math on your own based on the percentages other teams have to win their own conference and how many points/games they presently have, you'll see that there's also a nearly 80% chance that either the Rangers or Anaheim win the President's Trophy, and the Rangers should be ahead since 2 extra games is more valuable than 2 extra points when you are holding the tie-breaker seeing as the Rangers are a better than a .500 team and they'd need to win 1 out of 2 games.

 

[darko]

OTT wins but so does boston. terrible goal on FLA with a minute left in the 3rd.

Tampa lost to the toronto "can only beat ottawa and no one else" maple laffs. That's interesting.

JT Miller almost gets his head taken off, Miller for detroit almost lost an eye.....not a good night to be a Miller.

Hopefully Ryan Miller is ok.

 

[Doctyl]

Boston Caps Sens can end up in pretty much any order. Could be very favorable or very problematic for Rangers and Habs depending on where everyone falls. 1st 2nd and WCs are completely up in the air. I don't like this.

 

[Levitate]

Boston Caps Sens can end up in pretty much any order. Could be very favorable or very problematic for Rangers and Habs depending on where everyone falls. 1st 2nd and WCs are completely up in the air. I don't like this.

Caps are only 1 point behind the Isles and Pens...I was just looking at the standings today and there's really a ton of room for movement left. Boston could overtake Detroit as well if they continue to struggle.

Pretty happy the Rangers aren't scrapping to get into the postseason this year

 

[Ex Officer Friendly]

Hopefully Ryan Miller is ok.

Ryan Miller has been out with a knee injury

 

[Doctyl]

Lirl mainboards thread about the caps going to the SCF it pretty damn funny

 

[GordonGecko]

http://www.hockey-reference.com/friv/playoff_prob.cgi

Not that this is some kind of proof, but day in and day out, we have the best chance to win the Cup based on 1,000 computer probabilities. We've been consistently at 100% to win the division for about a week, have an over 80% chance of winning the conference.

If you do some math on your own based on the percentages other teams have to win their own conference and how many points/games they presently have, you'll see that there's also a nearly 80% chance that either the Rangers or Anaheim win the President's Trophy, and the Rangers should be ahead since 2 extra games is more valuable than 2 extra points when you are holding the tie-breaker seeing as the Rangers are a better than a .500 team and they'd need to win 1 out of 2 games.

Hockey Reference 11%

Club stats has us tops at 18.6% probability to win the cup:
http://www.sportsclubstats.com/NHL.html

Second favorite is the Tampa Bay Lightning (12.7%) and third is Chicago (8.1%). They run millions of simulations

 

[ecemleafs]

pens playing with 17 skaters tonight against philly. malkin is also out.

 

[The Gloaming]

Flyers Penguins are always my favorite games without the Rangers. Philly always plays those like it's their Stanley Cup.

 

[The Lunatic Fridge]

FWIW

If the flyers beat PIT tonight and we beat MIN, we clinch the metro division.

 

[YetAnotherNorwegian]

I haven't seen many of Pens games, so I'm sorry if I'm late to the party on this one, but holy crap those goalie pads look horrible. Looks like he's wearing two discolored inflatable bananas on his legs.

 

[Nickmo82]

I haven't seen many of Pens games, so I'm sorry if I'm late to the party on this one, but holy crap those goalie pads look horrible. Looks like he's wearing to discolored inflatable bananas on his legs.

The whole retro-esque pens uniform kinda sucks IMHO.

 

[The Gloaming]

The whole retro-esque pens uniform kinda sucks IMHO.

I think it's way better than their real home jersey. I really don't like it when black is the primary color of a jersey set.

 

[ecemleafs]

i like the pens jerseys that they are wearing tonight. much better than their usual ones.

 

[The Lunatic Fridge]

Flyers tie it 1-1

 

[LetterJ]

Buff getting 3-5, according to Bob McKenzie:

http://www.nbcsports.com/hockey/nhl...n NBC Sports&utm_tags=srm[hockey,short video]