When I tabulated, I cross referenced the two, so, a 50/50 split of sweeps or everyone voting one way for 7 games would go 5/6 games.
Raleh, You are probably the reason I lost. I only needed one vote switched to win. Earlier you said I had the better team but you voted Aurora because of 2 players-Tretiak & Lindros. Sounds contradictory & illogical to me.Pappy, I thought Lindros stepped up in the playoffs from '95-'97. However, I gues I'm going to get burned for saying who I voted for and why I voted haha.
This is one of those cases where there likely IS a bias. I was 10 years old when Lindros was the best player in the world, so I remember him as a kind of superman. To me it seems as though when he was on his game he was almost impossible to stop unless you knocked him out. I don't think you had many guys who could contain him physically. Now if Aurora had been playing the Oilers in the first round...
Tretiak is the kind of guy that'll either kill you or really help you in something like this. There are tons of guys, myself included, who really think he deserves mention as one of the greats. Then there are others, I believe GBC is one of these, who would never pick him no matter what part of the draft we were in. I don't think he made the difference in the end, but to me he did.
I really liked Aurora's defence top to bottom. And, I picked them to be 2nd in the division in the regular season. I took Tretiak as a large edge over Worsley. I feel that Aurora is a great team with a fatal flaw. Fragile scoring leaders. When healthy, Lafontaine and Lindros are dominant. Unfortunatly, I didn't feel Flaman and Vasko were the men to take them out. Plus, I feel that Bobrov and Balderis are offensive leaders.
Breakdown like this:
1st line: Barrie
2nd line: Aurora
3rd line: Even
4th line: Aurora
1st pairing: Barrie
2nd pairing: Aurora
3rd pairing: Aurora
Goal: Aurora
Coach: Aurora
Intangibles: Barrie
Special teams: Aurora
BTW, I wouldn't have picked tretiak & Lindros in the rounds they were selected. I just don't think that highly of them.
but power-forward centres with playmaking ability are about as rare as they come.
Yup, there's Beliveau, Schmidt, Lindros... and... uhm... Clarke almost fits but is undersized...