Out of Town Scoreboard 2017-18 season III: Stanley Cup Playoffs

[Bleedred]

I'm 10/14 and my numbers say Vegas, but 3 of the 4 I missed are Washington, so they could beat the numbers again.

Kempny taking a lot of minutes away from Orpik have completely evaporated their regular season analytics.

I think it could go either way. Both of them seem like the team of destiny.

In most years I go 12/16. In 2015, I think I went 15/16. The only series I got wrong was picking Anaheim to lose to Winnipeg in the first round.

I've picked the Capitals to lose every round, I've picked Vegas to lose every round. I did pick Winnipeg to beat Nashville, I did have Tampa over Boston. I think I went 4/8 in the first round.

I thought Sbisa and Reeves would kill Vegas since they've been in, but it hasn't hurt them too much. I was surprised to see Vegas has a 9.1% shooting percentage this playoffs. It feels like it's a lot more, but they did hardly score any goals on LA in the first round, so it's probably been higher the last two rounds.

Tampa has too many anchors, which I didn't realize earlier on. I think McDonagh is probably not nearly as bad as how he's been this playoffs. I don't know what happened to Stralman?

 

[Bleedred]

I thought Nashville and Winnipeg were the two best teams in the league. Then Nashville lost to Winnipeg and Winnipeg got donkey punched by Vegas. So I'm done. My prediction is that both teams will have fun.

I'm just glad I don't bet money on this stuff.

I have a friend who bets money on football and stuff, but he won't bet hockey, because he actually likes hockey and he says his bets don't work on hockey. He doesn't look football or other sports, but he'll bet them, and that's why he says he wins when he bets them.

 

[MadDevil]

A silver lining I'll gladly take.

Plus that little bitch Kucherov won't get a Cup this year, or any of the ex-Rangers either. You should know by now Tampa that bringing in that many Rangers won't work.

 

[Blackjack]

I'm just glad I don't bet money on this stuff.

I have a friend who bets money on football and stuff, but he won't bet hockey, because he actually likes hockey and he says his bets don't work on hockey. He doesn't look football or other sports, but he'll bet them, and that's why he says he wins when he bets them.

I've heard that good sports betters don't get drawn into the story lines. And look who's played in the conference finals, three division champs and a team that had 114 points. The hockey fans thought Pittsburgh and Boston would make more noise.

 

[NJDevs26]

Ghosts of Rangers Past.

It would be really amusing seeing the inverse of 2015 with this time the faux Rangers getting shut out at home, like when the real Rangers got shut out at home by the Lightning in Game 7 of the Conference Finals that year.

 

[MadDevil]

So now the Rags don't get TB's 2019 1st rounder?

If Tampa wins the Cup next year they still do.

 

[Machinehead]

In most years I go 12/16. In 2015, I think I went 15/16. The only series I got wrong was picking Anaheim to lose to Winnipeg in the first round.

I've picked the Capitals to lose every round, I've picked Vegas to lose every round. I did pick Winnipeg to beat Nashville, I did have Tampa over Boston. I think I went 4/8 in the first round.

I thought Sbisa and Reeves would kill Vegas since they've been in, but it hasn't hurt them too much. I was surprised to see Vegas has a 9.1% shooting percentage this playoffs. It feels like it's a lot more, but they did hardly score any goals on LA in the first round, so it's probably been higher the last two rounds.

Tampa has too many anchors, which I didn't realize earlier on. I think McDonagh is probably not nearly as bad as how he's been this playoffs. I don't know what happened to Stralman?

Yeah Girardi has been Girardi and McDonagh is known to be Bobby Orr or Colton Orr with no middle ground. Stralman is the weird one.

 

[Bleedred]

I've heard that good sports betters don't get drawn into the story lines. And look who's played in the conference finals, three division champs and a team that had 114 points. The hockey fans thought Pittsburgh and Boston would make more noise.

I figured Pittsburgh would just get by the Caps, then die out this round. They were due to lose. They looked like they were running out of gas and Murray was just really suspect this year.

I figured Boston would beat Toronto, I don't think many thought Boston was gonna lose to Toronto in that series, but I figured Tampa would get them.

 

[Oneiro]

Considering the teams, this cup final is a surprise.

But paying attention to how both Washington and Vegas have played and forgetting the logo on the front...it's not really surprising. Both teams did the hard things better: checking, tape to tape, giving teammates a sensible outlet. If this was a blank EA Sports simulation with no faces or names attached to the players, it'd be obvious who's paying more attention to detail.

 

[NJDevs26]

The Caps are almost a bigger surprise than Vegas....especially after being down 0-2 at home in the first round and basically one bounce from virtual elimination in Game 3. Then again Carolina pulled the same trick in 2006 against the Habs and rolled from there.

 

[MultipleMiggs1]

Stamkos has been invisible

 

[guitarguyvic]

Man how did Tampa screw this up? Up 3-2 with home ice. You need to close this series out.

They were lucky to be up 3-2. Wash has been the better team for most of the series. Tampa has been coasting on just their talent and skill this entire playoffs. Not an ounce of intensity or strong work ethic.

Plus I feel like Wash playing Vegas was meant to be once both teams made the conference finals.

 

[Camille the Eel]

The Caps are almost a bigger surprise than Vegas....especially after being down 0-2 at home in the first round and basically one bounce from virtual elimination in Game 3. Then again Carolina pulled the same trick in 2006 against the Habs and rolled from there.

Panarin hit the post square in that OT.

 

[Bleedred]

Yeah Girardi has been Girardi and McDonagh is known to be Bobby Orr or Colton Orr with no middle ground. Stralman is the weird one.

They really should be playing Sergachev more. I'm not sure why.

As you know, I'm not a fan of John Hynes, but at least he played Butcher quite a bit more than 12 minutes per game in the playoffs.

 

[Davegarri]

This game has been boring as shit

 

[Bleedred]

You think Gabrielle Union really eats at McDonald's? I know every celebrity has guilty pleasure places they look to eat, but McDonald's doesn't even taste that good.

 

[guitarguyvic]

Vegas is winning the cup. They are a better team than Washington (or Tampa for that matter). Sucks for Ovi but to me Vegas is just head and shoulders better.

 

[Bleedred]

This game has been boring as ****

It's been kind of whatever. Which is why I'm more excited by the Gabrielle Union commercial for McDonald's.

I'm glad it's not going to OT, as I wanna go for my walk after this game ends and that usually takes an hour.

 

[Davegarri]

Lol all the former rangers just floating around pouting and doing absolutely nothing. f***ing cancers

 

[Blackjack]

lmao at girardi handing the puck to Ovechkin behind the net.

 

[NJDevs26]

Vegas is winning the cup. They are a better team than Washington (or Tampa for that matter). Sucks for Ovi but to me Vegas is just head and shoulders better.

Eh I'm not too sure about that...I do probably think Vegas is better talentwise but this Caps team just beat the Pens and Lightning back-to-back after coming from 0-2 down in the first round, hard to bet against them either.

 

[Camille the Eel]

This game has been boring as ****

Yes but it will be so nice to see Tampa lose. 10 more minutes of boredom please.

 

[Devils Dominion]

He has been quite lucky.

Shut out, more than luck

 

[Bleedred]

Vegas is winning the cup. They are a better team than Washington (or Tampa for that matter). Sucks for Ovi but to me Vegas is just head and shoulders better.

I agree with you.

The only thing I will say is that Holtby is probably the best goalie that they've seen since the first round. Martin Jones is as ordinary as the surname itself and Hellebuyck really looked like trash in game 2-4 of the last series. Outside of games 1 and 5, he really broke down.

Even if Fleury just has an average series, I think Vegas probably wins.

 

[Devils Dominion]

TB deserves to lose on home ice