10 of the last 12 Cup Finals started out 2-0

[Inkling]

What about when you lose game 7 on the road?

That's a set back that's always tough to recover from.

 

[Anglesmith]

The chances that a series starts of 2-0 are 67%. It's statistically more likely than a 1-1 split going into game 3, I have literally no idea what that has to do with parity.

False. It's 50/50. There are four ways for the first two games to go: H/H, H/A, A/H, AA. Two of them are 1-1.

 

[Levie]

At the start of the year, who did you predict as the final 4? I doubt you predicted any right except Pens. Now look at the NBA. Of course there's parity.

To put it in simpler terms. We were a bounce in a double OT game from seeing a Sens-Preds final. Anyone who argues that there's no parity either doesn't understand what the word means or wants to be edgy.

 

[Zarzh]

At the start of the year, who did you predict as the final 4? I doubt you predicted any right except Pens. Now look at the NBA. Of course there's parity.

It's not really good parity if one team (Anaheim and to a lesser extent Ottawa) has an extremely easy bracket.

San Jose and Tampa Bay's injuries aren't that different from OKC's injuries.

 

[Levie]

It's not really good parity if one team (Anaheim and to a lesser extent Ottawa) has an extremely easy bracket.

San Jose and Tampa Bay's injuries aren't that different from OKC's injuries.

Sounds like something the Warriors or Cavs would say.

 

[madinsomniac]

I mean the first two games are almost always played within 3 days and you are talking two teams that have only played twice that year and never gameplanned for the other one...its always hard to really overhaul something in one day... it makes sense that save for the era when everyone was equal because it was tackle hockey, most of the time you probably take two games to figure out how to effectively counter what another team does well against you...

 

[PenguinMario]

False. It's 50/50. There are four ways for the first two games to go: H/H, H/A, A/H, AA. Two of them are 1-1.

It's actually about 55%, or was as of a few years ago (because hockey games are not actually coin flips as it turns out).

 

[Zarzh]

Sounds like something the Warriors or Cavs would say.

Well they're the 1 and 2 seeds. The Warriors are just better then everyone, they swept an injured 62 win team, and their first 2 opponents. The East is weak but the Cavs still beat a 53 win team in 5 and swept a 51 win team.

 

[TheStatican]

What about when you lose game 7 on the road?

That's a set back that's always tough to recover from.

There's always next year.

 

[Shrimper]

and yet people still try to pretend the nhl has parity

Except there is parity.

Since the lockout there have been 8 different ECF's and 7 different WCF's. That's in 11 seasons not including this year.

I'd say that is okay. 72% and 63% difference. More parity in the Conference Finals too

 

[Dack]

False. It's 50/50. There are four ways for the first two games to go: H/H, H/A, A/H, AA. Two of them are 1-1.

But the order the games are won in don't matter do they? I think if you look at it like this you have the possibility after 2 games of being 2-0 1-1 or 0-2 that's how i thought of it. Also obviously a hockey game isn't a coin flip but there is a tonne of randomness in hockey especially in just a two game sample size so I was just pointing out that it's more likely to be 2-0 than 1-1.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

In other words, Hawks ruined the streak 2 of the 3 times they had a chance at it.

 

[Braunbaer]

False. It's 50/50. There are four ways for the first two games to go: H/H, H/A, A/H, AA. Two of them are 1-1.

Ingenious!

 

[Anglesmith]

But the order the games are won in don't matter do they? I think if you look at it like this you have the possibility after 2 games of being 2-0 1-1 or 0-2 that's how i thought of it. Also obviously a hockey game isn't a coin flip but there is a tonne of randomness in hockey especially in just a two game sample size so I was just pointing out that it's more likely to be 2-0 than 1-1.

From a statistical point of view, it does matter that there are two 'ways' to get the 1-1 result. Yes.

For the same reason, if you have two kids, the likelihood of them both being the same sex is 50%, not 66.7%.

It's actually about 55%, or was as of a few years ago (because hockey games are not actually coin flips as it turns out).

Indeed. That's the difference between theory and practice.

 

[Eb]

and yet people still try to pretend the nhl has parity

Not sure if this post is serious.