Avs2022
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I'll say this now. The winner of Jets/Avalanche will make it to the Stanley Cup finals.
Ultimately, neither of them matter anymore. All that matters is the games in front of us.Okay so Edmonton wins the xGF% season series 3-1.
Vancouver wins the win/loss season series 4-0.
Fair enough, but ultimately only one of these matter.
It's really only a one game sample size. Both teams were different at the start of the year. If you think the Oilers team heading into the post-season is the same as the directionless, clueless team struggling without their top defensive defenseman and the best player in the world, I think you're in for a surprise. I hope the Canucks players feel as confident as their fans do going into the playoffs though. They won't make it far if they underestimate the other teams like that.We outscored them 21-7. Good as McDavid is, he isn't making up that massive a difference. If we're going to cherry pick though. Drai and co. couldn't score on our backup Saturday night.
It's really only a one game sample size. Both teams were different at the start of the year. If you think the Oilers team heading into the post-season is the same as the directionless, clueless team struggling without their top defensive defenseman and the best player in the world, I think you're in for a surprise. I hope the Canucks players feel as confident as their fans do going into the playoffs though. They won't make it far if they underestimate the other teams like that.
It's a flawed notion, we didn't deserve to win anything the way we started the year. But none of those games matter come playoff time. Thanks for the chat!Oh, I don't. Edmonton is a completely different team and full marks to their huge resurgence. I was more responding to the notion y'all deserved to win those games. And that it was only McDavid playing through an injury that caused problems. They almost certainly wouldn't have been so comically lopsided but Edmonton didn't "deserve" to win anything back then.
Same logic to the Canucks when we got spanked around by LA or Minny. We can blame all bad calls or Demko being injured all we want. We didn't deserve anything and simply got outplayed.
I'm under no delusion if we do match up in the playoffs at some point, we're not coming anywhere close to our season success against you guys.
Okay so Edmonton wins the xGF% season series 3-1.
Vancouver wins the win/loss season series 4-0.
Fair enough, but ultimately only one of these matter.
The winner of that series likely faces a rested Stars team (I'm saying Dallas in 5). No easy task...I'll say this now. The winner of Jets/Avalanche will make it to the Stanley Cup finals.
Impossible without Brown, Carter, Richards, Williams or Quick. That team had so much veteran defensive-forward talent.Everyone down on the Kings but would be hilarious if they went on one of those 2012 runs.
Everyone down on the Kings but would be hilarious if they went on one of those 2012 runs.
The Avs wish they had an ok Goalie.All depends on health and what matchups happen (any team in the West has a decent chance) with that said
1) Dallas - have depth scoring - good D - good Goalie - no real weaknesses
2) Edmonton - high scoring - good D - only suspect is goaltending but Skinner has been decent this year
3) Winnipeg - depth scoring - good D - Great Goaltending
4) Las Vegas - which team will show up - the Cup winning team or the regular season one
5) Colorado - scoring - decent D - ok Goalie - some inconsistences - no real weaknesses
6) Vancouver - surprising regular season - is Demko ready? ( if yes they would be higher)
7) Nashville - late season surge into the PO's shows how good they can be
8) Los Angeles - frustrating to play against - goalie is a concern