My Special Purpose
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- Apr 8, 2008
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I like being the underdogs, seriously. And the Canes eat that stuff up. They've been talking about being overlooked etc a lot, so the less respect they get the harder they'll play . #TakeWarning
This is exactly my take and where I'm at....I hate it when I see us favored in anything because I'm so used to being the underdog, over-achieving, and confusing the hell out of the traditional hockey world., As a matter of fact, I prefer it.
What makes me nuts is that the "hockey media" is almost going out of their way to ignore stats in making their picks, instead just going with their gut in most cases (i.e. Washington is better than Carolina, so Caps in 6). It's so freakin' lazy. Then you have a guy who's 2-10 so far picking series in the playoffs (looking at you, Dave Stubbs) taking the Sharks and Bruins for the finals, and probably all proud about it.
If you were willing to actually do any work, you'd know that St. Louis and Carolina are here for a reason. They didn't just drop out of the sky into the conference finals. They just keep winning, and somehow, nobody -- not opposing fans, not the media, nobody -- ever gets smart enough to say, "hey wait, maybe this isn't a lock for the big-market team. Maybe we should dig deeper and figure out *why* St. Louis, Carolina, Colorado and Columbus are winning games in May."
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