I mean it's hard to talk down a league where the best players actually win. Not like here. It's whatever team gets the most calls or bounces. Or whatever team Gary is currently courting.
I made that change as well.
A better post. But I dislike the NBA posturing and pandering. I prefer College ball if I'm gonna watch. Basketball is inherently flawed sport and also not fun on the knees to play. heh.
The last NBA team to win a championship didn't buy a winning team. The Nuggets actually built their team the right way and won the right way. Something the Golden Knights could learn from
In hockey the best TEAMS win. Not too hard to follow. The best players can be individuals, or they can further great teams. Hockey is much more of a team sport than basketball is. In basketball if you have two great players they own the court.
I don't think that the NHL is rigged but I certainly think it is controlled to a certain degree. And certain teams do get favour over others.
I don't know if I'd call Vegas the best team in the league last year. It's more of a case of "All the other actual good teams got knocked out and they faced a few patsies". Kinda like what happened with the Blues when they won the Cup. You get hot and/or lucky at the right time and that's all you need.
Nah, just still remembering their faulty "errors" stat and counting faceoff losses as errors. That kind of thing. Haven't followed as much since. In anycase HDSC are hard to quantify in hockey. I don't know that hockey really gets defined in that way. At best you get approximations but they can be quite off depending on a teams schemes or approaches or even how individual players play and get results.
Teams with Phil Kessel on their roster win cups. Just saying. Might be worth a waive/trade for a league minimum signing...
Maybe the NBA rigged them winning as gimmick, because its clearly the exception rather than the rule. In anycase I shouldn't reply because if you guys want to talk NBA please bring it to another thread. Don't want to see it in hockey threads.
Well..I would recommend to you that before you comment on something it might be a good idea to actually know what it is that you are commenting on.
You want to talk about rigging... Tim Peel blew the cover off how games are managed. Of course the NHL was all too happy to sweep it under the rug.
Best of the remaining teams. But thats also testament to how tough and how glorious the SC playoffs are. The hardest test in sports. So hard that its difficult for teams to repeat due to the long haul of attrition it is getting one.
If VGK had a good season or two, sure, that logic holds up and you can write them off as an anomoly. VGK has been a PO force to be reckoned with for years outside of one since their inception. I think that commands attention and respect, not a dismissal as being "lucky". They absolutely have the x-factor in the post-season.
Theres been many NFL Tim peels. The NHL is a virtuous virgin in comparison.
That's only because we don't really know what goes on behind the scenes.
They kinda are but like... Vegas faced an apathetic Jets team, an arrogant Oilers team, an overmatched Stars team and then the Panthers... They get credit for winning but that's not really an impressive lineup of opponents.
They didn't even make the playoffs the previous year. They've been a good team since inception but virtually nobody expected them to actually win the Cup.
HDSC is hard to define in the complex sport of hockey. Regardless of criteria used. I don't need to look at a specific metric to know that hockey is hard to quantify in numbers. Maybe the Cult metric is the best of tools to quantify that which can't be quantified numerically.
Their owner expected the cup within 6yrs on onset and the expectation was warranted. A lot of teams have hiccups prior to their wins but those teams have usually been a good team for awhile and the Knights always have been.
