This is a rigged poll. It's a real cup. The players won't call it a "fake" cup. It will require the same amount of wins and effort, maybe more, and the best team( cough, Blues, cough) will win it, well hopefully. Anyway it won't be us, no need to worry.
I just want the play-in over and out, then get 1st overall, and watch some summer playoff hockey.
It's not a rigged poll. The premise of the poll is "
if we beat Pittsburgh....what makes you happy".
Well, last option states voter wants to lose the play-in no matter what.
Yes. Premise is -
if we beat Pittsburgh - what will it take to make you happy. Last option gives a place for people to state that if we beat Pittsburgh, nothing will make them happy, not even winning the cup.
But it's not the same as me asking if you rather win the play in or not. Most people would say they rather lose, because they figure if we win the play-in we won't make it far and it would be a wasted effort. That's not the question at all. This question talks about specific potential results, all the way to winning the cup.
How does anyone Not pick Winning the SC??
How can any other scenario make you happier than winning the cup?
I see may a people have never attended the Vulcan school of logic.
Well - keep in mind i'm asking which scenario is
enough to make you happy. Obviously a cup is better than losing in a previous playoff round. But personally - I voted losing in the finals. 93 was my first year I became a fan and didn't appreciate it as much - we've made the ECF and lost since, but I've never seen the team go all the way to the finals. I feel if we made a run all the way to the finals, i'd be ecstatic, even if we somehow lost. Obviously winning is even better, but that's not the specific question. I think even if we lost in the ECF i'd still be disappointed somehow, simply because we've reached there before recently.
It's not exactly though. The premise here is
if we beat Pittsburgh - what would make you happy. I could have asked a more open ended question "do you want to beat Pitt or not" and I know most would vote no, because they'd assume (and probably correctly) that we don't stand a real chance to win in the playoffs. This question is specifically asking which playoff outcome would make you happy if we beat Pittsburgh. And the last option allows for voters to say nothing will make them happy, even all the way to winning the cup - that they want to lose to Pit no matter what.
so it's not the exact same thing.
Why win the Cup when we could lose and have a one in eight chance of picking a player who might help us, one day, win a Cup?!?!
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Lose in double overtime of game 5. Then draft Lafreniere.
That's what i'm rooting for too tbh - only because i don't think we have a legitimate chance to win the cup with our roster. But remember the poll is asking specifically what you want if what you stated doesn't happen. ie - we beat Pittsburgh, then what makes you happy. And if you believe that not even winning the cup would make you happy, there's the last option available to vote for.
None of the above.
If no one gets the virus in the middle of a pandemic, that's the best possible outcome. The rest is gravy.
Interesting opinion, and not necessarily wrong. I do hope the bubble cities help a lot with that, but we'll just have to wait and see. I'm cautiously optimistic in thinking things will work out nicely overall.
I respect your view but my opinion of it won't change and a lot of people feel the way I do, hence the skew of the poll.
I don't think my view is ridiculous at all, this doesn't feel like a natural conclusion to a season, just an arbitrary tournament in the middle of summer.
If you could have 'respected my opinion' too when I previously expressed the same one to you so often - maybe we wouldn't argue in threads so often. Oh well
Voted not even winning the cup ... I would have voted loss in the playins, why is the option not there if someone wants to collect opinions ? Even if it's misspelled and round 1 is the playins, I'm certainly not happy they made the "playoffs"
Round 1 is round 1, not the play-ins.
The poll question isn't difficult. The premise is -
if we beat Pittsburgh....what would make you happy. That's why it's not an option.
It's like if I created a poll asking "if we end up drafting 9th - who do you want to draft" - and everyone responded with "why isn't winning #1 and drafting Lafreniere an option". Well - because that's not what I'm asking.
Did you actually read the OP? Literally my first sentence acknowledges that most fans here seem to want to lose the play-ins.
