Are the Pens more educated in building a championship team?

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Since1984

So we all have to agree that the answer to the original post is "Yes" at least compared to all the other teams in the league over the past 2 seasons. Heck, since 07-08 no team has made more Stanley Cup Finals than the Pens.

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No, they have two superstar centres, including the best player in the game. Allow some nuance in your analysis.

[Oil Stain]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

In other words, they won games and got lucky (or had great amateur scouting). As opposed to tanking and/or plain sucking and getting good lottery odds.

Also - a supporter of a team that got a generational player on an 11.5% chance calling any team "lucky" is laughable.

Actually, getting a superstar by being the worst team in the league isn't all that lucky.

On the probability scale you have way more chance of that happening than you do finding a probably Hall of Famer in the 7th round.

But that's besides the point. Every great NHL hockey team got lucky a lot along the way. You can look at GMs like Poile who has been doing everything right for about 30 years and this is his first time in the finals.

Luck plays a pretty big role in team success at the NHL level.

[CalgaryFan1988]

Originally Posted by Oil Stain

Actually, getting a superstar by being the worst team in the league isn't all that lucky.

On the probability scale you have way more chance of that happening than you do finding a probably Hall of Famer in the 7th round.

But that's besides the point. Every great NHL hockey team got lucky a lot along the way. You can look at GMs like Poile who has been doing everything right for about 30 years and this is his first time in the finals.

Luck plays a pretty big role in team success at the NHL level.

its lucky when you consider what the odds were for the Penguins to end up with Crosby (and for the Oilers to end up with McDavid).

Getting players with top picks like Malkin, Letang, Draisaitl and Yakupov I'd agree were due to savvy GM picks though.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Since1984

So we all have to agree that the answer to the original post is "Yes" at least compared to all the other teams in the league over the past 2 seasons. Heck, since 07-08 no team has made more Stanley Cup Finals than the Pens.

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The original post was about 10 of the 12 forwards in their lineup for Game 5 having played in the NCAA. It wasn't really a yes or no question.

If there was a question, it was "were 10 of the Penguins 12 forwards in Game 5 players who played in the NCAA?" So, I guess the answer there is "Yes". If the question was "Is there any significance to this fact?", the answer is likely "No" since their two best players didn't play in the NCAA.

It's an interesting quirk, nothing more.