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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I am curious as to what your point is with the Kings. You think they are the best of the teams in the race. Well no sh1t Sherlock! Hey guess what - the 2-cups-in-the-last-3-years Kings are pretty good! Are you attempting to suggest that you learned this by following Corsi? Because pretty much everyone in the hockey wold, analytics or no, can see the same thing.
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It's weird how people get so up in arms about advanced stats people being aggressive and assertive, but this sort of post is just fine. I'm trying to be civil here specifically because people will jump all over me if I don't exhibit the utmost in politeness (see Resolute's last post). Weird double-standard and I'd point to it for the next person who takes the view like MMF and others have (yourself included) that people who write about these metrics are smarmy and arrogant.
Anyway, as to the quality of the Kings, they couldn't necessarily see it in 2012 before their first cup, but even Canucks bloggers who used these numbers were saying their president's trophy winning team was going to lose in rd 1. I'd again point to the above post by "trublmaker" as an extreme example of people coming to the conclusion that they're suddenly not any good anymore. Yeah, no, they still are.
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
The Kings have to make the playoffs to play those teams in a 7 game series. Which with their brutal schedule isn't a sure thing.
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True. I strongly believe they will make the playoffs. I could be wrong (see my signature), but if I had to make a straight up or down bet, "will they or won't they", I'm betting they do. If I'm right, and they play one of the Flames of Canucks in round 1 (they won't play the Jets obviously), and I have to make a bet as to who will win the series, I'll bet on the Kings. I could again end up being wrong (see again my signature), but that doesn't make the bet unsound.
Anyway, this has all been exhausting and utterly unrewarding (as always with these discussions), so if people want to return to analytics-bashing, fill your boots.