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Originally Posted by pylon
Oh god. The butthurt around the western conference team forums is boiling over. So many advanced stats guys having aneurisms at the 4 goals on 7 shots or whatever it was.
"It's unsustainable I tell you... UNSUSTAINABLE!"
Well, they have sustained it for 67 games..... and hopefully by the time our luck does run out, it is in October of next year, when we have Bennett, a year older Gaudreau and Monahan, and Brodie, and a healed up Gio.
And that's the best part of this whole troll job. We are 1-2 seasons from being a top level threat, and they pull this stunt this year, and basically raise the middle finger to all the geeks smashing at their keyboards frothing at the mouth that we don't fit a statistical model. By the time we come down to earth, it will be too late for them to say I told you so. Because then, they are just going to be an incredibly fast and talented team.
That.... or they already are a damn good hockey team, with an amazing amount of desire, chemistry. When advanced stats can measure those elements, I'll give them a chance. But they never will be able to, so I won't.
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Hudler, Giordano, Wideman, Russell, Monahan, Brodie, Russell, Bouma and even Backlund are all on career seasons. A guy like Jooris comes out of nowhere to chip in 11 goals and nobody expected Gaudreau to chip in 50 in his rookie year. Don't kid yourself on how much of an accident of timing this all is.
So while you froth at the mouth about stats guys frothing at the mouth, just remember that you are the opposite side of the same coin.
Of course, if we do qualify but lose in the first round, I expect several of the people you are so upset about will move the goalposts and say that justifies their position (which they did re: Colorado last year). So if that should come to pass, then by all means, go be the attack dog.
