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Originally Posted by Poe969
so that was written by a casual fan of the game. Anyone who enjoys hockey had to like this past season and post season. High scoring games aren't the only good thing about the game.
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And some very intense fans are a little too close to the forest to see the trees some times.
As more than a casual fan who watched the majority of the Final, I actually think the better team did NOT win. I picked Chicago to win the series in 6, but after watching the games I thought TB owned the majority of the play, was the faster, more creative, and more deep team. The thing is TB just didn't finish chances, and I think a lot of it was more Crawford 'getting in the way' of good chances more so than poor finishing or truly great/athletic goaltending. So then it becomes more of a toss up. And Chicago got a couple better bounces here and there and end up winning 1 goal games in which less than 4 non-EN goals are scored.
I get there's an element of luck involved in hockey and it's part of what makes the game fun. But in a 2-1 or 1-0 game the lesser hockey TEAM has a much better chance of winning regularly.