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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
Yeah but 29 teams don't win the Cup every season. If you look at things that way I think you can find faulty conclusions.
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I chiefly looked at the teams' record in the first two rounds of the playoffs. As I said, in the first round they went 23-35 (0.396 series winning percentage), and those teams that advanced to the second round went 7-16 (0.304). By definition, since every playoff series has a winner and a loser, average is 0.500. Those numbers are
bad. I can only conclude that overplaying your #1 goalie is significantly correlated with poor playoff performance.