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Originally Posted by Bunk
I don’t get this attitude. These are the cast offs, they’ve pulled off something remarkable. It’s not like the NHL stacked the deck to enable a team of superstars or something. If they win the cup, it’ll be one of the most incredible stories in not only hockey history, but all of sporting history.
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This is true, but the flip side is that it makes a mockery of the league. Experts and pundits and the best and most experienced minds in the sport couldn't predict this and can't explain it, and analytics doesn't have a convincing answer either. It's just baffling. Everyone who supposedly understands the sport from whatever perspective is at a complete loss - apparently, none of them really know anything after all.
Some people are all for that because it'd be funny, but you have to think about what it entails. When we get to free agency and everyone's talking about Tavares and will he or won't he leave for greener pastures, and will the Senators trade Karlsson, and all these other stories... but
who even cares anymore? None of it actually matters at all. Signing big stars is unnecessary. Painstakingly building a team over years is just wasting time. A poor assortment of castoffs just beat everyone soundly. It completely undercuts the stakes of everything we argue and talk about in the sport. Let's just all tune out until next season and roll the dice and see what happens because this whole thing is, it turns out, completely random bullcrap.