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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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.
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Just like these so called experts in October picking the Oilers? This is a bigger mockery, because for all the supposed experts, and experienced minds, for some reason sympathetic to the Oilers terrible management, possibly because they’ve been charmed and wooed by the Oilers executive, for likely being open with the media, they have been linked for the better part of a decade, every year, to break out. This year was to be the year.
Vegas is a solid team, works thier butts off, goes through the wall for their coach, who has implemented a perfect mix of work ethic and skill and speed. One bad game and they were supposedly done? 2 convincing wins and thier on to the WCF. Great for them.
Bunk is right, this is one of the best stories in a long time in the league, and the team has been full value for all they have done this season.
https://www.tsn.ca/frank-s-red-hot-t...tions-1.874108
12. EDMONTON - Lord Stanley is coming home: The Oilers will end Canada’s Stanley Cup drought after 25 long years. Connor McDavid matched Sidney Crosby by winning the Hart and Art Ross in his sophomore season. Along with Leon Draisaitl, his version of Evgeni Malkin, McDavid will one-up Crosby by capturing the Cup in his third season – after Crosby fell short in Game 6 against the Red Wings.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...017-18-season/
West Champion
Chris Johnston: Edmonton Oilers
Iain MacIntyre: Edmonton Oilers
John Shannon: Chicago Blackhawks
Mark Spector: Edmonton Oilers
Eric Engels: Dallas Stars
Luke Fox: Anaheim Ducks
Daren Millard: Edmonton Oilers
David Amber: Edmonton Oilers
Eric Francis: Minnesota Wild
Gord Stellick: Anaheim Ducks
Nick Kypreos: Anaheim Ducks
Jeff Marek: Nashville Predators
Kristina Rutherford: Nashville Predators
Sean McIndoe: Edmonton Oilers
Doug MacLean: Edmonton Oilers
Rory Boylen: Anaheim Ducks
https://thehockeywriters.com/predict...18-nhl-season/
Who Wins the Stanley Cup?
In eight of the last nine seasons, the Stanley Cup has been won by one of three teams: the Pittsburgh Penguins, Chicago Blackhawks, or Los Angeles Kings.
Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins would like to keep that trend going, while also defending the title for the third year in a row.
But as much as Sid the Kid and company would like to make it a three-peat, there’s a new kid on the block named Connor McDavid looking for his first taste of Stanley Cup glory. And he doesn’t want to wait.
The Edmonton Oilers proved in last season’s playoffs they’re for real.
The Oilers outplayed the San Jose Sharks in every facet of their opening 4-2 series win, a Sharks team that’s been to playoffs 11 of the last 12 seasons. They gave the Anaheim Ducks all they could handle in a series that went the full seven games; a series they probably should’ve won.
The off-season acquisitions of Jussi Jokinen and Ryan Strome add even more depth and experience to an already elite roster.
This season, the Oilers will deploy a well-balanced lineup led by the most dynamic player in the NHL, and use the experience from last season’s playoff run to win their first Stanley Cup since 1990.
The time is now for McDavid and the Oilers.