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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Is there a meaningful way of even quantifying the bigness of off-seasons? I say there is no answer to an empty question.
Best regular-season performance in decades. The playoffs are a crapshoot. Montreal was not the second-best team in the NHL last year, and Tampa Bay was not the 16th-best team in 2019. In fact, that year, all four division winners were bounced in the first round, a fact conveniently forgotten by the people who want to blame the Flames and only the Flames for ‘choking’.
Anyone who thinks the best team always wins in a 7-game playoff series is simply not using their head. It's fundamentally irrational to throw out 82 games of evidence and base your evaluation entirely on 7. But that is what a lot of hockey fans, I am afraid, routinely do.
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I think you're being obtuse, the contract situation of key players is rather obvious, there is little comparison to that Lightning team at all.
Best regular season in decades? It was an excellent regular season no doubt. Better than 2006 and 2019? Probably not.
There is a chasm of difference between "crapshoot' and "best team always wins a seven game series".
Suggesting that these playoffs aren't going to be very telling for this club is kind of sticking your head in the sand IMO. Should someone base their entire analysis of this team on a 7 game series? Of course not. This team didn't just come into existence this year.