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Originally Posted by Roast Beef
It's strange, I've been cheering against Tampa all playoffs so far, and I've been loath to see them win yet again, but now that they've made the finals after coming back from 0-2 against the Rangers, I'm kinda hoping they pull it off. It's been almost 40 years since we've seen a team win more than 2 in a row, and it's been that same length of time since there's been a team in an actual position to do so. The Oilers were the last team to make the finals more than 2 years in a row, but they lost their first go around, so even the mighty Oilers of the 80s were never in a position to do it.
Whoever wins this year, I'm just hoping for a series that goes to game 7 overtime. We haven't had a Stanley Cup final go to game 7 OT since 1954, so why not have the first finals after lockdowns and bubbles be one for the ages?
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I always bet against what I want to happen when the playoffs started, so if the worst happens I at least get something out of it. I threw $50 at Tampa winning the cup again, but now that it's the finals I find myself actually cheering for them beyond the cash. I've never seen a 3-peat in the NHL, plus it's not like the Avs are some plucky underdog I could cheer for, their fans got to watch one of the most talented teams in the league in the 90's and saw them win 2 cups, now they're absolutely stacked with talent again and will probably repeat that dominance in this decade. I'm fine with them not taking it this year