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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I look forward to debating the whole idea of “just get in” after the Panthers win the Stanley Cup.
The Panthers have:
1st Overall: Aaron Ekblad
(Ancient) 2nd Overall: Eric Staal
2nd Overall: Aleksander Barkov
2nd Overall: Sam Reinhart
4th Overall: Sam Bennett
12th Overall: Anton Lundell
(Ancient) 12th Overall: Marc Staal
2x Vezina Trophy Goalie: Sergei Bobrovsky
Even if you squint really hard, the Flames roster is nowhere near this good at the top end.
The unique part of Florida is that they’ve leveraged their desirable market + the incompetence of other organizations very well…but even then, the backbone of their organization is a 1st and 2nd Overall pick (and an acquired 6th overall pick). Flames just don’t have a Barkov, Ekblad, or Tkachuk.
So yeah, just get in…but also make sure you have elite talent drafted 1st and 2nd overall.
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I will just volunteer that I view the whole idea of looking down one’s nose at ‘just get in and anything can happen’ as being a bit silly IMO.
In a 32 team league, half the teams get in. All of those teams scored more than they allowed all year, by double digits. (The Flames were the only other team that had a positive goal differential, albeit just +8. Every other team that missed had negative goal differential). Obviously not every team in the playoffs can sustain a positive goal differential. That would be impossible
All of those teams that get in have points percentage .562 and higher
They also eliminate the lower half of the teams, including the lowly ones where some of top seeded playoff teams pile up their easy wins.
There are no easy outs. Except for Boston, all of the teams that got in had in the range of 42-52 wins, and a bunch of OTLs (which are settled in a way entirely irrelevant to how close games are settled in the playoffs)
Damn right anything can happen, and there is nothing wrong with that. Seems you actually have to be pretty good to ‘just get in’