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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
Size pure and simple. The blues are a BIG team with pretty good talent and a few "game breakers". Size is still a pretty big part of the game. Jets are an "average" sized team with few game breakers . The blues are the new Honda curse because they are built like the ducks of the past. You can get by in the nhl with bigger teams and a little less talent if you just throw your opponent around during board battles.Its alot easier to to contain an elite team if they are smaller as your guys are more equal to winning those puck battles. If that makes sense. Every puck battle ends up being more 50/50 vs the bigger teams just dumping you a second or 2 after a puck touch.
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I had always thought that the Jets are in fact a big team, so I looked it up and at least according to the below, Winnipeg is tied for 5th in the league. Surprisingly the Blues are in fact below the Flames in the ranking at 26th whereas Calgary is 17th.
Of the top 10 in the below ranking, it's a 50/50 spit too in terms of playoff position or out.
As for the game, sitting down now to watch the replay. Looking forward to watching Wolf dominate!
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