@expomick.bsky.social @pberce.bsky.social, The Panthers held a lead for 7.5x as long as the Oilers this series (4 hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds vs 33 minutes 51 seconds). While we were given the gift of OT hockey, this wasn’t an evenly matched series (and I was rooting against FLA all playoffs)

What the hell @edmontonoilers.bsky.social…guess they’re going with the “late game comeback” strategy again tonight

@expomick.bsky.social , 15 series. Start with 16 teams, each series results in an elimination until there’s 1 champion. 16 - 1 =15

I feel bad for Skinner, he’s simply not top tier. Sorry @edmontonoilers.bsky.social

@pberce.bsky.social @expomick.bsky.social my proposed playoff system; purely for fun, not logistics.

Top 2 from each division pick their opponent from the other four contenders in their conference, in a televised “playoff draft”. Toronto might choose to play NJ instead of Ottawa right now.

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My biggest whiff on the season: that Connor McDavid wouldn’t be one of the top three most likely players to win the Hart Trophy, at this point in the season (cue tongue in cheek retort about him being a bum!)

@expomick.bsky.social , @pberce.bsky.social why do you talk so much about obscure players? None of us have ever heard of this Alex Ovechkin character

@expomick.bsky.social , @pberce.bsky.social storylines

Red Wings: new coach, same streaky-ness. Perhaps more capable of both winning and losing streaks than any team in the past few seasons.

NHL: 4 Nations Face-Off was so relevant in the US that my wife allowed hockey on while she was in the room

@expomick.bsky.social @pberce.bsky.social , my Redwings are the USS Midway, enough of a battleship history to charge for admission, but staying exactly where they sit for the foreseeable future

@expomick.bsky.social , what your recent caller is missing is that while penalty shots favor the goalie, penalties favor the killing team even more. Roughly 1/3 chance to score a penalty shot, only 1/5 to convert a power play