Reading the report, Britain's equaliser not only moved them up from outside the top two to tournament winners and sent Hungary the other way, but also somehow put Italy in front of Kazakhstan for second spot and promotion alongside Britain. Something to do with h2h records I guess. It all sounds like a madly tight scenario.
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Italy was playing Slovenia, and each team pulled its goalie (not simultaneously), as a draw was useless to either team.
Italy scored in the last minute.Comment
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The Buffalo Sabres win the NHL draft lottery, the best thing to happen to that club in decades.Comment
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The link shows the game were consecutive rather than concurrent. Only one rink available, presumably. If I've read the report correctly it looks like Italy needed to win their game (as they did), and then hope Britain avoided defeat. If Hungary had held on to win, it looks like all four sides would have finished on 9 points, and that would apparently have promoted Hungary and Kazakhstan. If Italy's win also came via a last minute goal, talk about razor fine margins!Last edited by Janik; 29-04-2018, 09:36.Comment
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Yes, but it's a low bar.Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
TBH I find the obsession with the draft well OTT. Particularly the "when should we start to deliberately tank?" discussions that starts among bottom feeders after the all-star game. A high first round pick is nice but no guarantee of anything — just ask Edmonton. While, at the other extreme, Vegas are doing very nicely with a collection of second hand cast-offs.Comment
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Edmonton’s issues have very little to do with McDavid, who is one of the two or three best players in the league.
With Dahlin and Eichel in Buffalo and Matthews and Marner in Toronto, that rivalry may finally fulfill the promise it has always had.Comment
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Quite. The Oilers had a string of #1s before MacDavid, and obtaining them hasn't made made a lick of difference, which is my point. One, or even two, top picks doesn't compensate for organisational deficiencies. It merely prolongs the agony.Comment
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Yes, and there are also very real differences between "generational talents" like McDavid and Matthews (and likely Dahlin) and more "run of the mill" top picks who can be very valuable Top Six forwards or Top Four defencemen, but can't transform a team on their own.
It's very different from basketball, which is where the concept of "tanking" first developed, and where one great player can have a much greater impact.Comment
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Preds win one they desperately needed in Double OT to tie the series.
Hell of a gameComment
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After the high of the national side's promotion, more rink shenanigans in the UK leagues. Edinburgh Capitals lose their ice time at the Murrayfield rink to a group looking to resurrect the Murrayfield Racers (who played there from 1952 to 1996 under various guises) name - who were themselves superseded by the Capitals in 1998. However, the Elite League has rejected the Racers' application leaving no Edinburgh team with both a rink and a league place currently and a spare slot in the top tier.Comment
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That first overtime period was wicked fun. Still, on basis of those two games you'd have to say Jets in six (unless Hellebuyck gets injured in which case we are severely fucked).Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostComment
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Tampa Bay beat Boston and all four series are now tied at one game each.Comment
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Is this a prelude to some fat arsehole buying the Caps, renaming them and moving them to Livingston? [/Scottish football joke]Originally posted by Ray de Galles View PostComment
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I wouldn't joke about it. This is the EIHL, and preserving the cannon fodder is what it tries to do. (For example letting the Hull Stingrays go and the next day they popped up as the Manchester Storm.) However, with Guildford and MK joining, Edinburgh has become disposable.Comment
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A quick update about Switzerland, ambivalence in Zurich....The Lions have won the league, beating Lugano 4-3 in the series but Kloten have gone down after losing their barrage series against the pointless clowns of Rapperswill (I had a very bad experience there once....) which is seriously bad news for this historic club as their finances were on the brink already...Comment
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It was a weird set of playoffs. ZSC only finished seventh in the regular season, but beat Zug (2d) and Bern (1st by 11 points) before defeating Lugano (who had finished 4th)
Kloten had been poor all season finishing ten points adrift of Ambri-Piotta and being awful in the playouts. They still almost survived, as they were up three games to two on Lakers in the relegation series before losing the last two (including game seven in overtime).Comment
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Wow, and I thought that "the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim" was a weird name for a team.Originally posted by Moonlight shadow View PostComment
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Rapperswill is the home base of Switzerland biggest circus, Knie so the clown comment is quite apt...
Kloten has a very strong junior section, one that has given the national team quite a few players, I do hope they can salvage that...Comment
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Croatian TV shows Stanley Cup games on a 20-hour delay. Currently Bruins 1 - 1 Tampa
(later: oh, hey, caps-pens live! maybe they'll show the jets later)Last edited by Anton Gramscescu; 01-05-2018, 23:47.Comment
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What? No one raving about the Jets' six-goal turnaround (0-3 down to 7-4 up)?
Consider this a rave.Comment
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Counting empty netters, I see.
You must be new to this playoff thing, eh?Comment
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That Jets team look a lot of fun. It will be a shame when they lose to Pittsburgh, because the Penguins are bastards like that.Comment
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Nah, they ain't gonna get that far. With two ex-Kärpät players in their ranks, I'm nailing my colours to the Preds' mast.Originally posted by Snake Plissken View PostComment
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The Vegas Golden Knights are in the Western Conference Final
They are only the third expansion team to get this far, and the other two only did so because the 1967-68 Western Conference was composed entirely of expansion teams.Comment
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