NHL Playoffs (ice hockey) + bracket challenge!

[Unicorn]

well yeah ofc. I meant rigged in a joking way

But it still is kinda wrong when the bottom 3 teams don't even get the top 3 picks. I mean, Philly in 2nd? come on.

[Juju]

Eh, they wanted to make it fair for everyone and so the Oilers won't take the first pick 4 times in 6 years, so yeah.

[xlibman]

Yeah the lottery is really screwed up. Of course it still favors the worst teams but it's too much luck-based. That said, it helps preventing teams from tanking on purpose for 6 years in a row just to stock up in star players.

[xlibman]

I dunno but...

Nashville in 5
Anaheim in 7
Ottawa in 6
Pittsburgh in 6

I have the feeling Ottawa is choking just as hard as the Habs did now and that Edmonton is running out of gas. D:

[Unicorn]

Edmonton is running out of gas. D:

what are you even talking about. psh, I don't see this as a lack of gas:

[xlibman]

Yeah I dunno, it looked like they were running out of gas the game before, but as it turns out, they just had one crappy game. Glad they bounced back. I still hope the Sens and Oilers can do it. Nashville did, thankfully,.


EDIT: WWWWOOOOOHOOOO AWESOME COME BACK BY THE SENS IN THIS SERIES

[xlibman]

Nooooooooo , the oilers are eliminated.

[Juju]

Oh no.

Also, Penguins vs. Senators, gotta be interesting.

[p2]

the oilers are eliminated.

Also, Penguins vs. Senators, gotta be interesting.

Is that the names of hockey teams...?  It sounds so weird x.x

[Juju]

Edmonton Oilers
Pittsburgh Penguins
Ottawa Senators
Nashville Predators
Montréal Canadiens (aka Habs)
Anaheim Ducks (blame Disney for this one, they used to be the Mighty Ducks and they have the craziest backstory ever)

Yeah, pretty nice names for hockey teams, if you ask me.

[xlibman]

the oilers are eliminated.

Also, Penguins vs. Senators, gotta be interesting.

Is that the names of hockey teams...?  It sounds so weird x.x

Montreal Hockey Club or Montreal United would not sound attractive to us North Americans, name-wise, compared to Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Carolina Hurricanes and such names.

Also go Preds and Sens

[Juju]

Fun fact: the official name is "Club de hockey Canadien", or in English, something along the lines of "Canadien HC". There's a lot of things North America isn't doing like Europe, like teams named Someplace HC (although the Florida Panthers switched their logo to something that looks like a soccer team) and a relegation system, that is, switching leagues based on performance, if we had this here the Oilers and a few other teams would probably had fallen to the depths of the ECHL, lol. North Americans prefers their teams to be fixed in place and the NHL tries things so all teams will be equal with each other as much as possible so the worst teams have a chance against the best.

[xlibman]

Yeah true, the official team names are often not used lol, same for official company names, which are often some sort of weird name with numbers. Also I don't like the new Panthers logo >.<

ANyway go Nashville/Ottawa

[xlibman]

By the way, for those who don't follow hockey as much, both Nashville and Ottawa lead their series 2-1. Can't wait to see what's next

[Unicorn]

Im hopin otowa can pull away tomorrow...