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What do you see there? Western conference teams have more wins than Eastern conference teams, so I guess that means your Sens, Flyers, Bruins, and Habs are all ****ty as well then? But wait, take the standings up two slots to the 3 and 4 seeds and you've got Pittsburgh with 47 and Buffalo with 45.
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That can mean a wide variety of things. Such as the East is, actually, better overall than the West, since by all logic teams like the Bruins and Flyers should have been further up - yet they weren't. But in the West the Coyotes are the 4 seed and the Kings and Predators are both in the playoffs - while decent teams, none of those are more than an 7 or 8 at highest, let alone a 4. So it's not much of a stretch to shout that the West is garbage at the bottom and the East is so stacked up-and-down that teams couldn't win as easily. After all, the West had 6 teams over 100 points and one directly on the spot; they beat up on the horrible bottom teams while in the East there were a lot of really good teams. Check out the statistics for the bottom rung teams in both conferences - the East has "better" stats.
By the way, I like cynicism - I don't think every team at the 6-8 spots is ****ty. But if I did, it still wouldn't be as bad as thinking an entire conference was terrible.
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So what does that tell us? Perhaps that your feeble mind relates standings points, which include charity points given in OT and shootout (better known as the bull**** skills competiton), to skill.
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Baww more about the shootout. I'm all for a full overtime period, but implying that OTL shouldn't result in points? Do you even realize why they started giving 1 point for OTLs? Because teams weren't ****ing trying to win in overtime! They'd hold the puck and dilly dally around the blue line - which today would result in more shootouts. Oh, but you don't like those, so I guess we need ties. Oh, great,
ties. That'll attract revenue for the sport and make those games way more exciting. Or we can just have multiple overtimes so teams are more aggressive. That sounds awesome! Except that'll never happen for a variety of reasons. I'm not the biggest fan of shootouts, but they can be fun and as long as they're only in the regular season that's perfectly fine since that's the best you're going to get. I don't want to just turn games off if they go to OT since I know both teams will just play for ties. Of course, you could just award no points for a tie...
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Winning is the only thing that matters in true competiton.
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Teams win shootouts.
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Well yeah, there's that. Or maybe the fact that they've won 50 games this season? I don't know, what do you think?
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Uh, I think that all the teams currently in the playoffs deserve to be in the playoffs because they played well enough to be there?
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Of course you do, you're primary relationship with the game is purely based on seeing the Eastern elite play. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean your opinion is worth **** to people with any brains at all though.
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>Implying people who root for the Western Conference teams are intellectually superior to those rooting for Eastern Conference teams
Oh, by the way, way to
also tell everyone that Western Fans are bigger into hockey. Harhar! They sure do love hockey out there in Phoenix and Los Angeles, don't they?