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How well will Vegas do?

President's Trophy 1 5.00%
 
First in conference 1 5.00%
 
First in division 0 0%
 
2-3 in division 4 20.00%
 
Wild card 7 35.00%
 
Outside of playoffs 5 25.00%
 
Worst in division 1 5.00%
 
Worst in conference 1 5.00%
 
Worst in league 0 0%
 
Total:20
p0isonparadise on 10 April 2017
COKTOE said:
p0isonparadise said:
Canadian teams would win every year if our players weren't playing for American teams, lol.

That's what international tournaments are for. The rest of the world has caught up to a large degree, and that's nothing new. Remember Nagano?...You're 26. Maybe not. The Americans won the 96 world cup. There are other examples. More recent. We're still the best, but it's not like it was 30 years ago.

I remember Torino, truly horrific.



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COKTOE on 10 April 2017
p0isonparadise said:
COKTOE said:

That's what international tournaments are for. The rest of the world has caught up to a large degree, and that's nothing new. Remember Nagano?...You're 26. Maybe not. The Americans won the 96 world cup. There are other examples. More recent. We're still the best, but it's not like it was 30 years ago.

I remember Torino, truly horrific.

Cheering for my national hockey teams, and Canadian UFC fighters, is about as passionately nationalistic as I get. I do get into it for sure. But really, I'm pretty easy, because I just like the competition. My favorite player of all time is Russian. Pavel Bure. I had friend who, and i kid you not, threw his living room furniture onto his front lawn when we lost the 96' World Cup to the U.S. He's mellowed out since then. :)



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

Soundwave on 10 April 2017
COKTOE said:
p0isonparadise said:
Canadian teams would win every year if our players weren't playing for American teams, lol.

That's what international tournaments are for. The rest of the world has caught up to a large degree, and that's nothing new. Remember Nagano?...You're 26. Maybe not. The Americans won the 96 world cup. There are other examples. More recent. We're still the best, but it's not like it was 30 years ago.

If the Nagano team had Mario Lemieux (or even Messier), I think they would've won, but that was fun, I remember watching the game's at like 2 AM at a 24 hour pool hall with buddies just getting loaded on beers before. 



VGPolyglot on 10 April 2017
COKTOE said:
p0isonparadise said:

I remember Torino, truly horrific.

Cheering for my national hockey teams, and Canadian UFC fighters, is about as passionately nationalistic as I get. I do get into it for sure. But really, I'm pretty easy, because I just like the competition. My favorite player of all time is Russian. Pavel Bure. I had friend who, and i kid you not, threw his living room furniture onto his front lawn when we lost the 96' World Cup to the U.S. He's mellowed out since then. :)

I was born in the United States, and have dual citizenship, so I've never really been nationalistic, and during the Olympics I usally just root for the underdog.



COKTOE on 10 April 2017
VGPolyglot said:
COKTOE said:

Cheering for my national hockey teams, and Canadian UFC fighters, is about as passionately nationalistic as I get. I do get into it for sure. But really, I'm pretty easy, because I just like the competition. My favorite player of all time is Russian. Pavel Bure. I had friend who, and i kid you not, threw his living room furniture onto his front lawn when we lost the 96' World Cup to the U.S. He's mellowed out since then. :)

I was born in the United States, and have dual citizenship, so I've never really been nationalistic, and during the Olympics I usally just root for the underdog.

I have tendancy to root for the underdog too. Teams on the periphery, that are good, but not great, that make moves, are always fun to cheer for.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

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COKTOE on 10 April 2017
Soundwave said:
COKTOE said:

That's what international tournaments are for. The rest of the world has caught up to a large degree, and that's nothing new. Remember Nagano?...You're 26. Maybe not. The Americans won the 96 world cup. There are other examples. More recent. We're still the best, but it's not like it was 30 years ago.

If the Nagano team had Mario Lemieux (or even Messier), I think they would've won, but that was fun, I remember watching the game's at like 2 AM at a 24 hour pool hall with buddies just getting loaded on beers before. 

Those guys might have made the difference, especially a still prime Mario. Messier was, with all respect, kinda done though.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

VGPolyglot on 11 April 2017

There are 5 games on tomorrow!:

Rangers @ Canadiens (7PM EDT)
Bruins @ Senators (7PM EDT)
Blue Jackets @ Penguins (7:30PM EDT)
Blues @ Wild (9:30PM EDT)
Sharks @ Oilers (10PM EDT)



ninjapirate42 on 11 April 2017
jason1637 said:
Go Rangers.

Go Habs! :D



Augen on 11 April 2017

CHI v NSH - Chicago in 6
MIN v STL - Minnesota in 7
ANA v CGY - Anaheim in 6
EDM v SJS - Edmonton in 7

MTL v NYR - Montreal in 6
OTT v BOS - Ottawa in 7
WSH v TOR - Washington in 5
PIT v CBJ - Columbus in 7



Bman54 on 11 April 2017

Washington in 4
Montreal in 6
Columbus in 7
Ottawa in 6

Chicago in 5
Anaheim in 5
Minnesota in 7
San Jose in 6