2016 Playoff Thread

[BG]

Pittsburgh over Washington in 7

Tampa Bay over NY Islanders in 7

St. Louis over Dallas in 6

San Jose over Nashville in 5

 

[LeafOfFaith]

OV takes out Crosby this time, imo.

 

[Altair]

I don't get the concept of second teams. I don't even get the concept of cheering for a team that isn't playing in the city you were born or raised in (which is why I don't have any interest in the NFL or college sports).

The team you cheer for is the team that hails from the same city you do and that you grew up cheering for.

I've lived in LA for around two decades now, and been here while they won some Cups, and I still could give a shit about what they're doing or take the time to watch a game (unless I am at a game, though I have never actually paid money for a ticket, except when the Leafs are in town).

The nhl, or any sports league would be ridiculously small if it's fans were confined to the cities the teams played in.

Toronto and Montreal have legions of fans out west, and not just expats either. The maritimes have a bunch of fans out there too. They don't have teams in their cities but follow the nhl just as religiously as the people in cities that do

 

[worm]

knock it off with the anti gay stuff

 

[LeafOfFaith]

The nhl, or any sports league would be ridiculously small if it's fans were confined to the cities the teams played in.

Toronto and Montreal have legions of fans out west, and not just expats either. The maritimes have a bunch of fans out there too. They don't have teams in their cities but follow the nhl just as religiously as the people in cities that do

I came from a city that had three professional sports teams when I was growing up. I don't need to adopt new ones if they aren't faring well or if I move somewhere else.

I understand someone who had no pro sports team in the city they grew up in following teams in other cities. Just not someone who had hometown teams doing so.

 

[Altair]

I came from a city that had three professional sports teams when I was growing up. I don't need to adopt new ones if they aren't faring well or if I move somewhere else.

I understand someone who had no pro sports team in the city they grew up in following teams in other cities. Just not someone who had hometown teams doing so.

I adopted the Preds when the Habs were doing decently. Nerdy as it is, all of my friends and I played nhl on the ps2/ps3 for years and for years it was Montreal vs Montreal. Weird as shit.

So we made a pact to pick another team when we played against each other, which was all the time. I needed a team that played like Montreal(2007) did at the time, shitty forwards, mobile hard shooting defense and a good goalie. So I picked nashville. My other buddy picked buffalo, another Pittsburg and another the Rangers.

Guess what? We all still follow our secondary teams and it's fun. Double the fun really. Montreal comes first and foremost and our others second but it's fun that a season doesn't usually just end when the Habs are out or if they suck all year.

Probably because we are fans of hockey first, specific franchises second. We must be casuals.

Although to see hardcover fans have gdt of 2 pages is interesting to say the least. Or hardcover fans go watch more basketball and baseball than hockey

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Whatever works for you. I'm not judging, I just don't really relate to it.

I even have a bit of a hard time relating to the Olympics when I'm suddenly rooting for players who normally play on other teams.

I have an easier time with something like the WJC when those kids either are Leafs property or they aren't but I haven't associated them with other teams yet (even though some have been drafted already).

 

[MindzEye]

Oh god forbid I be pissed off about something.

Feel free to be pissed off. But don't go full tantrum on Monday, then turn around and take shots at the maturity of others on Tuesday. That's called hypocrisy.

Compared to you using gay in a negative connotation... well stay classy.

Except I'm not using the definition of gay that you think I'm using. To pretend that the meaning of the word is still confined to a synonym for homosexuality is ridiculous (see what I did there?). The irony being that the word "gay" was of course co opted to mean "homosexual" when it used to be a common synonym for happy. It's now used colloquially as a synonym for lame. You chirp that it's 2016 and we should be beyond this, when I thought this particular matter of language policing was settled in 2013.

For the record, language policing is also extremely gay. Take that bullshit elsewhere.

Wonder the the G in LGBT stands for. Stupid I guess.

Stupid starts with an S.....

 

[Metalleaf]

TJ Oshie what a night.

 

[JohnnyHolmes]

Feel free to be pissed off. But don't go full tantrum on Monday, then turn around and take shots at the maturity of others on Tuesday. That's called hypocrisy.




Except I'm not using the definition of gay that you think I'm using. To pretend that the meaning of the word is still confined to a synonym for homosexuality is ridiculous (see what I did there?). The irony being that the word "gay" was of course co opted to mean "homosexual" when it used to be a common synonym for happy. It's now used colloquially as a synonym for lame. You chirp that it's 2016 and we should be beyond this, when I thought this particular matter of language policing was settled in 2013.

For the record, language policing is also extremely gay. Take that bullshit elsewhere.



Stupid starts with an S.....

 

[Aberdeen]

I guess we want San Jose to make the finals right?

 

[Metalleaf]

I guess we want San Jose to make the finals right?

Because of Reimer? Don't care....but we do get a 3rd round pick if they make it.

 

[Aberdeen]

Ya, because of the pick

 

[Preston_Mizzi]

What are the implications of the Pens winning the second round vs losing for the Leafs 1st rounder?

 

[Metalleaf]

Well the further they go the worse the pick gets. They win the cup Leafs pick 30th.

 

[LeafGm]

Ya, because of the pick

Meh. The stakes aren't really high there. If San Jose makes it to the final, the 2018 4th round pick they gave us becomes a 2018 3rd round pick.

The team Leaf fans should really be cheering for out of self-interest is Washington. If Pittsburgh gets past them, their first rounder will be no better than 27th overall, and possibly as low as 30th overall. If Pittsburgh loses, then it's looking like their pick would end up at 23rd overall.

 

[Preston_Mizzi]

They win the cup Leafs pick 30th.

Wow I had no idea!

 

[Preston_Mizzi]

Meh. The stakes aren't really high there. If San Jose makes it to the final, the 2018 4th round pick they gave us becomes a 2018 3rd round pick.

The team Leaf fans should really be cheering for out of self-interest is Washington. If Pittsburgh gets past them, their first rounder will be no better than 27th overall, and possibly as low as 30th overall. If Pittsburgh loses, then it's looking like their pick would end up at 23rd overall.

Ah thank god, a real explanation.

 

[Metalleaf]

Wait you didn't know that? LMAO

 

[BKerr]

I came from a city that had three professional sports teams when I was growing up. I don't need to adopt new ones if they aren't faring well or if I move somewhere else.

I understand someone who had no pro sports team in the city they grew up in following teams in other cities. Just not someone who had hometown teams doing so.

So even if your hometown team is run by a bunch of morons or you hate everything they stand for (say you like an exciting team but your hometown team lives and dies by the trap), you should cheer for them cause they are your home town?

You can't pick a team that has a philosophy you enjoy? or a player you like?

I don't get 2nd teams either, but i also don't like the randomness of your favorite team has to be the local one.