Toronto spends 59.7M on their forwards. That’s more than 71% of the salary cap (83.5M)

Teams qualified for the 2nd round
Edmonton 58%
Colorado 58%
Rangers 58%
Carolina 62%
Boston 49%
Florida 59%
Vancouver 53%

this tweet is from 2021

never seen someone talk about their job in the third person *before* they've been fired lmao

'i'm ice cold i make springtime leafs fall' is currently +800 on draftkings

'tryna strike a chord it's prolly AHL minors'

As a longtime Leafs fan the most likely outcome in this series is the Leafs force a game 7, and in that OT lose in what will only be described as “The Incident” for the next twenty years.

HockeyStatMiner 1994 - Showed up as a 7 year old

2024 - Showed up as a 7 year old

1994 - diss track reveals Drake is hiding a child

2024 - diss track reveals Drake is hiding a child

Gotta choose between the thankless tireless work of building a decent model… and Rangers over Canes…

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Sorry dweebs I too will dunk on your numbers

LGR

It might be counterintuitive, but giving the Canes a 66% chance to win the series actually *doesnt* mean they have a 66% chance of winning each game. It’s more like 57/43. The more games the more that edge is pronounced.

.Matty Jack showing up to buy 2500 tickets

It’s 2024 just put microchips in pucks, already

(Still no quick fix for goalie interference reviews, tho)

average age of the top three players here for Dallas is 21.

My perspective is a little more chaos (math) driven...

Even if CAR are 60/40 favorites every single game... NYR still win a seven-game series 3 out of 10 times.

There just aint nothin like getting groggy with a few beers and embracing the crapshoot that IS playoff hockey, baby!

Rangers/Canes will meet for the 3rd time in the last 5 postseasons. Feels almost poetically like the Caps (met 5 times in 7 years 09-15) have handed off the 'oh god not these melvins again' torch for the new decade.

Was curious about the most/least number of Game 6s there's been in an opening round.

Most: 8/8 (1991 & 1992)

Least: 2/8 (2000)

COL, VAN, and EDM winning would mean 2024 ties the record for least (only DAL/VGK and BOS/TOR would see Game 6).

Peter Laviolette and Rod Brind'Amour, a juicy coaching matchup in the 2nd round.

Laviolette was the coach and Brind'Amour the captain of the Carolina's 2006 Cup-winning team.

Not since 1947 has a series featured 2 opposing coaches who won a Cup together like that.