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2011 to 2020 GDTs (OLD) / Re: Qualifier Game 5: Blue Jackets @ Leafs - Aug. 9th, 8:00pm - SN, TSN 1050
« on: August 10, 2020, 07:57:35 PM »You guys this kind of just hit me. Hockey's kind of a stupid sport. It depends WAY TOO MUCH on luck. You look at those BJ goals and it's just throw it at the net and maybe we get lucky and it sneaks in. So often in hockey the less skilled team wins. Why? Because it's a crap shoot of pucks bouncing off people, sticks, skates.
Oh yeah also the Leafs never get powerplays. That would be a way to make sure skill wins. When the less talented team is constantly hacking, slashing, holding but the refs are never willing to call it.
On a whole I've become a little disillusioned with the sport.
I feel like I've been saying this for years but the closer two teams are in skill and the relative importance of an individual goal, it makes it much more likely that luck is going to play a huge role in a series. Or just a bad result because of a funky matchup. A lot of weird things happened in these play-in series and I don't know how much we should take away from any of it.
Yeah, it sucks, but that's just the way it goes sometimes. How many posts and crossbars did the Leafs hit in this series? Things could have easily gone the other way.