Toronto Rocket vs. Blindsides Newmarket Hurricanes vs. Tulane Flyers Iowa Crop Dusters vs. Lost Cause KC Reserves vs. asdfjkl; Injured Reserve vs. Royal Oak Fearsome Beavers The Ales vs. Broadway BlackDevilHawks vs. Lethbridge Golden Seals Whalers vs. The Ales
I think #2 is the best spot to finish for the top 4 seeds. If I could pick any team of the bottom 4 that I would want to face, it would be John. The combination of a poor team on paper, franchise history of bad luck, and poor line-up management from the GM is very enticing.
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Feeling pretty good about my odds of winning the regular season after mapping out our last 5 games. My magic number is 5 points.
I should pick up 4 points in games against the Blindsides (no goalies) and the Tulane Flyers. Meanwhile, all I'll need from Jay is a single loss (or even a tie) to and I can clinch it. Jay has a double header with no goalies - I think he can probably still manage to win one of these games, but beating the Dusters without goalies will be tough.
Alternatively, even if Jay were to win out, I could pick up an additional win against the Lost Cause or the KC Reserves to clinch it.
Basically, if I go 2-2-1 over the last 5 games, I take the title, no matter how well Jay does. I do have one last matchup with Jay, as well, where he'll be a 3/4-goal favorite or so. It may not matter, though, if the rest plays out how it should.
Question - if for some reason, the Penguins/Flyers game is postponed at the last minute tomorrow (since it's an outdoor game, and the weather is weird), what happens? 5 of the other 7 games start prior to the outdoor game, with the majority coming 3 hours or more before. It's possible the game gets postponed well after the starts of most of the games, leaving few, if any, possible swaps for teams losing Penguins/Flyers players at the last moment.
Proposal - The game shall count as part of Gameday 72 no matter when it is played (assuming that means they will try to get it in on Sunday, and it doesn't stretch into March). That means, should the game get pushed to Sunday, it would count for Gameday 72, not Gameday 73, and final results wouldn't be known until the game was concluded. Likewise, under some scenario where it gets moved indoors, I imagine it would be played Sunday or Monday. Under those scenarios, it would stay as part of Gameday 72. The idea is that it would need to be played before the end of our regular season to count.
Alternative - If we have Penguins/Flyers, we can designate replacement players before the start of the first game tomorrow, and if and only if the Penguins/Flyers game doesn't take place on Saturday, the score for those players are used instead. If the game was moved to Sunday, then you would have the opportunity to use those players in Gameday 73 as well.
Any thoughts? Should there be a cut off time for an announcement of cancellation? I'd say if they announced it was going to move before, say, 2 pm ET tomorrow (2 hours before the first game), we would all have time to swap out players.
My first thought is to have it count on whatever game day it is played. Its a tough situation but that is how we have handled snow cancellations in the past
I don't want to insist on this since my Pitt/philly players are minimal at best (dumoulin)
My first thought is to have it count on whatever game day it is played. Its a tough situation but that is how we have handled snow cancellations in the past
I don't want to insist on this since my Pitt/philly players are minimal at best (dumoulin)
I agree, if we have notice before all games start, which has typically been the case before - but if all games have started and they delay, delay, cancel, then anyone we wanted to swap in would have already started. (So in that case, we'd have appointed alternates before the first game.
I panicked because I saw a thing on twitter saying it may be delayed due to weather, but don't see anything else talking about that, so odds are we'll be fine. It's actually going to cool down considerably by the evening, and rain is supposed to have stopped by 3 or 4 pm.
IR win plus LC loss will clinch a playoff spot. ROFB can only make it if IR lose out and they win out.
IR have 2 no-goalie games remaining, which is pretty remarkable. They also had no goalies in the previous game, so a 3 out of 5 stretch to close it out while trying to retain the final playoff spot.
LC and ROFB are not quite dead yet. The Beavers can get to within 5 points if they beat the IR in this one.
If the game isn't played on Saturday, I don't think it should count. If this was a normal game post phoned, we wouldn't count it towards Saturday. It would be tough luck.
-- Edited by Ottawa_Biatch on Friday 24th of February 2017 05:35:46 PM
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I think #2 is the best spot to finish for the top 4 seeds. If I could pick any team of the bottom 4 that I would want to face, it would be John. The combination of a poor team on paper, franchise history of bad luck, and poor line-up management from the GM is very enticing.
Be careful what you wish for. I just might callup all of my guys to beat you just because its you :)
Man I wish this was the AHL with there stupid playoff rules. I think my farm lineup would be better than the big club
I tried to alert Mike to it, but he played Antoine Vermette today... a player who was suspended for 10 games over a week ago. And he had two replacement players available. I'm not saying you need to check your lineups every hour, but come on.
I tried to alert Mike to it, but he played Antoine Vermette today... a player who was suspended for 10 games over a week ago. And he had two replacement players available. I'm not saying you need to check your lineups every hour, but come on.
Well, seems pretty likely both Jay and I will win tonight. Which means my magic number for clinching the regular season title will be down to just 3 points. Could happen tomorrow.
Toronto Rocket 4.0 vs. Blindsides 0.0 Newmarket Hurricanes 2.0 vs. Tulane Flyers (-1.5) Iowa Crop Dusters 6.0 vs. Lost Cause 0.5 KC Reserves 0.0 vs. asdfjkl; 0.5 Injured Reserve 4.0 vs. Royal Oak Fearsome Beavers 1.5 The Ales 4.5 vs. Broadway 6.0 BlackDevilHawks (-1.5) vs. Lethbridge Golden Seals 3.0 Whalers 5.0 vs. The Ales 4.5
BDH missed lineup, as discussed above - he would have lost anyways.
Injury problems. Letang out. Vlasic will make his Rockets debut, finally.
Oshie also out, and I have no replacement. Argh.
Be gentle, Blindsides.
Sorry, wasn't Vlasic's debut. Turns out he played for the Ottawa Limidonks in a previous life (and wouldn't you know it, so did Joes Pavelski and Thornton).
Hey Zach, do you think the division winners should be seeded based on their points or just automatically get slotted 1, 2 and 3?
I don't think I have an opinion on this. I can't be bothered to argue either way. Do you?
I don't have a strong opinion either. I guess I feel that the top 2 teams point wise should have a path that has them meet in the finals. As it stands now, I could see you in round 2.
Hey Zach, do you think the division winners should be seeded based on their points or just automatically get slotted 1, 2 and 3?
I don't think I have an opinion on this. I can't be bothered to argue either way. Do you?
I don't have a strong opinion either. I guess I feel that the top 2 teams point wise should have a path that has them meet in the finals. As it stands now, I could see you in round 2.
Yeah, pretty much how I think I feel.
I'm guessing the division winner format was just adopted from the existing NHL system at the time.
This could be something that gets looked at again if we expanded to 16.
Hey Zach, do you think the division winners should be seeded based on their points or just automatically get slotted 1, 2 and 3?
I don't think I have an opinion on this. I can't be bothered to argue either way. Do you?
I don't have a strong opinion either. I guess I feel that the top 2 teams point wise should have a path that has them meet in the finals. As it stands now, I could see you in round 2.
Yeah, pretty much how I think I feel.
I'm guessing the division winner format was just adopted from the existing NHL system at the time.
This could be something that gets looked at again if we expanded to 16.
Or we could contract to 14 to make it work. I would be willing to take the bullet.
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