Posts Tagged ‘Gratuitous abuse of tables’

Doogie2K
May 14th, 2012
1:29PM UTC

SNN Predicts: 2012 Conference Finals

Yes, it's a day late. Yes, we made these picks in advance. No, you can't see the timestamps on the admin forum to prove it. Shut up.

Doogie Hoop Matt Gerard Result
4-3 4-2 4-2 4-2 4-0
4-2 4-0 4-1 4-3 4-1
4-3 4-2 4-3 4-1 4-3
4-2 4-1 4-1 4-0 4-1
2-2 2-2 2-2 1-3 W-L
13 17 14 17 GO
0 0 0 0 PS
8-4 7-5 8-4 5-7 W-L
30 36 28 42 GO
1 0 2 0 PS

Wow. Dig the carnage there. Did anyone other than Travis Hair at Five For Howling have Phoenix in five? Holy shit.

Also, with Washington’s loss last night, I think Gerard has all but mathematically been eliminated from contention: the best he can finish is 8-7 now, whereas the worst Matt and I can finish is 8-7. So basically, unless he nails all three remaining series and we biff all three remaining series, he’s done. So now it’s down to the two of us and the returning champion, who needs to get us his picks, incidentally.

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Doogie2K
Apr 27th, 2012
1:18PM UTC

SNN Predicts: 2012 Conference Semi-Finals

No longer placeholder! Double woo!

Doogie Hoop Matt Gerard Result
4-3 4-3 4-2 4-2 4-1
4-0 4-2 4-0 4-0 4-1
4-3 4-2 4-1 4-3 4-2
4-3 4-3 4-2 4-2 4-1
4-1 4-2 4-2 4-1 4-3
4-1 4-1 4-1 4-1 4-3
4-1 4-1 4-2 4-0 4-3
4-3 4-3 4-2 4-2 4-2
6-2 5-3 6-2 4-4 W-L
17 19 14 25 GO
0 0 1 0 PS

At last, the proper post, complete with all the carnage from round one. The Rangers and Devils really saved our bacon there last night, didn’t they?

A historic note I neglected to make last post was that not only did St. Louis and Phoenix win their first playoff series in over a decade (in Phoenix’s case, 25 years), but so, too, did the LA Kings: their last playoff series win was a 2001 upset of the Detroit Red Wings. In fact, this was just their second playoff series win since their 1993 run to the Stanley Cup Finals. So hooray for a bunch of history being made this year. Too bad that campaign was cancelled in favour of “Because It’s The Cup.”

[Ed: No, Matt still hasn't posted his picks yet. Hurry up, jackass. UPDATE: And he finally did, the day after.]

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Doogie2K
Apr 11th, 2012
4:27PM UTC

SNN Predicts: 2012 Conference Quarter-Finals

Here we go again on our own, goin' down the only road we've ever known

Welcome to the fifth (!) annual SNN Predicts series of articles (sixth overall, if you count the 2004 version done on the forums, lost to the mists of time but notable for the fact that I went 0-4 in series involving the Flames), in which we act like we know what we’re talking about and make our (mostly) blindingly obvious predictions, with a shocking amount of success, considering some mainstream reporters usually wind up under .500 by the time the Stanley Cup is finally awarded somewhere around Canada Day. This is also at least my third year in a row copying and pasting the same intro, because I’m cool like that. Some surprise changes in the seeding in the last few days of the season, at least if you decide three days in advance to use SportsClubStats’ projections to pregame for this post. What the fuck, Ottawa? Really? Whatever. In other news, congrats to Phoenix for their best-ever playoff seed despite losing their #1 goalie for nothing over the summer (Don Maloney should win the Sam Pollock Memorial Award for GM of the Year That Isn’t Technically Named for Trader Sam but Really Should Be, because holy shit that dude can build a hockey team on the budget of your average indie flick), and congrats to Florida for breaking their playoff drought despite being pretty Goddamned terrible. Hooray for the Southleast Division and stuff.

Also note that I’ll probably be relying on fancystats way more this year, just because I’ve had less than zero time to watch teams play, for the most part. I’m grumpy about it, but I’m hoping I can make up for it in the later rounds. [Ed: And I think after citing the fancystats I've ignored them in at least half of the predictions. Oh well.]

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Doogie2K
Jun 26th, 2011
12:39PM UTC

The Canadiens Diaspora: Spring 2011 Edition

Tampa sure loves their ex-Habs and ex-Oilers, don't they?

Okay, so this list was supposed to be published after the trade deadline, but that didn’t work out so good. Thus the use of boilerplate text on both posts. Anyway, you know the drill: anyone who was Habs property at some point who played a game in the NHL is on the list with their post-trade deadline team. Note the retirements of Craig Conroy, Robert Lang, Donald Brashear, and Mathieu Schneider; Mark Recchi has since followed. This will also be the last list to use the old Thrashers logo, with that team becoming the Winnipeg Jets II earlier this month.

The companion ex-Oilers post can be found here.

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Doogie2K
Jun 26th, 2011
12:35PM UTC

The Oilers Diaspora: Spring 2011 Edition

Yes, it's late. Just like everything else. Shut up.

Okay, so this list was supposed to be published after the trade deadline, but that didn’t work out so good. Thus the use of boilerplate text on both posts. Anyway, you know the drill: anyone who was Oilers property at some point who played a game in the NHL is on the list with their post-trade deadline team. We’ve already had a couple of deals since the Finals, which will be reflected the next time I post this (probably after the first month of the season). This will also be the last list to use the old Thrashers logo, with that team becoming the Winnipeg Jets II earlier this month.

The companion list of ex-Habs can be found here.

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