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The curse of the best regular-season record strikes again
By adamg on Sun, 04/30/2023 - 10:11pm
It happened to the Patriots and now the Bruins have felt its wrath.
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And The Pride
Boston’s other professional hockey team had the best regular season record in the PHF and also left the playoffs way too early.
Alas, no third consecutive Isobel Cup this year.
I can’t keep doing this to
What a humiliating loss. Ugh.
What a humiliating loss. Ugh. Emotional damage. After a flawless season, losing to a wild card team in round 1. They didn’t want it as bad as Florida.
Being a bruins fan is emotionally taxing
The big winner in Boston this weekend
Was Satan who played to a sold-out crowd and arranged for torrential rainstorms to soak the bible thumping protestors.
I roll my eyes
Whenever hockey stans preach to me about how superior playoff hockey is to everything else. Dude, your 82-game run just got blown to bits in seven games to the 15th or 16th best team in the league because they got the lucky bounce first in OT.
I'd say do away with the playoffs entirely, and award the Stanley Cup to the best regular-season team. Then the B's would have hoisted it.
It's the same in every US sport
There's luck and disappointment in every sport.
Basketball? Just saw a 1 v 8 upset in 5 games.
NFL? Earn a first round bye and lose at home to a hot wild card team, or lose in the Super Bowl after going undefeated all year.
Baseball? 162 games and miss the playoffs after a grounder careens off the first base bag.
Should all these sports adopt the European soccer model of a regular season title? I personally love the drama that can bring but it's a different type of drama when we talk about playoffs. The Stanley Cup is great because this kind of thing can happen. Florida didn't get lucky over 7 games, they figured out how to shut down the B's and Ullmark cooled off.
Of all the terrible takes on UHub "do away with the Stanley Cup Playoffs" has to be one of the worst I've seen.
Found the hockey humper
And, of course, it's anon trash.
"Oh, no, we can't have a pitch clock!"
"The forward pass is an abomination!"
"The three-point line is a dumb gimmick. It'll never last!"
Good retort
What does me not being a uhub regular have to do with the argument? Yeah I love hockey I love a bunch of other sports too
I don't know what your quotes at the end mean. You equating them to "getting rid of the playoffs" makes zero sense. I am in favor of all those things. They make the sport better
In what way did you refute his point?
He says it happens in every sport, you gave out an ad hominem attack on his anon status, and gave out a bunch of strawmen that have nothing to do with his point: It happens in every sport.
BTW, got lucky in OT means they had the entire game to make it not OT.
I roll my eyes at English
I roll my eyes at English football- I mean soccer- stans who wax about the no-playoffs PL compared to pretty much every other league/ sport that has a post-season structure- its the "I only watch PBS" of sports opinions
Have seen some fairly ridiculous takes the past 12 hours since Bruins lost- automatic playoff wins counted, all home games, etc. for higher seeds- when the Bruins "historic" season was built on the current NHL OT points
Because the Champions League doesn't exist
Yes, the English leagues do extol regular season championship, but below the PL it's basically because they are getting promoted. You'd notice that Mac from It's Always Sunny isn't excited about winning the league but rather about getting promoted.
Champions League is the closest European soccer gets to American style playoffs. I guess the FA Cup should be the closest, but it's not. The League Cup should be the closest, as it is only for professional teams, but in the end it's a distant interest.
Sports
This is how sports work. You play regular season then compete for the championship. Ken Jennings signing off.
Didn't happen to the 2018 Red Sox though
Won 108 games, most in MLB, and won the World Series.
So?
So?
This is about teams that had the 'best regular season EVAH' in their sport and failed to finish it off with the championship.
Then there was the 2001 Seattle Mariners
116 wins and 0 World Series to show for it.
Unlike the Bruins, they won a series in the postseason. Unlike the Patriots, they didn't get to the finals.
And 2015-2016 Golden State Warriors
. . . who finished the regular season 73-9 only to blow a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals vs. LeBron and the Cavaliers.
2021 Revs, too
2021 Revs, too
That one hurt. We were
That one hurt. We were outplayed but came from behind twice to tie it, only to lose in penalty kicks to a team that plays in Yankee Stadium.
That one felt pretty bad, especially after
such a dominant and entertaining regular season.
Also a sorry way for Bergeron and Krejci to go out, if this is indeed the end of the line in Boston (or anywhere) for them.
Do the math
Any sports fan who demands the championship will be crushed by failure 97% of the time. Think about it: most leagues have around 30 teams, and 1 champion. The Original Six would give you a mathematical Cup over 10 times in your sports-fan life. Now it’s twice. The playoffs were indeed a disappointment, but enjoy the wins from the Bruins' spectacular season.
Whatever. What is up with
Whatever. What is up with Mass and Cass?
The 1970/71 B's had 7 out of
The 1970/71 B's had 7 out of the top 11 scorers in the league, yet they lost in the first round to the Canadiens.
Bobrovsky and Lyon played great this year, but they're no Ken Dryden.
Bruins made Bobrovsky look good
Bobrovsky is vulnerable high glove side (most goalies are...but he's worse than most in that corner). The Bruins took SO MANY blocker side shots all series. SO MANY!
It was unbelievable to watch them just keep putting them into his right pads. I think they thought they'd generate more rebounds but there's just way more factors to making the rebound than putting it into the net on the initial shot. SO FRUSTRATING.
Magoo sez
Magoo’s not a frowny face frump. Magoo will watch the next sportsball programming on Magoo’s picture box using digital antenna. Magoo.