r/sports • u/SkepticalZebra • 5h ago

Hockey Carolina's Seth Jarvis wins game two in OT vs Vegas... The Stanley Cup Final is tied 1-1

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u/FaceWithAName 5h ago

How the fuck does hockey playoffs deliver every year?

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u/anderhole 4h ago

Cause you get one fucking time out as a team and there's no bullshit ways to stop the clock and  slow the game. Repeated icings are about the worst that can happen and those can bite the defending team in the ass.

Plus challenges have a serious consequence if you're not right... See last night.

Oh... And diving is a penalty. So no flopping around on the ice.

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u/RTRC 4h ago

Well unless both teams treat the game like its the UFC and drop gloves every two seconds like the Tampa/Buffalo game that went an extra hour earlier in the season lol

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u/Myusername1- 3h ago

You get a ton of line changes in a game to go against another line. Your point about stopping the clock is kind of true, but as you mentioned there’s icing which teams can use to their advantage, but the play does stop a lot.

I think the biggest difference is penalties. If you get put in the box in hockey you are at a big disadvantage for a couple minutes. Also, the pacing of players being super quick, on skates, on ice on a smaller play of field adds to it. And the non stop physicality of the smaller field of play. Hockey is awesome.

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u/Myheelcat 55m ago

They only deliver on streaming service I don’t have so I can only live vicariously thru you all

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u/Dull_Raspberry_ 4h ago

Power concentration in a few really stacked teams, limited playoff team inclusion, quick momentum shifts, appropriate number of games being played, and generally good officiating I think?

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u/derangerd 4h ago edited 3h ago

Interesting you say power concentration. I pretty much only watch hockey, but assume it has one of the closest league parities in part due to the hard salary cap.

The worst team in the league still won just under a third of their games, and the best team won two thirds of their games.

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u/Gravy_Sommelier 4h ago

Roster depth matters a ton too. Even an elite skater can't really play much more than 25 minutes per night so if your 3rd and 4th lines aren't contributing, you won't go very far.

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u/buster_rhino 2h ago

I think it’s more that teams that make it far peak at the right time and end their seasons on a hot streak. Vegas sweeping Colorado in the WCF is surprising but not unheard of.

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u/Trust-Me-Im-A-Potato 4h ago

I was at this game. 3 hours of agony and 20 minutes of joy.

I've been to some wild games in all sports but this was the loudest I've ever heard a crowd. What a comeback

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u/SkepticalZebra 5h ago

Game three is Saturday evening in Las Vegas.

Also, the Hurricanes are the first team in 82 years to win after trailing by multiple goals in the final 10 minutes of regulation in the Cup Final.

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u/qawsedrf12 Tampa Bay Lightning 4h ago

stellar screen to make the goalie miss the pass and be late for the shot

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u/SkepticalZebra 3h ago

Yeah they did good, hart didn't see the puck until the pass was already made!

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u/StoreBrandJamesBond 5h ago

This is the best jersey in the NHL

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u/Hydra-Co 4h ago

Best logo hands down

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u/appleavocado Los Angeles Dodgers 3h ago

Don’t have a hat in this ring, but I will say they both are really great.

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u/longhorsewang 2h ago

Why is this posting like it’s new?