Championship Round: Buffalo (1E) vs Anaheim (1W)

[Bruyns]

Goalie stats blown up and a gwg for you

Can't help but feel like the coffin is being sealed with each blow of the hammer

Definitely spoke too soon, 3GA isn't bad and you end the night with 2 GWGs. Going to be a close matchup I think.

[Matthew]

Bah of course Campbell gets sat against tampa

[Matthew]

Re-reading last year's finals thread it looks like the matchup was incredibly close up until the final day. Looks like this one will be too.

[Bruyns]

Saturday's Leafs game against the Pathers will be a big one, need Campbell to allow 3 or less.

[Shoalzie]

Very good matchup so far, fellas. An Oilers-Avalanche game tonight...always root for a fun game when those two lock up...and I suppose it'll affect this matchup a bit too.

[Matthew]

Saturday's Leafs game against the Pathers will be a big one, need Campbell to allow 3 or less.

In Florida's last ten games they've scored 3 twice, and more than 3 the rest of those games

Powerhouses

[Matthew]

Last game for Boston and Toronto is next friday
So swayman and campbell h2h last day could be the final say

[Bruyns]

Looks like Kane might tie up GWGs for me and Francouz might be injured. Lots happening in this COL/EDM game.

[Matthew]

Haha good I was concerned I might go over 8 goalie gp

[Bruyns]

I think Ullmark will play some, you were fine.

[Matthew]

Fuck evander kane

[Matthew]

Such a ridiculously close matchup

Every single category could still swing either way

[Bruyns]

Every single point seems big right now and we are both having really strong weeks. I feel like last year we had slow starts offensively.

Cheering for a 3-2 Campbell win

[Shoalzie]

This has been really good so far. Glad we're ending the season with a tremendous final. Curious to see how much moving and shaking we see with this 11-game Sunday.

Cheering for a 3-2 Campbell win

Came close to happening. The Panthers are going to be so hard to beat in a 7-game series with the way they can score throughout their lineup.

[Matthew]

Your time is now swayman

I'm counting on you

[Bruyns]

+- has swung by 15 your way tonight that’s crazy for one night. I don’t have a great feeling about this week, not used to losing hits and PIMs. Still completely up in the air and I think one of the best finals for performances of both teams.

[dave1959]

what's going on with the playoff bracket in Fantrax?
it's only showing final round.

[Shoalzie]

Did we even have one last year or in previous years? We don't exactly automate the playoffs through the site...we just manually feed the matchups in for each round.

I've got the full standings and playoff brackets here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =857155824

[dave1959]

I never really noticed before.

you guys suck then at running Fantrax.

[Shoalzie]

Now that we're back to a 1-8/2-7/etc. conference setup...I think we can better utilize a bracketed playoff system on the site. I don't know if the site allows for reseeding after the 1st round and if we can tell the bracket to take the two division winners and lock them into the top 2 seeds in each conference.

What I'd hope is next year we won't have weird things happen to our regular season such as the Olympic break not happening and we had to reshuffle our schedule around the assorted Covid-related issues from this season.

In theory, we should be able to schedule the first 21 weeks/periods as our regular season and then have the playoffs start after that. If we can get the site to run the bracket for us, great...but it's not a true bracket because of reseeding, then we end up having to run the playoffs ourselves.