This week's going to be a bit of downtime for the site, but I figure that's as good a time as any to gauge early opinions prior to training camps starting up.
by James Mirtle @ 3:41 a.m. | Permalink |
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9 Comments:
So, same as last year then?
Are you sure you didn't ask: "What were last year's playoff teams?" by accident, before all the respondents answered?
Capitals > Hurricanes?
Not for me, not with Theodore in the equation...
The Caps are definitely one of the teams I am unsure of, but I put them in there anyways.
I don't know if I'm entirely pleased with the 8 I picked, but this is by no means a final list of mine and it wasn't as interesting as I had hoped.
So you're all safe for now... Bruins, Sabres, Habs, Devils, Penguins, Flyers, Caps and Lightning.
In a week, you all might not be in there!
The same list as last season is boring... but who to drop? I'm not confident that any non-playoff teams improved sufficiently, the shuffling Lightning notwithstanding.
If Washington was good enough to get in last year, after an abysmal start, I think they'll still be good enough this year.
I took Buffalo over Boston, with some consideration to the Hurricanes, and the rest the same. Maybe Saskhab is right and the Rangers will drop out too.
The West will be a tougher call.
Last year, Mirtle had us knuckleheads pick the worst team in the Eastern Conference:
http://mirtle.blogspot.com/2007/08/eastern-conference-whos-worst.html
Just to show how inexact this whole approach is, eventual Eastern Conference doormat Tampa Bay only got 2% of the vote. Playoff teams Washington and Boston each got more than 10%. We were pretty spot-on with the Islanders sucking it up, though.
Anyway, it's still fun taking these shots in the dark. Just don't get too worked up over a web poll.
I put in Buffalo, NYR, Boston, and the Capitals, leaving out Carolina and Ottawa.
The Hurricanes are going to be close, but without as many divisional games I had to give the edge to Boston who actually will benefit from that change.
Lots of talk about the Caps but they are #1 tied with PIT,MTL and PHI right now(5000 votes), it's very surprising.
Okay, seriously, who are the couple hundred people who voted for Toronto?
SERIOUSLY.
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The Poll would be better if the percentage represented voters who think the team will make the second season, not percentage of total votes cast.
I'm afraid I don't make the poll software, and this stuff is the best available.
Multiply the percentages by eight and you get the number of votes given.
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