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davidponte posted...

davidponte posted...

SmartMuffin posted...

No, he's the opposite of that.

His declaring the Leafs to be good gives me the utmost confidence that they will miss the playoffs.

Name your odds. I'm ready to take this bet whenever.

Still willing to take this one though.

....which team knocks Toronto out for 3rd in the division, at this point? Is there any scenario where Tampa Bay, Boston and Toronto don't all finish top 3 in the division once again?

Montreal and Ottawa are going to be dogshit, and pretty sure Detroit and Buffalo will too. Florida might be competitive for a wild card spot like last year, but catching up to Toronto? Assuming Toronto even was slated to finish 3rd? So much would have to go so wrong for the Leafs to miss the playoffs, even Andersen getting injured wouldn't be enough (they might actually improve, if they don't use McElhinney/actually call up Sparks). Nothing seems as certain as top 3 in the Atlantic, it's just a matter of who finishes where.

Last time I was in Vegas, one of the bets I wanted to place at the sportsbook was a parlay of heavy favourites in college football and would get a decent payout if this series of "sure things" all won. Did all my research, went to the sportsbook and learned, when the odds get too lopsided, they don't even allow you to bet on the game (the good news is I still did the parlay with the best bettable teams and it succeed, got a nice return, though there were some definite close calls).

Thinking about betting on the Leafs and whether they make the playoffs or not reminded me of that. "Name your odds", indeed.

Edit: and I just googled and apparently the Leafs, Lightning and Bruins are the top 3 teams favoured to win the cup. In that order. And they're in the same division. Which means (if it played out) the 2nd and 3rd best teams in a 31-team league would meet in the first round. When are they changing this horrible playoff system again???