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Renovating the interior was a forgone conclusion after blowing the first $900M they shouldn't have. It probably moves the math from absurd to...ridiculous.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Also the standards do have to change when there are over 700 NHL roster spots vs 350 back in the day

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I know why you're not a Price fan and don't disagree, but hockey-wise, his hardware was hurt by the team. It's also not the NHL hall of fame. His international play shows what he can do with an actual quality team in front of him. Both things can be true (Hall of fame player, questionable decisions)

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Ottawa can go get Kotkaniemi to backfill!

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

9 minutes of injury time could bring another

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Second yellow for unsportsmanlike maybe?

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

That call ended the series for the Habs, and it was clearly wrong. (Not saying they'd have won otherwise, but still)

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's a bottomless pit of stats - in the end, which team *really* should have won but didn't? Gambler's fallacy says at the base the sequence of winners we've had is equally as likely as any other sequence of events.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hahaha quite the statement :)

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Wouldn't take it from them and clearly it's just my opinion. Maybe I'm becoming an old fart...

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Also why does European add value to a cheer...

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I'm not sure about that - the Habs are one of the greatest sports franchises in history and don't need to appropriate someone else's cheer. Go Habs Go should be enough!

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

*insert grumpy cat image here*

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If you reduce the question to game 7 losses it's already a coin flip. Not sure a common factor tying them together. Not trying to defend the league, I believe the eye test of skewed calls. They could greatly benefit from making those a lot more consistent like other leagues.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Dobson being injured put a lot more pressure on Matheson. He's for sure better at 24 minutes and less.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I'd say Vegas is a league job, and Florida/Tampa have a huge advantage but have also been well managed. Edmonton is the team that maybe should have won, but we all know their defense and goaltending have been crap. So who really got jobbed?

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I saw it, they just don't register as having any personality...😂

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's a small sample size in the end. I agree the eye test in watching Montreal games at least that the game management overwhelmingly seems to skew against them. Andrew Berkshire quantified it. I just don't think it's a tax or Canada thing. It's a "we can't make more money from Montreal" thing.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Not to beat a dead horse - we can't look at winners/losers and playoffs to justify if Canadian teams have a disadvantage. They factually do from a tax perspective, and that's just math. The league could fix it, I just don't think they have incentive too since there's no money in it for them.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Vancouver made it twice and Calgary once too, so that's 7. It's not that bad.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The easy math is around 1 Canadian teams every 5 years, or 6-7 in 33 years. I don't think we're off of that with Montreal once, Edmonton twice, Vancouver once right off the top of my head at least

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

But then you'd have to do the American teams too. So Montreal had a terrible team under Gauthier for example, but Phoenix sucked too...etc

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The all other things being equal is because we're just looking at excluding the Canadian teams. In the end, they aren't equal. You'd have to go year by year and reduce the number of Canadian teams that "could" win by the ones that had other bad factors to adjust.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's the 77% chance of someone else winning compounded 33 times. The odds stink, and the cap isn't adjusted for taxes, but some franchises have been very poorly managed too. The border has no bearing on management.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Actually no it's 2.9% of 1%

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Gallagher couldn't keep up in the regular season and Xhekaj is more or less interchangeable with Struble. It's not a pit stop where you can switch the other 16 skaters.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Oh it's not hard. It's a .029% chance, all other things being equal

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

They're trying to get people to watch the finals.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The most energetic and exhausting team in the league gets 11 days off to face a team that goes through 14 games against the 3rd and 4th best teams in the league. I wouldn't look too far to explain the disparity. And the Habs are short 2 top 6 forwards and a top 6 righty dman.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If they had energy we wouldn't be where we are, that's the problem. They're gassed vs a team that spent two weeks at the spa.

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's ripped off of European soccer as far as I can see. Go Habs Go is the way to go!

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Killer instinct would have earned them more points in the regular season and shorter round 1-2 series

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's funny and that cheer never should have existed anyways

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I never liked that cheer and hope it dies

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Patrick @pgagnon17.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Come on Brendan, do you think Gallagher or Xhekaj were going to save the team?

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