La NHL ⇒ [NHL 2012-2013] Week 14 : fin de la saison régulière

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Voici les affiches des playoffs 2013!!!

[Snowflake]

Voici un article intéressant sur les playoffs 2013 et l'incertitude quant au futur gagnant... http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nhl--2013- ... 07646.html

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Labor strife begat the salary cap, and the salary cap begat parity, and you have to admit that parity begat widespread excitement and entertainment. Excellence? Depends on if you equate excellence with dominance. There are no dynasties anymore, for better and for worse. There are more good teams and fewer great teams, making it even harder to win the Cup.

No one has repeated since the Detroit Red Wings won the Cup in 1997 and ’98, and only two have come close to back-to-back Cups in the salary-cap era – the Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins, who split Cup final appearances in 2008 and ’09. Seven different teams have won the Cup in seven years since the cap arrived. Nine have won it in nine if you go back a little further.

It is deceiving that the Kings became the first to win the Cup as an eighth seed last season. They underachieved in the regular season more than they overachieved in the playoffs. Only one other bottom-four seed has won the Cup since the league started seeding one through eight in each conference in 1993-94, and that was a fifth seed, the 1995 New Jersey Devils. It is still unclear whether the Kings started or reflect a trend.

But the feeling that anything can happen is as strong as ever before, if not stronger, and good luck guessing what will happen.

Think the Chicago Blackhawks and Penguins are heavy favorites? The Vancouver Canucks won the Presidents’ Trophy last season and lost in the first round, and the Penguins were highly touted and lost in the first round, too. One type of each seed won in the first round – a first, a second, a third and so on – and not one but two bottom-four seeds went to the final. The Kings beat the Devils, a sixth seed.

There seems to be a divide between the old guard and the new this year -- and not just because all of the Original Six are in the field. The Wings extended the longest playoff streak in pro sports (22 seasons) while the Maple Leafs snapped the longest drought in the league (seven seasons). The last six Cup winners are all back, while five of the last seven teams in last season’s league standings have made the playoffs. (The Anaheim Ducks fit both categories.)

Yet there really is no playoff juggernaut to intimidate anyone. Two of last year's conference finalists (the Cup runner-up Devils and Phoenix Coyotes) didn't make the playoffs. The other two conference finalists from last year (the champion Kings and New York Rangers) are bottom-four seeds. As writer Sean McIndoe (a.k.a. Down Goes Brown) pointed out, only one team in the field has won in the first round each of the past two years, and that team is the Washington Capitals, those perennial disappointments, who never escaped the second round and are on their third coach and third approach in three playoffs.

Whom do you think will win? Who will?

[BasStov]

Est ce que c'est nul de plus avoir de dynastie..?
Je sais pas trop, d'un coté quand c'est ton équipe qui gagne tout le temps, t'es bien content, mais sinon! La parité dans le sport, quasiment toutes les ligues cherchent sa, et avec la draft et tout, t'as la chance d'avoir un beau jour ton équipe au sommet, ça prend du temps, mais t'aura forcement un jour ta chance, le plus dur c'est d'y rester au sommet justement!

Aussi je me dis que ce qui fait que les équipes change pas mal tout les ans en playoffs, c'est que je trouve que les GM sont de plus en plus naze et versatile!
Entre ce plomber avec des contrats à la con, des choix de draft pas forcement judicieux ou juste pas bien développé (et c'est au GM de composer une bonne équipe de coach), des trades dans l'urgence, viré des coach des que ça va mal alors que tout est leur faute, bref les présidents de franchises devraient plus faire gaffe à leurs têtes pensantes!
Les équipes qui sont là tout les ans, ce sont des équipes avec des GM présent depuis un moment et qui font les bons choix en général...

[Snowflake]

oui comme toi (si j'ai bien compris ) j'aime bien la parité actuelle et le fait qu'il n'y a plus de dynastie (ou le fait que quand il y en a une c'est que vraiment l'équipe est notable dans l'histoire) !

sinon Shiraf va être content de savoir que les Caps sont les seuls des qualifiés actuels à avoir passer le premier tour dans les 2 derniers PO !