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[QUOTE="jleves, post: 2724600, member: 757"]
I read a story in SI a couple weeks ago about how much more volatile the NHL playoffs is compared to the NBA playoffs. Lower seeds beat higher seeds all the time. When LA won it a few years ago, they were the lower seed in every round. The thing about the NHL is that a goalie in the zone can carry the entire team.  I love watching playoff hockey, but the final outcome could just as easily be determined by having each team take 20 penalty shots and save a lot of contact.

All that said, the Golden Knights are a great story. There's no way  you can say the draft rules ensured this. Regardless that they expected to finish dead last by everyone, Vegas had them at 500-1 to win the Stanley Cup. Vegas does not make mistakes like that. They have played way above what everyone thought they would. They will be the better rested team going into the final with the hottest goalie in the playoffs (although you could make a case for Vasilevskiy with the Lighting over the last three games). LV will most likely be the favorites. 
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