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Turd burgers tonight? What's their record in those things?

Based solely on the season he had this year in Kootenay and the fact he's built like like an 11 year old? Probably in the 7-10 range just because he was so good at the WJC.

Meszaros Benoit still here. Myers Stewart gone Connor McDavid

cart before horse?

One more loss to go The insanity will end Mission accomplished

This insanity needs to end Monday night.

ARI's first regulation home loss since Jan 5. Wow.

http://www.sportsclubstats.com/NHLlottery.html How does 98% sound?

So that's a 4 point lead for BUF with 3 games left... Essentially a 5 point lead because tiebreaker. One more BUF win and it's over.

Woooooooooooo wooooooooo!

Don't forget what happened last in Buffalo, this is far from over...

4-2!

Somebody trip the breaker at Gila River!

Just heard on WGR that Nolan talked Hasek out of retirement for the stretch run.

Yotes bury one... Well, kinda it went in off Burn's stick.

At least they'll be fresh at home tomorrow after this horrible effort tonight.

Lindback starts tonight, Nolan said it's possible that Makarov starts tomorrow on the Island. Moulson (flu) and Weber () are gametime decisions. Scott Darling gets the start for CHI. He's 8-3-0 on the season with a 1.77 goals against average and .941 save percentage in 12 games (11 starts).

exactly, they need to make the range of numbers assigned to each team public.... imagine the drama.... it's like everybody playing lotto at home watching the drawing on TV..... first ball up... yes! still in it.... second ball, yeah!.... third ball.... , Hanifin it is....

Disagree about Mezz, he was a sHart Trophy candidate up until the last few games. He was awful for long stretches this season, and Buffalo wouldn't be where they are today if it wasn't for that.

The math is correct. 14 balls numbered 1-14, 4 non-repeating balls selected gives 1001 possible outcomes if order of the numbers do not matter. http://www.statisticshowto.com/calculators/permutation-calculator-and-combination-calculator/ (n=14, r=4, repeat=no, order=no) The issue is that if you add up all the outcomes for all the teams (200 for BUF, 135 for ARI, etc...) the total comes to 1000. So there's 1 possible outcome that no team has. Grab your pitchforks folks, we're marching to Toronto on April 18th.

Arizona

according the article linked above, the lottery draw is performed as follows: "The way the lottery works is that it is done by a machine that has ping-pong balls which have a different digit. Four of those balls will fall down the chute to create a four-digit number. That creates a total of 1,001 different possibilities and the number of random four-digit numbers each team receives prior to the lottery is dependent upon where it finished in the standings. The team with the winning number wins the lottery and gets the first pick overall." according to the NHL... http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=68856 "Fourteen balls, numbered 1 to 14, are placed in a lottery machine. The machine expels four balls, forming a series of numbers. The four-digit series resulting from the expulsion of the balls is matched against a probability chart that divides the possible combinations among the 14 participating clubs." That said according to my math, with 14 unique numbers, picking 4 of those numbers at random (non-repeating), AND if order does NOT matter, the number of possible outcomes is 1001. So who gets McDavid if that 1 out of 1001 combination appears? Las Vegas? And doesn't that 1/1001 chance reduce the odds for each team? ie, if BUF gets 200 combinations out of 1001, that's not 20%, that's 19.98%... so it would seem to reduce ever teams odd's by 0.02%? While not significant, it's like hitting 0/00 in roulette, it tilts the odds just slightly in the houses favor that over the long haul the Casino's make $$$ on roulette because nobody ever puts money on 0/00. I WANT ANSWERS NHL!!!!

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