Ce sont les séries éliminatoires de la Coupe Stanley et la pression est intense.
Certaines équipes ont une pression régulière, tandis que d’autres ont une pression majuscule-P.
C’est l’heure de notre classement annuel de la pression des séries éliminatoires, où nous décompteons les équipes qui préféreraient gagner jusqu’à celles qui n’ont pas d’autre choix.
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TheAthletic
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Lol no pressure there, Anaheim
I think montreal have more pressure than that. Look at what happened to Kirby Dach after the last game
Once the Avs won the presidents trophy, all the pressure was off, because now it will no longer be our fault if we lose, it’s the curse. And one does not simply « beat » a curse. It’s fate.
It’s all house money now.
Minnesota is 7th on this list?!
They haven’t been out of the first round of the playoffs since 2015 and we fans are fucking over it.
I get Edmonton at 1, I really do. I would still argue Colorado should be at a minimum #2. I’m not sure if that organization can handle another 2nd round loss, especially to that one team from Texas with the ugly jerseys
Vegas being at 6 is funny tbh. I don’t get the vibe in the community that we *need* to win it this year. Just about no one realistically expects us to make a deep run. It’s been a struggle year anyway.
I don’t get TB being so high. IMO the three Central teams have more pressure.
I’d personally say
1. Oilers
1. Stars
2. Canes
3. Avalanche
4. Tampa
5. Wild, maybe
As much as I want to put the Avalanche #1 after the season they just had, if you’ve won a Cup lately, it’s at least slightly less pressure even with crazy high expectations… and could definitely make a case for the Wild being higher due to a few 100+ point seasons, but they wouldn’t be favorites in the first two rounds this postseason.
Tampa won back to back Cups not too long ago. They’re fine.
Idk, Tampa won back to back in 2020 and 2021…I wouldn’t put them second. They can definitely afford to lose.
Eh we’re like 5th at best. We’re going into the “one last run” stage of this core so anything else is really more of a bonus. I’d put Oilers, Dallas, Colorado, and Carolina definitely above us, with arguments for Minnesota and Vegas too
McDavid is gonna be the best to never win the cup imo
I honestly still can’t believe we’re doing as good as we are.
The Penguins.
Oh, you meant the Cup and not their next game. 😭
house money babyyyyy 🥳
Pretty accurate, but Tampa doesn’t have the 2nd most pressure.
Even Pittsburgh has more pressure imo. The last ride with Sid. Montreal has more pressure too, but not to win the cup, just to win a round or two.
Minnesota has more pressure than Tampa, and so does Dallas and Carolina. Dallas is in a similar boat as Edmonton, but without the generational legacy at risk, along with the Canadian market pressure. Same with Carolina.
Tampa won twice in the last 5 years, and made the finals the other time. Their core is not that old, except for Hedman. They’ve done it all, they don’t have the same level of pressure.
Montreal below LA?
Montreal (market), Boston (market), and Buffalo (do something, please) all need have more pressure than noted.
Similarly, the Wild (history has drubbed any hope) and LA (happy to be here) have less than noted.
Pittsburgh also has less than noted, with the exception that we hate the Flyers (and I hate this series this time lol).
It should be Edmonton, Carolina, Minnesota, Dallas, Colorado. None of the other teams really have much in terms of expectations since there was a lot of turnover this year.
Next would be the teams with playoff experience that are expected to go at least a round. The others are the newbies who just made it and are young.
Why is Toronto not no. 1?
EDM vs ANA: the ultimate “Everything’s riding on this” vs. “Just happy to be here.”
Lightning got pressure ? They won the Stanley cup two times since 2020. I get they’re a good team but everyone knows they’re aging
Top 4 should be
1. Edmonton (McDavid took a win now discount)
2. Colorado (Best team all year)
3. Carolina (Constant ECF failures)
4. Minnesota (Good teams, lack of playoff success and in season win now moves)
Bottom 4 should be
1. Anaheim (No expectations, good experience for the young guys)
2. LA (Pacific division/OT loss merchants, no one would be surprised to see them out)
3. Philadelphia (young team, battled in but no one was thinking they’d even be here)
4. Utah (Young group, getting experience but if they finished outside of the playoffs no one would’ve been surprised)
I’m shocked the Wild aren’t higher on this list, especially given just how the trade for Quinn Hughes just before the halfway point of the season was quite the shockwave sent throughout the league and the moves they made at the deadline
Plus, the way they played so much better in terms of physicality with Trenin being the league leader by seasons’ end, and the other players we have that add more grit to the team (especially now with having both Folignos and also McCarron) should speak volumes too
If they somehow manage to lose this series, it would be quite disappointing after all that we did; the Wild’s window to the cup hasn’t been more wide open than ever, but of course, the path there is going to be tough since if we escape the first round, it’s looking like we’ll be playing the Avs if they end up winning that series
I still have some hope, but it’s going to be hanging on by a thread unless the Wild can manage to bounce back on Saturday to go back to Dallas with the series tied instead of being down 3-1 (which becomes all the more harder to scratch and claw your way back from)
Carolina has gotta be higher, how long have they been competitive now and never got it done?
I feel like Dallas and Carolina have way more pressure than Tampa or Colorado. Mostly because both have been final 4 teams 3 years in a row and neither have a cup final to their name. I can see why Edmonton is 1st but this list gets confusing after that
theres no way we are #5, sure aho and slavin are getting up there in age, but we still got a hella young core locked down for at least the next 5 years or so
Tampa’s pressure is basically to make it past round 1 .