I forget who said it, but it was arguably the “closest” sweep of all time

@@TheMemeBorrower.well the coach said it wasn’t even a sweep at all 😂

"This was not a sweep." - Richard M. Nixon

Montour's goal sucked all the confidence and belief out of the B's. Boston was as scared shitless in OT as they were all series, there was no way they were winning it

in 2017 as a caps fan when i saw Ovi in game 7 vs the pens have a shot saved by Fluery off the butt end of his stick as well that really should've gone in it sent me spiraling again... only to be recovered the next year. During that moment though i really did wish for death.

Magical in the sense that it was both one of the luckiest and improbable runs ever.

@@thomasibach234 And like Cinderella, it all came crashing down at midnight xD

I'm a Knights fan and I was thoroughly enjoying your run. Watching Boston flame out and The Leafs eat a trough full of shit made feel all tingly inside. It sucks it had to end like it did for you. I experienced that back in 2018. You'll be alright tho. Let's meet up in the finals again next year.

Nah we will definitely be back. Just need to get the Bobrovsky contract off the books at the end of next year.

truly something else that Panthers delivered in the excitement factor three times unlike anyone else and kept on winning until they ran out

If I was a Knights fan, I'd say the same thing! As a VGK fan, I have to ask, which series of yours would YOU say was objectively the best?

​@@PinholesGrahamoilers 9nly team that fought back

As a fellow knights fan I couldn’t agree more

@@PinholesGrahampound for pound, I’d give it to the oilers series. Edmonton was the sexy cup pick, and we were still able to weather their power play and a goalie change. Once we beat them we were the bets team left.

@@PinholesGraham Best series was the Cup in terms of enjoyment. So many stories to be told and that 9 goals final game is just an absolute statement for all the Cup run. However, in terms of which series was the most exhilerating to win, it would have to be the Oilers. A lot of drama, games would be an exchange of complete blowouts and as a Vegas fan, we were on our toes every single time Connor McDavid or Leon Draisatl would be in the offensive zone or when we'd get a penalty as you never know if we'll be able to hold on.

That means so much, thank you!!! If you like this video that much, you should check out my ranking of the Stanley Cup Finals for the past 15 years; I think it's even better!

I will make a Patreon once I get to 10k! :)

@@PinholesGraham can’t wait for it!

Don't feel bad, the refs were told who was to win. If you watched ANY series, it was clear game after game. If there's talk about a team moving, they'll make the finals and usually win. This is the first time that team didn't win and it's only because it was against Bettman's team.

@@jeffreycairns767 talk of a team moving? You’re referring to the Florida panthers, who went under new ownership within the last ten years and have been extremely profitable the last five? And not the coyotes, the team that literally doesn’t have an area and has only made the playoffs once in the last decade? You’re extremely stupid.

The 2023 SCF would rank 14th. Check the pinned comment under that video for more information

It would be 16th - lower than TBL/MTL. That has a score of 73.3, this year is 67.4 😬

@@marvinaazrak429 thank you!

@@PinholesGraham Considering the cup clincher was such a blowout it makes sense. At least Tampa-Montreal Game 5 was a 1 goal game. Thanks Pinhole! Love your videos keep up the great work!

reminded me of the 2014 stanley cup finals

And against Bettman's team, go figure. I'm not a Florida fan by any means but the fact that the Oanthers got away with murder for every series but against Vegas, they called EVERYTHING. No one will convince me it's not rigged. Unfortunately the refs get the hate but they're just doing what they were told to do. It gets worse every year.

I will get around to them eventually!

Go back to the cup finals rankings video and check the pinned comment for your answer

No wonder you think it was a good playoffs...the first round was the only good round 😂 If you look at the graph, you can see how the series scores get absolutely cratered after the Round One.

All the way at the bottom

Looking at the dominace stats I kinda suspected that. But Florida should at least rank high in the "Fun" category.

If there is a high enough demand for it, I will!

@@PinholesGraham Would absolutely love to see past playoffs. I’ve watched nearly every single playoff game from 2021-2024 and I’ve always had my own ranking. Really cool to see someone make a video using stats. Also if it were me I would decrease the weight of xGF% and series length. And I think a perfect example which you even agreed with yourself was the overrated ranking of the Boston - St.Louis SCF. Series length is pretty self-explanatory, quality is better than quantity, although that does seem to even out as you showed in this video with the top 2 series going to only 5 and 4 games. More importantly though, in the 2019 SCF there were 4-1 and 5-1 games that were scored higher just because the xGF% was close, and I really don’t think that matters, especially when the score is so far apart. Nobody is watching a 4-1 game thinking “we’ll at least the chances are even.” I think people (including myself) care much more about the closeness of score and total scoring chances. Another example in this video was the Colorado-Seattle series, which as you said looked sexy, it was close in score, had lots of scoring chances, and had lots of goals, and as I remember was absolutely incredible to watch, yet it gets weighed down just because Colorado dominated play, which I genuinely don’t think anybody remembers or even cares about. But all in all great videos I love seeing statistical videos for hockey topics that people love to debate. Would absolutely love to see this again for 2024 and even 2022 and 2021. I think if you didn’t like 2023 I am very curious to know what you think of 2024, which I think has been way more boring than the past 3 years. Love the music too makes these videos even more awesome.

Lmao, stomped. Yeah, OK. If not for Bettman and the refs, who knows what would have happened or who they would have played.

@@jeffreycairns767 yes. Stomped. As in, the most dominant run since the 2012 kings. As in, a plus 31 goal differential. As in, controlled over 60% of all even strength play every series. Bitch about how the “refs” and “Bettman” rigged it as though Vegas didn’t have half a dozen games with five even strength goals. They were way better than whatever sorry team you root for.

@thomasibach234 I'm not saying that they're bad, I'm saying that if Florida got nailed for all their dirty shit starting in Boston, they would never have made it to the finals or if Florida got away with the same shit they did against every other team they faced, Vegas wouldn't have won, as all their main players would have been taken out dirty style. No, ofcourse there's one set of rules one day and another the next.

@@jeffreycairns767 that’s an idiotic statement. No major player was taken out in any series against Florida. And believe me they tried against Vegas.

And the refs/Bettman.

Also, just want to point out a small error -- Canes vs Isles game 6 did have a lead change. Isles went up 1-0 but the Canes ended up winning 2-1 in OT.

Hill was the best goalie ez

How so? Also 0:09

@@PinholesGraham because that does not take into account entertainment factor… there’s no stat for the Evandro Kane or Alex Peitrangelo drama. There’s no stat for the Leon Draisaitl individual history. There’s no stat for watching McDavid vs Eichel round one.

@@dannydevito2989 Did that make the actual hockey better? Games 2 and 4 were over less than a period in. Game 3 was over halfway through. That's half the series. It wasn't a bad series. Just okay, on the whole.