Heard on the radio morning show that no teams that....

[tsawchuk]

started 0-3 have ever made the playoffs. Don't know if that's true but if it is......

Boston
Carolina
Pittsburgh
New Jersey
Columbus
Edmonton
LA

Should all reserve their green times now.

 

[davnlaguna]

Never tell me the odds kid

 

[Rock Strongo]

started 0-3 have ever made the playoffs. Don't know if that's true but if it is......

Boston
Carolina
Pittsburgh
New Jersey
Columbus
Edmonton
LA

Should all reserve their green times now.

i find that to be such a trivial statistic.

0-13, sure.

0-3? did they say over all the prior scoring formats and alignments?

 

[dash]

I like to use American Thanksgiving as the bellwether - With few exceptions, the teams occupying playoff positions on that date will be the same ones competing for Lord Stanley's mug.

Edit: Of course, for the Oilers, you can use Canadian Thanksgiving.

 

[Comeds]

There is no way I believe that stat.

 

[juliansteed]

There is no way I believe that stat.

Me too, especially considering when I first started watching hockey 16 of 21 teams made the playoffs.

 

[UTVolCountry]

Preds have played 3 of them so far to open the season. :/

 

[Comeds]

Me too, especially considering when I first started watching hockey 16 of 21 teams made the playoffs.

As soon as I get a chance I'm going to do some research and prove it wrong. Probably over the Christmas break.

 

[juliansteed]

As soon as I get a chance I'm going to do some research and prove it wrong. Probably over the Christmas break.

I'm pretty sure it's not even true for the NFL where every game means 5 times as much and fewer teams make the post-season.

 

[elocomotive]

If your team had a rough start, there is a silver lining, you can still be in the Top 3 in USA Today's 0-3 Power Rankings...

Panic meter: Ranking the Winless Eight NHL teams

(also agree that can't possibly be true)

 

[dash]

As soon as I get a chance I'm going to do some research and prove it wrong. Probably over the Christmas break.

Traffic on I-95 should have cleared by then.

 

[tsawchuk]

If y'all notice I'm in Suckeyeville aka Columbus. The boys on that morning show are pretty Homer like about the Bluejackets.....so a part of me wonders if they really pulled that stat out of their ass, since they usually put cake frosting on even the worst moments of the Jackets.
I find it hard to swallow too.

I can get at some stats online, but that one eludes me. Perhaps one of you have a better access to crazy stats like that.

 

[DragonfromTO]

If y'all notice I'm in Suckeyeville aka Columbus. The boys on that morning show are pretty Homer like about the Bluejackets.....so a part of me wonders if they really pulled that stat out of their ass, since they usually put cake frosting on even the worst moments of the Jackets.
I find it hard to swallow too.

I can get at some stats online, but that one eludes me. Perhaps one of you have a better access to crazy stats like that.

ShrpSports will give you standings on a specific date. You can get the 0-3 teams pretty quickly that way and then you just have to cross reference the list of playoff teams for that year. That's not a lightning fast one step technique, but it shouldn't take too too long. I'll fuck around with it a bit myself but not until after the weekend probably. I don't think there's anything on hockeyreference that's faster.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

It's impossible for any of those teams to make the playoffs.

 

[forty_three]

If y'all notice I'm in Suckeyeville aka Columbus. The boys on that morning show are pretty Homer like about the Bluejackets.....so a part of me wonders if they really pulled that stat out of their ass, since they usually put cake frosting on even the worst moments of the Jackets.
I find it hard to swallow too.

I can get at some stats online, but that one eludes me. Perhaps one of you have a better access to crazy stats like that.

Plus: Those buffoons were talking hockey.
Minus: Those buffoons were trying to talk hockey.

Have they suggested we put in Ron Tugnutt yet? Just curious.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

As soon as I get a chance I'm going to do some research and prove it wrong. Probably over the Christmas break.

It's starting to look like some teams (ahem, OILERS!!, cough) will still be winless at the X-mas break so this might be very apropos.

 

[BGDave]

Anaheim 08-09 started 0-3. See standings Oct 14/08. Made it to the second round despite their coach.

@DragonfromTO Thanks for the tip re shrpsports.com That really worked well.

 

[forty_three]

Anaheim 08-09 started 0-3. See standings Oct 14/08. Made it to the second round despite their coach.

@DragonfromTO Thanks for the tip re shrpsports.com That really worked well.

Well, sure when you go back THAT far...

Different league, different time. Games weren't even in color.

 

[DragonfromTO]

Well, sure when you go back THAT far...

Different league, different time. Games weren't even in color.

I think Goldberg hadn't even switched from goalie to defense yet

 

[BGDave]

Well, sure when you go back THAT far...

Different league, different time. Games weren't even in color.

I know, right?

I remember the Ducks 4th game. Foster Hewitt was on the radio, their opponent was the Montreal Maroons. Georges Vezina had a rare bad game and gave up a couple softies in the first. He claimed afterwards that the lighting was poor in the rink, but we all know he had consumed too many brown pops on the train in from MTL.