Everyone has that excuse. Could be the right line changes, or a whole lot of things. Gretzky and McAllister finally playing how they should?
I think we can agree they should have done a hell of a lot better in the reg season.
Last year it should have been TOR because of all the overtimes and was literally anyone's season and might have won the cup if they beat Seattle (but couldn't even do that - but that was an excuse). This season should have been TOR's because of luck. But it was 1 game quicker. Face it - yeah lost.
Did you also know? For the longest time I was running with fucked up lines and strats? 0-1-4 on a defensive line, which if you know me and my style, wasn't on purpose. That was fixed in round 1 vs Riga and that's when we won the series after game 2. Maybe minor tweaks this round, can't even remember - but that's it.
If you want to talk about weird or anything, how about a really garbage looking team anyway you look at it - beating New York and have the regular season they did.