Just to confirm and solely thanks to Adam's hard work over the weekend, the semi-perma-link to your upper right will now take you to the custom site he has prepared for the official Gen X at 40 unauthorized NHL hockey playoffs pool. Once the teams are set for the playoffs in a week and a bit, the available picks for each category will magically appear. [Ed.: This is all magic, right?]
Anyway, here are the rules just so you can each (...especially you googlecrawler14...) begin your route to the Root...as it were.
Pick ten scorers, one goon, one goalie, eight teams and a dark horse.As this is free, legal and has no real side effects, entries are most welcome from Crisp Australians as well as Ale-Fans of all nations. Past winners include such luminaries as me, people I know whose names begin with "Z" as well as my brother.
- A point for a goal by a scorer
- A point for an assist by a scorer
- A point for a penalty minute by a goon. If your goon is kicked out of the playoffs and thereby the pool, you double the penalty minutes he has achieved to that point. The logic here is that the goon is a nut-bar. The later that he freaks and gets tossed for the balance of the playoffs, the more nut-bar like he is, the more he is the essential goon. (I think this doubling your goon points factor is Adam's new rule for this year and I like it!)
- A point for each thousandth save percentage over .900 by your goalie
- 5 points for picking each of the teams in the second, third and fourth rounds.
- 25 bonus points for picking the dark horse - the team with the lowest regular season points to go the farthest in the playoffs. The dark horse must be seeded in the lower half of their conference.
Comments
Ben - March 30, 2004 2:57 PM
I can hardly wait. Playoffs are nothing without pools, at least when your team of choice hasn't won the Cup since you were born.
Alan - March 30, 2004 3:35 PM
I either burn bright or burn out under the rules. The fun starts when goons are involved in an early round fight-fest. Then someone's strnge pick goalie gets hot and is injured. There is, as I recall, a ruling a few years back that set a minimum number of games your goalie has to play. I will fire up the old computer and confirm that.
Alan - March 30, 2004 3:52 PM
There is another key factor - Harold Snepsts. Wherever he is an organization associated with an NHL team, that NHL team will defeat my expectations played out in my picks. A key move for me every year is identifying Harold Snepsts and isolate my picks from his influence. Rumour has it he is now with NHL central scouting so I may be able to pick in peace this year.
Ben - March 30, 2004 6:47 PM
For the first time ever I won a pool last year- and I won 2 of them. I'm ready to go.
portland - March 30, 2004 9:48 PM
they play hockey when mlb is up and running? who do they get to go to the games?
Alan - March 31, 2004 6:49 AM
When is the Red Sox home opener?
portland - March 31, 2004 9:15 AM
sunday sunDAy SUNDAY! thrills chills action. SUNDAY! manny rameriez. SUNDAY! danger. the infield fly rule. SUNDAY! martinez working inside. SUNDAY! ortiz working the count. SUNDAY! guys who spit! SUNDAY! sunday, sunDAY, SUNDAY!
Alan - March 31, 2004 9:55 AM
Local friggin' digital cable does not provide Boston stations live Bell Express View does. No "Sox on Fox" for me until we are out of the apartment and its yoke of no sattelite dishes. The inhumanity.
portland - March 31, 2004 10:26 AM
there's always jerry remy at remdawg.com. and besides you get expos on tv. what wouldn't i give for that?