O for sure. Their 2016 Cup was well earned. Their 2017 was not. Caps absolutely dominated that series but PIT got like 12-3 in terms of fluky, bouncing puck goals and Fleury stood on his head. Next round they get the freakn Senators who had no business being there. Fleury returned to Earth and got pulled, so Murray came in and killed it. They went Game OT to beat the freakn Senators. Then in the Finals they faced a Nashville team that had zero top 6 centers because Johansen got hurt the last game of the Western Conference Finals. They were extremely lucky to win the 2017 Cup. Should have been Caps.

You have to admit hockey is a very lucky sport. I believe some mathematician did the math and found hockey to be the flukiest of all sports. It's not to say good teams don't win, they usually do, but not as often as they should. It's what makes hockey the best.

Consistently good teams put themselves in a position to win over and over again. Do you really feel the Caps have done that since the Cup? I don't. They have fine regular season performances during stretches, but we also see stretches of how they behave in the playoffs (poorly). So to me, that's the real them, not the stretches of good. They're not a good team, not when it matters most. So they lose. Nothing to do with luck.

Has everything to do with luck. You think FLA tying goal in game 4 was skill? Their blue line shot went off Mojo's stick, was going wide but hit Hathaways arm and perfectly lands in the slot for Reinhart. That's not skill, that's not the better team being better, that is a fluke bounce that lands on a 30 goal scorers stick in the slot with 2 minutes left in the game. Hockey is 50% luck.

I guess keep telling yourself the universe just didn't favor the Caps, for like most of their history..if that makes ya feel better.

I don't need to make me feel better. It doesn't. I WISH the best team always won, Ovi would have 4 Cups right now if that was the way. But it isn't. Hockey is a heavily luck based sport. Everything ever proves it.

There's a difference between not...winning the actual entire thing...and getting swept in the first round.

Correct. The answer is usually luck.

Nope.

Yep