Through 2 periods, Pittsburgh=Rust Belt. Two goals so far...
Rust's corrosive effect continued in 3rd; Bryan could have easily have bagged two more. Instead he settles for the original pair of tallies and the Game's #1 Star.
NBCSN Studio guys recount that this is Sid's 3rd encounter with the PoW Trophy. The Boxscore:
2008: Doesn't touch trophy; loses Cup Final
2009: Touches trophy; wins Cup Final
2016: Touches trophy; Cup Final TBA
So the argument is that, in Sid's world, touching PoW Trophy is actually in accord with superstition -- not bold defiance of superstition.
H0 = Touching the Campbell Bowl or Prince of Wales Trophy has no effect on winning the Stanley Cup.
For Sid alone:
n = 2
χ2 = 2; d.f.=1
p = 0.1573
Do not reject the null hypothesis.
I found a list of whether or not each Captain touched the Campbell or POW and their Cup result from 2001 to 2011 and...
n = 20
χ2 = 0.2020; d.f.=1
p = 0.6531
Do not reject the null hypothesis.
Even if you leave out 2001 and 2002 where all four teams touched the conference trophies, we can't reject the null hypothesis. If we split it between conferences over that time frame (where each conference conveniently won 5 times), we still can't reject the null hypothesis.
Oh, and while we're here, there is a highly statistically significant dependence between winning the PT and the Cup (p < 0.0001).
Last edited by lugnut92; 05-27-2016, 07:12 AM.
Reason: Added PT data
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I'll take Thornton's first over Crosby's second any day. Go Sharks.
I'd be happy with Thornton getting a Cup, but I'd be almost as happy with Phil Kessel getting to give a 35 pound sterling silver middle finger to Toronto.
He could even eat a hot dog out of it.
If he won the Conn Smythe to go with it...that would be the mic drop to end all mic drops.
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Not quite sure how to take this one. If meant in a playful, myth buster way, good post.
But if meant as a serious rebuttal? Let me gently suggest that if you want to kill a mosquito, it's not necessary to use a cannon.
Yes, it was meant as a joke (at least for the conference trophies). It takes three seconds to do a quick chi-squared test, so I figured I would run the numbers pretty quick just to see what they said.
As for the Presidents' Trophy, I was more trying to make a point. Doing four times better than would be expected by random chance is hardly a jinx.
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Naturally, I'm all on board for Joe Pavelski to lift the cup. Even if it comes at the expense of Justin Schultz.
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At his graduation ceremony from the U of Minnesota, my cousin got a keychain. When asked what UW gave her for graduation, my sister said, "A degree from a University that matters."
That would make for a fun Geoffrion Hockey Classic, wouldn't it?
That it would.
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Dustin Brown reportedly to stripped of the captaincy. Makes one of the worst contracts in the league even worse.
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Did you guys know about the 24/7 type of show on Showtime? It's called All Access. I'm watching the second episode now. Need to track the first one down.
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