Jimmy Higgins
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Right now the Las Vegas Golden Knights are playing like they've been in the NHL for a while. They are sporting the second best record in the NHL... and the season started several months ago. Their cohesion and success is ridiculous and really unparalleled, in North American sports. In the NHL, you had teams like the Florida Panthers and Philadelphia Flyers that had decent first seasons, as opposed to say the Washington Capitals who had a Tampa Bay Buccaneer like original season. But even the Panthers and Flyers can't hold a candle to the Golden Knights.
Now certainly, times have changed, and the league is more watered down, however, otherwise could be said for the Flyers, back when the AHL had a professional product and there was certainly room for the NHL to grow without the prospect of dilution, so the Flyers weren't exactly playing with talent from the lost island of player rejects.
So, the team that started with at worst 500-1 odds at winning the Stanley Cup are up to 7-1.
So this then brings me to the EPL and the insanity that was the year of 2016. Some might remember that year as the time that Satan was elected President of the US. However, even before that, some small EPL club that had one really continental outstanding player, managed to stun the football world by winning the EPL title. The club entered the season as 5000-1 odds, but pulled off the most miraculous of titles. And they won the title, like they were champions, much like how the Golden Knights are among the league's best teams (2nd in pts).
So the question is, which result (LV isn't a done deal yet), would be the biggest unlikely championship story?
Leiceister City, a club that barely fought off relegation the previous year, and defeated teams that had payrolls in dramatic excess of their's.
Las Vegas, a club that didn't exist last season at all!
Now certainly, times have changed, and the league is more watered down, however, otherwise could be said for the Flyers, back when the AHL had a professional product and there was certainly room for the NHL to grow without the prospect of dilution, so the Flyers weren't exactly playing with talent from the lost island of player rejects.
So, the team that started with at worst 500-1 odds at winning the Stanley Cup are up to 7-1.
So this then brings me to the EPL and the insanity that was the year of 2016. Some might remember that year as the time that Satan was elected President of the US. However, even before that, some small EPL club that had one really continental outstanding player, managed to stun the football world by winning the EPL title. The club entered the season as 5000-1 odds, but pulled off the most miraculous of titles. And they won the title, like they were champions, much like how the Golden Knights are among the league's best teams (2nd in pts).
So the question is, which result (LV isn't a done deal yet), would be the biggest unlikely championship story?
Leiceister City, a club that barely fought off relegation the previous year, and defeated teams that had payrolls in dramatic excess of their's.
Las Vegas, a club that didn't exist last season at all!