Let's talk about hockey, because other sports make me sad. Who's up for some rankings?
But first, I wanted to touch on something Pierre brought up a few days ago when he quoted a GM: “This is the most competitive balance I’ve ever seen in our league”.
For the uninitiated, “competitive balance” is the term the league seems to prefer to “parity”, for reasons I’m not quite clear on. When they talk about it, it’s always as a good thing. I’m not so sure, and made the case almost a decade ago that there’s such a thing as too much competitive balance. But for today’s purposes, we don’t have to pick a side. You can stay neutral on the parity question and still acknowledge that… man, there is a ton of it right now.
Specifically, there’s a ton of it out east. The Western Conference features a spread of great teams, mediocre ones, and a few that are just awful. One month isn’t a long time, but it’s enough to get some separation, and we see it in one conference. Just not the other.
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