A Bonkers Playoff Game

This link starts with 3 minutes left in the game.

At this point, Predators are up 3-1. The Canucks have pulled their goalie. Sure looks like Predators are about to tie the series at 2-2. 

In a 6 on 5 situation, Boeser on the Canucks scores. Makes it a 3-2 game. 

With under two minutes left the Predator gain the puck in the offensive zone, no goalie. Their shot on the empty net, hits the post. 

Then with under 10 seconds left, Boeser scores again. Ties the game. It's a hat trick. He's got all his team's goals in a 3-3 game headed to overtime. 

And then that happens in overtime. Wow.

March Madness Recap

Let's start with the bracket contest. Niraj won our group of 11 valid entries, with an impressive 1420, nailing all three games of the final weekend.

Niraj's 1420 finished better than 99.2% of the country. Pretty good. Brit finished in 2nd once again, who I'm convinced has the record for most 2nd place finishes. 

I somehow finished in 3rd (of legit entries, not counting Niraj's for fun entry) because I was the only other one that had UConn reaching the final game. 

My work had a bracket contest with 31 entries. 9 had UConn winning it all. The winner in that league had a 1430, 2nd place had 1400. I finished in 17th place with a 650. 

Even though I can only enter one in our friend contest, I did end up making 14 brackets, trying to cover all the things I thought possible. Even with getting 14x the chances, I only had one that beat Niraj's entry.

Just shows how valuable it is to get the Champion right.

Meanwhile in Calcutta, I botched everything. It's true that Kirat took the Champion first overall...but even if I had the first pick, I was going to take Houston. 

I thought the clear top 3 was Houston, UConn and Purdue. I thought it would be too unlikely for UConn to repeat and I thought Houston's experience last year would serve them better than Purdue's lack of experience. Basically, I bungled getting the 2nd pick and fell backwards into NC State. My Calcutta game is weak. 

And Mark and I did a bonus sweet 16 point-spread bracket and I bungled not taking UConn first overall in that one too. Bad job by me.

Community Magic

I made a quick video for no other reason than it makes me happy. 

Copyrighted content so linking to it directly, not on youtube.

Bracket Update

The bracket is down to Niraj and Brit. Will Niraj get his 2nd bracket title? Will Brit get her first?

There are 8 remaining scenarios:

UConn over Purdue            Niraj 1420, Brit 950

UConn over NC State         Niraj 1260, Brit 790

Alabama over Purdue         Brit 950, Niraj 940

Alabama over NC State      Brit 790, Niraj 780

NC State over UConn         Niraj 940, Brit 790

NC State over Alabama       Brit 790, Niraj 780

Purdue over UConn             Brit 1270, Niraj 1100

Purdue over Alabama          Brit 1270, Niraj 940

Brit's got 5, Niraj's got 3...but UConn has looked so good, I'd be feeling pretty good about being in Niraj's shoes. 

For some reason, the ESPN Forecast doesn't agree and thinks Brit is in the driver's seat.