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On April 11th, 2023… The entire NHL changed with the outcome of one game. The Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins faced the Chicago Blackhawks in game 81 with playoff & draft lottery implications surrounding the entire game. With the chance at Connor Bedard on the line for the Blackhawks.. the outcome of this game would change the entire NHL as we know it.
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21 Comments
Very well thought out masterpiece.
was at this game
Check his biorythms! When one is on point can be predicted reasonable. There are other factors but it's a good bet. There are days when a goalie should NOT play. Namely, when 2 rhythms cross into the negative at the same time.
Watched this game on TV, I had no emotions after this loss, just dumbfounded
This is disrespectful. Please let me cope.
I was at that game and man, it’s a let down I’ll never forget
I know who he is lmao, Panther fans talk about him all the time. Cult hero
Well done. You and Buddy. Go hawks.
Great compilation of this domino-effect!!! At the time, I just thought that the Pens had blown their playoff hopes, but who could have forseen the multiple consequences??? Thanks for putting this all in the proper perspective!
The best name in hockey being Buddy Robinson, nope I’m giving it to Teddy Blueger.
The dramatic title sounds like click bait. Had the Blackhawks lost the game, they had finished last in the standings and been most probable to get the first draft pick. They won the game but got the #1 pick anyways, so as far as I can tell, the "moment" you speak of didn't change anything at all for them. The only thing that changed was eliminating the underachieving Penguins from the playoffs, which gave Florida the run of their franchise history. That's hardly changing the NHL forever.
Always nice to see Crosby blow it!
Everyone should thank the puck god that the butterfly effect happened.
Life always finds a way.
this crosby guy is a bust.
The BUDDY-fly effect, if you will.
Pens had themselves an epic choke.
Losing against the worst team in the league that doesn't want to win.
Was a tough season man 😂
sick video, love the connections.
YEAH BUDDY!
My team wasn't even mentioned in the video, yet I suspect that this butterfly effect will affect them.
If the Penguins had won, then they would have been the worst-record playoff team, and thus in line for the 17th pick in the draft, pending the question of which teams make it to the conference finals (and thus automatically get the last four draft positions). If Pittsburgh was that fragile, then they probably would have lost to Boston in the first round, and stayed in 17th place in the lottery, unlike the Panthers who made the final four (and ultimately the final two), thus causing all twelve playoff teams that did not make the conference finals to move up a position in the draft.
My team is not one of those twelve teams, but the New York Islanders are. They had the second-worst playoff record among playoff teams, and were eliminated in the first round by Carolina. So they started with the 18th pick, but moved up to 17th because of this Panthers run which presumably wouldn't have happened if Pittsburgh had won against Chicago.
Why does this affect my team? Because the Islanders traded their first round draft pick to Vancouver, who later traded it to my team, the Detroit Red Wings.
Assuming that we ultimately select a player with the 17th pick (instead of trading it away yet again), then we will have to remember this game with respect to whatever success that drafted player has as a Red Wing, because if Pittsburgh had won then we would presumably be picking 18th instead, and that player might very well have been gone before our pick.