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From: lake@alberta.UUCP (Robert Lake)
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Subject: Playoff experience = Stanley Cup (Attn: Rick)
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 16:28:28 EDT
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*** DO NOT FLAME THIS ARTICLE ***
For the past several weeks Rick, I've been studying your articles and
predictions and I think I understand the theory behind your reasoning.
Allow me to enlighten others:

Premise 1:  Playoff experience is essential to winning the Cup.
Premise 2:  The team with the most playoff experience wins the Cup.
Premise 3:  The Islanders have more playoff experience than any other team.
Premise 4:  Officiating occasionally disrupts the natural outcome of a game.

Therefore, the Islanders will always win the Cup, except when Premise 4
adversely affects them in one of their series.

This theory certainly seems to explain every Stanley Cup won for at least
the past 5 years, and what happened to the Islanders this year.  Now I can
predict, with a high degree of confidence, the Stanley Cup champion for
1986.  But before I do, I was wondering - is there any premise in this
theory that I have overlooked?  Age?  Skill?  Biorhythms?  Horoscopes?