FS1 and NatGeo may broadcast to audiences outside of Russia, but they still presumably needed certain permissions from Russian authorities to film the segment (and will continue to need to interact with Russian authorities for the balance of the World Cup).

At the outdoor viewing party outside the arena, they turned off some of the screens and all of the speakers after the conclusion of the game; because of where I was standing, I had to watch the presentation of the Cup on a different screen more than a block away, through a massive crowd of revelers, without sound.

I’m still waiting to find out everyone has to go back to Vegas to replay the final 30 seconds.

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Which is funny, because he’s proven the answer to the biggest roster hole in Washington since Fedorov left for Russia.

Prior to last night I would have agreed with you, but Kuznetsov shit-kicking the life out of Vegas put him in the pole position.

It’s not exactly ironic—because it makes sense—but it’d have been a surprise to Caps fans of the past that the Ovechkin/Backstrom–era Capitals finally found ultimate success only after splitting up Ovie and Backstrom.

PDO is a loose proxy for luck, but Barry is wrong to suggest that any deviation from 100 is “lucky.” Teams with above-average shooting or goaltending talent will naturally be at 101 or 102, while below-average teams will obviously be concordantly lower.

Since all those percentages will add up to exactly 100 leaguewide (one team’s goal is another team’s goal against), a team with a PDO over 100 is lucky/bound to eventually regress to 100