Yea, it sucks. He's an easy guy to root for too. Like a Barkley, but more likeable and probably more valuable to his team. (it's arguable)

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EDIT

Thornton led Bruins were 1 and 2 seed and lost to 8 seed and 7 seed

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(Pic taken before the first flip)

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1998 - 5 Seed - Lost First Round
1999 - 6 Seed - Lost Second Round
2002 - 1 Seed - Lost First Round
2003 - 7 Seed - Lost First Round
2004 - 2 Seed - Lost First Round
2006 - 5 Seed - Lost Second Round
2007 - 5 Seed - Lost Second Round
2008 - 2 Seed - Lost Second Round
2009 - 1 Seed - Lost First Round
2010 - 1 Seed - Swept Third Round
2011 - 2 Seed - Embarrased Third Round
2012 - 7 Seed - Lost First Round
2013 - 6 Seed - Lost Second Round

wow if a perennial All-Star/Hall Of Famer had this track record in NBA he'd get ridiculed constantly. Even Barkley made a NBA Finals

hes not my favorite player, but ya, thorntons put up relatively great playoff stats. you can only affect the game so much when top players on forward usually play 20 mins or 1/3 of a game. its different from the nba which is more impacted by stars who can play a full game. his team perpetually lets him down, whether its through injuries of bad play. This year unfortunately the refs made a lot of consensus bad calls. There is also has much more variance in hockey. Its not like the nba where the heat open up at around 50% to title. Only the biggest of morons would label thornton with a wil or choke moniker. I dont blame most people though because they just dont know hockey. Dont have time to respond to more disingenuous or idiotic trolling tho, work calls.

edit: anyone agreeing with cvig can feel free to expose their similar, yet laughable ignorance. its not my problem.

thornton and the sharks are a joke

i assume every hockey series is 50-50

went 7-6 in first round
2-5 second round
0-2 third round

so just two series under expectation

Joe Thornton's stats last night in a MUST WIN GAME 7:

0 shots on goal
2 penalty minutes

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6 times as a Top 2 seed

0 Cup Finals appearances

lolthornton, is there any other modern hall of famer he even compares to choke wise

Chris Webber is probably the answer to that

eh Webber only had 10 playoff appearances and i'm not sure he was as good at NBA regular seasons as Thornton was at NHL regular seasons

lol nba people analyzing hockey

c-webb would have also made the finals if not for historical riggage in 2002

Not analyzing hockey, analyzing JOE THORNTON's win record

oh good, triumph's here to tell us how stupid we all are

seed means nothing, all teams are about the same thats why 8s win all the time

expectation is like 1.5 appearances in finals so he has a WIL of .75 rangz

gotta be lots of players with higher WIL than that.

loltriumph if he thinks a player with that track record isn't subject to some serious lol'ing

threads about losers get started for much much less around here, i jus took it to FAQ for some morning entertainment

let us never forget this awkward moment:

dan marino made 10 playoffs. since he got byes and football teams are better than each other and there were only 10 or 12 playoff teams I put his expectation at 1.9 lombardi trophys giving him a WIL of 1.9 rangz

based on this math even he had a rang he would still have more WIL than thornton

that's just not fair to hockey players though- they can want it as little as humanly possible and never receive due recognition.

Nice. That's nice.

like i said, lol nba - dkgo is right, seed isn't meaningless in the nhl, but 7s are over .500 against 2s over a long stretch, it's not like the nba where 8 seeds always lose

the nhl playoffs are an enormous variance fest and even with the fact that there's been a different stanley cup winner since 2003, there has to be a joe thornton that exists

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