Idea for new Memorial Cup format

[hockeylegend11]

Spits

So you expected them to change the playoff format at the end of the season for a once in a blue moon circumstance?

Windsor still only had the 7th best record and would have played Kingston, whom they split with this year.

Spits had the 5th most points in the league not 7th, just happened to finish 5th in the best conference in JR hockey.

 

[OHLTG]

So you expected them to change the playoff format at the end of the season for a once in a blue moon circumstance?

Which part was "once in a blue moon"? The West has continuously had teams with more points than the East over the last 20-years.

 

[Otto]

Spits had the 5th most points in the league not 7th, just happened to finish 5th in the best conference in JR hockey.

Correct sorry, I didn't look at the points I just looked at the sort.. I take back the "once in a blue moon" comment and change it to "one time occasion"

 

[Otto]

Which part was "once in a blue moon"? The West has continuously had teams with more points than the East over the last 20-years.

This season is the only time in league history where the top 5 teams came from one conference. The top 4 have come from one conference maybe twice.. and one of those times it was the eastern conference.

 

[Otto]

I actually talked about the uniqueness of this season on air with Mike Stubbs. This was done on the last Saturday of the season, so the stats are not the final stats of the season

Western Conference domination

Current top 5 in the OHL..

Erie – 101
Owen Sound – 98
Sault St Marie – 98
London -97
Peterborough – 89
Windsor - 88

In 13/14 the top 4 teams all came from the Western Conference (Guelph 108, Erie 106, London 103, Sault 95), and in 06/07 the top 3 teams were all in the West (London 104, Plymouth 103, Kitchener 98)

Prior to the conference format there were a couple of times where the top 4 teams came from the same division (80/81.. the first year of the OHL Leyden Division: Sault 96, Ottawa 93, Kingston 81, Oshawa 73, and 78/80, the last year of the OHA Leyden Peterborough 95, Ottawa 93, Oshawa 84, Kingston 77) But never 5.

Fun fact.. in 79/80 both the Soo and Kitchener were dead last in their respective conferences, the next season both were first and Kitchener won the OHL title over the Soo

Also.. currently the top 10 OHL scorers are all from the Western conference (Erie 2, Kitchener 1, Owen Sound 3, Sarnia 1, Flint 2, London 1) .. this has never happened before

In 99/00 The top 5 were from the East and 10 of the top 12 (Sheldon Keefe-Barrie, Norm Milley-Sudbury, Jason Jaspers –Sudbury, Denis Shividki – BAR, Mike Zigomanis Kingston) Raffi Torres was 6th with Brampton in the West
In comparison to the previously mentioned seasons in 06/07 the top 10 scorers were evenly split between east and west (Kane 1, Kostitsyn 3, Gagner 5) and in 13/14 7 of the top 10 were from the west (top 4 Connor Brwon – ER, Dane Fox – ER, Scott Kosmachuk – GUE, Connor McDavid- ER) Max Domi was 8th

 

[WaW]

Good old 90s and early 2000s, back when players went to play wherever they were drafted.

 

[Otto]

Good old 90s and early 2000s, back when players went to play wherever they were drafted.

Signed,

Bonnie Lindros

 

[WaW]

Signed,

Bonnie Lindros

Lindros was the headcase exception, lol.

Can't believe he pulled that crap in both the OHL AND the NHL lol.

 

[OMG67]

Lindros was the headcase exception, lol.

Can't believe he pulled that crap in both the OHL AND the NHL lol.

A lot of people crap on Lindros but let's be real. Up until then players just had to take whatever came to them no matter the situation. Unlike many hockey players of that era, he was a great student and the education aspect wasn't just an excuse. His family didn't want him that far from home as a 16 year old either. He did have reall concerns.

The deal that moved him to Oshawa won the Generals a Memorial Cup and the return for im helped the Sault win a Memorial Cup. It was a win-win for both franchises.

I also firmly believe that he would have played with ANY other NHL team. If Aubut wasn't such an arrogant jerk in their first meeting prior to the Draft, maybe something could have been worked out but when you sit in the Lindros kitchen and smugly state that he will play in Quebec and there was nothing they could do about it so too bad. Aubut showed his true colours trading him twice!

There are a lot of hockey players thanking Eric Lindros for the trail he blazed on awareness of concussions and playing injured and helped further player rights with respect to them being treated like meat.

 

[bearfan]

Signed,

Bonnie Lindros

Good Old Bonnie Lindros... Still remember security saying to her "see that player bus.. I'm sure there is a seat with your name on it when she did not have a ticket for a sold out game lol

 

[EvenSteven]

There are a lot of hockey players thanking Eric Lindros for the trail he blazed on awareness of concussions and playing injured and helped further player rights with respect to them being treated like meat.

True statement. But to look at it from another angle, it can be said that the trail he blazed by refusing to report to the Soo affected a few OHL centers, that are considered undesirable locations to play in by many players, in a negative way.