Does anyone else miss the days when a playoff series didn't take more than 2 weeks? I grew up in an era where a 5 game series would be over in 11 or 12 days. games 1/2 and 3/4 were often played on back to back days and there was rarely more than a single day off between games. This years Cup final is the epitome of how awful it has gotten, 2 days off anytime there is travel? Give me a ****ing break it kills the momentum of the series and playoffs as a whole, causing them to drag on far too long.
What are you talking about? Even the Flames series had it gone 7 games would have taken 2 weeks (13 days). Yes, in the first couple rounds it's not so bad as they generally play every other day. But each of the first 3 rounds take about 3 days longer, plus they add an extra day or 2 of rest between rounds that didn't used to be there, then they extend the finals by 5 days. That makes the playoffs take an extra 3 weeks. The playoffs back in the day were amazing because it was a grueling tournament, they have eliminated so much of that and IMO if kills the atmosphere of the playoffs.For the first couple of rounds, that was what the pace was (quicker, actually), so I'm not sure what you mean. The Flames were eliminated in 4 games over 7 days. If it had gone 5 games, it would've taken 9 or 10 games (didn't check the schedule on that one).
I feel like they always drag things out a little more in the Finals because they want the product on the ice to be the best possible with player fatigue less of a factor. Baseball does the same thing in the playoffs with off days for every travel.
What are you talking about? Even the Flames series had it gone 7 games would have taken 2 weeks (13 days). Yes, in the first couple rounds it's not so bad as they generally play every other day. But each of the first 3 rounds take about 3 days longer, plus they add an extra day or 2 of rest between rounds that didn't used to be there, then they extend the finals by 5 days. That makes the playoffs take an extra 3 weeks. The playoffs back in the day were amazing because it was a grueling tournament, they have eliminated so much of that and IMO if kills the atmosphere of the playoffs.
It should have been 7 games and yeah it's been a while since we had regular back to backs in the playoffs. Even every other day would be fine, but 2 days between games is stupid, especially in the final. But in the first couple/few rounds back to backs in games 1/2 and 3/4 were the norm.Oh... you said 11-12 days for 5 games. If you meant 11-12 for 7 games, that would mean there would by necessity be one back-to-back in every series, and multiple in others. I don't think that's been the case in recent memory, has it? I mean, just looking back at the '89 SCF, that featured one extra off-day between Games 1 and 2, and one day between every other game.
Looking at the schedule I think they are trying to avoid having games on the same day as the NBA finals. I was just looking at both schedules to make sure and that's what it looks like.
That was a problem last year in the finals iirc. Golden State is huge in California and they played last year in the NBA finals. Some of the games over lapped as some nights too. As a result, viewership was down a lot. Didn't help that San Jose is a Cali team as well and/or people were more interested in LeBron vs Curry. Now, this year it's up 20% compared to last playoffs, but I also think a contributing factor is that it's the same teams in the finals 3 years in a row.
Meh, players aren't robot. It's probably like that now due to the PA.
5 Canadian teams making the playoffs help too
underdog story is the difference there IMOThat too, but I just meant the finals is up 20% compared to last year.
apparently Charles Barkley has finally got his wish and will provide insight in the second period intermission
He's been bad mouthing the NBA all playoffs
We got the wrong Gaudreau.
He's been bad mouthing the NBA all playoffs
What's he been saying?
It hasn't been competitive and is boring with all the blowouts.
On air for TNT he said something like "Thank god for the Stanley cup playoffs, that's what I watch in the back instead of these [NBA] blowouts"
And we don't even have Forsberg.
It hasn't been competitive and is boring with all the blowouts.
On air for TNT he said something like "Thank god for the Stanley cup playoffs, that's what I watch in the back instead of these [NBA] blowouts"