Should the NHL get rid of the playoffs?

[ccman68]

Hockey is such a random sport that you can't really decide which team is the best based on 16-28 games. That's why the team that wins the cup is most of the times just the luckiest team in the league which makes things pretty boring.

I suggest that they get rid of the playoffs and extend the regular season to a 100 games and give the cup to the team with most points. This way there are enough games that we can mostly get rid of the luck factor.

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[Yosemite]

This has to be a joke right?

 

[JoeCool16]

82 is more than enough for a regular season, and they already give a big, shiny trophy to the winner of that.

 

[King'sPawn]

Enjoy your president's trophy.

 

[Kel Varnson]

As a Canucks fan I feel your pain but the playoffs are here to stay. At least they get 7 game series rather than a one-off elimination game.

 

[Llamamoto]

Ahh, you're the guy who said that McDavid is overpaid and you'd prefer Kuch over him.

Sorry man, but everything doesn't revolve around the lightning.

 

[Llamamoto]

 

[ek93]

Yikes

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

You can take pride in Tampa's Presidents' Trophy win and ignore the playoffs if you want

 

[x Tame Impala]

No. Soccer sucks

 

[sasha barkov]

Hockey is such a random sport that you can't really decide which team is the best based on 16-28 games. That's why the team that wins the cup is most of the times just the luckiest team in the league which makes things pretty boring.

I suggest that they get rid of the playoffs and extend the regular season to a 100 games and give the cup to the team with most points. This way there are enough games that we can mostly get rid of the luck factor.

it's not luck, your team just got outplayed

 

[Albatros]

No. Instead they should cut the regular season to 60 or less.

 

[kgboomer]

LMFAO. There's a reason every major sports in North America have playoffs, it's the most fun time of the year.


And half the rink in the league would have been empty for weeks this year with no playoff.

 

[Sprague Cleghorn]

Easily the best. The regular season is 82 games so you get a good idea of how good a team is. A four game series without the best D in the world being healthy doesn’t really show you how strong the team is.

Winning the cup is all luck anyways so you shouldn’t put much weight on it. The presidents’ trophy is easily the most difficult one to win in this sport and winning it by as much as we did is truly something special.

This team might just go down as the greatest NHL team of all time. Doubt we see anything like this ever again with all the parity in the league nowadays.

Lol. I didnt check the pre game threads so i had no idea what people meant by arrogant TB fans. Now i see what they mean. Of course, its just one guy though.

 

[Coffey]

Yup, I was definitely right when I said you just make posts to elicit a response from people.
Glad to know I can add another one to the ignore list.

 

[Kaapo Cabana]

 

[ManofSteel55]

Lightning pic in profile. Playoffs should be cancelled. Presidents Trophy winner should get the cup. Seems legit.

 

[Contenderorpretender]

Hockey is such a random sport that you can't really decide which team is the best based on 16-28 games. That's why the team that wins the cup is most of the times just the luckiest team in the league which makes things pretty boring.

I suggest that they get rid of the playoffs and extend the regular season to a 100 games and give the cup to the team with most points. This way there are enough games that we can mostly get rid of the luck factor.

Being swept, shows that very little luck was needed. Other than the first 30 minutes of game 1, Columbus dominated this series.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Good talk.