BlueBull
Habby Man
Scenario: In the Offseason of 1997, the NHL announces that, to discourage Super Teams and Make the Stanley Cup Playoffs more fun, They are making The Playoffs a Single Knockout tournament that will be active as of 1998 Playoffs (with the same 8 Playoff Teams per Conference Style Format), and are going replace the Missing Games with a Rival Series that will be Active as of the 1999 Post-Season (Not as important in this Scenario)
With this Scenario, a Playoff system is formed fill with Exciting Games Galore and Underdogs winning Championships Often.
Note 1: The Re-Seeding after each round that occurred until 2013 is a little messed up in this Scenario, but Most champions probably could have still won regardless.
Note 2: These are only the Finalists and Finals Results, but there are still a lot of stories to make out of these Finals.
Note 3: How did I do this? Well, when Teams were the same in a playoff round, I looked at the real life game 1 and have the winner go the next round (Or win the cup, but that only Occurs twice in this scenario). If they are different, I do a single game sim on WhatifSports.com... Yes I simmed each Playoffs from round 1.
1998: Buffalo Sabres over Edmonton Oilers
1999*: Dallas Stars over Boston Bruins
2000: Toronto Maple Leafs over Colorado Avalanche
2001*: Colorado Avalanche over Buffalo Sabres
2002: San Jose Sharks over Toronto Maple Leafs
2003: St. Louis Blues over Toronto Maple Leafs
2004: San Jose Sharks over Tampa Bay Lightning
2005: Despite the rule to discourage Super Teams, Lockout and Salary Cap Era still Happens.
2006: Detroit Red Wings over New Jersey Devils
2007: San Jose Sharks over Ottawa Senators
2008**: Detroit Red Wings over Pittsburgh Penguins
2009: Boston Bruins over Vancouver Canucks
2010: Vancouver Canucks over Ottawa Senators
2011^: Vancouver Canucks over Montreal Canadiens
2012: San Jose Sharks over Philadelphia Flyers
2013: Pittsburgh Penguins over Anaheim Ducks
2014: San Jose Sharks over New York Rangers
2015: Anaheim Ducks over Montreal Canadiens
2016: Washington Capitals over Dallas Stars
2017**: Pittsburgh Penguins over Nashville Predators
*Same Champion That Year
**Same Finalists and Champions That Year
^This is true, but I wanted Montreal to win. I did 12 Game sims before they did so. This is based off of game one. No, I did not rig any of the games, this is the only game I tried to then held back on afterwards.
-BlueBull
With this Scenario, a Playoff system is formed fill with Exciting Games Galore and Underdogs winning Championships Often.
Note 1: The Re-Seeding after each round that occurred until 2013 is a little messed up in this Scenario, but Most champions probably could have still won regardless.
Note 2: These are only the Finalists and Finals Results, but there are still a lot of stories to make out of these Finals.
Note 3: How did I do this? Well, when Teams were the same in a playoff round, I looked at the real life game 1 and have the winner go the next round (Or win the cup, but that only Occurs twice in this scenario). If they are different, I do a single game sim on WhatifSports.com... Yes I simmed each Playoffs from round 1.
1998: Buffalo Sabres over Edmonton Oilers
1999*: Dallas Stars over Boston Bruins
2000: Toronto Maple Leafs over Colorado Avalanche
2001*: Colorado Avalanche over Buffalo Sabres
2002: San Jose Sharks over Toronto Maple Leafs
2003: St. Louis Blues over Toronto Maple Leafs
2004: San Jose Sharks over Tampa Bay Lightning
2005: Despite the rule to discourage Super Teams, Lockout and Salary Cap Era still Happens.
2006: Detroit Red Wings over New Jersey Devils
2007: San Jose Sharks over Ottawa Senators
2008**: Detroit Red Wings over Pittsburgh Penguins
2009: Boston Bruins over Vancouver Canucks
2010: Vancouver Canucks over Ottawa Senators
2011^: Vancouver Canucks over Montreal Canadiens
2012: San Jose Sharks over Philadelphia Flyers
2013: Pittsburgh Penguins over Anaheim Ducks
2014: San Jose Sharks over New York Rangers
2015: Anaheim Ducks over Montreal Canadiens
2016: Washington Capitals over Dallas Stars
2017**: Pittsburgh Penguins over Nashville Predators
*Same Champion That Year
**Same Finalists and Champions That Year
^This is true, but I wanted Montreal to win. I did 12 Game sims before they did so. This is based off of game one. No, I did not rig any of the games, this is the only game I tried to then held back on afterwards.
-BlueBull