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[The Gloaming]

In a best-of-7, yes. But the FA Cup has a 1-game knock-out in most rounds which means the big teams are less likely to win it.

You can't have a best of 7 series in soccer unless you have 7 weeks to spare. The two sports aren't very comparable. The culture around them is totally different.

The first round is literally my favorite time of the year. There's nothing like watching four intense playoff hockey games in one night.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

You can't have a best of 7 series in soccer unless you have 7 weeks to spare. The two sports aren't very comparable. The culture around them is totally different.

The first round is literally my favorite time of the year. There's nothing like watching four intense playoff hockey games in one night.

Not exactly the point, RF. I wasn't the one comparing a cup tournament to play-offs

 

[The Gloaming]

Not exactly the point, RF. I wasn't the one comparing a cup tournament to play-offs

My post wasn't necessarily directed at you; rather to the conversation.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

My post wasn't necessarily directed at you; rather to the conversation.

Ah, ok. If the NHL makes a change, I hope it's a 1-16 league-wide seeding scenario with a 2-3-2 schedule

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Ah, ok. If the NHL makes a change, I hope it's a 1-16 league-wide seeding scenario with a 2-3-2 schedule

I never want to see 2-3-2 scheduling it's ridiculously unfair to the team with home ice.

 

[The Gloaming]

Ah, ok. If the NHL makes a change, I hope it's a 1-16 league-wide seeding scenario with a 2-3-2 schedule

What if Vancouver had to play Florida, Tampa, and Carolina in the first three rounds? That's an insane amount of travel. On the other hand, I'd say that Metro teams currently have a slight edge, since they play each other in the first two rounds and are all concentrated in a relatively small area.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

What if Vancouver had to play Florida, Tampa, and Carolina in the first three rounds? That's an insane amount of travel. On the other hand, I'd say that Metro teams currently have a slight edge, since they play each other in the first two rounds and are all concentrated in a relatively small area.

Is it any worse than San Jose playing in Nashville and St Louis?

 

[The Gloaming]

Is it any worse than San Jose playing in Nashville and St Louis?

It does add up over time. Plus it's one extra time zone. Players' internal clocks are finely tuned.

Plus how would regular season scheduling work without conferences? Or are we keeping them for the regular season and discarding them for the playoffs?

 

[Synergy27]

No playoffs? No comment.

Relegation? Never gonna happen. No one in the world gives a **** about the AHL. Once a team is relegated, they would financially collapse.

And I guess I like a league where I don't know who'll win the game before it even starts.

Yes, no playoffs.

Nothing against the NHL playoffs, they're better than the regular season for sure, but yes I appreciate the soccer approach with balanced schedules and crowning the best team at the end of the long slog the champ. I also understand why that can't necessarily work in America, but that doesn't change my opinion on the merits of the system.

I also find it interesting how the sporting systems and economic systems are reversed. Socialist Europe employs a brutally capitalist system in sports while capitalist America takes the welfare approach. And yes, I'm sure my allegiance to a big market team has biased my opinion.

 

[Raspewtin]

In a best-of-7, yes. But the FA Cup has a 1-game knock-out in most rounds which means the big teams are less likely to win it.

less likely but good teams still usually do.

moot point anyway.

 

[DaBadGuy7]

Ah, ok. If the NHL makes a change, I hope it's a 1-16 league-wide seeding scenario with a 2-3-2 schedule

Yea, that's not happening not in the NHL or NBA

 

[chosen]

Jones or Murray should win the Conn Smythe. I know it's a clinche to give it to a goalie, but both have been playing amazing. Especially considering where both are coming from. These aren't 30-year old, Vezina trophy winners.

In my opinion, Murray is probably the seventh most important Penguin in the playoffs.

Kessel and Crosby definitely by a wide margin. Malkin, Bonino, Hagelin, and Letang, as well.

 

[chosen]

This expansion draft is just the cherry on top of a frustratingly declining league for me. It might just be because I'm getting old, but the salary cap and the rule changes and the general desire to perpetuate mediocrity (by preventing money enabled dynasties) has nearly ruined the sport for me. If the Rangers are forced to part with a key player in the expansion draft, after already having been forced to part with several because of the cap, so that an otherwise doomed team in an awful market can be propped up from day one I'll be pissed.

Well, maybe I would have been pissed if I still cared. I'm just like meh at this point.

Yeah, let's make it more like basketball, where you can guarantee before the season that 90% of the teams have zero chance of winning. Works out great for a couple of teams every year. For the rest, not so much.

That will make the NHL gigantic.

 

[chosen]

the worst thing is we get screwed because the league already over expanded...
there are already like 10 teams with "internal caps" aka the president says i refuse to put my own money into it, only spend what the team can make back...

they keep the salary cap low and it hurts teams like us and chicago.

Doesn't seem to have hurt Chicago all that much.

 

[darko]

the worst thing is we get screwed because the league already over expanded...
there are already like 10 teams with "internal caps" aka the president says i refuse to put my own money into it, only spend what the team can make back...

they keep the salary cap low and it hurts teams like us and chicago.

If anything it helped us. Blank check Rangers is flirting with a disaster.

 

[Synergy27]

Yeah, let's make it more like basketball, where you can guarantee before the season that 90% of the teams have zero chance of winning. Works out great for a couple of teams every year. For the rest, not so much.

That will make the NHL gigantic.

I don't care about the NHL becoming "gigantic", I just care about the entertainment value of the game. To me, that value has declined considerably over the years despite the Rangers relative success. I'm sure part of that is due to me getting old, but a lot of it is due to the game being watered down (due to many things) in my opinion. Expansion will only make that worse.

 

[chosen]

I don't care about the NHL becoming "gigantic", I just care about the entertainment value of the game. To me, that value has declined considerably over the years despite the Rangers relative success. I'm sure part of that is due to me getting old, but a lot of it is due to the game being watered down (due to many things) in my opinion. Expansion will only make that worse.

There is far more talent in the NHL now, than at any time in history because of the influx of foreign players.

 

[Megustaelhockey]

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