Divide games 1-7 as you would

[kingsholygrail]

Maximum travel time. HRHRHRH

 

[jimmysheva]

away away home home home home away

 

[TGWL]

Cost of tickets goes up the further along you are in the series...you're not going to win the series or the cup in games 1-3 so 4-7 are increasingly expensive.



Because if you don't put it away in those 4 games you're going to have a hard time.

If the away team splits the home games and goes back to their home arena 2-2 as the underdog then they're in a great spot.

Cost of resale tickets go up.

 

[JimmyH]

Scenario1:

Your team is the higher seed, how would you arrange the games 1-7 if you could decide? Remember, only games 1-4 are guaranteed.

Scenario2:

You are with the lower seed, what would now be your best home-road ordering of the games? To supposedly maximize your series winning chances.

I go with:
1:
Road-Home-Home-Road-Road-Home-Home
2:
Road-Home-Home-Road-Road-Home-Road

Higher seed gets the first 7 games at home. Lower seed gets the 0 games at home.

 

[kvladimir]

The way it is now. They tried 2-3-2 for a while, and it sucked.

The mass hate for 2-3-2 is caused by a bunch of pretender contenders like the Red Wings, Stars and Leafs in 1994 getting upset vs an underdog that won 2 or 3 of their home games, and their higher ups somehow believing that playing 2-2-1-1-1 would have made things different. Especially hilarious for the ones who lost in 5 after splitting their 2 home games, then losing all the road games.

2-3-2 is great for saving travel, and should be the norm. If your team loses in 5 or 6, they were not the better team, regardless of the home ice format!

 

[wintersej]

Because games 5, 6 and especially 7 = $$$

On the secondary market but at least in markets I am familiar with game 1 is the same price as game 7 face value.

 

[blundluntman]

HHRRHRH works perfectly fine to me

 

[ijuka]

Because if you don't put it away in those 4 games you're going to have a hard time.

If the away team splits the home games and goes back to their home arena 2-2 as the underdog then they're in a great spot.

If they went 2-2 away as underdogs, then they deserve to be in a great spot. And if they could win 2 games away as the underdogs, why is it now impossible for the favorites to do so?

H-H-H-H-A-A-A is the only one that makes sense, and is the best for logistics as well.

 

[PuckNorris]

Road
Road
Home
Home
Home
Road
Home

Higher seed gets 4 of the last 5 at home. I think that's a huge advantage.

 

[ijuka]

Road
Road
Home
Home
Home
Road
Home

Higher seed gets 4 of the last 5 at home. I think that's a huge advantage.

Teams that start a series down 0-2 have won around 13.4% of the series, and it's not all that different between the favorite and the underdog. Are you sure you want to give the underdog team this opportunity at home?

 

[Golden_Jet]

Cost of tickets goes up the further along you are in the series...you're not going to win the series or the cup in games 1-3 so 4-7 are increasingly expensive.



Because if you don't put it away in those 4 games you're going to have a hard time.

If the away team splits the home games and goes back to their home arena 2-2 as the underdog then they're in a great spot.

STH pay the same for every game in a series, but they go up , the further rounds you go.

 

[GoldenSeal]

Start on the road. If you fall behind, game 3 is at home and you can build momentum, if you’re ahead it can help raise it. In an ideal world of course.

 

[SUX2BU]

The format is fine as it is

 

[PolishPrince21]

Road-Road-Home-Home-Road-Home-Home

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

2-3-2 is my preference. NHL probably goes 2-2-1-1-1 because it builds anticipation.

 

[SI90]

2-2-1-1-1

 

[BB79]

Higher Seed- Home, Home, Road, Road, Home, Road, Home

Lower Seed- Road, Road, Home, Home, Road, Home,Road.

So yeah, change nothing because it doesn't need to be.

 

[Il Stugotz]

HRRH

Series is determined by aggregate goals
Ties allowed, no OTs
Away goals is the first tiebreaker, then it goes to a shootout