Is the regular season series an indicator of how the post season will go?

[Firestorm]

I know that people say 'the results of a series in the regular season does not matter' when the same two teams meet in the playoffs.

But don't they?

Has there ever been any stats on how often the team who won the regular season series won/lost meeting in the post season?

Just a thought.

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[Empoleon8771]

Penguins swept the Bruins in the regular season in 2013 and the Bruins swept the Penguins in the playoffs that same year.

 

[Maukkis]

Penguins swept the Bruins in the regular season in 2013 and the Bruins swept the Penguins in the playoffs that same year.

And that's about it.

 

[Philadelphia Ducks]

nope

 

[Falco Lombardi]

St. Louis absolutely owned Minnesota and Devin Dubnyk in particular before they faced in the playoffs a few years ago and Minny won in 6

 

[sharks9]

Penguins swept the Bruins in the regular season in 2013 and the Bruins swept the Penguins in the playoffs that same year.

Same thing happened in 2014 with Montreal sweeping the Bolts after getting swept in the season series.

 

[jeangauthier]

Long answer..........no

 

[Ghost of Kyiv]

Travis Yost did a study a couple of weeks ago.

He found that teams who outscored a given opponent during the regular season went on to beat that same opponent in the playoffs about 65 per cent of the time.

 

[Rufus]

Not really. Playoffs are an entirely different animal. That's why middling regular season teams like the Blackhawks were prior to 2012 and the 2012-2015 Kings have consistent playoff success

 

[bigbuffalo313]

Rangers beat the Caps 3-1 in the regular season in 2011 before losing to them in the first round. Exact same situation happened the next year with Ottawa (Ottawa regular season, Rangers playoffs)

 

[Pharrell Williams]

Travis Yost did a study a couple of weeks ago.

He found that teams who outscored a given opponent during the regular season went on to beat that same opponent in the playoffs about 65 per cent of the time.

THIS!

go habs

 

[FlamerForLife]

Back in 09 or 08 the Habs swept the Bruins 8-0 in the season series, but in the playoffs the Bruins took them to 7 games albeit they lost.

 

[rynryn]

having played poorly against chicago this regular season, I'd actually be more hopeful about our chances in the playoffs if we meet. It means nothing of course but it's been the opposite for the last four years so why not a complete reversal this time around.

probably depends on the team. Chicago has been so good they're almost too casual in the regular season, then get down to business in the playoffs. other teams have needed to gun it at 100% every night just to get there and will look pretty much the same in the playoffs--not a knock at all, they're still giving 100%. Just that Chicago looks like they're giving maybe 75% for half the regular season and that's good enough for division/conference titles so when they finally turn it on they're suddenly much better.

 

[TaLoN]

St. Louis absolutely owned Minnesota and Devin Dubnyk in particular before they faced in the playoffs a few years ago and Minny won in 6

Also, Minnesota was pretty much annihilated by the Avs in the regular season series until the Wild faced them in the playoffs and won in 7... and have been owning the Avs ever since.

I don't think Roy ever recovered mentally as a coach.

 

[gorangers0525]

Basically irrelevant.

 

[KingsFan7824]

The Sharks owned the Kings in LA in the regular season last year, and then continued to own them in LA in the playoffs.

 

[chatty4756]

2000-01 leafs lost all 5 reg season games to the sens and then ottawa didn't score their first goal of the series till the 3rd period of the 3rd game and they got sweeped

 

[Thucydides]

Vancouver used to regularly beat Chicago in the regular season , but Chicago beat them in the playoffs .

Regular season doesn't mean much .

 

[Snakepit]

Pretty much no

 

[Steven1562]

Throw out all your stats. It all changes come playoff time.

 

[Finnish your Czech]

Travis Yost did a study a couple of weeks ago.

He found that teams who outscored a given opponent during the regular season went on to beat that same opponent in the playoffs about 65 per cent of the time.

Sounds about right though my guess would have been 60%

If team x beat team y more than 50% of the time, team x is more likely to be better than team y

and if team x is better than team y, they are more likely to beat them in a playoff series.

 

[NHL1674]

In the past, the Wild really didn't have a problem with the Hawks during the regular season. But when the playoffs came round, well.....we all know how that went.

 

[Bananas]

No...no...no...no......no!

 

[bossram]

I know that people say 'the results of a series in the regular season does not matter' when the same two teams meet in the playoffs.

But don't they?

Has there ever been any stats on how often the team who won the regular season series won/lost meeting in the post season?

Just a thought.

Travis Yost from TSN had an article on this. Concluded that predicting a series based on only H2H regular season goal differential was IIRC ~65% correct.

So I would think that regular season matchups mean something.

 

[SpookyTsuki]

Not in the slightest. Regular season stats say yes though. Good chance that a team with better stats wins