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Post by jacksalmon on Apr 14, 2022 6:54:07 GMT -6
With the dominance of the East this year in quality teams, it seems to me that it is complete bs to not seed the teams from 1 to 16 regardless of whether a team is in the East or West. To match up the 2 and 3 teams in the Eastern's Atlantic and Metro divisions is not the right thing to do as it means that teams like Toronto/TBay/Rangers/Pens/Caps will get eliminated in the first series while teams like the Oilers and Kings get to survive (the current Pacific 2-3 matchup). It is not good for the sport to have such good teams eliminated early. Who really gives a shit about all East and all West playing each other until the Final. Mix them up and let the better teams rise to the top as the playoffs unfold.
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Post by vadarx on Apr 14, 2022 8:03:04 GMT -6
With the dominance of the East this year in quality teams, it seems to me that it is complete bs to not seed the teams from 1 to 16 regardless of whether a team is in the East or West. To match up the 2 and 3 teams in the Eastern's Atlantic and Metro divisions is not the right thing to do as it means that teams like Toronto/TBay/Rangers/Pens/Caps will get eliminated in the first series while teams like the Oilers and Kings get to survive (the current Pacific 2-3 matchup). It is not good for the sport to have such good teams eliminated early. Who really gives a shit about all East and all West playing each other until the Final. Mix them up and let the better teams rise to the top as the playoffs unfold. I don't personally care for the idea of mixing the conferences up, but I do wish the league would return to the old 1-8 seeding for each conference instead of the division set up. I agree, it is unfair to the stronger divisions and it rewards teams in weak ones. |
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Post by steamer on Apr 14, 2022 8:44:51 GMT -6
It will make for some damn good early rounds even if the later rounds suck. But I agree - the divisions and conferences are artificial in an attempt to "promote rivalries" and they move teams around so it doesn't really mean much. Then with Covid Montreal and TB are in the finals last year - so much for maintaining the conferences!
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Post by squishy24 on Apr 14, 2022 14:02:15 GMT -6
its more than just rivalries, there is also a gambling aspect to it, as in the brackets.
I liked it better when it 1-vs-8, 2-vs-7, etc AND was re-seeded every round
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Post by hsbob on Apr 15, 2022 8:28:04 GMT -6
With the dominance of the East this year in quality teams, it seems to me that it is complete bs to not seed the teams from 1 to 16 regardless of whether a team is in the East or West. To match up the 2 and 3 teams in the Eastern's Atlantic and Metro divisions is not the right thing to do as it means that teams like Toronto/TBay/Rangers/Pens/Caps will get eliminated in the first series while teams like the Oilers and Kings get to survive (the current Pacific 2-3 matchup). It is not good for the sport to have such good teams eliminated early. Who really gives a shit about all East and all West playing each other until the Final. Mix them up and let the better teams rise to the top as the playoffs unfold. The President's trophy winning Preds met the runner up Jets in the 2nd round back in 18,it was a BRUTALLY physical seven game series that saw the Jets get ONE day off to travel home to face LV who'd been off for almost a week. Not a single practice or film session to prepare,I wonder if they had enough gas for a morning skate on game day? The Jets won game 1 on character alone but fatigue set in and MAF won 4 one goal games. Both the Preds and the Jets deserved better...........one of the league's two best team was assured to be eliminated in the 2nd round and the other gassed as hell........Caps finally won one somehow! |
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