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Thankfully Wang’s Idea Was Shot Down
by Paul on 03/13/10 at 08:08 PM ET
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from Chris McCosky of the Detroit News,
The general managers got at least one thing right during their meetings last week. They shot down a proposal from New York Islanders owner Charles Wang to have a mini-tournament for the eighth and final playoff spot in each conference.
I know—huh?
His proposal was to have the teams that finish eight through 15 in each conference play a week-long tournament to decide the eighth-place finisher. Never mind that 82-game regular season—that was just a prelim.
The No. 8 team, the team that actually earned a playoff spot, would have to win it again, starting with the No. 15 seed and working back through the field—No. 9 vs. No. 14, No. 10 vs. No. 13 and the always intriguing No. 11 vs. No. 12.
Come on. Is this the NHL or some youth league? Might as well not even keep score and let everybody have cake and ice cream after the games, right? Everybody’s a winner in the new NHL.
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I think I understand the spirit of what wang was proposing, but this is not the NCAA basketball tourney.
That said, his idea is no more stupid than the NHL’s current method of having 3 divisions in each conference, but having playoff teams seeded based upon the teams conference not divisional finish?
Why have divisions if you are going to seed teams based upon conference finish??????????
Posted by Down River Dan on 03/13/10 at 09:58 PM ET
The No. 8 team, the team that actually earned a playoff spot, would have to win it again,...
Well, if they change the format then the 8th team didn’t earn it, but 7th did. Moses didn’t bring stone tablets specifying the proper number of directly qualified playoff teams.
I think it’s an attractive idea to keep the interest up amongst otherwise eliminated teams that gets an extra chance to qualify for the playoffs . Depending on the format, it could be quite an entertaining event. Not that the current format is poorly desingned, but it’s always refreshing with new ideas, even the improbable ones.
Posted by Moq from Denmark on 03/14/10 at 10:41 AM ET
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Not sure where you’re going with that… each Div winner is guaranteed one of the top three seeds regardless of their total pts…
Posted by Kevin from NJ on 03/13/10 at 09:26 PM ET