Une décennie du terrible format des séries éliminatoires de la LNH devrait suffire.
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K-PopFan53
@Ligue nationale de hockey
Une décennie du terrible format des séries éliminatoires de la LNH devrait suffire.
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K-PopFan53
39 Comments
This reads like a junior high essay struggling to hit the word count. The issue isn’t even seeding – the idea that teams get unfavorable matchups in the playoffs is totally irrelevant. If you want to win the cup you have to go through multiple teams, if the matchups scare you, you shouldn’t be in the playoffs anyway. There is a real argument about how we reward trips to overtime, which seems to be what this author is hinting at, but he used ChatGPT to write the article so it never hit that depth.
I hate this format even though I doubt it has impacted my team any 🥺
I grew up back when each division had 5 teams and 4 made the playoffs. Playoffs were 1v4 2v3 in the 1st round and much like today stayed in the division 2nd rd. Division winners faced off in the Conference finals.
So, today’s format seems very familiar and I don’t hate it and I lived through the 80s as a Canucks fan vs the Oilers/Flames teams every damn year. The rivalry thing was much bigger but granted, back then Smythe was Western Canada + LA.
Dude I have no issue with the playoff format.
Memo for Toronto fans: changing the playoff format isn’t going to fix your problems.
if you want the cup, you’ll have to beat the best team at some point. 1st round or cup final, doesn’t matter, if you can’t beat the best team, you’re not winning the cup. stop blaming the format, your team isn’t good enough.
Honestly, I don’t care. The winner earned the Stanley Cup every year.
This format does not reward a team for playing well during the regular season. Dumb 1-8 seeding makes way more sense
The entire east would been the exact same if you did 1-8 for the conference
Maple leaf fan/journalist writes think piece after his team can’t be a better team in the playoffs for a Toronto centric sports media platform.
Cool
You need to beat good teams to win in the playoffs, if you can’t, you get bounced
This complaint again? I’m curious what the article says, but not curious enough to reward them with a click. So let’s say the NHL went with the old 1-8 format. This year in the east we’d have..
1 Rangers vs. 8 Caps
2 Canes vs. 7 Islanders
3 Panthers vs. 6 Lightning
stop me if you’ve heard this before..
4 Bruins vs. 5 Leafs
I might be missing something, but that’s no change at all.
In the west?
1 Dallas vs. 8 LTIR
2 Jets vs. 7 Kings
3 Canucks vs. 6 Preds
4 Avs vs. 5 Oilers
So half the series stay the same? If we reward the division champs with the top 2 seeds in their conference, you’d have Panthers/Islanders and Canes/Lightning in the east and Canucks/Kings and Jets/Preds in the west which still leaves the 2 matchups I’ve seen the most complaints about intact, Dallas/Vegas and Leafs/Bruins. The Panthers probably have an easier first round matchup as division champs in the Islanders, but the Leafs still lose to the Bruins in round 1 and let’s be honest that’s what most of the complaining is about.
Please just put us out of our misery, company!
Dear God please go back to the 1vs8 format. I can only see the same match up every year for so long. They’re not even rivalries anymore, it’s predictable af.
Maybe it’s just my soccer fandom speaking out but a regulation win should be 3 points and OT wins should be 2, that would offset some of the OTL unfairness we’ve seen but I see nothing wrong with the current playoff format as far as divisional matchups go.
Maybe they could make it top 2 in the division go to playoffs and not top 3 adding more WC’s but other than that this format has been pretty great, especially in building more rivalry throughout the league.
I miss the 1-8 format, but I don’t think the current format is that bad. What I like about 1-8 is the different opening matchups, whereas now the middle of the pack teams face each other over and over again, like LA and Edmonton.
The western conference would have been: DAL vs VGK, WPG vs LA, VAN vs NSH, COL vs EDM. So 2 different matchups.
It’s only awful for the Leafs fans 😂😂
Funny this is written the day after Toronto gets knocked out
Out of the four major sports leagues, the NHL is the only league with a hard bracket. The only people who have a problem with it are just sad that their favorite team(s) lost.
EDIT: I stand corrected. The NBA has a hard bracket. There are no whiney Toronto Maple Leafs fans the NBA has to deal with though.
Non issue. I couldn’t read the whole story. Too pathetic
The big dawgs don’t fear any other team. You think the Panthers / Hurricanes / Rangers / Oilers are afraid of anyone? Nah.
Back in my day when the Canucks were rolling, I didn’t care who we played (well maybe the Blackhawks but never mind that).
thefuq. So because the advantage awarded the top finishers isn’t so drastic the result is a foregone conclusion it’s awful? The playoff format is working just fine
I can’t believe people actually enjoy this system, every year two top 10 teams end up playing in the first round because they happen to play in the same division
Playoff format is not the issue here
Why do we play a regular season? You can theoretically play 28 games in a playoff, that’s over a third of the length of the regular season. A team with 39 wins all season has the same shot at the cup after 82 games as a team with 55.
The playoffs are a meat grinder that will reward whichever team can survive 110 games, not the best team
People won’t be happy until the Leafs play the 32nd place team in the first round.
Imagine they change the format of the playoffs and the Leafs win… there’d be no living it down.
With the exception of two series in the West, the first round of the playoffs this year WAS 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, etc.
Sounds like cope from a guy whose team chokes every year.
Always Leaf fans crying about the playoff format like that’s the reason they lose in Round 1 every year.
Jesus, did a sixth grader accidentally post their persuasive essay in the wrong spot?
After this round 1 they are keeping it lol
Did a leaf’s fan write this after yesterday?
If you want to be the best team, IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO YOU FACE! If a team beats you, they were better. Players, management, and the fan base may not like it and may refuse to accept they lost. To be the best you have to beat the best. First round or fourth, you still have to win. I don’t actually care about the format, put good teams against each other and let’s see some of the best hockey played by the best players on earth!
Quit bitching and let’s hockey!
In 2020 the NHL expanded the playoffs. It should have permanently expanded the playoffs.
The current system beats the previous system. The current system should eliminate cross divisional wild cards (it is stupid Vancouver and Nashville play in first round; that matchup should happen only in the conference final).
Instead add a wild card per division. Let the 4th and 5th seeds in each division play a 2 game series, most goals wins. Gives the other teams some rest days.
Then let the top seed play the wild card winner 1 day later, so that the top seed can pound that team more easily. Serves them right for finishing 4th or 5th in the division.
The problem with the playoff format is it devalues the 82 game season. If three metro finish 1/2/3 in the east, the 2/3 seed see absolutely no benefit, and are actually worse off than than any other team, from having a great season. The format has gotten completely stale, it needs to change.
I wish they’d just let teams choose their opponents. The rivalries that would cook up would be wild.
Let me tell you a story about the olden days of the 80’s where you played the same team year in and yr out of the playoffs. Playoffs were 1-4 and 2-3 within the Division. So, unless you got to the 3rd round , you never saw the other divsions.
On the one hand it did make for fierce playoffs series like Montreal-Quebec..Montreal-Boston, Calgary-Edmonton, the battle of New York, et.c.
But, there’s only so many times I wanted the Habs to play the Whalers or Bruins in the Playoffs. (Playoffs? Forgot what that’s like)
The playoff format is dumb. I don’t like seeing all the same match ups every year. Go to straight up 1-16 seeding and go from there. We should be able to see two teams in the same conference play in the cup finals if they’re among the top teams in the league. Current format is repetitive and punishes teams in very strong divisions.
Go back to the top 8 teams in each conference that qualify for the playoffs. Isn’t that the fairest way to do it?