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Dekes For Days said:
There shouldn't be any series locked in anywhere close to this early. Any system that allows that is broken.

That's 3 months before the playoffs, and on that date, Nashville had also played 6 games more than Minnesota and 2 games more than St Louis, so that's quite misleading. In actuality, Minnesota was already well ahead of Nashville, and as Nashville went on a 4 game losing streak over their next 4 games, St Louis passed them and never looked back.

How does throwing games get you a better matchup? That's a wildly illogical connection to try and argue. And again, it's not just about the players.

That's also pretty misleading, considering that 2 of those 6 took place in entirely different formats due to Covid, and we're going to play Tampa for the 2nd time this year.
Which means of the 5 first round playoff series we will have had under this format after this year, 4 of the 5 (and every single one since we moved out of the wild card) will be against one of Boston or Tampa. And if we beat Tampa this year, who are we going to play in the 2nd round? Probably Boston.

I don't care if you get the same matchup a few times by random chance. I care if I know the matchup months before the season ends.

The NHL had rivalries long before this stupid system. You don't need to have a broken system and shove the same matchup down our throats over and over in order to get rivalries.

Sucking the life out of more than half of the regular season because there's nothing to play for is not great for business.
Forcing eliminations of many of your best teams early in your tournament is not great for business.
Ending your big year-end playoff tournament with a whimper because your matchups are getting worse as it continues is not great for business.
Etc.

It's undeniably a broken system.
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we obviously completely disagree so we can move on I will say Nashville was 2 points behind St. Louis on April 1st as well hardly guaranteeing anything, it seems the playoff matchups are among the top reason's you watch games in the regular season when it's like 15-20 for me and not really important at all. generally don't even look at the standings for the Leafs because I already have a sense of where we are based on wins and loses, the only time I look at the standings are for other teams and how there doing, nothing about the playoff matchups because it truely doesn't matter you gotta win 16 games doesn't matter the opponent. and so yea I much prefer the current playoff setup. it's not broken at all and thats simply your opinion.

but there have been times where losing under the old conference system where finishing 6th was better then 5th because the third division winner was usually weaker then the 4th place team. there's also been times where teams with less points in the regular season were viewed as better teams based on past season's and losing would give you a more favorable matchup and they never lose on purpose.
 
Ugh. Go… Jets… today. Blech.

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Gabriel426 said:
Two in a row for the Bruins, did that even happened this season at all?
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They've been coasting since the Kraken game. Managed to steal the game late from Seattle in a pretty poor goaltending performance for both teams, were arguably outplayed by Edmonton their first matchup but still had some timely goals, got dominated by Calgary but Ullmark saved the day, and in the last few days blew a 2-0 lead in the rematch against Edmonton, while coming back from being down 2-0 against Detroit yesterday and then losing to Detroit today after almost pulling off another comeback.

I think at this point they're just trying to keep the roster healthy
 
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BertCorbeau said:
Definitely a possibility too .. He'll have to follow through with at least 1 big move to start the process though.

They could rebuild around Hart, Sanheim, Farabee .. Hang on to Laughton and Couturier as well.

It's interesting because they have Provorov, Atkinson, and Konency with 2 more years until UFA. They could get some good assets for them by moving them in the offseason. Great buy candidates for competitive teams. Or they'll make great trade assets at next year's deadline.

They'l likely move on from DeAngelo and Hayes .. I think they're stuck with Risto.
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Doesn't really make sense for the Flyers to do a whole lot this summer. Their 'valuable' vets Couturier, Ellis, and Atkinson are valueless until they prove they can stay healthy.

Most of their roster is garbage and worthless and they dont exactly have a bunch of prospects knocking at the door so you need to play someone. May as well keep the garbage you have instead of pay to get rid of it. Maybe some of those guys will rebuild/build some value or bring back something with less term on their deals (a lot of mediocre players with too much term). Even a guy like Deangelo likely doesn't have much value in the summer (mid pick and cap dump), but at next deadline as a rental he might get a high pick and no cap dump.

Provorov, Konecny, and Laughton have value, they love Laughton though. Hayes' name has been out there but that's a tough contract to move.

My guess, this summer Provorov goes and one of the 3 forwards mentioned above as well (again, someone needs to play). They'll try to move Hayes, if they can't then Konecny.
 
VanW27 said:
Doesn't really make sense for the Flyers to do a whole lot this summer. Their 'valuable' vets Couturier, Ellis, and Atkinson are valueless until they prove they can stay healthy.

Most of their roster is garbage and worthless and they dont exactly have a bunch of prospects knocking at the door so you need to play someone. May as well keep the garbage you have instead of pay to get rid of it. Maybe some of those guys will rebuild/build some value or bring back something with less term on their deals (a lot of mediocre players with too much term). Even a guy like Deangelo likely doesn't have much value in the summer (mid pick and cap dump), but at next deadline as a rental he might get a high pick and no cap dump.

Provorov, Konecny, and Laughton have value, they love Laughton though. Hayes' name has been out there but that's a tough contract to move.

My guess, this summer Provorov goes and one of the 3 forwards mentioned above as well (again, someone needs to play). They'll try to move Hayes, if they can't then Konecny.
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I wanted Couts as a Leaf since he was 16. Time has flown by.
 
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Cleetus said:
Ottawa losing 4-1 to the flames, their playoff dreams is starting to fall out of reach!
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Big ups to them though - the conditional second becomes a first if they make the final four, so they won’t have to shed too high a pick in that Chychrun deal.

Where was Arizona’s analytics on that?

With Boston clinching super early I tried to look and to me it seems like 101-103 is clinch territory as of today, though I expect that to drop to 97-98 within a few weeks.

Not as boring as last year where the de facto clinch came around Christmas but just running out the string.
 
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