How about an idea to get non playoff players into the playoffs….

[Schennanigans]

I been thinking lately how what a shame it is for some great players that are not getting a shot at some playoff hockey. We got some real elite players missing the playoffs like Sid, Thompson, Dahlin, Pastrnak just to name a few.

So we have the trade deadline where players get moved from teams that are not in contention or just decide to move on for other reasons. What if we made something like a non playoff team player trading deadline. Like teams can pick who they want to add to their team for a playoff run but only from teams out of the playoffs. You can trade your draft picks if you desire but its only an option as a rental scenario as all these players will report back to their old teams the following season.

 

[Megustaelhockey]

Man, I really have to lay off the mid-week edibles. This isn't realistic in the modern era.

 

[Master P]

I'm sure teams would be lining up to see their star players get injured playing for another team.

 

[NyQuil]

 

[koyvoo]

Is this real life?

 

[Randyne]

what a shame it is for some great players that are not getting a shot at some playoff hockey

Yeah it's a shame. They need to be better if they want to play in the PO.

 

[LeafalCrusader]

How about no!

 

[Coffee]

How about no!

He came from your board

 

[ijuka]

Have a lower division for teams 17-32 that also crown a winner. Then you have the "mud division" cup and the stanley cup.

It could earn the owners of these lower-end teams some money too, so I think it's a pretty good idea.

 

[LuGBuG]

It was severely diminish the value of winning a Stanley Cup as a star player. It would be chaos every year for the top dogs.

 

[Dellstrom]

Sorry, but there's still a few months until summer. This may be received better then.

 

[Hennessy]

I think there should be power-ups placed randomly around the rink, Thunderdome-style. Like, no one hits the ice with a stick. You gotta battle for them.
Oh, and twice every period you release a bear on to the ice.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

The Memorial Cup used to allow each team to add an extra goaltender (from any other team in the league) to its roster for the tournament. This got extra controversial when the host city started to get an automatic bid.

Anyhow, in 1983, WHL league champion Lethbridge was hoping that Mike Vernon would play for them since their starter (Ken Wregget) was hurt. However, Vernon decided to play for the Portland Winter Hawks instead. Vernon sat out the game between Portland and Lethbridge "because of a jammed neck", but there were rumors that the Lethbridge players were going to take him out.

Portland (and Vernon) ended up winning the Memorial Cup, and it was decided that maybe teams shouldn't get to bring in extra goaltenders for the tournament.

 

[BrockLobster]

Boo hoo for them and absolutely no to the idea

 

[njdevils1982]

Is this real life?

is this just fantasy?

 

[WatchfulElm]

Maybe we should just replace the playoffs with an all star game? Or multiple all star games? This way you get to see all of your favorite players. I look forward to the East winning the Stanley cup over the West by a score of 14-12 in game 7.

 

[Jeremy2020]

Who said comedy was dead?

 

[Tie Domi Esquire]

Auston Matthews has been in the playoffs every year... I think.

 

[Stammertime91]

The only chance Buffalo players have

 

[tny760]

 

[TheLegend27]

Good evening Stammer, I can see why you’d love this rule.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

I watched Zontar The Thing From Venus last night.

It was like this thread.

 

[MoneyManny]

That's almost as bad an idea as load management.

 

[hirawl]

Thinking outside the box is sometimes needed for great things. For stupid things it's always the main ingredient.

 

[Hint1k]

I been thinking lately how what a shame it is for some great players that are not getting a shot at some playoff hockey. We got some real elite players missing the playoffs like Sid, Thompson, Dahlin, Pastrnak just to name a few.

So we have the trade deadline where players get moved from teams that are not in contention or just decide to move on for other reasons. What if we made something like a non playoff team player trading deadline. Like teams can pick who they want to add to their team for a playoff run but only from teams out of the playoffs. You can trade your draft picks if you desire but its only an option as a rental scenario as all these players will report back to their old teams the following season.

It was discussed million times, the only realistic idea is playoff B for teams that did not make the playoff A and while playoff A prize is Lord Stanley Cup, playoff B prize could be something like Lady Stanley Cup.