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 CrusaderPi
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Registered: December 2003
Location: Downtown Edmonton
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Today's fix for the NHL is focused on the bottom of the standings.
I consider myself as something of an expert in understanding terrible teams, having watched the terrible Oilers play terrible hockey for basically my entire adult life (at least we're not Sabres fans). There is something uniquely soul sucking about watching a terrible team play out the season and I would imagine playing out the string isn't great for players and management.
So I'm proposing a point in the regular season where the bottom 8 teams are dropped and an extension of the regular season for the top 24 teams. Here's the math:
Currently each team plays:
2*16=32 games against out of conference teams
3*8=24 games against in conference, out of division teams
3*7+3=24 games against division teams (I hate this)
80 games total / team
1280 total NHL games
Option 1
16*2=32 games against out of conference teams
15*3=45 games against in conference teams
77 games for each team then drop the bottom 2 teams
5*1=5 extra games against division
82 games total
1282 total NHL games
Option 2
24*4=48 games out of division
7*4=28 games against division
76 games for each team then drop the bottom 2 teams
5*1=5 games against the top 6 of your division
81 games total
1276 total NHL games
This thought was driven by watching the Oilers games against San Jose and Anaheim a couple of weeks ago. I have no interest in watching or thinking about those teams for the rest of the season. Honestly, I'd love to drop them now, but I know that's unreasonable. Under either scenario or the current scenario I make the last 7 games of the full regular season against the division. They kind of do this now, but I'd make it a formal element of the schedule. I think either scenario generates more revenue for the league and creates a more interesting / competitive end of season. This also has the bonus element of creating an obvious and consistent end point for fantasy hockey, which does drive a lot of attention to sporting leagues now.
I'm not in favor of adding another playoff round, like in the bubble playoff year, because it would be hard to do in the divisional format, which I prefer. Now, when I talk about league expansion on Sunday ... we'll have to look at the playoffs.
tl;dr: I want to drop the worst 2 teams from each division at the end of the schedule because they're awful to watch. I hope to create the potential for a lot of movement within the standings for the top 6 over the last 12 games of the season.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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