I just don't like the fact that they guarantee the first three slots to the division winners.
Hockey Talk - 2007-2008 Season
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So you're suggesting that a team that wins its division shouldn't necessarily make the playoffs? 
Fairness and sportsmanship should make it that the top eight teams in the conference, regardless of division, should get into the playoffs. A sub-average team in a weak division in my opinion shouldn't be guaranteed a reserve in the playoffs which are meant to have the best teams play each other.
If the NHL wants to have the division champs get a reserved spot in the playoffs to insure that every region has a team that holds their interest, then that team should be placed in order based on their points up until eigth place and not get a reserved place in third.
Anyways, HABS WON! It was their last game; if the Penguins don't win their game tomorrow, the Habs will be conference champs.
edit: woot! and no matter the results tomorrow, the Habs will be facing the Bruins which they beat eight times out of eight meetings this season and Koivu is no longer on the injury roster.
If the NHL wants to have the division champs get a reserved spot in the playoffs to insure that every region has a team that holds their interest, then that team should be placed in order based on their points up until eigth place and not get a reserved place in third.
Anyways, HABS WON! It was their last game; if the Penguins don't win their game tomorrow, the Habs will be conference champs.
edit: woot! and no matter the results tomorrow, the Habs will be facing the Bruins which they beat eight times out of eight meetings this season and Koivu is no longer on the injury roster.
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So you're suggesting that a team that wins its division shouldn't necessarily make the playoffs?
Not if there are eight teams in the division that are better then it.
Why not go further and pick the top 16 teams in the league? Divisions are nice because they give you a reason to do well in your division (increasing tension between rivals).
That would make a lot of sense.
Excellent game last night between Calagry and Vancouver. I'll be sad to see Linden go, he's a top guy all around.
Iginla got his 50th last night. If we make it far in the PS, he may get the Hart too. :thumbsup:
Vancouver is going to look very different next season, I suspect. Someone mentioned that the UFA pool is pretty shallow this summer.... I dunno, but the team'll look different.
Sharks or Wild, prepare to die.
Iginla got his 50th last night. If we make it far in the PS, he may get the Hart too. :thumbsup:
Vancouver is going to look very different next season, I suspect. Someone mentioned that the UFA pool is pretty shallow this summer.... I dunno, but the team'll look different.
Sharks or Wild, prepare to die.
They still might, eventually. 
Bring on the Wild. Hopefully Theodore will continue to play like he has been and the Forsberg, Hejduk, Stastny line will continue to play lights out.
The real season starts next week and it's the first one to 16 wins who gets to hoist Lord Stanley's Cup.
I love playoff hockey. I'm going to start growing my playoff beard now.
Bring on the Wild. Hopefully Theodore will continue to play like he has been and the Forsberg, Hejduk, Stastny line will continue to play lights out.
The real season starts next week and it's the first one to 16 wins who gets to hoist Lord Stanley's Cup.
I love playoff hockey. I'm going to start growing my playoff beard now.
We shall see. I don't think you guys wanted to play the Sharks in the first round though. Given now that the Sharks don't have a streak, they are primed and ready to go a lot farther than before. I don't care if I'm biased, I'm predicting a Stanley Cup is coming to the Bay Area this year.
I may have been hoping for the Avs to tank this afternoon so we'd end up facing Minnesota -- but we're ready for the Sharks, make no mistake.
Good luck, dude! :thumbsup:
EDIT: I seem to have lost my Flames Girl avatar!
By infinitesimally slim chance, did anyone save a copy? 
They still might, eventually.
Bring on the Wild. Hopefully Theodore will continue to play like he has been and the Forsberg, Hejduk, Stastny line will continue to play lights out.
The real season starts next week and it's the first one to 16 wins who gets to hoist Lord Stanley's Cup.
I love playoff hockey. I'm going to start growing my playoff beard now.
The Wild are playing their best hockey in years. Good luck with that.
I may have been hoping for the Avs to tank this afternoon so we'd end up facing Minnesota -- but we're ready for the Sharks, make no mistake.
Good luck, dude! :thumbsup:
EDIT: I seem to have lost my Flames Girl avatar!
I think it's going to be a better series than most people think. I know I wanted the Avs in the first round because the Flames have pretty much owned the sharks this season. Of course it was all before the Trade deadline, but how many times did the Flames win because of an Iginla slapshot with under a minute to go in Overtime? It wasn't fun watching it for 3 straight times I can assure you. Of course now all bets are off because the Sharks have been playing some of the best hockey in the league since they got Campbell. It really is going to be a hell of a series.
I wanted a Habs-Caps series (maybe later) as Ovechkin is amazing (I'm ecstatic he's in the playoffs) and Huet vs Price would be a helleva duel. Instead, we get the Bruins for the 856th time--should pose no problem (we've beaten them 23 out 30 series and the last 11 games in a row--they might win one or two in the series but, at the risk of seeming arrogant, I just can't see them beating the Habs this year. Not without Cam Neely (the only Bruin who could actually strike fear into the heart of Habs fans).
It would be copesetic if the Habs, which have gotten their first division champ in 16 years and their first conference champ in 19, could get their 25th stanley cup (their, and Canada's first, in fifteen years) to mark the end of this season and the start off their one hundredth season.
Whatever your opinion of the team, it is arguably the greatest dynasty in all of hockey and one of the greatest in the great wild world of sports.
Whatever your opinion of the team, it is arguably the greatest dynasty in all of hockey and one of the greatest in the great wild world of sports.
The Hockey Schedule is out for the Playoffs.
http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=359445
The Sharks have back to back games and I won't be able to see the Habs in the first round. That kind of sucks, but it is an interesting schedule.
http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=359445
The Sharks have back to back games and I won't be able to see the Habs in the first round. That kind of sucks, but it is an interesting schedule.
The Flames, led by Iginla, made an extremely classy gesture towards Linden in Saturday night. And Iginla's 50th was both exciting and amusing ... that "near 50th" tapped in by his own linemate was wonderfuly funny, and then when he got 50 anyways, all the better!
I wonder why they didn't show Keenan during the hand shakes .... he had a bad relationship with Linden when he coached in Vancouver, and arguably did his best to ruin Linden's career.
I wonder why they didn't show Keenan during the hand shakes .... he had a bad relationship with Linden when he coached in Vancouver, and arguably did his best to ruin Linden's career.
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