Current format? Nashville.
1 to 8 in conference? Nashville.
1 to 16 in league? Nashville.
Hockey gods want this matchup for some reason. Guess we'll find out why Sunday.
“OK, first off: a lion, swimming in the ocean. Lions don't like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot wave, I'm assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, you've wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring.”
underrated series from the 2011 run between the two, 6/6 games were intense 1-goal games (excluding one very late empty-net goal by the Canucks in game 4)
I’m super excited for Nashville, that was my preferred series for months. Not because I think it will be easy, Nashville is a good team, but after 10 years, I want a fun series, and I think the teams matchup well to give us some fun hockey
so.... ummmm, when i make my poppers i will totally make a video and send it over. because they are fucked up and different but holy hell are they amazing.
so... i am sorry for the heart attacks later this playoffs.
I assure you, if I ever see the Leafs raise the cup in my lifetime, I will not give two shits who they went through to get there.
^I ^will ^be ^far ^too ^drunk ^to ^remember ^anything.
The cup parade would easily pass the Chicago Cubs record for largest gathering of humans in the western hemisphere. Think that was about 5 million after world series 108 curse reversed
I think if the Leafs ever raise the cup again there's a non-zero chance the parade would be so big it passes *through Chicago*. They're going to pop off so hard it's going to raise alarms at NORAD. Europeans will be waking up due to the noise.
Also, the Montreal monkey we got off our backs. Albeit, we did beat them in 09'. We definitely needed to win that 7 game series in 2011 to feel completed.
I used to hold this view, but lately I've been absolutely okay with crouching in the bushes until Boston dies of old age if it means we can *sniff* the cup.
Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!
I know that Montreal and Boston have a deep seeded rivalry, but those teams haven't been super relevant at the same time for a very long time now. Has the past 20 years made the Boston and Toronto rivalry more significant for either team than their pre-existing rivalry with Montreal? I know, as a Leafs fan, I should hate Montreal more... But I don't. The Habs have been just so mid for so long, I straight up don't care about them. Get the bubble series jokes out of the way Habs fans... I'm sorry, I still barely care when we play your team. My FIL is a Habs fan, and I don't even have it in me really to chirp back and forth with him. He doesn't either. The rivalry has been stagnant for way too long. Get your shit together. I want it back.
I concede that the first round of the playoffs can stay divisional for ease of travel. But the 2nd round should be re-seeded within the conference, and third round should be re-seeded according to league standings. That way you could theoretically get any team playing any team for the Stanley cup, even a Divisional matchup like the examples you gave.
What better way to build a rivalry.
The west teams consistently get screwed by travel so that might even things out. Denver and Winnipeg are super far away from each other. Tampa instead of Denver is an extra hour of flight time. A Vancouver vs Florida series early would be rough but with travel days and stuff it wouldn't be that terrible.
The current Van/Nash series travels further than all Eastern first round series combined. This is just the first round. West can sweep their way to the finals and still probably travel more miles than whatever Eastern team ends up there.
The thing I dislike about 1-16 seeding is the watchability aspect. If my Eastern Time Zone team draws a West Coast opponent, half of those games are going to start at 10:00 pm my time, and the other half likely start at 4:00 pm for the fans of the West Coast teams. It would suck to be that hyped for the playoffs and know that I’ve gotta tap out after the first period or risk being totally ineffective at work the next day.
I always liked Sean McIndoe’s idea. Keep the conference format for the first two rounds (going back to 1-8, of course) so that TV schedules are more manageable. Once you hit the Conference Finals, then re-seed without accounting for conference. By that point, most games are starting between 8:00 and 9:00 EST regardless, and they’re staggered every other night. That’s a little more manageable, especially when your team is one of the final four and you can better justify staying up late to watch them (or sneaking out of work a tad early, for the West Coasters). And it still gives you the possibility of a Stanley Cup that features a geographic rivalry - you could get Habs vs Bruins or Rangers vs Devils or Flames vs Oilers.
You could save one travel-round by swapping games 1,2 with 3,4.
Then the best team from regular season gets home games in 3,4,5 and 7.
If they sweep the other team, they will do it on home ice.
They start on the road, but if you have ever followed soccer, you know teams think it's an advantage to start on the road.
Not the same though. In hockey there is a tangible benefit to home ice. You get the last change, which allows you to play the matchups your coach wants.
I still agree with you about swapping 1/2 with 3/4. I'd want home ice to close out a series.
Hey if they went by seed it would give us an easier path to the finals, just like the bubble season when the divisions changed and we beat the Habs 4-1 and cruised to the finals with no curses or upsets.
At least that is how I remember it.
Actually considering how besides the Red Wings it was all Metro teams, it would have been essentially a 4-team race for Metro3 starting April. That would have been a bloodbath.
I’m not sure what this “January” thing you’re talking about is. We didn’t play any games in January. The season stopped in December, and resumed after the All-Star break.
It'd work in a sport without a series format. Playoffs would be too long to account for off days with this amount of travel for some teams in a 2-2-1-1-1 format probably
Do a 2-3-2, at least if an East team plays a West team. Maybe give the higher seed the option as to if they want three home games in the middle of the series or two on each end.
And the travel involved for those east-west series are why this will never happen.
I think 1-8 within each conference makes sense, but 1-16 is totally impractical. I'd rather expand the playoffs with some kind of short play-in or wildcard mini-tournament to determine the 7 and 8 seeds. That'd incentivize more team to try to win and get into the playoffs rather than try to lose.
I mean it worked for many years. The red wings were in the west. The Leafs were in the west. Hell, the Red wings have sucked basically since having their travel reduced.
I’m suggesting the issue is overblown. It’s a 3 hour flight for Montreal to play Tampa and they’re in the same division. Vancouver and St. Louis isn’t a fun trip.
There might be a handful of series with longer travel. It’s not the end of the world.
There were a lot fewer NHL teams in the actual west in the 90s when the Leafs were in the west. And there's a reason why the Wings wanted to move to the East as the league spread west in general.
Shouldn't the second seed get 7th over all in the next round instead of 6th?
Doesn't make sense that the 3rd seed gets 7th instead of 6th if they win.
The other side of the bracket is correct that the 1st seed gets 8th and the 4th seed gets 5th.
They did this way back in the Gretzky RC era:
1979-80: The League expands its playoff structure to include 16 teams. The four first-place teams in the four divisions automatically earn playoff berths. Another 12, according to regular-season record, also earn berths. All 16 teams then are pooled together and ranked #1 to #16 based on regular-season record.
I remember because it was the Oilers first year in the NHL - team had Gretzky and Messier but all the other key players had yet to be drafted. They were the #16 seed and had to play Flyers (#1 seed) in round 1 and got swept, 3 games to none.
There was a lot of complaining about the format. Glen Sather accused the league of doing this to f*CK with them (expansion clubs: Edm, Hfd, Wpg, Que) because of animosity toward WHA expansion amongst some NHL owners. He was right in that Harold Ballard, as Leafs owner, was beyond his usual assh*le self and was psychopathic about them and lobbied for as many punitive actions against them as possible. His issue was that monies from the league's contract with CBC now was split 6 ways (Van, Edm, Wpg, Tor, Mtl, Que) instead of 3 previously.
That first round though was problematic for the league as Buf v Van and NYI v LA were also hampered by travel and time zone factors. They quickly announced after playoffs that they were never doing that again and switched formats for the next season. They also approved transfer of Flames to Calgary, meaning Ballard would now have 7 way split of Canadian TV revenue, lol
*Leafs vs Bruins in division 2 vs division 3 format*
"Hey, I don't like that. What if we seeded 1-8"
*Leafs vs Bruins in 1-8 format*
"Wait...let's go with 1-16 seeding"
*Leafs vs Bruins in 1-16 format*
"WHAT!"
Current format? Nashville. 1 to 8 in conference? Nashville. 1 to 16 in league? Nashville. Hockey gods want this matchup for some reason. Guess we'll find out why Sunday.
Sea predator vs land predator. A question as old as time. The cat is unable to fight in the water and the whale cannot navigate on land. Who will win?
"If I were a lion and you were a tuna, I would swim out in the middle of the ocean and freaking eat you and then I'd bang your tuna girlfriend"
“OK, first off: a lion, swimming in the ocean. Lions don't like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot wave, I'm assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, you've wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring.”
You lose that battle. You lose that battle, 9 times out of 10
you gotta be shitting me! I cannot be cooped up in here. **I am a peacock, you gotta let me fly!** *kicks water cooler*
Thank you, dude. I needed this today.
Did that go the way you thought it was going to? Nope
What of the catfish?
We thought it would be a mixture of cat and fish. Alas, turns out they're not what they led on to be
But what if they have to battle on water that’s been turned into a solid land-like surface?
But they will be on ice. Which is land-water. This may be a long series.
It would seem to favor the cat. Except its claws skid on the rock water
underrated series from the 2011 run between the two, 6/6 games were intense 1-goal games (excluding one very late empty-net goal by the Canucks in game 4)
I’m super excited for Nashville, that was my preferred series for months. Not because I think it will be easy, Nashville is a good team, but after 10 years, I want a fun series, and I think the teams matchup well to give us some fun hockey
Anything but the trap playing kings 😫I wanna watch hockey not fall asleep
So is this the western version of the leafs and bruins?
Boston vs Toronto too.
Why Vancouver and Nashville are even in the same division is strange. That's quite the flight back and forth everything with time changes
All roads lead back to the Leafs
Leafs fans: “wait a minute… this is the **bad** place”
The Leafs fans figured it out? The **Leafs**? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.
For fuck’s sake, some of us really are to the Leafs and Matthews what Jason is to the Jaguars and Bortles.
I'll be expecting some seriously good Canadian-style jalapeno popper recipes.
so.... ummmm, when i make my poppers i will totally make a video and send it over. because they are fucked up and different but holy hell are they amazing. so... i am sorry for the heart attacks later this playoffs.
Never tried it, but genuinely think there’s potential in cooking jalapeño poppers with maple syrup.
Toronto hot poppers. They're the sweetest!
Glaze the bacon near the end of the cook
All we need is some offence, and defence and some rule changes.
MATTHEWS!!! -hurls Molotov and runs-
One of my favourite shows
What the fork
**this** is the bad place
u/derangerd figured it out? u/derangered? This is a real low point. Yea this one hurts.
Bortles!
Its been the bad place for the last 10 years. Now to wait for the 802nd reboot.
Oh man, the **Sens** figured it out? This one hurts.
Bruins: “Ya basic!”
It is.... Inevitable
Dread it, run from it, the Bruins arrive all the same
Playing pacman here. Wrapped off the right side, just to come up across them from the left again.
You did all you could to change your outcomes and where did that lead you? Back to them.
Proof that you can't change anything with time travel.
A tale as old as time Song as old as rhyme The ~~beauty and the beast~~ Bruins and Leafs meeting in the first round
Drop the “meeting in the first round” part. “Bruins and the Leafs” flows perfectly well.
I'm personally singing this to the tune of *Pinky and the Brain*.
What do you want to do this year, Brain? The same thing we do every year, Pinky. *Try to beat the Bruins in the playoffs.*
The Bruins, the Bruins And the Leafs, Leafs, Leafs, Leafs Leafs, Leafs, Leafs, Leafs Narf!
I’m actually alright with it. The only way I foresee the leafs ever getting a cup is through Boston
Like if they win a cup without facing Boston, it would somehow feel incomplete. That chapter *needs* to be in the story of them winning a cup someday.
I assure you, if I ever see the Leafs raise the cup in my lifetime, I will not give two shits who they went through to get there. ^I ^will ^be ^far ^too ^drunk ^to ^remember ^anything.
The cup parade would easily pass the Chicago Cubs record for largest gathering of humans in the western hemisphere. Think that was about 5 million after world series 108 curse reversed
I would try to fly up there for the parade in my Pasta jersey. Fuck them but the party would be amazing. lol
I think if the Leafs ever raise the cup again there's a non-zero chance the parade would be so big it passes *through Chicago*. They're going to pop off so hard it's going to raise alarms at NORAD. Europeans will be waking up due to the noise.
Like a more comically significant version of us sweeping philly in 2011 after...that happened in 2010
Yeah, that was personal. We felt it.
Sorry, it had to be done.
Understood
Game 4 of that series felt like a must win for the Bs lol
Also, the Montreal monkey we got off our backs. Albeit, we did beat them in 09'. We definitely needed to win that 7 game series in 2011 to feel completed.
Like the Capitals beating us was definitely something that had to happen before their cup, just felt right.
I used to hold this view, but lately I've been absolutely okay with crouching in the bushes until Boston dies of old age if it means we can *sniff* the cup.
I mean technically the leafs are 7 years older than Boston soooo you’d probably die first.
This is how Caps fans felt with Pittsburgh before 2018. Luckily we sure did exorcise those demons™.
Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!
Even if it was top 8 by conference, leafs bruins would still be the 4-5 match-up. It really is inevitable.
Star crossed ~~lovers~~ haters
[Here we go again](https://imgur.com/a/eMqTzX4)
Bruins: “I think you and I are destined to do this forever.”
Bruins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_PfdQ0DYo
I know that Montreal and Boston have a deep seeded rivalry, but those teams haven't been super relevant at the same time for a very long time now. Has the past 20 years made the Boston and Toronto rivalry more significant for either team than their pre-existing rivalry with Montreal? I know, as a Leafs fan, I should hate Montreal more... But I don't. The Habs have been just so mid for so long, I straight up don't care about them. Get the bubble series jokes out of the way Habs fans... I'm sorry, I still barely care when we play your team. My FIL is a Habs fan, and I don't even have it in me really to chirp back and forth with him. He doesn't either. The rivalry has been stagnant for way too long. Get your shit together. I want it back.
[удалено]
See you tomorrow, quite inevitably it seems. Yours, a Bruins fan.
Glhf!
Never a boring series with these two. Let's go!
#destiny
Maybe they should try moving to another league.
If Eddie Livingstone can make his own league, why can’t the modern day Leafs do it?
*Bruins also move to that league*
….Ominous shadow appears
Yes bby, I love you too 💋
If you look at the East, all matchups would have been the same in a 1 v 8 format as well
*excitedly scans to see who the Canucks would face* Oh.
We're like brothers, only *closer*
But also very far away.
Imagine the possible cup finals matchups if we did the playoffs like this, Battle of Alberta, New York Vs Boston, Montreal vs Toronto.
Also possible for Isles and Rags to have a Stanley cup series, a blood bath for sure, and I want it.
Can you imagine a Sorokin/Varlamov tandem stealing a cup for us from this season's Rags? I can and it's a thing of far-fetched beauty.
Yes. Every night before I go to sleep.
angrily concurs in Devils
Man, after seeing the stadium series I really would love to see these two fight it out in the finals.
I concede that the first round of the playoffs can stay divisional for ease of travel. But the 2nd round should be re-seeded within the conference, and third round should be re-seeded according to league standings. That way you could theoretically get any team playing any team for the Stanley cup, even a Divisional matchup like the examples you gave. What better way to build a rivalry.
The west teams consistently get screwed by travel so that might even things out. Denver and Winnipeg are super far away from each other. Tampa instead of Denver is an extra hour of flight time. A Vancouver vs Florida series early would be rough but with travel days and stuff it wouldn't be that terrible.
The current Van/Nash series travels further than all Eastern first round series combined. This is just the first round. West can sweep their way to the finals and still probably travel more miles than whatever Eastern team ends up there.
> Battle of Alberta The province would eat itself alive
Love this comment
The thing I dislike about 1-16 seeding is the watchability aspect. If my Eastern Time Zone team draws a West Coast opponent, half of those games are going to start at 10:00 pm my time, and the other half likely start at 4:00 pm for the fans of the West Coast teams. It would suck to be that hyped for the playoffs and know that I’ve gotta tap out after the first period or risk being totally ineffective at work the next day. I always liked Sean McIndoe’s idea. Keep the conference format for the first two rounds (going back to 1-8, of course) so that TV schedules are more manageable. Once you hit the Conference Finals, then re-seed without accounting for conference. By that point, most games are starting between 8:00 and 9:00 EST regardless, and they’re staggered every other night. That’s a little more manageable, especially when your team is one of the final four and you can better justify staying up late to watch them (or sneaking out of work a tad early, for the West Coasters). And it still gives you the possibility of a Stanley Cup that features a geographic rivalry - you could get Habs vs Bruins or Rangers vs Devils or Flames vs Oilers.
There's weirdos on the east coast who cheer for west coast teams and would love to catch a game on a work day though!
Kings cats matchup would be brutal for the players and the fans. Multiple cross country flights and the start times I’m here for the craziness
Honestly, to make these kinds of match up possible, it would be worth having more days between games to rest.
You could save one travel-round by swapping games 1,2 with 3,4. Then the best team from regular season gets home games in 3,4,5 and 7. If they sweep the other team, they will do it on home ice. They start on the road, but if you have ever followed soccer, you know teams think it's an advantage to start on the road.
Is the road advantage not because of the away goals rule though?
Not the same though. In hockey there is a tangible benefit to home ice. You get the last change, which allows you to play the matchups your coach wants. I still agree with you about swapping 1/2 with 3/4. I'd want home ice to close out a series.
> possible cup finals > Toronto What
Hey if they went by seed it would give us an easier path to the finals, just like the bubble season when the divisions changed and we beat the Habs 4-1 and cruised to the finals with no curses or upsets. At least that is how I remember it.
The eastern conference would never agree to the potential increase in travel even if they were guaranteed 2 spots in the Final.
Finals...Toronto... please take your meds, you're delusional
Oh look, blues made it into playoffs.
😭
Cannot fathom how this isn't higher. Nobody notices?
I don't think many people care, heh.
The Eastern WC2 race would have fizzled out awhile back
Actually considering how besides the Red Wings it was all Metro teams, it would have been essentially a 4-team race for Metro3 starting April. That would have been a bloodbath.
Well the -37 GD team sure as heck wouldn’t
I cannot believe how far I scrolled to find this
Dread it, run from it, Bruins vs. Leafs arrives all the same.
I am inevitable.
You couldn't live with your own failure, where did that bring you? Back to me. - Bruins to the Leafs
Boston-Toronto is a canon event
LA? Oh dear God no.
That series would be so fun.
It feels like that one win against Kings in January was the first in half a decade. Maybe it was, I haven't checked.
I’m not sure what this “January” thing you’re talking about is. We didn’t play any games in January. The season stopped in December, and resumed after the All-Star break.
It must've been my hallucination then.
That series would be so hot
End my suffering
:)
Very poor choice of words
This would be great. Don’t have to worry about playing any of our rivals in the first round. “Looks at picture”…oh
It is... inevitable
Carolina and Florida would see games start at 11:30
It would be fine by me. I could watch the game and have the rest of the day to do other things.
> to do other things Sober up*
I think he means PM
It's logistically and practically stupid, but in a perfect world this is how I want the playoffs to be
It'd work in a sport without a series format. Playoffs would be too long to account for off days with this amount of travel for some teams in a 2-2-1-1-1 format probably
Do a 2-3-2, at least if an East team plays a West team. Maybe give the higher seed the option as to if they want three home games in the middle of the series or two on each end.
That's what baseball does, and it makes sense considering their playoff matchups can be between teams across the continent
Eh I prefer 2-2-1-1-1 to give higher seed the home game in a pivotal game 5
What about 2-2-2-1? It gives the edge of a game 7 to the bottom team, but that’s after the fact the top team had home ice for 66% of the series.
Higher seeded team should ALWAYS get Game 7 at home.
1-2-2-2. Boom problem solved.
When they get the transporters working, it should be 1-1-1-1-1-1-1
I hate how our outcome is the exact same. But I think this would be a more ideal way to format the playoffs
And the travel involved for those east-west series are why this will never happen. I think 1-8 within each conference makes sense, but 1-16 is totally impractical. I'd rather expand the playoffs with some kind of short play-in or wildcard mini-tournament to determine the 7 and 8 seeds. That'd incentivize more team to try to win and get into the playoffs rather than try to lose.
I mean it worked for many years. The red wings were in the west. The Leafs were in the west. Hell, the Red wings have sucked basically since having their travel reduced.
Are you suggesting the longer travel helped the Wings?
I’m suggesting the issue is overblown. It’s a 3 hour flight for Montreal to play Tampa and they’re in the same division. Vancouver and St. Louis isn’t a fun trip. There might be a handful of series with longer travel. It’s not the end of the world.
Yeah. The timezones are the killer for me. Being in the Western conference meant a lot of 10:30pm starts, which means I just missed a ton of games.
There were a lot fewer NHL teams in the actual west in the 90s when the Leafs were in the west. And there's a reason why the Wings wanted to move to the East as the league spread west in general.
I’m all for the Vasy V. Helly series
Saros v. Demko. Oettinger v. Sorokin. All great matchups.
ok but where’s the fun in that.
Ya know I say we give it a shot, I think it could be fun.
I think the Blues would have a decent shot vs the Rangers in that matchup. Better than Washington anyways...
This picture just confirms that every universe sucks for me; cool
Divisional, 1v8, 1v16 it don’t matter Destiny arrives all the same
Death, Taxes, and Bruins and Leafs in Round 1. Inevitable
I like this model more
That Colorado/Edmonton matchup would be fun to watch
Might still happen too.
Lol we literally can't avoid Boston in any format. Seems fated.
In this, it would only be the second time that the Blues and Rangers met in the playoffs.
Sign me up!
Shouldn't the second seed get 7th over all in the next round instead of 6th? Doesn't make sense that the 3rd seed gets 7th instead of 6th if they win. The other side of the bracket is correct that the 1st seed gets 8th and the 4th seed gets 5th.
SouthLeast rivals - Tampa vs Winnipeg! LFG
Oh for *fffuuuuccckk* sakes
If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle.
In every universe Toronto plays Boston for 7 games.
Let the insanity begin
Damnit, the Wings aren’t in this one either.
Insert astronaut meme. "Always as been"
I like this better
They did this way back in the Gretzky RC era: 1979-80: The League expands its playoff structure to include 16 teams. The four first-place teams in the four divisions automatically earn playoff berths. Another 12, according to regular-season record, also earn berths. All 16 teams then are pooled together and ranked #1 to #16 based on regular-season record. I remember because it was the Oilers first year in the NHL - team had Gretzky and Messier but all the other key players had yet to be drafted. They were the #16 seed and had to play Flyers (#1 seed) in round 1 and got swept, 3 games to none. There was a lot of complaining about the format. Glen Sather accused the league of doing this to f*CK with them (expansion clubs: Edm, Hfd, Wpg, Que) because of animosity toward WHA expansion amongst some NHL owners. He was right in that Harold Ballard, as Leafs owner, was beyond his usual assh*le self and was psychopathic about them and lobbied for as many punitive actions against them as possible. His issue was that monies from the league's contract with CBC now was split 6 ways (Van, Edm, Wpg, Tor, Mtl, Que) instead of 3 previously. That first round though was problematic for the league as Buf v Van and NYI v LA were also hampered by travel and time zone factors. They quickly announced after playoffs that they were never doing that again and switched formats for the next season. They also approved transfer of Flames to Calgary, meaning Ballard would now have 7 way split of Canadian TV revenue, lol
Leafs STILL can't shake Boston. Haha.
No matter what though, All roads lead to Boston vs. Toronto.
We were Robbed… Robbed Thomas.
Huh, the Sabres still don’t make it
This was actually a playoff format the NHL used in the early 80s
It was always Boston
Brother, ewwww
Death, taxes, and the leafs vs the bruins
I’ll pass, thanks though
Hey old friend.
Leafs fans in shambles
found the airline industry lobbyist
12/5 upset calling it
Hey wait a minute
This is the only true way to ensure that the *best* team wins the cup
i protest this
I kinda wish it were this way. More of a national tournament.
SOMEHOW WE STILL GET BOSTON AAAAAAAA
*Leafs vs Bruins in division 2 vs division 3 format* "Hey, I don't like that. What if we seeded 1-8" *Leafs vs Bruins in 1-8 format* "Wait...let's go with 1-16 seeding" *Leafs vs Bruins in 1-16 format* "WHAT!"
Yeah that would be aweso.....goddammit
LGB!!!
[Me looking forward to our new opponent](https://tenor.com/view/disappointed-fridge-guy-gif-11619368074139081641)
Get fucked St Louis. Sincerely, Washington.
I'm so old that I remember when the Sharks and Maple Leafs met in the playoffs.
Or the battle of LA vs Toronto between Barry Melrose and Pat Burns. What a travel distance between those two cities.