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Originally Posted by dammage79
Wait... this seems a little backwards. I thought the Boston series had no effect on the Blues pick until the second round. And then if the Caps (division winner) lost, it bumped the pick one spot to 21. Why wouldn't the Caps loss affect it when the Nucks, Habs and Ducks losses did? My brain is not computing these changes from 24 hours ago. Should be #21 with 4 division winners out of the playoffs in the first round.
I thought regardless of how many points a team had if they won the division it was automatic to finish higher than non-division winners with more points. Hence how the seeding works.
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If the leafs an rangers both won, they would play eachother, so it would have been assumed that one of the two would be in the conference final, and bumped the blues pick to 21. Now it's up to the rangers to stop the bruins.