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Originally Posted by saillias
I see some upside to this. There are a lot of teams that stood pat, right? Well, math says half the playoff teams are gone in the first round. Some really, really good teams in the west especially. Some owners and presidents will be grilling their GMs on why they didn't give up a little more to go all in for a goal scorer who brings it in the playoffs to supplement their already great team. Thoughts?
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Yup. One thing that's different this year is that it is back to divisional playoffs.
That means that the stronger divisions knock themselves out - 2 of Chicago, St Louis and Colorado have to be gone by the second round.
When it was 1 against 8, 'just making the playoffs' lost some luster because the 8th place team had such a difficult road.
But it becomes more true again, now that we are back to divisional play.
For some of the teams in the east, the road isn't that bad. Just stay alive and let the big guns knock each other out.
Once this plays out, I have a feeling that some teams are going to look at it and think: what might have been?