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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I’d like to see 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15 etc.
You could have any 2 teams in the finals which would make us different from other major NA sports.
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I'm old enough to remember when first versus last was league wide. So in 1981 you had the upstart 14th seed Oiler beating the 3rd ranked Canadiens, thus clearing a pretty good path for NYI to cruise to the top (especially when #13 NYR beat #4 LA and #2 St. Louis, #9 Minnie took out #3 Buffalo and Calgary took out #6 Philly in the second round. The highest seeded team NYI ended up playing was Minnie in the finals.
Not saying it was a bad thing but there were a crap ton of upsets. Of course, the best of 5 first round had something to do with that too.