Every team that makes the playoffs is competitive. I don't think any team, no matter how you sort them (except maybe Tampa) looks like they could have an easy walk through round 1. A lower seed can get hot and go on a run, a higher seed can just as easily blow it. The advantage of the current format is the divisional rivalries aspect of it and it makes it easier to create brackets which has betting aspects but, in my case, our family has a friendly competition as well.
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