I've always felt that the cup winner would be fully deserving, but more teams/fanbases than usual will have asterisks for 'what could have been' on their teams.
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Originally Posted by DMac
these are the last 5 games of the regular season; and as per the normal, the top [8] teams that have playoff spots secure rest their rosters while the middle of the pack battle for those last playoff spots as if it were the playoffs (and get the heck beaten out of them while doing it, with the reward being to meet a rested top [4] team).
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Things have played out pretty silly. If it were the last 5 games of the season, MTL could have gone 5-0 and PIT 0-7 (to get equal gp), and MTL would still be 5 pts behind them.
CHI 6-0 and EDM 0-5 would end with CHI 1 point up...but since EDM managed to at least win one game I'm not sure you could apply that math (or 5-0 & 0-4 still leaves EDM ahead).
Boston's reward for lapping the field this year will probably end up being CAR (the 2nd highest pt% team in the qualifiers after PIT). PHI could have gone 5-0 and BOS 0-4 in the 'last 5 reg season games' and still ended up a higher seed. VGK also could not have overtaken STL or COL over 3 more games, which is probably the more relevant number to use for the round robin teams.
Of course, EDM getting eliminated is absolutely delightful, so I'm good with everything. I generally root for chaos, but this still feels a bit goofy.