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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
That's exactly how it works. 8 out of 14 teams made the NHL playoffs in the West. I certainly getting wanting to defend the Flames efforts, but relative to your competition it should be more likely to make it than not. Saying it's easy is of course an expression of speech to reflect this mathematical reality.
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If this is what you meant, then you probably should have taken better care with how you expressed yourself. I am incapable of reading your mind.
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Beating your competition is not easy, yet some teams (the majority) are able to figure it out every year.
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And again, your usage of language here is sloppy.
A MAJORITY of teams makes the playoffs every year, which is distinctly different from the same majority from one year to the next. Regardless of the fact that one more team in the West plays in the playoffs than those that miss, the simple truth is that it is always going to be more difficult to be one of those teams than not. And this is why, while the expression is mathematically true, it is false in practice.
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And by the same token, no one is saying Hufnagel should run an NHL team. But why would his philosophy in running a professional sports organization be laughably inapplicable? Sounds kind of arrogant actually.
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Without knowing specifically what the philosophy is, I don't believe any applied to the CFL would be applicable in the NHL because of how dramatically different the talent pool and the rules of player acquisition are. Do you honestly feel that success in the NHL boils down to doing what Hufnagel does? Come on.