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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Poor old Marcel Dionne played like 19 years and was PPG in 17 of them, often well over 100 pts. And he made it to the second round a mere 3 times. Never past that. Missed the POs entirely 10/19 years, exited round one 6 times, and in the second round 3 times. Because he played for sad sack teams his whole career.
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It's especially bad since most of his career playoff odds were like:
12/17 or 12/18 teams
then 16/21 teams.
A bit of a tangent, but for 50+ years teams had a 67-76% chance of making the playoffs.
Next year it will be 50/50. It's mind bottling to me why Bettman is against any sort of play-in. The season normally ends on a Sunday with nothing until Wednesday. Why not have a pair of 5v4 single play-in games on those days!?!?!?
This year, one of NYI, WAS, PIT, PHI, and BOS will miss, and will very likely have a better record than several playoff teams. Every year there is a division or two like this.