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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
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.
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Well, Dionne was close to PPG in the POs so it wasn't his fault. It's funny - he was the 2OA after Lafleur and I imagine if he'd been picked first he'd have all those rings. And then, tired of losing in Detroit, he signed a huge contract - with LA.