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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Bingo.
It takes a well-built team to have consistent success over 82 games. But any team can lose four out of seven. And because of the different way the rules are enforced, quite a lot of teams go straight from one to the other.
If you build a team to win playoff hockey, at best you'll get the L.A. Kings of a few years ago: very good when they got in, but never a top seed and liable to miss altogether. Their regular seasons were nothing to write home about.
If you build a team to win in the regular season, you might get the Leafs or the Sharks and have plenty of regular-season success but do nothing in the playoffs.
Pick your poison. There is no reliable way, in a capped league, to build a team that is likely to excel in both versions of the game. And there is no way at all to build a team that can reliably overcome the turns of luck inherent in a seven-game series. As I pointed out, even the Lightning got swept in the first round.
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I mean, you could look at the Islanders as of late. Your view is stupid