The round robin for the 1-4 seeds will have regular season OT rules. So the top seed could be won or lost on a freakin shootout. Just stupid.
Too soon for this joke. Too soon.The round robin for the 1-4 seeds will have regular season OT rules. So the top seed could be won or lost on a freakin shootout. Just stupid.
It has to be weighted. They can’t possibly go through with it as an even slate. What happens if everyone goes 1-1-1?The round robin for the 1-4 seeds will have regular season OT rules. So the top seed could be won or lost on a freakin shootout. Just stupid.
They haven’t decided that yet. League wants a bracket, players are pushing for reseeding. Not sure what the leagues logic is.Did he say if they are reseeding after every round or is it a fixed bracket? I assume fixed because reseeding would make too much sense for this league considering they reseeded for years before changing the format.
Give Montreal the worst team left if they get out of the 5-12 round (though it also screws potentially toronto)They haven’t decided that yet. League wants a bracket, players are pushing for reseeding. Not sure what the leagues logic is.
There needs to be some kind of weighted component to this. The Bruins can’t be caught in points or points percentage in 3 games, but apparently can go from 1 to 4 based on 3 games coming out of a 4 month hiatus in this scenario.If the issue with giving the Top 4 teams a bye is the "meaningful game" problem, they should have just used the regular format and told Chicago and Montreal to kick rocks. The Blues having to beat out Dallas (who were .500 in their own division) for seeding at this point is several bridges too far.
Eh they would have found some way to have 25 teams instead.New Jersey lost the last game they played, on 3/10, in a shootout. If they had won that shootout they’d be in as the 12 seed over Montreal.
I have gripes over the format, but if they can pull this off I think it’ll be awesome. Especially if some of the other leagues can’t get their return’s straightened out.
They haven’t decided on bracket vs reseeding yet. Home ice isn’t as important as a normal year but it still means last change. And I just think it sucks that they played 70 games, dusted the league, but they get zero reward for it. All it did was get them a bye and even footing with 3 other teams in their conference that they were 8,10,11 points in front of. They aren’t getting any benefit of being the best team in the league. I get this was never going to be 100% perfect, but I was hoping for a bit more. Even with them retaining the top seed, they’re losing the vast majority of the typical reward of having home ice throughout. If it goes to a bracket I think it would suck to go 0-3 in the round robin (one game against Washington so we know how that’ll end), drop to the 4 seed and then get Pittsburgh in the first round.Does it really matter if the Bruins finish in the top 3 of the 4? There is no home ice. And their worst case scenario is losing every play in game and playing Pittsburgh or Montreal. That would suck, but would still require them to finish last in the round robin.
They had to do something, and I am ok with this.
They listed Canadian cities as possible hubs, but have basically said they aren’t happening. Haven’t been able to work out an agreement with the Canadian government regarding 14-day quarantine regulations.I would guess one of the sites would be in Canada. I heard somewhere that Edmonton was a leader in the clubhouse. Which makes not a lot of sense but who knows.
I think that would be fair, but could potentially make one or two of those games as really exhibition like. I get the fairness aspect of their regular season performance, but I am fine with it overall for the Bruins. I’m just happy they are going to finish this season.They haven’t decided on bracket vs reseeding yet. Home ice isn’t as important as a normal year but it still means last change. And I just think it sucks that they played 70 games, dusted the league, but they get zero reward for it. All it did was get them a bye and even footing with 3 other teams in their conference that they were 8,10,11 points in front of. They aren’t getting any benefit of being the best team in the league. I get this was never going to be 100% perfect, but I was hoping for a bit more. Even with them retaining the top seed, they’re losing the vast majority of the typical reward of having home ice throughout. If it goes to a bracket I think it would suck to go 0-3 in the round robin (one game against Washington so we know how that’ll end), drop to the 4 seed and then get Pittsburgh in the first round.
In my ideal Covid-playoff world, they weight the round robin so the Bruins have the appropriate odds of obtaining the 1-seed, and then they reseed after the play in round.
Ties with Ovechkin because he gave up an empty netter to Marchand when Marchand was struggling.Regular season is done, Pasta robbed of a chance at 50 but co-wins the Richard
The very least they should do is start 1 through 4 with 3, 2, 1, 0 points respectively. That makes the round robin matter but also gives decent weight to the 85% of the season that was played.It's absolute bullshit. What the hell did the regular season even mean if they're going to determine the top 4 seeds in a 3-game sequence? All of the Bruins' good play goes down the drain.
The playoffs will be seeded by conference not division. They could see Tampa in the 2nd rd if they are 1-4 or 2-3 seeds.The biggest asset the Bruins have at a restart (like most teams) is health. Their top line is healthy. Their defense is healthy. Their goalie is rested. They also have a special team bond that I think gives them a chance in this setting, especially being stuck in a hotel with them for potentially 2 months or so. Sure Kase and Rithcie didn’t get a chance to mesh, but I like tie chances overall to contribute.
They have as good a chance as any (as Vegas odds reflect).
Anyone know if the same divisional rules will exist (i.e. will they get Tampa in the 2nd round if they both advance)? Because if they can avoid Tampa until the ECF, that would be a good thing to come out of this.
Most of these guys haven’t skated in 3 months. They can’t just jump into training camp and be ready to go in three weeks either. They need to be able to skate in small groups and use the training facilities for at least 2-3 weeks first.Seems like the NBA and NHL have really left an entire month open (July) when they could have had massive TV viewership ramp up to attract new fans. Maybe the logistics are far harder than I give it credit for, but why each sport needs over a month to start preparations when they’ve thought they’d be in this situation for months is surprising. If it’s to align next years start later they could have still achieved it by extending the break period.