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About This Page: This is a discussion on NHL Talk within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. I found this rather interesting, and in some ways...I like it a lot.
Thoughts?
(In a no point system) Sixteen of the 30 NHL teams would be below .500.
The
I found this rather interesting, and in some ways...I like it a lot.
Thoughts?
(In a no point system) Sixteen of the 30 NHL teams would be below .500.
The real .500.
Two sub-.500 teams -- the 27-30 Rangers and 26-29 Capitals -- would be in playoff spots.
In the West, the demarcation is clean: Every team with a .500 or better record is in a playoff spot.
The major difference in the conference standings is that Anaheim, now in the fifth spot in part because of its seven overtime and shootout losses, drops to eighth, and Phoenix, which has only four one-point losses, moves up from 10th to sixth. Calgary, No. 8 under the current system, drops out of what would be a playoff spot.
Duck woes aside, I think that the "point for participation" is lame. A loss is a loss. Perhaps surviving to the Shootout should result in earning point. But losing in OT is losing. And the "But the excitement of OT is so much improved now" is a silly argument. That whole 5 minutes of "excitement" couldn't move me one way or the other. The teams tend to play a pretty exciting 60 minutes before OT.
No Point Games 
