Around The League - 2024-25 Regular Season
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worm
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Go Dallas
GGpX
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They're my Cup favorites. Short of them running into a string of injuries or Jamie Benn deciding to go full meathead again, I think this is their year.
No Habs, I don’t give a crap about the playoffs.
Sal_Butera
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IMO Next to Van & Make Beliefs - Dallas are the ultimate team pousse caca and should get bounced fairly quickly once they feel VGK shadows pursuing them
worm
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If "o a tinger" is playing well. I agree.
Vegas has been bad in 2024 so that should be an easy win
worm
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Leafs issue is lack of skill beyond the big 4.
GGpX
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Even if he's mediocre, Dallas has so much offensive depth.
Las Vegas might have been bad all year, but I'm curious if they're able to turn it on now that the playoffs are here.
worm
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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
I will get banned again soon, worry not.
Samsonov doing Samsonov things.
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
I will get banned again soon, worry not.
Leafs fail another test.
yeah I won't be watching, all I want is a Cannot early exit
GrandWazoo
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Man, talk about a bad reward for winning the conference
GGpX
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Florida & Toronto, along with Winnipeg & Colorado should be feeling like they got fucked.
I really don't like this playoff format. The old format for the Western teams, assuming there are only two divisions:
Dallas - Vegas
Vancouver - Nashville
Winnipeg - Los Angeles
Colorado - Deadmonton (!!!)
I don't know about you, but those matchups interest me way more.
lecoqsportif
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It should be a straight up 1-8 system, with no divisional channels.
GGpX
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I agree. I don't mind division champs getting a guarantee playoff birth, but giving them one of the top 3 seeds like they were doing with the South East conference and the team winning would routinely have the 8th highest point total in the conference?
Also: I like having different options for first round match-ups. It seems like every year, Toronto's playing Bawstun or Tampa in the first round. This year, they'll be playing Florida... which eliminated them in the second round.
Deadmonton & Los Angeles are playing again. Wouldn't surprise me if they played again in the first round next year.
I don't like this. If they get matched up in a 1-8 format, so be it. It seemed like no matter how hard we tried, we'd always plays Bawstun in the first round. So be it. But this current format basically removes half the conference as possibilities.
Also: I like having different options for first round match-ups. It seems like every year, Toronto's playing Bawstun or Tampa in the first round. This year, they'll be playing Florida... which eliminated them in the second round.
Deadmonton & Los Angeles are playing again. Wouldn't surprise me if they played again in the first round next year.
I don't like this. If they get matched up in a 1-8 format, so be it. It seemed like no matter how hard we tried, we'd always plays Bawstun in the first round. So be it. But this current format basically removes half the conference as possibilities.
GrandWazoo
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I'm not as strongly opinionated on this as others, I like divisional matchups, and right now it's 50% of them, and the rest is random. It's not a bad balance, but sometimes it leads to some strange scenarios.
Straight up 1-8 is great for diversity, and is more logical, but it makes it harder to build rivalry. It's a balancing act.
Straight up 1-8 is great for diversity, and is more logical, but it makes it harder to build rivalry. It's a balancing act.